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Book Mini-Review: Solaris 8 Administrator's Guide

Topix - Unix  Thu, 11/27/2008 - 12:05

Solaris 8 - Administrator's Guide is a book written by Paul Watters, and published by O'Reilly. The book is all about how to create and administer networks using Solaris 8.

The book, published in January, is ...


 

Sounds of Crashing Hard Drives

Linux Today  Mon, 11/24/2008 - 11:33

O'Reilly Digital Media: "That's all it is. Links to recordings of hard drives crashing."


 

O'Reilly Webcast: Everything You Wanted to Know About Drupal but...

Linux Today  Thu, 11/20/2008 - 05:33

O'Reilly Media: "Join us for this free live webcast:
Everything you wanted to know about Drupal but were afraid to ask; Presented by Jeff Eaton and James Walker, authors of "Using Drupal"


 

The Commoditization of Massive Data Analysis

Topix - Linux  Wed, 11/19/2008 - 19:54

Big Data is a major theme on the O'Reilly Radar, so we're delighted to welcome guest blogger Joe Hellerstein , a Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley whose research focuses on databases and distributed ...


 

Adobe InDesign CS4 One-on-One

Topix - Linux  Wed, 11/19/2008 - 04:50

New from O'Reilly: Read the lesson. Watch the video. Do the exercises. Sebastopol, CA - infoZine - Enjoy mastering the fundamentals of InDesign CS4 with Deke McClelland's exceptional and effective new learning ...


 

Facebook Cookbook

Topix - Linux  Mon, 11/10/2008 - 07:17

This newest title in O'Reilly's famed Cookbook series, the Facebook Cookbook has easy-to-follow recipes that not only give you useful ways to design and build scalable applications using Facebook's development ...


 

Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Tue, 11/04/2008 - 17:28

Greg Kroah-Hartman is a longtime developer of the Linux kernel, known for his work maintaining USB drivers as well as for packaging the SUSE kernel at Novell.

O'Reilly Media recently interviewed Greg about his claim that the Linux kernel now supports more devices than any other operating system ever has.


 

Is a Political Endorsement Appropriate for a Technical Site?

Linux Today  Tue, 11/04/2008 - 11:34

O'Reilly Radar: "A number of people have responded to my endorsement of Barack Obama with complaints that it is inappropriate for a tech publisher to publish on political issues.

While most of the people responding to the post have either been supportive, or thoughtfully countered one or more of my arguments, a number of people have threatened to stop buying from O'Reilly as a result of my endorsement."


 

How Linux Supports More Devices Than Any Other OS, Ever (O'Reill...

LWN.net  Mon, 11/03/2008 - 01:42

O'Reilly has an interview with kernel hacker Greg Kroah-Hartman.

In it, they cover topics like Linux device support, the kernel development process, and the ever (un)popular binary-only device drivers.

"The ease of writing drivers; Linux drivers are at normally one-third smaller than Windows drivers or other operating system drivers.

We have all the examples there, so it's trivial to write a new one if you have new hardware, usually because you can copy the code and go.


 

Synchronized Releases and Greg Kroah-Hartman

Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Sun, 11/02/2008 - 18:53

O'Reilly interviewed Greg Kroah-Hartman, the Linux kernel developer who founded the Linux Driver Project. The interview explains how the Linux Driver Project can support the weirdest Japanese USB devices, how Linux is being developed, why binary only kernel drivers are illegal, how a time-based release schedu