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Source: Linux Today

Linux Dynasty: "Ubuntu 8.10 Beta was released today and I'm glad to post the ubuntu 8.10 Beta screen shots here. I will say this I've always enjoyed using Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distributions. Ubuntu has always made my life on my desktop easier."


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Linux.com: "One solution is to implement Domain Name Server (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) with dnsmasq, and thereby cache external DNS addresses for performance reasons, dynamically assign IP addresses to all of the members of your network, and manage everything from one location."


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The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today's Linux/Unix bash shell script is an update on our Bash Weather Script. the info is still grabbed from WeatherBug.com."


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Tech Source From Bohol: "I don't want to explain further or start a debate here, but I'll just let this all time list of 12 most devastating viruses and worms do the talking."


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Cyber Cynic: "A few years back, when Mozilla spun Firefox out from the Mozilla Internet Suite, Thunderbird, its e-mail client got almost as much press and attention as the Web browser. Now, Thunderbird appears to be a neglected stepchild."


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LXer: "What do I use Linux for in my office? Virtually anything that's needed. I'm not trying to be cute, but it's still the truth. I'll attempt to detail some things I routinely use Linux for in my duties as pastor of a small church."


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BoycottNovell: "In light of the systematic abuse and the demise of ISO, which IBM loudly protested against [1, 2], we shall no longer let this process remain secretive. We finally have complete copies of the documents which the shenanigans keep behind passwords "


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Gizmodo: " MSI today told Laptop that, according to internal studies, "The return rate is at least four times higher for Linux netbooks than Windows XP netbooks."


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OStatic: "Just as open source software is often shared in online repositories, the BioBricks Foundation has a registry online for open source biological parts. Here's more on how these efforts may change the world, following open source principles."


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lapubell: "With the release of dolphin, the new KDE default file manager, I decided to give the default file manager a try again. Still couldn't get it to do what I wanted, so it’s back to trusty ol' thunar."


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Shantanu's Technophilic Musings: "This is a simple tool I wrote a few months ago to turn Pidgin, everyone’s favourite multi-client Instant Messenger (works with gtalk, msn, yahoo, aim etc), into a customized answering machine (and more) when you are away from your computer."


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B/ST: "At a very early stage in the installation of the Ubuntu8.04 desktop I encountered some perplexing failures in the mount command and in my attempted alteration of the fstab file. Commands that had worked in Ubuntu's earlier LTS desktop failed both on the command line and when the file itself was executed."



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ruphus13 writes "There are still places on the world where having anonymity might mean the difference between life and death. Covering one's tracks is considered to be of such paramount importance that we are now witnessing the rise of a Linux distro catering to the most paranoid. The 'alpha-alpha' version of ParanoidLinux is now out. But is this the best way to protect oneself? Couldn't it be easily circumvented? The article asks, 'Why is it necessary to put the applications and services designed to protect anonymity, to encrypt files, to make the user nameless and faceless, all together, in one distribution? Let's think in a truly paranoid manner. Wouldn't it be far easier for a nefarious government organization to target that distribution's repositories, mirror that singular distribution's disk images with files of its own design, and leave every last one of that distribution's users in the great wide open?' What should truly paranoid user do?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.



Updated: Sun Oct 5 23:55:02 2008


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