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Pioneer Linux 3.1 has been released: "Technalign, Inc. has announced the release of the Pioneer Basic 3.1 workstation, Stagecoach 3.1, and its enterprise server MigrationSERVER 3.1. These workstations utilize the KDE desktop and run off a live CD for users to test before installation. The new releases maintain .

Source: weekly

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Commentary: Solaris on the desktop News: Debian "Lenny" plans, Slackware on KDE 4, Linux Magazine and Mandriva Powerpack, NetBSD interview Released last week: X/OS Linux 5.1, UHU-Linux 2.1 Upcoming releases: Fedora 9 Alpha, Mandriva Linux 2008.0 Beta 2 Donations: VLC receives US$350.00 New .

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Debian Admin: "The TLS protocol allows applications to communicate across a network in a way designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery "

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HowtoForge: "FlyBack is a tool similar to Apple's TimeMachine. It is intended to create snapshot-backups of selected directories or even your full hard drive "

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MrCopilot: "His only hope was that he knew Qt was cross compatible with Windows Linux and Mac, and there was talk that someday, KDE was to be ported to Windows. So he waited "

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PlexNex: "Hope for a harmonization of formats does reflect one truth: that the whole point of this ugly exercise is to have one single FORMAT. Anything else ridiculously undermines common sense "

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Linux-Watch: "I would argue that Novell's Microsoft partnership has worked out for Novell, but as for Linspire, Turbolinux and Xandros, well, no, I don't see it "

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Once More Unto the Breach: "First, if you sell software solutions, and one of the platforms you support is Windows, you're not alone. There is a lot of free and open source software that has company support that is deployed on Windows as one of its platforms "

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ODF Alliance Weblog: "With the input of our members, we've taken a first cut at the Top 10 Worst Responses (reproduced below) to the 3,522 comments submitted by National Bodies "

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Roundup: After Aaron Seigo's assertion in an interview that Canonical "neglected" its KDE user base, Kubuntu developer Jonathan Riddell and Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon have posted their own differing responses.

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Hoosier Penguin: "When Palamida was first founded in 2003, their business model seemed rather familiar "

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openSUSE News: "I'd like to give a warm welcome to Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier who joins the openSUSE project as 'openSUSE community manager '"

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Roundup: A new meme is making the rounds: "Proprietary Open Source." What is it, and is it a valid business model? Answers--hopefully--within.

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Roundup: "When Yahoo acquired Zimbra in September 2007, some Zimbra backers worried Yahoo would mismanage the open source email asset "

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Open Sources: "I've asked this before, but why should a customer care about IP assurance ?"

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internetnews.com: "Is it finally time to relegate the petition to the same retirement patch as OS/2 itself ?"

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Phoronix: "[Feb. 1] NVIDIA quietly uploaded a new Linux display driver to their FTP server.

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iTNews: "IT workers who specialise in free and open source software are earning more than the national average for IT, according to the results of Australia's first open source census "

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NetworkWorld: "Open source management applications disrupted the market a few years back and some of the pioneers in the technology area continue to progress and grow their business "

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Funtoo by Daniel Robbins: "I will not be forking the project, and you may be bummed about that, but at the same time I am going to find effective ways to help the larger Gentoo community "

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The Open Road: "Gartner has made 10 key technology predictions to kick off 2008, and in Gartner's view, life has never been better for open source "

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PC Pro: "The fourth Alpha version of Ubuntu 8.04 has been released, offering intriguing new features for both businesses and consumers "

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The Linux Foundation: "Patents are nasty. It's kind of hard to really say a lot more than the fact that patents on ideas in general are a huge mistake and the whole notion that you can have patents, business models and software is pretty broken to begin with "

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LinuxWorld: "During the 2007 holiday season, there was another small, white and cheap tech device that became a hard-to-find bestseller: the ultra-portable Eee PC notebook by ASUS "

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iTWire: "Richard Keech was an early adopter of Linux on the desktop back in the 1990s "

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KernelTrap: "'As you probably know there is a trend in enterprise computing towards networked storage "

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The Daily Ubuntu: "Do is an application to find things on your system and quickly perform actions, similar to Quicksilver for OSX and GNOME Launch Box "

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nixCraft: "I'm using CentOS Linux 5 server with ext3 on /disk2 (/dev/sdb1). How do I improve my file server performance. I've many large files in directories and how do I speed up access time ?"

Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's aggressive defense of its intellectual property, which includes claims that Linux violates a number of its patents, is nothing more than "a marketing thing," according to Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel. "They have been sued for patents by other people, but I don't think they've — not that I've gone through any huge amount of law cases — but I don't think they've generally used patents as a weapon," Torvalds said. "But they're perfectly happy to use anything at all as fear, uncertainty and doubt in the marketplace, and patents is just one thing where they say, 'Hey, isn't this convenient? We can use this as a PR force.'""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 : Web development : Technical library

Project Zero is a simplified development platform focused on the agile development of Web 2.0 applications following a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Among Project Zero's arsenal of libraries is a simplified API for executing SQL queries. Learn how to leverage these APIs to build a simple wiki.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

This tutorial presents an innovative use of the well-known Really Simple
Syndication (RSS) format's associative properties to emulate the functionality of a
simple relational database. It demonstrates using RSS channels to store contact
information and meeting information -- much as a personal address book and calendar
does. It uses RSS elements and attributes such as items and guids to create a neural-network-like mesh of related data.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

JavaServer Faces (JSF) technology, a server-side framework that offers a component-based approach to Web user-interface development, has come a long way. JSF 1.2 (incorporated into Java Enterprise Edition 5) has fixed some JSF pain points and added some nice features. This tutorial series covers how to get started with JSF 1.2. It's heavy on examples and light on theory -- just what you need to get started quickly.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

WS-* users and REST users have an ongoing debate over which
technique is most appropriate for which problem sets, with WS-* users often claiming
that more complex, enterprise-level problems cannot be solved RESTfully. This
article puts that theory to the test by trying to create a RESTful solution for a
problem area that is not often discussed by REST users: systems management. In a previous
developerWorks tutorial, I showed how to create a Web services interface for managing
HTTP server products; the tutorial used concepts from WSDL and the WS-* standards to
define the management interface and software from Apache Muse and Apache Axis to
create the management application. For this article, I use Project Zero and REST design principles to recreate the interface and function of the original application and determine if REST is a valid option for this enterprise project.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

A Web site or intranet has such a high volume of information available that you need special tools to index the content and provide access to it in a fast and convenient way. Learn how to do just that and provide a state-of-the-art search facility with the help of an Ajax library coupled with mature technologies like ColdFusion and Windows Indexing Service.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

"Test on multiple browsers" has been a mantra ever since there have been multiple browsers to test on. Testing them all -- especially these days -- is impossible. But you can come a lot closer than you may think. In this article, learn a variety of techniques for cross-browser testing, from the very thorough to the quick and dirty. The choice you make will depend on your resources, but this is an issue you can't ignore.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

When your Web application reaches a certain size, it needs a good database design
behind it. And in fact, this "certain size" is much smaller than almost every small-site developer thinks. Relational Data Base Management Systems
(RDBMSes) need not be
restrictive or over-architected, as their bad reputation sometimes
brings developers to fear. A bit of thought toward what your site
does quickly turns into a sensible schema design, and it is easy to
leave open expandable storage mechanisms like a "configuration"
table within an RDBMS back end.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

The previous installment
of this series introduced you to Ajax development by walking through the practical information
essential for getting an Ajax-enabled environment up and running. In this article, Part 2 of the series, the authors put
your newly gained knowledge into practice by starting the development of a simple Dojo and Atom-based blog reader.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

It takes some finesse to make the best use of asynchronous callbacks for
Ajax data sources in JavaScript applications. This tip discusses
why you should use asynchronous callbacks for Ajax data sources and
gives examples of coordinating the readiness of mutually dependent
application data sources that may become ready at undefined times
with asynchronous calls.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

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