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Linux and Open Source News for 25th September 2008

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Source: mandriva

Damien Lallement has announced the availability of the second and final release candidate for Mandriva Linux 2009: "Mandriva Linux 2009 RC 2 should be available on public mirrors now. Main features of RC2 (compared to RC1): improved boot speed; support for encrypted partitions in installer and DiskDrake using .


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Source: absolute

Paul Sherman has announced the release of Absolute Linux 12.1.07, a light-weight modification of Slackware Linux with IceWM: "I am happy to announce the release of Absolute Linux 12.1.07. It is package-compatible with Slackware-current (NOT Slackware 12.1). A large number of changes include new kernel 2.6.24.7, GCC 4.2.4, .



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Source: Linux Today

ComputerWorld: "Asked if there has been any measurable impact on Red Hat, Andrew Cathrow, Red Hat product marketing manager, responded, 'To be quite honest, not at all.'"


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Source: Linux Today

Lifehacker: "Lots of Linux distributions make claims about being easy to use, fast, or stable, but what does that mean for a non-programmer trying out a Linux system for the first time?"


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com:"KDE's Konqueror is as multifunctional as a Swiss Army knife. It works as both a file manager and a Web browser, and you can enhance it even further by adding new commands to its repertoire by means of service menus."


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CNET: "The problem is that the research fails to acknowledge the biggest cost of working with Microsoft: the cost of exit."


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Source: Linux Today

HomeLinux.org: "There are published instructions for setting up an iPod using Linux but they don't seem to apply to this model as they refer to a firmware file which, as far as I can see, doesn't exist on this iPod."


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Source: Linux Today

Free Software Magazine: " Firefox is focused on cross-platform compatibility. That's great, but sometimes that also means that Firefox won't be able to take advantage of Gnome-specific features, including the unified look, better language support, and HIG-compliant settings."


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Source: Linux Today

The KOffice Project: ""This is the first beta release of KOffice 2.0, and the first version we encourage users to download and try out. After a very long development cycle KOffice is now in feature freeze."


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CNET: "In selling longer-term deals, Red Hat is successfully blocking competitive pressure from Novell, Microsoft, and other companies that might want to cut into its accounts."


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ComputerWorldUK: "At least two Open Source companies have become part of the Becta's official list of suppliers to the education sector."


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The Open Road: "Open source offers the most comprehensive way to ensure software actually works before you pay for it, and to tweak it to make it work how you want it to work."


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LinuxPlanet: "In the previous article of this 2-part series, you got your Condor client and
server set up. Now let's test them out by submitting a job."


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Source: Linux Today

FSF Blogs: "With Mozilla's recent announcement of adding native Ogg Theora and Ogg Vorbis support to their browsers, we expect many more sites will begin streaming Ogg."


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Source: Linux Today

Boycott Novell: "Only last year, Microsoft's PR icon had an important message to bear and to share: It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not."


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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet Blogs: "The most valuable thing I've learned watching Fedora is this: Patience. It takes time and steady, incremental growth to build a solid community."


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Mandriva Wiki: "The second (and final) release candidate for Mandriva Linux 2009, code named sophie, is now available."


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DaniWeb: "On one level, the geek in me certainly shares the excitement. It's open source. It's Google's first entree into the phone market."


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ServerWatch: "Are Chrome and Virtual Datacenter OS putting a new spin on a long-standing model (and sticking it to Microsoft), or they the start of its dissolution?"


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ComputerWorld Blogs: "Microsoft encourages us to think of Linux, when we think of it as all, as an also-ran operating systems for nerds."


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HowtoForge: "This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0 on a headless Ubuntu 8.04 server."


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InfoStor: "Overland has rewritten its Linux kernel for improved stability and performance and improved its support for Windows file and folder access control lists."


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CIO: "Some development teams are building a service-oriented architecture the old fashioned way: fast."


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Phronix: "Specifically with this testing we had used the stock versions of Fedora 9, Fedora 10 Alpha, Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 6, and Mandriva 2009 Beta 2."


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internetnews.com: "As income and revenues rise, the Linux vendor sheds some light on its view of the future of hypervisors and Fedora."


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Linux PR: "The Moab Hybrid Cluster solution with IBM's new iDataPlex enables both Windows and Linux OSes to run on the same platform."


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Lennart Poettering: "At the Audio MC at the Linux Plumbers Conference one thing became very clear: it is very difficult for programmers to figure out which audio API to use for which purpose and which API not to use when doing audio programming on Linux. So here's my try to guide you through this jungle "


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Ars Technica: "Nokia is pushing significant architectural changes at many different levels in the Maemo platform stack. The new components will simplify application development and bring new capabilities to future Internet Tablet products."


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InfoWorld: "Many, many things have changed at the OS level between Fedora Core 3 and CentOS 5.2 (which is basically RHEL 5), the number of services provided by the server had quintupled, and I had only a five-minute window to make the swap. However, these are Linux boxes. That makes all the difference."


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IT Wire: "Ubuntu 8.10 'Intrepid Ibex' Alpha 6 absolutely flies on my laptop. It boots faster and generally feels more responsive than the 8.04 version, which again felt faster than 7.10 and 7.04."


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Linux.com: " the free software utility Adeona won't preemptively deter theft, but it will help you track down your stolen equipment and better the chances of its recovery by police."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

JerkBoB links to a story at the New York Times about the future prospects of Sun's Solaris, excerpting: "Linux is enjoying growth, with a contingent of devotees too large to be called a cult following at this point. Solaris, meanwhile, has thrived as a longstanding, primary Unix platform geared to enterprises. But with Linux the object of all the buzz in the industry, can Sun's rival Solaris Unix OS hang on, or is it destined to be displaced by Linux altogether?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.



Updated: Fri Sep 26 23:55:01 2008


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