What Is Free Software? A Reply From The Source
A few days ago I had the honour of hosting in my Rome apartment, freedom activist and hacker Richard Stallman, a near-like mythological figure in the world of computing, hacking and a pioneer…
Recover Data From a dead hard drive using ddrescue
Like dd, dd_rescue does copy data from one file or block device to another.dd_rescue is a tool to help you to save data from crashed partition. It tries to read and if it fails, it will go on with…
Fedora Core 6 (Zod) Released
The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora Core 6 (Zod). Install-time access to third-party package repositories, extensive performance improvements, support for Intel-based…
City of Chicago reducing costs by more than 85 percent with Red Hat
The City of Chicago migrated to Red Hat in order to reduce costs and improve support, performance and scalability. The city has already saved more than $250,000, and is reducing server hardware,…
SuSE Linux ThinkPad targets chip designers
Lenovo Group will immediately begin selling and supporting a high-end model of its ThinkPad laptop with Novell's latest desktop version of SUSE Linux installed, the two companies announced…
UbuntuWorld 2007 in the USA?
From the founder of Ubuntu project: Now we’re thinking of having a "user and business" conference, aimed at bringing together the people who deploy and manage Ubuntu in the real world (well, in…
Garnett invests in mobile firm
Garnett & Helfrich Capital, a private equity firm specialising in venture buyouts, has said that it is expanding its Indian operations and announced an investment in mobile firm Celunite Inc,…
Critical Linux security API is still a kludge
The talk lately has centred about Vista's security APIs, but Linux certainly needs improvements in this area, because AV vendors still rely on an external kernel module to implement "real time"…
Munich Linux scales desktop management
The City of Munich has developed impressive systems for rolling out and maintaining Linux desktops for large numbers of users, according to a British developer who had a close-up view of the…
Red Hat brushes off Oracle Linux rumors
Red Hat Inc has waved away the implications of a potential move by Oracle Corp into the Linux distribution business, maintaining that it is not overly concerned by the possibility.
"Oracle…