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Linux : Opinions : Mcrosoft to buy Red Hat? Say it ain’'t so
Posted: ( Wed 25th May 2005 03:27:05[PM] UTC )
As David Berlind recently pointed out in his piece Is Microsoft considering acquisition of Red Hat? Microsoft could see Red Hat’s acquisition as a nice way to undermine IBM, but might not consider that a sufficient reason to do it. That, of course, is Microsoft’s perspective, but what about Red Hat’s? This is a company, remember, that wants to be Microsoft and, like Microsoft, makes its living packaging and selling other people’s ideas.

Linux : Howtos : How to block Gnutella with a Linux/Iptables firewall
Posted: ( Wed 25th May 2005 03:18:59[PM] UTC )
Many P2P (peer to peer) protocols are rather complex to control using packet filtering firewalls such as Linux's IpTables. This is because they often dont use fixed port numbers, sometimes use multiple connection protocols or even encryption.

The P2PWall project is developing software add-ins for Iptables to overcome these issues. The "Rope" module from the P2PWall project provides a scriptable kernel module for packet identification.

This article describes how to use Linux, Iptables and ROPE to identify (and block) the Gnutella protocol.

Linux : Articles : Learning to use mod_rewrite tutorial
Posted: ( Wed 25th May 2005 03:17:34[PM] UTC )
Mod_rewrite is apaches most powerful and mystifying module. The basics are introduced and some practical uses include improving URLS for search engines and preventing people from hotlinking to your images are covered.

Linux : Articles : Collaborative Source Software
Posted: ( Sun 20th Feb 2005 06:06:43[AM] UTC )
This article presents an approach to combine the best of the open source and proprietary software development worlds

Linux : Articles : Running Windows viruses with Wine
Posted: ( Sun 20th Feb 2005 06:05:36[AM] UTC )
It just isn't fair that Windows users get all the viruses. I mean really, shouldn't Linux users be in on the fun as well? Well... thanks to the folks running the Wine project, Linux users can "catch the virus bug" too -- sort of.

Linux : Articles : Linux on the desktop
Posted: ( Sun 20th Feb 2005 06:05:36[AM] UTC )
What are we to make of IBM's silence about its desktop Linux policy? A while back, chairman and CEO Sam Palmisano challenged the company to move its desktops to Linux by the end of 2005. What's clear is that this hasn't happened and doesn't look like happening. And there's probably a good reason.

Linux : Articles : Linux Inc.
Posted: ( Sun 20th Feb 2005 06:05:36[AM] UTC )
BusinessWeek: Linus Torvalds once led a ragtag band of software geeks. Not anymore. Here's an inside look at how the unusual Linux business model increasingly threatens Microsoft.

Linux : Howtos : Of Modems and Winmodems
Posted: ( Sat 18th Dec 2004 06:10:12[PM] UTC )
Time for a shocker. Device support under Linux is excellent.

Linux : Articles : Why Install Linux on Your Mac?
Posted: ( Sat 18th Dec 2004 06:07:39[PM] UTC )
Yeah, why? Your typical modern Mac comes with all the Unixy goodness you could ever need, right? But there are a bunch of Linux PPC distributions that you can, if you feel the need, install on your Apple hardware.

Linux : Articles : Linux MIDI: A Brief Survey, Part 2
Posted: ( Sat 18th Dec 2004 05:52:01[PM] UTC )
In part two of this ever-expanding MIDI series, a look at various sequencers, from Rosegarden to seq24.

Linux : Opinions : New Linuxes, Old Problems
Posted: ( Sat 18th Dec 2004 05:51:32[PM] UTC )
Several new distributions make communicating with a Windows network more difficult than it should be.

Linux : Howtos : Monitoring access to Squid Server
Posted: ( Sat 18th Dec 2004 05:35:06[PM] UTC )
There are many forms for analyze of logs generated by the SQUID, Will be boarded five forms of verification: On-line, for line of command and manual verification through the tools Sarg, Webalizer, Calamaris and Squid-Graph.With the Sarg it is possible to follow with more details the accesses of the users, sees an example as the Sarg generates reports, is possible to configure the Sarg in some languages, trought the archive of configuration /etc/sarg/sarg.conf, the configuration of the Sarg is simple and easy. Read Article

Linux : Articles : An introduction to Linux sound systems and APIs
Posted: ( Sun 12th Sep 2004 04:28:31[AM] UTC )
When coding a program, one of the best ways to show users that an event has happened is to produce sounds. That's why sound is now present in almost every program. Every operating system has different sound systems and APIs to access the sound card, so that no low-level coding is required to use the sound device. Programmers have many different choices concerning which system to use, especially under Linux -- and maybe that's the problem. This article will illustrate free sound architectures under Linux, as well as the different interfaces a programmer can use.

Linux : Articles : 'Independent' report used MS-sourced data to trash OSS
Posted: ( Sun 12th Sep 2004 04:28:31[AM] UTC )
When Microsoft announced victory in its battle with open source for the hearts, minds and wallets of Newham council last month, the press naturally asked to see the report Newham's decision was allegedly based on. Er, yes, the report would be forthcoming, we were told. So we gave it a few days, and asked again. And again. And again. But mysteriously, although Microsoft executives are prepared to shout from the rafters about what's in the report, the report itself never seems to arrive.

Linux : Howtos : Building a Linux Media PCBuilding a Linux Media PC
Posted: ( Mon 28th Jun 2004 04:23:21[PM] UTC )
In this article I'm going to look at a particular sort of setup of a Linux home theatre PC ? one where the primary consideration is space. Suppose you have a small studio apartment, or a bedroom or study where you want to work on your computer, watch movies and TV, and play music and maybe games as well.