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Randy McMurchy has announced the availability of the third release candidate for Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) 6.3, an online book providing instructions for extending a base Linux From Scratch (LFS) system into a more complete desktop or server distribution: "The BLFS Development team is pleased to announce .



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Softpedia: "Musix Linux 1.0 R2R5, a 100% free operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux and Knoppix, and meant for artists focused on music production, has been announced a few days ago by the Brazilian music teacher Gilberto Borges."


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Linux Journal: "KDE 4.1, RedPost’s Ubuntu-based “Sign”, Sun’s Web Stack "


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OStatic: "It takes a village? How about a whole city? How about 100 cities? I enjoyed this item from LinuxInsider about residents of Felton, California who pledged to go proprietary software-free for at least a week. If you've ever been to Felton, which has a Santa Cruz-like countercultural flavor, this pledge makes sense."


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OStatic: " Audacity is good at a lot of things but, unfortunately, not this. It does have tools for equalizing and normalizing, but it doesn't even out sound levels well at all.
Luckily, I found Levelator."


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TuxArea: "This article reviews all the most common command line tools for manipulating and listening to audio formats on Linux. Players, editors, encoders/decoders, tag editors, music servers, they are all here. Currently it includes no less than 18 CLI (Command Line Interface) tools."


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Linux.com: "A good way to see how your Web applications and server will behave under high load is by testing them with a simulated load. We tested several free software tools that do such testing to see which work best for what kinds of sites."


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CNet: "Despite the wallet-friendly price and large keyboard, we have a few reservations. For one, the system comes with only 512MB of RAM, which limits its performance. For another, the battery life is nearly as bad as that of the otherwise excellent MSI Wind;"


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The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "In our post, we're going to look at one condition under which Unix and Linux operating systems can actually hold onto files, even after they've been deleted, so that you can recover them."


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The Geek Stuff: "When you are using Linux command line frequently, using the history effectively can be a major productivity boost. In fact, once you have mastered the 15 examples that I’ve provided here, you’ll find using command line more enjoyable and fun."


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Linux.com: "The Free Software Foundation can cross off another item on its high priority list of applications that free software needs in order to compete. Version 0.6 of Marble, which ships with KDE 4.1, may not rival Google Earth just yet, but the underlying engine has the potential to do so in future versions."


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nixCraft: "I recommend the automated tool called psad - the port scan attack detector under Linux which is a collection of lightweight system daemons that run on Linux machines and analyze iptables log messages to detect port scans and other suspicious traffic."


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Techworld: "Despite an often tenuous relationship with the Linux community regarding the driver quality for its graphics products, the AMD-owned ATI will offer release parity with Windows for its latest Radeon HD 4870 X2 card."


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Computerworld: "The sparsely populated floor at Linuxworld was a disappointment, but netbooks made an impact at this year's show, a sign that these lightweight machines may bring the Linux OS to a larger audience."


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Intranet Journal: "Considering the success of Ubuntu Linux as a distribution of the open source operating system, it has become clear that locating good alternatives to this release is becoming increasingly difficult. With that said, I've decided to round up the best candidates that might serve as a viable alternative so you might be able to partake in the Linux experience without having to relying exclusively on one distribution."


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The Open Road: "But I think there's a more subtle problem: no one cares about replicating their existing experience for a slightly smaller price tag. It's simply not worth the risk."


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Fortune: " I mention that the pink looks a lot better in person than online. A Dell executive is quick to tell me why. What I’ve seen on the website, he says, is consumer pink. “This is business pink.”"


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Tom's Guide: "Here, we’ll show you some simple tips and tricks so that you can use OpenOffice in the easiest and most efficient way possible. All the information that we’ve included works just as well on OpenOffice 2 as it does on the new beta 3 version. It’s straightforward and easy — we promise."


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LinuxInsider: "Is free software taking over the world one town at a time? Residents of Felton, Calif., recently pledged to go proprietary-free for at least a week. Plans for similar events are reportedly under way in town in Oregon and New Mexico, as well as 100 towns in Italy."


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Internet News: "Security Mozilla is moving forward on a number of initiatives to ensure that Internet security improves. Among the efforts is a new approach for determining and measuring security metrics."


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The Australian: "Once consigned to "non-essential" functions such as serving web pages, Linux is increasingly the basis for software stacks that perform critical data centre tasks."


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Desktop Linux: " Dell is shipping two new laptops with widescreen LCD displays and Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) operating systems with DVD playback. Additionally, the largest U.S. PC maker has started offering Hardy Heron on three models previously available with the earlier Gutsy Gibbon Ubuntu release."


