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Source: Linux Today

OSWeekly: "I will do one better--if you do not use a Firewall and a VPN on what is largely considered a non-private network (coffee shop or college campus, for instance), you are basically inviting anyone to examine your network traffic closely "


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g.campbell: "However Oracle it seems will be the unlikely hero, as it's skunkworks develop a next generation Linux Filesystem named Btrfs "


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The Linux Distillery: "Torvald's comments are therefore unsurprising, and are consistent with his own work. However, what he goes on to say is definitely insightful "


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ZDNet: "Super Friday is February 29, the end of the ISO Ballot Resolution Meeting which will decide the fate of Open XML as an ISO standard "


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Enterprise Unix Roundup: "Lots of news in the world of the PowerPC platform this week: a native Linux on Power release, a virtual offering from IBM, and some fightin' words from the Linux community regarding OS X "


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Mad Penguin: "Are we doing enough to attract new users from the IT community ?"


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LinuxHow2: "Let me count the ways an open letter to Linux "


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Adventures in Open Source: "This is the 3rd part or my trip through Slackware-based distros and today's candidate is Wolvix 1.1.0 Hunter, I was intrigued to see how it would compare to Zenwalk and Vector which I tested recently "


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Packt: "ZenEdu is a Live distribution that packs a whole bunch of educational tools on top of the Slackware-based light-weight and zippy Zenwalk Linux "


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Linux.com: "Elive is based on Debian and uses Enlightenment as its windows manager, which gives the distribution a Mac OS X look and feel "


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The VAR Guy: "The VAR Guy isn't ready to predict which company Sun will acquire next, but he has noticed Schwartz getting pretty darn cozy with two fast-growing open source businesses "


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iTWire: "Melbourne's Stewart Smith heads the 2008-09 team of office-bearers who have taken over at Linux Australia "


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LinuxWorld: "Developers and startup founders use the Mozilla toolkits to build apps for diverse uses including music and video playing "


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KDE.org: "The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.0.1, the first bugfix and maintenance release "


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Linux-Watch: "People have been predicting the death of the mainframe for more years than the mainframe has been around "


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Computer Business Review: "I've penned a few blogs about Linux on the desktop, and the fact that various statistics I've uncovered suggest it has less than a 1% market share "


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The Open Road: "I wouldn't mind being in a list with companies like Google and Salesforce.com, which is precisely the company Red Hat is keeping in its continued growth trajectory "


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Linux Journal: "On January 17 of this year the first beta release of Renoise 1.9.1 was announced. Along with new features and fixes for its Windows and OSX versions, this release includes the first version of Renoise for Linux "


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Phoronix: "Last Friday 4Front Technologies had released the binaries and source-code to OSS 4.0 Build 1013 "


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Linux Love: "Here we go again, another Linux distribution has been updated and caught my attention so I've decided to take it out for a spin and write about how the ride was "


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Worker's Edge: "The first few times I worked on Word files in the OpenOffice.org Writer program, I was satisfied if the documents opened at all "



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

narramissic writes "Remember the controversial Mac hacking contest from last year's CanSecWest conference? No? Here's a refresher: Conference organizers challenged attendees to hack into a Macintosh laptop, with the successful hacker winning the computer and a cash prize. Winner Dino Dai Zovi found a QuickTime bug that allowed him to run unauthorized software on the Mac once the computer's browser was directed to a specially crafted Web page. Well, the contest is back again this year, but with a twist, says Dragos Ruiu, the principal organizer of CanSecWest: 'We're thinking of having a contest where we have Vista and OS X and Linux and see which one goes first.""Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

One of the great things about Debian and Ubuntu is that you have a ton of great open source software at your fingertips via the package repositories for those distros. However, if you want to run popular packages like VMware Server or Opera, it gets a little tricker. Scott Granneman explains the ins and outs of extra repositories.



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Open source advocate William Hurley has put up a
poll
asking readers who would be the best presidential candidate on open source issues. Think patent reform, for instance. Don't give away the results



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Source: Linux DevCenter

I just ran across a weblog called The Daily Ubuntu. It's not deeply technical, nor is it only for Ubuntu users, but it does feature a new application available on Ubuntu every day. This looks like a good resource for



Updated: Thu Feb 7 23:55:01 2008


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