Fedora 17 moving Linux system folders to /usr


Developers are busy working on Fedora 17 and found out they are making a few changes. What changes? They are moving some system files to the /usr directory.
The Following directories will be moved there: /bin /sbin /lib and /lib64 including their sub directories. For now they will keep a symbolic link from the / directory to the
/usr directory, that is to prevent compatibility issues with older Linux software and scripts. This way making it only possible to have a few system files under root and letting
the system creating a seperate mount point for the system files under /usr . Why are they doing this? The simplified directory structure brings advantagesto virtualization
and cloud computing. And developers want to improve compability with other unix varients and GNU software. See more information here. What do you think of this?
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Sources: tweakers.net and linux.com

SOPA has nothing much to do with Linux but with free(opensource) internet. Here's a video about SOPA that I found interesting and I hope all Americans vote against it and the rest of the world fight against it.

Remember a while back when a US drone crashed? Well the cause of the problem that caused it to crash seems to have
been a malware infection. Here's a picture of the controls is 2009 . Check the middle screen between the two pilots. Recognize the well know windows menu bar? And here's a more recent picture from 2011 The second picture is really a clear picture. But how cool is that


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I came across an interesting article showing the statistics about what distro is the most popular as a webserver. It was CentOS
but just recently Debian took that position back. With Ubuntu in 3rd place but not even close to be being 2nd. I wonder why
Debian has become more popular then CentOS as a webserver and why webmast favorite distros change so quickly. Interesting
to see how there are a variety of linux distros all used as webservers even though I expected before I came across this that most
webservers would be CentOS/RHEL. Interesting how wrong our perception of things can be sometimes. I'm still running SL as
a webserver, and have never used Debian as a webserver before. Does make me curious and thinking of maybe trying debian as
a webserver just to feel and see the differences. What does your webserver run on?

Awesome to hear a story like this that Linux migration from windows to Linux has been a a success. I was thinking now days with so many countries in financial trouble and have to cut down on expenses. Replacing windows with Linux with cut down on quite a bit of expenses. The only downside of it would be that it would take a lot of time to plan and it may cost alot, but it would only be a one time project thing. Once they get it setup and running their expensive would go down when using opensource software and not having to buy windows licenses and alot of other software licenses. For most software you have an opensource alternative and for the ones that you don't. You'll have extra to spend on licenses from where you saved on. And if more governments started doing this there would be more Linux development and eventually there would be an alternative for Linux for most windows software. That way home consumers would feel more free/comfortable to try out Linux and eventually windows would become less needed/necessary than it is today. Only thing is getting used to a new OS takes time. Well that's just my thought of saving money in this financial crisis time.

Ever get tired of looking at the same wallpaper for days, tired of having to change it yourself? Well, I did and I went to search for a solution. I came across good wallpaper changer. There are deb, rpm, and even dmg packages available for installation. All you have to do is install the package and you are ready to go. What configuration options are there? You can set it to automatically change your wallpapers x minutes, x seconds, x hours. You can select how you want them display: scaled, centred or scaled and cropped,etc. You can select folders and sub folders from your local pc. Still feeling lazy? and don't want to search for wallpapers yourself? No worries there's a setting for that too. Where you can select google or yahoo and several others images hosters too to load wallpapers from key search words or phrases. Here's the link to Wally if you want to get started

I was hoping this wouldn't happen but looks like this is the end of skype for linux users. Microsoft bought skype and now they are banning reverse engineering of the skype code.
Haven't used skype much, but it was a great app. I'll be looking for a good alternative.

The world mourns not just the loss of one but two large names in IT.

http://www.theregist...dennis_ritchie/

He knew what he started, and it ain't over yet.

Dennis, from one geek to another - I salute and thank you for your vision and inspiration, and what you've achieved in your uptime.

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I'm sure all of us have read it in the news already. Even though it's not about linux and I'm not an apple person, I thought it'd be good
to have a moment of silence for Steve Jobs here on the forum too. RIP Steve!!

Linux website kernel.org has been hacked and is offline. The hackers managed to get root user access.
Kernel.org is offline; They are still investigating the attack and making backups and doing reinstalls
I wonder what effect this hack will have on linux and linux users?No online system is safe, everything
can be hacked but if kernel.org got hacked and their security must be high. What are the chances of
your system or my system getting hacked?

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It's all over the web, rumors about Ubuntu switching over to a monthly release cycle. Seems like Ubuntu is following up
Firefox's example(copying Firefox?!). A reason behind it, because people like to explore. There would be no more code
names and updates would go through /etc/apt/sources.list just like Debian's testing repository(copying Debian?!). Problem
with this is same as the problems with Firefox moving too fast. Developers not being able to keep up and having alot less
time to develop decent applications for the OS. Applications would have more bugs making ubuntu even less stable Other
problems would be users losing confidence in the Operating system. Who wants to upgrade their OS every month? or
re-install every month?I know I don't, a 6 month release cycle I already find short. That's why I switched from Ubuntu to
Debian and same reason why I never liked fedora. But one month release cycle is insane!!Any Ubuntu users here?!I'm glad
I'm not What are your opinions on this? I sure hope for the Ubuntu users they don't make this mistake of switching to a monthly
release cycle.

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There's different discussions as why some people think Firefox is moving too fast in releasing newer versions
and Firefox having reasons for becoming faster. Reasons has some of the following: A browser being the
delivery vehicle for the internet, the internet being very fast(being real time), so needing to deliver when
ready. So the web browser can be the internet interface it has to keep up with the internet. But on the
other hand web developers have a hard time keeping up because so many changes happening
that they aren't able to implement everything into web apps because of the so rapid changes.
And not to forget that users need time to get used to something new, and I know from
experience that alot of users tend to freak out when all of a sudden something has changed
which they weren't aware of. Because most users like sticking to what they are used to.
And if you want them to step over to something new you need to give them time and
an explanation they as users can understand. I do think that isn't necessary to release
a new version of a web browser every 6 weeks. Because when a web browser
makes changes in such a short time and frequently. I tend to get annoyed that I have to upgrade
again and it can start to frustrate me and make me decided to start using a different browser.
And my last point is it may be good to have a newer release of a web browser to make it
more secure but at the same time where they fix security issues in web browsers there will
always pop up other security issues in place of the ones that they fix. So it's kind of
like en endless circle. Just wondering what your opinions are on this topic?





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Yes it sounds strange but it's possible commandline for facebook(FBCMD):

You need php5 so check php -V

Then download:

curl -O https://github.com/d...bcmd_update.php or download it from the website

log into root

sudo php fbcmd_update.php sudo
php fbcmd_update.php install


Get your authorization code from facebook

run fbcmd

And it should work ( I still have to try it myself)

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More information

CentOS 6 is available for those who are interesting in checking it out:

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http://isoredirect.c.../6/isos/x86_64/

Source: Android foes still beating GPL non-compliance drum


And what does everyone think of that Android is getting sold with mobile phones?
While it runs on a linux kernel which is actually opensource. And they are keeping
some of the code back I read and then they are selling it? Doesn't really sound to me
like Android is really respecting Linux GPL, and then Android wouldn't really be
opensource? What are your opinions on this?