This is an interesting feature in Webmin that provides a way to monitor daemons on the server and notify administrators of down services. Webmin attempts to implement many of the standard functions of the more full featured Nagios. You can create custom notifications and get notified via email, SMS or a pager.
http://beginlinux.com/server/web-server/monitoring-servers-with-webmin
http://beginlinux.com/server/web-server/monitoring-servers-with-webmin
The latest version of Ubuntu Tweak is available with added support for the new Unity web apps feature. Ubuntu Tweak 0.8.2 brings improved support for Ubuntu 12.10.
http://linuxlibrary.org/ubuntu-tweak-0-8-2-ready-for-12-10/
http://linuxlibrary.org/ubuntu-tweak-0-8-2-ready-for-12-10/
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Subject: India gives Android-based educational tablet another go
India's president Shri Pranab Mukherjee has introduced Aakash 2.0, the more powerful successor to last year's tablet that failed to establish itself
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/India-gives-Android-based-educational-tablet-another-go-1748359.html/from/rss
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/India-gives-Android-based-educational-tablet-another-go-1748359.html/from/rss
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Subject: How Lightworks Falsely Rides Open Source Publicity Train
2 years ago, Lightworks made a promise to the open source community. A promise that has made them darlings of the open source spotlight.
http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/11/how-lightworks-falsely-rides-open-source-publicity-train/
http://www.thepowerbase.com/2012/11/how-lightworks-falsely-rides-open-source-publicity-train/
Nadia, Linux Mint 14, is getting close to a full release as the RC is released today with plenty of updates
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/linux-mint-14-release-candidate
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/linux-mint-14-release-candidate
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Subject: Oracle releases Git repository with RHEL changes
Oracle's RedPatch is a public Git repository that provides the source code to the individual patches Red Hat has included in its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-releases-Git-repository-with-RHEL-changes-1748030.html/from/rss
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-releases-Git-repository-with-RHEL-changes-1748030.html/from/rss
Forget Drupal, WordPress and Rails: nanoc compiles your documents into a static website
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/tutorials/create-a-powerful-static-website-with-nanoc
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/tutorials/create-a-powerful-static-website-with-nanoc
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Subject: Gather crowdsourced public input with Shareabouts app
As stressful as elections can be, they always bring a welcome surge of patriotism. United States citizens have a lot of opinions about their government, and election time is a good reminder that actually vollunteering time and resources is the best way to facilitate real change. Luckily we live in the 21st century, and collaborating to make change has never been easier. Apps like Shareabouts make it simple to get involved and do your part to make our cities great.
http://opensource.com/government/12/11/gather-crowdsourced-public-input-shareabouts-app
http://opensource.com/government/12/11/gather-crowdsourced-public-input-shareabouts-app
High-energy physics experiments tend to generate huge amounts ofdata. While this data is passed through analysis software, very oftenthe first thing you may want to do is to graph it and see what itactually looks like. To this end, a powerful graphing and plotting programis an absolute must.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/extreme-graphics-extrema
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/extreme-graphics-extrema
The 80's are so now, as hot on the heels of the RISC OS' Raspberry Pi debut comes the equally retro-tastic news that the BASIC version used in the Sinclair ZX Spectrum can also run on the Pi.
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/13/sinclair_basic_for_raspberry_pi/
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/13/sinclair_basic_for_raspberry_pi/
Dot Categories: QtQt Developer Days 2012 are the premier Qt events of the year. The 2012 Conference started today in Berlin; there will be news and more information from the Conference over the next few days. Meanwhile, preparations are well underway for Qt Developer Days – North America in Silicon Valley, which will take place December 5 – 7. It is presented by ICS, KDAB and Digia and is being organized by ICS.
http://dot.kde.org/2012/11/12/qt-developer-days-silicon-valley
http://dot.kde.org/2012/11/12/qt-developer-days-silicon-valley
... Jerry is on a fixed income and cannot afford to replace the PC with a new one running “Microsoft Latest OS!” at this time. I talked with Jerry about his options, and he decided to give Linux a shot on this old Dell.
http://blog.eracc.com/2012/11/12/foss-a-linux-conversion/
http://blog.eracc.com/2012/11/12/foss-a-linux-conversion/
Todays question time is with Corey from the Hero-U Kickstarter a sort of Adventure/RPG 2D hybrid!
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?threads/q-a-with-hero-us-corey-lori-cole.1153/
http://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?threads/q-a-with-hero-us-corey-lori-cole.1153/
One would not normally associate Microsoft with Unix. While Microsoft’s interest(s) in Unix may remain minimal in recent times, history tells a very different story.
http://www.unixmen.com/xenix-the-microsoft-unix-that-once-was/
http://www.unixmen.com/xenix-the-microsoft-unix-that-once-was/
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Subject: Canonical Presents New Ubuntu for Android Commercial
Canonical published a few days ago a new animated commercial for their upcoming and ambitious Ubuntu for Android project (watch it above).
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Canonical-Presents-New-Ubuntu-for-Android-Commercial-306387.shtml
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Canonical-Presents-New-Ubuntu-for-Android-Commercial-306387.shtml
Ubuntu is one of the most popular free and open source software available. A 2012 survey revealed it is the most popular Linux Distribution on desktop and laptop PCs. Below are some of the reasons why you should have Live CD / DVD with Ubuntu, or other Linux distribution.
http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2012/11/top-5-reasons-to-have-linux-live-cd.html
http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2012/11/top-5-reasons-to-have-linux-live-cd.html
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Subject: Education for the real world: Open course on open source noSQL databases
Back in March of this year, the University of Albany Student Chapter of the American Society for Information Science [he]amp[/he] Technology (ASIS[he]amp[/he]T) organized its second Open Source Festival. The event brought together enthusiasts of open source from industry, government, and academia in the New York-Albany area. There, I shared my experience of teaching an open source class at RPI and the work that OSEHRA was doing on further promoting the use of open source software in healthcare. Among other topics of discussion was the need to educate college students on the basic concepts of NoSQL databases.
http://opensource.com/education/12/11/open-course-open-source-nosql-databases
http://opensource.com/education/12/11/open-course-open-source-nosql-databases
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Subject: News: Linux Top 3: Mint, Martian Blueberries Fedora and Supercomputer Domination
From small systems to the biggest on the planet
http://www.linuxplanet.com/news/linux-top-3-mint-martian-blueberries-fedora-and-supercomputer-domination.html
http://www.linuxplanet.com/news/linux-top-3-mint-martian-blueberries-fedora-and-supercomputer-domination.html
Today, I have a piece over on Tech President about how the new UK government website—Gov.uk—does a lot of things right.I'd love to see more governments invest two of the key ingredients that made the website work—good design and better analytics.
http://opensource.com/government/12/10/doing-government-websites-right
http://opensource.com/government/12/10/doing-government-websites-right
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Subject: Coders grill Herb Sutter on future of C++ at Microsoft
"The world is built on C++ and so is Microsoft," proclaimed Herb Sutter at Microsoft's Build conference last week in Seattle, Washington. Sutter is chair of the ISO C++ standards committee and Microsoft's Visual C++ language architect. Native code is currently ascendant inside his company, with C++ prominent in SDKs for Windows Phone 8 and for the Windows Runtime - the touch-friendly app platform in Windows 8.
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/12/future_of_c_plus_plus/
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/12/future_of_c_plus_plus/