http://www.networkworld.com/podcasts/linux/ Don Marti brings you the latest Linux news and interviews with Linux insiders. en Copyright 2008 Modern hardware is more than capable of handling routing and other networking tasks along with VoIP, file and print, and other server workloads. Can you get your branch offices down to one box each? Plus, music from MC Frontalot. (15:18) /podcasts/linux/2008/043008-linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/043008-linuxcast.html Mon, 5 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 The new release of Trolltech's Qt toolkit incorporates the KHTML-derived Webkit browser functionality seen in Apple's Safari browser. The new Qt makes it possible to create a single interface that combines conventional UI widgets with a Webkit-based view onto a DHTML page, and to divide development tasks between C++ coding and the HTML and scripting work that a web developer can do. (24:49) /podcasts/linux/2008/042408-linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/042408-linuxcast.html Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Most real-world IT professionals have to deal both with Linux and Microsoft Windows, but the IT Media has been divided right down the middle, with some titles seeing the Linux light and others, well, maybe a little behind. Network World's "Microsoft Subnet" is the first of a new generation of media sites that's helping to bring interoperability and open source to Microsoft professionals. We talk with editor Julie Bort about where Microsoft professionals are looking for ideas, and the prospects for Linux desktops at their companies. (11:36) /podcasts/linux/2008/041708-linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/041708-linuxcast.html Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Don't let the kernel elite bamboozle you with their fancy merges, rebasing, and project history tricks. The kernel's revision control system, git, actually turns out to be just the right tool for a small software project, web site, or even as the back end for an application or to track changes to your config files. LinuxWorld Conference and Expo speaker Jon Loeliger explains how to put the "IT" in git. (11:04) /podcasts/linux/2008/040308-linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/040308-linuxcast.html Thu, 3 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Getting started with monitoring software will take you up the hierarchy of needs, from getting alerts about the things users complain about before the users complain about them all the way up to advanced warnings that will let you know long enough to plan to avoid trouble. And you can do it all with open source. Groundwork founder Thomas Stocking explains the steps for getting started (16:58). /podcasts/linux/2008/032708-linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/032708-linuxcast.html Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Google has announced the open source projects participating in the fourth season of its Summer of Code program, which gives $4500 grants to students to work on software. Program manager Leslie Hawthorn explains what Google is looking for in an applicant, how the process works, and tells one notable Summer of Code success story. (10:17) /podcasts/linux/2008/031908-linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/031908-linuxcast.html Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Why do you get Barack Obama campaign calls from live people, but dialer robots from the Clinton and McCain campaigns? That Obama volunteer is using a web application that lets him or her take on a short assignment from anywhere there's a computer and a phone. The Howard Dean and Wesley Clark campaigns took some pioneering steps in Web-based volunteer networking back in 2004. Today, the Barack Obama campaign is refining the open source and Web 2.0 approach. Tony Steidler-Dennison, a podcaster and veteran of the Clark campaign, looks at the technology behind this year's politics. (24:05) /podcasts/linux/2008/031308-linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/031308-linuxcast.html Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 The best hypervisor could be the one that you don't have to write. KVM for Linux treats the Linux kernel itself as the hypervisor, instead of developing core features such as power management both at the hypervisor and the kernel level. Kernel developer Andrea Arcangeli explains core kernel features that make Linux function as an effective hypervisor. (13:10) /podcasts/linux/2008/030608-linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/030608-linuxcast.html Thu, 6 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500 The originator of MySQL is introducing a new storage engine, one that takes a classical approach in contrast with the high-performance, high-memory-usage Falcon. The new engine, "Maria" is based on MySQL's original MyISAM engine. What impact do advances in hardware and OS design have on the database? What does Sun's acquisition of MySQL mean for MySQL's performance on Solaris and Linux? And how can you name a software project to help people remember it? (11:27) /podcasts/linux/2008/022808linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/022808linuxcast.html Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 The current Internet boom depends on ad revenue, but is there a better way to connect buyers and sellers than ads everywhere? Is Microsoft overpaying for Yahoo? Is Facebook overvalued as an ad medium? Can necessary information sources such as the local newspaper survive the changes in online business? Doc Searls of Harvard University's Berkman Center takes on some of the toughest questions about the future of online media. (48:51) /podcasts/linux/2008/022008linuxcast.html /podcasts/linux/2008/022008linuxcast.html Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500