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Source: frugalware

The second and final release candidate for Frugalware Linux 0.9 is out and ready for testing: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware Linux 0.9rc2, the second release candidate of the upcoming 0.9 stable release. A short and incomplete list of changes .


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Source: lfs

Randy McMurchy has announced the release of Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) 6.3, a book that provides detailed build instructions for extending a base Linux From Scratch (LFS) system with popular desktop and server packages and their libraries: "The BLFS Development team is pleased to announce the release .


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Source: bluewhite64

Attila Craciun has announced a new edition of Bluewhite64 Linux, a Slackware-based distribution recompiled for the x86_64 architecture. This is the first 64-bit live DVD containing the recently released Slackware implementation of KDE 4.1: "I have the joy announcing a new version of the Bluewhite64 Linux 12.1 KDE4 .


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Source: ubuntuce

Jereme Hancock has announced the release of Ubuntu Christian Edition 4.0: "We are excited to announce the release of Ubuntu Christian Edition 4.0. Ubuntu Christian Edition has been on hold for quite a while for various reasons, but we are back up and running. This is a 'back .


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Source: weekly

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Interviews: Kris Moore, PC-BSD lead developer News: Fedora and Red Hat servers compromised - CentOS unaffected, Novell extends "interoperability" deal; openSUSE ads SELinux support, gNewSense celebrates second birthday, user-visible changes in NetBSD 5.0 Released last week: antiX MEPIS 7.5, gNewSense 2.1 Upcoming releases: .



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Source: Linux Today

Alexander Sandler: "So first thing that we will learn about tcpdump is how to filter out SSH and telnet packets for now just remember this syntax:
# tcpdump not port 22"


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Source: Linux Today

Intranet Journal: "When most people think of switching out their office to one Linux distribution or another, the very idea of getting started with the needed migration must seem completely overwhelming. Not because using Linux is difficult -- rather, the task at hand with getting personnel and equipment up to the challenge is daunting."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Screw: "GNU/Linux Command-Line Tools Summary by Gareth Anderson This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide "


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Source: Linux Today

nixCraft: "A few days ago I noticed that NFS performance between a web server node and NFS server went down by 50%."


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Source: Linux Today

Zemlin's Blog: "Walking around Linuxworld this year it was interesting to see the number of Apple notebooks in the halls and various sessions. It wasn’t necessarily that there were more Apple notebooks than Linux machines, but it was a good number and begs the question: why do open source people seem to cut Apple some slack when it comes to their very closed proprietary platform?"


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Source: Linux Today

Ubuntu Forums: "Because all the posts about new features in 8.10 are scattered here and there, I thought I would compile it all into one convenient place."


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxPlanet: "Now this part will help you perform a few tasks in OOo that were available in MS Office, just harder to figure out due to the different interface. You'll find out you can still insert WordArt (actually called Fontwork), diagrams, and page numbering in OOo documents."


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Source: Linux Today

SUSE & openSUSE: " OpenVAS, Open Vulnerability Assessment Server is a free opensource vulnerability assessment software released under GNU GPL lincese. OpenVAS is a fork of Nessus Vulnerability assessment software. Similar to the Plugin sets in Nessus, OpenVAS provides free Network Vulnerability Tests plugins that can be updated regularly."


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Source: Linux Today

Netstat -vat: "The race to produce the world's fastest internet browser is about to get a boost from the Mozilla TraceMonkey effort."


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Source: Linux Today

Builder AU: "The error message did the rounds at the weekend and Microsoft updated the message to explicitly speak to Mac users."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Insider: "Microsoft's hiring of Jerry Seinfeld as a Windows Vista pitchman had the Linux community in stitches last week. The prevailing wisdom seems to be that it's an indication Windows has jumped the shark."


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Source: Linux Today

A Non-geek’s Linux Notes: "4.Linux Security Quick Reference
"The intent of this Quick Reference Guide is to provide a starting point for improving the security of your system "


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "For our testing we were using Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 4 with the Linux 2.6.26 kernel, GCC 4.3.0, and X Server 1.5.0 RC5. Aside from the ICH10's Serial ATA issue with older kernels, the only other Linux compatibility problem we experienced with the Super Micro C2SEA motherboard was the LM_Sensors support."


