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Source: goblinx

Flavio Pereira de Oliveira has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Goblinx 2.6 "Standard" edition, a Slackware-based distribution featuring five desktop environments and window managers: "The GoblinX Standard 2.6 RC1 is released. GoblinX Standard is the original edition, first released at the end of October .

Source: voltalinux

Voltalinux is a server-oriented GNU/Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux and the "pkgsrc" package management system from NetBSD. Voltalinux 2.0 "Viareggio", a new major update, was released yesterday: "Voltalinux 2.0 is out. Voltalinux 2.0 is based on the 2.6.21 kernel, Slackware 12.0, and pkgsrc-2007Q3. The big new feature .

Source: Linux Today

Worker's Edge: "The first thing you learn when you write about technology is that the people who read your stuff are smarter than you'll ever be "

Source: Linux Today

Click: "Los Angeles may be the second-largest city in the United States, but when it comes to overt, shouting-at-the-rooftops open-source software evangelism, you'd never know it "

Source: Linux Today

BusinessWeek: "Now, Firefox fans are trying to boost the upstart browser's Chinese profile "

Source: Linux Today

DesktopLinux: "PC vendor Lenovo has promised ThinkPads with pre-installed Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 for some time now. Lenovo will deliver the goods the week of Jan. 14 "

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Linux.com: "Western & Southern Financial Group provides insurance and investment advice for businesses and consumers "

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code culture: "People were already making a fuss about Nicholas' claim that we're working with Microsoft on supporting dual-boot with Windows XP, and now Bruce Perens writes a lachrymal--if entirely misinformed--missive about OLPC selling out to Microsoft "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

mrbadbar writes "Gentoo Linux founder Daniel Robbins says Gentoo's leadership is in crisis. 'the Gentoo Foundation's charter has been revoked for several weeks, which means that as of this moment the Gentoo Foundation no longer exists.' Robbins offers a solution: his return as President of the Gentoo Foundation. According to Robbins: 'If I return as President, I will preserve the not-for-profit aspect of Gentoo. Beyond this, you can expect everything to be very, very different than how things are today.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Project Zero provides an environment for the rapid development of interactive Web applications based on popular Web technologies such as PHP.
This exercise demonstrates how easy it is to get started with Project Zero, from
installing the development tools to constructing an Ajax Web 2.0 sample using
PHP as the back-end scripting language. Exporting an application is covered on the way, together with examples of debugging and extending a Web 2.0 application.

Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Discover the XMLReader library, which is bundled with PHP 5 and enables PHP pages to process XML documents in an efficient streaming mode.