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Source: Linux Today

Midgard CMS: "The Midgard Project has released stable release of 8.09 "Ragnaroek LTS" generation of the Midgard Content Management System. Midgard is a mature Free Software CMS package targeted for mid-to-high-end web services."


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Source: Linux Today

IBM Developerworks: "Apache Tuscany provides an easy-to-use open source infrastructure for the development and operation of SCA applications. This article shows you how to administer an SCA domain using a Tuscany Web-based domain manager UI and code, and how to use the domain administrative UI to deploy an SOA solution comprised of SCA components."


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxMedNews: "While fast-booting Splashtop desktops look promising, one killer application boldly going where Windows cannot go is languishing. That killer application is Multi-head, multi-user systems running off a single PC."


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Source: Linux Today

Cyber Cynci: "While I find Wikipedia about as trustworthy as any random stranger at a pub, I can't deny that Wikipedia is incredibly popular. According to the Web traffic monitoring site Alexa on an average day 8.5% of the world's Internet users will visit the site."


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ZDNet: "No use denying it. Parts of the open source industry are going to be sucked into Wall Street’s downdraft.:"


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Source: Linux Today

CIO: ""People typically don't care what operating system is on the netbooks, because they don't buy them to run a suite of applications like Microsoft Office, but to be on the Web using a Web browser," Nat Friedman said in an interview with IDG Applications Service."


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Source: Linux Today

10 Things: "If you’re thinking about making the switch to Linux, Jack Wallen is all for it — but only if you approach the migration with your eyes open. He recommends that you evaluate a number of key issues before taking this big step."


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Linux-Magazine: "Bottomley instead likened the OS X to a luxury jail and that Microsoft users are clearly finding themselves in one with dirty toilets in comparison. Mac users, he says, can't even see the cell bars for the plasma screens surrounding them. He emphasized that Apple might participate in Open Source, but that it gives little in return and doesn't disclose many of its components."


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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "Chromium is an open-source browser project that is the basis for Google's Chrome browser. Right now, Chromium doesn't support Linux natively, but Codeweavers has created a Linux port called CrossOver Chromium that can be installed free of charge. This guide shows how to install CrossOver Chromium on Ubuntu 8.04."


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Source: Linux Today

Techworld: ""One thing that Jabber allowed us to do was to provide server side rosters so that when a new user starts, they already had everyone else in their contact list," he said. "By looking at another user's profile, they can also get their mobile number and other contact information.""


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "Using MultiView on Linux you can easily drive four, six, or even eight screens. In fact, up to 32 displays are theoretically supported on a single system (permitting you have enough graphics cards and PCI Express slots). MultiView also allows for OpenGL acceleration across all displays and does not rely upon Xinerama."


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LinuxPlanet: "Akkana Peck shows how you can speed up your Web searches with custom bookmarklets-- you don't need to be an ace coder to create your own; it's easy, fast, and powerful."


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Tech Treasures: "when Richard Stallman, the Dean of the free software movement weighs in that it's actually stupid, it's going to make you stand up and take notice. So to get yet another view on all of this, I had a chat with Rishi Chandra, the product manager for Google Docs Enterprise."


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Source: Linux Today

Daily Artisan: "Linux is a secure and stable OS but is still vulnerable to bugs, security leaks and intrusion attacks specially if you are using it as a web server. To detect such attacks and security holes, security tools are needed. These can be used to patch up bugs, fix network leaks, prevent viruses, trojan horses and remote exploits."


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Source: Linux Today

Ars Technica: "750,000 and $200 to $250 billion. The first is the number of U.S. jobs supposedly lost to intellectual property theft; the second is the annual dollar cost of IP infringement to the U.S. economy."


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Datamation: "Most GNU/Linux users get the bulk of their applications from their distribution's repositories. However, those who want the cutting edge take to the Web to find it, often to GNOMEfiles if they use the GNOME desktop, or to KDE.apps.org if they use KDE."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "eBay is not going through the happiest of times. Not only has it found it necessary to make 1000 people - 10% of its workforce - redundant, it has had to own up to a serious breach of trust with its Internet telephony program, Skype."


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LinuxInsider: "Yahoo could use a calendar, or 10 of them, to measure the time that's passed since the last time it updated its calendar offering. On Wednesday, though, Yahoo rolled out a beta version of its calendar app, complete with modern innovations such as CalDAV and iCal compatibility."


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Linux.com: "The first essays of the school year are coming due, and with the essays comes the need to outline and plan. GNU/Linux users are fortunate to have a number of outlining applications from which to choose."


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SUSE & openSUSE: "With Kernel 2.6 (default in recent releases of openSUSE & SuSE Linux), there are some fine tuning you can do to improve Network performance and get that extra out of your system."


