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My latest article “Comparing Linux USB flash disk distros” has been published on Linux.com.
In the article I review the mini-distros DSL and PuppyLinux and also the full desktop distributions PendriveLinux, Ubuntu and Mandriva Flash.
I also posted a comment/update with a quick look at Fedora 9 USB Live.
You can read the review here.
This week we take a look at the all-time favorite articles ever featured on LinuxJournal.com. We’ll feature the top 25 in this series, presenting you with five each day this week. These 25 articles alone represent tens of millions of page views on LinuxJournal.com. Here we go…21 - 25
MacUpdate has partnered with 10 Mac developers to bring us the MacUpdate Parallels bundle.
The Deal: When you purchase bundles now, you’ll be the immediate owner of Hazel, Art Text, MenuCalendarClock, Leap, StoryMill, Typinator and DVDRemaster Pro. Then when the Mac community spreads the word and reaches 5,000 bundles sold, Sound Studio will be unlocked into the bundle for free. People that purchase the bundle before each unlock milestone will have the unlocked products automatically added to their accounts for free. Because of the superb success of the Mac community in the last 2 bundles, we fully expect to reach all 3 unlock milestones during the 2-week span of this event.
1,135 bundles had been sold at the time of writing and there are 12 days left…
A friend of mine and I have team up together to write some video projection software for use in churches during their worship times. The current most popular package costs over $400 and the freeware alternatives are lacking in several areas, so we are writing our own.
It isn’t complete yet but the link to the fledgling web site is: SundayWorship.NET
What this space!
Gary
MonoDevelop was recently released and I thought to try it on my CentOS 5 workstation… According to the Mono web site the prefered method for installing Mono on RedHat is to use yum. Once yum is installed, putting a mono.repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d will allow you to install mono and related packages.
BUT this is for RHEL 4 not RHEL 5 (and therefore CentOS 5)… If you try it you will get dependency errors. For CentOS 5 the best solution is to add the following mono.repo file to your /etc/yum.repos.d
[Mono]
name=Mono Stack (RHEL_5)
type=rpm-md
baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Mono/RHEL_5/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Mono/RHEL_5/repodata/repomd.xml.key
enabled=1
It works great!
I found the file at: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Mono/RHEL_5/
Gary
Linux is being used to power PayPal’s entire electronic payment processing system.Their Linux system is currently processing $1,571 worth of transactions per second in 17 different currencies. But know-it-all web user knows better, told to apply for job at PayPal.
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I have had another article published by the folks over at Linux.com. This one is about using Swap Space with Linux. It has some techniques that may help you better manage swapping on Linux systems and get the best performance from the Linux swapping subsystem.
Read it here: Linux Swap Space
I have started another blog over at tumblr.com, I only just found out about tumblr (I know, where have I been living under a rock) but I really like their interface!
Here is the URL: http://garysims.tumblr.com/
The BBC have reported that a British schoolteacher has been arrested in Sudan accused of insulting Islam’s Prophet, after she allowed her pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Apparently this isn’t an insult because it was a teddy bear called Muhammad but rather that it is seen as an insult to Islam to attempt to make an image of the Prophet Muhammad.
The ironic thing is that it was the children in here class which voted for the name out of a list including Abdullah and Hassan. Twenty out of the 23 children chose Muhammad as their favourite name.
Can anyone with a rational mind imagine that Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was actually trying to make an image or icon of Muhammad!!!! I don’t.
Francois Bancilhon has all but accused Microsoft of dirty tactics in an open letter to Steve Ballmer concerning a Mandriva contract with the Nigerian government. Francois then asks Steve “What have you done to these guys to make them change their mind like this?” Attached comments imply that Microsoft paid them to switch to Windows.
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