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Source: Linux Today

Adam's Tech Talk: "In this part, I’m going to provide a download link to a prebuilt image which you can write directly onto your own CF card with dd or similar tool. I'm also going to provide a step by step to installing debian yourself without my prebuilt disk image."


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Linux Dynasty: "I just found this Linux Distribution today and I figured why not and support Klikit by posting there Screenshots here. I hope you guys enjoy. Klikit-Linux is based on the latest stable release of Kubuntu."


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The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today's Linux/Unix bash shell script is follow-up in our (must-almost-be-ending) series of posts on Linux and Unix Bash shell scripts to keep you from having to switch to your browser ;)"


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Brendan Scott's Weblog: "Small and medium enterprises typically have poor record keeping processes. Without records, it can be very difficult to prove any point you're trying to establish - especially if the other side has kept their own (self serving) records."


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Computing Tech: "It is both curious and sad that many Linux veterans have not heard of the screen command. Curious because they needlessly go to extra effort to replicate what screen takes in its stride and sad because they are missing a powerful tool that would benefit them greatly."


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Free Software in Latin America: "CONSEGI 2008 was history being made — we spoke with people from the Latin American Free Software Foundation, public officials from Brazil to South Africa, free software activists struggling to convince their governments to adopt the path forged by Brazil and Venezuela. "


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Linux Today Blog: "The Mono project has been branded as evil, a sellout, a product of a Microsoft-loving lackey from its inception. I think this is a misguided attitude that is rooted in a mistrust of the power of FOSS, and especially the GPL."


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Community, Incorporated: "In other words — much of the heavy lifting in open source is done thanks to corporations that have an interest in open source."


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OStatic: "FOSSBazaar recently highlighted Evangelia Berdou's doctoral thesis on the differences between the contributions of paid open source developers and volunteer contributors."


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LinuxPlanet: "Like DD-WRT and OpenWRT, Tomato is an excellent Linux-based replacement for your stock WRT54G wireless router family firmware. Unlike DD-WRT and OpenWRT, it presents a well-organized interface that appeals to both novices and advanced users."


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Free Software Magazine: "Just like Wikipedia, on which it is loosely modelled, OpenStreetMaps is resolutely free software. It is an attempt, by community participation, to map the Earth."


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Linux Magazine: "While NFS, SMB/CIFS, and similar protocols are handy, they aren't always ideally suited to what you need to do. One obscure Linux tool can sometimes help on this score: Network block devices (NBDs)."


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Linux Magazine: "Although the Productivity Sauce blog is all about, well, productivity, I'm willing to make an exception and mention the newly released Puppy Linux 4.1. I've been using this lightweight Linux distro on my ASUS Eee PC 701 for quite some time, and it helped me to be productive wherever I went."


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Cyber Cynic: "Vista is awful. Everyone knows it, including Microsoft, and now Microsoft's actions have made it clear that Vista is on its way to the Microsoft junkyard with such similar failures as Windows ME and Microsoft Bob."


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Open Enterprise: "For, example, according to this report, there are now 12 million users in Brazil, representing fully 25% of the entire office market there."


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Quick Tweaks: "If you are like me who often likes to test one of the thousand applications available for Ubuntu and like to keep track of whatever you install or remove, here is a script for you. This script, tapt, tweets whatever you install, remove or perform other operations with 'apt-get' in Ubuntu to your Tweeter account."


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ZDNet: "Red Hat on Thursday introduced what it called the first fully integrated, Linux-based, high-performance-computing platform, claiming to undercut a similar Windows-based system recently introduced by Microsoft."


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Polish Linux: "We have begun this series of articles focusing on Free Software deployments in Polish government departments with the article OpenOffice.org in Łeba. Today we are introducing yet another example of a well-done implementation of OpenOffice.org, in Town Council of Katowice."


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The Open Road: "How to make money [in open source]? A lot of people started with the support model . What Red Hat did was fundamentally different .It's not about trying to monetize the bits or the services. Everybody can do that."


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Hardware 2.0: "I find that when it comes to people building their own PCs (or tweaking their existing rig) then the mysteries that lay within the BIOS settings are scarier to most people than anything hardware related. Let's do something about that!"


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Linux Journal: "When your laptop battery is about to give up the ghost, you are probably thinking of the typical three alternatives. The most obvious, of course, is "wow, what a great justification for buying a new laptop". With laptop prices falling and no such luck with battery prices, this almost makes sense."


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InfoWorld: "Considered a major upgrade, the open source Mono 2.0 runtime leverages Microsoft's .Net Framework 2.0 programming model. With Mono, developers can build desktop and server applications using Microsoft-based environments and deploy them across multiple platforms, including Windows. Novell is leading the Mono effort."


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Managing L'unix: "At 8:30 AM in our national capital (Ottawa) on September 30th, the only response available from the https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca site was that: "The site is down for planned maintenance.""


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nickclifton: "One of my jobs at Red Hat is to take the changes in the public versions of the toolchain sources and copy them into our internal repository. I do this on a monthly basis and I produce a short report each time detailing what has happened. One of my friends here suggested that people outside of Red Hat might be interested in these monthly reports and so that is why I have started this blog."


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Linux Dynasty: "So I said why not let me give it a try. Let me tell you I am glad I did! This distro is amazingly fast and extremely easy to use. This distro is perfect for the Asus EEEpc, especially for newbies just joining Linux or for users who are just tired of Microsoft Windows."


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JBCobb: "You see Windows zealots flaming it because you can’t play game X on it. You see some flaming it because it comes with Xandros; others use it to complain about distro proliferation. They are all right yet still about as wrong as people can be."


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Linux Journal: "Lawyers in the Windows Vista Capable lawsuit against Microsoft want a federal judge to force the company to use Windows Update to notify potential class members of the suit, according to court documents." This is the opening paragraph in an article in ComputerWorld. A number of people, including myself think this is a bad idea."


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TechRepublic: "This quest had me digging through nearly every configuration file and every package I could find in an attempt to get an off-brand laptop (Everex Zonbook) running Mandriva Spring 2008 to either suspend or hibernate."


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TechRepublic: "Security researchers Jack C. Louis and Robert E. Lee of Outpost 24 stumbled onto a relatively simple way to implement a Denial of Service (DoS) attack that does not require massive syn floods. The researchers aren't releasing many details about the attack except for those provided in a very interesting interview "


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Linux Journal: "Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just dying to cut your teeth on a OS you can try to modify for your needs? Are you finding it frustrating when everything works on minix? No more all-nighters to get a nifty program working? Then this post might be just for you :-)"


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HowtoForge: "Zivios is an open source web based identity management application featuring single sign on, certificate authority, user, group and computer provisioning with remote management of services."


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Slashdot: ""The Register is reporting that Microsoft is hosting Windows-only projects on its 'open source project hosting site,' CodePlex. Miguel de Icaza caught and criticized Microsoft for doing this "



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Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

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of related content put together from disparate sources, mashups provide rich dynamic content
for a superb user experience. Getting Asynchronous
JavaScript + XML (Ajax) and mashup chops into your development toolbox will
benefit you with high demand in the evolving Web 2.0
workspace.



Updated: Tue Oct 7 23:55:02 2008


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