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Linux and Open Source News for 24th September 2008

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Source: gos

David Liu has announced the release of gOS 3.0 "Gadgets" edition, an Ubuntu-based distribution featuring a large number of pre-installed Google desktop gadgets: "Introducing gOS 3 'Gadgets'. gOS 3 'Gadgets' instantly launches Google Gadgets for Linux on start-up, introducing over 100,000 possible iGoogle and Google Gadgets to the .


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Source: vector

Robert Lange has announced the release of VectorLinux 5.9.1 "SOHO" edition, now also available as a free download: "The 5.9.1 release is a maintenance and bug-fix release for the previous SOHO 5.9 and includes 52 updates to the core system. You will also find Firefox 3.0.1, Opera 9.52, .



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Source: Linux Today

Elliotth's Blog: "The Linux kernel has its Steve Jobs What does the Linux desktop have? The Linux desktop has nothing. No person, not even a committee. Just the GNOME HIG."


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Source: Linux Today

InfoWorld: "Sun officials believe the 16-year-old Solaris platform remains a pivotal, innovative platform. But at the Linux Foundation, there is a no-conciliatory stance; the attitude there is to tell Solaris and Sun to move out of the way."


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Desktop Linux: "The last time we looked at gOS on a netbook, we were pretty horrified, to be honest."


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Paul Frields: "If you haven't seen the lovely and festive new banner on the Fedora home page today, check it out! Today is a celebration -- FIVE GREAT YEARS of Fedora so far."


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Source: Linux Today

Reuters: "Red Hat Inc., the world's largest publicly traded provider of Linux software, posted a quarterly profit that beat Wall Street targets, helped by strong growth in its subscriptions business."


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Linux Planet: "Last week's introduction to TCP promised that this article would enlighten, entertain and obviate all other documentation. Well the last one isn't quite possible in this much space, but let's go ahead and take a look at TCP operational issues, now that we know a little about what TCP actually is."


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Linux Magazine: "According to the Ubuntu Community page, Ubunteros (aka Ubuntites) are Ubuntu activists. This Ubuntero name has been used for the past few years, but now there is discussion about changing it to Ubuntista, or another gender-neutral word."


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Spread Fedora: " I will explain you how I made to work my laptop with Fedora. No, not my opinion or expectations of it but how I made it to work, what were my difficulties and how I solved them."


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Practical Technology: " it should come as no surprise that the CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) Group, the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange, has joined the Linux Foundation."


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InformationWeek: "Looks like the netbook is shaping up as the major way Just Plain Folks will get a little Linux into their lives."


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TechRepublic: "I know, I know you're wondering why this is in the open source blog. The reason is simple: I have used open source operating systems for a long, long time now. I have championed against Microsoft for over ten years."


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The Register: "While the top brass at Sun Microsystems might seem to be clueless about the company sometimes, there are plenty of people who know where the bread gets buttered - or doesn't."


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The Open Road: "Open source has long been the ugly stepchild of UK government information technology, but in a recent turn of events, it may finally be gaining ground with the British."


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Linux HOWTOs & Discussion: "OpenVPN is a popular Windows/Linux VPN Server/Client pair."


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Linux Pro Magazine: "If developing countries want to develop their own standards, IBM is willing to support them."


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EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: "As soon as you start administering more than a couple of Linux machines you become aware of two things: You need to be able to reinstall machines quickly and easily, and you need to be able to customize the load of each machine without starting from scratch."


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OSTATIC: "The Linux Plumbers Conference may have ended last Friday, but the discussions will be analyzed, deconstructed, and argued for quite a bit longer."


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OSTATIC: "Most were disappointed when technical issues forced the Collider's early shutdown for repairs. Few people, though, mentioned that part of the multi-billion dollar project relies heavily on Linux."


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iTWire: "Despite all the totally understandable media hype about Chrome entering the market, the Google open source web browser was never going to make a truly huge dent in the market immediately."


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developerWorks: "Learn how to use Apache Derby as a local data store that can be used to take your Ajax application offline."


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The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Did I actually mention Windows and NTFS in the title of this post? It's a good thing I managed to squeeze a little Linux in there or I'd commit myself to the nearest convalescent home immediately."


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Mandriva Blog: "A major bug was recently discovered in the upstream Linux kernel (see also Mandriva bug #44147)."


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Adam's Tech Talk: "The purpose of this is that I can take a 10mbit connection and limit the traffic to 5mbit ensuring that I don't break the 95th percentile that I want to maintain at the datacenter. I can increase and decrease this at any time as traffic requires or permits respectively."


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ComputerWorld Blogs: "OK, I'm really pleased that Linux does so well in the mobile phone space. I'm very happy to see Google's Linux-powered Android phone make its first appearance. But, come on, who buys a phone for its operating system?"


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Linux Pro Magazine: "The Eee Box with the Intel Atom processor is available in Linux and Windows XP."


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internetnews.com: " in this new contest, it's not the vendors themselves that will ultimately prevail, but rather it is likely that it is the web itself which will emerge victorious."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

thhamm writes "The GNOME community hopes to make our users happy with many new features and improvements, as well as the huge number of bug fixes that are shipped in this latest GNOME release! Well. What else to say. I am happy." Notably, this release is also the occasion for the announcement of videoconferencing app Ekiga's 3.0 release.Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

This article briefly lists some of the Ajax functionality and frameworks
included in WebSphere Community Edition 2.1, and walks you through developing a sample Web 2.0 application that uses these frameworks to make development easier.



Updated: Thu Sep 25 23:55:01 2008


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