| Linux Today News VBOXHEADLESS - RUNNING VIRTUAL MACHINES WITH VIRTUALBOX 4.0 ON A HEADLESS FEDORA "This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with VirtualBox 4.0 on a headless Fedora 14 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment." ARDUINO THE DOCUMENTARY. HOW OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE BECAME CHEAP AND FUN "With the development of cheap, easy to use electronics components as part of the Arduino computing platform, it?s becoming much easier to create your own hardware solutions without spending a lot of money." FERMILAB, THE TEVATRON, AND LINUX "It was 1998 and I was attending a Comdex event in Chicago. Comdex was one of the largest computer trade shows on earth, and for a while they held two events a year, a Fall event always in Las Vegas, and a Spring event typically in some other large city." 6 OF THE BEST FREE LINUX DIGITAL FORENSICS TOOLS "Linux has a good range of digital forensics tools that can process data, perform data analysis of text documents, images, videos, and executable files, present that data to the investigator in a form that helps identify relevant data, and to search the data" SAYING GOODBYE TO MY SYSTEM76 NOTEBOOKS "Unfortunately, it?s time to send back some of the more interesting computers I?ve had the opportunity to test recently. I?m saying goodbye today to the Classmate spin (the ?Starling Edubook?), consumer netbook (the ?Starling Netbook?), and high-performance consumer laptop (?Pangolin Performance?) from System76." FIREFOX 4 BETA 9 GIVES SHORT SHRIFT TO LINUX USERS "Considerable fanfare greeted Friday's release of the ninth--and apparently final--beta version of Firefox 4, which boosted the popular Web browser with hundreds of bug fixes and a raft of powerful new features." BACKDOORS IN OPENBSD? REPLY HAZY, TRY AGAIN "Evidence points to no FBI backdoors in OpenBSD, but questions still remain" XFCE 4.8 RELEASED "Today, after almost two years of work, we have the special pleasure of announcing the much awaited release of Xfce 4.8, the new stable version that supersedes Xfce 4.6." INSTALLING ARCH LINUX ? THE BASE "So you have installed VirtualBox, you have the Arch ISO image, and you?ve blocked off a section of time for this learning expedition. Let?s get started!" INTRODUCING ZORIN OS 4 "Zorin OS is, according to the project's website, an easy-to-use, fast operating system which attempts to be useful straight out of the box. The distro appears to be targeting people who have, up to this point, been using Windows" Download: Windows API Code Pack This code pack provides a source code library to access some features of Windows 7 and Windows Vista from managed code that are not available today in the .NET framework. Supported features include taskbar, shell, sensor APIs, and more. Download this Internet.com eBook now. Click Here. | Interested in placing your TEXT AD HERE? Click Here WEBOS: THE OTHER SMARTPHONE/TABLET LINUX "And, OK, I can see there being room for both Android and MeeGo on smartphones and tablets, but, really HP, do we need yet another Linux-based operating system, webOS, for tablets, phones, and netbooks?" WHY STEVE JOBS WON'T RETURN TO APPLE "The legendary CEO has accomplished everything he ever wanted to accomplish." 5 VPN CLIENTS FOR LINUX "Administering heterogenous networks means making Mac and Windows play nice with Linux, and each other, even when they don't want to. Here are five Linux VPN clients for Cisco, Juniper, and other VPN servers." LCA 2011 TO GO AHEAD AS PLANNED "The 12th Australian national Linux conference, scheduled to be held in Brisbane from January 24 to 28, will go ahead as planned, chief organiser Shaun Nykvist announced last night." 50 OPEN SOURCE REPLACEMENTS FOR STORAGE SOFTWARE "According to researchers at IDC, the digital universe included 1.2 million petabytes, or 1.2 zettabytes, of data by the end of 2010. In case you have trouble picturing those numbers, that's enough data to fill a stack of DVDs that stretches to the moon and back." VYE JOLIBOOK REVIEW ? BEST IN CLASS OPEN SOURCE COMPUTING? "If you're looking for an original take on small-form-factor open source computing then you've come to the right place." IT MANAGEMENT FAIL: ALWAYS BLAME THE WORKER BEES ""Security fail: When trusted IT people go bad" has a great title. Then it's all downhill. I suppose it's appropriate for an audience of managers who want cheerleading for bad management more than good information." BEING A FREE/OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE CATALYST : PART I "Having trouble convincing the Boss when it comes to FOSS? This article discusses common pitfalls that arise when advocating Free / Open Source software in your organization. This is part I of a series of articles focused upon being a part of FOSS culture change." TEXAS LINUX FEST 2011 CALL FOR PAPERS IS OPEN! "We are proud to officially open the call for papers for Texas Linux Fest 2011, scheduled for April 2 at the Hilton Austin hotel in downtown Austin, Texas." HTML5 GETS A LOGO, WILL IT HELP ADOPTION? "A logo is a critical element of a brand. Now the W3C is attempting to brand the emerging HTML5 web standard with a new logo." 6 TRICKS WITH AWK "Awk has always been for me a source of great hatred and love, isan incredibly powerful command with which it is possible to build real programs." |