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How to: Install Linux on your PlayStation 3

Who needs all that  games stuff when there's hacking fun to be had instead? Read on.

According to a famous Latin proverb, "He who is everywhere is nowhere." In computing, that's not exactly true.

Linux is becoming much more pervasive: it's powering far more laptops and desktops than ever before, delivering music and movies to the living room on digital media adapters, and becoming ubiquitous as a development platform at high-end video effects studios such as Industrial Light & Magic, which used to rely on Windows and Mac.

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How to: Install Linux on your Xbox

Revitalise an unuused Xbox and make it productive again using linux. Read on.


It's a bit 'old-school' – since the Xbox 360 is now Microsoft's dominant video game console – but loading Linux on the original Xbox (popular circa 2002) makes sense because you can use an old dusty machine sitting in a corner somewhere and get more useful life out of it.

After all, the Xbox is still a viable PC with a Celeron processor, an NVIDIA GeForce 3 graphics card, a DVD drive, surround sound support, USB ports, Ethernet, a 10GB hard disk (on most systems) and 64MB of RAM.

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How to: install Linux on your Nintendo DS

As what most newbies users look at linux, linux can also be fun to play with. We all know, linux and *nix OS runs a lot and wide array of high-end production and test-bed servers around the globe, but little does newbies knew, linux can also be installed to Nintendo DS. Read on.

Nvidia says no to free drivers, I say no to Nvidia

digg.com: So in short, the deal is, you get the card, but the only way to use it is to rent a driver to which you have an incomplete access, thereby making your fruitful use of the card consistently dependent on Nvidia and, quite obviously, therefore limiting the control you as a supposed owner of the card really have over it

KDE 4.1 Beta 2 Released!

digg.com: KDE hackers have been working on polishing the new features, desktop integration, and documenting and translating the packages. Several bugfixing sessions have been held and squashed bugs in the beta software. Testing and feedback on this release is appreciated and needed to make the final KDE 4.1 release in late July 2008 a splash.

5 Ways to Screencast Your Linux Desktop

digg.com: Five ways you can record your desktop in linux.

10 IRC Client for Linux

digg.com: Collection of IRC clients for Linux

Sourceforge.net Blocked In Mainland China

digg.com: SourceForge, the world’s largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications, appears to blocked in Mainland China on the eve of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.The current blocking may be related to the recent anti-China protests of Beijing Olympic Games, which began on 8 August in Beijing.

Wine 1.1.0 Released

digg.com: The first release after 1.0 in the development branch, give it good testing,

Red Hat Sales Rise; Big Clients Renew

Profit was in line with analyst estimates. Excluding stock compensation costs, Red Hat reported net income of 18 cents per share. Total profit was $17.3 million, compared with $16.2 million during the first quarter of fiscal 2008.

Red Hat is becoming boring.

Community-driven and inspired software amazingly brought the safest and smartest community-based Firefox version 3.0 (FF3) browser to achieve more than 8 million downloads within 24 hours of FF3 Download Day. From its final release version, the numbers had already reached a staggering 22 million downloads up until now and still growing, not to mention indirect source of downloads like site repos, and community download mirrors.

How To Love Linux On The Desktop

Fahmida Y. Rashid wrote: Blowing away a computer and installing a different operating system is all part of a day's work for the Test Center. In fact, some projects in the Test Center over the past year have included a lot of time spent simply installing and reinstalling various Linux distributions on a single machine.

Test Center staff have found a number of good reasons for removing a Linux distro entirely and doing a clean install. For testing and evaluation purposes, however, it's helpful to have multiple systems available simultaneously for comparison. This is where virtual machines really come in handy.

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Donnie Berkholz speaks with LinuxCrazy

Donnie Berkholz wrote: "The more time I spend in Gentoo, the more I realize that it's the individual developers who really drive most of our innovations. They don't happen because the council makes a decision. They happen because the developer, or a few of them, think that it sounds like a cool idea, and make it happen. ..."

"Making Gentoo great is my biggest goal right now, and greatness is a process. It's not a place. So you can't get somewhere and say you're great. You always have to keep striving for it. For a while we've been content to stick with the status quo instead of striving for greatness, but we have to change that and to always improve Gentoo."

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A Slacker Tries His Hand at Gentoo

Steve Husted wrote: I've been wanting to try Gentoo for some time, but always had to roll my eyes at the pages and pages of installation instructions. This time, however, I rolled up my sleeves and buckled down. Minutes later, I was on my way.

First off - I have used Slackware since version 1.0, and I have tried countless other distributions, including Red Hat, Mandrake, Slax, MiniSlack (Zen?), SuSE, Yoper, Linspire, Debian, PCLinuxOS, et al.

Debian releases weak OpenSSL

Luciano Bello discovered that the random number generator in Debian's openssl package is predictable. This is caused by an incorrect Debian-specific change to the openssl package (CVE-2008-0166). As a result, cryptographic key material may be guessable.

This is a Debian-specific vulnerability which does not affect other operating systems which are not based on Debian. However, other systems can be indirectly affected if weak keys are imported into them.

