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What Linus Torvalds thinks about BSD Internet News: "It's soo rude that it's 'funny' - that is if you're not an OpenBSD developer or have a particular affection for monkeys." (Jul 16, 2008)
Linux Today Features
SCO Goes Down and Sun's in Trouble Practical Technology: "The decision is in, and SCO has gone down in defeat. The U.S. District Court in Utah has ruled in favor of Novell in SCO vs. Novell, the keystone case in SCO’s long, and ultimately unsuccessful war against Linux." (Jul 17, 2008)
OS Roundup: BSD Bug Emerges From Chrysalises (Jul 24, 2008, 04:30 UTC) (541 reads)
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(feedback) Serverwatch: "Paul Rubens How long does it take to spot a bug in an operating system? The answer, it seems, can be as long as 33 years. At least, that was the case with a recently discovered bug in the yacc parser generator originally developed at AT&T back in the 1970s and discovered recently by OpenBSD developer Otto Moerbeek."
Simple Multiple-Steam Output Redirection With Zsh On Linux and Unix (Jul 24, 2008, 03:00 UTC) (360 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Following up on yesterday's post regarding using zsh's extended globbing functionality, today we're going to look at another feature supported by zsh, that can't be done nearly as easily in most other shells. Today we're going to look at some unique ways you can manipulate input and output redirection, even with multiple streams, while avoided a lot of extra code, and maybe a temp file or three."
The Current Development Kernel is...Linux-next? (Jul 23, 2008, 18:45 UTC) (1099 reads)
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(feedback) LWN: "But the value of the mainline repository for development would appear to be less than it once was. The mainline is no longer where the action is."
Fedora Launches OLPC Group (Jul 23, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (644 reads)
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(feedback) Tectonic: "“Their time is stretched perilously thin … we in the Fedora community can therefore have a huge, direct, and immediate impact on the success of the OLPC project.”"
Dictators in Free and Open Source Software (Jul 23, 2008, 16:30 UTC) (760 reads)
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(feedback) Free Software Magazine: "Some people seem to challenge the idea that most (if not all) free software projects need a benevolent dictator—that is, somebody who has the last say on every decision. They are quick to point out Linus Torvalds’ past “mistakes” (see the brackets): using BitKeeper to manage the kernel, not allowing “pluggable” schedulers in Linux, etc. As a software developer, I feel that a dictator is absolutely necessary in every free software project."
Open Source Still the Best Way to Develop Software (Jul 23, 2008, 14:15 UTC) (596 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld: "I can't take this study too seriously. After all, what else is Fortify going to say? "Open-source's Law of Many Eyes works great. You don't need our products?" I don't think so."
Anatomy of Linux Loadable Kernel Modules (Jul 23, 2008, 03:30 UTC) (1280 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "The Linux kernel is what's known as a monolithic kernel, which means that the majority of the operating system functionality is called the kernel and runs in a privileged mode. This differs from a micro-kernel, which runs only basic functionality as the kernel (inter-process communication [IPC], scheduling, basic input/output [I/O], memory management) and pushes other functionality outside the privileged space (drivers, network stack, file systems). You'd think that Linux is then a very static kernel, but in fact it's quite the opposite. Linux can be dynamically altered at run time through the use of Linux kernel modules (LKMs)."
"Internet Explorer 7 is the Best Release We Ever Did" (Jul 22, 2008, 20:15 UTC) (1888 reads)
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(feedback) derStandard: "Blizzard: There is still quite a large percentage of people using IE 6 and that is certainly holding back the web. But you are starting to see web developers getting more and more frustrated with IE6, and there already have been some major movements in this regard, like with Apple: Mobile.me does not support Internet Explorer 6 anymore..."
Using Perltidy To Beautify Ugly Perl Scripts (Jul 22, 2008, 11:00 UTC) (928 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today, we're going to look at almost the exact opposite of what we've done in the past in our posts on security through obfuscation (the series being linked back to on the most recent page) and look at a freely available, and highly configurable, way to unmangle Perl code. The program (or, to be more exact, the Perl Module) that takes care of that for us is called Perl::Tidy..."
Choosing Between Mashups and Standard Web Apps (Jul 22, 2008, 09:30 UTC) (804 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "One of the first questions that customers often ask is "What’s the difference between a mashup and the Web applications that we currently use in our enterprise today?" The difference has little to do with technology or the integration of systems. Instead, it reflects the ease with which the application can be created by users, how the application is intended to be used, and the lack of nonfunctional requirements (for example, reliability, availability, and performance) that need to be addressed after the mashup or Web application is deployed."
