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4 Linux Distros Which Look Like Mac OS X

Internetling: "Here’s an interesting compilation of Linux distribution which resemble Apple’s Mac OS 10. They might not be identical, but you guys who like Apple’s design might appreciate the fact yu can get something like it, with the nice-on-the-inside GNU/Linux kernel, out-of-th... (original story)

Pandora Can't Make Money, May Pull the Plug

Ars Technica: "Buckling under the weight of the Internet radio royalty hike that SoundExchange pushed through last July, Pandora may pull its own plug soon. Despite being one of the most popular Internet radio services, the company still isn't making money, and its founder, Tim Westergren, says it c... (original story)

Gigabyte EP45-DS3L & EP45T-DS3R

Phoronix: "Intel's P45 Chipset was released this summer along with the P43, G43, and G45 Chipsets as the mainstream Eaglelake alternative to Intel's current flagship X48 Chipset...the P45 has the advantages of using Intel's newer ICH10 / ICH10R Southbridge and support for up to 16GB of DDR2/DDR3 mem... (original story)

Finally Django Runs on Jython!

random.choice: "For Jython, I think this is great. Not only showing that it is alive and well, but also to expose how much progress has been done in almost every front." (original story)

Build an Embedded Linux Distro From Scratch

IBM Developerworks: "Learn how to build a custom Linux® distribution to use in an embedded environment, in this case to drive a Technologic Systems TS-7800 single-board computer. In this tutorial, you learn about cross-compiling, the boot loader, file systems, the root file system, disk images, and... (original story)

How To Install Django On Mandriva 2008.1 (Apache2/mod_python)

HowtoForge: "This tutorial explains how to install Django on a Mandriva 2008.1 server. Django is a web framework that allows to develop Python web applications quickly with as much automation as possible. I will use it with Apache2 and mod_python in this guide." (original story)

A Tour of Empathy IM client. Will it replace Pidgin?

Open Computer: "Listed on the roadmap to Gnome 2.24 is the integration with Empathy, a multi-protocol IM client. This integration could be a sign of a replacement for Pidgin and Ekiga with one single SIP and multi-protocol IM application." (original story)

9 Linux Myths Debunked

Royal Hehe2-ness: "First of all, let's face it, YOU are the weakest link in any OS. The user is the one that wreaks havoc to any OS, with ignorance or miscalculated decisions. Linux users are generally more savvy than the Windows or Mac users out there. We don't just click on files promising us the ... (original story)

Lots of Foot-Dragging on IPv6

Internet News: "The IPv4 address space is near exhaustion, yet a new report claims that traffic on the modernized IPv6 (define) protocol is slow and migration to the newer address spaces is sluggish." (original story)

MSNBC Spam-O-Rama

Cyber Cynic: "Headlines have ranged from the semi-plausible: "McCain Plans Vietnam Campaign Tour;" to the unlikely, "Nation Morns the Tragic Loss of Britney Spears;" to the utterly unbelievable: "Paris Hilton Lectures on Dickens and Dostoevsky."" (original story)

Fedora 10 Takes Shape

Internet News: "Frields said he tested the feature in a literal road test -- he was able to maintain a network connection while riding in a car, courtesy of the ad hoc network created by users in a second car, which had a broadband Wi-Fi connection." (original story)

Free Digital Texts Begin to Challenge Costly College Textbooks in California

LA Times: "McAfee said he wrote his open-source book because the traditional textbook market is broken. Textbook and college supply prices nearly tripled between 1986 and 2004..." (original story)

Tip of the Trade: Nagios Plugins

ServerWatch: "The excellent open-source monitoring software Nagios is set up to use plugins to do the actual work of checking services. Here are some useful plugins from the official plugin site and an unofficial plugin collection." (original story)

GoboLinux and Replacing the FHS

OSNews: "In order to remain compatible with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, symbolic links are used to map the GoboLinux tree to standard UNIX directories. A post in the GoboLinux forums suggested that it might be better to turn the concept around: retain the FHS, and then use symbolic links to m... (original story)

Finding Running Process ID's On Linux Using Pidof

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: ""pidof," as the name would suggest, is a program that will find the process id (PID) of a running program (or the PID's of programs). Again, just like its name, it finds the "pid of" a running process. I'm just repeating this over and over again because the name is so ... (original story)



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