http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/10/ibm-and-ubuntu-roll-linux-for.html – IBM is joining the Linux bandwagon along with Dell. With the upcoming release of Windows 7 tomorrow (Oct. 22), IBM has started a campaign in the United States that it has already done in Africa – marketing desktop computers with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed instead of Microsoft Windows. They claim that Linux is a [...]
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PulseAudio creator talks about the future of Linux audio
http://tinyurl.com/yjrhjfm – In this article, PulseAudio (the newly adopted Linux sound subsystem and main facilitator of over-the-network sound in LTSP) creator Lennart Poettering responds to critics of PulseAudio and talks about the future of Linux sound. There are some interesting insights into how PA works with other older sound servers, applications that are unaware of [...]
OpenVPN and Gnome Network Manager
The open source world never ceases to amaze me. Tools emerge from the community that seemingly can do anything their commercial counterparts can, and usually better. There are sometimes a few kinks to iron out, and one of them I will address with this post. I use OpenVPN Zerina add-on ( http://www.zerina.de/zerina/ ) along with [...]
My little introduction into the Linux filesystem
The Linux filesystem hierarchy is much like Apple’s OSX® filesystem hierarchy, as both have roots with Unix filesystem concepts and practices. For system administrators that are used to Microsoft-based filesystems, the first difference you will notice is that there is a single root of the filesystem (expressed as ‘forward-slash’, or / ). The root is [...]
Network Bonding in Linux
Thanks to a good review over at http://www.howtoforge.com/network_bonding_ubuntu_6.10 , I learned how to set up network bonding in Linux. Network bonding is a great thing when you need load balancing (using 2 or more network interfaces as one to combine bandwidth) or fault tolerance (if one network interface/cable/etc. fails, the other takes over automatically). In [...]
LNS and Linux thin clients gaining momentum on the net
http://tinyurl.com/lyw3bm – It seems as though the Internet chatter is getting louder regarding how we implemented 7 successful Linux thin client labs in schools across Santa Rosa. The post (above) details and comments on the featured Linux.com article we got just a few weeks ago, wishing schools success and more deployments in the future. From [...]
LNS and RVUSD make front page of Linux.com!
It was to my utmost surprise that a phone conversation with a journalist at Linux.com a couple of weeks ago came to fruition as a front page featured article on the new Linux.com website – go on over and take a gander! http://tinyurl.com/mua3gb (URL converted to tinyurl.com – click and you’ll be sent to the [...]
Green Computers, Green Schools
By: Jordan Erickson Logical Networking Solutions — Part I: History When I was growing up, the student technology infrastructure at Spring Creek Elementary consisted of three Apple IIe computers in the main library, with dual floppy disk drives and green monochrome monitors. Every day, the same few kids, including me, gathered around them during recess [...]
Using Linux considered criminal activity?
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-commands-are-suspicious – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reports that Boston College Campus Police seized a computer science student’s personal belongings after simply sending an e-mail to a school mailing list. Reports of ‘suspicious’ computer activity involving the CS student using a “black screen with white font which he uses prompt commands on” are amongst the [...]
Peru orders 260,000 OLPC laptops for kids, Mexico 50,000
http://tinyurl.com/26wr8a – The mass-media sweetheart of the laptop sector, OLPC (or “One laptop per child”) has been getting a lot of attention lately. Peru recently signed up for 260,000 of the $188 laptops for its youth, and Mexico follows at 50,000. This is significant, as the “One-laptop-per-child” program only started mass production last month. The [...]