http://linuxtoday.com en-us Linux Today News Service http://linuxtoday.com/pics/ltnet.png http://linuxtoday.com Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:30:12 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-20-005-35-OS-DB-SW <b>HowtoForge:</b> "This how-to describes how to install and configure Dansguardian with multi-group filtering, Squid with NTLM auth, ipmasq, and dnsmasq to provide a full internet gateway solution for small to medium sized networks. This how-to requires two NICs in order to preform firewalling and transparent proxying." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-20-005-35-OS-DB-SW Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:30:12 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-20-006-35-OS-HL-SW <b>HowtoForge:</b> "Another howto by me concerning encryption. However this one will be pretty intense on graphics. I have a step-by-step guide on how to do a manual full encryption of the system." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-20-006-35-OS-HL-SW Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:30:12 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-20-004-35-OP-SW-LL <b>ITPro:</b> "Is Linux the disruptive technology, or is it the GNU General Public License which really shook up the open source world?" http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-20-004-35-OP-SW-LL Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:30:12 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-20-003-35-IN-HW <b>ChannelWeb:</b> "Hector Ruiz is out as chief executive at Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE:AMD) as the struggling chip maker on Thursday reported its seventh consecutive quarter in the red to the tune of a $1.19 billion loss in the second quarter of this year. Dirk Meyer, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD's president and chief operating officer, has been elected by AMD's board to replace Ruiz as CEO, according to the company." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-20-003-35-IN-HW Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:30:12 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-20-003-35-NW-SW <b>Packt:</b> "The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) that have been selected by a panel of judges and visitors to www.PacktPub.com. Now entering its third year, the Award has established itself as an important measure for quality and the popularity of Open Source Content Management Systems." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-20-003-35-NW-SW Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:30:49 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-19-007-35-OS-SV <b<HowtoForge:</b> "This document describes how to install a Proftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota with this setup." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-19-007-35-OS-SV Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:30:49 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-19-006-35-NW-SV-SW <b>MSPmentor:</b> "When it comes to hosted email, why zig when you can zag? That explains the strategy at EtomicMail, a managed service provider that&#8217;s hosting Zimbra &#8212; an open source email platform &#8212; rather than Microsoft Exchange." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-19-006-35-NW-SV-SW Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:26:40 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-19-008-35-OS-CY <b>LinuxInsider:</b> "WebAnywhere is an open source, Web-based application that acts as a screen reader of sorts for blind people. Its developer, a student at the University of Washington, designed it so that blind people can access public computers for important information." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-19-008-35-OS-CY Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:30:49 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-19-005-35-OS-SW-DV <b>The Linux and Unix Menagerie:</b> "As promised, in yesterday's post on converting binary values to decimal in C, today we're going to follow up with straight-up ports to Perl and shell. Actually, they'll be slightly different. If you check yesterday's post, for some reason I left in a variable called "difference" which was a part of the code I mentioned that I had originally written to pad 0's on the left hand side of a binary number less than 8 digits." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-19-005-35-OS-SW-DV Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:30:49 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-19-004-35-OS-DV <b>IBM Developerworks:</b> "E4X is designed to simplify the task of writing JavaScript code for XML. It is an efficient, powerful tool that you can use to interact with XML nodes and attributes. The primary objective of E4X is to give JavaScript developers a straightforward and efficient way to manipulate an XML document without relying on the Document Object Model (DOM)." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-19-004-35-OS-DV Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:30:49 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-19-004-35-RV-HW-SW <b>Phoronix:</b> "Over the weekend the Linux 2.6.26 kernel was released. This quarterly update to the Linux kernel introduced Kernel-based Virtual Machine improvements, new One Laptop Per Child support, a new video web camera driver, updates to the Direct Rendering Manager, and other improvements. In this article we have done some quick benchmarks of this new kernel from within the Phoronix Test Suite." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-19-004-35-RV-HW-SW Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:00:49 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-19-003-35-OP-CY-DT <b>CoolTechZone:</b> " As many of the pre-installed distro options showing up in the big box stores have shown us, in this country, for non-geeks, Linux adoption means coming off the high horse and joining the bottled water crowd." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-19-003-35-OP-CY-DT Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:30:49 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-19-003-35-NW-NT <b>InternetNews:</b> "At the heart of every networking device is an operating system that enables traffic flow. In the case of networking vendor Juniper, that operating system for the past ten years has been JUNOS, a network operating system with its roots in the open source FreeBSD operating system." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-19-003-35-NW-NT Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:30:49 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-18-026-35-OP-DT-SV <b> PC World:</b> "Computer World's Steve J. Vaughan-Nichols makes that claim in 'Linux Will Save Us'. The title almost has religious overtones...Whether it's iPhones, Linux vs. Microsoft, or Macs vs. PCs, there's always a group who are so overly passionate about their favorite hammer that everything else looks like a nail." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-18-026-35-OP-DT-SV Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:50:11 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-18-025-35-OP-CY Brian Proffitt moves on, Carla Schroder moves in, and how on Earth did it all happen? http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-07-18-025-35-OP-CY