Power of Linux Top Command with its Options

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November 28, 2013

Linux top command is one of most powerful in built tool that all system adminstrator use to monitor the system health status everyday. Its also really important to under each parameters in the top command. There are lot of options available, that are really handy to understand system’s behaviour. Refer this nice article witten by Raghu Sharma on linux top command and its options.

Acer Announces Haswell-Powered $300 Touchscreen Chromebook

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ZDNet

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November 27, 2013

The current touchscreen Chromebook has a minimum price of $1,300. For $1,000 less you will soon be able to purchase an Acer C720P with a touchscreen display.

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How to install FFmpeg on CentOS, RHEL and Ubuntu

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Rahul Kumar

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November 27, 2013

FFmpeg is a cross-platform solution for streaming audio and video as well as recording and conversion. This article will describe you to how to install FFmpeg on CentOS/RHEL 6/5 and Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 systems with easy steps. Also provides basic uses of ffmpeg.

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The People Who Support Linux: Starting Over as a Linux SysAdmin

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Libby Clark

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November 27, 2013

James Hazelwood, a former engineer in the manufacturing industry, is going back to school to pursue a new career in Linux and IT. The Somerset, England resident spent 15 years in manufacturing and 5 years in tech support for fire alarm systems. But after being made redundant for the third time, he decided to retrain in system administration and is studying for a computing degree at Plymouth University, Hazelwood says.

James Hazelwood

Though he knew about Linux before he started school, he’d never used it. Fellow students and lecturers convinced him to try out Ubuntu. He’s now running OpenSUSE, CentOS, Ubuntu and Fedora on his desktop and home network/ server lab.

“Linux adoption is exploding. It’s a great operating system, not just in the server world, but also on the desktop,” he said. “I really love using it, and after I graduate I would like to get a Linux-based job.”

Because he’s still a newbie, he’s more focused on learning than contributing to open source projects right now. To get up to speed, he hangs out in a few different forums and studies for the Linux Professional Institute Linux essentials exam, in addition to his university work.

He recently became a Linux Foundation individual supporter “to show my support, to be part of the Linux community, and keep up to date on all things Linux,” he said. He loves his new @linux.com email address and is looking forward to taking advantage of the discounts on hardware from Dell, HP and Lenovo.

Thanks for supporting The Linux Foundation, James!

What are Midmarket Companies Seeking When They Look to Cloud Services?

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ZDNet

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November 27, 2013

Midmarket companies often have neither the resource nor the staff to construct their own complete solutions and are increasingly seeking cloud computing solutions. An IBM sponsored Cloud Forum brought together journalists, analysts, developers and midmarket executives to discuss the future of cloud computing.

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Paper: How and Why has the LibreOffice Project Evolved?

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LWN

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November 27, 2013

Simon Phipps pointed to a paper by Jonas Gamalielsson and Bjorn Lundell on the evolution of the Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice development communities. “From our results, it remains to be seen to what extent the LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice projects may successfully evolve their projects and associated communities in a way that can be sustainable long-term. So far it seems that LibreOffice has been the more successful project in terms of growing associated communities. Our results suggest that the choice of Open Source license significantly impacts on conditions for attracting contributions to Open Source projects.“

A Sneak Peek at the Next Wave in Cloud Computing

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Wired

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November 27, 2013

The world of cloud computing is a complicated place. But Lucas Carlson boils it down to a simple analogy: Amazon is the Apple of cloud computing.

With its enormously popular collection of web services — services where anyone can build and run their own online software without setting up their own hardware — Amazon is well out in front of the cloud computing competition, just as Apple was in the mobile game with those seminal creations, the iPhone and the iPad and the iOS mobile operating system.

What we need now, Carlson says, is an Android of cloud computing, something that can challenge Amazon in much the same way Google’s open source mobile operating system challenged Apple. Amazon Web Services are great, he explains, but much like the iPhone and the iPad, they’re controlled by a single company. What we need is a cloud computing substrate that can spread across the industry, a platform that frees the world from the whims of Amazon — and gives us the power to readily move our applications from cloud service to cloud service.

A Brief Introduction to Linux Containers with LXC

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The Linux Foundation

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November 27, 2013

I’m going to provide a brief introduction to working with Linux containers via LXC. Linux containers are getting a fair amount of attention these days (perhaps due to Docker, which leverages LXC on the back-end) as a lightweight alternative to full machine virtualization such as that provided by “traditional” hypervisors like KVM, Xen, or ESXi.

Both full machine virtualization and containers have their advantages and disadvantages. Full machine virtualization offers greater isolation at the cost of greater overhead, as each virtual machine runs its own full kernel and operating system instance. Containers, on the other hand, generally offer less isolation but lower overhead through sharing certain portions of the host kernel and operating system instance. In my opinion full machine virtualization and containers are complementary; each offers certain advantages that might be useful in specific situations.

Linux Chief: ‘Open Source is Safer, and Linux is More Secure Than Any Other OS’ (Exclusive)

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The Linux Foundation

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November 27, 2013

In an interview with Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin, VentureBeat got a bird’s-eye view of the future of the open-source operating system for 2014.

We also addressed the controversial issues of government spying and “backdoors” — those nefarious windows into our personal online lives that the public recently discovered in most of the services we use every day.

SuperTuxKart 0.8.1 Linux Racing Game Speeds Ahead

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Phoronix

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November 27, 2013

For the fans out there of SuperTuxKart, an open-source racing game inspired by Mario Kart that’s available for countless platforms, the v0.8.1 release is finally available…