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Paul Sherman has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Absolute Linux 12.1, a light-weight variant of Slackware Linux with the IceWM window manager: "Absolute Linux 12.1 RC1 released. The latest build uses enhanced PCMan in place of ROX-Filer as the default file manager, but ROX .



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Rip's Random Notes: "After losing several one shot shows, mostly news clips, I started recording on both VHS and DVD just to be sure I got important shows recorded "


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HowtoForge: "This is a detailed description about how to set up a Mandriva 2008 Spring Free (Mandriva 2008.1) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters "


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Between the Lines: " I would like to take this opportunity, perhaps, as we approach the Passover season, to make some suggestions for Commandments that future generations of technologists and technology companies wishing to pursue Open Source community activities might want to follow "


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TechRepublic: "I can't begin to tell you how many people over the years I have consulted with about choosing a Linux distribution "


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The Linux Distillery: "Some exciting new software items are on the verge of release. This includes an update to the core Linux kernel itself, a new release of Ubuntu, and a brand new Firefox "


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Maison Fluery: "Here are various reasons, some of it serious, some not. It is a somewhat ordered list, but left as an open list to you the reader "


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Between the Lines: "Microsoft's Windows juggernaut is collapsing as it tries to support 20 years of applications and becomes more complicated by the minute "


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Linux.com: "In this age of multi-core processors and 3-D desktops, some people still get work done on old resource-strapped single-core machines, thanks to programs like the AbiWord word processor "


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451 CAOS Theory: "According to an announcement on SourceForge, openQRM 3.5 is the last release from Qlusters. Matt Rechenburg, active project manager, will lead its ongoing development "


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GNOME: Come and see all the bug fixing, all the new translations and all the updated documentation brought to you by the wonderful team of GNOME contributors "


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internetnews.com:"Open source advocates have long pointed to Asterisk's ascendancy as one of the movement's great success stories. But for the founder of the open source PBX solution, Asterisk's success is just the beginning "


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Groklaw: "A member of the EU Parliament has presented a question regarding whether or not Microsoft should be considered as having failed to fulfill the conditions to participate in public procurement procedures "


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Linux-Watch: "Red Hat and ESP (End Software Patents), a Free Software Foundation project, are joining others in challenging the legal logic used for software patents "


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LinuxDevices: "Ampro will begin distributing a Ubuntu Linux derivative with its x86-compatible single-board computers this month, it said "


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KernelTrap: "'The following three patches are intended to start the redesign of the suspend and hibernation framework for devices '"


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Instant Messaging Planet: "One exception is Pidgin, the Linux- and Windows-compatible, multi-network IM client built on libpurple, the open source library that started life as 'gAIM,' an AIM client for Linux users "


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Linux.com: "Storage performance has failed to keep up with that of other major components of computer systems. Hard disks have gotten larger, but their speed has not kept pace with the relative speed improvements in RAM and CPU technology "



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The last column introduced some of Dojo's AJAX machinery where we fetched content from a server using the dojo.xhrGet function. One thing that wasn't mentioned, however, is that there is an underlying abstraction called a Deferred at play. Since the entire Dojo


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If you've never usedmultiple dispatch, you're in for a treat. We've had it working in Parrot for years, but Jonathan Worthington just added the basics of MMD support to Rakudo (Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6). Why do you want multiple


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I just read in Matt Asay's CNET blog that Microsoft Open Source Lab Director Sam Ramji has been promoted to lead Microsoft's entire Open Source/Linux efforts. Microsoft gets a new open-source chief You can find Sam's Port 25 blog items here Sam



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Radio silence here of late as I have been moving old website to new website; a process which is time-consuming and gives rise to a very long to-do list, but which isn't remotely interesting to anyone else. Although I have



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Learn about the XML functionality in DB2 9 for z/OS and compare it with that
of DB2 for z/OS V8. This article discusses the new XML features introduced in DB2 9,
and goes into the details regarding the impact the new XML support has on migrating
existing XML-based applications. This is the second of a three-article series on
migrating your XML applications from DB2 for z/OS V8 to DB2 9 for z/OS.



Updated: Fri Apr 11 23:55:01 2008


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