Date: 11/05/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

What is being described is a Linux-based phone that may have WiFi and is tied to Sprint. Just as the Apple iPhone is tied to AT&T.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/180077998/

Date: 11/08/07 (Security)    Keywords: security, linux, google

Plans for Google's Android spark discussion about whether its Linux platform will prove more--or less--secure than Apple's proprietary iPhone. It wasn't long after Google announced its long-anticipated mobile plans this week that a debate emerged about the prospective security of the project's Linux-based platform. Can the...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6217635.html

Date: 11/08/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, linux, microsoft

Even as rival Novell celebrates an expanded technical collaboration with Microsoft, Red Hat has released a 5.1 update designed to make its Linux a better platform for virtualizing Linux and Windows workloads. The software, released Wednesday, for instance, offers live migration and save/restore support for fully virtualized Linux and Windows guests. It also offers para-virtualized [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/181881555/

Date: 11/08/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

The deal, if approved, might let someone else continue the firm's notorious Linux patent claims and get SCO out from under any potential liabilities.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/181787658/

Date: 11/09/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: security, linux, apache

OpenSSL is a free, popular, robust, high quality, open source (Apache License) toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library. It is available on multiple platforms (Linux, BSD & Windows). In short it means that you can use OpenSSL [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/openssl-how-to-create-self-signed-certificate/

Date: 11/15/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

The biggest and best IT system suppliers are gearing up for what they call "cloud" computing. IBM floated its offering today. It runs Linux.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/185382887/

Date: 11/18/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: linux

AlienBlaster is a refreshing open source shoot-the-aliens game with various levels and an arcade mode. It is available on Windows, Linux, OS/2 & eComStation, Mac OSX (DarwinPorts), MorphOS and AmigaOS4. It isn’t seriously addictive like Battle for Wesnoth, but AlienBlaster is pretty relaxing in its own way. Personally I use it as a stress buster [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/game-review-tips-alien-blaster-for-windows-linux-mac/

Date: 11/28/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

At least one Nigerian is upset about the recently released XO, a low-cost Linux laptop designed by Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child Foundation for developing nations. Published reports say Ade Oyegbola, founder and CEO of Nigerian-based Lagos Analysis Corp. has filed a lawsuit against the foundation in Nigeria for allegedly ripping off his multilingual [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/191914437/

Date: 12/04/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: software, linux, microsoft

Centeris has renamed itself Likewise Software and launched Likewise Open, aimed at making major Linux distributions "first class citizens" in Microsoft Active Directory systems.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/194976439/

Date: 12/06/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

Ted Ts'o, a Linux kernel file maintainer who works for IBM outside Boston, will spend the next two years with the Linux Foundation as chief platform strategist.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/196215267/

Date: 12/06/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

You finally have all the components in terms of features, functionality and device support coming together to make the Linux desktop similar to Windows Vista, and even the Mac OS X

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/196205179/

Date: 12/11/07 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: html, linux

In case anyone cares, the technical details of the AMD K10 TLB erratum (that's "bug" for the layman) was posted by an AMD fellow on a Linux mailing list. I found it via a post response on Informationweek.com:

http://informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/12/bug_in_amds_qua.html

AMD Family 10h revision B2 processors suffer from an issue in the
processor TLB known as erratum 298. Erratum 298 is documented in
a forthcoming update to the Revision Guide for AMD Family 10h
Processors (PID 41322). The workaround in the Revision Guide
document is intended to be applied by BIOS. The BIOS workaround
has performance implications which can be avoided by having the
OS directly workaround the issue. A Linux 64-bit patch was developed
for 2.6.23.8 by AMD's OSRC team and will be posted to this list by
Joerg Roedel. The patch is for demonstration purposes and is NOT
being recommended to be applied upstream.

Erratum 298 will be described as follows: "The processor operation
to change the accessed or dirty bits of a page translation table
entry in the L2 from 0b to 1b may not be atomic. A small window of
time exists where other cached operations may cause the stale page
translation table entry to be installed in the L3 before the modified
copy is returned to the L2. In addition, if a probe for this cache
line occurs during this window of time, the processor may not set
the accessed or dirty bit and may corrupt data for an unrelated
cached operation. The system may experience a machine check event
reporting an L3 protocol error has occurred. In this case, the MC4
status register (MSR 0000_0410) will be equal to B2000000_000B0C0F
or BA000000_000B0C0F. The MC4 address register (MSR 0000_0412) will
be equal to 26h."

