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Reports of Red Hat’s death at Oracle’s hand are premature
Author: Joe Barr
Commentary: Is it just me, or is Oracle biting off more than it can chew with its foray into the land of...
Review: Ubuntu Edgy is nice, but not so edgy
Author: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
The Ubuntu team is scheduled to release Ubuntu 6.10, codenamed Edgy Eft, today. After working with beta and release candidates over...
Vim tips: Working with external commands
Vim is a powerful editing tool, but there are some things it just can't do. However, Vim lets you access shell commands and utilities...
Review: Firefox 2.0 is a solid improvement
Author: JT Smith
Not to be outdone by the debut of Internet Explorer 7 last week, the Mozilla team has released Firefox 2.0 with a...
Cluster Programming: The Ignorance is Bliss Approach
Douglas Eadline writes "A discussion of dynamic parallel execution (or losing control at the high end) is presented. In a previous column, a discussion...
A first look at Gaim 2.0
Author: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
The Gaim 2.0 release is nearing its home stretch. The Gaim team released beta4 last week, with a number of new...
Review: Freespire 1.0
In the midst of the busy semester here at school, my fiancee's laptop, running Windows XP SP2, picked up some friends - adware, trojans,...
The FOSS community makes new users feel welcome
Author: Lisa Hoover
After being semi-comfortably ensconced in the world of Microsoft products since the days of Windows 3.0, I recently joined the growing ranks...
Build a centralized log management and monitoring system
Author: Manolis Tzanidakis
Seasoned system administrators know that routinely reading system logs is an important task, but reading endless lines from logs is both time-consuming...
CLI Magic: Salvage lost partitions with gpart
Author: Mayank Sharma
Messing up your hard disk's partition table doesn't take much effort, especially when you're preparing a dual-boot machine. Even a mistimed fdisk...