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Softpedia: "The BLFS Development Team has recently announced the launch of BLFS 6.3 (Beyond Linux From Scratch) along with many new package additions, as well as updates and various adjustments."


Source: Linux Today

Good Gear Guide: "Google dropped Bluetooth and the GTalkService instant messaging APIs (application program interfaces) from the set of tools for the first version of the mobile phone OS, Android 1.0, according to the Android Developers Blog."


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Tech Source From Bohol: "People just can't get enough of Tux, the world-renowned penguin mascot of Linux. I'm saying this because my collection of "30 Coolest and Funniest Tux Icons" has already received a mind-blowing number of hits in just a short period of time."


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Tech Source From Bohol: "Perhaps seeing my collection of "30 Coolest and Funniest Tux Icons" can somehow help explain why Tux is so adored."


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Binary codes: " its a hassle everytime you post a screenie in the monthly screenshot thread.

Instead, wouldn't it be better if we could somehow automatically include all the details in the screenshot itself?"


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Linuxwave: "To use nfs successfully, you have to configure the server and the client. In this example, the client is 192.168.0.3 and the server is 192.168.0.1."


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Linux Today Blog: "FOSS applications for Windows don't seem to get the same respect and support that their Linux counterparts do Some say they are good introductions to FOSS; some think they're tainted and nasty and prop up the evil monopolist."


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Groklaw: " It's a copyright assignment vehicle designed to ensure legal maintainability of the project. And I hear that the response has been very positive already."


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Click: "I based all of that on running Puppy 2.13. I managed to boot Puppy 4, but the relative slowness of Abiword to start had me pausing about an upgrade from 2.13."


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Linux.com: "If your desktop hardware includes a graphics processing unit (GPU), you can do some cool image processing with the CVL suite of tools, which includes in image viewer, an image tone mapper, and a command-line tool for non-interactive image processing."


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Ixnotes: "This isn’t about GNU/Linux vs Linux, this isn’t about the Democratic National Convention being anti-GNU/Linux or being bought by Microsoft. No. This is about advocating against solutions that are marginalizing groups of people."


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Komandeering Developers Everywhere: "You also have to find some patriotic sunglasses and a religious picture that lights up."


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Tip of the Trade: "rsnapshot works on an ext3 filesystem, using rsync and hard links to create something that looks and works like multiple instant-availability full backups but that takes up the space of only one full backup plus incremental changes."


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Linux Journal: "By creating the master slides you need before you add content, you can automate your work and free yourself to focus on content."


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openSUSE news: "What’s Hack Week? Hack Week is a chance for Novell’s developers to work on Innovation Time Off (ITO) projects, uninterrupted by normal hacking duties. This helps provide an opportunity for Novell’s developers to work on innovative new projects they might not normally be able to work on. Since most of the projects developed during Hack Week are open source, this also benefits the community by providing new code."


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Lone Wolves: "Ubuntu was just as unsuccessful. While it did see my ethernet card, various kernel modules needed for mdadm and LVM are left out of the Live CD kernel "


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Source: Linux Today

Lunduke: "But. Wow. Yes.

This is what it should look like."


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Source: Linux Today

Lazy Tech Guy: "Now this is beyond doubt that Ubuntu is the most searched Linux distribution Okey, agreed that Ubuntu is the most popular; what about the rest?"


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The Linux Distillery: "The very heart of the Linux operating system is the kernel, the piece of software which makes programs run and work with hardware. It's possibly the largest and most geographical spread open source project in the world. With software projects failing daily how can such a task actually work?"


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Computerworld: ""There's just too much of it that is regularly broken. It seems like every week 10% of all the features are broken . And it's a different 10% every week -- the old bugs are getting fixed, the new ones introduced.""


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IT Wire: "It looks like things have gone to Zemlin's head a bit; the man is now the story, not the kernel. The furious PR which he indulges in with gullible and willing US media organs to project himself and the Foundation is sickening to say the least."


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The Open Road: "Microsoft is heavily subsidizing Windows and Office to keep Linux out, but Linux is proving cheaper and at least as easy as Windows to use."


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Groklaw: "I asked Richard Hulse of Radio New Zealand, the station's media manager, to tell me how they came to decide to add Ogg Vorbis to their collection of interviews and broadcasts, already offered as MP3s and in Windows Media Audio. His answers are instructive, and you may find it helpful to note his suggestions on how to effectively request other sites to offer Ogg Vorbis files."


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Linux Devices: "Internet TV (ITV) service provider Move Networks announced an ITV media player optimized for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) based on the Intel Atom and the Linux-based Moblin stack. The Move Media Player for MIDs will deliver video from partners like ABC, Fox, and ESPN."


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Practical Technology: "Not all USB drives are created equal, I now know that are significant differences between drives. And, in particular those differences matter a lot to live USB capable Linux distributions like Fedora 9."


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E-Commerce Guide: "CRE Loaded version 6.3 is out, but small business owners, hold onto your hats. To the open source commerce industry, the most startling change in this open source e-commerce program will be its new pricing scheme: the Standard Edition is no longer free."


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Linux Insider: "I knew a number of things that were going to be happening at IDF but was blindsided by an announcement Intel made that could change the world as we know it."


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ZDNet: "Ubuntu today became the latest Linux vendor to patch a vulnerability in the open source operating system's kernel that could have left the door open for hackers to find their way into users' machines."


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Internet News: "One problem I immediately have with titles like the "Most User-Friendly Linux Distribution" is that they seem more a ploy for commercial marketing than anything that applies to the world of FOSS development."


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Cyber Cynic: "What I don't like, though, is not knowing what's what with the recent security break-in into the RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and Fedora file servers."


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Crave: "The special-edition laptops come in four designs, each with a corresponding scent."


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IBM Developerworks: "This article investigates the process of creating and using dynamic libraries, provides details on the various tools for exploring them, and explores how these libraries work under the hood."


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TuxArea: "Since I've first tried it, BasKet didn't cease to amaze me with its features and functionality. The last version is 1.3.0.1 (for KDE3), but according to their roadmap, plans are to port it to KDE4. It supports global shortcuts, system tray integration, highlighting and embedding images among many others."


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LinuxLinks: "To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 21 high quality Linux text editors. There's a mix of graphical and console based applications included. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for all types of users."


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Polish Linux: "Gnubiff is a program designed to notify about new emails, but this is not its only feature. It supports: pop3, apop, imap4, mh, qmail and mailfile protocols. It also supports SSL and certificates. You can add it as an applet in GNOME pannels. It can even automatically detect the configuration of your mailbox."


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TechRadar: "Claws Mail started life as a development fork of the Sylpheed mailer, and was for a long time known as Sylpheed-Claws."



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Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Creating a CodeIgniter application is easier than you might think. Take a guided tour
through your first project: a simple Web page with a contact form.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Apache XMLBeans does not inherently support multiple versions of an XML
schema. For applications that need this type of support to manage
compatibility, this limitation is serious. But there is a solution, and in
this article, you'll learn how dynamic class loading techniques can help.


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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Time-availability maps provide a listing of who is most likely to be available
for a certain hour in a certain location. Find out how to use Google Earth and a log of
your communications to map and identify the time and place when availabilities match.


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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Ruby on Rails has raised the bar in terms of rapid development of data-driven
Web sites. The JRuby project is making Ruby faster and more scalable than ever. One of
the great advantages to running Rails on the Java Virtual Machine is that you can
leverage other Java libraries, like the Apache Derby embedded database. The combination
of Derby, JRuby, and Rails allows for rapid prototyping of dynamic Web applications. Learn how to use these technologies together to help you prototype your next great idea.



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