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    Mastering SSH for fun and profit

    Mastering SSH for fun a profit. Most Unix OSes have the wondrous joy of being able to take advantage of the benefits of OpenSSH, which is the best ssh implementation available in the entire world. People generally use it as a sort of encrypted and safe version of telnet, but it goes far...
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    AMD to open up it's 3D hardware for R500 and above

    They are not going to open up their existing drivers, this is a commitment from AMD to work towards _new_ open source drivers. They claim they will release basic 'skeleton' drivers, 2D drivers, and specifications for their newer hardware. AMD announced this at the recent kernel summit...
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    Proceedings of the Linux symposium 2007 aviable...

    https://ols2006.108.redhat.com/2007/Reprints/ These are the pdf form of presentations various Linux developers gave at that meeting. A lot of it is very interesting... For example you can learn about Ultrawideband wireless and the state of Linux support at...
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    Love of Freedom, Love of software. The reasons behind Free software and the GPL.

    Here is a couple interesting videos from Eben Molgen. Eben Molgen started as a computer application designer at the age of 14. He programmed multimillion dollar IBM mainframes for serveral years then when the Apple Lisa came out he lost interest with commercial software and went to school and...
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    Stop using proprietary Firefox extensions. Dangerous

    These items do automatic self-updates without user's control, notifications, or consent (generally). These guys check back with their corporate masters over unencrypted http. Due to no ssl certs or anything like that then this leaves users using these extensions in a dangerous position...
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    Linux tweaks, applications, and other gimmicks.

    I'll start. First off most people using Ubuntu or Debian are probably going to use Gnome. By default Gnome's Window manager (called Metacity) is rather limited. Metacity is designed specificly to be crack-free. This means that while most Window managers are laden down with odd...
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    VMGL provides OpenGL acceleration in VMs in Linux..

    http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andreslc/xen-gl/ I can't imagine that it would be fast, but I am amazed that this is possible at all! Anybody have any experiance with it? Is this related to the OpenGL features for Vmware? I would like to know much more about this... edit: I found a...
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    Ubuntu Feisty Call For Testing.

    https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-April/000281.html The images that they wanted tested are 20070415 builds. They need to be tested by as many people as possible that are willing to find and report bugs so that the final release will be stable as possible. So if...
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    Hilarious. Now I know why ACPI sucks so much.

    This is funny stuff. It's a Email from Bill Gates to a couple buddies. I'll copy it down here by hand, but you can find the original PDF at: http://antitrust.slated.org/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/3000/PX03020.pdf Oh.. and I think they did. One major example of this is DSDT. Both...
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    Debian Etch released!

    A new Debian Stable has been released, called GNU/Linux Debian 4.0 "Etch". What is Debian? Debian is one of the oldest continuously active Linux distributions. It is one of the largest and most popular and is the only significant Linux based operating system that is a purely...
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    Comparision of easy qemu-based vm for Linux

    Interesting article comparing virtualization options for Linux. These are easy to use and should be included by default on most modern distributions. http://linux.inet.hr/finally-user-friendly-virtualization-for-linux.html KVM and Kqemu were able to benchmark within 80-85% of native...
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    HP makes good money from their Debian support.

    Last year HP started supporting Debian officially on some types of their hardware with 'Debian Care Packages' http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/390110-0-0-0-121.html This year they've found that they have had 25 million dollars worth of sales directly attributable to Debian-specific...
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    Intel Linux love.

    Ok ok. Intel isn't the best company in the world or anything like that. (being behind things like the big push behind DRM and such) But it seems to be liking it's relationship with Linux and open source drivers. First off Keith Packard's talk at the Debian Miniconf...
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    Linux Genuine Advantage.

    http://www.linuxgenuineadvantage.org/ It's a simple and convient tarball that once installed will go out and check inuxgenuineadvantage's authentication servers to see if your allowed to login. This is a real program, folks. If it detects that your not running a genuine verison of Linux...
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    Two news items for Linux VM users: Kqemu is now GPL and coherence for desktop.

    Of course you seen the hip new eye candy from people like Beryl or Compiz. For example here is something that may be actually usefull for once: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eotwBwXquqw&NR It's the ability to nest multiple windows into a single 'window' and then flip between them. New...
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    Linspire has gone multi-distro with CNR. Opinions?

    http://www.cnr.com/faq.html I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like another GUI front end, ala synaptic. But with extra features such as including screenshots and rating systems. The way the FAQ makes it sound is that it's designed to integrate into your existing package management...
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    Looks like Sun is going to 'GPL' Solaris.

    Well so far Sun has GPL'd it's CPU design. Partially GPL'd Java. Going to eventually be all the way GPL'd. Released Solaris under the CDDL, which is a Free software license if unfortunately a bit incompatable with GPLv2. Open sourced Star Office to create OpenOffice.org. And a few other...
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    New(ish) Linux-based Hypervisor: KVM

    It's aviable as a module and also will be aviable in vanilla kernel 2.6.20 when that gets released. The basic requirements is that you have to be running Linux (obviously) and you have to have a machine that supports either the AMD or Intel virtualization extensions (SVM/AMD-V and VT...
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    Understanding the concepts behind Free software.

    Now this is a point of view of what is know as 'Free Software activists'. People who beleive that there is a moral need for software being free. That is software that can be used for any purpose, modified, redistributed and have the source aviable with only the minimal restrictions. You have...
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    Free online course for learning Linux.

