We've seen a lot of reports going back and forth about whether or not Linux is doing well in the netbook space. As it turns out, research firm ABI Research as well as Dell say about one third of their machines ship with Linux pre-installed - which is pretty darn impressive.
According to ABI Research, out of the 35 million netbooks that will ship this year (I'm assuming that's worldwide), 11 million will ship with Linux pre-installed. This figure does not include dual-boot netbooks or those that have Windows removed and replaced with Linux - but nor does it include those where Linux is removed in favour of Windows.
ABI Research further added that the arrival of ARM netbooks will push Linux in the netbook space to overtake Windows by 2013. Of course, we've been hearing the same heavenly predictions being made about these elusive ARM nebooks for a long time now, and yet here we are, in 2009, with only 4% of netbooks shipping with an ARM processor. ABI Research's Jeffrey Orr now claims 2010 will be the year of the ARM netbook.
I've followed a "how to set up a LAMP server" tutorial and got everything installed and working. If I access the machine's local ip I can see it from any computer in the house. Am I correct in thinking that means everything is configured and working properly on the server's end of things? It's running the most recent Debian distro, by the way. So what's left to do is forward port 80 to that computer's ip?
Right so I've done that too, my router (BeBox) calls it Application & Game Sharing.
But now if I try to navigate to http://my.ip.here.ok I end up coming to the router's config page.
Any suggestions? Is there something else I've got to do I don't know about?? Or is this just an issue with the router in which case I can ship myself over to my ISP's support forum...
now that Fedora 12 (Constantine) has been out for a week or so, I decided it's time to upgrade my Fedora 11 laptop to the new release using Yum.
I'm documenting this in case anyone wants to try doing the same thing.
Backup your data
Before attempting to do this, backup your important data over the network or two an external USB drive. This is incase something goes wrong and you need to format/reinstall. During the backup, take a look at these common F12 bugs to see if any might impact you.
Once all your data is backed up, proceed with the upgrade.
Posted by: anyweb - 2009-11-26, 05:38 PM - Forum: Linux News
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First look at Fedora 12
Fedora I've been using Fedora (and Red Hat Linux before that) on and off for about seven years now and I would say that Fedora is a distribution consistently on the cutting edge of open source software. This means that I've been regularly wowed by new technology and occasionally left virtually bleeding and scrambling for alternative install media. Overall, my experiences have been positive, especially with the project's version 11 release, and I have been looking forward to Fedora 12 for the past few months.
The Fedora distribution comes in various flavours, depending on your needs. There's an all-in-one installation DVD for 32-bit and 64-bit Intel machines. The DVD also has a PowerPC edition. If you'd like to try before you install, Fedora has live CDs. These live CDs feature either the GNOME desktop or the KDE desktop and I decided to try my luck with the KDE live CD. While my download was in progress, I took a look around the web site. The Fedora Project, being a cutting-edge testing ground for new technology, has a technically geared website. It's easy to navigate for people familiar with computers in general and Linux in particular, but for newcomers to the open-source scene, the terms and information are likely to be overwhelming. The site gives the impression of a project run by open source enthusiasts for open source enthusiasts.
To test Fedora, I ran it on my trusty desktop system (2.5 GHz CPU and 2 GB of RAM) and my LG laptop (1.5 GHZ CPU and 2 GB of RAM). To see how the operating system would perform with fewer resources, I also ran it in a virtual machine. The live CD booted up and presented me with a fresh, modern KDE 4.3 desktop. A folder plasmoid (widget) was open, presenting a single icon: a short-cut to the installer. Also on the desktop were the usual taskbar and application menu. Right away I started the installer and got down to business.
At the Ubuntu Developer Summit, which took place last week, it was announced that the next release of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, version 10.04, will no longer carry the GIMP in its default installation. This actually touches upon somethin I've been wanting to talk about, a problem that plagues both Linux and Mac OS X: Paint.NET is Windows-only.
The reasoning behind removing the GIMP from the default Ubuntu install is solid. The application is geared towards a different audience than Ubuntu itself; it's for technical and skilled high-end graphic editors. This makes it unsuitable for quick image editing, because thanks to all its plug-ins, the GIMP's loading time is long. To make matters worse, because the GIMP is a complicated and advanced application, its interface reflects that.
Posted by: anyweb - 2009-11-26, 05:35 PM - Forum: Linux News
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We all know what KDE stands for, right? Unless you're new here, you'll know that it stands for the K Desktop Environment. While this certainly covers a large chunk of what KDE stands for, it has increasingly lost its meaning over the past few years. Consequently, the KDE team has decided to 'reposition' the KDE brand.
Hi, i just finished installing slackware 13 and this is the first time i'm using linux. When the setup was finished and i removed the slack-cd and rebooted, i get this message:
Code:
GRUB Loading stage1.5.
GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 2
From what i've learned this Error 2:
Code:
"Selected disk doesn't exist"
This error is returned if the device part of a device- or full filename refers to a disk or BIOS device that is not present or not recognized by the BIOS in the system.
This sort of makes sense since during installation i could not use cfdisk to partition; using cfdisk showed me 600mb of free space on hda, however fdisk -l showed me my 2 harddrives of 250gb each, named sda and sdb. I then had to partition in fdisk and continue with the setup. I don't know if this is the way it's supposed to work, but my guess is that the reason grub can't find my root (or whatever it's looking for), is the same reason cfdisk couldn't find my drives, i.e grub is looking for hda1 or something, when it should be looking for sda1.
Here's where i'm stuck: I have no idea how to access menu.lst and change the drive it should be booting from.
I would appreciate any help on the matter.
Marcus
Edit: btw, i have absolutely no idea what "hda" is in the cfdisk list, i have no partition of that size, it just doesn't make sense to me.
I am looking at creating a tar archive using a file list to specify the files to archive, I have looked through the man page and searched the internet and I can't find anything. Any ideas how I can do this?
I've just begun to use Linux, and have chosen PCLinuxOS. There's an update-notifier which lists 787 updates available but the install seems to not do anything. Can you help me figure this out? My alternative would be to turn the notifier off, but then I still don't have the updates.
Here's what happens:
I found the update-notifier and thought it would be smart to have that running, in order to stay up to date.
<ol style="list-style-type:decimal;">[*]When PCLinuxOS boots, the notifier tells me there are 787 packages in need of updating.
[*]When I choose "install updates", it will perform some actions, but on the next boot, it starts back at step 1.
[*]What it actually does is this: it first downloads 1 file, then 11 more in a separate step.
[*]Then there's a popup "mark additional changes?" and a list of packages to remove and packages to update, and buttons named "Close" and "Mark". I choose "Mark".
[*]Lots of files are being downloaded (9 of 787 etc...). This takes about half an hour @800kbps.
[*]Then there's a popup "synaptic is done" (OK).
[*]And then, the update-notifier tells me again that there are 787 packages in need of updating. O_o ?
</ol>
Either I'm not doing this right, or something is broken. Can you point me to what I should do next?
Your answers will be much appreciated, and I will report back on my (hopefully) success.
