“While I contemplate the fate of our desktop PC, my wife is chomping at the bit to get back online; I told her she could use my Dell Inspiron notebook. She asked if it also was a Windows XP machine. When I said it was, her reply was prompt and emphatic: “Never mind.†– Admin @TechIQmag
Are you considering an enterprise-wide switch from a Microsoft operating system to Linux? Or are you using Linux already and want to know how your distro stacks up against others? From cost savings to security to interoperability, developers of four leading Linux distros tell, in their own words, why they are best for business use today.
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the Ubuntu Project, lists his Top Ten Reasons Why Ubuntu Is Best for Enterprise Use, including ease of use and licensing costs.
In Red Hat Enterprise Linux: The Business OS for Flexibility and Value, Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens details why Red Hat 5 is the choice for reducing operating costs and providing a secure, reliable, scalable operating system.
While Novell’s General Manager Roger Levy claims in SUSE Linux Enterprise: The Leading OS for Business Today that the SUSE distro helps customers lower costs, manage complexity and mitigate risk, clearly making it the best operating system for business today.
And Max Spevack, Fedora Project leader, touts the benefits of The Fedora OS: Free, Stable and Customizable.
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The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has filed another two cases on behalf of BusyBox developers Erik Andersen and Rob Landley against High Gain Antennas, LLC of Parker, Calif., and Xterasys Corp. of City of Industry, Calif. The cases follow a similar case against Monsoon Multimedia, which was recently settled out of court.
When deer hunting season begins in Mississippi, or its time for the alligator lottery to start down in Florida, sportsmen flock to the Internet to order their licenses through companies like Automated License Systems (ALS). To keep its servers running reliably, ALS’s Infrastructure Manager Rich Edwards uses Red Hat Linux and servers from Levanta, no questions asked.
Gogh is an extremely lightweight drawing program designed for pressure-sensitive devices. Despite its simplicity, it packs in a lot of features and a lot of fun.
Nobody ever thinks to mention .rpmnew and .rpmsave extensions to new users of Fedora or Red Hat derivatives. Instead, most users suddenly discover that these files are accumulating on their hard drives, or notice a fleeting message on the screen about them during a version upgrade. Many, I suspect, simply leave them alone, uncertain what to do about them. Yet dealing with them is simply a matter of using a few basic commands, and can be a necessity for ensuring trouble-free upgrades in the future.
Installation Guide: Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna (a.k.a. The Perfect Desktop)
This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 4.0 (Daryna)
desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e.
that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on
their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure
system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and
the best thing is: all software comes free of charge. Linux Mint 4.0 is
a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu 7.10 that has lots of packages in
its repositories (like multimedia codecs, Adobe Flash, Adobe Reader,
Skype, Google Earth, etc.) that are relatively hard to install on other
distributions; it therefore provides a user-friendly desktop experience
even for Linux newbies.
Adding And Updating SpamAssassin Rulesets With RulesDuJour
This article explains how you can download additional SpamAssassin
rulesets resp. automatically update these rulesets with a shell scripts
called RulesDuJour.
These additional rulesets can increase your spam recognition rate
dramatically. Most of the rulesets that RulesDuJour supports can be
found on the SA Rules Emporium web site.
Martin Roesch is one of the most successful entrepreneurs ever to build a company based on open source software. Roesch is the author of Snort, which he claims is the "most-widely deployed" intrusion detection software in the world, and the founder of Sourcefire, a network security services provider that uses Snort as the centerpiece of its operations. Last week, the Tech Council of Maryland named Roesch its Commercial IT Executive of the Year.
Mencoder is part of the MPlayer media player package. While MPlayer can play audio and video files, mencoder converts and manages multimedia files. The application has a ton of graphical user interfaces, but you can use it from the command line to produce video files in almost any format you want. Here’s how.