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Andrew Chapman Dot Net: "With the advent of people installing a myriad of operating systems on their EEE PC's, I recalled a fairly popular distro of Linux in my travels, Backtrack 3."

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HowtoForge: "FreeIPA has existed for some time as RHE IPA for Red Hat Linux and has been added into Fedora."

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TuxArea: "Nano is one of the most lightweight and user-friendly text editors for command-line."

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Free Software Magazine: "The business model may vary (revenues are generated by online advertising or by paying users), but the main concept is always the same: it needs to be online, it needs to be accessible, it needs to give something to the user, and it needs to look good. "

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Computerworld: "Under Linux, installing new applications isn't a particularly hard task, but installations do come in several different varieties, so it's worth understanding the differences and what you'll need to know to make them work."

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Slatterz writes "Red Hat will announce its first high-performance computing optimised distro, Red Hat HPC, on 7 October. The distro is a step forward from the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux for HPC Compute Nodes. A part of the new distro is, by the way, created by a small Project Kusu team in Singapore. Kusu is the foundation for Platform Open Cluster Stack (OCS) which is an integral feature of Red Hat HPC. It might be sign of things to come, as more of hardware and software development moves to the Far East — even top-of-the-line computing performance."Read more of this story at Slashdot.