Tuesday, August 14, 2012

MC2 Post 1355 A Bit of What's Shaking in the LINUX Community






From:  http://www.linuxtoday.com/ 


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Zenoss Core 4 Advances Open Source 
IT Monitoring

Monitoring is also improved in Zenoss Core 4 by way of something known as enhanced, ZenPing suppression. Strimling explained that essentially, Zenoss utilizes NMAP for ICMP packet generation which is much more versatile than the normal ping command.

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Vim as your IDE

The default Vim installed on most of the Gnu/Linux destros are more than enough to do our work. But if you want more eye catchy look and feel and some handy tools to do your work more quickly then you need to install some Vim plugins, good looking font's, color themes etc. The Gnu/Linux Console based Vim has some limitation to show good font's and colors. So you have to use GTK version of the Vim(Gvim). Gvim gives you all the super looking features to your Vim.

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Qt's Move Gives FOSS the Jitters

There's been much ado about Linux desktops in recent months, but few would dispute KDE's prominence among them.

That, indeed, is one of the many reasons there's been so much concern over Nokia's impending sale of the Qt toolkit, upon which KDE is based.

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30 Linux Kernel Developers in 30 Weeks: 
John Linville

Since 2006, I've been the maintainer for the wireless LAN subsystem in the Linux kernel. I wish this meant that I wrote tons of cool code, but for the most part it means that I review code, collect and merge patches, etc.  In truth, most of the wireless developers know a lot more about the technology than I do. I think this has allowed me to be more of a "neutral player" in terms of balancing the influence of the various contributors. But in truth, I mostly stay out of the way as the core wireless developers mostly play nicely together. :-)

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GNOME opts for pristine GNOME OS 
dev environment

The GNOME Project is coming away from its annual GUADEC conference with a new goal for itself: creating a new operating system on which to develop apps. But is GNOME OS an indictment against current Linux application 
development practices?

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Red Hat finally commits to OpenStack 
for the cloud

Red Hat, the Linux giant, has at long last decided to throw its full support behind OpenStack.

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The open source technology behind Twitter

Chris Aniszczyk, Open Source Manager at Twitter, explains how open source technology is paramount to Twitter's success, and how open source culture is pervasive at Twitter.

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