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Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: "This week CSI and the State of Utah announced that the system has been open sourced as the Trisano Project:"


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Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: "Even though the data is apparently a bit screwy, I was still really proud to see Utah emerge as the top state for "Linux" searches on Google. The data also shows that Cubans prefer Linux to sex "


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Source: Linux Today

Realeyes Technology: " It makes the general public wonder, "What do those security people do?""


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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: ""TraceMonkey is a project to bring native code speed to JavaScript," said Mike Shaver, Mozilla's interim vice president of engineering, adding that JavaScript performance nearly doubles compared to Firefox 3.0."


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Source: Linux Today

Practical Technology: "The new Kindle, however, may be marketed more for college students returning to school in January rather than for finding a place under the Christmas tree."


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Source: Linux Today

Lazy Tech Guy: "With all the peripherals working out of the box, the next check was for provided software. This is another area where Mandriva One shines."


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Source: Linux Today

Good Gear Guide: ""In 12 months, Sun will not be the same company it is now," predicts Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) analyst Brian Babineau.'


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Broiler: "Based on the initially leaked specs of this device, it still sounds like it doesn’t do what I really would want it to do in order to replace by Blackberry 8820."


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Source: Linux Today

blog.angulosolido.pt: "It's interesting that somehow the original post was seen as criticism of Linux, whereas it targeted the Mozilla Foundation decision to have Firefox 3 depend on GTK+ = 2.10 without providing a portable package."


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Source: Linux Today

Computerworld: "Udev is now a key component in almost all Linux systems. It's like the plumbing in a house; most people never notice it until it breaks."


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Source From Bohol: "Project Looking Glass is an innovative 3D desktop environment sponsored by Sun Microsystems. It is programmed in Java using the Java 3D system to remain platform independent."


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Source: Linux Today

etbe - Russell Coker: "In late 2007 Novell laid off almost all the developers of AppArmor [4] with the aim of having the community do all the coding. Crispin Cowan (the founder and leader of the AppArmor project) was later hired by Microsoft "


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Source: Linux Today

LA Times: "Film credits from the 1920s reveal imprecision in copyright claims that some experts say could invalidate Disney's long-held copyright."


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Source: Linux Today

Mostly Linux: "The second, and probably most important thing it has shown is that MS can and will give in to price pressure and is not nearly as powerful as everyone thought."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "Linux is a powerful combination of software products, regardless of whose distribution you are using, but our visibility to the next generations of computer users is almost nil."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Ulteo Application System is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Kubuntu and designed to work with the Ulteo Online Desktop service to provide you with an automatic offsite backup and file synchronization between live CD instances. It attempts to require as little user configuration and maintenance as possible, and provides several unique features that set it apart from being "just another distribution.""


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Source: Linux Today

The Geek Stuff: "After you have installed Apache2, if you want to use apachectl and httpd to it's maximum potential, you should go beyond using start, stop and restart. The 9 practical examples provided in this article will help you to use apachectl and httpd very effectively."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

bucketoftruth writes "If you browse to the Democratic Convention website and attempt to check out any of their upcoming streams, you bump into the following limitation: 'We're sorry, but the Democratic Convention video web site isn't compatible with your operating system and/or browser. Please try again on a computer with the following Compatible operating systems: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, or a Mac with Tiger (OS 10.4) or Leopard (OS 10.5). Compatible browsers: Internet Explorer (version 6 or later), Firefox (version 2), or, if you are on a Mac, Safari (version 3.1) also works.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: ONLamp.com

Most so-called Linux security issues turn out to be some insecurely coded PHP/Perl/Python/Ruby/fill_in_the_blank app that is simply another application and not a core part of Linux at all. So, I wasn't alarmed when I read this in Information Week. Red Hat Confirms



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Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Get acquainted with Jaxer, the first true Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax)
server. Jaxer makes it possible to execute JavaScript code, Document Object Model (DOM), and HTML on
the server side as well as giving you the ability to access server-side functions
asynchronously from the client side. This article describes the features of Jaxer and
shows the great potential that Jaxer has to offer, even in its infancy.


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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Elliotte Rusty Harold demonstrates Java 5's new XPath API.



Updated: Tue Aug 26 23:55:01 2008


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