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Controlling Liquor Loss with Linux

What does Linux have to do with the Replay Lounge's success? As it turns out, a lot.
Submitted by Rikki Endsley on Tue, 02/07/12 - 2:02pm.

The Replay Lounge in Lawrence, Kansas, ranked number 64 on Esquire's Best Bars in America 2011 list and landed spot number 31 on Complex Magazine's 2010 list of the 50 best college bars in America.

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Software-Defined Networking Evolution (Not Revolution) Under Way

Service providers may jump but enterprises need a smooth migration path
Submitted by joltsik on Tue, 02/07/12 - 11:15am.

Is it too early or too late to declare 2012 the year of SDN? A few weeks ago, IBM and NEC introduced integrated technologies around OpenFlow for enterprise data centers. Last week, HP announced OpenFlow support with 16 switch models. Finally, early this week, Nicira went public with its Distributed Virtual Network Infrastructure (DVNI).

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Linux Foundation Report Shows Growing Linux Adoption Rates in the Enterprise

New survey shows Linux as the preferred platform for Big Data, virtualization, and cloud computing trends.
Submitted by Rikki Endsley on Thu, 01/19/12 - 10:11am.

Released today, Linux Adoption Trends 2012: A Survey of Enterprise End Users is based on responses from 428 IT professionals from organizations with US$ 500 million or more a year in revenues or 500+ employees and is available for download from the Linux Foundation site. Among the key findings, the study shows that 8 out of 10 respondents say that they've added Linux servers in the past 12 months and plan to add more in the next year.

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MLK and Open Source: 2 Degrees of Separation

Monday, January 16, 2012 is Martin Luther King Day, and in honor of that occasion I present to you a story of King's two degrees of separation from open source, specifically NASA's new open source code site.
Submitted by Rikki Endsley on Fri, 01/13/12 - 10:17am.

On Tuesday evening, my teen daughter and I had some quality bonding time over milkshakes and the first season of Star Trek, which was timely considering the conversation I'd have the next day with a couple of NASA employees.

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Gentoo 12.0 LiveDVD Rolls Out

Latest Gentoo release features persistence boot option.
Submitted by Rikki Endsley on Mon, 01/02/12 - 6:47pm.

Gentoo announces the release of its new LiveDVD, which is available as a hybrid x86/x86_64 version and an x86_64 multi-lib version.

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Red Hat Releases RHEL 6.2

New release of Red Hats flagship Linux is more secure, flexibile and faster than ever
Submitted by Alan Shimel on Wed, 12/07/11 - 4:16pm.

Red Hat has released a new version of their flagship Enterprise Linux OS.  RHEL 6.2 consolidates patches since REHL 6.1 plus offers some substantial improvements in security, virtualization, performance and flexibility. I spoke with Tim Burke, VP of Linux engineering at Red Hat about the new release.

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Everything I Needed to Know about Linux I Learned from My Pets

My relationship with my motley crew of cats and dogs is similar to my relationship with Linux. In both cases, I've learned that patience pays off, and life is better with than without them.
Submitted by Rikki Endsley on Wed, 11/30/11 - 3:22pm.

Perhaps you aren't a pet person. Some of my best friends aren't, either. Or maybe you are Apple-obsessed or a Windows enthusiast. I love my Mac and know plenty of people who work with Windows. In any case, here are a few ways living with my pets reminds me of living with Linux.

Not Everyone Shares Your Feelings

Today I invited someone into my home and when she saw my cat she backed away from the door and said, "I'm terrified of cats. And that's a really big one." 

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CeBIT Open Source 2012 Call for Projects

Open source projects are invited to apply for free exhibit space at CeBIT Open Source 2012.
Submitted by Rikki Endsley on Fri, 11/25/11 - 6:03pm.

CeBIT 2012 will take place March 6-10 in Hannover, Germany. Open source projects are invited to apply for free exhibit space, and non-commercial projects will have special consideration. The deadline for applications is December 18, 2011.

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OpenSUSE 12.1 bulks up on features for cloud, servers, desktops

After eight months work, OpenSUSE 12.1 has arrived
Submitted by Source Seeker on Wed, 11/16/11 - 2:10pm.

The OpenSUSE project has released its next stable version, a.k.a OpenSUSE 12.1. It includes the Linux kernel 3.1, tons of enhancements for use with public and private clouds and the cool new Tumbleweed tool, a project conceived by SUSE kernel engineer Greg Kroah-Hartman.

