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TheLinux411.com - Linux Business Resource Center From Intuit

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Intuit’s new Linux Business Resource Center (www.thelinux411.com). The site is devoted to helping growing businesses embrace the capabilities and learn about using open-source software.
Developed in conjunction with the new capabilities of QuickBooks Enterprise 8.0 (Intuit’s mid-market ERP offering) to run on Linux servers, the site is designed to serve as a community for users to [...]

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10 Essential Tricks for Linux Admins

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Learn these 10 tricks and you’ll be the most powerful Linux® systems administrator in the universe…well, maybe not the universe, but you will need these tips to play in the big [...]

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Videos: Google Gadgets for Linux

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Google Gadgets for Linux are simple HTML and JavaScript applications that can be embedded in web pages and other applications. By all accounts, Gadget support for Linux was a major undertaking for the Google team as it is an entire platform for mini applications. You can check out the source code for it on Google’s [...]

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Wordpress For iPhone Officially Released

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Introducing the first Open Source app that lets you write posts, upload photos, and edit your WordPress blog directly from your iPhone or iPod Touch.
It’s official, the WordPress application for the iPhone has officially been released. Now you’ll be able to publish to WordPress powered blogs right from your Jesus phone. Here is what you [...]

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Windows vs Linux Real World RAM and Disk Tests

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Forget fear, uncertainty and doubt. How do Windows Vista and Linux really compare against each other? It’s one thing to talk about the familiar applications available to Windows users contrasted with the rich suite of free open source apps for Linux, but something totally different to actually compare the loads of the two operating systems [...]

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Why ZFS (Zettabyte File System)?

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ZFS is a 128-bit file system, which means it can store 18 billion billion (18.4 × 1018) times more data than the current 64-bit systems. The limitations of ZFS are designed to be so large that they will never be encountered in practice, as an example of how large these numbers are, if 1,000 files [...]

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HowTo: Monitor Remote Windows Machine Using Nagios on Linux

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In the previous articles we discussed about Nagios 3.0 Jumpstart guide and How to monitor remote Linux host using Nagios 3.0. In this article, l’ll explain how to monitor remote windows machine and the various service running on the windows server using nagios monitoring server. Following three sections are covered in this article.
I. Overview
II. 4 [...]

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Video Tutorials: Installing Slackware 12.1

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Slackware 12.1 has many improvements over last major release (Slackware 11.0) as well as to that of 12.0 release and is a must-have upgrade for any Slackware user.
Among the many program updates and distribution enhancements, you’ll find two of the most advanced desktop environments available today: Xfce 4.4.2, a fast and lightweight but visually appealing [...]

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Cirgon Encore - HD-Ready Media Server

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“We chose Linux for reliability, lower power CPU, and the ability to work within the Linux community”
Next month, Cirgon will announce and ship a Fedora Linux-based media server that supports 1080i HD resolution. The Encore offers 320GB, 500GB, and 750GB hard drive options, and controls management and playback of music, photos, and video for use [...]

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openSUSE Gets the JeOS

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Lime Jeos (pronounced like lime juice) is a project for building a base for [appliances]. Actually it is part of the cocktail metaphor:
cocktail = Lime Jeos (Pronounced like lime juice) + Eis (Pronounced like Ice) + KIWI
If you’re interested in building a virtual appliance, or have another use for a minimal operating system, read [...]

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BLOG: LinuxOSS Soon Moving To Dedicated Server Hosting

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Dear subscribers, readers and blog visitors. I have good news for all of you, as this is really awesome one for me as well. Within next 48 hours this, as well as my personal blog, will be completely moved to Dedicated Server Hosting environment.
As you might have probably noticed (hard not to), I have been [...]

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OpenSolaris 2008.11: An Early Look

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While OpenSolaris 2008.05 is only two months old, work at Sun is already underway in preparing for the second OpenSolaris release, which will be known as OpenSolaris 2008.11 and has been codenamed Jericho. OpenSolaris development packages for this next release, which are currently based upon Solaris Nevada Build 93, are now available through an IPS [...]

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Open Source: Salvation or Suicide?

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When should a company relinquish control of hard-won proprietary technology in hopes of gaining a strategic advantage via an open source software model?

In a global case study published in the April 2008 edition of Harvard Business Review, coauthors Scott Wilson, senior manager, Deloitte Research, and Ajit Kambil, global director, Deloitte Research, address this tough and [...]

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Hardware RAID vs Linux Kernel Software RAID

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Want to get an idea of what speed advantage adding an expensive hardware RAID card to your new server is likely to give you? You can benchmark the performance difference between running a RAID using the Linux kernel software RAID and a hardware RAID card. My own tests of the two alternatives yielded some interesting [...]

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Review: Wordpress 2.6 “Tyner” Final Released

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Wordpress 2.6 is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 “Tyner,” named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are [...]

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WattOS: UBUNTU Based Lightweight Linux

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WattOS is a new Linux distribution that’s based on Ubuntu, but designed for low-power machines. It has low system requirements, which means you can run it on older hardware. But the developers are also hoping to build advanced power management features into the OS so that you’ll have a full Linux desktop experience without consuming [...]

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Open source quality checker released

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An open source software project, originally propped up by European Commission (EC) funds, has released an alpha version of its quality control program, Alitheia Core.
Software Quality Observatory for Open Source Software (SQO-OSS – pronounced squash) is intended to develop tools based on identified metrics to define and check the quality of open source software.
European businesses, [...]

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The Man Who Changed Internet Security

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I found this very important for all the DNS Admins out there…
While security researcher Dan Kaminsky still won’t comment on the specific nature of a flaw within the Domain Name System–for fear that criminal hackers might exploit it before the worldwide network of name servers worldwide and client systems that contact them can be updated–he [...]

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BLOG Notice: Server Issues

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Hello, All
You may have noticed that the blog has been down off and on, we are working on resolving this issue to maintain 100% up time. Sorry for the inconvenience.
We are also working to speed up the blog, the load time mainly.
Thank You

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Plans for Gtk+/GNOME 3.0 Surfaced

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At the GNOME conference GUADEC plans were presented how the transition to the new Gtk and GNOME is supposed to happen. The basic idea is to make the transition as smooth as possible by first cleaning up everything and introducing new concepts later on.
The news flash came right from GUADEC today: there will be a [...]

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openSUSE Build Service 1.0 Released

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The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the 1.0 release of the openSUSE Build Service. The 1.0 release provides all the features necessary to support building openSUSE in the public build systems and allowing direct contributions to openSUSE from all contributors. Developers can now submit contributions to openSUSE directly at build.opensuse.org.
The openSUSE Build Service allows [...]

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Cool: ABC of Technology

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This one is cool … the ABC with that of latest technology that is driving our lives, making swich from L for Love to L for Linux … isn’t both actually same, cause I Love Linux.

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