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Eight Must-Have Apps for Linux
Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 23:39:04 CET by tw45admin (44 reads) |  Linux comes in all shapes and sizes...from the full-blown app-heavy distros like Fedora and Ubuntu, to the lean and mean distros such as Puppy and Damn Small Linux. Whatever the size of the distribution, there are always going to be applications that you will want to download and install, depending on your needs. These can be essential apps, like Skype, Flash, or Thunderbird, or not-so-important-yet-fun apps like Google Earth, VirtualBox, and VLC. To help get started with these applications, Linux.com is providing a single list of these must-have apps that Linux users should install right after their distro is up and running. For the purposes of this article, installation URLs and methods for the following popular distributions will be examined...
Which distros and apps are covered? Find out at Linux.com.
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Commercial Gaming, Coming Soon to Linux?
Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 14:51:33 CET by tw45admin (47 reads) |  Whichever way you look at it, consumers want to be able to play the latest commercial computer games. Sure, Linux has a myriad of fantastic free games available (and even a number of commercial ones) for the platform, but that’s not good enough for gamers. Does the latest and greatest hot off the press game run on Linux? No. Does an awesome proprietary game from 10 years ago run on Linux? Possibly. The lack of commercial gaming on Linux continues to be a stumbling block for many and the current gaming market keeps them on Windows. (Indeed, many otherwise full time Linux users dual boot Windows for games.) There is a huge untapped potential for Linux gamers, designers and programmers here that never may never eventuate because they never try anything other than Windows (why would they?).
The answer to that question and more can be found at linux-mag.com.
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Virtualization With VirtualBox 3.1.x On A Headless Fedora 12 Server
Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 14:50:09 CET by tw45admin (41 reads) |  falko writes
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GNOME Developer Kit Slimmed Down
Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 13:42:21 CET by tw45admin (30 reads) |  The GNOME Developer Kit is a Linux distro based on Foresight Linux. Its new release shows a somewhat reduced collection of software for GNOME developers. The size of the GNOME Developer Kit system image was reduced from 1.4 GBytes to under 700 MBytes. To this end, Firefox was replaced by Epiphany and multimedia codecs were excluded. The distro for developers and translators now fits on a single CD. The typical installation for GNOME developers may well be on virtual machines. The download page therefore includes image files for VMware, Parallels and Qemu next to the installable ISO image. The VMware image can also be run under VirtualBox.
Read more at linux-magazine.com.
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Unified network administration using eBox
Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 13:39:41 CET by tw45admin (39 reads) | Linux is an excellent choice for a server operating system, no matter what the size of business. However, it is still not very easy to administrate. Recently many distributions have launched their own interface to configure these server components (like Apache and Samba), but really failed at delivering an easy-to-use interface to configure it. That alone turns off many SMB (small and medium business) folks. eBox is trying to fix this particular issue. eBox (or eBox Platform, to give it its full name) can play multiple roles. It can act as a network gateway, an infrastructure manager, a unified threat manager, an office server, a unified communication server or a combination of any of these. eBox is delivering these functions using already popular open source software with a solid administration interface.
More about eBox can be found at Linux User and Developer.
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Mozilla borrows from WebKit to build fast new JS engine
Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 13:37:06 CET by tw45admin (34 reads) |  Mozilla's high-performance TraceMonkey JavaScript engine, which was first introduced in 2008, has lost a lot of its luster as competing browser vendors have stepped up their game to deliver superior performance. Firefox now lags behind Safari, Chrome, and Opera in common JavaScript benchmarks. In an effort to bring Firefox back to the front of the pack, Mozilla is building a new JavaScript engine called JägerMonkey. The secret sauce that will drive Mozilla's new JavaScript engine engine into the fast lane is some code borrowed from Apple's WebKit project. Mozilla intends to bring together the powerful optimization techniques of TraceMonkey and the extremely efficient native code generator of Apple's JSCore engine.
The complete article is at ars technica.
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Turn your old computer into a music server with VortexBox Linux
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 23:55:14 CET by tw45admin (109 reads) | donadony writes VortexBox is a free, open source (GPL v3), quick-install ISO that turns your unused computer into an easy-to-use music server/jukebox. Once VortexBox has been loaded on an unused PC, it will automatically rip CDs to FLAC and MP3 files, ID3 tag the files , and download the cover art. Vortexbox will then serve the files to network media players such as Logitech Squeezebox, Sonos, or Linn. The music files can also be streamed to a Windows or Mac OSX system.
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Intro to IO Profiling of Applications
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 18:37:10 CET by tw45admin (58 reads) | One of the classic problems in designing storage solutions is that we don’t know what kind of IO performance applications need. We may have some empirical knowledge, “switching to SSD’s improved by wall clock time by 25%,” or, “adding an extra drive improved my application performance by 11%.” While this information is helpful to some degree what is missing is the understanding of why performance improved and by extension, what are the driving mechanisms behind the performance improvement. Perhaps equally important for the application developers is that understanding the driving forces of IO performance for your application can be used to improve the IO performance, if needed.
The entire article is featured at linux-mag.com.
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Installing wxPython 2.8 on Debian Lenny
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 14:47:49 CET by tw45admin (53 reads) |  Actually Debian has the python-wxgtk2.8 package which you can simply apt-get if you wish to have it installed as part of Python 2.5 which is the stable version for Lenny. I’m adding wxPython 2.8 to Python 2.6, which I installed from source. I mostly followed what the official wxPython installation guide says. It was not a smooth installation for me, so this is my own installation note. The version is 2.8.10.1. First, download the tarball for wxPython from the official repository. Here I assume the archive is downloaded to /usr/local/src/wx. You need to first build wxWidgets, and then build extension module for wxPython. Anyways, decompress and untar, and create a working directory for building wxWidgets...
The complete tutorial is at Biboroku.
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Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And MySQL On Debian Lenny
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 @ 14:44:38 CET by tw45admin (66 reads) | falko writes
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