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IBM: Analytics, mobile, cloud, social applications will drive future IT development

IBM survey says cloud applications will outpace virtualization as the top cloud development in the next 24 months
Submitted by Layer 8 on Tue, 11/15/11 - 11:45am.

It's clear by the increasing use of analytics software that companies are struggling to get their hands around the huge amounts of data it takes to run a successful business.  But  developing social, mobile, cloud computing and other applications are also driving the need for new technical skills.

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Mark's rating: 4

Programming in Lua

By Mark Gibbs on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 11:03am.

I haven't talked about programming languages for a while so here goes: We start this week with the free, open source (MIT License) Lua language.

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Mark's rating: 4.5

iPad improvement: A great keyboard and network app

By Mark Gibbs on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 11:00pm.

I have written several times about my ongoing love affair with the iPad and, surprise, a wave of iPad-related products has been appearing in the Gibbs Universal Secret Underground Bunker.

While a number of these are, well, meh, there are a few that are truly outstanding. One of these winners is the Logitech Fold-Up Keyboard for iPad.

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Two weeks with Ubuntu instead of Windows 7: Linux is great, Unity needs work

I've completed my two-week tour of duty using Ubuntu 11.10 and my feelings are mixed.
Submitted by Source Seeker on Fri, 10/28/11 - 7:44pm.

Today is my last day with the test machine loaded with Ubuntu 11.10 that Canonical sent me. My conclusion is: Unity is too buggy. I don't want to do my job, 8-10 hours a day, with it. This even though I like its look and feel and there are things about Unity I will miss when I go back to Windows 7.

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Linux Foundation wades into Windows 8 secure boot controversy

Dueling white papers from the Linux Foundation and Canonical/Red Hat demand PC OEMs give control to PC owners. The LF offers technical guidance; Red Hat/Canonical, condemnation.
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Thu, 10/27/11 - 7:21pm.

The Linux Foundation today released technical guidance to PC makers on how to implement secure UEFI without locking Linux or other free software off of new Windows 8 machines. The guidance included a subtle tisk-tisk at Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky for suggesting that PC owners won't want to mess with control of their hardware and would happily concede that to operating system makers and hardware manufacturers.

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Week 1: Ubuntu Unity instead of Windows 7 and ready to scream

I am on a two-week mission to see if I can fully replace Windows 7 with Ubuntu 11.10 for work.
Submitted by Source Seeker on Mon, 10/24/11 - 7:55pm.

It finally happened. At the end of my first week of using Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity, full-time, 8-10 hours a day for work, the system crashed. I fumbled a few keystrokes, hit some combination of keys and froze LibreOffice Writer. And the whole system locked up. This caps a week of chronic little struggles that have made me look longingly at my Windows 7 machine. But I've had some good moments, too.

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Mark's rating: 5

SuperTweet: Twitter without the OAuth hassle

By Mark Gibbs on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 11:00pm.

In 2008 (just as the U.S.

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Free Software Foundation petitions against Windows 8 secure boot

The Free Software Foundation is asking the public to sign a petition against the use of Secure UEFI boot in Windows 8 machines.
Submitted by Microsoft Subnet on Tue, 10/18/11 - 3:23pm.

The controversy over Microsoft's required use of a new secure boot specification continues to grow. The Free Software Foundation has stepped in, asking the public to sign a petition against Secure Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) if the PC manufacturer doesn't let the PC owner turn it off or install software on their machines such as wiping out Windows 8 in favor of Linux.

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Fedora 17 Recognized as Beefy Miracle

The voters have spoken and the next version of Fedora will be codenamed Beefy Miracle.
Submitted by Rikki Endsley on Mon, 10/10/11 - 10:56pm.

The past couple of weeks have been exciting over in the Fedora camp. Fedora 16 beta barely burst onto the scene when along came the codename announcement for the next release, Fedora 17, a.k.a Beefy Miracle.

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Watch Large Hadron Collider Collisions with an Android App

The Department of Physics at the University of Oxford releases super-cool, free Large Hadron Collider Google Android app.
Submitted by Rikki Endsley on Mon, 10/10/11 - 12:46pm.

If you have a phone or tablet that runs Google Android, you should check out the new LHSee app, released by the University of Oxford and available in the Android Market. Funded by the Science & Technology Facilities Council, the LHSee app delivers data from the ATLAS experiment at CERN directly to your handheld device.

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Mark's rating: 5

Putting the QNAP T-1079 Pro NAS to the test

By Mark Gibbs on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 11:00pm.

A couple of weeks ago I started trying to get a QNAP TS-1079 Pro network attached storage (NAS) device set up.

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