"The director of the Linux Foundation has claimed that mobile telcos should give away free netbooks running Linux in order to boost revenues from subscription deals."
- A.T.
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"Enter a new technology called Ksplice. The Ksplice service called Uptrack will update the Linux kernel in your system while it is running without disrupting your operations or requiring a reboot."
- imabonehead
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"Red Hat has launched a new partner program to make sure its enterprise Linux and JBoss software are core components of a cloud-computing infrastructure, and to guarantee that Red Hat-based applications will run reliably and safely in the cloud. Amazon Web Services, which already has a technology partnership to run RHEL as part of its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) offering, has signed on to become the first Red Hat Premier Cloud Provider Partner."
- imabonehead
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"This project consist in a portable image of Ubuntu that could run in Windows as a native win32 application. You could execute Linux applications and integrate it in your Windows desktop. This system can be bringing in any removable device such as pendrive"
- Mike Chelen
good question, it seems they are working on upgrading their server: http://portableubuntu.demonccc... meanwhile ubuntu internal update system is probably the best solution
- Mike Chelen
I'm thinking about creating my own distro, based on DreamLinux, that has a 2.6 kernel, X.org, busybox, and so forth. Anybody think it's a good idea?
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
Wow! You can get a whole history of your updates to a document with the new plugin. Now that's fancy! My dissertation thanks you, gnome do!
- Tommy Keene
The Opera 'Turbo' feature rocks! (Opera 10.0 beta for Linux). I just have to better understand its mechanism, and to adjust my private proxy accordingly.
"AcetoneISO2, is a feature-rich and complete software application to manage CD/DVD images. Thanks to powerful open source tools such as fuseiso, AcetoneISO2 will let You mount typical proprietary images formats of the Windows world such as ISO BIN NRG MDF IMG and do plenty of other things."
- Tanath
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Someone really should make a repository for this, or get it in the official repos. There's an Ubuntu bug about this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu... Edit: Looks like it's in the works. :)
- Tanath
from the release announcement -- I want to announce to the list that tor-ramdisk 20090627 is out. Tor-ramdisk is an i686 uClibc-based micro Linux distribution whose only purpose is to host a Tor server in an environment that maximizes security (hardnened binaries and kernel) and privacy (no logging at any level). Everything runs in RAM so no information survives a reboot except fot he Tor configuration file and RSA key which can be imported/exported via FTP.
- Freemor
Figure I would try it as a virtual machine in virtual box, see how it runs first before I do a complete install it is always good to see new distributions come out and to be able to try them out to see if it is what is being looked for. Thanks for the Heads Up @Freemor it is appreciated.
- Ubuntu101
"While Jolicloud's main goal is not to awe Linux geeks, the new distribution does offers a radically different take on a system for your netbook that might appeal to the non-technical user. Jolicloud has been in development for quite some time, and its developers managed to keep it under tight wraps, carefully dispensing invites to a few chosen users. Recently, yours truly found himself among the lucky ones. As an avid netbook user, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to take Jolicloud for a spin. The currently available version of Jolicloud is labeled as Alpha 2, so obviously it's still a work in progress. But even in its current state, the distro gives a good impression of things to come. "
- imabonehead
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"Jolicloud is based on Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) with a slightly tweaked visual theme. According to Jolicloud's developers, the system is based on the Array.org kernel which provides support for many popular netbooks, including Acer Aspire One and various Eee PC models. The innovative part of the distro is the new Jolicloud interface that runs on top of the system. When you launch it for the first time, you are prompted to link your netbook to your Jolicloud account."
- imabonehead
"...Openfiler has been working with LINBIT, another open source software vendor that does block-level replication, to develop a cloud computing solution."
- imabonehead
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"With Oracle set to acquire Sun and gain stewardship over Java, there are many in the tech world with an opinion on how the database giant should handle its new relationship with the programming language. One of those opinions is being voiced by Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst, who is calling on Oracle to keep Java open. During a conference call yesterday to discuss Red Hat's (NYSE: RHT) first-quarter fiscal 2010 results, Whitehurst also took aim at Oracle's operating system business."
