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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)
Ubuntu Netbooks vs. Ubuntu Mobile Internet Devices: What's the Difference? (Jul 24, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (207 reads)
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(feedback) Workswithu: "The company has at least two Ubuntu software projects — one for Netbooks, the other for Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) — that sound strikingly similar. So what’s the difference between Ubuntu for Netbooks and Ubuntu for MIDs?"
SCO Group: Its Future is All Used Up (Jul 24, 2008, 00:03 UTC) (1024 reads)
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(feedback) Network World: "I've now been writing about SCO for five years -- how time does fly when you have someone to despise. In my first column about SCO's decision go into the lawsuit business rather than having to do all the hard work of making a product that someone might want to buy, I thought that someone would just buy the slime off. I was wrong -- I guess there is some truth to the punch line of the old joke that "there are just some things a lawyer won't do." I guess IBM's lawyers could not stomach the idea of rewarding such repulsive behavior."
Return of the InstallFest...It Starts Here (Jul 23, 2008, 22:00 UTC) (397 reads)
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(feedback) Blog of Helios: "As far as the events for Lindependence in Felton go, Saturday’s event might be Lindependence’s last event before the formation of a LUG and an on-the-ground GNU/Linux presence in the area, but the spirit of Lindependence and movement itself are currently snowballing into something that will be felt in these parts, and happening at a rate faster than I had expected."
OSCON: Canonical's Shuttleworth Calls On Linux to Overtake Apple (Jul 23, 2008, 20:15 UTC) (1079 reads)
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(feedback) The VAR Guy: "Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical and Ubuntu, delivered the keynote address at OSCON this evening. Here’s a recap of his presentation, which explored how free software can drive innovation — and how the Linux desktop has to become a piece of art that leapfrogs Apple within two years."
Killing the Desktop Metaphor with GNOME (Jul 23, 2008, 15:00 UTC) (1739 reads)
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(feedback) Open-Source.ecchi.ca: "One of the most significant problems I can see with the idea of having contents on a "desktop" is that most of the time, that desktop is hidden by multiple windows. To access your contents, you need to minimize a bunch of stuff, or hit ctrl-alt-D, or use the "Show desktop" panel applet, and when you are done, raise all your windows again. You keep moving things out of the way and putting them back in the way, all the time!"
Do We Need to Wipe the Slate With x86? (Jul 23, 2008, 14:00 UTC) (1541 reads)
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(feedback) ZDNet: "While today’s entry-level x86-based systems are hundreds, nay, thousands of times more powerful than the original IBM PC, in theory you can still run OSes on them bare metal that last saw the light of day on a production system in the early 1990s or even earlier."
Beyond the Desktop With KDE4 (Jul 23, 2008, 13:30 UTC) (1838 reads)
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(feedback) Tectonic: "Lately, there has been quite some bitching on the fringes of the KDE project about KDE4 and the direction it takes. Some people go as far as saying: “Give us back our old desktop!” I beg to differ. The old desktop has served us well for thirty-odd years since its invention by Xerox. It is beyond its due date by now. We need something new that meets the reality we are living in now."
ISO is Being Challenged (Jul 23, 2008, 12:45 UTC) (1321 reads)
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(feedback) Arnaud's Open Blog: "Essentially, the ISO and IEC courts of appeal are made of a jury composed of a subset of the very same parties that judged OOXML in the first place. Now, I’m not a law expert by any means but it doesn’t take much expertise to figure out that such a set up is bogus."
OLPC Wins International Design Excellence Award- 2008 (Jul 23, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (546 reads)
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(feedback) International Design Excellence Awards: "Brilliant design for an even better cause. From the physical design to the sociological impact, every element of this laptop is exemplary of true innovation."
Open Source Cloud Computing Service 10gen Gets $1.5 Million (Jul 23, 2008, 09:30 UTC) (639 reads)
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(feedback) OStatic: "Union Square Ventures, the venture firm that funded such names as Del.icio.us, FeedBurner, Etsy and Twitter, is investing $1.5 million in open source cloud computing service 10gen. 10gen's software stack is roughly comparable to Google App Engine..."
Fancy Globbing With Zsh On Linux and Unix (Jul 23, 2008, 08:00 UTC) (790 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today we're going to look at some stuff that's probably not much of an education for the zsh aficionado, but that I find pretty cool... I did what I could to verify that this stuff only works with zsh"
Linux Tools to Convert File Formats (Jul 23, 2008, 05:00 UTC) (1590 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com "The easiest way to transfer data between systems is by using plain text files or common formats like comma-separated value (CSV) files. However, converting such files from Windows or Mac OS results in formatting differences for the newline characters and character encoding. This article explains why we have these problems and shows ways to solve them."
