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Operative System Fresh News
- FreeBSD Foundation July 2010 Newsletter
The FreeBSD Foundation has published their Semi-Annual July 2010 newsletter which summarizes what they have done to ... - New committer: Baptiste Daroussin (ports)
- FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Available
FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installat ... - April-June, 2010 Status Report
The April-June, 2010 Status Report is now available with 47 entries.
[Courtesy of FreeBSD News Flash]
- Monitoring your HDD using SMART and Nagios
Checking your HDD! - cssh - cluster ssh
Sometimes you need more than one - Problems starting a jail with ezjail
Things change. We must evolve. - Integrating the Tape Library with an existing Bacula installation
Adding a new tape drive isn't always simple
[Courtesy of The FreeBSD Diary]
- The FreeBSD Project
FreeBSD offers advanced networking, performance, security and compatibility features today which are still missing ... - DesktopBSD
A stable and powerful operating system for desktop users. DesktopBSD combines the stability of FreeBSD, the usabili ... - DragonFly BSD
An operating system and environment designed to be the logical continuation of the FreeBSD-4.x series. These operat ... - NYCBUG
"Nice bug" is the New York City *BSD users group. Notice the wildcard? Regardless of your favorite BSD flavor, be i ...
[Courtesy of drx: FreeBSD]
- Expert: Critical system flaws a 'ticking time bomb'
Jonathan Pollet, founder of Red Tiger Security, tells Black Hat attendees on Wednesday that security issues aris ... - CBS TV looks to social media for next big hits
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – CBS entertainment president Nina Tassler said on Wednesday the top-r ... - iPhone-Like BlackBerry Can Inject New Life into RIM
RIM is expected to announce details of the iPhone-esque BlackBerry 9800 next week. Don't hold ... - DHS Exec Takes Hard Questions on Cybersecurity
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security sent its highest-ranking official ever to speak at the Bl ...
[Courtesy of Daemon News - Best Software Review]
- Spill onto Washington DC: Oil out of the U.S. Rally Labor Day Weekend
- GNU-Darwin: No More Oily Congress!
- BP Boycott
- mobile-x: GNU-Darwin
[Courtesy of The GNU-Darwin Distribution]
Others
- Apple: Mac OS X
Beneath the easy-to-use interface and graphics of Mac OS X is Darwin, an open source UNIX-based foundation built on ... - endo
From the developer of ecto (desktop blogging interface) is endo (go figure), an advanced RSS feed aggregator client ... - Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X
It should come as no surprise that Mac OS X is a favored platform for Rails development. Rails and its supporting c ... - Quicksilver
Using a shortcut key you assign, Quicksilver lets you quickly find and launch any app, search for files and automat ...
[Courtesy of drx: Mac OS X]
- FAQ: What is a Video Cow Review and how can it help me promote my software title?
Learn what a Video Cow Review is and how it can help you promote your software title. - FAQ: What is a Software Spokesperson Video and how can it help my business?
Learn how a Software Video Spokesperson can help promote your software title for a fraction of the cost of custom v ... - Summer Video Specials for Authors - expires in less than a week!
Blowout prices for our video promotions comes to an end at midnight EDT July 31, 2010 - June Book Review: Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed
Jakob Nielsen, known as the guru of web site usability, charges $10,000(US) to evaluate a company's home page (not ...
[Courtesy of Tucows Newest Articles]
- Trusted Computer, Cistera Networks partner for Security Blanket integration
To configure and enhance security at the operating system level - Vision Solutions acquires recovery offerings company Double-Take Software
To expand its product offerings and distribution capabilities - Microsoft Q4 revenue up 22% to $16.04bn
Operating income grew 49% to $5.93bn - Netsnapper upgrades data network platform
Claims to alleviate network traffic congestion for carriers and enterprises by up to 30%
[Courtesy of CBR - Operating Systems News]
- YouTube Increases Video Length Limit to 15 Minutes
- Find Blogs Using Google Blog Search
- YouTube's Playlist Bar
- More About Google's Experiments
[Courtesy of Google Operating System]
- DIY Smartphone Wiimote Gaming Mounts [DIY]
We've shown you how to play video games on your iDevice with a ... - Best Personal Project Management Tool? [Hive Five Call For Contenders]
If you're managing a pile of projects—and you're the only ... - Remains of the Day: Microsoft's Amazing Sliding Street Maps [For What It's Worth]
Street Slide is an experimental Street View killer, libraries q ... - uTorrent 3.0 Alpha Adds Web Interface Support for iPad, Android [Downloads]
Windows only: Popular BitTorrent client uTorrent added a web int ...
