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- Open Source Software Developers Make More Money
If you know open source based application development, you can make more money. A report from New York City-based consulting company Bluewolf says IT salaries across the board will continue to rise in 2008:
The rise of open source software in application development puts developers with a specialization in those technologies in a position to ask [...] - Linux Lighttpd Configure ASP.NET Applications as FastCGI Mono Server
Mono project offers .NET compatible set of tools, including among others a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime. It runs on Linux, *BSD, Windows and other operating systems. From the article:
The FastCGI Mono Server was developed as part of the 2007 Google Summer of Code (http://code.google.com/soc/2007/) with the goal of increasing the availablity of [...] - How to: Upgrade Fedora Linux From 32-bit System to 64-bit Version w/o Reinstalling Server
This small guide may come handy…
From the article:
One great thing about Linux is that you can transplant a hard disk from a machine that runs a 32-bit AMD XP processor into a new 64-bit Intel Core 2 machine, and the Linux installation will continue to work. However, if you do this, you’ll be running a [...] - Programming: Understanding Linux Completely Fair Scheduler
The new Linux scheduler extends scheduling capabilities by introducing scheduling classes and also simplifies debugging by improving schedule statistics. Completely Fair Scheduler (CFS) is getting good reviews when tested for thread-intensive applications including 3D games. CFS handles CPU resource allocation for executing processes, and aims to maximize overall CPU utilization while maximizing interactive performance. CFS [...]
- Video: History of GNU, Linux and Free Software Movements
This is an interesting documentary video which traces the history of GNU, Linux, and the open source and free software movements. It features several interviews with prominent hackers and entrepreneurs (and hackers-cum-entrepreneurs), including Richard Stallman, Michael Tiemann, Linus Torvalds, Larry Augustin, Eric S. Raymond, Bruce Perens, Frank Hecker and Brian Behlendorf.
The film begins in medias [...] - Download of the day: PowerTOP ~ Save and Extend Linux Laptop Battery
Powertop is Linux tool to find out what is using power on a laptop. This program only works on Intel based laptops. It is very good software to extend Laptop battery life time. I’ve tested this software with following Intel based laptops:
=> My Sony VAIO Laptop
=> My Dell 6400 Laptop
=> My office HP / [...] - Coverity Scan: Security Holes Found in Open Source Projects
Coverity is a company that creates tools for software development. Its premiere product is Prevent, a static-analysis code inspection tool. Coverity offers the results of Prevent’s analysis for free to open source developers.
From the project home page:
In collaboration with Stanford University, Coverity is establishing a new baseline for software quality and security in open [...] - GPL v2.0 is Perfect for Linux - Says Linus Torvalds
Linux creator Linus Torvalds, in an interview being made public by the Linux Foundation Tuesday, stressed that version 2 of the GPL (GNU General Public License) still makes the most sense for the Linux kernel over the newer GPL version 3. Among GPL 3 highlights are protections against patent infringement lawsuits and provisions for license [...]
- Get Free Interactive Shell Access to Linux / BSD and UNIX Like Operating Systems
From my mail bag:
Where can I get free interactive access to HP-UX or Linux distro or UNIX shell access?
You can simply grab and try out any Linux / BSD / Solaris Live CD. However, some time you cannot install and use particular UNIX like os. So, if you want to try the latest technologies over [...] - Happy 20th Birthday Perl!
Perl is a dynamic programming language created by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. Perl is used in many sys admin and web related projects. Perl 1 was released to the public by Larry Wall 20 years ago today. Perl 5.10 isn’t just a bug fix version: it’s full of new features that I’m [...]
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