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Feb
28th

Tiny Core- A 10 MB Tiny Linux Desktop

Author: LXer Linux News | Files under syndicated

Tiny Core Linux is a very small (10 MB) minimal Linux GUI Desktop. It is based on Linux 2.6 kernel, Busybox, Tiny X, and Fltk. The core runs entirely in ram and boots very quickly . Also offered is Micro Core a 6 MB image that is the console based engine of Tiny Core. CLI versions of Tiny Core’s program allows the same functionality of Tiny Core’s extensions only starting with a console based system.


Feb
28th

Competition Authorities and Search

Author: LXer Linux News | Files under syndicated

Government competition agencies are increasingly focused on Google’s growing power in search and online advertising. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission have all determined that Google is dominant in certain markets, including search advertising. In late 2008 the DOJ was prepared to go to court to block Google’s attempt to partner with its largest search rival, Yahoo!. Last year the DOJ told a federal court that Google’s book search plan is anticompetitive in several respects. (One big problem is that Google would help itself to essentially exclusive rights to tens of millions of books—effectively locking out everyone else.) Last week the DOJ reiterated that view in court, even after Google had an opportunity to address the DOJ’s concerns. This week came news that the European Commission is investigating various aspects of Google’s conduct, including claims of retaliation, exclusivity and manipulation of search results to disadvantage rivals. The European Commission is likely to treat these cases quite seriously, given that Google’s share of search and search advertising is north of 95% in many European countries.


Feb
28th

Collection of extensions for Chrome browser | Week9-10

Author: LXer Linux News | Files under syndicated

This is a collection of Chrome extensions for week9, maybe for some of these extensions you diden`t hear about before.


Feb
28th

LXer Weekly Roundup for 28-Feb-2010

Author: LXer Linux News | Files under syndicated

LXer Feature: 28-Feb-2010

In this week’s LXWR we have a Ubuntu fanboy comes clean, A Windows metrics source lies about his identity, is Linux Distro-hopping a Thing of the Past?, SCALE 8x: Review Of My Road Trip To L.A. and a whole lot more.


Feb
28th

Archbang is now available with an installer

Author: LXer Linux News | Files under syndicated

Archbang, like Crunchbang Linux – but Arch and Openbox, is now available for the first time with an installer.


Feb
28th

International Intellectual Property Alliance – The Disconnect…

Author: LXer Linux News | Files under syndicated

I wouldn’t put Microsoft software on any of our computers now, even with a gun to my head…but that’s not the point. Are we, as charitable and community service-driven organizations, subject to their whim and multi-month grant requests for their software? It would appear so. If Free Software were to be “discouraged” by the US Government (not likely but possible) then we would either have to come to these companies with out hands out, pirate the software or purchase it.


Feb
28th

5 Amazing Gnome Shell Themes (And How To Install Themes In Gnome Shell)

Author: LXer Linux News | Files under syndicated

A look at the first ever Gnome Shell themes and how to install (or even create your own) a Gnome Shell theme.


Feb
28th

Server Monitoring With munin And monit On Debian Lenny

Author: LXer Linux News | Files under syndicated

In this article I will describe how you can monitor your Debian Lenny server with munin and monit. munin produces nifty little graphics about nearly every aspect of your server (load average, memory usage, CPU usage, MySQL throughput, eth0 traffic, etc.) without much configuration, whereas monit checks the availability of services like Apache, MySQL, Postfix and takes the appropriate action such as a restart if it finds a service is not behaving as expected. The combination of the two gives you full monitoring: graphics that lets you recognize current or upcoming problems (like “We need a bigger server soon, our load average is increasing rapidly.”), and a watchdog that ensures the availability of the monitored services.


Feb
28th

International Intelectual Property Alliance – The Disconnect…

Author: LXer Linux News | Files under syndicated

I wouldn’t put Microsoft software on any of our computers now, even with a gun to my head…but that’s not the point. Are we, as charitable and community service-driven organizations, subject to their whim and multi-month grant requests for their software? It would appear so. If Free Software were to be “discouraged” by the US Government (not likely but possible) then we would either have to come to these companies with out hands out, pirate the software or purchase it.


Feb
28th

International Intellectual Property Alliance – The Disconnect

Author: Blog of helios | Files under syndicated

I strongly considered making this an “open letter” to the IIPA.Then I strongly unconsidered it.With marginal writing skills, I can never make it sound like anything more than chest-beating and fanatical hand-wringing.  Besides…Look at the list o…