[Courtesy of Lifehacker]
- World's Fastest Hybrid OK'd For Production
- Sometimes It's OK To Steal My Games
- Thermoelectrics Could Let You Feel the Heat In Games
- KDE SC 4.7 May Use OpenGL 3 For Compositing
[Courtesy of Slashdot]
- Microsoft Security Advisory: Vulnerability in Windows Shell could allow remote code execution
- The systemstatebackup subcommand fails when an invalid ImagePath property is specified for services in Windows Server 2008
- It takes a long time to complete a batch of print jobs on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
- "E_ OUTOFMEMORY" error code when a COM client tries to subscribe to type change notifications on a 64-bit version of Windows Vista or of Windows Server 2008 that has sufficient memory
[Courtesy of kbAlertz.com :: Windows Server 2008]
- The game port devices may not be upgraded after you upgrade from Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, or Windows Millennium Edition to Windows XP
- Event Viewer incorrectly displays IPv6 addresses in event descriptions
- Scheduled tasks may not run in Microsoft Windows XP
- MS06-065: Vulnerability in Windows Object Packager could allow remote execution
[Courtesy of kbAlertz.com :: Windows XP]
- Error message when you try to upgrade a computer to Windows Vista: "The installed operating system does not support an upgrade to Windows Vista"
- You receive an error message when you try to activate Windows Vista on a computer that was obtained from an OEM
- Installation of Windows Vista language pack from Windows Update fails
- Windows Vista Support WebCast: Security in Windows Vista
[Courtesy of kbAlertz.com :: Windows Vista]
- Aston shell and Aston Menu 2.0.1 released!
Aston shell is an original shell replacement for Windows. It replaces your desktop, panels and menu and makes your ... - Welcome the Fifa 2010 World Cup theme!
- Aston SD 2.0 is released
Welcome the newest Aston Secure Desktop 2.0 version release!Aston Secure Desktop supplies administrative control of ... - AltDesk 1.9.1 released!
Welcome the new AltDesk 1.9.1!We took into account the things you pointed at commenting on AltDesk 1.9 and some ide ...
[Courtesy of AstonShell.com]
Linux Fresh News
- Linux.com
An independent portal and directory that provides Linux information, news, tips, and reference material. - The Best Ubuntu Resources on the Web
Once again, I cannot hope to list all the resources for any particular topic. That's why I occasionally add links t ... - ONLamp: Linux DevCenter
An O'Reilly ONLamp Development Center that covers both Linux desktop and server distributions. Topics include admin ... - The Linux Foundation
A nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the LF sponsors the work of Lin ... - The Perfect Setup
Pick your distro, be it Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE or Mandrake, if you want to build a server with all the essent ... - Ubuntu Linux
Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It ... - SUSE Linux 10.0
Novell has released version 10.0 of its recently acquired SUSE Linux commercial distribution, built under its OpenS ... - Linux Journal
Since 1994 (wow), on newsstands and on the Web, LJ is a trusted source for news, articles and tutorials, tips and t ... - LAMP Lights the Web
Although decidedly bent on Linux, and Redhat in particular, the topic of this article is equally at home on FreeBSD ... - Slashdot: Linux
Linux news, for nerds.
