Archive for October, 2007

Gutsy Gibbon paves way for Ubuntu enterprise push
ZDNet Australia – Debian is still used more often than Ubuntu, but the latter is used by programmers and is spreading, Suraski said. Canonical is growing. It now has about 120 employees, of whom 70 are programmers. New features The new 3D desktop interface is the

Sun offers potpourri of open-source plans
Computerworld Australia – With the open-sourcing of Solaris two years ago, Solaris began to appear on the radar screen of open-source developers and deployers, said Ian Murdock, chief operating systems platform strategist at Sun and founder of the Debian Linux distribution.

BIND 9 DNS Administration Reference Book
Tectonic – Ubuntu 7.04, Fedora 7, PCLinuxOS 2007 and Debian Etch. Installing VMware Tools in your guest operating systems will help maximize performance, provide mouse synchronization and copy & paste functionality. This article also shows a way of making

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DailyTech – I had ubuntu (or kubuntu if you like kde) running and ready to go just as fast as windows with only changing gui settings like in windows. the Debian style apt-get installation makes getting programs easy, and the included software installer gui

Comfortably Debian
Tectonic – After futzing around with the $0 Laptop for the past week or two, I’m tired. So I left the damn thing in the car (it’s running Xubuntu 7.04 after display issues made me give up on Slackware 12). I don’t quite know what to run on it. I’ll probably put