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The Linux desktop circus

June 13, 2011 7:55am PDT

Jack Wallen has grown concerned with the state of the Linux desktop. Could there be trouble on the horizon, or is this just a period of growth? Read on and chime in.

176 Latest comment by apotheon

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Slow and delayed printing from UNIX

June 10, 2011 10:09am PDT

Slow and delayed printing from UNIX We have many printers running from HP-UX with Jetdirect print servers. Until last Wednesday to the best I can determine, all was fine. Since then we've had a...

2 Started by msillers | Latest comment by CharlieSpencer_Palmetto

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10 principles the Linux community should revisit

June 9, 2011 2:16pm PDT

The Linux community has traditionally held certain beliefs, such as opposition to DRM and an insistence on free software. Jack Wallen suggests the time has come to reevaluate and possibly...

110 Latest comment by KristinWarbington

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Attention: This is not big news

June 6, 2011 6:50am PDT

It has been announced that Ubuntu 11.04 will come pre-installed on three of ASUS's Netbook PCs. To that, Jack responds with a hip-hip-meh. See why Jack is so down on Linux pre-installed on netbooks.

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White Papers

Exploiting the Hard-Working DWARF: Trojan and Exploit Techniques Without Native Executable Code

June 2, 2011 12:00am PDT

The paper of vulnerabilities and exploitation is one of finding mechanisms affecting the flow of computation and of finding new means to perform unexpected computation. In this paper, the authors...

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: Migrate from Solaris with Confidence

June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

By migrating to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you gain the flexibility to run the applications you require on the right platform, regardless of processor type, without sacrificing the RAS features of...

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Linux in the Mainstream: Growing Deployment of Mission-Critical Workloads

June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

This IDC white paper takes a look at the growth of Linux as a server operating system and how deployment form factors have changed over time. Today, commercial Linux has become a key platform...

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Migration TCO and ROI Service

June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Migration TCO/ROI Service from Red Hat Consulting leverages market-leading ROI analysis to evaluate specific environments in order to project potential total cost of...

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Shouldn't Linux embrace DRM?

May 31, 2011 5:58am PDT

Digital Rights Management is a hotbed of anger, misunderstanding, and debate in the open source community. Having a vested interest in DRM, Jack Wallen asks the question, "Shouldn't Linux embrace...

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Flexible, scalable business with Linux and IBM System x

May 31, 2011 12:00am PDT

Linux® running on IBM System x® and BladeCenter® provides an open, reliable and secure IT environment that can easily scale as workloads demand. The IBM System x and BladeCenter families offer a...

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Five benefits of command line tools

May 19, 2011 9:00am PDT

It was relatively common in the 1990s to hear that the command line's days were numbered. Both claims of its obsolescence and rumors of its impending demise were greatly exaggerated.

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Slackware: Remember your roots

May 16, 2011 6:22am PDT

Jack Wallen revisits a Linux distribution he hadn't touched in years, only to find himself pleasantly surprised. Do you have what it takes to install and administer a Slackware Linux distribution...

32 Latest comment by fourcs

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Looking for VERY simple email issue tracking system

May 12, 2011 2:49pm PDT

Looking for VERY simple email issue tracking system I'm looking for a very simple email issue-tracking system. I'm going to abuse this by using as a order tracking tool for purchasing in the next...

2 Started by kristy.dyer@... | Latest comment by seanferd

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Save your money: Three bad Linux books

May 12, 2011 8:00am PDT

Not all Linux books are created equal. Some are amazingly good, and definitely worth buying. Others are a waste of money. Three specimens identified in this article are of the latter variety.

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Best practices for network interface naming conventions

May 12, 2011 5:52am PDT

Best practices for network interface naming conventions article root I've been fond of mixing Unix and IEEE naming Seeing multiple "Local Area network (#)" entries does suck rocks. For network...

8 Started by Neon Samurai | Latest comment by coloracer2003@...

Whitepapers

IBM DB2 9.7: Run Oracle applications on DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

May 12, 2011 12:00am PDT

Run Oracle Applications on IBM DB2 9.7: Now is the Time. Leverage the IBM DB2 product's out-of-the-box support for SQL and PL/SQL to enable many Oracle applications to execute against DB2...

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Leverage your Oracle 11g skills to learn DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX and Windows

May 12, 2011 12:00am PDT

Leverage your Oracle 11g skills to learn DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX and Windows - You will be surprised to learn that your existing professional database knowledge makes it easy for you to learn IBM...

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Best practices for DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

May 12, 2011 12:00am PDT

Learn Best Practices for IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows from the Experts. This best practices series is practical guidance for optimizing IBM DB2 software to satisfy key business data...

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10 reasons why you should give Slackware Linux a chance

May 11, 2011 11:37am PDT

A lot of Linux users steer clear of Slackware because it's a challenge to administer and use. But Jack Wallen says the benefits of this distribution more than outweigh the difficulties.

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White Papers

Exposing File System Mappings With MapFS

May 9, 2011 12:00am PDT

The conventional model of a file as a contiguous array of bytes hides information about the physical location of data from users. While this simplifying abstraction can be useful in some cases, it...

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