X Devs Drop NVIDIA Auto-Config Support (Jul 21, 2008, 21:45 UTC) (2762 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "Sparking a heated Sunday afternoon debate, NVIDIA's Aaron Plattner had commited a trivial change to the X Server that resulted in several key open-source X developers becoming disgruntled. Ultimately, this NVIDIA-spawned patch ended up being recalled just hours later."
FSF vs. iPhone (Jul 21, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (2159 reads)
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(feedback) OSTatic: "One thing about the Free Software Foundation: there's seldom any doubt where they stand. Take the blog entry they recently posted: "5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G." You can't come away from it thinking that there are pros and cons to the iPhone. Rather, if you agree with them, you shouldn't even consider putting an iPhone in your pocket. But how well do their arguments stack up?"
OSCON: Linux Rocks in Mobile, Embedded Realm (Jul 21, 2008, 15:45 UTC) (737 reads)
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(feedback) eWeek: "Linux is here to stay in the mobile and embedded worlds.
That is the message Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, plans to deliver at the upcoming O'Reilly OSCON (Open Source Convention)."
Perl and Bash Versions Of Binary To Decimal Conversion Script (Jul 19, 2008, 13:30 UTC) (1639 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "As promised, in yesterday's post on converting binary values to decimal in C, today we're going to follow up with straight-up ports to Perl and shell. Actually, they'll be slightly different. If you check yesterday's post, for some reason I left in a variable called "difference" which was a part of the code I mentioned that I had originally written to pad 0's on the left hand side of a binary number less than 8 digits."
E4X: JavaScript on Steroids (Jul 19, 2008, 09:30 UTC) (1727 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "E4X is designed to simplify the task of writing JavaScript code for XML. It is an efficient, powerful tool that you can use to interact with XML nodes and attributes. The primary objective of E4X is to give JavaScript developers a straightforward and efficient way to manipulate an XML document without relying on the Document Object Model (DOM)."
Converting Binary Numbers To Decimal The Hard Way On Linux Or Unix (Jul 18, 2008, 09:30 UTC) (1535 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "If you recall a while back, we looked at using Perl's "unpack" function to easily convert binary values to decimal and convert decimal back to binary. Those were both (some folks may consider) relatively sophisticated methods of tackling the problem. Although, once you understand how "unpack" works, the first becomes incredibly simple to use and understand."
Themes in e107 CMS (Jul 18, 2008, 06:30 UTC) (1080 reads)
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(feedback) Packt "The look and feel of any website is a major factor that drives traffic towards the site. A theme is responsible to give a consistent look and feel to a website. In this article by Theodore S Boomer, we will see how to select and delete themes for e107 websites"
Mono Man Accuses Mac Gtk+ Fans of Jeopardizing Linux Desktop (Jul 17, 2008, 17:15 UTC) (2401 reads)
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(feedback) The Register: "De Icaza, leading the Mono and Moonlight cross-platform .NET projects at Novell, has warned a "new crop" of developers pushing plans for Gtk+ 3 risk "throwing away years of work" on Gtk+. They're also failing to recognize the value of having an ISV ecosystem working to put Gnome on Linux. Gtk+ is the tool set for building the Gnome graphical user interface, with version three the next planned major update."
Getting Started with XForms in OpenOffice (Jul 17, 2008, 15:45 UTC) (1332 reads)
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(feedback) DevX.com: "Most developers have heard of XForms as an XML-based forms language meant to replace traditional HTML Forms. This is essentially correct; XForms was created as the next generation version of HTML forms—but the design goals are such that they can be implemented as forms in environments other than the web browser. One such environment is your typical office application. XForms is implemented as one possible method of doing forms-based applications in OpenOffice or Sun's StarOffice."
Google Android: The Difference Between "Open" and "Open Source" (Jul 17, 2008, 14:15 UTC) (1709 reads)
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(feedback) OStatic: "...developers - tired of fighting bugs in a months-old SDK build - started asking for a roadmap of future releases. Not only did Google ignore this request, but they did something worse (from the point of view of many developers): they released a fresh SDK build to a few favored developers, and then accidentally leaked the news themselves."
Persistent Configuration Options For X.Org Drivers (Jul 17, 2008, 02:00 UTC) (1398 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "Thanks to more reliable EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) on LCD panels, it's generally no longer needed to manually specify mode-lines within this X.Org configuration file. With improvements for auto-detection, in many circumstances it's no longer even needed to manually specify your graphics driver and other options. However, the X Server currently lacks an infrastructure for supporting persistent device properties."
What Linus Torvalds thinks about BSD (Jul 16, 2008, 21:29 UTC) (5281 reads)
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(feedback) Internet News: "It's soo rude that it's 'funny' - that is if you're not an OpenBSD developer or have a particular affection for monkeys."
