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Source: pfsense

Chris Buechler has announced the final release of pfSense 1.2, a small firewall based on FreeBSD: "The pfSense development team is proud to bring you the 1.2 release! This brings the features and bug fixes from more than 16 months of development since the 1.0 release. Already widely .


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Source: grml

Michael Prokop has announced the release of grml 1.1, a Debian-based distribution with a large collection of GNU/Linux software especially for users of text tools and system administrators: "grml 1.1 with codename 'Skunk' is available." What's new? "Several improved, updated and extended configuration files; new grml-scripts: arename.pl - .


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Source: weekly

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Tips and tricks: UNIX cut and paste News: FreeBSD reaches 7, Ubuntu introduces Intrepid Ibex, Gentoo conducts developer survey; gNewSense "frees" software packages, PCLinuxOS announces security board, interview round-up Released last week: GoblinX 2.6, CentOS 5.1 Live CD Upcoming releases: FreeBSD 7.0, Mandriva .



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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "This guide will walk you through the setup process for implementing NDT running under Ubuntu 7.10 server "


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people.ofset.org: "It wipes out an entire USB stick, partitions it, creates file systems on it, installs grub, and installs a minimal Linux on it "


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Source from Bohol: "In my noble aim to play at least one game for Linux per week, I bumped into a 3D car racing simulator called TORCS "


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The Daily Ubuntu: "Frozen-Bubble has blissfully stolen hours and hours of my life with its addictive gameplay and flippin' awesome soundtrack "


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Source: Linux Today

The Linux Distillery: "Today it's time to see what Linux has in common with popular horror flicks: this story has it all--zombies and zombie children, and a reaper "


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Source: Linux Today

Techthrob: "There has been a lot of debate recently over whether or not it's a good idea to run an anti-virus program if you're using Linux "


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Source: Linux Today

Grigor Gatchev--A Weblog: "The former approach of Microsoft--threatening to crush the top FOSS projects by litigation--was stillborn "


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Source: Linux Today

Wuthering Writes: "It's a good feeling, freeing someone from the shackles of Microsoft "


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Seeking Alpha: "This has to be more than trying to appease the European regulators "


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The Open Road: "Much is rightly made about the quality of open-source software like JBoss and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. These, however, are arguably not the source of the quality of the businesses behind them. Their networks were/are "


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Dr. Dobb's Journal: "Who ultimately forced Sun to open-source Java? Was it external pressure, either from Java developers or the open-source community ?"


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LinuxDevices: "In the North American market for POS (point of sales/service) terminals, Linux grew 32 percent year-over-year, according to figures released by IHL Group "


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxPlanet: "Plasma, ZUI, Oxygen, Dolphin, Okular, and Phonon are terms that seem more at home in a science experiment than in a Window Manager. But this is one science experiment that didn't go bad "


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Linux Foundation: "I'm here with Mark Shuttleworth today as part of our ongoing conversations at the Linux Foundation with leaders in the Linux community and technology industry where we hope to get insight into the trends that are shaping the future of open source and Linux "


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Computerworld UK: "It will come as no surprise to readers of this blog that the old proprietary software companies are finally seeing the light and beginning--some faster, some slower--to open up "


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Source: Linux Today

Underexposed: "'I may make fun of Microsoft occasionally, and yeah, I think they do stupid things at times, but I think this one was a step in the right direction,' Torvalds said in an e-mail "


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ITWorldCanada: "Familiar battle lines are being drawn over pending legslation mandating free and open source software for government and educational use in the Philippines "


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Reuters: "Their week-long meeting at the International Organisation for Standardisation, or ISO, is meant to help broker consensus after a preliminary vote on the standard failed six months ago "


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Washington Post: "And so this week, after a prosecution case that took almost three months, Du Bois launched what Wired magazine dubbed 'the Geek Defense '"


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ConsortiumInfo: "This rather long essay is in one sense a reply to the open letter recently released by Patrick Durusau, in which he suggested that it was time to acknowledge progress made and adopt OOXML "


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Network World: "After more than three decades of work, the message from Richard Stallman, creator of the GNU Emacs text editor and keeper of its flame since 1976, couldn't possibly have been more matter of fact "


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LKML.org: "As usual, most of the updates are in architecture and drivers, with the dirstat showing about 37% in arch "


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My Take: "Several years ago, when I acquired my first computer and began to learn more and more about them, I did not dream that I would be using one as much as I do today "


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Techthrob: "While it may not let you go where no man has gone before, Celestia is an amazing desktop application that lets you travel anywhere in the known Universe "


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Source: Linux Today

KernelTrap: "Issues reported during the suspend-to-disk process lead Linux creator Linus Torvalds to suggest, 'please--just make the f*cking suspend-to-disk use other routines already '"



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

Nemilar writes "Preload is a Linux daemon that stores commonly-used libraries and binaries in memory to speed up access times, similar to the Windows Vista SuperFetch function. This article examines Preload and gives some insight into how much performance is gained for its total resource cost, and discusses basic installation and configuration to get you started."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Dojo is now compatible to run on Adobe AIR, which shipped as of today. The press release does a great job of summarizing, but this excerpt is worth repeating: The updates to the Dojo Toolkit make it even easier for Ajax developers


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Source: ONLamp.com

Just this past weekend, dojotoolkit.org rolled out significant improvements in presenting documentation. Better documentation has been one of the most common requests for the project, so this update is at least a partial delivery on that front. The hope is that continued


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Source: ONLamp.com

I'm typically logged into the Threading Building Blocks IRC channel (#tbb on FreeNode.net IRC). Last week, a community member noticed AMD's new open source initiative, Framewave. He took a quick look at the project, and came back to tell us that,



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