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Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "The nonprofit Linux Foundation (LF), which coordinates an assortment of Linux-oriented standardization efforts and employs key developers such as Linux creator Linus Torvalds, has added to its Web site a gateway toward individual -- as opposed to corporate -- membership. Individuals can join through the site by paying yearly dues, and will get a small voice in Foundation matters in exchange -- plus their choice of T-shirts."
Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "Have you ever wanted to ssh to your Linux box that sits behind NAT? Now you can with reverse SSH tunneling."
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "I'm going to say something you never expected to hear me say: "Thank you Microsoft."
Source: Linux Today Builder AU: "It wasn't a good week to be an Alaskan vice-presidential candidate, an online publication or even a multinational science project -- as all were compromised by hackers this week."
Source: Linux Today Gizmodo: "UC at San Diego has the closest thing to an X-Men-style Danger Room in its new StarCAVE, a small room that entirely surrounds you, hurtling 68 million pixels at your eyeballs at near-perfect resolution. Pop on polarized glasses and the whole thing goes 3D."
Source: Linux Today I have another list, and this is a much more fun list. It is a large list that is always growing. We could also include the free BSDs- FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, whose contributions to Linux and FOSS are well-deserving of more recognition. This is "What Linux Can Do That Those Big Ole Proprietary Innovators Can't".
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "It is also able to export altered files into a "hybrid" PDF format -- the imported ODF file becomes a source file embedded in the exported PDF."
Source: Linux Today ITPro: "A few weeks back I thought I'd give the video aspect of Skype a go, so pulled out a Creative NX Pro webcam and put it in place."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "GPLv2-licensed openThinClient, based on an Ubuntu server operating system, uses server components and a management system written in Java for midsize to large organizations."
Source: Linux Today TechRadar: "Jerry Panagrossi, VP of Symbian's North American operations, believes the Linux platform is not fit for purpose when it comes to working as a mobile phone OS."
Source: Linux Today The Open Road: "Techdirt goes into depth on ex-Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures, adding a slew of new reasons to consider the patent-hoarding company the ultimate in creepiness."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "For this review ZaReason provided an Asus Eee PC 1000 loaded with Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Basic specs for this unit include a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor, 1 GB of memory, a 40 GB Solid State Disk (SSD) drive and a 10-inch screen."
Source: Linux Today Linux Pro Magazine: "The Hanlin eReader V3 from Tianjin Jinke Electronics out of China claims to provide a month of use between battery charges. By then 10,000 pages of reading should have been possible -- provided you have the requisite time and patience."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "After nine months, an open secret can finally be acknowledged: The OpenGL code that is responsible for 3-D acceleration on GNU/Linux, which was released by SGI in 1999, has been running on licenses that were accepted by neither the Free Software Foundation (FSF) nor the Open Source Initiative."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "This tutorial continues by highlighting OOo Options you may want to change, discusses the PDF exporting feature, and shows how to overcome two issues you may encounter when working with images."
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "A research paper from Intel shows the chip giant figured out what many apartment and home dwellers have known for years: using a fan to pull in cool air from the outside is as good as an air conditioner."
Source: Linux Today SearchEnterpriseLinux: "Windows Server 2008 customers have been able to run as a virtualized guest on SUSE since last June, when SUSE became the first member of Microsoft's Server Virtualization Validation Program, which Novell has helped to fine-tune. Now SUSE is optimized to run on Microsoft's Hyper-V as well."
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "Introduced in Ubuntu 7.10 was a feature known as BulletProofX, which provides a fail-safe mode that is by default used when the X server fails to properly initialize."
Source: Linux Today The VAR Guy: "We are sending them free servers, free shipping, and spending a free hour sending their backup configuration from our data center to their new onsite server."
Source: Linux Today The Open Road: "VMware has been publicly chastised for allegedly violating the GPL in its proprietary vmkernel technology. Now, in VMware's most recent quarterly report, the company calls out widespread use of open-source software in its products."
Source: Linux Today The VAR Guy: "Consider the situation at GroundWork Open Source, a systems management company that competes with Hewlett-Packard OpenView. Apparently, GroundWork Open Source is looking to capitalize on the layoff news out of HP."
Source: Linux Today Linux Prime Time: "I had been mostly using Nautilus as my primary file manager and i was a bit sick to be honest from using it, Nautilus is very basic and a bit heavy file manager."
Source: Linux Today VentureBeat: "In parallel to the Web and mobile devices, a new marketplace for applications and services is becoming accessible to entrepreneurs and developers -- the Digital Car."
Source: Linux Today Information Week: "As open source rises in popularity, so too does the likelihood that licensing violations have seeped into your applications."
Source: Linux Today Planet Ubuntu: "Greg has used at least two high-profile speeches this year (a Linux Plumber’s Conference keynote, and a Google Tech Talk) to tear down the contributions of Canonical to the Linux ecosystem."
Source: Linux Today Heise Open Source: ""Canonical doesn't give back to the community""
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "Peru will become the first country ever to run a trial of OLPC laptops running on Windows XP."
Source: Linux Today WindowsForDevices: "Quarta Mobile has announced a version of Windows CE 6.0 tailored for netbooks and MIDs (mobile internet devices). The San Jose company says the open-source "MID-Shell for Windows Embedded CE 6.0" is designed as an alternative to Linux for low-end devices with SSDs (solid state disks)."
Source: Linux Today Electronic Frontier Foundation: "The five individual plaintiffs are also suing President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney's chief of staff David Addington, former Attorney General and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales and other individuals who ordered or participated in the warrantless domestic surveillance."
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "In the wake of the Firefox EULA issue, the well-known GNU/Linux news accumulation website, Linux Today, ran a very short editorial which came to the rather hurried conclusion that the free operating system does not need what it characterised as "slick marketing.""
Source: Linux Today A.P. Lawrence: "I had a call from an old SCO Unix customer this week. There aren't many of those old systems left now - more than you'd probably think, more than there should be Anyway, this customer called because two printers were not working."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Carla Schroder says she just "kind of wandered into" her current life as a free software advocate and well-known IT journalist. "I don't have much in the way of formal education. But I've always been mechanically inclined - your classic ripping things apart and figuring out how they work. I think that makes open source a natural fit for me.""
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Source: Linux Today The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "It's been noted (and I know that it's true) that the spread-system used in the last portion of our Perl script (posted yesterday in our entry regarding maximizing guaranteed matches) was somewhat uneven."
Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "This three-part series takes you through everything you need to know to create video optimized for the Web, as well as creating a PHP application that will help keep your videos organized and accessible."
Source: Linux Today SUSE & openSUSE: "aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone for Windows,Linux,Unix & Mac with features like offline messaging, voice clips, picture display, custom emoticons, webcam support, full speed file transfer, chat logs "
Source: Linux Today Spread Fedora: " Recently I purchased new laptop - A Toshiba A300D that laptop was very carefully selected among many others. So, I knew that it should work at least at the minimum level with my favourite GNU/Linux distribution - Fedora."
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