Using Static Analysis Tools to Identify Code Smells (Jul 16, 2008, 11:00 UTC) (1262 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "Over the years, I've seen lots of source code from many projects, ranging from elegant designs to code that appeared to be bundled together with duct tape. I've written new code and maintained other developers' source code. I'd rather write new code, but I enjoy taking some existing code and reducing complexity in a method or extracting duplicate code into a common class. Earlier in my career, many believed that if you weren't writing new code, you weren't being productive. Fortunately, in the late 1990s, Martin Fowler's book Refactoring (see Resources) helped make the practice of improving existing code without changing external behavior — well — cool."
Hamsterdb: a Small, Fast Database That Won't Weigh You Down (Jul 16, 2008, 08:00 UTC) (1460 reads)
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(feedback) Developer.com: "Cristoph Rupp's hamsterdb is a lightweight, embedded database engine designed for ease of use, high performance, stability, and portability...embedded systems such as cellphones and other portable devices, where memory is at a premium, also will benefit from the lightweight hamsterdb. It also supports in-memory databases, which may be helpful for these platforms as well."
Intro to Awk, the Great Language with a Strange Name (Jul 16, 2008, 06:30 UTC) (2021 reads)
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(feedback) IBM Developerworks: "Sure, awk doesn't have a great name. But it is a great language. Awk is geared toward text processing and report generation, yet features many well-designed features that allow for serious programming. And, unlike some languages, awk's syntax is familiar, and borrows some of the best parts of languages like C, python, and bash (although, technically, awk was created before both python and bash). Awk is one of those languages that, once learned, will become a key part of your strategic coding arsenal."
Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS vs. 8.10 Alpha 2 Performance (Jul 15, 2008, 17:30 UTC) (2404 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "With Canonical having pulled many new packages into Ubuntu 8.10 from Debian unstable and there being the Linux 2.6.26-rc8 kernel, a near-final version of X.Org 7.4 / Mesa 7.1, and GCC 4.3 among them, we've decided to run a few early benchmarks of Intrepid Ibex. In this article we have enclosed 32 benchmark results from the Phoronix Test Suite comparing Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS to Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 2."
Hot skills: Mobile Linux (Jul 15, 2008, 16:45 UTC) (1103 reads)
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(feedback) Computer Weekly: "The initial surge of Linux in the server market has settled down in recent years. But in embedded applications, particularly mobile devices, the open source operating system is soaring."
Linux 2.6.26 Opens Up to Debugging (Jul 15, 2008, 11:30 UTC) (1748 reads)
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(feedback) Internet News: "KGDB is the new Linux source level debugger and enters the mainline Linux kernel despite the past objections of Linux founder Linus Torvalds. Eight years ago, Torvalds wrote in a Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) post: "I don't like debuggers. Never have, probably never will.""
Big Buck Bunny Builds a Better Blender (Jul 15, 2008, 07:00 UTC) (1608 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Big Buck Bunny is the colorful product of the Peach open movie project: an animated short released online and on DVD. But in addition to the 'toon itself, Peach has produced an altogether different yield: improvements to the Blender 3-D modeling application. Like its predecessor Project Orange, Peach pushed the open source tool forward with the demands of a real-world media production, in a way that hobbyist usage cannot. Could other free software projects use the same model?"
Keep Thunderbird from Building Too Big a Nest on Your Hard Disk (Jul 14, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (1872 reads)
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(feedback) TechRepublic: "Through its support for the POP3 and IMAP4 protocols, the program is compatible with nearly any messaging system, and its cross-platform nature makes it ideal for mixed-client environments..."
Dynamic Languages and IDEs: What's the Market? (Jul 11, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (2189 reads)
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(feedback) tecosystems: "For those of you that missed the news, Sun's Ted Leung recently announced that an upcoming version of NetBeans would be supporting the Python language..."
GNOME 3.0 Is Coming, And Coming Soon! (Jul 10, 2008, 21:00 UTC) (4998 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "Well, in addition to announcing Stormy Peters joining GNOME, at GUADEC 2008 they have just announced plans for GNOME 3.0...!"
Is It Time for Open Source to Grow Up? (Jul 8, 2008, 20:15 UTC) (1688 reads)
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(feedback) ITtoolbox: "In the past ten years Open Source software and its poster child, Linux, has expanded quite remarkably. It has changed from a rebel without a cause to an entity that even the tried and true establishments have sat up and taken notice..."
Reiser Reportedly Leads Police to Wife's Body (Jul 8, 2008, 12:45 UTC) (2646 reads)
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(feedback) CNET News: "Hans Reiser, the Linux programmer convicted in April of murdering his estranged wife, has led police to what is believed to be her body, authorities told the San Francisco Chronicle on Monday..."
Developing for Linux Netbooks (Jul 8, 2008, 09:45 UTC) (1772 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux Distillery: "Here's my tips for developing software for the emerging and widely popular netbook market..."
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