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Linux Starter Pack: The Beginners Guide to All Things Open Source

Are you new to the wonderful world of Linux? Or are you looking for an easy way to get started? We’ll you’re lucky since TuxRadar made a complete 130-page Linux Starter Pack to get grips with the OS in hours rather than weeks or months.
 
According to TuxRadar, a sister site of the popular UK-based [...]

SheevaPlug: A $100 Linux wall-wart like appliance

Marvell Semiconductor is shipping a hardware/software development kit suitable for always-on home automation devices and service gateways. Resembling a "wall-wart" power adapter, the SheevaPlug draws 5 Watts, comes with Linux, and boasts completely open hardware and software designs, Marvell says.

Designed from the ground up to simplify the management of digital media assets, the Marvell plug [...]

ARM enters the Netbook market, demo’s slim Linux low-power prototypes

The UK chip company ARM is preparing to make its move into the netbook market. It has shown off a few prototype designs that really show off the benefits of using the ARM platform.
Some of the major plus points of the ARM platform are

passive cooling thereby eliminating the need for fans,
enabling ARM Netbook to [...]

Nokia N810: Linux powered Internet Tablet (3rd Gen)

Everybody is talking about iPhone nowadays, with its sleek and smooth UI. It is such a cool phone….but not perfect. Limited applications, no 3G, disappearing SMS are some of its shortcomings. Let Apple kink out the details and wait for the 2nd Gen, for now I’m eyeing for the Nokia N810. A nice companion for [...]

More on SSH passwordless login (using RSA/DSA key)

After experimenting with my Nokia E61 and putty, I just found out a better way to add the public key to remote servers. This assume that you’re using a linux box as a client.
On your local computer, type:
$ssh-keygen -t rsa
Note: Just press “enter” for every question for truly passwordless login
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file [...]

Ubuntu 7.10 a.k.a Gutsy Gibbon on Asus W3J

had a hard time installing Gutsy on my W3J but my persistent paid off,
I used the official driver from AMD/ATI and by using this easy to follow guide here: http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Gutsy_Installation_Guide

Linux-friendly Minimart using Linux POS in Phuket Thailand

I was reading my backlog mails including my PLUG subscription when I stumbled upon a topic that was discuss recently. Someone mentioned that a chain of popular grocery store in the Philippines had migrated to a Linux-based POS when their license agreement has expired.
I remembered to have seen a Linux-based POS in one of [...]

Monitoring UNIX Application Performance

Application Monitoring is a very important aspect of a project. Unfortunately, not much attention is being is paid to develop an effective monitoring while the project is not live. Once the project is live, the lack of proper monitoring factors in terms of downtime when the support person is not aware if application [...]

How to Monitor the health of your shared hosting server

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So you got yourself a shiny new web hosting package. In today’s rate, multi-gigabyte storage space and multi-terabyte network traffic is very much affordable.
The thing with this packages is that they are shared-hosting meaning you shared the same physical server with other clients. The ratio of user’s [...]

Singapore Ubuntu mirror

I was surprised that there is no available Singapore download mirror for Ubuntu as shown here http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download:
 
If you’re in Asia, you can include the FTP server of National University of Singapore (NUS)ftp://ftp.science.nus.edu.sg/pub/ as your download source.
They also host other Linux distros as well as CPAN.

 
Update:
I got an email from Ang Kah Yik that the [...]