It's a Big Cloud
Realeyes Technology: "Using this definition, it is obvious that 'cloud computing' is simply a buzzword. Anyone who makes online purchases, has an online Email account, or has joined a social networking site is participating in 'cloud ...

The KOffice 2.0 Beta, Part 2: Graphical and Charting Programs
Linux.com: "Now it's the turn of the rest of the beta: The KPlato project manager, KChart, the vector graphics editor Karbon, and the raster graphics editor Krita. These four graphical and charting programs have always been among the ...

Cross platform development with JRuby and Swing
IBM Developerworks: "In addition to building Web and console applications with Ruby, you can write complex GUI desktop applications that run unmodified on multiple platforms. This article introduces Monkeybars,a library that uses JRuby ...

Develop a Dynamic Location-Based Mashup
IBM Developerworks: "Mashups are a new, highly interactive Web development methodology. Essentially a mix of related content put together from disparate sources, mashups provide rich dynamic content for a superb user experience. ...

OS and Virtualization or Virtualization and OS: Red Hat Analyst Day
RedMonk: "The philosophical differences between Red Hat and VMware could not have been more apparent during their respective events -- September's VMworld gathering in Las Vegas and yesterday's Red Hat analyst day held at the New York ...

A Walk On The Other Side - S60 & Linux, Exploring The Dark Corners
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that there is no software produced by Nokia and aimed at helping S60’s interaction with any Linux OS. And by “no software”, we mean NONE, ZERO, NADA. Heh, Mac owners can smile now, ...

Shell Script To Back Up All MySQL Databases
HowtoForge: "This script will create a backup of each table in every database (one file per table), compress it and upload it to a remote ftp."

Linux 2.6.27 Released
Linux 2.6.27 has been released. It adds a new filesystem (UBIFS) for "pure" flash-based storage, the page-cache is now lockless, much improved Direct I/O scalability and performance, delayed allocation support for ext4, ...

Happy 10th Birthday Linux Today!
September 28th was Linux Today's 10th birthday. I missed it because I was gallivanting about the countryside on an out-of-town trip, so today is official Happy Birthday Linux Today day!

Mozilla Labs Introduces Geode
OStatic: "Geode is one of the first applications to use the new W3C geolocation specification API. It is currently available as a plug-in for Firefox 3 (and seems to only support Windows and Mac systems at this time)."

How To Set Up A Headless X Server On Redhat Linux
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today we're going to look at setting up a headless X Server. It's not quite as difficult, or as scary, as it sounds. Running a headless X Server is kind of like Night Of The Living Dead (the original; ...

Linux at 17 - what Windows promised to be8212;
It is hard to guess how many programmers and system administrators have been educated by the Linux development project, but it forms the core of what so many experts and newbies believe in terms of what an operating system should have ...

Video: From Zero to Samba in Six Minutes
LinuxPlanet: "Charlie Schluting's video tutorial shows you how to set up a Samba server on Ubuntu, and test it from a Windows PC, all in just a few minutes."

Video: From Zero to Samba in Six Minutes
Linux and Open Source: "Our review of the latest Linux laptop, the Asus EeePC 1000, has not begun auspiciously but with an important lesson. In a Linux laptop, the bundle is all."