Face Off: Windows vs Linux Real World RAM and Disk Tests (Jul 23, 2008, 02:00 UTC) (2753 reads)
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(feedback) IT Wire: "How do Windows Vista and Linux really compare against each other? It’s one thing to talk about the familiar applications available to Windows users contrasted with the rich suite of free open source apps for Linux, but something totally different to actually compare the loads of the two operating systems as they perform functionally identical tasks."
Intel Snubs Microsoft; Offers Linux Certification (Jul 22, 2008, 22:30 UTC) (1484 reads)
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(feedback) APC Magazine: "Attendees at the annual techfest can land a substantial discount sitting for any of three open-source exams held by the Linux Professional Institute, the world’s premier Linux certification organisation. However, there’s been no word on any similar arrangement for Microsoft certification, despite Redmond once again paying top dollar to be listed among IDF’s Gold Sponsors."
OSCON 2008: Mcrosoft Attends, But Apple Steals the Show (Jul 22, 2008, 21:38 UTC) (1779 reads)
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(feedback) The VAR Guy: "How’s this for ironic: Microsoft is actually spending some sponsorship dollars here at OSCON (Open Source Conference) 2008, but Apple is stealing the show — without spending a dime."
Debian Celebrates 15-year Legacy (Jul 22, 2008, 21:00 UTC) (795 reads)
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(feedback) Tectonic: "Debian, arguably the most important Linux distribution, is readying to celebrate its 15th birthday on August 16."
Why Linux is Not on the Desktop (Jul 22, 2008, 19:30 UTC) (2379 reads)
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(feedback) Blog Critics: "Reason #13 - "Why does your Windows get slower day after day?" - We've already discussed this: It's because of the humongous amount of software available to Windows people, and that includes a huge amount of crapware. This isn't a problem in Linux because there just isn't a large enough installed base to make writing such software worth it to those who write it. i.e., Linux just isn't popular enough."
TOUR: Inside the Googleplex, Mountain View, California (Jul 22, 2008, 18:45 UTC) (1123 reads)
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(feedback) APC Magazine: "Firstly, when you're at Google, you feel like you're on a university canvas. But a private university, with lots and lots of cash. While the campus itself isn't 'shmick' (for instance, there's no grand foyer nor any marble desks to greet visitors) there is an air of expense and quality to it. But the quality seems to stem from the company's ethos, and all the staff that walk around smiling."
Blogger Gets $200 Check From HP For Declining Vista's EULA (Jul 22, 2008, 15:45 UTC) (3519 reads)
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(feedback) ars Technica: "Blogger uncle_benji went over to Best Buy and purchased an HP dv6815nr for $599.99 plus tax. When he saw the Windows Vista EULA and the HP EULA, he decided he wanted to move to Linux."
SECURITY: Firefox Add-on Glubble Too Clunky and Restrictive as a Children's Internet Filter (Jul 22, 2008, 15:00 UTC) (716 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: " For parents, a tool like Glubble can seem like the perfect answer to the problem of protecting kids from the unsavory elements of the Internet. But as I discovered through my use of Glubble, the questions surrounding the idea of Internet filtering don't come with easy answers."
Microsoft: Its Party’s Over (Jul 22, 2008, 14:15 UTC) (3688 reads)
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(feedback) Boycott Novell: "Microsoft shares fell sharply, just as they did in the previous quarter when profits fell and Microsoft was no longer able to pretend and conceal its pains. This marked the beginning of a stage where we are likely to see Microsoft’s estimates and forecasts lowered and then potentially missed again and again."
Installing And Using OpenVZ On Fedora 9 (Jul 22, 2008, 06:30 UTC) (911 reads)
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(feedback) HowtoForge: "In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare a Fedora 9 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project."
Using iMacros for Firefox: A Visual, Step-By-Step Tour (Jul 22, 2008, 05:00 UTC) (1127 reads)
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(feedback) OStatic: "If you spend a lot of time in Firefox, and especially if you perform a lot of repetitive tasks each day, iMacros can save you tons of time and hassle. It sits in your Firefox toolbar, and lets you record tasks whether they are oft-performed web development tasks, or simple tasks such as opening a series of tabs you use each day."
Doing the Good Thing (Jul 22, 2008, 00:30 UTC) (1130 reads)
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(feedback) Blog of Helios: "My reasons for bringing this up are purely to show just how fragmented the wasp really is.
Oh...Wasp? That would be us...Warring Against Self Preservation. I have decided that there really isn't any "Linux Community". Only factions that spend an inordinate amount of time ripping at each other's throats."
