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Source: ark

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer has announced the release of Ark Linux 2008.1, an easy-to-use desktop Linux distribution with KDE and a selection of highly up-to-date applications: "The Ark Linux team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Ark Linux 2008.1, a new version of its easy-to-use, easy-to-learn operating system ..


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Source: litrix

Litrix Linux is a Gentoo-based desktop Linux live DVD featuring a graphical configuration utility, and a choice between a KDE 3.5 and a GNOME 2.22 desktop. The first release candidate for version 8.5 was released a few days ago: "Litrix Linux 8.5 Release candidate 1. The most important .



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Source: Linux Today

451 CAOS Theory: "We've seen recently how fast Linux is moving and how many changes and updates are quickly and constantly being made "


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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "I am assuming that you already know how to set up an encrypted file system using cryptsetup with luks (or something else). There are several howtos. I am also assuming that you are familiar with LVM2 "


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Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: "Open source is a bit the same. There are some who pay for the 'full-price rooms/seats,' while others pay by sticking with a project for a long time, devoting either small amounts of cash or code "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "As a Linux Journal editor, I'd love to claim that in my college years I realized the oppression stemming from proprietary operating systems "


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Source: Linux Today

OStatic: "HP seems to have a liking for big deals--remember when they spent $25 billion for Compaq? Now they're laying out almost $14 billion to acquire global services company EDS "


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The Open Road: "Boingboing is reporting that Microsoft is forcing OEMs into using artificially low hardware specifications "


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Everything is a Freaking DNS Problem: "Fact is that different types of open source products might require different approaches Alfresco to my knowledge has little to no contributing community, Linux distributions tend to have a big one, if not just in the form of the different open source projects they pacakge "


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Source: Linux Today

PRWeb: "DeviceVM today announced the proliferation of their innovative [embedded Linux] software across four new models of ASUS motherboards "


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Source: Linux Today

Darker Nemesis: "So many people can get caught up in the operating system war that they may forget that multiple operating systems can coexist side by side "


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Source: Linux Today

CMS Watch: "However, these modules could be your biggest problem as well because many times, module upgrades do not keep pace with Drupal upgrades "


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Source: Linux Today

The VAR Guy: "The VAR Guy isn't suggesting that open source companies will launch initial public offerings anytime soon "


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DiveIntoMark: "I refer, of course, to the Acid 3 test cooked up by the inimitable Ian Hickson and his motley crew of meddling minions "


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Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: "The culture here is about freedom and the ability to impact things ourselves. We're adopting more and more open source because we want to be in control of our own destiny "


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevices: "Verizon Wireless has chosen Linux as its mobile phone 'platform of choice,' it said "


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxPlanet: "Open source expert and author John Terpstra revisits the state of the Linux desktop and server in today's market and highlights the challenges Linux faces to succeed "


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OStatic: "The new release is designed to let web site managers delve into web 2.0 features and online community building "


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Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "The largest stock exchange on Earth is a Linux shop "


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ZDNet UK: "Monday's announcement has already drawn praise from some of the same players in the open-source community who, little more than a year ago, criticised Becta for being too closely aligned with Microsoft "


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PC World: "While it's physically identical to the Eee PC 900 (Windows XP version), this Linux version of the Eee PC 900 has a larger internal storage capacity and is therefore more expensive "


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Source: Linux Today

OStatic: "Let's face it, open source software runs the Internet. Without it we wouldn't have basic services like DNS, or even the web server that's sending you this page "


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Source: Linux Today

Wine-Review: "Dan Kegel over the past couple days has been working on regression testing criteria "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Are you looking for a free and open source music player that you can use no matter which operating system you boot or switch to during the day ?"


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Help Net Security: "Besides these USB keys, I was really keen into testing a 3M Privacy Filter which was supplied by fine folks at the 3M stand "



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

bsk_cw writes "Today, many Linux users are getting blasé about the ease with which they can install Linux. Possibly, they've been spoiled by distributions such as Ubuntu, which is actually easier to install than Windows. Unfortunately, Fedora 9, the latest version of this community edition of Red Hat, was a bit too much of a blast from the past for Computerworld's James Turner." (Except for bits about the installation, the review is actually quite positive.)Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "We first heard about Splashtop back in October, when the instant-on Linux desktop was announced. At the time it was a really exciting concept but Asus only rolled out the technology on high-end motherboards. Splashtop just announced that Asus will be expanding the desktop to the P5Q motherboard family and later on to all Asus motherboards. That's embedded Linux shipping over over a million motherboards a month! The release also mentioned that the technology will be appearing on notebooks this year as well."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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I let Apple know that I'd like to discuss the 2 issues they won't be fixing with the security community and they let me know they are fine with it.


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Source: ONLamp.com

Cloud computing has become the new hot thing (Web 3.0?) Amazon was one of the first vendors to offer a cloud development environment, the Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2. They followed it up with a storage capability called S3. This tutorial will show you how to set up and get started developing applications on EC2 and S3.


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Source: ONLamp.com

I happened to come across this article in Redmond Developer News recently Redmond Among Contributors to Open Source PHP Framework about contributers to the Zend Framework. Among the many (400) contributers to the project are Google and Microsoft. It's probably just me,


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Source: ONLamp.com

Google likes hiring programmers who contribute to open source projects
because they're more self-motivated. On open source projects,
volunteers may be assigned tasks, but often they recognize a need and
propose to fill it. This and many other interesting topics came up at
the party celebrating the opening of Google's larger Cambridge,
Massachusetts office.



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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Some simple refactoring of the Eclipse Modeling Framework makes it possible
to leverage Apache Tuscany SDO 2.1 features with IBM WebSphere Application Server
V6.1 without causing any conflicts with WebSphere runtime components. This article
describes the refactoring steps for adapting SDO 2.1 to your WebSphere Application Server environment without breaking your existing applications. (IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal)


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Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Populating a tree widget's nodes lazily, rather than all up front, will
render the tree more quickly and enable it to perform better. This real-world
example shows how you can use REST calls to lazily load JSON data for populating a
Dojo Dijit tree widget. (IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal)



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