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KDE Performance Tips Updated

  • KDE Dot News (Posted by dave on Oct 18, 2004 5:00 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
Many aspects of KDE performance depend on the underlying system or the user's configuration. The KDE Performance Tips document, which lists some of the performance related issues together with instructions how to avoid or fix the problems, has been updated with new tips. If you would like to add new tips to this page, update the ones already listed, or discuss them, please use the kde-optimize@kde.org mailing list. Note that this list is for working on optimizing KDE -- not for complaining.

Trickle of interest in Linux starts to become a corporate flood

By this time next year you may well be using a Linux desktop at work. It may not be a choice you make but one that is made for you by managers concerned at cost and security issues associated with the Microsoft Windows platform.

Red Hat Hires Sun VP To Focus On Desktop Strategy

Combined with recent Netscape app purchases, hire gets Linux provider closer to integrating desktops with network services.

Q&A: Red Hat exec talks of challenges to open source

  • InfoWorld: Platforms (Posted by dave on Oct 18, 2004 12:44 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Interview; Groups: Red Hat
The biggest challenge for the open source community is that there are too few open source developers, according to Michael Tiemann, vice president of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat Inc.

JBoss takes on business process management

  • InfoWorld: Platforms (Posted by dave on Oct 18, 2004 10:56 AM EDT)
  • Groups: JBoss; Story Type: News Story
JBoss Inc. has added business process management (BPM) to its growing roster of open source software.

IPac created to lobby for sensible intellectual property policy

  • NewsForge (Posted by dave on Oct 18, 2004 10:30 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Over the past few years, intellectual property policy in the U.S. has shifted dramatically in favor of business at the expense of the public interest. Software patents, automatic copyright extensions that can last as long as Congress wants them to last, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act have all become policy with very little opposition from either Democrats or Republicans. A new political action committee, IPac, hopes to change that by giving a voice to the public interest.

Inspired by Linux

If it isn't right to judge a book by its cover, then perhaps it isn't right to judge a Linux destro [sic] by its name. Ever since I first heard of LindowsOS, I was extremely skeptical about the direction of this distribution. I even snubbed the idea of trying it out, thinking that it would be too dumbed-down and tainted to even consider it Linux. I stand before you a man of significantly changed opinion. After spending a week with Linspire 4.5 on my new Northgate Athlon from Staples, I now strongly believe that Linspire 4.5 is likely the best Linux distribution on the market. Of course, every Linux distribution focuses on a particular audience, and by no means is Linspire right for every Linux user, but it fills many voids that I have expressed in my four years of using Linux.

Open Pawn Project: Something new under the sun

As many as three-quarters of all Linux desktop systems use KDE as their primary desktop. While the GNOME desktop has made great strides over the last few years, KDE is clearly the more stable and mature choice for business users.

Sharp adds hard disk to its Linux PDA

  • PC World Magazine; By Paul Kallender (Posted by dave on Oct 18, 2004 8:55 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Sharp has added a hard-disk drive to its latest Zaurus PDA (personal digital assistant), and is considering selling the Linux operating system-based device abroad, the company said Friday.

Linux, remember your training

  • Search Enterprise Linux (Posted by dave on Oct 18, 2004 7:51 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: IBM
For Linux and open source to succeed in the enterprise, it could all come down to a matter of proper planning and competent training. John Horn, CEO of Kansas City, Mo.-based Interstate Software, said both of these components are necessary if an enterprise is considering open source technologies in areas such as the desktop, database and server.

Matrix's Red Hat Linux sales soar tenfold

Matrix, which locally [in Israel] sells the Red Hat Linux infrastructure, has reported that its Linux sales reached NIS 1 million in the third quarter - a 10-fold increase on the second quarter, when it began its operations.

The Kiwi behind Firefox

Ben Goodger is the lead engineer for the open-source browser Firefox, which has been gaining in popularity in a market overwhelmingly dominated by Microsoft. He talks about Firefox's history, and how he sees it competing with Longhorn.

Open source products grab corporate attention

  • Network World on Linux; By Jennifer Mears (Posted by dave on Oct 18, 2004 6:46 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: JBoss, MySQL
When the Internet travel market began to kick into high gear in 2002, National Leisure Group, which sells vacation packages through sites such as Orbitz and Priceline.com, knew it had to step its services up a notch. It embarked on a project to create an online system that could put together custom vacations for prospective customers in minutes.

Linux-based visual computing system

SGI has released the Silicon Graphics Prism Linux-based visual computer product line. Applications include cancer research, disaster preparedness, oil exploration and car safety analysis.

BMW dealer upgrades from Windows to Linux

Town and Country BMW, located in Markham, Ontario, used to rely on a variety of Microsoft products for its information technology infrastructure. Now the auto dealership, with the help of an IT outsourcing consultant, has slipped a Linux appliance into the mix that has eliminated difficulties with viruses, incompatibility, and security.

Build a network router on Linux

  • IBM developerWorks (Posted by VISITOR on Oct 18, 2004 6:03 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Zebra is open source TCP/IP routing software that is similar to Cisco's Internetworking Operating System (IOS). Flexible and powerful, it can handle routing protocols such as Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and all of their various flavors. This article shows how to set up Zebra and use it to manage routes dynamically in conjunction with real Cisco hardware.

Confessions of a recent Linux convert

Few organisations are able to upgrade all their equipment to keep up with new versions of Microsoft Windows. Certainly not cash-constrained think-tanks. We would initially run old versions of Windows and ignore the new ones. Soon, we were not able to read documents that came in from colleagues abroad. It wasn’t a pleasant experience.

Linux wants to earn your trust

  • FCW.com; By Michael Hardy (Posted by dave on Oct 18, 2004 5:21 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Trusted Computer Solutions (TCS) Inc. officials are developing Trusted Linux, a highly secure version of Linux that will rival Unix in environments in which security is the highest priority. The operating system will provide a platform for TCS applications.

Red Hat promotes embedded Linux

Red Hat has launched a programme to support embedded deployments of its Enterprise Linux product. This is the latest move in the company's turn-around over embedded Linux: earlier this year it announced a deal with Wind River, a vendor of embedded software, to jointly develop an embedded variant of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Ubuntu: What's the deal?

It seems that you can't find a review that doesn't sing the praises of this new Linux distribution. What's the deal? Can a new distro really be this hot? At OSDir, we've put together 140+ screenshots of Ubuntu's last week release (4.10 RC) to let you be the judge.

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