[Courtesy of drx: Linux]
- EFF wins enormous victory against DRM: legal to jailbreak iPhones, rip DVDs for mashup videos
From the Owning What's Yours dept.: The Electronic Frontier Foundation drove three deep wedges into the US prohibi ... - Auto manufacturers want to put brakes on Mass. right-to-repair law (Open Source Car Tech)
From the Buy Once, Get Reamed Everywhere dept.: Mom-and-pop repair shops in Massachusetts are pushing a bill that ... - Rackspace Opens the Cloud with OpenStack
From the Cloudiness, Chance of Openness dept.: OpenStack is an open-source cloud platform designed to foster the e ... - Microsoft opens source code to Russian secret service
From the uh huh dept.: Russian publication Vedomosti reported on Wednesday that Microsoft had also given the Russi ... - Brazil Forbids DRM On the Public Domain
From the Hands Off! dept.: Brazil has just created the best-ever implementation of WCT. In Brazil's version of the ...
[Courtesy of OSDir.com]
- Become a Qt certified developer and win a N97 Mini
Nokia Certified Qt Developer is the official accreditation for individual developers Certification will give you in ... - Help KDE promo with artwork!
Hi artists! The KDE promo team asks you for help: we are looking for talented designers to help us with creating d ... - KDE 4.4 released
And it has a couple of great new features: Netbook friendly Plasma shell Windows can be grouped in tabs like in Flu ... - Open-PC progress
I just want to informed about the latest news from the Open-PC project. We just received the first Open-PC prototy ... - OCS API 1.4 released
I´m very exited about the progress we are doing for the Social Desktop at the moment. Because of the great work fr ...
[Courtesy of KDE-Look.org News]
- eXtrudeClassic 0.2 (Beryl Emerald Theme)
eXtrudeClassic 0.2 (Beryl Emerald Theme)Emerald theme of my metacity theme eXtrude (http://gnome-look.org/content/s ... - Bumblebee 0.1 (KDE Wallpaper 1920x1200)
Bumblebee 0.1 (KDE Wallpaper 1920x1200)Bumblebee on the dandelion, photo taken this year.[read more]job recommendat ... - BUMP.mod 1.0 (Beryl Emerald Theme)
BUMP.mod 1.0 (Beryl Emerald Theme)BUMP.mod A modification of the beautiful emerald theme by lassekongo83, which is ... - Light Xplosion (KDE Wallpaper (other))
Light Xplosion (KDE Wallpaper (other))Another wallpaper which continues my light series of abstract walls. Colors ... - oxygen-transparent 1.0 (Theme/Style for KDE 4.0)
oxygen-transparent 1.0 (Theme/Style for KDE 4.0)Oxygen style and decoration with support for transparency (see scre ...
[Courtesy of KDE-Look.org Content]
- How to View bash shell history and Change bash history file size in Ubuntu
The Bash shell is the default shell environment in most Linux distributions, including all flavours of Debian. One ... - Create your own Linux from Scratch (Download free PDF Guide)
Linux from Scratch describes the process of creating your own Linux system from scratch from an already installed L ... - Download your free Oracle Magazine
Contains technology strategy articles, sample code, tips, Oracle and partner news, how to articles for developers a ... - Smuxi -User-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users for GNOME/GTK+
Smuxi is an irssi-inspired, flexible, user-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users, targetin ... - Ailurus 10.07.6 is released and installation instructions included
Ailurus is a simple application installer, and GNOME tweaker. Ailurus helps to reduce the difficulty people encount ...
[Courtesy of Ubuntu Geek]
- Sense Hofstede: Thursday: the second day of the #GUADEC core conference
As the end of GUADEC draws nearer my blog posts get shorter and today also there are no pictures, for the first ... - Robbie Williamson: My Motivation for Doing Opensource
There’s been a lot of blogs, tweets, dents, podcasts, rants, etc about Canonical not giving enough back to ... - Matthew Helmke: A Foreigner’s Reception
I wrote a short article for Talk Morocco about the ups and downs of living as a foreigner in Morocco. Talk Moro ... - Mohamad Faizul Zulkifli: Android On Your PC!
Android is popular linux based operating system for most of smart phones and also tablet PCs. Some said that and ... - Risto H. Kurppa: How long has your system been up’n running?
