Linux

Source: Newsforge

"On April 9, Michael Robertson announced the release of LindowsOS sneak preview 2. "Lindows.com is not about selling an operating system," the Lindows CEO says in the press release. "It's not too different from needing a car. Nobody says, 'I need an engine,' they say, 'I need a car,' and most times, what they really mean is that they need transportation. It's the same with a computer." I think I know what he's getting at.

Source: OS Opinion

Linux and UNIX users alike have reason to smile. The KDE Project announced last Wednesday the immediate availability of the third generation of the K Desktop environment, a free and powerful desktop graphical user interface for Linux and other UNIX versions.

Source: Newsforge

There are two Linux file systems that continually prove to be confusing stumbling blocks to new Linux users. These two directories, /proc and /dev have no Windows counterpart, and are not at first glance easily understandable. They are, however, powerful tools for understanding and using Linux.

This article is a walk-through of the device (/dev) and process (/proc) file systems. It will explain what they are, how they work, and how they are used in practice.

Source: Linux Today

Source: Linux Beginner.org

Firestarter is a graphical based firewall interface to the ipchains/Netfilter (iptables) firewalls that come with your Linux distribution, ipchains is used mostly for 2.2.x kernels and Netfilter is used on 2.4.x kernels. This little firewall is easy to use and packs quite a punch, it handles masquerading for multihomed machines (two or more network adapters,) you can change rules, and add dynamic rules on the fly.

Source: Forbes.com

L33tdawg: I got the heads up for this from Alphaque.com, but since the excerpt was really short, I've just hooked up the source link above.

Linux is rapidly gaining wide acceptance for Web serving, e-mail and Internet service. Open Source tools and applications are now being used in e-infrastructure, e-commerce, retail applications, as well as traditional enterprise applications. During this session, IBM VP of Linux servers, will discuss the Intel-based Linux market, customer adoption trends, the IBM Linux Strategy, and how software developers can partner with IBM to capitalize on this exciting opportunity.

This article is the second of two comparing SSH, remote X, VNC, and other technologies as ways of remotely running applications. In this part, the author takes a look at some VNC configuration issues, glances at IBM's Desktop On-Call, introduces remote X, and talks a bit about security. Learn more about sharing computers.

Source: Desktop Linux

CodeWeavers' new CrossOver Office product delivers on the long-standing goal of the Wine project : making it easy for anyone to successfully install and run Windows software on Linux systems, using a simple point-and-click process. It works so well, and the Windows programs that it currently supports run so smoothly, that it makes me feel slightly guilty -- as though I'm somehow cheating.

Marcelo Tosatti, a 18-year-old Brazilian hacker, filled Alan Cox's shoes becoming the maintainer of the 2.4 Linux kernel. This Q&A on developerWorks goes over some fundimentals.