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Linux.com | CLI Magic: Linux troubleshooting tools 101

CLI Magic: Linux troubleshooting tools 101When something goes wrong with your Linux-based system, you can try to diagnose it yourself with the many troubleshooting tools bundled with the operating system.

Linux.com | Samba developers stay put, thank you very much

Samba developers stay put, thank you very muchOn February 6, the blog Boycott Novell ran a story suggesting that Novell's Samba development team had resigned en masse to take jobs at rival Red Hat, in protest over Novell's well-publicized patent agreement with Microsoft.

Linux.com | Colonizing a free new world with FreeCol

Colonizing a free new world with FreeColColonizing a new world is not a trivial task, even when you're doing it in a clone of a famous game. FreeCol is a free-as-in-free-software Java-based clone of Sid Meier's Colonization that's currently at the 0.5.3 release.

Linux.com | Zero Install: An executable critique of native package systems

Zero Install: An executable critique of native package systemsZero Install is one of the more promising alternatives to native package systems for Linux distributions, such as RPM and Debian's dpkg.

Linux.com | Volunteers make Vancouver PHP Conference work

Volunteers make Vancouver PHP Conference workMore than 225 developers attended the second Vancouver PHP Conference at the University of British Columbia's Downtown Campus in Vancouver Canada this week.

Linux.com | New open source advocacy group announced

New open source advocacy group announcedTen well-known companies within the open source community have pooled their resources to form an advocacy group designed for companies to adopt open source solutions for their business needs.

Linux.com | Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for Feisty

Ubuntu says no to non-free video drivers for FeistyUbuntu CTO Matt Zimmerman has announced two Ubuntu Technical Board decisions that will affect the upcoming Feisty Fawn release, due out in April of this year.

Linux.com | Klik: the un-packaging system

Klik: the un-packaging systemKlik is unique among software installation systems for Linux, in that each package installed through klik is self-contained, isolated from the rest of the operating system.

Linux.com | Review: Frets on Fire

Review: Frets on FireYou suck on electric guitar. If you are not aware of that now, you will be after playing Frets on Fire -- a cross-platform, GPLed music game from Unreal Voodoo, where your PC's keyboard is the instrument and you play lead. Read more

Linux.com | Open source software lets Genuitec forgo venture capital

Open source software lets Genuitec forgo venture capitalOne business that relies heavily on open source software is Genuitec, the company that produces the proprietary subscription-based MyEclipse interactive development environment.

Linux.com | Autopackage struggling to gain acceptance

Fourteen months ago, the Autopackage project was small and active, and members sounded optimistic about its success. Now, although the alternative installer project continues, progress has almost come to a halt.

Linux.com | FSFE's Fiduciary License Agreement is no panacea

FSFE's Fiduciary License Agreement is no panaceaThis week FSF Europe (FSFE) announced the release of its Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA), a form of copyright assignment in which a free software project can place its collective copyright under the control of a single organizatio …

Linux.com | CLI Magic: Zip your files across the network with Woof

CLI Magic: Zip your files across the network with WoofTransferring files from one computer to another on a network isn't always a straightforward task.

Linux.com | Linspire to be based on Ubuntu

Linspire to be based on UbuntuYesterday, Linspire and Canonical issued a joint announcement that Linspire would begin to base its distributions on Ubuntu rather than Debian, and that Ubuntu users would be able to use CNR to install proprietary applications and drivers, starting w …

Linux.com | Portrait: LinuxChix Brazil's Sulamita Garcia

Portrait: LinuxChix Brazil's Sulamita Garcia A lot of people have bemoaned the lack of women participating in open source communities, but Sulamita Garcia is one of the few who have stepped up to do something about it.

Linux.com | STUX live CD: Some technical difficulties

STUX live CD: Some technical difficultiesSTUX is a Slackware/Knoppix-powered live CD with the Morphix-like ability to build a custom ISO. While the combination has high potential, this implementation leaves something to be desired.

Linux.com | OpenSSL gets hard-fought revalidation

OpenSSL gets hard-fought revalidationAfter a five year journey that included a suspended validation last year, the Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) has announced that OpenSSL has regained its FIPS 140-2 validation and is now available for download.

Linux.com | Virtualization goes Nationwide

Virtualization goes NationwideNationwide Insurance and Financial Services, a $21 billion company with 30,000 employees, has turned to virtual servers running Linux to gain more control over computing power and expenditures.

Linux.com | Good old-fashioned shooting with Kobo Deluxe

If you still dig the old-style arcade games, you owe it to yourself to check out Kobo Deluxe, an improved version of XKobo with sound and better graphics. I ran across Kobo Deluxe when I was looking for a game similar to Namco's arcade classic Bosconian.

Linux.com | Enhance security with file encryption tools

Enhance security with file encryption toolsSystem-wide security solutions such as SELinux, AppArmor, Bastille and grsecurity can, in most cases, make your Linux desktop more than reasonably secure. But there are still cases where file or directory encryption is necessary.

Linux.com | KDE 4's Sonnet will turbocharge language processing

With the Sonnet library for KDE 4, developer Jacob Rideout hopes to reinvigorate the field of desktop linguistics by adding automatic language detection and other innovative features.

Linux.com | Raymond, Nelson critical of new planned license for open source peripherals

Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (TAPR) is sponsoring a plan to encourage and popularize the idea of open source -- for hardware components. The organization released a draft of an open source license for computer hardware this month, and issued a public call for comments on the draft.

Linux.com | ROX Desktop provides light, quirky alternative to GNOME and KDE

ROX Desktop provides light, quirky alternative to GNOME and KDEThe ROX Desktop is a lightweight alternative to GNOME or KDE built around the ROX-Filer file manager. It's performance is reminiscent of IceWM, and it's noticeably faster opening programs than GNOME or KDE.

Linux.com | Fldigi and amateur radio on Linux

Fldigi and amateur radio on Linux Dave Freese has just released version 1.2 of Fldigi, a popular new program for Linux and FreeBSD which enables amateur radio operators to join their radios and their computers at the hip and create a new kind of ham shack: a digital ham shack.

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