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Alan Baghumian has announced the second test release of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5r0, a desktop distribution and live CD based on Debian's testing branch: "The second testing version of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5 (code name 'Viola') is available now. Viola test 2 brings several new features, contains a new kernel, .



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ITtoolbox: "The Linux kernel is the beating heart of any Linux distribution. It is a strange and complex beast and to many people somewhat mystical in nature. I intend to shed light on some of that mystical shroud and show how simple and easy compiling a Linux kernel really is "


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DevX: "I recently got fed up with using the usual shared-directories mechanism to implement file sharing "


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Computerworld: "Mozilla Corp. on Friday rolled out the release candidate for Firefox 3.0, bringing the open-source browser one step closer to its first major overhaul in nearly 19 months "


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KernelTrap: "'As some of the latency junkies on lkml already know, commit 8e3e076 in v2.6.26-rc2 removed the preemptible BKL feature and made the Big Kernel Lock a spinlock and thus turned it into non-preemptible code again "


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Practical Technology: "What happens when you get Linus Torvalds, Mr. Linux, together with Jeff Bonwick, Sun's master of storage and creator of ZFS? Well, right now, we don't know "


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ChannelWeb: "Under the OEM deal Terracotta is incorporating Hyperic's cross-platform, cross-language SIGAR programming interface into Terracotta 2.6 "


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iTWeb: "Open source companies are increasingly targeting small and medium enterprises in a bid to transform the 'old model' of telecommunications provision in SA "


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vnunet: "The Novell sponsored openSuse project has announced that it has 10 projects being funded through Google's Summer of Code 2008 "


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Linux.com: "Dreamlinux is a Debian-based distribution that offers you a choice of GNOME or Xfce window managers as well as an extremely simple installation and scripts to install popular programs not found in the Debian repositories "



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

Jeremy LaCroix suggests in an editorial at Linux.com that the phrase "ready for the desktop" is ready for retirement. As anyone who's been using Linux for several years (or even a few) for everyday tasks knows, "ready for the desktop" is in the eye of the beholder.Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Course website: http://www.cs.tufts.edu/comp/50GD I just finished teaching my game development course at Tufts University. The first time I taught this course back in 2006 went extremely well. I continued to use Java for the programming aspects of my course. Most of the


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The traceback module contains functions for producing error messages with stack traces .



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