Linux Solutions

A quick search for Linux on Google will show you that there are literally hundreds of millions of pages dedicated to the open source code which is becoming so large a part of our everyday lives. While Linux does not receive the recognition of perhaps better known operating systems, it is something without which many of our systems today could not operate. We hereby list a number of areas of industry which have been touched by Linux :-

In Flight Entertainment

Virgin Airlines are a heavy user of the Linux operating system which is used to control passenger in flight entertainment, computing and music services. While it was not the first choice of the airline it soon became apparent that it offers some what more flexibility than a number of competing codes.

Film Animation

It will perhaps surprise many that a lot of the leading animation companies actually use Linux operating systems for their animation networks. It has been shown to be very reliable, quick and scalable – meaning that the size and depth of the users of the network can be increased with very little extra work. In an industry where computers need to react at lightening quick pace to ensure motion shots look correct, it seems that Linux has no competitor at the moment.

Wikipedia

Many surfers will also be interested to know that one of the open source giants, Wikipedia, actually uses a version of the Linux operating system. The Wikipedia system holds literally hundreds of millions of pages and it seems very apt that the largest open source information exchange should use the most popular open source operating system!

This is just a snap shot of some of the areas of industry which Linux has touched and while we may not always be aware of its existence, it really is everywhere around us.

While there is no doubt that the next big technology market will be the mobile communications sector, many of the new entrants are going to find it very difficult to compete with the likes of Apple who have great areas of the industry all to themselves. So what can we expect from mobile Linux?

Intel have announced plans to release a series of Linux based mobile devices to try and compete with the likes of Apple and take some market share off the seemingly impregnable iPhone. However, the recent technology show in Shanghai, China showed many investors and consumers that it may not as easy to go head to head with Apple as some may have you believe. While there is no reason why Linux cannot be the operating system behind a whole host of successful mobile devices, the Intel products which were on show looked very basic indeed.

It is ok using an Open Source system to power the machine, thereby in theory offering the chance to cut costs to the bone, but there is still a need to ensure that the design, device and interface are good enough to make an impact. Unfortunately this new device from Intel is not yet there and in its current form it will not even worry the Apple management. Even though it seems that Intel have got the message, there are still concerns that even though Linux is more than up to the task, it may prove a little difficult finding a quick fix to the design and interface problems.

Surely once we see Linux creating a splash in the market we will see more and more technology companies following suit, but until then it seems that it is back to the drawing board for Intel. However, there is every chance that they will be back soon with new ideas and hopefully a new design.

Linux Hosting

After registering a domain name, it is a time for a website owner to find out web hosting service provider. Remember that Linux web hosting is more cheap, secure, efficient, reliable and dependable. Linux web servers have fewer chances to lost data because Linux OS contains additional security features. Many Linux web site hosting plans are there and it depends upon website requirements which will explain that which package you should take. Usually, a Linux web hosting plan contains the following features.
Control Panel:
Control Panel or CP is used to manage website and it is sometimes also known as nucleus of a website. Control Panel is provided with Linux web hosting plan while you are taking a new web hosing account.
FTP Accounts:
FTP Accounts and Virtual FTP in web hosting allows webmasters to upload all files or contents into website and update them.
POP3 Email Addresses:
POP3 addresses let you to manage emails easily and it is possible to handle emails of different website separately. POP3 IDs are in the form name@domainname.com. Linux web hosting can provide plenty of POP3 accounts depending upon the size of package.
Backup:
Linux web servers automatically take backups, this make Linux web hosting reliable. Customers always care this feature because it is very essential.
Bandwidth:
While you are looking to get more bandwidth, Linux web hosting contains this feature because Linux web servers are very much efficient. While deciding about web hosting package, select that one which provides sufficient bandwidth.
PHP and MySQL Support:
Linux hosting plans highly support PHP and MySQL and these features are included in every package which you have purchased because PHP and MySQL are mostly used in web industry these days.
Webmail and SMTP:
Linux web hosing contains webmail feature so that you should be able to get emails from web-based interface. However number of webmails depends upon package size of your account.
Web Statistics:
Visitor analysis always plays a major role in the success of a website. In Linux hosting a statistics application runs in the backend of the server which could be used to views daily visitor report.
Spam Filters:
Linux web hosting is secure because it protects from all types of spam attacks. However spam filters should be installed on Linux web servers to protect all websites hosted on it.
Dedicated IP:
Without having dedicated IP, it is not possible for your website to support SSL features. So, you need to pay for dedicated IP if you are looking to get this feature.