- imabonehead
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Yeah, RH gets a lot of revenue from their JBoss subsidiary. Oracle could put a serious kink in that money pipeline. Thankfully, if they turn the screws too tight, some can now fork Java, though I think you'd have to have pretty deep pockets to pull that off.
- Michael R. Bernstein
There's no need to fork Java again since there's openjdk.
- imabonehead
"Software company Red Hat Inc (RHT.N) reported a 7 percent rise in quarterly profit onWednesday, bucking an industry trend of declining earnings, as margins widened under the scrutiny of its cost-conscious CEO....Profitability has been improving since last year when the world's biggest provider of Linux software tapped former Delta Air Lines Inc (DAL.N) executive James Whitehurst as its CEO. He has imposed tight cost controls, drawing on experience squeezing costs out of the struggling, low-margin carrier."
- imabonehead
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"He said Red Hat's Linux operating system is taking share away from Sun Microsystems Inc's (JAVA.O) Solaris operating system and its JBoss middleware is winning customers away from Oracle."
- imabonehead
indeed red hat is pulling things together even though I use Ubuntu myself.
- Ubuntu101
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Same here. I use Ubuntu for my main workstations and Redhat/CentOS for production.
- imabonehead
I want to buy an inexpensive netbook that will run Linux (preferably ubuntu) flawlessly. Any suggestions? I just want one to browse the web, maybe use skype, and transfer photos from my camera. No gaming or anything special. Suggestions/links?
I love my Dell Mini 9 (discontinued) but they apparently have a new thin 11 coming out -> http://tinyurl.com/lg2arm
- Mark
Looking at the Dell Mini 12 base model for $399. Don't really need the extras.
- Beau (והאראסי) Liening
Avoid Intel Paulsbo (GMA 500) like the plauge. It has a poorly supported binary only driver.
- DMKrow
My Acer Aspire One D150 works with Ubuntu 9.04 like a charm, I whole-heartedly recommend it.
- Nikola
NIkola, does the D150 works with everything? WIFI, Webcam etc?
- Ryo
Ryo, as far as I could see and test, everything works out of the box: WiFi, Bluetooth, webcam, etc. The battery life is great (5-6 h) and overall it's a pretty decent little machine.
- Nikola
See about looking at barebones systems, you can usually find them NakedPC's something like that had a list of barebones systems you can buy which may be lower in price.
- Ubuntu101
I purchased a System76 laptop earlier this year that rocks. It does everything you are asking for and is supplied with Ubuntu.
- Kory Wnuk
Was modifying my fstab and went into this strange dark abyss, in the end I just had to revert back to the earlier version of fstab and all was happy again after, trying startx and who knows how many other angles. Simply because I wanted to mod my home directory location ... live and learn right? What has been some of your experiences with fstab?
The abyss of course was of a filesystem that constantly went back to Read Only, and I finally figured out how to solve it, bringing it live once more, will be writing a post on it in the coming days @ http://ubuntu1012k9.blogspot.com/
- Ubuntu101
that was indeed the key I finally found after much searching Andy Bold - there was also a series of other things, including a bit of a skewed fstab that was later fixed since then I have been able to get everything how it was supposed to be. Now just trying to figure how I would move my root directory to another partition so there is space for a distro update.
- Ubuntu101
Moving root is trickier because of what it is, but can be done. but why not just install distro #2 into wherever you are thinking of moving root to?
- Andy Bold
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Very good point, just get the image and burn it and set er up and run, that would probably be simpler now I wonder could it use the same home directory or would there be incompatibilities? Thoughts?
- Ubuntu101
I have done this with a shared /home The biggest problems are 1) Make sure that the 'format /home' option is not selected when installing distro 2, and 2) version incompatabilites of common programs having issues with dotfile differences. Nothing major, just things to watch out for :)
- Andy Bold
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