Packt's recently published Apache Maven 3 Cookbook is a collection of over 50 real-world recipes on efficient Java software development with Apache Maven 3. Written by Srirangan, the book is aimed to help developers, managers and teams grasp the fundamentals and extend Apache Maven 3 to meet their needs. Amongst other topics, the book throws light on collaboration techniques for Agile teams and integration of Apache Maven with Java, Enterprise Frameworks, and various other cutting-edge technologies.
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Nuxeo Releases New Open Source ECM Packages for Ubuntu Server
Boston – July 11, 2011 - Nuxeo, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform company, today announces that Nuxeo Document Management is now available in the Ubuntu software partner catalog, ensuring ease of installation and deployment for developers building content management applications designed to run on the Ubuntu server environment.
Monitor a Networking System using Cacti with New Book from Packt
Cacti 0.8 Network Monitoring is a new book from Packt that is aimed at helping Linux administrators effectively monitor their networks using Cacti. Written by Dinangkur Kundu and S. M. Ibrahim Lavlu, this book takes users through all key features of Cacti and shows how to use them for maximum effectiveness.
Cacti is an open source, web-based network monitoring tool that provides graphic solutions to your everyday monitoring issues. It is generally used to graph time-series data of metrics such as CPU load and network bandwidth utilization. A common usage is to monitor network traffic by polling a network switch or router interface via SNMP.
Along with the installation and setup of Cacti, this book will teach its readers how to import, manage and customize the graph templates, using the RRDtool, to make the output graphs look better and easier to understand. They will also learn more about adding devices to Cacti and use the graph templates to monitor the entire network. Basic procedures to create users and assign permissions to them to view or edit graphs will also be explained.
With this book, users will understand how the Net-SNMP application suite implements SNMP with Cacti and how the folder structure is used for backing up and restoring a system. By learning to create new data input methods and Script XML data query, users can retrieve raw data from the system to insert into data sources. The advanced command-line scripts provided in the book will also help users easily access and manage a network.
With loads of screenshots, illustrations and easy step-by-step instructions this book is ideal for network administrators using Cacti. The book is out now and available from Packt. For more information, please visit: http://www.packtpub.com/cacti-0-8-networ...
Learn to set up, maintain and secure a Small Office Server using Linux Email
Packt is pleased to announce Linux Email, a new book that covers everything that users need to know in order to set up their own Linux server. Written by professional Linux administrators, this book is a simple step-by-step guide to setting up a Linux email server using the most popular free Open Source tools such as PostFix, ProcMail, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and others
Linux is a free and open source software collaboration whereby typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed, both commercially and non-commercially, by anyone under the terms of the GNU GPL. Linux is predominantly known for its use in servers, although can be installed on a wide variety of computer hardware ranging from embedded devices, mobile phones and even some watches as well as supercomputers.
Linux Email helps users overcome the complexities involved in getting started with Linux. They can create mail filters, sort their incoming mail into separate folders, pre-process their mail, start any programs upon mail arrival and selectively forward certain incoming mail automatically to someone using Procmail.
Working Knowledge: Microsoft vs. Open Source
I forgot who sent the tweet on Twitter but I was pointed to some very interesting research (2005) posted at the Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge site.
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
Using formal economic modelling, professors Pankaj Ghemawat and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell consider the competitive dynamics of the software wars between Microsoft and open source.
Dell Mini 10v can do linux, linux, and more linux
It should be no surprise to long time readers that I'm a fan of both netbooks and the linux operating system. Earlier this year, I bought a Dell Mini 12 netbook with Ubuntu Linux and I'm still satisfied with my purchase.
Dell's Doug Anson recently showed that the Dell Mini 10v is quite capable of running the latest linux desktops. I like just the fact that Dell entertains the ideas of running something besides Windows on their desktops and laptops.
Open source closes gap on Microsoft's next Silverlight
The Register: "Moonlight 2.0 has been delivered for preview featuring APIs from Microsoft's Silverlight 3.0 that the project's organizers said it made sense to add. Moonlight puts Microsoft's Silverlight on Linux and Unix.
Moonlight 2.0 is modeled on Silverlight 2.0 but since work began on the second version of Moonlight, Microsoft released a beta for the third edition of Silverlight with final code expected later this year."
Linus Torvalds on Linux
Linux Magazine: "Linus Torvalds has led the development of the Linux operating system since its inception nearly 20 years ago. In that time Torvalds has had the opportunity not only to witness the positive cultural and economic changes brought about by Linux but has also been a direct participant in making those changes a reality. And though many things have changed greatly since 1991, one thing remains constant: Linus is still at the helm.
Quoting IT: Windows and Linux
"What happens when you try to put Linux and Windows together? Nothing very good."
-Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, "Opinion: The top 10 operating system stinkers", ComputerWorld.com, April 9, 2009
Windows 7, a desktop repeat?
Not long ago I wrote that KDE 4 might produce enough changes to its look and feel to help Linux become more Mac-like. At the time, Windows Vista seemed to be trying to move in the same direction. Interestingly, someone has noted that Windows 7 now appears to be moving towards Linux's direction with the Windows desktop looking more like KDE 3.5.
The review
features screenshots and I must say, even though it has not convinced
me, Windows 7 is a step forward from Vista, at least as far as the GUI
is concerned. Aside from the removal of some annoying Vista bells and
whistles and the new Peek and Snap window-management enhancements, it
is difficult not to notice the resemblance between Microsoft’s
much-touted revamped Aero and the excellent, now 3-years old, KDE 3.5.x.
Personally, I think Microsoft, Apple, and the Linux desktop developers have run out of ideas. Any new innovation for these desktops seem to be ideas borrowed and improved from each other's desktops. This is one of the reasons why I have lost my "wow" when it comes to operating systems. In 2007, I wrote:
With PCs or laptops at my house now containing Windows, Linux, and
Apple computers, I'm a three-operating system household. It dawned on
me that indeed "this is a frustrating time" for me when it comes to
operating systems for personal computers. For all the "variety" of
computers we use in my home, they basically have the same features and
from a user's perspective the operating systems are really not all that
unique from each other.
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