Open Source Software started low in the year 2003 as SCO started 3 billion dollars court case in opposition to IBM. Its court case exposes legal worries on models of open source licensing, and also the development process of the company.

SCO’s true complaint was relied on intellectual property but not copyright. The company said that IBM integrated SCO business secrets hooked on Linux, revolving it into Unix-killer. A user who has at least a single application installed on Linux, the issue concerning how to swear themselves that developers who put into OSS didn’t take an account of some others’  intellectual property.

Even though it looks portentous, some people in industry seem to imagine that this court case has profit. Mostly, our readers prove to be captivating wait-and-see approach. 85 % of respondents to fresh Network Computing Asia Tech Review (2003) review that utilize OSS, have not closed organizing fresh Linux systems due to this court case, and a very few percentage of people are captivating an additional step of abolishing it.

In surplus to, Gartner Group advises that users should not reveal particulars on Linux deployments’, should not allow SCO to review your grounds’, and should not compensate SCO licensing fee unless the legal decision stresses it’.

Controlling the desktop:

Governments all around world inspected the likelihood of organizing Linux on desktop in 2003, & Thai government showed to be an effectual tool for discussing desktop OS costs. Microsoft reduced price of Windows XP so down in order to unite Thai government’s People’s PC project.

The waters are being tested by the corporations too. This is observed by truth that nearly 35 % of readers are using Linux substitute for windows on majority of desktop PCs. Fundamentally this tendency in 2003 were discharges of unwavering and Asian language-accomplished OSS descriptions of minimum utilities like  Microsoft well-matched OpenOffice and Mozilla browser suite and e-mail.

In addition to these, free Ximian Desktop of Novell adjoins calendar, task list management contacts and scheduling. Ximian ‘Connector’ permits users to support as complete Microsoft Exchange customers.

Last December Sun published the complete Java Linux Desktop. A technology licensing conformity is signatured by them with the assemblage of companies held by Chinese government which can look at this technology employed on billions of desktops soon.

Linux Powerhouse (new):

Novell carriedon to re-create by itself in 2003, obtaining famous Linux company Ximian, with their Exchange Connector, Desktop and Red Carpet software allocation products.

Novell will persist to hold Ximian-led MONO scheme, OSS execution of Microsoft .NET expansion Framework.

Supported by a venture from IBM in november, Novell publicized the attainment of SuSE Linux. Fascinatingly, as previous possessor of Unix, Novell is gossiped to have sufficient legal defense left to evade SCO problems.

Now this will surely be a last nail in the tomb for  UnitedLinux association, as SuSE will never require SCO and TurboLinux. As an alternative, Novell/SuSE will quickly set free their venture well-informed worldwide system to fight with Red Hat.

Linux users who adore the gaze and sense of Windows Vista would love to have ‘Vixta’ – the new Fedora based distro. With Vixta, you get fresh widgets with a traditional KDE supported interface. Like Windows Vista, ‘Vixta’ also has task bar and start menu with user-friendly and eye-catching features.

The menu system in Vixta apps may be similar to that of Windows, but all the programs behind the scene are Linux equivalents. So, you have Konqueror as a substitute of Internet Explorer and Openoffice as a replacement for Office. Vixta comes with an installable live CD which is available in Portuguese as well as English. The verbose boot output and the plain boot screen of the live CD is not that much exciting, but the splash screen in the middle of the boot process somehow makes up for the remaining output.

