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Source: kiwi

Jani Mosones has announced the stable release of Kiwi Linux 8.03, an Ubuntu derivative tailored to Romanian and Hungarian users: "The second and last release of Kiwi Linux to be based on Ubuntu 7.10 is ready for download today. Since 7.10 there are a few changes: German language .


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Steve Langasek has announced the sixth alpha release of Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron": "Welcome to Hardy Heron Alpha-6, which will in time become Ubuntu 8.04." Some of the features of this release include "X.Org 7.3 with a new screen resolution utility that allows users to dynamically configure the .


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Source: linuxeducd

Linux-EduCD is a distribution developed by Poland's SIMP Studium Techniki, with focus on education, graphics, office and multimedia software and designed for deployment in Polish schools. The newly released version 0.9 is the project's first build based on PCLinuxOS (previously it was based on Ubuntu). This version includes .



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HowtoForge: "In this article I will describe how you can monitor multiple systems with munin. munin produces nifty little graphics about nearly every aspect of your server "


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Source: Linux Today

silentk::cbx33: "Why not setup a small organisation that looks at the documentation available to volunteers or communities and awards the open source project a compliance standard. What does it mean for the project ?"


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foobar: "Advocating free and open source software often will go hand in hand with pointing out issues or problems with particular Microsoft strategies "


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The Open Road: "There are a lot of allegations flying around relative to Cittio's (allegedly improper) use of the OpenNMS code without contributing code back, in apparent violation of the GPL "


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Linux Foundation: "Linux grew at the fastest pace clocking double digit growth 11.6 percent in the quarter. Windows came in second at 6.9 percent growth. Everything else grew at rates of 1.5% or less "


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iTWire: "April 24 will be a red letter day for the Ubuntu project. It will be three-and-a-half years since the experiment began and the release that day of Hardy Heron, as version 8.04 is known, will be a defining moment "


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Techworld: "Software developer Unison has launched what it claimed is the world's first fully-unified communications suite based on Linux "


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internetnews.com: "Third lawsuit over open source license violations is now closed. This time, it's a 'learning experience '"


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The Indian Express: "Kerala is all set to become the first state in the country to completely banish Microsoft and allow only GNU/Linux free software to be used in the mandatory IT test at the state SSLC examinations "


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Computer Business Review: "Yesterday I caught up with Marten Mickos, the former CEO of open source database firm MySQL, which was recently acquired by Sun for $1bn. We had a wide-ranging chat about life, the universe and everything open source ."


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SearchEnterpriseLinux: "Open source software is no longer an enterprise pariah, but IT shops still want to manage and monitor its use among their internal developers "


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Second Life: "Now Linux users can enjoy the same capabilities as Windows and Mac users to explore, create and socialize "


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BusinessWeek: "After weathering an acrimonious split from Intel and harsh criticism from critics, One Laptop Per Child is reorganizing--and looking for a new CEO "


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International Herald Tribune: "The European Commission will propose in the next few days to buy more of its computer software from open-source developers, a commission spokeswoman said Wednesday "


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The VAR Guy: "Cha-ching. That's the noise open source companies hope to hear as they launch new point-of-sale solutions for VARs and retail customers "


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Phoronix: "Intel's Open-Source Technology Center is involved with a number of open-source Linux projects such as Threading Building Blocks, Moblin, PowerTOP, and the X.Org graphics driver "


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Polish Linux: "'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' reminded me of a computer program I heard about a few years ago "


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distro-review: "I've always had an interest in DreamLinux because of the interface; I like the OSX feel they've deliberately aimed for and I appreciate there are a lot of users who also like this theme "


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developerWorks: "The history of the World Wide Web may be short, but its virtual landscape is already littered with scads of digital dross "


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CLUMPC: "A mere 4 months after the US debut of the first cheap Linux UMPC, the EeePC 701, we're about to be swarmed by the second wave of new contenders vying for your dollars "


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Kapica's Cyberia: "While Canadian telcos are still dragging their feet in following the U.S. example of making cellphone data fees more competitive, the U.S. telcos are about to scratch each other's eyes out after the arrival of Linux-based handsets "



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

cecom writes "After major improvements in SMP support in FreeBSD 7.0, benchmarks show it performing 15% better than the latest Linux kernels (PDF, see slides 17 to 19) on 8 CPUs under PostgreSQL and MySQL. While a couple of benchmarks are not conclusive evidence, it can be assumed that FreeBSD will once again be a serious performance contender. Some posters on LWN have noted that the level of Linux performance could be related to the Completely Fair Scheduler, which was merged into the 2.6.23 Linux kernel."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Rod Smith covers the optical character recognition (OCR) options for Linux, their limitations, and how to install and use Tesseract for your OCR needs on Linux.


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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

What could Microsoft learn from Linux? Jason Perlow takes a look at Windows Server 2008, and says that Microsoft should consider taking a page from its competition, the Linux distro vendors, and consider shortening the product release cycle to allow for more incremental, short term upgrades.



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Source: Linux DevCenter

If you're interested in SSL & Apache (a how-to). Also on the web front: the other week I was talking about CSS & child elements, and someone suggested using the :empty selector. This isn't in the CSS 2.1 spec, but



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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Many resources are available to explain what Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) topic specialization is and the syntax to implement it, but you still might wonder "I have some content that might be a candidate for topic specialization. What's next?" In this tutorial, walk through a series of steps to evaluate your content's suitability for different DITA topic types, specialize one of those types, and test your specialization using the DITA Open Toolkit.



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