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Submission + - Anatomy of the Linux File System

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 03, 2007 @11:08AM

An anonymous reader writes: This article explores the virtual file system (VFS) — sometimes called the virtual filesystem switch — in the Linux kernel and then reviews some of the major structures that tie file systems together.

Submission + - Why Open Source Won't Save You (corrupt.org)

Submitted by

Anti Globalism

on Friday November 23, 2007 @07:19PM

Anti Globalism writes: "Cults appear everywhere today; in religion, politics, business and media. Technology is not an exception. What defines a cult is the insistence that a certain way, right or wrong, can be the only way for characteristics independent of its effect. What matters in the real world is how well something works, but cults replace this with a symbol or doctrine.

Open source was originally the idea that knowledge about software programming should be shared within a community, independent of financial reward, to compete with the costly corporate software out on the market. So far, really smart. What's happened over these last years is that the open source community has slowly transformed into a cult phenomenon that dogmatically divides software up into two binary categories: open source (good) and closed source (evil).

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Submission + - Windows is Free! (tlug.jp)

Submitted by

Stefan Gustavson

on Thursday August 16, 2007 @12:21PM

Stefan Gustavson writes: "This is an excellent article by Dave Gutteridge on why Windows can keep the market dominance when there is a 100% free alternative available. Linux is free, so why don't more people use it? Because they are already using Windows and lots of other commercial software for free! Software piracy is actually helping Microsoft, and holding free software back. The article is well written and well put. You should read it."

Submission + - Thunderbird must go (ittoolbox.com)

Submitted by

madgreek

on Saturday August 11, 2007 @11:39PM

madgreek writes: "Read this article today on Linux Today. Mozilla is giving T'bird the boot. http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2007073000935O PSWDV"

Submission + - Leverage DB2 Support for XML

Submitted by IdaAshley on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @02:26AM

IdaAshley writes: Learn how the new XML storage and query environment of DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows plays into the XML data model described in Part 1of this series. Part 2 focuses on how to exploit the improved database support for XML in your application architecture.

Submission + - Hypocrites

Submitted by on Friday August 03, 2007 @10:10PM

An anonymous reader writes: Linux is about penguins, not about beer.

Submission + - Dilbert On OpenSource 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03, 2007 @10:54AM

An anonymous reader writes: It appears that OpenSource is the topic of today's Dilbert strip. http://dilbert.com/

Submission + - Still afraid of Open Source (ittoolbox.com)

Submitted by

madgreek

on Thursday August 02, 2007 @08:35PM

madgreek writes: "Still getting a lot of resistance to open source at work. Show them this article. http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/madgreek/archives/s till-afraid-of-open-source-16645"

Submission + - openDesktop.org launched (opendesktop.org)

Submitted by Frank on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @03:59AM

Frank writes: Today we launched openDesktop.org. openDesktop.org is the new head of our website network. It brings the contents and users of our websites together. Users and contributors of a free desktop can exchange applications and artwork, help each other, discuss new ideas and get to know other people. It shouldnt be important which desktop environment you prefer, which linux distribution you use or if you are a developer, an artist or a different contributor. Its only important that you help to push the free desktop. We believe that together we can change the world and create a better desktop than the proprietary ones. We also launched GTK-Apps.org and CLI-Apps.org to round off our website network.

Submission + - Kernel Developer Con Kolivas: Why I Quit? (apcmag.com)

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Bryce R

on Tuesday July 24, 2007 @06:12PM

Bryce R writes: "Con Kolivas is a prominent developer on the Linux kernel and strong proponent of Linux on the desktop. But recently, he left it all behind. Why? In this interview with APCMag.com, Con gives insightful answers exploring the nature of the hardware and software market, the problems the Linux kernel must overcome for the desktop, and why despite all this he's now left it all behind."

Submission + - Google Paid Search Screwup? (google.com)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Friday July 13, 2007 @02:09PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Today I was initiating a search and hit enter too soon, with just "Linux" as the keyword. I was surprised to see as the top paid search result: Linux www.Sun.com Sun Solaris — The Most Advanced OS On The Planet. Learn Why! Now, I am not a lawyer, but doesn't this constitute trademark dilution? Does Sun really believe this is going to harbor any good will for them in the OSS community?"

Submission + - Oracle Introduces Btrfs Filesystem for Linux (techsww.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 13, 2007 @08:38AM

An anonymous reader writes: Oracle recently introduced a new Checksumming Copy on Write Filesystem named Btrfs. According to Brtfs's home page,

"Linux has a wealth of filesystems to choose from, but we are facing a number of challenges with scaling to the large storage subsystems that are becoming common in today's data centers. Filesystems need to scale in their ability to address and manage large storage, and also in their ability to detect, repair and tolerate errors in the data stored on disk."

Btrfs is released under a GPL license and is currently under heavy development. Btrfs is not suitable for any uses other than benchmarking and review but this is certainly something we should look forward to in the future.

Submission + - The most useful command line tools? (techtarget.com)

Submitted by

E. Stride

on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @12:15PM

E. Stride writes: "Our readers and experts helped us create our first guide to the 50 most-used Linux command line tools. This wildly popular guide needs updating, so we asked our inner circle to pitch in again. We're looking for the most important-most used tools for the command line."

Submission + - PostgreSQL officially faster then MySQL (timetrex.com)

Submitted by IpSo_ on Monday July 09, 2007 @01:37PM

IpSo_ writes: Josh Berkus just posted on his blog : "First, the bare facts: we just published 778.14 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard with the Spec performance publication organization."

He continued with: "No more "slow elephant." For ages a reputation of sluggish performance has dogged the PostgreSQL project, due to both unfavorable comparisons with MySQL back in 1998 and due to our ongoing lack of auto-configuration (yes, yes, I'm working on it!). This publication shows that a properly tuned PostgreSQL is not only as fast or faster than MySQL (720.56 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard), but almost as fast as Oracle (since the hardware platforms are different, it's hard to compare directly). This is something we've been saying for the last 2 years, and now we can prove it."

Submission + - Recovering A Hosed HD... For Dummies 1

Submitted by AC on Monday July 09, 2007 @06:03AM

AC writes: If you have ever lost tens of gigabytes of data due to sudden hard drive failure (which, of course, typically happens the day before your backup solution was scheduled to be deployed), you are not alone in this. This article documents for the common good how to recover nearly everything off a badly broken drive thanks to a variety of tools ranging from a freezer to a small Python script.

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