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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Ubuntu Size: 117.52 MB Status: 3 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-07-29 20:28:15

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Jereme Hancock has announced the release of Ubuntu Christian Edition 3.3: "We are excited to announce the release of Ubuntu CE v3.3. This release adds a few new features and several updates and fixes. This release comes just after Ubuntu CE's 1st birthday. We have had a great .

Source: Linux Today

Personal Computer World: "In April the latest version of Ubuntu Linux, Feisty Fawn, was released. In this article, we are turning our attention to Kubuntu "

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Linux.com: "Since I'm Uruguayan, my mother tongue is Spanish, and that presented a problem: laptops usually have an American-style keyboard "

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Maximum PC: "If you're a hardcore Gentoo or Slackware type, go away and read something else. You're probably not going to like what I'm about to say "

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LinuxPlanet: "Ordinarily, the only place you see these programs are in laptops and the methods should work on laptops, and there are many places to go for information on the specialized laptop tweaks and GNOME and KDE laptop configuration options "

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LinuxInsider: "Today, about three quarters of the world's free software packages are distributed under GPLv2 "

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Linux In Novell's East Region: "Wow, sometimes you think you're really tied into a product and who's using it and where, but even I was surprised at the amount of people and institutions deploying, using and enhancing OpenOffice.org "

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HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on a Fedora 7 server "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

pschmied writes "Today the Étoilé Project released v0.2 of its Desktop Environment. Not only does Étoilé share user interface similarities with Mac OS X, Étoilé enjoys some source-level compatibility with Mac OS X as well. Many here undoubtedly remember NeXT, the revolutionary computer / development environment that gave rise to the first Web browser and later became the foundation of Mac OS X. Étoilé uses the FSF's own implementation of the NeXT development environment, GNUstep, making this a close technological relative of OS X. Screenshots and a source tarball are available."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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eldavojohn writes "Ian Murdock (Debian author & Sun's OS Chief) made some comments about Project Indiana that many have said is an attempt to make Solaris simply "more Linux-like." But Murdock quashes any concerns that this is just another Linux clone — muddying up the waters of distribution selection. He says that it's more a 'best of both worlds' attempt to make an OS that appeals to a broader audience. From the article, "Project Indiana will include a revamped package management system, which should prove popular with developers unaccustomed to Solaris. The OS has some clunky, archaic aspects, and Murdock thinks the new package system will modernize Solaris.""Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: eWEEK Linux

Opinion: Microsoft's domination in China isn't due to any superiority of Windows. (DesktopLinux.com)

Source: ONLamp.com

I’ll be at the Black Hat briefings in Las Vegas this week. In addition to the briefings, I enjoy going to Black Hat to reconnect with old friends, and to make new friends in the security industry. It is also a delight to meet people who read my blog and to have the chance to hear their thoughts and philosophies.
If you will be there as well, and would like to catch up, please send me an email.

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At OSCON I attended a handful of the sessions that were sessions were related to web application development. I’ve compiled a list of features I’d like to see in the next web application development framework:

Give me continuations. Let my request handlers check whether the user has authenticated and, if they haven’t, prompt the user and resume execution in the handler without losing state. If the user has requested to delete something, confirm the deletion first. I want this type of logic in the controller, not as a confirm() method in the JavaScript.
Let me attach listeners to server-side models and update the interface when the data structures have changed. For example, given a list of favorite movies that is stored in memory or in the database, I want a to be modified automatically when a favorite is added or removed.
Keep the API simple. Give me little languages, DSLs, data structures or whatever the fancy name for them is. Let me focus on the logic of what I’m doing. Don’t limit these little languages to only configuration files — Let me write my HTML templates in whatever language I’m using throughout the rest of the framework.
Make sure testing is a breeze. Let my tests “click” on s and make assertions on the contents of elements.

Fortunately, there are a few frameworks that have some of these features already.

Google Web Toolkit lets you write applications entirely in Java. The Java that needs to be run client-side is compiled into JavaScript. Designing interfaces in GWT is similar to the popular toolkits for desktop applications, and the testing framework seems solid.
Jifty, a Perl framework created by Best Practical, includes a lot of the aforementioned. Templates and tests are all written in Perl in a mini-syntax, and they’re working on compiling Perl to JavaScript. It even has continuations.

Above all, I never want to have to write an tag again. Giles Bowkett, in his HREF Considered Harmful talk, explained that it’s the modern equivalent of GOTO. I agree.