Vixta’s kernel was piled up to set aside space, but it does not comprise the modules required by current gears to trigger CPU scaling. Vixta has a system updater and software manager which may have shipshape edges with Fedora repositories arrangement. The menu comes with two panes – one on the right which contains menu headings and the other on the left exhibits the applications accessible beneath each heading.

Unfortunately, there were not loads of functions in the menu except modest KDE apps. But, there are numerous useful system settings and tools given in the menu. Sound card configuration is one of the impressive tools as Vixta detects almost every sound chip automatically.

‘openSUSE’ is a rock-hard, versatile Linux based operating system and is the most admired free software distribution. Recently, openSUSE developers released the distro’s most modern 10.3 for GNOME and KDE environments. The current release comes with two live CDs and an install-only DVD. openSUSE 10.3 also offers an extra CD that includes Real Player, Opera Web browser and Acrobat PDF Reader. The live versions are carbon copies of install-only CDs and except few oddity, they seem set to rub out the older versions shortly.

openSUSE does not in reality alter the partitions, but it could baffle new users into configuring the incorrect partition, particularly if they don’t understand Linux partition numbering. Partitioning plays a vital role in installing a distro and hence care should be taken to avoid bugs during the installation.

The main disparity in the installation process between the install-only CDs and the live CDs is the competence to include more online software repositories. If the developers can append the online repository install trait for the period of installation from the live CDs and sort out the boot loader bugs, the installable live CDs will be great descendant to the install-only CDs.

What has always positioned openSUSE apart is the appraisal of administration homogeneity that the distribution carries to this assorted set of gears – mostly during its gigantic system configuration framework. To conclude, we can appreciate the go-getting span of openSUSE 10.3’s configuration gears, but we may have to face some quarters in which it exasperatingly surpassed its grasp.

It’s been a conventional job for building up desktop applications on Linux. Let it be for expert C/C++ developers or for straightforward applications or scripting developers. There’s been amazing of a gap in middle ground, an place where the two Microsoft Windows & Apple Macintosh have presented many feasible options for improvement. Instantly and precisely uniformly and improving desktop applications is been looser on these stages than on Linux.

In the last months of the year 2005 Real Software has published REAL basic 2005 for Linux and improvers who wished to create desktop GUI application instantly had a practical alternative. And to be successful in it REAL made courageous leap by giving a Standard Edition in REAL basic for Linux for no cost at all. REAL basic 2006 Standard Version for Linux provides support to developing of applications for Linux (standard versions on almost all platforms which provide support for a host platform) if you decide to make applications to Windows or Mac you will have to gain a license for a Professional version of REAL basic 2006. Along with numerous platform objective s, Pro version has also surpluses additional hold up for the databases, distant debugging on another platform, comfort applications, Auto Discovery Class and Server Socket Control. Details on additional Professional Edition features are obtainable at a REAL basic for Linux Professional Edition page.

During their period in following Rapid Release Model, REAL basic 2006 Release 1 has become obtainable early in this year (Release 2 is probably to be distributed by a time you have a look at this article.) and they persist to move a state of desktop application development on Linux.

Let us start: REAL basic  2006 for Linux is very easy as visiting a REAL basic for Linux download page and choosing a Linux edition for a Novell Linux Desktop and downloading a RPM file. You must also have a look over every additional resources which are giving on this download page. Starting from a documentation and reaching to Visual Basic Changing Tool to a Remote Debugger Stub, a series of resources are accessible here .

If you have downloaded this file now freely use rpm command line utility and you will have REAL basic 2006 which is installed in a fraction of time. You will see a menu link to REAL basic 2006 beneath Applications->Development->Integrated Environment on the desktop menu. Initiating the program puts you exactly into the IDE and promptly ready to generate your application.

REAL basic 2005 for Macintosh Release 3

REAL Software Inc., publishers of REAL basic, cross-platform which truely works, publicized this day that REAL basic 2005 for Macintosh Release 3 is going to be shipped. REAL basic 2005 for Macintosh is the fast application development (RAD) location that allows professional and non-professional programmers likely to quickly generate software for the Macintosh, and Windows too and Linux, by clicking on the checkbox. This improves visual basic compatibility and reliability.

