Red Hat’s Fedora Project launched today the new Fedora 9. The new version offers users of the Linux Operating System a whole new set of features, including the KDE 4 desktop environment which represents the system’s main characteristic.
Fedora is a Red Hat Package Manager – based, general purpose Linux distribution with several objectives, including the [...]

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The Fedora Project has released Fedora 9, a significant upgrade for the popular Linux distribution. Fedora 9 packs in a number of new features including an improved package management system, KDE 4 and more.
Perhaps the best part of Fedora 9 is the new live USB options. Fedora has always made it easy to go from [...]

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I’ve toyed with Linux since 2002, when I first installed Mandrake. With the latest release of Ubuntu, I was interested to see how far Linux had come since then in terms of being used easily by the mainstream. So, I tricked my grudging girlfriend Erin into sitting down at a brand new Ubuntu 8.04 installation [...]

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Huh?!? Apple offered OSX for free, but was declined for not being open source. Now they’re going with Windows?!? Will OLPC = “One License Per Child” now? I don’t really see the purpose of using a commercial OS, on a stripped down laptop, for third world countries, when it requires more resources and costs more. [...]

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“Adobe Air is an application platform/framework which received some buzz recently. One of the most popular Twitter clients was written using Adobe Air. Air seems to make it relatively simple to write nice looking cross platform applications. Two weeks ago, Adobe Air was released for Linux and I gave it a try on my Debian [...]

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The public perception of open source software is changing fast, said Mark Shuttleworth, who leads distribution of the Ubuntu operating system (OS).
A new version of Ubuntu, a version of the Linux OS, is released on Thursday.
Mr Shuttleworth said the success of the Asus Eee PC and the work of the One Laptop Per Child programme [...]

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We’ve been showing people how to automate various tasks in Linux for quite a while now. Today, we would like to briefly show people how to automate tasks in Linux using Cron jobs.
You can execute crontab if your name appears in the file /usr/lib/cron/cron.allow. If that file does not exist, you can use crontab if [...]

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Does anybody know what distribution was used?
Something like RedHat or Fedora is pretty significantly hardened right “out of the box”, where there are other distros that aren’t as locked-down.

The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, [...]

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My favorite quote:
Giving the Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is like giving the Han Solo award to the rebel fleet. I think many of you are not aware of how deep that analogy goes.
http://video.google.com

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Yet another newbie question that suggests people love to kill and show their power to rest of the world…
There is a package called procps. It includes various useful (READ: nifty) utilities. One of such utility is skill which is responsible to send a signal to users and process such as:

Halt user terminal
Kill user and logout

Also [...]

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Lately, Linux has been receiving quite a bit of notice. Between the ASUS EeePC, the One Laptop Per Child project, Dell’s new Ubuntu line, Intel’s Classmate PC, and Everex’s Green PC, Linux has been getting a lot of attention from computer manufacturers. It seems every new computer in the last year has had Linux, [...]

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After a classic ‘rm -rf ~‘ on ext3, Carlo Wood succeeded in recovering most of his data. Here’s how… “It happens to everyone sooner or later: a split second after you hit Enter you realize your mistake, but it’s too late; you just deleted a valuable file or directory for which no backup exists. [...]

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Wal-Mart’s experiment with selling cheap Linux-based PCs in its stores has apparently come to a close. Starting last October, the retail giant stocked desktops from the Green PC line manufactured by Everex. That stock ultimately sold out, but Wal-Mart has apparently decided not to refresh it. The Associated Press quotes a company spokesperson, [...]

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These days, data is mobile. Every day, sensitive corporate data leaves a company’s headquarters on a flash drive or an employee’s laptop. Regardless of where it is going, mobile data can be an I.T. department’s worst nightmare.
In fact, the 2006 “CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey,” a joint effort by the San Francisco office [...]

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When I needed to make a USB key (aka. USB pen drive, USB memory stick, whatever) bootable under Linux I found there was a number of pages on the Internet that listed the steps needed. Some of these pages required you to do some steps from DOS and/or used the syslinux command.
I did not want [...]

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