    Unfortunately it started in Oct 19. :/ But it's suppose to last 6 months so I suppose it's still easy to join up. (don't know nothing about that, but this is the second time they've done it so it's likely that there would be a third time if you missed out already.) They have online course...
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    Terrasoft to support Linux for the PS3.

    http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/news/2006/2006-10-17.shtml Looks like it may be THE Linux that gets into the PS3. Not sure on the wording seem a bit vague. But if that's true then I guess that will probably make Enligthenment desktop the most widely used Linux desktop environment within...
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    Amazing. Check out Freedos. It's finally got 1.0

    It's actually kinda funny. Perfect for those older machines laying around and for playing old DOS games. It even includes DOOM by default, although of course without the original ID wads, which you have to get elsewere. It has a full desktop GUI. Vim, Emacs. File managers. Networking stuff...
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    Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta-1 aviable for download.

    <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-announce/2006-September/msg00000.html">https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-announce/2006-September/msg00000.html</a> They are getting rid of a bunch of different versions and going with a simplier...
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    AIGLX rocks!

    I am connecting from my Desktop to my laptop via ssh with X over ssh enabled. On glxgears -printfps I normally get around 5600 or so FPS (ATI x800 with completely FREE dri drivers) using direct rendering. With indirect rendering acceleration when connecting from my (PowerPC) ibook from my...
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    Some guy reports AMD strongly considuring opening ATI drivers...

    http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/08/02/32OPcurve_1.html He doesn't say how he heard it or anything, but it would make a huge difference for me and my purchasing considurations if it's true.
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    2006 Linux Symposium pdfs aviable for download.

    Note that this is all Kernel-specific. Not 'linux' as in 'operating system', but Linux as in 'operating system kernel'. These are kernel developers giving talks about their ideas and problems they think that they should be dealing with. There are a lot of OS stuff going on, just keep in mind...
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    The Computer History Simulation Project

    http://simh.trailing-edge.com/ This is a online project to preserve historical computer systems by emulation/simulation. They created a freeware application called 'SIMH' that emulates a veriaty of historically significant machines.. PDP machines, Vax machines, Altair, Honeywell... etc etc...
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    Two software patent lawsuites against open source developers.

    Software patents are a huge threat to not only open source software developers but to anyone that runs a small or medium sized business that does any software development of any sort that can't afford to litigate a lawsuit of upwards to several hundred thousand dollars. Larger companies can tend...
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    Redhat Keynote videos.

    You can find them at: http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/videos/ There are 3 of them. The first one is the 'Matthew Szulik' one and that was actually about Pro-Redhat stuff and what things they are doing. It's midly interesting. They have a couple good ideas about social networking and such...
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    How to try out Linux (and others) without installing it, burning a cd, or even rebooting.

    Basicly this is done using VMWare Player. Most people would already probably would of heard or it or used it by now, but many people may not be aware of the massive amounts of demo images you can run on it. For those that don't know, VMWare Player is a no-cost application that allows you to...
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    Which Intel and AMD proccessors will have VT/SVM extensions?

    I want to use Xen to play around with different operating systems and software as well as being able to migrate operating systems from computer to computer while they are running... But only certain operating systems support Xen without support from the hardware so I am waiting to upgrade my...
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    Novell Desktop 10.

    Novell was showing off their next desktop OS earlier this week; Novell Deskop 10. Looks like they are incorporating their desktop stuff they have been working on in the past year or so. Some C# programs like Flickr (photograph management software), Banshee (mp3 player), and a few other...
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    Real-life Internet Operating system aviable.

    Sorta. It's a web-based operating system. Currently very beta.. more of a proof of concept right now then anything else. But it has games and apps and such. Based around a Apache mini-server, PHP, and some other stuff. Flash and the like. You can access it directly online, or download it...
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    Synfig 2-d vector based Animation studio... Free software

    http://www.synfig.com/overview/ http://www.synfig.com/download/ This is basicly a professional-style (high dynamic range, floating point colors, etc) 2-d animation package designed to reduce or eliminate all the traditional, and expensive, drudge work associated with traditional 2d animation...
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    Ha! broadcom wireless devices specs released.

    Hells bells, looks like broadcom released specs to it's wireless devices to make it easier to write drivers for Linux and other open source software. Should eventually reduce the need for ndiswrapper sucktactular driver dancing. So maybe in a few months I'll be able to get my 'apple airport...
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    OpenOffice/Linux conversion results

    Kinda funny, Kinda interesting. Found it originally thru Lwn. http://lwn.net/Articles/156452/ It's a e-mail to groklaw by one of the people running a european open source study. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2005102011342691 The orginization is called Cospa and their job...
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    2005 Linux kernel Summit.

    See the summary here: http://lwn.net/Articles/KernelSummit2005/ lots of neat stuff.
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    Debian Unstable is being unstable.

    For people using Debian Unstable be aware that it's undergoing a huge transition/upgrade period. There are some major things that are changing. X.org is now entering Debian.. 6.8.2. Also they are switching the C++ ABI from Gcc3 to Gcc4 Both of these things are causing large amounts of...
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    Linux on PS3.

    Looks like Sony will be offering a Linux OS for the Playstation 3 with a add-on harddrive. Asked why they don't give a harddrive by default, they said that any default harddrive aviable right now won't be big enough. more information avaible at...
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    Zeta OS.. Wow!

    As seen on slashdot... http://www.yellowtab.com/ Zeta OS, successor to BeOS from the German company yellowTAB who bought the remains of Be Inc. is about to release Zeta OS 1.0! Normally I couldn't care less about small GUI-based 'alternative' Operating systems. They are small, don't...