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- Linux lab looks to bridge dueling interfaces
- insaneThe day the LSB requires Qt and GTK is the day I stop carying about the LSB at all. While I'm all for having standards for common compatibility needs, there's no reason to specify GUI tools as necessary to a so-called "standard" for an operating system.WellI have to agree...
- Discussion threads 2006-04-04
- The future of Linux: Finding friends and foes
- Some in the IT world worry that Red Hat poses a threat to the future of Linux. One Red Hat leader takes on the critics and shares his vision for this popular operating system.With so much compatibility among distributions, the LSB Linux Standard Base might not seem that necessary. Linux...
- Technical articles 2000-02-14
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- Pros and Cons of using LSB compliant distro
- Pros and Cons of using LSB compliant distroJust noticed on perusing the standard that there are a few points that may make targeting lsb compliance a bad idea. RPM REQUIREDthis means that any debian based system, using apt and .debs, as well as the from source distros will never be...
- Discussion threads 2005-10-12
- Polling Place: Should the Linux community continue efforts to support the Linux Standards Base (LSB)?
- Polling Place examines the results of TPG's Quick Poll: Should the Linux community continue efforts to support the Linux Standards Base LSB?
- Technical articles 2000-10-27
- No "forking" in the road ahead
- Linux is becoming increasingly popular. With its success comes the threat that commercial distributors may be tempted to change it for their own gain. Learn about "kernel forking," and how it could put Linux, and your company, in jeopardy.By Philip J. GillFor those of us who remember the many, largely...
- Technical articles 2000-02-10
- Efforts afoot to keep Linux standard
- The popularity of Linux may be its undoing, unless its kernel remains standardized and the open source community doesn't have to choose which distribution to support. Take a look at a few of the efforts to protect the Linux kernel.With the exploding popularity of Linux, several efforts have taken root...
- Technical articles 2000-10-23
- 10 things to consider when choosing a Linux distribution
- my humble 2 centsMy favorite distro of Linux is the DVD version of Knoppix. That comes packed with EVERYTHING! Being a live version, you can run it off of the DVD of course, but I install it to HD instead. I've tried Fedora, gOS, Ubuntu, and CentOS....
- Discussion threads 2008-04-09
- Major retailer suffers data breach
- FSF's LSB...The Free Software Foundation's Linux Standards Base is not a BASE standard as they claim.they went far beyond a base standard when they started picking specific applications that are "required" for compliancy.[ who needs RPM if you have dpkg, or portage? both of which are far more capable than...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-23
- UnitedLinux works to make enterprise headway
- Like most business partners, the organizations that make up the UnitedLinux initiative—SuSE Linux, Turbolinux, Conectiva, and The SCO Group formerly Caldera—are hoping that their combined efforts will bear more fruit and bring in more customers than attempting to go it alone. Keep in mind that these four partners are still...
- Technical articles 2003-01-14
- A better experience can be yours with 10 GNU/GPL programs you can't live without
- A better experience can be yours with 10 GNU/GPL programs you can't live withoutarticle rootOther open source applications?What is your favorite GNU Project application? [b]Which applications are we missing in this article/download?[/b]wellI would remove samba, as windows interoperability isn't something I need, or worry about.I would add kde, lestif,mwm, blackbox...
- Discussion threads 2005-07-13
- HP balks at patent provision in GPL update
- HP balks at patent provision in GPL updatearticle rootConcerns are raised about GPL version 3A proposed patent provision in the draft version 3 of the General Public License is raising concerns at HP about adopting the update. HP's wariness and opposition from Linux leader Linus Torvalds raise the specter that...
- Discussion threads 2006-08-03
- Extend your expertise with this list of executive training resources
- Many universities and training centers offer advanced training programs for IT executives who want to improve management effectiveness and boost strategic thinking. We've gathered a few links to some of these programs for quick reference.As they advance into high-level management, many IT leaders could benefit from training geared specifically toward...
- Technical articles 2002-05-17
- Little Setup Builder 2.0 (Windows)
- Little Setup Builder is a tool for creating simplified install programs. Little Setup Builder assembles and packs an install program, an uninstall program if existing, the files to install, and the support files in a single executable file. Since the install program produced by LSB consists of a single file,...
- Software downloads 2002-01-26
- Linux basics: Picking a distribution
- LinuxI took the ?Radically Simple? route, PCLinuxOS. The package manager is what sold me, just find what I want, download and install.It would be nice to see something on GTK+ development, basically on the rules of what goes where."Picking a distribution" It always bothers me, on some level, when...
- Discussion threads 2009-02-18
- Secure and Robust Digital Watermarking on Grey Level Images
- A good watermarking technique embeds information into a carrier image with virtually imperceptible modification of the image. The present paper found a novel fact that by inserting the watermark using Least Significant Bit LSB, the grey value of the image pixel either remains same or increases or decreases to one....
- White papers 2009-10-01
- Converted at last
- Converted at lastI have finally been converted, thanks to Ubuntu and Debian, to Linux. I've been a Windows guy for 10 years but could never get the hang of Linux. Redhat was useless and confusing to me. Debian rocks! I'm running Ubuntu from home, no big...
- Discussion threads 2005-03-18
- Novell delivers Linux package to home PCs
- Novell delivers Linux package to home PCsarticle rootNews?One of these days, the tech trade rags will notice that this isn't news to people already familiar with free/libre/open-source software. Show me a major Linux distribution that doesn't do all of that, usually for free, and I'll give you a cookie.Can't...
- Discussion threads 2005-04-21
- DOWNLOAD: Assess new employees' computer skills with this evaluation form
- http://techrepublic.com.com/5138-1035-729008.htmlAfter you take a look at this download, please post your feedback, ideas for improvements, or further thoughts on this topic.Thanks,--The TechRepublic Content Teammy way is much more fun.I hand them a live cd of linux from scratch and the 200 page manual for installing it.tell them to build their...
- Discussion threads 2006-02-06
- Red Hat's Fedora 5 boosts desktop features
- Can Red Hat 5 not do an OS2?Many of us will remember when OS2 had the big jump on NT but failed to capitalise on it. Perhaps with hindsight, Fedora 5 can actually use the delay ot Vista to gain some desktop market share...aaakkk!!!while I like the idea of MS...
- Discussion threads 2006-03-22
- Learn these advanced vim features
- emacs equivalentnot to start a religious war, but to accomplish "folding" in emacs (where it is called "hide-show"):activate: alt-x hs-minor-modetoggle: shift + middle mouse buttonimplementation: hideshow.elfolding in both emacs & vim seems more difficult than it should be, considering how easy folding is in other graphical editors like visual studio...
- Discussion threads 2006-04-04
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