Linux Today

The ToyBox: "Does Google use more bandwidth than it pays for? Google is by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth, its share of bandwidth usage is rising rapidly, and its bandwidth use is orders of magnitude greater than its payment for its cost..."

OStatic: "Joi Ito and the Creative Commons need help getting the word out -- and defined...One of the gray areas Creative Commons has been grappling with is how exactly one defines "non-commercial."

Linux Magazine: "The GNU Affero Public License tries to get around an issue that the usual GPL doesn't address: many in the Internet age use free server and web service software that doesn't reside on their computers."

Linux Config: "As you well see in the following sections of this document this default settings can be easily changed by exporting a bash prompt PS{n} variables. Bash prompt can be modified to suit users needs and can display time, load, number of users using the system, uptime and more."

Intranet Journal: "If there is one Linux myth that must be put to bed, it's that desktop Linux has terrible hardware support out of the box...Yet, despite this ability to say, take a Wii RockBand guitar, plug it in with Ubuntu Linux and discover that it can work really well with the open source game FretsOnFire, just how usable is all of this if we are unable to discern what works and what does not? Trial and error? This is hardly practical."

Linux.com: "If you run Ubuntu, openSUSE, Debian, or Mandriva, among other distributions, then whenever you run OpenOffice.org you don't run the "official" version, but rather Go-OO, an office suite based on the OpenOffice.org source code. Go-OO includes enhancements and functions that haven't been accepted by Sun, and that may never be, because of licensing, business, or other reasons."

Suretec: "You've successfully built your own instance of OpenLDAP but want to make sure you've done it right"

Kevin's World: "I had a friends disk fail the other day and this is how I attempted to recover it."

Linux Today Blog: "The Internet is full of software and hardware forums, tips, tricks, and howtos from all kinds of people. It is a wonderful thing that there are so many generous users sharing what they have learned...Nobody expects Nobel-winning literary excellence, but there are a few simple techniques for writing better documentation that anyone can learn."

Shantanu's Technophilic Musings: "If you have multiple soundcards in your system and have to switch between them regularly...you would definitely be under-whelmed by the less-than-stellar performance of ubuntu in switching between the sound cards."

Linux.com: "New Delhi resident Raj Mathur is living proof that a Free and Open Source Software advocate can earn a decent living working with clients who are using or planning to use FOSS."

DeviceGuru: "Boxee announced today that it has added Netflix video downloads -- including the ability to browse Netflix's media library from within Boxee -- to its A/V media center platform for Linux, Mac, and (soon) Windows PCs."

LinuxLoop: "The question is: what do you want to happen in this upcoming year? Last year I asked for reader’s Linux dreams, and received a great response, so this year I am doing it again."

LinuxPlanet: "There are a host of Linux certifications, such as the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), Novell's Novell Linux Certified Engineer (NLCE), and the Linux Professional Institute's entry-level LPIC-1. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols looks for the answer to the question, How much help are they for turning your Linux expertise into a Linux job?"

MyThoughts: "His site was still extremely slow, I mean it took almost a minute to load the index page. Installation of a caching plugin, deactivating all plugins, selecting the default theme did not help at all."

MyBroadband: "Last week Fedora Linux released its latest version, Fedora 10. We take a look at how it stacks up against Ubuntu 8.10, released a month before."

Open Enterprise: "Those with good memories may recall a phase that Microsoft went through in which it issued (and generally commissioned) a stack of TCO studies that "proved" Windows was better/cheaper than GNU/Linux. Of course, they did nothing of the sort, since the methodology was generally so flawed you could have proved anything."

WFTL Bytes!: "This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Wednesday, December 3, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagne. In today's news, not only is Linux apparently broken, so is the open source business model. Mandriva falls on hard times again, viruses cripple US military base, Microsoft pays for recommending them, OpenSUSE throws out the EULA, the costs of piracy, and a new browser war."

eWeek: "IBM teams with Ubuntu provider Canonical and virtual desktop software maker Virtual Bridges on a bundle that lets systems administrators deliver open-source Linux and Lotus messaging and collaboration software to desktops and workstations across remote offices."

LinuxHaxor: "We already knew that Firefox nightly beats Chrome in speed, the gap is getting wider with the latest Firefox builds (3.2a1pre)."