Wikipedia Tries Approval System to Reduce Vandalism on Pages (Jul 21, 2008, 18:45 UTC) (877 reads)
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(feedback) New York Times: "Wikipedia is considering a basic change to its editing philosophy to cut down on vandalism. In the process, the online encyclopedia anyone can edit would add a layer of hierarchy and eliminate some of the spontaneity that has made the site, at times, an informal source of news."
The Importance of Purity on the Linux Desktop (Jul 21, 2008, 17:16 UTC) (1270 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxInsider: "Does it really matter if an open source desktop includes closed source code? To some in the Linux community, yes, but to others, it's not something to stress about. "Hey, stop talking like this is a great and epic struggle," wrote loganrapp on Slashdot. "Zimbabwe is a great struggle. We're just talking about computer operating systems.""
Linus Torvalds, Geek of the Week (Jul 21, 2008, 12:45 UTC) (1939 reads)
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(feedback) Simple-Talk: "Linus Torvalds is remarkable, not only for being the technical genius who wrote Linux, but for then being able to inspire and lead an enormous team of people to devote their free time to work on the operating system and bring it to maturity. We sent Richard Morris off to interview Linus, and find out more."
KOffice Releases Ninth Alpha of KOffice 2.0 (Jul 21, 2008, 12:00 UTC) (1061 reads)
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(feedback) KDE.news: "The KOffice team announces the availability of the ninth alpha release of KOffice 2.0. With KDE4 becoming more stable by the week, KOffice development is picking up at a fast pace and developers who previously had trouble keeping up are now getting active again, leading to a much increased rate of commits for KOffice. Both the NLnet sponsored Girish Ramakrisnan, who is working on OpenDocument support, and the KOffice Google Summer of Code students are delivering solid work."
Backing Up and Restoring TYPO3 Websites (Jul 20, 2008, 21:30 UTC) (849 reads)
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(feedback) Packt: "Depending on the operating system we are using, there are a number of different ways in which we can back up the files from TYPO3. In this article, we will look into backing up the files on Windows and on Linux. This is because Windows is the most used operating system, and Linux is the most popular hosting environment for websites."
Linux - a disruptive technology? (Jul 20, 2008, 09:30 UTC) (2965 reads)
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(feedback) ITPro: "Is Linux the disruptive technology, or is it the GNU General Public License which really shook up the open source world?"
Third Annual Open Source CMS Award Launched (Jul 20, 2008, 01:30 UTC) (1350 reads)
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(feedback) Packt: "The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS) that have been selected by a panel of judges and visitors to www.PacktPub.com. Now entering its third year, the Award has established itself as an important measure for quality and the popularity of Open Source Content Management Systems."
Virtual Hosting With Proftpd And MySQL (Incl. Quota) On Fedora 9 (Jul 19, 2008, 21:30 UTC) (1023 reads)
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(feedback) "This document describes how to install a Proftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota with this setup."
An Open Source Seeing Eye Dog for Web Surfers (Jul 19, 2008, 14:26 UTC) (1238 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxInsider: "WebAnywhere is an open source, Web-based application that acts as a screen reader of sorts for blind people. Its developer, a student at the University of Washington, designed it so that blind people can access public computers for important information."
Linux 2.6.26 Kernel Benchmarks (Jul 19, 2008, 05:30 UTC) (3929 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "Over the weekend the Linux 2.6.26 kernel was released. This quarterly update to the Linux kernel introduced Kernel-based Virtual Machine improvements, new One Laptop Per Child support, a new video web camera driver, updates to the Direct Rendering Manager, and other improvements. In this article we have done some quick benchmarks of this new kernel from within the Phoronix Test Suite."
Is Selling Linux Evil? (Jul 19, 2008, 04:00 UTC) (1856 reads)
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(feedback) CoolTechZone: " As many of the pre-installed distro options showing up in the big box stores have shown us, in this country, for non-geeks, Linux adoption means coming off the high horse and joining the bottled water crowd."
Is SCO Finally Dead? (Jul 18, 2008, 21:45 UTC) (2477 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com "Even though SCO has suffered another legal defeat, the company looks like it has enough willpower, if not sense, to keep its legal losing streak going."
KDE 4.1 Release Candidate Now Available (Jul 18, 2008, 21:00 UTC) (2196 reads)
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(feedback) Techworld: "Developers to focus on code quality...KDE 4.1-RC1 is intended to be used for testing the upcoming KDE 4.1 release and to filter out last-minute bugs, according to the project."
Use xfs_fsr to Keep Your XFS Filesystem Optimal (Jul 18, 2008, 20:15 UTC) (1453 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "If you want to see what the fragmentation is like for the whole filesystem, use the xfs_db utility. The -r option tells xfs_db to operate in read-only mode, which lets you use it on a mounted and in-use filesystem, and is probably a good idea anyway unless you really want to modify the filesystem."
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