http://linuxblogonline.org Linux/Unix blog Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:02:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mobile connections and faster boot times are the top priorities for the release of Ubuntu 8.10 With the release of Ubuntu Linux 8.10, codenamed Intrepid Ibex, just a few months away the development team has released details of the most pressing issues for the final release. Among these are better 3G ... http://linuxblogonline.org/archives/58 In this post, we will share how we can: 1) Synchronize Ipod Touch on Linux in General and Ubuntu in particular 2) Synchronize Iphone Touch on Linux in General and Ubuntu in particular 3) How to Sync your itouch over Wifi (what I call Sync Ipod touch over the Air) Pre-requests: 1) Jail Borken Ipod ... http://linuxblogonline.org/archives/57 So you thought Linux was the key to the Eee PC's success? Not so, according to ASUS. "The bulk of the requests and requirements we see in the marketplace are for the model with Windows rather than Linux," says Henry Lee, Acer's senior product manager. "It's a give and take ... http://linuxblogonline.org/archives/56 Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 2.6.26 yesterday on the Linux kernel mailing list. This release, which has been under development for about 3 months, comes after 9 release candidates.Major changes in this release are support for read-only bind mounts, KVM on additional architectures, wireless mesh networking (802.11s), x86 ... http://linuxblogonline.org/archives/55 While Wikipedia isn?t likely to lose its status as the first place people look for quick answers anytime soon, there are loads of other sites out there that can provide you with information, some of which may even be better and more accurate. Whether you?re researching for a paper or ... http://linuxblogonline.org/archives/54 Thanks largely to the Olympics, 2008 will go down in history as a turning point year for China -- or, rather, one when the country passed several milestones. It'll be remembered as a turning point year in Chinese sports history, due to the country getting its first chance to host ... http://linuxblogonline.org/archives/53 Once you've installed MySQL (from either a binary or source distribution), you need to initialise the grant tables, start the server, and make sure that the server works okay. http://linuxblogonline.org/archives/52 Gather around, children, and I shall tell you about a fantastical story about a dreaded horror! It is a brown horror, that can only be refferred to as a single word: Ubuntu. It happened not but five years ago. A young white African man named Mark "White Rhino" Shuttleworth visited the ... http://linuxblogonline.org/archives/51 Well, as we mentioned over on the Jazz Team Blog, my Jazz teammates and I just shipped Rational Team Concert 1.0, the first GA product built on the Jazz Platform. More on that later. Since I?ve been working on what became Rational Team Concert for the last three years, I?ve gotten ... http://linuxblogonline.org/archives/50 One of the perennial jibes about open source is that it never innovates. This conveniently forgets that the World Wide Web was released as free software (Tim Berners-Lee contemplated using the GNU GPL before he decided to release it into the public domain). Despite the ludicrousness of the accusation, ... http://linuxblogonline.org/archives/49