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VLANs on Linux
via LXer Linux News by Carla Schroder on January 29, 2008
One thing that did not make it into the Linux Networking Cookbook was a chapter on setting up VLANs (Virtual LANs). VLANs are logical subnetting, rather than being constrained by your physical Ethernet switches. Now that “smart” switches have gotten so inexpensive, VLANs are nice options even for small networks.
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Backing up in Linux is Finally Made Simple with TimeVault
via LXer Linux News by (author unknown) on February 10, 2008
File backups are a key element for every user and on every computer. Whether it be an office setting or a home desktop machine, backups are essential - your hard drive will fail at some point; you will need a backup, and you'll be kicking yourself if you learn this lesson the hard way. Linux users have usually resorted to CRON and Rsync to manage their backups - until now. TimeVault finally...
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Backing up in Linux is Finally Made Simple with TimeVault
via LXer Linux News by (author unknown) on February 10, 2008
File backups are a key element for every user and on every computer. Whether it be an office setting or a home desktop machine, backups are essential - your hard drive will fail at some point; you will need a backup, and you'll be kicking yourself if you learn this lesson the hard way. Linux users have usually resorted to CRON and Rsync to manage their backups - until now. TimeVault finally...
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Make SSH So Much Easier With SSHMenu For the GNOME Panel
via LXer Linux News by Mary Riley on February 10, 2008
SSHMenu is a panel applet for GNOME that allows users to connect to remote computers over SSH with a single click. The menu looks incredibly similar to the GNOME Applications menu, and it is fully customizable. The interface allows you to add seperators, submenus, and new entries really easy.
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The Fundamentals of Eclipse Plug-In Development
via LXer Linux News by Chris Aniszczyk on February 14, 2008
Plug-in development in Eclipse is somewhat of an art form. If you're new to the concept of plug-ins it can be quite burdensome learning the myriad tools Eclipse has to help you write plug-ins. The purpose of this article is to help you learn some basic plug-in development skills with some best practices sprinkled in for good measure.
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The £99 ($200) Elonex One Laptop in the UK
via LXer Linux News by Mark Harris on February 17, 2008
A new laptop computer for just £99 sounds like the kind of offer found in a spam e-mail or on a dodgy auction website. But the British company Elonex is launching the country’s first sub £100 computer later this month and hopes to be making 200,000 of them by the summer. It will be aimed at schoolchildren and teenagers, and looks set to throw the market for budget laptops wide open.
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Kernel Evolution
via LXer Linux News by (author unknown) on February 19, 2008
"To quote you a number of years ago: 'Linux is evolution, not intelligent design'," noted Greg KH, quoting Linux creator Linus Torvalds. Linus expanded on the statement, "evolution often does odd (and 'suboptimal') things exactly because it does incremental changes that DO NOT BREAK at any point." He continued, "in other words, exactly *because* evolution requires...
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Adobe AIR on Linux: Pre-Beta Testers Needed
via LXer Linux News by James Ward on February 21, 2008
Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime for delivering rich Internet applications on the desktop. Developers using Flex, Flash, HTML, JavaScript, and Ajax can easily build applications for the desktop using Adobe AIR. As of today there have only been releases of Adobe AIR for Windows and Mac but Adobe is committed to also delivering a version for Linux. The Adobe AIR team is now in the...
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KDE 4 Tour: digiKam 0.10
via LXer Linux News by Bastion on February 27, 2008
digiKam 0.10 is not only a port of the application to KDE 4. It also brings a few new features, including 'Timeline' applet. PolishLinux.org has a screenshot tour.
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Interview with PHP Expert Ivo Jansch
via LXer Linux News by Glyn Moody on February 27, 2008
One of the leading PHP experts is the Netherlands-based Ivo Jansch, Technical Director and CTO of the specialist PHP and Zend company Ibuildings. Here he talks here about his initial scepticism when confronted with open source, what he views as the strengths – and weaknesses – of PHP, and how he would like to see it evolve.
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