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Ubuntu Kung Fu: "Wouldn't it be useful if you could add your own right-click option that performed a specific action on the file? For example, if you right-clicked a Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org document, how about if a Print document option appeared? If you right-click an image, how about if an option appeared to shrink the image or sharpen it?"


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The Open Road: "Or how about Cisco, with this impressive list of open-source licenses used for software embedded in Cisco's security appliances?"


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Linux Magazine: "The International Standards Organization (ISO) is up in arms over the fact that documentation for Microsoft's OOXML data format is now publicly available on the Internet."


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Linuxworld: "David Kernell is facing five years in prison for allegedly hacking into Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail account, but lawyers watching the case say that the felony charge against him is a bit of a stretch."


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LinuxInsider: "A Flash Player vulnerability could allow attackers to gain control of a user's webcam and microphone, according to a security advisory issued by Adobe. The company has issued a workaround; however a patch won't come until later."


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InternetNews: "Hacking into systems (albeit for testing purposes) is apparently getting easier with the upcoming open source Metasploit 3.2 framework, according to its creator."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "If I had had SpeedCrunch or Qalculate! during high school, finishing homework really would've been child's play. From breaking down complex algebraic equations, to solving your calculus problems, to performing geometric computations and providing statistical answers, SpeedCrunch and Qalculate! are tools that offer quick solutions to difficult questions."


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The Open Road: "In one of the biggest testaments yet of open source's security credentials, and of its ability to deliver security at lower cost, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has turned to open source to create part of the Tokeneer System."


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Ubuntu Forums: "The fix that has now been applied is the Debian fix, which purposely
leaves the power management (and therefore the cycling) enabled when the
laptop is working on battery."


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Linux.com: "On one hand, as an implementation of Microsoft's .Net that's sponsored by Novell, it has been vilified both for the company it keeps and as a possible source of patent claims, should Microsoft choose to get nasty. On the other hand, Mono has been the platform of choice for such major projects as Second Life, which uses it to increase the efficiency of its servers."


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Tech Broiler: "What is this, a freakin' Presidential debate when we conveniently leave critical facts out in order to support a highly flawed ideological position?"


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Detector Pro: "nVidia released new binary linux drivers version 177.80. The new version has total 25 official changes and improvements. "


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InternetNews: "AMD's Barcelona launch was bumpier than a 737 departing Chicago into a storm off the Great Lakes. Plagued by delay after delay, then by a bug in the processor after it was supposed to ship, Barcelona was a lesson in how not to launch a new product."


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Technacular: "Please find a list of links to quick reference guides/cheat sheets below. I will keep on updating this list as I find more."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

diegocgteleline.es writes "Linux 2.6.27 has been released. It adds a new filesystem (UBIFS) for 'pure' flash-based storage, the page-cache is now lockless, much improved Direct I/O scalability and performance, delayed allocation support for ext4, multiqueue networking, data integrity support in the block layer, a function tracer, a mmio tracer, sysprof support, improved webcam support, support for the Intel wifi 5000 series and RTL8187B network cards, a new ath9k driver for the Atheros AR5008 and AR9001 chipsets, more new drivers, and many other improvements and fixes. Full list of changes can be found here."Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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Adam Williamson writes "Mandriva has today released Mandriva Linux 2009, the new major release of the popular distribution. 2009 is a bold release which brings the new KDE 4 as the default desktop, along with a re-designed installer and Mandriva Control Center and many other new features. Other significant updates include GNOME 2.24, OpenOffice.org 3, Mozilla Firefox 3, and kernel 2.6.27. Key features include new graphical in-line upgrade capability, netbook compatibility, class-leading hardware support, and further improved support for working with mobile devices. For more details, see the Release Tour and the Release Notes. Get it at the download page, or go straight to the torrent list."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: developerWorks : Linux : Technical library

Follow these nine steps to build a bootable, self-installing hard disk drive
for an IBM BladeCenter HS20 blade server running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.
(These steps work for other blade servers, as well). When the system boots from this
drive for the first time, it automatically begins to install Linux on the disk,
which eases the task of preloading the operating system and lightens user workload.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

XQuery, the query language for XML, can be used to modify XML. In this
article, learn about the various ways to modify XML, including XML stored in
memory or in a DB2 pureXML database. Explore the different ways to modify XML
in four different use cases: health care, business, financial derivatives, and
information technology. while utilizing DB2 pureXML. Finally, examine
guidelines for when to use XQuery to perform either sub-document updates or
full document replacement and versioning of the stored XML.



Updated: Fri Oct 10 23:55:02 2008


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