Debian with XFCE

Miles Baska wrote: I've not posted in many months -- seems I've not taken the time to write much of anything in fact. I seem attracted to Tumblr and Twitter -- I can share my ideas and finds much quicker there. This post is primarily a test message, then.

I've not given up on Linux, but I'm still seeking The Killer Desktop OS. Debian is my latest find, and with it XFCE. I grabbed a copy of the Debian Network Installation and tried it out on an old box (1.2G Celeron w/ integrated video). It found all the hardware and worked flawlessly, installing with the GNOME desktop. I had to tweak it a bit to get SAMBA installed and working, but once set up it actually worked seamlessly with my Windows shares (Windows saw Debian, Debian saw Windows). I then replaced GNOME with XFCE and I've not looked back.

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Coders now can try mobile Ubuntu Linux

Canonical on Tuesday released its first publicly available developer edition of Ubuntu for mobile Internet devices.

Ubuntu MID works on two devices at present, the Samsung Q1U and the Intel Crown Beach development station for building devices using the company's Atom processor. It also can be run on ordinary computers through the KVM virtualization software. A MID--a concept Intel is aggressively promoting--is a mobile device larger and more like a regular computer than, say an Apple iPhone, but smaller than an ultraportable PC.

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First look: OpenSUSE 11 out, offers best KDE 4 experience

Novell announced the official release of OpenSUSE 11 yesterday. It's the latest version of the community-driven Linux distribution and includes significant new features like the KDE 4 desktop environment and the PulseAudio sound server.

Novell: openSUSE for All Linux Users

Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL) is making a play for Linux users new and old with the release of its openSUSE 11 distribution.

Version 11 introduces an installer, improved package management and updated key open source packages.

The new distribution is Novell's attempt to put its best stuff out on the field as it ramps up the competition against Red Hat's Fedora and Ubuntu Linux in the growing Linux community.

Joe Brockmeier, openSUSE community manager, told InternetNews.com that openSUSE 11's strength is its targeting of end users making the switch from Vista. "We're also targeting the longtime Linux users," he added.

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Welcome to the EeePCLinuxOS

EeePCLinux OS does sound weird, but unique. Learn more.

It is my pleasure to announce a new USB Install Key creator for EeePCLinuxOS. For some of you more experienced Linux/Windows users it may look familiar. That is because this new installer is based off of UNetBootin. We've shortened the installable Linux LiveCD list down to just us and disabled Floppy capabilities. Overall though should hopefully offer a better experience for our Windows users. I would like to thank Wingers for his previous work on the installer this one replaces and for bringing up the fact that we needed a Windows installer in the first place.

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Nice PCLinuxOS Experience

Here's a nice PCLinux OS desktop experience from somebody who uses operating system on daily basis.

"The last time I looked at PCLinuxOS was version 0.92, which according to DistroWatch was about 3 years ago. I was asked to take a look at it again, so here I go.

"I'm aware that this version is pretty old by now (June 2008), but as of this writing it was the latest full non-beta version available. I don't like to rant on betas. I'm puzzled to see that there has been no obvious word given on when we can expect a new version..."

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CentOS 5.2 Releases

The CentOS team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS 5.2. Major changes in CentOS 5 compared to CentOS 4 include:

These updated software versions: Apache-2.2, php-5.1.6, kernel-2.6.18, Gnome-2.16, KDE-3.5, OpenOffice.org-2.3, Evolution-2.12, Firefox-3.0, Thunderbird-2.0, MySQL-5.0, PostgreSQL-8.1.

Better desktop support with compiz and AIGLX.

Virtualization provided by the Xen hypervisor with Virtual Machine Manager and libvirt.

Sabayon to simplify the construction of user profiles.

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CentOS updates Red Hat Enterprise clone

Love Red Hat Enterprise Linux and want the latest edition, but can't stand the company and refuse to give it a single red cent? You're in luck.

The open source CentOS project has released its latest RHEL clone in the wake of Red Hat's recent release of RHEL version 5.2.

Fedora Project Boards Elected

Being responsible for a distro OS technicalities, project track, events, marketing and councils  are not that easy task. Fedora, as a tradition had undergone a council shuffle and board member elections this past week. And finally, the names behind the much awaited Fedora Project Board responsible councils and leaders are

Red Hat takes on Windows with new desktop software

Never ending story of desktop operating system clashes are back. Red Hat Desktop created by one of the leading Linux OS distributor designed to empower desktop back-end systems. Read on.

Linux software provider Red Hat has announced the availability of a client application, Red Hat Desktop, designed for enterprises and government.

The product is part of the Red Hat Enterprise product line, which previously only provided software for back-end systems.

It's the first product aimed at firms' end users, and an open-source alternative to Microsoft's Windows platforms, which hold more than 90 per cent of the installed base for desktops in businesses. Read more.

Source: software.silicon.com

Red Hat profit climbs almost 7 pct in 1Q 2009

"We are off to a good start and on pace to deliver more major product releases this year than in any other period in Red Hat's history," Whitehurst said.

Red Hat said it earned $17.3 million, or 8 cents per share, in the first quarter, compared to $16.2 million, also 8 cents per share, in the same period a year earlier. Read more from here

Source: newsday.com