A Tale of Two Suites: Do We Still Need OpenOffice.org?
Would a rose by any other name still smell as sweet? Or would it, perhaps, end up sweeter? That, essentially, is the question at the heart of the forking process, which in turn is at the heart of a key situation today. Namely: Now that we have LibreOffice, do we still need OpenOffice as well? In the wake of Apache OpenOffice’s new update, that’s been the question du jour down at the Linux blogosphere’s Punchy Penguin Cafe.
How to split the logs of Varnish for Virtual host
Varnish is a great tool that accelerates the performance of your site with a simple configuration and a low usage of resources, compared to the result you’ll get. Just because Varnish is designed and engineered to be fast by default it does not write any log to disk, outrageous you could think … to be honest the logs are available in a memory segment when this memory is filled, Varnish starts from the beginning and overwrites the oldest data in an infinite loop.
The Rise of Open Source
SugarCon, the SugarCRM user meeting held in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, did some important things for Sugar. It was a coming out party of sorts for a company with a distinct business model and strategy, namely open source. It was also validation of that strategy and, for many, a new realization of what open source means.
Whatever You Want, Miro Finds It, Gets It, Plays It
Miro is an aggregator and viewing app that does it all. It’s a BitTorrent client and a fully-featured podcast catcher. It’s handy at finding and downloading many types of online media. Its built-in HD video player handles a large variety of file types. Miro Guide helps you find content, and the app can help sync media on multiple computers. Miro seems to have a bit of an issue with Flash Player, though.
VMware Preps To Push More Mainline Kernel Code
To further enhance the Linux virtualization experience with VMware products, the company is preparing to push the Virtual Machine Communication Interface and VMCI Sockets into the mainline Linux kernel…
How to Purge Memory in Google’s Chromium browser
Since its launch, Google’s Chromium browser has proved to be immensely popular. Chromium introduced many new and innovative features but it also brought along with it a familiar problem. Memory hogging. However, as Google released subsequent versions they addressed it. This short article will show you how to gain some traction over Chromium when, after prolonged browsing, it starts to seriously hog that resource.Read the howto at [url=http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/how_purge_memory_googles_chromium_browser]Free Software Magazine[/url].
Ubuntu Zombies
I honestly doubt that Canonical has helped so greatly the Linux DE, that people have to promote Ubuntu so much. I also don’t believe popularity of Linux helps proportional the open source ecosystem outside of strictly Desktop.I want to ask all people that write on public view to stop using Ubuntu Defaults and show to their readers that there are more choices.
Hybryde Linux lets you switch Desktop Environment on the fly
Newly released Ubuntu based distribution Hybryde allows you to switch between desktop environments without even logging out, and comes with Unity, KDE, and LXDE by default…
NVIDIA GTX 680: Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 12.04
Following up on the performance comparison earlier this month of comparing Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge graphics between Windows and Linux, up today are the results of a comparison of Windows 7 to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS when using a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 "Kepler" graphics card.
Understanding Regular Expressions
Learning and understanding Regular Expressions may not be as straight forward as learning ls command. However, learning Regular Expressions and effectively implementing them in your daily work will doubtlessly reward your learning effort by greater work efficiency and time savings. Regular Expressions is a topic which can easily fill up entire 1000 pages long book. In this article, we only try to explain the basics of Regular Expressions in a concise, non-geeky and example driven manner. Therefore, if you ever wanted to learn Regular Expression basics now you have a viable chance.