The L2 Eviction Linux kernel performance patch re-enables the
registers set for the BIOS workaround described in the Revision
Guide document. It then prevents the processor from performing the
operation that can trigger erratum 298. The patch works by emulating
the Accessed and Dirty bits.

The basis for the kernel patch solution depends on the root cause of
the L2 eviction problem. The only exposure for the problem is when
the TLB needs to set an A or D bit in a page table entry. If the TLB
never needs to set an A or D bit, the bug cannot occur. By emulating
the A and D bits with the help of the Present and Writable bits, the
patch will ensure the real A and D bits are always preset. It works
by forcing a page fault when the first access is made to a page with
the emulated A bit not set, and when the first write access is made
to a writable page with the emulated D bit not set. Emulated A and D
bits are stored in bits generally available to the OS in the page
table entry.

Elsie Wahlig

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1134601.html

Date: 12/11/07 (Java Web)    Keywords: php, mysql, sql, linux

We are looking for a full-time Linux system administrator to manage our dedicated servers and our internal servers, computers and network. He will also have to manage the MySQL server and other servers in-house. He / She will be trained as necessary. Experience in scripting (perl / php) is a plus. He should be a [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/linux-administrator-required/

Date: 12/12/07 (MySQL Communtiy)    Keywords: mysql, sql, linux

[cross posted to linux]
  I keep getting the MySQL AB emails about training coming to my town, but never go.  I'd like to formalize my knowledge with the MySQL but at the sametime I've got a pretty bad impression of almost all certification and training courses, and the one provided by AB seems like a top gun program ( 5 days to learn how to be a Admin) which makes me wonder if it will be effective.   Anyone here actually ever taken one of their courses?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mysql/122231.html

Date: 12/17/07 (Opera Browser)    Keywords: linux

I'm not sure whether it was when I upgraded to Opera 9.23 (from 9.something) or when I updated the Flash plugin (now on flash-plugin.i386 0:9.0.115.0-release), but I can't see any Flash content.

I've followed the Opera instructions, checked the Flash test page, and I still can't see video on YouTube or more importantly HomestarRunner!

I found some discussions which strongly suggested using the gnash plugin instead of Flash but that's no better.

Any suggestions? (Those sites are fine with Firefox or Flock but I want to continue using Opera if I can.)

[Environment recap: Opera 9.23 with Flash plugin 9.0.115 or Gnash plugin 8.1-5 running on Fedora Core 7.]

Cross-posted to fedora_linux

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/opera_browser/67697.html

Date: 12/18/07 (Data Management)    Keywords: linux

IBM has embraced Linux as its operating system of choice, but employees are slowly working toward using it on the desktop. As of yesterday, IBM had 24,190 Linux desktop installations within the company. That's out of 372,000 IBMers. So what's the holdup?...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7386

Date: 12/18/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: technology, linux

The big technology trend of the current day is the merging of markets -- mobile, desktop, server, online -- into one big all-you-can-eat application buffet. Nothing serves that buffet, at every level, as well as Linux.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/202274000/

Date: 12/18/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

The apparent success of GOS in selling-through the channel means we're bound to see more from this duo in the coming year. But it also means we're going to see more activity from Dell, H-P, and the other main PC vendors on desktop Linux, regardless of what that means for their relations with Microsoft.

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/202261056/

Date: 12/19/07 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux

Dell announced on Tuesday via its corporate blog that it has begun installing Ubuntu 7.10, aka Gutsy Gibbon, and LinDVD on its Dell consumer Linux PCs in the US and will also make it available on the Inspiron 530 in England, France and Germany later this week. Dell began offering consumer systems running Ubuntu in [...]

Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/zdnet/open-source/~3/202915262/

Date: 12/23/07 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, web, linux, google

I started re-working my website for the new year, I gave in and started using Flash. And I like it - it's a pretty nifty thing.

Problem is, I need my Flash animations to be transparent using the 'wmode=transparent' parameter, otherwise they float right above the text and block out everything. This isn't a problem in IE6 (or any other browser I've tested) but in Firefox it is impossible to use the Flash navigation. In Linux it does even stranger things.

Does anyone know of a workaround for this? I've googled around to no avail. I've tried z-indexing, but that doesn't work.

If it's just a bug in Firefox I'll just let it go and Firefox users can suck it up :P

Link: the site is here functional, not fully complete yet. IE7 does some wonky things, but I'm working on that.

Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1345159.html