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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...