lifehacker.com - 2/19/2009
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A whopping 40% of the used hard drives on eBay contain easily recoverable personal data. Use the following guide to ensure your personal data never makes it out into the wild. Photo by AMagill....
Over 30 Must-Have Open Source Resources
ostatic.com 2/9/2009 — Periodically, we here at OStatic like to round up our ongoing collections of open source resources, tutorials, reviews and project walkthroughs. These educational tools are a central part of the goal here at the site. We regularly round up the best ...
How To Choose The Best Linux For Your Business | Hardware & Software
bmighty.com 1/29/2009 — Subscription-Based Offerings Companies such as Red Hat, Novell, Xandrox, and Mandriva charge subscription fees that include software updates, documentation, and technical support. These fees vary quite a bit, based upon the type and number of Linux ...
Linux, Learning, and Little Kids
ostatic.com 2/19/2009 —
Christopher Dawson has been thinking aloud about Linux in the classroom at his ZDNet Education blog. Dawson, the technology director of a school district in northern Massachusetts, had sixty new Classmate Convertible PCs fall into his hands, and ...
Hidden Benefits of Knowing Even "Just A Little" About Linux
ostatic.com 3/9/2009 — I stumbled across a light, but thoughtful post by David Williams over at ITWire . Williams recounts a situation where he used a Linux distribution on a liveCD ( Ubuntu in this case, but there are countless others that can do the job) to rescue files ...
Anatomy of ext4
ibm.com 2/24/2009 — The article " Ubuntu 9.04 Receives EXT4 Support " finds very impressive performance improvements with ext4 in the latest Ubuntu release (compared with JFS, XFS, ReiserFS, and Ext3). Check out the ext4 kernel wiki (which will help you get ext4 running ...
"Linux 101 Hacks" Available as Free Download
ostatic.com 2/18/2009 —
Ramesh Natarajan is giving out free copies of his ebook, Linux 101 Hacks (the password "linuxrocks" starts the download). Though it targets a more experienced audience than the Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference download Sam covered ...
The best three Linux introductions for beginners
blogs.computerworld.com 1/20/2009 — There are good ways to pick up Linux, and then there are some really bad ones. Here's my pick of the top three Linux ways for a newbie to start using Linux.
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The Best of 2008 : Help For Linux
helpforlinux.blogspot.com 1/2/2009 — The end of the year is near and it is time to thank each and everyone of you for their visit here at Help For Linux . Here is a collection of our best posts from 2008.
1. 5 GIMP Tricks Everyone Should Know : Our most popular article this year, even ...
Putting Linux Muscle in Your Pocket: Resources for USB Thumb Drives
ostatic.com 1/16/2009 — If you've followed my previous posts on PortableApps and MacLibre you know that these sites offer Windows and Mac users, respectively, the opportunity to get boatloads of useful, free portable open source applications in one download. They're ...
Fake server beats real server on Web test —
The Register 2/17/2009
Careful with that server consolidation pitch Server virtualization juggernaut - well, at least on x64 iron - VMware is beside itself with glee that a virtualized Linux server running atop ESX Server hypervisor narrowly beat out real Linux boxes on ...
Ubuntu now has "Cloud Computing Inside" —
CNET News.com 2/21/2009
Mark Shuttleworth, Founder of Ubuntu, the "Apple" of Linux distributions, announced the next release of Ubuntu will be code named Karmic Koala. For data centers, what is most interesting is the degree to which this Koala is reaching for the clouds.
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