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Below are some Linux news which were on top 10 years ago at e-news sites of of that time. Preparing this post I didn’t know that it would be so interesting and cognitive operation to dig in old news, to find workable links to headlines below. Well, sometimes this is more interesting and astonishing than we can find today in e-newspapers…
- Hats off to Linux!. Intel and Netscape have announced investments in a small company developing the Linux operating system (RedHat).
- Apache 1.3.2 is released. Upgrade now!
- Microsoft questions Linux’s free model. Rich Gray, intellectual property attorney, thinks that the Linux model may not last.
- MCI WorldCom Exec On Linux: Not So Fast. Uunet has not yet decided whether to deploy Linux.
- Caldera announces partnership with Sybase.
Caldera has made two announcements today: They will be shipping Sybase with their next release of OpenLinux, and OpenLinux 1.3 will be out on September 28th 1998.
- Interview: Linux creator Linus Torvalds (in Real Audio).
Below are the links which caught my eye this week, I hope that some of them will be useful and interesting for you…
- Canonical Store is to sell multimedia codecs for Ubuntu. Codecs are developed by Fluendo and Cyberlink. It is still possible to do
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras and get that staff installed…
- In A comparative look at compact sysadmin distributions article Cory Buford shares the observations he got during review of several portable (not more 210 Mb) Linux distros which may be helpful to handle “minor catastrophes”. BTW I prefer RIPLinuX
- T-Mobile, Google and HTC announce that first phone based on Android platform will be out next week (23th of September 2008).
- Google is going to launch its own “computer navy” (sea floating data centres). Now jokes - rumors.
- Codeweavers company has adapted Google Chrome browser for Linux and Mac platform.
- Mozilla asks to display firefox EULA in Ubuntu 8.10. Some people are really disturbed about that.
- XFCE 4.6 first alpha is out for public testing.
And we just launched Linux and Open Source News aggregator at Linux Screw, so you are welcome to set it your homepage 
There is still no native Linux support of newly unveiled browser Google Chrome but guys from CodeWeavers prepared the port of Chromium (official name of Google Chome for Linux). This staff is already available for downloading as DEB packages for Ubuntu (32-bit and 64-bit), as RPM for RedHat, Fedora, CentOS etc. as well as self installable script for any other Linux distribution.
Well, after quick testings there are no doubts that it is not a good option if you wish to have quick and stable alternative for Firefox… But of course it is good for evaluation purposes or for those people who CAN’T wait for official release of Chrome for Linux Certainly the port is based on Windows copy run by Wine (don’t forget to upgrade it). Actually CodeWeavers says that this is just a proof of concept, for fun, and to showcase what Wine can do.
Well, Google is considering to deploy data centres necessary to operate their search engine on barges powering and cooling computers…
Sounds strangely? Just read below!
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Date: September 15, 2008. Categories:
linux and tips.
Q: How can I disable one or several keys of my laptop keyboard in Linux? When I press DELETE key it gets stuck and deletes everything
A: No problem! You can use the following command to remap or disable any key of your keyboard:
xmodmap -e 'keycode <value>=<action>'
For example, run the following to disable your DELETE key: xmodmap -e 'keycode 107='. BTW you can get keycode that corresponds to certain keyboard button by using simple command xev
The full list of available keycodes and actions assigned to them on UK keyboard is below…
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Well, IBM publishes a new article about useful Unix command line habits as a follow-up to Michael Stutz’s article. I promise that after reading this article you will say something like “A-ha, I didn’t know you could do that!” Here is the part of that staff:
The !$ command returns the last argument used with a command. But what happens if you have a command that used arguments and you want to reuse just one of them? The !:1 operator returns the argument used in a command. The example in Listing 3 shows how you can use this operator in combination with the !$ operator. In the first command, a file is renamed to a more meaningful name, but to preserve use of the original file name, a symbolic link is created. The file kxp12.c is renamed in a more readable manner, then the link command is used to create a symbolic link back to the original file name, in case it’s still used elsewhere. The !$ operator returns the file_system_access.c argument, and the !:1 operator returns the kxp12.c argument, which is the first argument of the previous command.
Listing 3
$ mv kxp12.c file_system_access.c
$ ln –s !$ !:1
Read more here…
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