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Winner of the LinuxUser & Developer Award 2004 for Best Linux or Open Source Software, Mambo looks like a very promising content management system. After looking at the demo and the documentation, I believe that this could be the ticket to giving CM a greatly needed shot in the arm!

ATI gets their papers so to speak. Apparently, there is a quite sizable petition floating around demanding that ATI take some sort of action to improve the available Linux drivers.

If you’re one of our readers in Germany or the U.K., you’ll soon be able to add to your geekiness by being the proud owner of an official Linux keyboard.

Joe Barr’s latest Linux.com column carries on his series on using encryption on a Linux system. In this case, he gives us a brief intro to verifying signed messages and encrypting/decrypting sent mail.

A cold, perhaps even a little bit of a hard look at finding the perfect desktop in the corporate environment. “Scrottie” shares his views on why Windows just doesn’t cut the bacon and how it never will regardless of what fancy bells and whistles they attach to it.

IBM has announced that it will be building a supercomputer for the U.S. Department of Defense designed to “advance weapons for the Army” and that “the supercomputer has received the code name “Stryker.” The Stryker project is made up of 1,186 powerful IBM computers that will include 2,300 64-bit AMD microprocessors. Want to take a [...]

Linucon 2004, scheduled for October 8-10 in Austin, Texas, is seeking panelists and papers. Deadline for papers is August 24th (August 31st for the panel lineup). Interested? Check it out.

As the number one PDA seller in Japan, Sharp has never really done that well elsewhere. However, never say that Sharp gave up on the PDA market without a fight. Sharp introduces the SL6000 PDA, which is complemented with the use of free Open Source software.

Found yourself looking for a good Linux System Administrator’s Survival Guide? Then I have just the link you need. Broken up neatly into seven parts, the admin guide gives its readers a first hand look at what you need to know in order to work with devices, settings, networking and other aspects of administrating a [...]

AMD ought to be as happy as a clam with two specific successes they have enjoyed recently. The positive event was Sun Microsystems rolling out Opteron-based servers and workstations which will be running Solaris OS and Linux, depending on what is needed. Then we have Microsoft with SQL Server 2005 which now supports the Opteron [...]

Yoper 2.9.1 is designed to be a speedy, “ready right out of the box” beta release that looks very promising. As we would all expect, there are undoubtedly bugs in it, however it may just be the ticket for small businesses once a stable release has been issued.

Seems like these bootable Linux distributions are getting smaller and more appealing all the time. With one distro as small as 46.9M, these things are great to have on hand in a crunch. Crouse from Linux Gazette gives us a quick run down on some of the most popular of these “mini-Live-CDs.”

Ian Murdock looks closely at whether or not Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is, in fact, proprietary. He starts right off by looking at the definition for “proprietary” to help us decide if it in fact meets the description for RHEL accurately.

If you’ve not heard of Wide Open Magazine, it’s a magazine put out by Red Hat with topics on Red Hat/Fedora (of course), open source, and Linux. I subscribed a while back, and the first issue wasn’t bad. I’ve been waiting for the next issue for some time now, and decided to drop by their [...]

Quoted from the Channeling Cupertino Weblog: “As John Gruber pointed out far more ably than I ever will, the Linux community is cursed with a fundamental inability to think deeply about user interface design beyond the command line.”
These are pretty strong words. However, if you look at programs like Firefox and Thunderbird, the UI [...]

Preston Gralla admits that he is a hardcore Windows kind of guy. This is the OS he has used for as long as he can remember. His son, in a hope to win him over, gets his dear old dad to try Knoppix and eventually SUSE. While he found them to be stable, he felt [...]

Bill Gates has made it clear that he believes that Linux takes away jobs in the tech sector. He is correct. However, Gates leaves out the part about Linux creating jobs as well. Bill Gates was actually quoted as saying; “If you don’t want to create jobs or intellectual property, then there is a tendency [...]

Doc Searls’ IT Garage | News, ideas and real world stories about how IT folks solve their own problems
Do you like to think? Are you interested in Linux, blogging, the future of business? Are you wondering how they could possibly be related? Visit Doc Searls’ IT Garage, a place where IT folk [...]

One writer’s solution to your Internet Explorer woes? Move to Linux. While logistically this may not only be impossible, it also may not be needed with everyone. While Linux users may balk at the thought of being restricted to only using Microsoft Windows, there are still a number of people who are apparently quite happy [...]

An interesting look at the exact process that takes place when Linux first boots up. From the kernel initializing to “init” setting the rest of the processes in motion. This article takes you on a tour of how everything gets loaded into memory and then allows the system to start right up.