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In the video, Tridge demonstrates provisioning an Active Directory domain on a Samba server, running a development version of Samba from shortly before Samba 4 alpha 11. Once the Samba server is running, he then starts a copy of Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2 Standard as a guest under VirtualBox, and runs the Windows “dcpromo” [...]

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There has been an effort underway within the Debian development community to pull the FreeBSD kernel within this distribution to provide an alternative to using the Linux kernel. In essence with this Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project you have the standard Debian package set providing a GNU user-land with a GNU C library, but the FreeBSD kernel [...]

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To eliminate having to freeze the bleeding-edge Fedora Rawhide repository once the next release of this free software Linux distribution enters its own alpha/feature freeze, a new development branch has been created so that Rawhide can immediately begin hosting packaged for the next Fedora release. In other words, beginning next week once the Fedora Alpha [...]

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Skype 2.1 beta 1 for Linux finally gets an upgrade, version 2.1 beta 2 comes with a bunch of new features to boost the stagnant growth rate in which Skype for Linux finds its self.
The major feature here is certainly the addition of Screen Sharing, a feature long present in the Windows and Mac versions [...]

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Man Takes Pi-Calculating Record From Supercomputer with Core i7 Desktop: His operating system of choice was the 64-bit version of Red Hat Fedora 10, along with a software RAID-0 and ext4 file system.

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For those living under a rock, GIMP is an awesome open source image editor but one of the things that people found really annoying about GIMP in the past was that it doesn’t come in a single window. It has 2 or 3 separate windows which makes it hard for people to move it around [...]

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From the Chinese pirate masters of the non-sea-faring variety comes… Ylmf OS! Not happy with pirating Windows XP itself, these creative Chinese have gone one step further and hacked Ubuntu to look exactly like Windows XP. Why have they moved to Ubuntu? Because their previous release, a pirate version of Windows XP itself, is being [...]

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An anonymous reader said a Best Buy manager refused to replace his broken laptop and threw him out of the store twice when he tried to argue. The reader had even gone so far as to purchase an $80 extended warranty. He writes…
I’ve seen examples of Best Buy’s poor service on the Consumerist, but what [...]

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How do you hotplug a CPU on a running Linux system? Would you like to dynamically enable or disable a CPU on a running system?
Linux kernel does supports cpu-hotplug mechanism. You can enable or disable CPU without a system reboot. CPU hotplug is not just useful to replace defective components it can also be applied [...]

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Adobe are to release a new version of their native 64-bit Flash plug-in for Linux on the 8th of December.
Posting on the “Flash 10 Player” page for Linux 64-bit, Adobe made the following statement…

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Good thing the PlayStation 3 dropped in price. The US Department of Defense ordered 2,200 more of the consoles to crank up their PS3 supercomputer, currently consisting of 336 of the devices in a Linux cluster. According to the official Justification Review Document (cache link) required for the purchase of the PS3s, the game platform, [...]

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The Fedora Project, a Red Hat, Inc. sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 12, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution. Fedora 12 includes a robust feature set for desktop users, administrators, developers and open source enthusiasts alike. New enhancements available in Fedora 12 include [...]

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The Cray XT5 supercomputer known as “Jaguar” has finally clawed its way to the title of fastest computer in the world.
Sitting back at No. 2 on the Top500 list of supercomputers for more than a year, Jaguar overtook IBM’s “Roadrunner” according to the twice-yearly list that will be unveiled Tuesday at the SC09 Conference in [...]

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Hulu has taken their designed-for-widescreen, remote-friendly Desktop viewer and released it for Linux-powered systems, giving anyone with an open-source media center or Linux laptop an easier way to watch streaming video clips and movies on their much bigger screen.
From the looks of it, the Linux version looks and acts exactly like its Mac and Windows [...]

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Question: How do I Move or migrate user accounts to from old Linux server a new Cent OS Linux server including mails? This new system a fresh installation.
Answer: You can migrate users from old Linux server to new Linux sever with standard commands such as tar, awk, scp and others. This is also useful if [...]

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Bad guys have created a botnet of Linux Web servers. In a way, that’s even more frightening than regular botnets of compromised Windows PCs. Bloggers ask if this is the end for Linux’s claim to be more secure than Windows; or is it just a load of old hokum?
Your humble blogwatcher selected these bloggy morsels [...]

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