Sony's impromptu PlayStation 3 press conference is still ongoing, but several sources (CNET Japan, IGN) are now reporting that the next-generation console will require a 60GB HDD which supports the Linux OS.
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Published Mar 15, 2006 - 10:10 AMRead more... Comment
In issue 78 of Linux Format, on the shelves now, we have an interview with Edd Dumbill and Niel Bornstein - two prominent Mono coders who've written a book on the open source .NET implementation. Here's a few of the questions we asked, along with their answers
Published Mar 15, 2006 - 10:04 AMRead more... Comment
In an effort to dispel some of the FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) surrounding this impressive product, instead, I'll put forth several of the most commonplace reasons companies have for not investigating PostgreSQL further.
Published Mar 15, 2006 - 07:54 AMRead more... Comment
In this release, KChart received a new charting engine, donated by Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB and an initial implementation of the charting OASIS OpenDocument file format. We managed to improve Krita's performance in loading large images, rendering complex images, creating gradients and showing filter previews. There are also a lot of bug fixes. Dag Andersen has reworked the KPlato calculation engine and improved the user interface; and the documentation team has written a complete KPlato manual. And that's just the highlights: across the board, we have improved OpenDocument support in KWord, KPresenter, KSpread and Karbon14. All applications have also received user interface polish.
Published Mar 15, 2006 - 07:48 AMRead more... Comment
From his blog: "Since the information has leaked, I will post a message in the next few days on this website (or mirror) about why this is the end of the Mandriva story for me, and what's next."
Published Mar 15, 2006 - 07:45 AMRead more... Comment
This tutorial deals with setting up a Linux firewall based on IPCop. It consists out of two parts:The first part describes how to install the GNU/Linux GPL IPCop firewall and create a small home office network. In the second part we will be creating a DMZ for hosting your own web server or mail server and the Copfilter proxy for filtering your application layer ingress and egress network traffic.
Published Mar 14, 2006 - 08:05 AMRead more... Comment
DDOS, or Distributed Denial of Service is an advanced version of DOS(Denial of Service) attack. Like DOS, DDOS also tries to deny important services running on a server by broadcasting packets to the destination server in a way that the Destination server cannot handle it. The speciality of the DDOS is that, it relays attacks not from a single network/host like DOS. The DDOS attack will be launched from different dynamic networks which has already been compromised.
Normally, DDOS consists of 3 parts . The Master, the slave and at last the victim. The master is the attack launcher, i.e the person/machine behind all this. The slave is the network that is being compromised by the Master and Victim is the target site/server. Master informs the compromised machines, so called slaves to launch attack on the victim's site/machine. Hence its also called co-ordinated attack.
Published Mar 14, 2006 - 07:56 AMRead more... Comment
As server Linux vendor Novell eyed the enterprise desktop market at Cebit this week, Xandros, better known for its desktop Linux OS, plotted its move to enterprise servers.
Xandros, which to date has had its greatest success selling an easy-to-use Linux desktop to consumers and small and medium-size businesses (SMBs), offered a sneak preview of its Xandros Server product at Cebit. The product, currently in beta, will be launched first in the U.S. in May before hitting European markets, said Erich Forler, senior product development manager for Xandros, in Ontario.
Published Mar 14, 2006 - 07:55 AMRead more... Comment
Red Hat has shipped a fresh version of its high-end Linux operating system that pushes support for large x86 systems much higher.
Customers can now run Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Opteron and Xeon servers with up to 64 logical CPUs. The same processor count now applies for IBM's Power chips too. The small club of Itanium processor users already had the luxury of running Red Hat across 64-processor boxes.
Published Mar 14, 2006 - 07:46 AMRead more... Comment
As Linux Advocates, we are constantly looking for ways to make the migration or switch to Linux as painless as possible. One of the biggest hurdles we face is getting Windows data over to the Linux Environment intact. Many times, emails were forwarded to a newly-created gmail account and then re-forwarded to the new Thunderbird or Kmail account when it was ready. Not only was this time consuming, it was prone to error as well. Email turned out to be one of the easiest problems to deal with.
The data was not the only problem...matching software programs between Windows and Linux was not always a cut and dried issue. Some people who want to switch to Linux will cling tightly to the data migration problem as a reason to dual boot. It was a pleasure to say the least, in finding a program called Progression Desktop. Having tried it out on a test computer at Lobby4Linux, we sought out the officers of Versora,Inc. Versora is the company that produces Progression Desktop and we were lucky enough to catch Mike Sheffy and Ray George of Versora for an interview. From our tests of Progression Desktop, it is unlikely that anyone would have a problem in getting their Windows data over to their new Linux install. Here are the folks who make it happen.
Published Mar 14, 2006 - 07:41 AMRead more... Comment
While most web hosts are still in the PHP 4 era, the PHP developers are already planning and working on PHP 6. Lets have a look at what’s been keeping them busy.
Published Mar 13, 2006 - 07:34 AMRead more... Comment
Midland Memorial Hospital in Texas hopes to have the bulk of its electronic health record (EHR) system up and running on open-source software by late spring or early summer, says David Whiles, the hospital's IS director.
Operating across three campuses 8km from each other and linked by high-speed networks, Midland Memorial is a 371-bed hospital run as a single organisation. It is also on track to fully implement Medsphere Systems' OpenVista software and services.
Published Mar 13, 2006 - 07:29 AMRead more... 2 Comments
An extremely critical bug and security threat was discovered in Ubuntu Breezy Badger 5.10 earlier today by a visitor on the Ubuntu Forums that allows anyone to read the root password simply by opening an installer log file. Apparently the installer fails to clean its log files and leaves them readable to all users. The bug has been fixed, and only affects The 5.10 Breezy Badger release. Ubuntu users, be sure to get the patch right away.
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Published Mar 13, 2006 - 07:17 AMRead more... 2 Comments
Ubuntu.com reports - Significant changes affecting the installer and live CD include: A much improved version of Espresso, the live CD based installer is included. A new default theme has been included. A range of ATI cards which were previously unsupported are now supported. New development version of GNOME is included.
Published Mar 12, 2006 - 10:17 AMRead more... Comment
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