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Michael Robertson Sued Over Linspire's Missing Cash

October 06, 2008 (5:00:00 PM) - 20 minutes ago

To this day, Michael Robertson has yet to explain to the 100 some-odd shareholders what happened with the millions of dollars in cash and assets that were owned by Linspire just a few short months ago. The assets seem to have completely vanished, leaving shareholders with no return on their investment or even so much as an explanation as to what happened.

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netstat to find ports which are in use on linux server

October 06, 2008 (4:30:00 PM) - 50 minutes ago

Below is command to find out number of connections to each ports which are in use using netstat & cut.

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Open source can still win in a down economy

October 06, 2008 (4:00:00 PM) - 1 hour, 20 minutes ago

In meetings with venture investors in the last few days, it became clear that the impact of the credit crisis and the overall bleak economic outlook has people really freaked out.

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Open-source server appliance is "free"

October 06, 2008 (3:30:00 PM) - 1 hour, 50 minutes ago

KangarooBox is shipping a "free" open-source server appliance that runs Debian 5 GNU/Linux. Targeting small offices, the silent, fanless "Joey" employs an AMD Geode-based PC Engines ALIX 3c2 single-board computer (SBC), and is given to customers buying a $3,000 one-year support plan, the company says.

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Linux virtualization tech tapped for telematics

October 06, 2008 (3:00:00 PM) - 2 hours, 20 minutes ago

Wind River announced a major design win with Hughes Telematics for a Linux-based automotive telematics system. Hughes will use Wind River's new virtualization technology, as well as Wind River Linux for the company's next-generation telematics control unit (TCU), says Wind River.

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Dell UK releases Ubuntu netbook but favours Windows

October 06, 2008 (2:30:00 PM) - 2 hours, 50 minutes ago

Dell UK has introduced the Linux version of its Inspiron Mini 9 netbook, but potential buyers will undoubtedly be annoyed at the lack of configuration options.

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Poll indicates a turning away from Linux

October 06, 2008 (2:00:00 PM) - 3 hours, 20 minutes ago

About one third of the respondents to an EE Times Europe poll are planning to use Linux as an embedded operating system in their next project. This compares with about 50 percent when the same question was asked one year ago.

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Linux on Netbooks a Failure?

October 05, 2008 (10:00:00 PM) - 19 hours, 20 minutes ago

A comment made by MSI’s Director of U.S. Sales Andy Tung in an interview with LaptopMag has raised the question if Linux is a failure on netbooks. He said that MSI Wind customers are 4x more likely to return a Wind netbook with Linux than with Windows XP installed.

New book from Reed Media Services: The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin

October 05, 2008 (4:39:12 PM) - 1 day ago

PRESS RELEASE - Reed Media Services has announced the release of The Daemon, the Gnu, and the Penguin, the official expanded and updated print edition of Dr. Peter H. Salus' exploration of the history and effects of free and open software.

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Ubuntu 8.10 Beta Screenshots

October 05, 2008 (3:41:23 PM) - 1 day, 1 hour ago
By: Mike L.

We take a look at the latest beta of Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex". It features GNOME 2.24 and other numerous enhancements.

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Learn even more command-line tricks and operators in UNIX

October 05, 2008 (10:00:00 AM) - 1 day, 7 hours ago

Get a better understanding of all those "strange" characters UNIX users are typing. Learn how to use pipelines, redirections, operators, and more in UNIX.

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MontaVista Linux drives Dell's quick-boot feature

October 05, 2008 (4:00:00 AM) - 1 day, 13 hours ago

CEO Rusty Harris revealed MontaVista's role developing the quick-booting, ARM-based processor subsystem expected to ship this year in select Dell laptop models. The "Latitude ON" feature aims to give enterprise laptop users instant boot-up and access to select applications, with multi-day battery lifetimes.

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"Virtual platform" targets Linux device developers

October 04, 2008 (10:00:00 PM) - 1 day, 19 hours ago

CoWare and MontaVista Software are shipping a joint "virtual platform" development product for Linux device developers. The product is based on CoWare's electronic system-level (ESL) virtual platform technology, runs MontaVista Linux, and offers the Eclipse-based DevRocket integrated development environment (IDE), according to the companies.

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Mobile Linux platform supports Cortex-A8 SoC

October 04, 2008 (6:00:00 PM) - 1 day, 23 hours ago

At its Vision 2008 conference yesterday, MontaVista Software announced that its Mobilinux distribution has been optimized for the Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP35x system-on-chip (SoC). MontaVista also announced that MontaVista Linux was used by 22 of the first 25 mobile devices compliant with the LiMo Platform.

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Linux design targets 802.11n-enabled homes

October 04, 2008 (2:00:00 PM) - 2 days, 3 hours ago

Network processor vendor Cortina Systems and WiFi chipset manufacturer Ralink Technology announced a joint hardware/software reference design for WiFi-enabled consumer electronics. Based on Cortina's ARM9-based CS3516 Network Processor and Ralink's 802.11n-compliant RT2880 chipset, the design comes with a Linux board support package (BSP), says Cortina.

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SourceForge.net October Project of the Month: concrete5

October 04, 2008 (1:41:58 PM) - 2 days, 3 hours ago

concrete5 is a content management system, built in PHP, that makes it easy for anyone to run a website. It will save the planet.

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Bash Parameter Expansion

October 04, 2008 (9:00:00 AM) - 2 days, 8 hours ago

If you use bash you already know what Parameter Expansion is, although you may have used it without knowing its name. Anytime you use a dollar sign followed by a variable name you're doing what bash calls Parameter expansion, eg echo $a or a=$b. But parameter expansion has numerous other forms which allow you to expand a parameter and modify the value or substitute other values in the expansion process.

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Will Western Digital Land Fujitsu's Drive Unit?

October 04, 2008 (4:00:00 AM) - 2 days, 13 hours ago

Japan's Fujitsu is in talks with U.S. hard disk drive maker Western Digital on the sale of its money-losing hard drive business, a company official said, in a deal one newspaper estimated could be worth $945 million.

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Thunderbird continues to idle rather than drive

October 04, 2008 (2:57:35 AM) - 2 days, 14 hours ago
By: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Mozilla has done a great job with Firefox, but its e-mail client, Thunderbird, is going no-where fast.

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TASK_KILLABLE: New process state in Linux

October 04, 2008 (12:00:00 AM) - 2 days, 17 hours ago

Linux® kernel 2.6.25 introduced a new process state for putting processes to sleep called TASK_KILLABLE, which offers an alternative to the efficient but potentially unkillable TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE and the easy-to-awaken but safer TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE. TASK_KILLABLE is the outcome of an issue raised in 2002 about the OpenAFS file system driver waiting for an event interruptibly after blocking all signals. This new sleeping state echoes TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE with the ability to respond to fatal signals. In this article, the author sheds light on this area and, using examples from 2.6.26 and an earlier version, 2.6.18, discusses the related changes to the Linux kernel and the new APIs that resulted from these changes.

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