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Lumen Software, a leader in Portal technology, announced the release of their Lumenation v6.0 Portal with unlimited User Licensing. The Portal can be downloaded from the company’s website, www.lumensoftware.com. Organizations can immediately begin providing key information to users appropriately based upon who the user is and what role they play in the organization regardless of the underlying OS (Microsoft, Mac, Linux, Unix). -Novell Cool Solutions

Version 2 of Ravi’s Mind Map of Linux distributions. 

You may download the high resolution PNG format of the mind map file here (File size: 206 KB).

Knoppix comes bundled with a bucket of tools, and although 1.7GB of uncompressed space goes a long way, you might hit the problem of having to use software that Knoppix doesn’t include by default. Additionally, you may make changes in configurations that you want to keep when you reboot, or store data between Knoppix sessions. Thankfully, there are a few different ways to solve this problem, some being easier to use and more successful than others. This article shows you how to use and modify Knoppix to save your data and install new software.

Although most of these techniques can be done without using a terminal, it’s assumed that you know the command-line basics of Linux and bash. Continued…

If you are more curious about the uses of Knoppix there is some other great articles from ExtremeTech which include Fixing Windows with Knoppix and Fixing Linux with Knoppix.

Open-source software is everywhere, but how does a large company — from its executive team down to its IT staff — figure out what applications are right for its users while not endangering its core business?

• Open-source Group: ‘Talk Among Yourselves’ And Learn
• Open source breaks distance barrier
• Open source proponents push virtualization technology at financial conference
• The benefits of ubiquitous Linux

Steps to open source safety

What users should do:

• Review software licences
• Undertake a holistic risk assessment in the context of the overall objectives of the software deployment
• Consider insurance or indemnity protection

What developers should do:

• Implement an open source policy
• Educate their development staff
• Build an approved code library
• Be clear which open source licences their staff can use

LGP agreed to publish the new game, Cold War by Mindware Studios. Cold War is a mixed third-first person shooter similar to Splinter Cell and follows the story of a freelance journalist who finds himself in the midst of an international conspiracy that aims to control the U.S.S.R. Twelve hours after arriving in Moscow for a routine story, he has been stripped of all possessions, beaten unconscious and thrown into the KGB’s political prison. Using only recovered weapons and improvised gadgets, he must now evade or overcome elite Soviet forces and defeat the conspiracy before he is sent to a Siberian prison camp or killed.
The release date is expected to be 15th June 2006.

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LGP Cold War Site

I downloaded the linux demo version and installed it, but it quits with the following output:

me@a64nix:~> coldwar
error: Current hardware is not supported by shader library.

It seems the problem lies with my ATI card(!). Anyone was able to launch it on their tuxbox with ATI card? If so, let me know how to resolve this issue. If I’ll be able to launch it, I am definitely going to buy it, once available here in Moscow.

I have updated “My System” page on this blog. More info on what I have and use. Check it out, if interested.

One Grub menu that boots 100+ systems

The 100+ systems comprise of:

• 3 Dos
• 3 Windows
• 5 BSDs (in Part 2 Menu)
• 2 Solaris (in Part 2 Menu)
• 97 Linux including 2 versions of NetBSD

4 disks used

• Disk 1 = hda 300Gb IDE with 60 partitions
• Disk 2 = hdc 200Gb IDE with 54 partitions
• Disk 3 = sda 200Gb Sata with 15 partitions
• Disk 4 = sdb 200Gb Sata with 15 partitions

(See Part 2 for BSD and Solaris systems on their own hard disks)

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Related: Enhance boot-time security with GRUB passwords

In various studies, Microsoft and some analysts have claimed Linux has a higher total cost of ownership (TCO) than Windows. They attributed the difference mainly to higher systems-management costs, and concluded that the higher TCO outweighed the lower license and acquisition costs for Linux.In a new study of more than 200 Linux enterprises conducted for Levanta, however, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) found that this perception is no longer accurate. Sophisticated management tools now allow Linux management to be fast, effective and inexpensive. With lower acquisition costs, Linux is now a cost-effective alternative to Windows, EMA says.

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“It is time to accept that both sides cannot co-exist peacefully, because open source offers a fundamental challenge to the business model of the closed source, proprietary software developers”