[dundee] Taylug Weekly Articles 19 - LFCS

[gordon dunlop]

Hi All,
This week the theme this week is LFCS (Linux Foundation Collaboration
Summit). This was held in Austin, Texas (PCLinuxOS territory). The
lone star state! no this state of Texas is not alone in the Linux
world. I will introduce Helios who turns old computers into workable
solutions using Linux for unfortunate kids as the first article,
angels do exist just look for them.


L – Linux:
Helios's thoughts.
http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/04/return-from-mountain.html

Another commentator's thoughts about the summit.
http://www.linux.com/feature/132203

The awesome Linux 2.6.25 kernel has just been released.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/16/489

An article about Linux kernel scalability.
http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/041008-kernel.html

A new Debian leader has been elected.
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17716/1148/

Mark has the finger on the button for Hardy Heron to start flying.
http://www.linux.com/feature/132575

A tip on the forced file system check in Ubuntu.
http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/forced-file-system-check-after-30-boot-ups-how-to-improve-it/

One guy's view on why he went to Ubuntu.
http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/why-i-quit-windows-and-switched-to-linux/

So Will Woods of Fedora says it is only crazy people that upgrades
from the internet? Hi Will I am one of those crazy people, it worked
(it did take an hour of faffing about with the system), but at least
you cannot call me boring!
http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/04/15/interview-fedora-developers-seth-vidal-and-will-woods/

Fedora 9 ready for take-off? Sweat, tension, "crazy guy" ready to do
Internet upgrade of 9GB root partition, finger on the button. I will
show my humility if it fails and post it on TayLUG and hope you all
share my tears.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-April/msg00010.html

For people that want to play with SELinux (heh heh).
http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/04/17/fedora-9-and-summit-preview-confining-the-user-with-selinux/

An openSuSE JEOS.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/041608-novell-suse-linux.html?fsrc=rss-linux

Power management in Linux.
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6474/1/

Tips on running Linux on the Sony playstation.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-ps3-3/?ca=dgr-lnxw02aLinuxOnPS3Part3&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR


F – Free software & open source:
One commentator talking about open source.
http://www.linuxworld.com/community/?q=node/3911

Open source in U.S. Government agencies.
http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/46132.html

Open source in U.S. Hospitals.
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/The-OSS-Cure-for-What-Ails-Hospital-IT-62536.html

Continuing with medicine, software tools for health care people.
http://www.ondd.org/the-top-100-open-source-software-tools-for-medical-professionals/

Medusa4 for Engineers.
http://www.linux-tip.net/cms/content/view/343/26/

Building upon Asterisk.
http://www.mspmentor.net/2008/04/15/fonality-open-source-voip-meets-managed-services/

A server reliability survey.
http://www.iaps.com/2008-server-reliability-survey.html

Bruce Perens did not get elected to the OSI board, I wonder why?
http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/04/16/in-the-osi-board-we-trust/

Argentina and open source.
http://argentinadiscovery.nireblog.com/post/2008/04/13/argentina-mulls-open-source-move


C – Coding:
Open source doubling in size?
http://www.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9919051-16.html

Java in Eclipse.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-emfmetamodel/?ca=dgr-lnxw97os-eclipse-emfmetamodel/&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GRsitelnxw97

PHP twitter?
http://subprocess.net/2008/04/15/phpitter-beta-release/

Nokia and Qt.
http://maemo.org/news/announcements/view/qt_to_be_supported_in_addition_to_gtk.html

Using signals for control processes in Linux.
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/5707


S – System Applications:
Scribus, desktop publishing.
http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=401

A solution to password problems in PAM.
http://blog.akkaya.de/blojsom/blog/jpabel/ideas/2008/04/14/CC61C96CEE8289AF46626EEB0708EE28

Kate, the KDE text editor.
http://dot.kde.org/1208269318/

A new Inkscape is out.
http://www.linux.com/feature/132010

An alternative to Sendmail.
http://www.linux.com/feature/132006

File synchronization on multiple machines.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/file-synchronization-unison

Realplayer 11 for Linux.
https://helixcommunity.org/projects/player/news/907


Is photography the curse of TayLUG? Pictures were taken of our four
fabulous speakers at the flash talks but were not fit to publish
(sorry guys), who is going to be our saviour and take pictures at the
next Abertay Linux Society meeting this Thursday?


Gordon
TayLUG Administrator