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Source: momonga

The Momonga Project has announced the release of Momonga Linux 4.1, a Fedora-based distribution made in Japan. This release represents a revision, or a security and bug-fix update, with most of the base system remaining unchanged from version 4. However, the kernel has been updated to version 2.6.23 .

Source: slax

Tomá Mat jí ek has announced the availability of an updated version of the recently released Slax 6. What's new? "Module manager will display correct info about 'slik' modules; activate refused to insert a module which was activated last time (before reboot) because of some empty mount points left- fixed; .

Source: kubuntu

Jonathan Riddell has announced the first alpha release of Kubuntu 8.04 "KDE4", a special, community supported edition of Kubuntu featuring the very latest KDE 4 code: "Kubuntu KDE4 Hardy Alpha is here. There will be two editions of Kubuntu with the 8.04 release, a commercially supported KDE 3 .

Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "Ubuntu has an excellent security tool called sudo that allows the administrator to delegate control of certain commands to certain users "

Source: Linux Today

The Linux Distillery: "Imagine standing on the road. An oncoming car is heading rapidly towards you. You have a choice to move, or to stay "

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Nussbaum: "There's an interesting discussion about Google Summer of Code going on debian-devel@ "

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Linux Journal: "News that Microsoft is to be hit with yet another fine from the European Union has naturally attracted plenty of attention, but it has also raised the old questions of whether such interventions by governments are justified or even do any good "

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internetnews.com: "As the new leader takes the helm, Fedora 9 unveils FreeIPA and a plethora of new features "

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Kubuntu: "There will be two editions of Kubuntu with the 8.04 release, a commercially supported KDE 3 edition and a community supported KDE 4 edition "

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Computerworld: "Point-of-sale leader embraces Microsoft's WEPOS software as alternative to Linux "

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internetnews.com: "Sun is donating the source code for the Sun StorageTek 5800 system to the OpenSolaris storage and Java.net communities "

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electronista: "Its first Linux variant aimed at handhelds, the software is tailored for the Mobile Internet Devices expected to launch in spring based on Intel's Silverthorne technology "

Source: Linux Today

Debian Times: "The IT adminstration of the Swiss canton Solothurn will conclude the 2000 desktop migration to Debian GNU/Linux by the end of 2008 "

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Durusau: "A preliminary response to Updegrove's apocalyptic vision concerning OpenXML "

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CognitiveCombine: "No, you don't wait for the results of the study, instead you decide to spend 7.600.000 Euro prematurely in order to buy, no it's not April yet, Windows Vista licences "

Source: Linux Today

Softpedia: "Best Buy, once a Windows-only PC distributor, now sells Asus Eee PCs, which run the Linux distribution Xandros "

Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "But even a quick look at the burgeoning Linux market reveals that Red Hat faces a crowd of competitive threats. A competitor lurks behind every server "

Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "We know NVIDIA has been working on a new Linux display driver release, with the GeForce 9 series having been introduced just this past week, and today a new driver release has arrived for Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD "

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Wi-Fi Planet: "The name conjures up (at least to us) images of some kind of evil galactic overlord, but fortunately Zonbu is not here to enslave us, but to offer freedom "

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Royal HeHe2-ness: "So you thought Vista's desktop looked slick? Or the latest Leopard desktop is coolest thing after sliced bread? Well you probably haven't been properly exposed to Linux's customizability "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

thorwil writes "Brainstorm is a new site where everyone can submit and vote on ideas for Ubuntu. It's inspired by Dell's Ideastorm. By default, you see the ideas submitted by the community sorted by popularity. Each idea is accompanied by arrows so you can vote it up or down (you have to log in first). You can only click once per idea. So this is an easy way to submit ideas and see what people are really wanting."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

unityofsaints writes "Up until now, Adobe hasn't done much in terms of porting its applications to Linux, as its only product to have recieved any kind of Linux implementation is Flash. This may be about to change because the company has announced a Linux port of AIR, its web application development software. No definite release date is mentioned in the interview with Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch, just a vague 'later this year.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: ONLamp.com

Okay, not very original as far as titles go, but I’ll take it. So, I’m new to O’Reilly’s Port25 blog, and happy to be here! As a quick introduction, I spend a lot of time talking and writing about interoperability, identity and

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If you read Sam Raimi's How open source has influenced Windows Server 2008 and Dominic Sartorio's Dominic Sartorio on SpikeSource and Open Source Interoperability blog entries on Microsoft's Port 25 site, you might wonder if FastCGI for PHP only works with

Source: ONLamp.com

I was surprised to read what Sam Ramji had to say in his Port25 blog entry How open source has influenced Windows Server 2008 Sam lists some of what he considers the things about Open Source development that works well and

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Once an Ajax application is loaded, it subsequently fetches smaller fragments of data and content to avoid the overhead of re-rendering the entire page, thus improving performance. The tradeoff that enables this to happen is that the initial download of your application will usually take longer. This article looks at ways you can reduce the initial download time of your Dojo applications and still get great performance. (IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal)