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Newsletter Archive: 2005
National Instruments Extends Linux Support
National Instruments announced last week the release of its newest line of virtual instrumentation tools for Linux OS, including the NI-DAQmx 8 driver software and new instrument drivers for modular instruments.

http://www.linuxdevelopernews.com/2005/1221.html
12.21.05
Symlinks
Linux "symlinks" is a handy utility for managing symbolic links. It can clean up the sort of problems that come from carelesness when creating symbolic links. For purposes of illustration, I created some legal but structurally...

http://www.linuxdevelopernews.com/2005/1130.html
11.30.05
Taskset For CPU Affinity
SMP operating systems have choices when it comes to scheduling processes: a new or newly rescheduled process can run on any available cpu.

http://www.linuxdevelopernews.com/2005/1025.html
10.25.05
Bash In-process Regular Expressions
Bash acquired in-process regular expressions in version 3.0, but I never noticed, probably because most of the machines I'm using are Bash 2.05b.

http://www.linuxdevelopernews.com/2005/0928.html
09.28.05
Linux Users Encouraged To Help Katrina Victims
A developer wants to organize a public "web station" effort to assist and connect Hurricane Katrina victims. DesktopLinux.com outlines a plan by Steve Hargadon to establish a number of Linux-based web stations to help people on the ground have access to disaster relief info and news via the Internet.

http://www.linuxdevelopernews.com/2005/0907.html
09.07.05
BlackDog – A Little Server With Bite
A Linux server that plugs into a system's USB port turns any machine into a Linux box, and fits in your hand.

http://www.linuxdevelopernews.com/2005/0816.html
08.16.05
Oracle Plugs Cluster Files System Into SUSE
Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server distribution will have the Oracle OCFS Release 2 on-board when it ships to customers.

http://www.linuxdevelopernews.com/2005/0812.html
08.12.05
Linux to land on government desktops
Following the lead of Sun Microsystems, Novell has launched an attempt to put Linux on the enterprise desktop, but the operating system is still struggling to get past the server-room door.

http://www.linuxdevelopernews.com/2005/0720.html
07.20.05
The first fully hosted AND supported mail solution
To be the best service company your organization has ever done business with. Other companies say support is a priority. Rackspace shows it. They are committed to providing the customer with amazing managed hosting services backed by a policy they call Fanatical Support™.

http://www.linuxdevelopernews.com/2005/0711.html
07.11.05
New server NIC for Linux boxes makes intriguing claims
Users looking to get more bandwidth out of Linux server connections may want to check out a new server adapter from start-up Level 5.

http://www.linuxdevelopernews.com/2005/0622.html
06.22.05
Linux sales help Oracle database catch IBM, Gartner finds
Oracle Corp. gained ground in the worldwide relational database market last year to draw roughly level with IBM, thanks in part to Oracle's strong performance in the fast-growing Linux segment, according to new figures from Gartner Inc.

http://www.linuxdevelopernews.com/2005/0525.html
05.25.05
Loadkeys, Dumpkeys
You can change the output of the console keyboard with loadkeys. It's an extremely powerful command, and the man page can be confusing, but for simple use (which is often all we need it for), it's very easy.

http://www.linuxdevelopernews.com/2005/0511.html
05.11.05
Geoffrey Moore: The Role Of Open Source Computing
I'm a little bit of a late arriver at this party. Personally, a late adopter. You want to catch up when you are late, but I don't think sobriety is your strongest suit. Want to talk about what you look like to someone coming late to the open source cultural, personal and technical movement. And why are we where we are now?

http://www.linuxdevelopernews.com/2005/0413.html
04.13.05
Controlling Linux Colors In Vi (vim)
Because of an old application that apparently partially looks at termcap and partially hard-codes terminal info, a customer has to set TERM=ansi when using Alphacom to access his Linux box.

http://www.linuxdevelopernews.com/2005/0316.html
03.16.05
Oracle Creates Linux Test Lab
Oracle announced the creation of a dedicated Linux Test Lab, providing a rigorous test environment to further the quality, stability and supportability of the operating system.

http://www.linuxdevelopernews.com/2005/0216.html
02.16.05
Transfer SCO Acucobol To Linux
This was an old DEC MP433 system with half a dozen small SCSI drives, and a 1 GB Tandberg tape drive, which had probably been running for 15 years or more. The root hard drive had apparently died. They had a backup of that, and emergency boot/root floppies, but no backups of the other drives. Fortunately all application data was on the other drives, so we had reasonable hope of recovering the system.

http://www.linuxdevelopernews.com/2005/0202.html
02.02.05

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