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GNU/Linux: Source Code and Human Rights
By using Free and Open Source software, you are supporting one of the few initiatives that give developing nations and the poor any hope of participating as equals in the modern world.
Thursday, May 8, 2008 09:56:57 AM EST

GRUB vs. the Inodes: Who Needs a Bootable System, Anyway?
Users of GRUB legacy, which is version 0.97, are getting bitten by an e2fsprogs incompatibility that renders their systems unbootable. e2fsprogs is the utilities package for the Ext3 filesystem, so it doesn't affect other filesystems. Resident expert Carla Schroder explains the problem and details some fixes to get affected systems back up.
Thursday, May 1, 2008 01:21:46 PM EST

The Top 75 Open Source Security Apps
Without much fanfare, the open source security area is growing rapidly. Here are top contenders from anti-virus, firewalls, forensics, intrusion detection, and more.
Monday, April 28, 2008 12:04:01 PM EST

Benchmarking Linux With the Phoronix Test Suite
The Phoronix Test Suite is for testing hardware performance under Linux. It's still very young and incomplete, but it's worth getting acquainted with--it is based on the the scripts developed by the fine folks at Phoronix for hardware testing.
Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:29:29 AM EST

Force.com: Salesforce Moves into the Platform Business
One of the more interesting technologies I've been exposed to in the past year is the Force.com platform. Salesforce.com, well known for their Software as a Service CRM product, has taken the expertise they've garnered delivering a high-capacity application to a global market, and used it to offer the underlying infrastructure to application developers.
Monday, April 21, 2008 11:02:25 AM EST

Power Management on Linux, Part 2
In part 1 of this series we learned how to measure how much power our systems are using, both hardware and software, and some tricks for reducing power usage without degrading performance. Today we're going to dive into the world of power management on laptops: ACPI, APM, hard disk spindowns, and spinups.
Thursday, April 17, 2008 08:59:18 AM EST

A New Spin on the Xfce Window Manager
Xfce isn't for everyone, but for servers or minimal desktop systems, it's just what the doctor ordered. Rather lightweight in Window Manager terms--weighing in at around 63MB--Xfce arrives with a full complement of applications from Abiword, gnumeric, and pidgin to CD/DVD burning software (Brasero), Thunar File Manager, and a host of administrative applications.
Sunday, April 13, 2008 07:58:16 PM EST

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