Source: Linux World
As happy as I am to see something finally displace the disgrace that TPC-C 'benchmarks' have become over the years, the new favorite faux-analytical geegaw that Microsoft's marketing droids are giggling over isn't any better. I think you know what I'm talking about: it starts with a T, ends with an 'Oh!' and spells trouble right here in River City. That's Austin, dude. Texas.
Source: Linux Orbit
It has been some time since I have done anything on my computer worth writing about but finally that time has come.
Earlier this year I finally trashed Windows XP in favor of Linux. I loaded RH 7.1 on a Compaq Presario 700 laptop and was able to get everything working except my sound. When RH 7.3 came out, I again loaded it onto my laptop hoping that my sound would work.
Have you ever wondered how you can automate document handling with low-cost server processes? There's plenty you can do with Word documents on a Linux or other UNIX server at a modest cost. Consider the endless possibilities by reading this article to learn about some open source tools that make server-side content management (even .doc files) easy.
This article takes a look at SimPy, a Python package that allows you to easily create models of discrete event systems. There is some novelty involved in the way we think about this style of programming, but simulations are useful for understanding the behavior of resource-limited real-life systems.
Source: CNet News
Lindows, a start-up dedicated to creating an edition of Linux for average PC owners, released the first retail version of its software Monday.
The company has enlisted retail partners to sell a spiffed-up version of its operating system, Lindows 3.0, which comes with e-mail and telephone tech support and a one-year subscription to the company's Click-N-Run Warehouse, a central resource for downloading open-source applications.
Source: The Linux Show
At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin Hill, Jeff Gerhardt, Doc Searls (Linux Journal), Arne Flones and Russ Pavlicek; are back live tonight. We have a great show lined up tonight on The Linux Show!! In fact this is the SECOND TO LAST SHOW (for 2002). So it better be good.
Segment One- The News. We will cover THE HOT NEWS of the last few weeks tonight. In particular, more on Microsoft's predicted entry into the Linux Software biz, news from India, Mandrake c;loses its source(?) and so much more.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Two of the year's most user-friendly Linux distributions--SuSE Linux 8.1 and Red Hat Linux 8.0--have closed the gap between Windows and Linux. But which one should you choose?
Linux fans: we're getting there.
Concurrency -- multi-processing -- is widely misunderstood. This article introduces the basic concurrency concepts you need to conduct your business in the server closets safely. Concurrency labels situations where more than one "application" is running at a time. Linux hosts always fill their process tables with a bunch of more-or-less simultaneous programs: network protocol daemons, cron managers, the kernel itself, and often much more.
This NVOption version has been updated to new NVIDIA drivers (v1.0-3123). The new format and colour text mode can work under consola or X11 mode. More portable and easy to compile, News options and functions are available.
Nvidia information, help on line and NVIDIA XF86config autoconfigure are inplemented. If you need this program to configure your nvidia under Linux go here.
