Friday, December 12, 2003

ByzantineOS images Dec2003 released (ByzantineOS). Total project downloads to date: 50117 Project description: ByzantineOS is a software Internet Appliance with a home entertainment bias. It is based on a networked Linux distribution/bootable system with Mozilla providing access to a range of services and applications. ByzantineOS fits in 32MB/48MB of media. [Download] [Release Notes] By ggeorg@users.sourceforge.net (Georgios Georgopoulos). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 2:57:30 PM

Using a Linux desktop for graphics, media production. During Gulf War I, I was sitting on the picture desk of a daily newspaper, framegrabbing video, prepping wire photos, and making up street editions with a $50,000 Mac and $100,000 worth of Sony video gear. During Gulf War II I was again framegrabbing for publication, but this time with an $800 Linux box and a $39 video card. Indeed, Linus Torvalds was still finishing Linux in 1991, even as U.S. troops were marching into Kuwait. Linux has matured tremendously since then, to the point that my 2003 Red Hat 9/Ximian XD2 workstation is some two orders of magnitude cheaper and at least that much faster and producing higher-quality output into the bargain. [NewsForge] 2:52:36 PM

Building an LDAP Server on Linux, Part 4:"As a quick review of the series, part 1 served as an introduction to the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, with a breakdown of what the protocol can and cannot do. In part 2 we covered installation and a very basic configuration, while part 3 looked at populating a directory with actual data as well as how to avoid some of the more common showstoppers. Let's start today's security coverage with a quick look at how to hash your password. " 8:50:35 AM

Calculating in OpenOffice.Org Text Documents:"This article shows how to use it by building an invoice template with account aging and automatic totals. " Linux Journal 8:48:29 AM