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Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Breaking tradition (or continuing it, depending on how often you read this blog ;) we're going to have part 2 of yesterday's two-parter tomorrow and put up our final Perl script to find the maximum guaranteed number sets, or lists, within larger number pools."

Source: Linux Today SUSE & openSUSE: "Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope."
Source: Linux Today Black Box: "This hack shows how to make a dumb terminal out of a keyboard, LCD screen, and an 8-bit microcontroller. From time to time, a portable dumb terminal can be handy for when you have to rescue a headless server that's acting up or if you are building a minicomputer out of a WRT, or if you just want to learn how to run a keyboard and LCD screen with a microcontroller."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "Not only are Oldham schools adopting open source software to deliver Internet-based services but Oldham Council appears to have done its homework."

Source: Linux Today 451 CAOS Theory: "Those that are enjoying the benefits of open source software development, distribution and cost will typically say, 'We think organizations are being forced to cut costs at the same time they are being forced into compliance and regulation, so it's driving deals our way.'"
     
Source: Linux Today The How-To Geek: "Configure How often Ubuntu checks for Automatic Updates"
    
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "You've seen the TV commercials: young white man stuck in a dead-end, low-paying job wakes up one morning, decides to sign up for classes at Foo Tech, and is transformed into a skilled computer technician working in his dream job."
Source: Linux Today The Howto Geek: "If you've ever asked for help with your Windows computer that won't boot anymore, you've probably been told to "Backup all your data and then reinstall" but if you can't boot, how can you get to your data? That's the question we'll be answering today."
     
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Phoronix.com is the definitive Linux hardware review site, featuring articles on motherboards, processors, memory, power supplies, cases, and other components. While other sites throw a hardware review into the mix occasionally, hardware reviews are the primary focus of Phoronix.com."
  
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Shell aliases are alternative, easy-to-remember names for long commands that you need to execute frequently."
      
Source: Linux Today Tech Source From Bohol: "Did you know that you can now change the appearance of your beloved Firefox web browser and make it look like Google Chrome?"

Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "Grumpy Ubuntu users are snarling about Mozilla including a largely open-source irrelevant EULA (End-user license agreement) with the latest version of the Firefox Web browser. Indeed, one user went so far as to file an Ubuntu bug report about the EULA."
      
Source: Linux Today Click: " the two "big" Slackware-derived distros, Zenwalk and Vector, use their own repositories, and they don't support a given release for very long before moving on to the next one. This burned me pretty good one time "
 
Source: Linux Today ZDNet: "HP wants to stop depending on Microsoft and will build a Linux shell which bypasses Vista and offers a better customer experience."
     
Source: Linux Today Boston Globe: "A former engineer at the Hudson facility of chip maker Intel Corp. has been charged with stealing trade secrets after taking a new job at rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc."
      
Source: Linux Today TuxArena: "Some would say Firefox is one of the most important proofs that open-source can and is actually better than closed, proprietary software."
     
Source: Linux Today Linux Devices: "The world's largest thin-client vendor has taken aggressive steps in the fast-growing market for Linux-based thin clients. Wyse has partnered with Novell to create "Wyse-enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise," a virtualization-ready thin-client OS expected to ship in Q4, pre-loaded on four N50L mobile thin client models."
     
Source: Linux Today Heise Online: "After two years in development, VLC, the universal media player, has moved from the 0.8.x versions to version 0.9.2. The release, named "Grishenko", is available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and other operating systems"

Source: Linux Today Electronics Weekly: "Embedded Linux is rapidly encroaching upon application spaces once considered the exclusive domain of embedded kernels such as VxWorks, pSOS and in-house platforms. Industry analysts show embedded Linux and open source garnering up to one-third of 32 and 64-bit designs "
     
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "I have been attending Linux install festivals for years. Always fun, often educational and (in some cases) completely missing the mark of their potential for the people they interact with."

Source: Linux Today Blogger News Network: "Installing software on Linux is a whole different beast. You have to download some funky file that is Tar'd or Gzipped, that bit is easy. Then the problems start."
     
Source: Linux Today Linux Prime Time: "I was searching the web for a way that i could change the default boot-up screen of Ubuntu, because lets face it Ubuntu’s boot up screen isn’t the most pretty thing. I came across an application called Start-up manager, which not only allows me to change my boot-up screen but allows me to do a ton of other things."
      
Source: Linux Today Lifehacker: "Linux only: Easystroke, a free mouse gesture manager for Linux systems, makes the often quirky business of summoning applications, web sites, and desktop actions with your pointer a simple affair."

Source: Linux Today Information Week: "The honeymoon ended in February, when Fielding resigned. Sun's pledge to give the community authority over OpenSolaris was "a sham," Fielding wrote in his letter of resignation."
 
Source: Linux Today Practical E-Commerce: "Ten years ago, a tiny software community launched, for free, Microsoft-like programs for those with UNIX or Linux computer operating systems. A few months ago, this software community--known as KDE--rolled out its first free Office-style software for Windows users."
     
Source: Linux Today Mitchell's Blog: "This has caused great concern on several topics. One is the content of the agreement. Another is the presentation. A third is whether there’s any reason for a license at all."
Source: Linux Today ars Technica: "Mozilla has received widespread criticism from within the open-source community for bundling a EULA with official binary builds of Firefox 3."
     
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "Three great recent lies, but there's only one of them that's still being maintained as the truth: That Vista is a great operating system."
      
Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today, we present a fairly simple Perl script that will parse any file consisting of rows of numbers and print out matches meeting certain criteria."

Source: Linux Today SiliconValley: "Yeah, penguin logo. See, Cafiero is a Linux guy. Maybe you know one -- or a Linux woman. Maybe you know that to love Linux is to live Linux -- that you don't just use free and open-source software, you embrace it and evangelize it."

Source: Linux Today Linux Loop: "Comic: The Tree Will Fall"
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