(LinuxWorld) — Mono, which is Ximian's open source implementation of
some of the Microsoft .Net development framework, seems to be a hot button
for both fans and critics of .Net. Just bringing up the topic of Mono also
seems to generate a surprising degree of animosity toward Sun and Java. These
passionate reactions inspired me to embark on a project to develop several
Web applications using Java, Mono, and possibly other alternatives to provide
readers with a first-hand view.
The comparison is already proving to be more ambitious than I had realized,
and I hope to complete the first installment soon. In the meantime, my
preparations produced several revelations about Java on Linux. The most
startling is I now find myself enjoying client-side Java applications. I
confess buying into the propaganda that while Java is great for server-side
applications, it is a... (more)
(LinuxWorld) — We all make careless errors. Some of you may want to
pretend you're immune, but I am certainly unashamed to confess that I am
often my own worst enemy when it comes to computing.
My most recent disaster of foolishness occurred while setting up my system to
compare the two journaling file systems Reiserfs and XFS. Somewhere along the
line, I decided to convert some partitions on my workstation from ext3 to
Reiserfs in order to gain some speed on those partitions. Reiserfs is faster
than ext3 in part because of its clever design, and in part because it only
jo... (more)
(LinuxWorld) — Ever buy something and then spend the next few weeks
researching other products to see if something better was out there? In real
life, that's called neurosis. To a product reviewer, it's called a job. I did
my job this week by looking for some BBS or forum software that might be
better than FUDforum 2.3, the software I chose to use for my non-profit Web
sites. (I wrote about version 2.3.2 in my last article, but the latest
version of FUDforum is now 2.3.3, which includes several minor bug fixes.)
I placed only a few conditions on the prospective software: it ... (more)
(LinuxWorld) -- I thank the readers who sent in their comments and snippets
of code in response to Two stupid PHP tricks and More stupid PHP tricks, a
series about what I'm learning while adapting PHP-Nuke for VarLinux.org. I
want to share a few letters that include information useful to any PHP user.
If you recall from the first column, the crypt() function can suddenly switch
to a different default encryption algorithm depending on how you have your
system set up, which can break user password authentication. On my system,
the default switched from standard DES to MD5. I fixed t... (more)
(LinuxWorld) — Believe it or not, it is not my intention to rekindle
the KDE vs. GNOME desktop wars. I suspect the only way to avoid it, however,
is to pretend that I like both equally. I don't. However, I don't want to
leave you with the impression that these are the only choices, either. There
are plenty of lightweight and middleweight window managers that you may
prefer. Nevertheless, as far as the heavyweights go, KDE and GNOME are the
ones to watch.
In this corner, we have the heavyweight champion of the Linux world, KDE 3.1,
released on or about January 28, 2003. In ... (more)
Nicholas Petreley is a computer consultant and author in Asheville, NC.
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