Dell's Subnotebook To Ship With Ubuntu

k33l0r writes "Dell's entry into the sub-notebook market, the Inspiron 910, will ship with Ubuntu preinstalled. This was confirmed this morning when Gizmodo published (leaked) specifications for the Inspiron 910." I hope that's not the final form of the keyboard, though -- lots of wasted space on each side.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Gaining RAM For Free, Through Software

wakaramon writes with a piece from IEEE Spectrum about an experimental approach to squeezing more usable storage out of a device's existing RAM; the researchers were using a Linux-based PDA as their testbed, and claim that their software "effectively gives an embedded system more than twice the memory it had originally — essentially for free." "Although the price of RAM has plummeted fast, the need for memory has expanded faster still. But if you could use data-compression software to control the way embedded systems store information in RAM, and do it in a way that didn't sap performance appreciably, the payoff would be enormous."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Assistance Needed Desperately!

Hi there,Let me make things simple........I want to dual boot Vista 32 bit with some version of Linux / Unix OS.Please recommend........Open SuSE 11, Fedora 9, Ubuntu etc etc 32 bit or 64 bit??My desktop is Sony Vaio VGC-LS1.Lap top Dell XPS 1710....

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Jailkit issue error:ldconfig can not open /etc/ld.so.conf

OS: Gnu/Linux Platform: x86Distro: Centos 5.1goal: SFTP with jailed users Ok when running jk_init /opt/jail sftp scp It gives me the error ldconfig can not open /etc/ld.so.confI looked at the files listed in ld.so.conf and it is a wildc...

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RHEL5 DNS

Hello! I have configured master DNS server(test.com) in RHEL5.I also added a host(www) for a website configured on a remote computer.Now website is being accessed from the DNS server.But the remote machine can't access the webpage(www.test.com).Pls h...

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Freespire Lives, Goes Back To Debian

nerdyH writes "Following Xandros's acquisition of Linspire, some feared for the future of Freespire, the free version of Linspire. However, Xandros today announced a new version of Freespire that will return the popular free Linux distro to its Debian-based roots."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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IBM Exec Bemoans Lack of Industry-Specific Linux Apps

Ian Lamont writes "Bob Sutor, IBM's vice president of open source and standards, used his keynote appearance at LinuxWorld to complain about the lack of industry-specific open source apps. Despite some encouraging signs in the educational field with Sakai, Sutor said that he was 'tired of waiting' for specialized applications to appear in other sectors, adding that the proliferation of different licenses — and changing legal requirements for using the same software over time — is holding some businesses back from using open source applications."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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What Will Linux Be Capable Of, 3 Years Down the Road?

An anonymous reader writes "In a prediction of the open-source future, InfoWeek speculates on What Linux Will Look Like In 2012. The most outlandish scenario foresees Linux forsaking its free usage model to embrace more paid distros where you get free Linux along with (much-needed) licenses to use patent-restricted codecs. Also predicted is an advance for the desktop based on — surprise — good acceptance for KDE 4. Finally, Linux is seen as making its biggest imprint not on the PC, but on mobile devices, eventually powering 40 million smartphones and netbooks. Do you agree? And what do you see for Linux in 4 years?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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How to find out whether a file is open or not by any other application/process

Hi,I have few files in a folder.Before deleting the folder i want to check whether there are any files in the folder which are opened by some application.Is there any function which can help me in this?i cannot use the "lsof" command.Thanks,Yogish.

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Paid Support Not Critical For Linux Adoption

ruphus13 writes "At the LinuxWorld expo, an analyst for the 451 Group pointed to a growing trend in enterprise — the increase in adoption of community-supported Linux distros. From the article, 'Companies are increasingly choosing free community-driven Linux distributions instead of commercial offerings with conventional support options. Several factors are driving this trend, particularly dissatisfaction with the cost of support services from the major distributors. Companies that use and deploy Linux internally increasingly have enough in-house expertise to handle all of their technical needs and no longer have to rely on Red Hat or Novell.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Installation Fails On Lenovo Desktop

We are facing a problem in installation of RHEL 5 in Lenovo Desktop Thinkcentre A60 (9631-A26).During installation, the system gives message: No hard drives found on your system. Thus installation gets aborted.The motherboard in this machine is hav...

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How to Install Software in Red hat linux 4

how to install Software  in  red Hat Linux 4

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