I’m planning to wipe my Kubuntu desktop box root partition to re-install Kubuntu 10.04 LTS. I don’t ...
[Courtesy of Planet Ubuntu]
- Cloud-oriented distro gets site-specific
The team behind the cloud-based Peppermint variant of Ubuntu Linux released a scaled-down, fast-booting, site-speci ... - OpenSUSE 11.3 ships with Btrfs, LXDE
The OpenSUSE Project announced the final 11.3 release of OpenSUSE, featuring Linux 2.6.34, the Btrfs file-system, i ... - Minimalist Linux distro rev'd to version 3.0
Team Tiny Core announced the first release candidate for version 3.0 of its small-footprint, in-memory Linux deskto ... - Music sharing app sounds out Linux
Spotify yesterday released a preview version of its peer-to-peer (P2P) music application for desktop Linux, package ... - Mandriva fights through money woes, releases 2010 Spring
Reprieved from financial troubles with fresh investments, Mandriva released the final Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring. T ...
[Courtesy of DesktopLinux.com]
- USB driver read hung (write working)
Hi, I am writing an USB host driver for one of the device. I am able to write to the device successfully. But ... - LXer: Ubuntu's two big advantages over Windows and Mac
Published at LXer: Ive been using the latest version (10.04) of Ubuntu Linux since April and theres a lot to ... - Ubuntu 10.04 Vodafone K3765 3G USB
ubuntu dont detect the Vodafone K3765 3G my internet... my note is a aspire 1410 . and i install ubuntu 10.04 LTS . ... - LXer: Opinion: Re: Canonical release cycle for Ubuntu Server
Published at LXer: Even though my goto operating system for servers is Red Hat Enterprise Linux, lately I have b ... - 2nd tun network for openvpn?
I need to run a 2nd instance of openvpn on my server so that it can run on udp. The current one runs on tcp and I n ...
[Courtesy of LinuxQuestions.org]
- BSD Release: GhostBSD 1.5
- Development Release: Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 RC3
- Development Release: Parsix GNU/Linux 3.6 RC
- Distribution Release: Linux Mint 9 "KDE"
- Development Release: Skolelinux 6.0 Alpha 0
[Courtesy of DistroWatch.com: News]
- The June issue of the Free Software Supp...
The June issue of the Free Software Supporter is out -- you can read it and subscribe to receive future monthly iss ... - GNU urges people working on free softwar...
GNU urges people working on free software to follow standards and guidelines for universal accessibility on GNU/Lin ... - FSF President Richard Stallman explains ...
FSF President Richard Stallman explains the dangers of Software as a Service for free software in a new article. - All packages using GNU Automake to produ...
All packages using GNU Automake to produce distribution tarballs with make dist should update to the 1.11.1 or 1.10 ... - The FSF is hosting a GNU Hackers' Meetin...
The FSF is hosting a GNU Hackers' Meeting for GNU maintainers and contributors from March 18th-21st as part of the ...
[Courtesy of What's New at GNU]
- Building A Linux Box Cheap
- Reasons To Dump Windows For Linux
- Sony Legals Woes Over Linux Removal
- Linux Runs In Surprising Places
- Say Goodbye To Flash For 64bit Linux
[Courtesy of Linux Fanatics]
[Courtesy of linuxcentral.com: Daily Specials]
- KDE SC 4.7 May Use OpenGL 3 For Compositing
KDE SC 4.5 is about to be released and KDE SC 4.6 is being discussed. However, Martin Graesslin has revealed some d ... - Details of 100m Facebook Users Collected and Published
Personal details of 100m Facebook users have been harvested and published on the net by a security consultant. The ... - New BlackBerry OS Expected August 3
BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion has distributed invites to an exclusive media event in New York, where it's exp ... - LiMo + GNOME: *crickets*
The GNOME foundation and the LiMo group announced a partnership to help push Linux forward in the consumer field. T ... - GNOME Census
GNOME developer Dave Neary has posted the highlights of his work to determine where contributions to GNOME come fro ...
[Courtesy of OSNews]