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Times Online: "Nicholas Negroponte had a vision: to build a $100 laptop and give away millions to educate the world’s poorest children. And then the fat-cat multinationals got scared and broke it "


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Free Software Magazine: "Some websites need to handle data securely and assure the end-user they are a) secure and b) who they say they are. The traditional way to achieve these is via Secure Socket Layer. Firefox 3 changed what happens when a self-signed SSL certificate is encountered. It’s a change which has caused some concern and much discussion."


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KernelTrap: "He explained, "snapshot merging allows you to merge snapshot content back into the original device. The most useful use for this feature is the possibility to rollback [the] state of the whole computer after [a] failed package upgrade, [or an] administrator's error"."


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North Davis Road: "The basic desktop which we are used to on our computers hasn’t changed significantly since the days of Xerox Parc. In how it operates and how we interact with it, other than the mouse and other pointing devices, it hasn’t really changed much. A few fiddles at the edges, colour and much broader use yes. Change. No."


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The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "I have written on other occasions, you can learn more seeing errors others commit, whatever their cause, which can be more instructive than simply spelling out how to do it correctly. It simply might be the relief of not finding oneself trapped in the same predicament that makes the lesson more likely to stick. This time it was the try / catch code syntax that trapped me. It seemed too transparent and too easily understood, which resulted in my missing a critical aspect."


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Coccinella: "Since Mac is my native platform, I can tell you that Tk beats both Qt and gtk, but perhaps I haven't seen the latest of them.
The question is then, where does this put Linux/Unix? There are a number of themes included in ttk which looks OK on these platforms, but there is nothing exactly like Qt or gtk. "


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SUSE & openSUSE: "VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)."


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Polish Linux: "This HOWTO describes the way to configure and manage a WPA-PSK (TKIP) connection between a HP 530 laptop running Slackware 12.1 and a Lantech router with a wireless access point."



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Source: developerWorks : Linux : Technical library

Learn how to build a custom Linux distribution to use in an embedded
environment, in this case to drive a Technologic Systems TS-7800 single-board
computer. In this tutorial, you learn about cross-compiling, the boot loader, file systems,
the root file system, disk images, and the boot process, all with respect to
the decisions you make as you're building the system and creating
the distribution.


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The Find command in Firefox locates the user-specified text in the body of a Web
page. The command is an easy-to-use tool that works well enough for most users most of
the time. Sometimes, however, a more powerful Find-like tool would make locating text
easier. This article shows how to build a tool that isolates relevant text in Web pages
faster by detecting the presence and absence of nearby words.


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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Social networks are making it easier to take data and mash it up to create
innovative Web applications. You still, however, must deal with all the usual issues
with creating a scalable Web application. Now the Google App Engine (GAE) makes that
easier for you. With it, you can forget all about managing pools of application servers,
and, instead, you can concentrate on creating a great mashup. In this article, the
second of a three-part "Creating mashups on the Google App Engine using Eclipse" series, we will take the application we built in Part 1 and
enhance it. We will improve its performance by using more data-modeling features of
GAE. We will then take that performance even further by using GAE's Memcache services.


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Almost three years ago, developerWorks published "Using the Ruby
Development Tools plug-in for Eclipse," which introduced some of the features
found in the Ruby Development Tools (RDT) plug-in for Eclipse. Current at the
time was V0.5. We revisit that tool in this article. Today, RDT is called
Aptana RadRails and is available as a plug-in for Aptana Studio or Eclipse.
This article introduces some of the plug-in's new features.


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Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

This article demonstrates how to use several Google Code APIs using a baseball
hack as an example. We will create a Google Gadget that displays Major League Baseball batting statistics. You will learn about Google Gadgets, the Google Spreadsheet API, and the Google Chart API. After
reading this article, you'll have a good idea of the sorts of applications
you can build using these APIs, know enough to get started writing your own applications,
and know where to get more detailed information.


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Everything in Grails, from build scripts to individual artifacts such as domain classes and controllers, throw events at key points during an application's life cycle. In this Mastering Grails installment, you'll learn how to set up listeners to catch these events and react to them with custom behavior.


Source: developerWorks : Linux : Technical library

The third and final installment in this series on run-time monitoring of Java
applications focuses on strategies and techniques for monitoring the performance and availability of an application's supporting and dependent services. These include the underlying host operating system, the operational database, and messaging infrastructures. The article concludes with a discussion of performance data management issues and data reporting and visualization.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

XML is a communication format for exchanging structured documents and data. Too
often, an XML format is chosen arbitrarily and on the fly during development, without
much planning or design. Design the right XML format up front, and you can meet the
needs of everyone involved in the communication. If you don't, you're in for a long
journey of format revisions. Learn how to design a format less likely to require change
and agile enough to incorporate new requirements with the simple addition of new
extensions instead of full changes.



Updated: Wed Aug 13 23:55:01 2008


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