Linux Mint 3.1 is an offshoot distribution of Ubuntu developed to provide easy GNU/Linux desktop distribution. But, the very purpose for which it is developed is not met as it has quite a few shortcomings.  Linux Mint comes with two editions – one main and another light edition. The main edition comprises of plugins and proprietary codecs whereas the lighter edition includes does not have these features. Both these versions is developed with GNOME as user interface. Some other versions with different interfaces like Xfce and KDE is also available in the Mint series.

Linux Mint3.1 has codename ‘Celena’ and contains a different theme that includes a splash, GNOME Display Manager, GTK themes and modified boot. The default theme layout of Linux Mint contains a single panel contrasting Ubuntu and other GNOME distributions as they have two panels. MintUpdate another software update tool is also included in the Mint3.1 package. Earlier versions of Mint contain KDE and Xfce interface, which is entirely different from the current 3.1 version. So, if you want to employ some other desktop environment, then you have to choose the older version.

After the installation, when you boot the machine you will come to see the Linux Mint Assistant Menu which provides with the option of running with the root account to run administrative commands. Also, you have to select the default program to switch to NTFS/FAT drives. The Assistant menu can be made more useful if it can facilitate the Nvidia driver as Mint already by default facilitates other sorts of proprietary content.

With landfills teeming with superfluous computers, Puppy Linux is giving life to old and outdated hardware. When we see Puppy Linux from a compatibility viewpoint, it has elegant features that accrue resources without reducing the number of applications.

Linux developers have offered a viable solution through Puppy Linux and with the recent Puppy 3.00 release they have enhanced its features and efficacy. With Puppy 3.00, you can browse the Internet and also spreadsheets and reports can be easily done. You can also monitor firewalls and can organize network devices with Puppy 3.00. Every application available in Slackware 12’s repository could be installed with the help of Puppy 3.00.

Though Puppy 3.00 is filled with new exciting features, the major drawback is that during shutdown you will be given only one chance to save the files. If you imagine that the distro will save the whole thing on some partition and forget to mount it, then you will lose all the data when you shut down. With the file save wizard at shutdown, Puppy 3.00 can help its users to save the data even when it is not mounted.

On the other hand, Puppy Linux is an implausible distro as it can bring life to PC’s with less than 100MB ISO. Puppy 3.00 comes with an application for each task and you can do everything that you do with an advanced PC. Barry Kauler, Puppy’s main developer boasts that Puppy 3.00 has the capacity to install Slackware packages as it has all the basic libraries such as Glibc 2.5, GTK 2.10.13 and GCC 4.1.2 from Slackware 12. Puppy 3.00 also has newly rewritten custom boot, shutdown scripts and configuration for better performance.

Battle Tanks is a vintage style game in which you will drive a tank and lift up weapons to blow up enemies. The official website of the game only provides the Windows installer and the source code of Battle Tank. So, the packaged version of the game can be availed from PackMan repository by SUSE and openSUSE users and for Ubuntu users, the package is available at GetDeb Web site. Battle Tanks is an addictive computer game as it features graphics with capably drawn maps, and tanks, and other vehicles.

The multicolored graphics and the trouble-free usage make the game more alluring and the weapons accessible with the game make it more interesting. When you are beginning the game, a start window with three subsections appears. In the first section, you will get a choice for different scenarios and once you select the scenario, the respective map comes into the screen with a brief description. If you click on the map, you will get a larger version of the scenario. From the next Players section, you can choose the number of players and the weapons they require. You can select a maximum of four players and can play the game on your own or against someone else by selecting the split screen option.

If we look at the disadvantages of the game, it lacks a fitting manual and small number of traits that needs some development. Occasionally it takes numerous attempts to lift up weapons and in a few cases it is not viable to embark a new tank. But the utter fun and brilliant graphics make Battle Tanks a game to try when you get bored of outdoor activities.