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Linux Dynasty: "As in my first review of Dream Linux 3.1 , Dream Linux 3.5 RC4 remains extremely easy to install. Also with the same easy to use control panel and a beautiful set of icons that will leave you saying ahhhhhhh."

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Free Software Magazine: "Recently I've received a few pieces of mail saying this is a "non-free" licence and questioning my use of it here. Some of them are quite polite, others have demanded I change the licence immediately (presumably "or else"). I'm not going to change the license, and here's why."

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Quick Tweaks: "Be careful when you run these commands as some Anti-Linux a**holes try to fool new Linux users in the name of tips and tutorials.If after following such command(s), you lose all your files, no one is to be blamed but you."

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Quick Tweaks: "Got bored of those dull Google colors and themes? GoogleRedisgned is a Firefox/Flock extension which gives a totally new look to some of the Google products such as Gmail and GCalendar."

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TuxArena: "A true classic and one of the most played online first-person shooter games, Wolfenstein: ET was supposed to be released as a new mod for Return to Castle Wolfenstein, but the single-player part of the game was abandoned and it was released at no cost, as a standalone multiplayer game."

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Mandriva: "In order to celebrate Mandriva Linux 2009, to bring Linux to new users and present the new features available in the new release, Mandriva would like to coordinate a worldwide Install Fest on November 22nd, 2008."

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The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "For this week's attempt to find even more Linux, Unix and/or computer-related humour on the web, I ran across an entertaining 4 minutes of video called "Unix: What the heck is it?" It's attached to this post, below, but is also available on OrienteeringPro's YouTube Page."

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TuxArena: "SMPlayer
SMPlayer is built in Qt4 and it uses the MPlayer engine for video playback. It's one of the most powerful applications out there for watching DVDs, and it supports plenty formats like AVI, MKV, MPG, FLV."

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Fellowship of FSFE: " After 5 years of work, the last court case was won last year. There were always doubts about whether Microsoft could really be pinned down, but from Samba developer Andrew Bartlet's blog, it seems the Samba team are now loving the interoperability information."

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notthatwillsmith writes "With Ubuntu 8.10 due to be released in just a few days, Maximum PC pored through all the enhancements, updates, and new features that are bundled into the release of Intrepid Ibex and separated out the new features that are most exciting for Linux desktop users. Things to be excited about? With new versions of GNOME and X.Org, there's quite a bit, ranging from the context-sensitive Deskbar search to an audio and video compatible SIP client to the new Network Manager (manage wired, Wi-Fi, VPN, and cellular broadband connections in one place)."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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moteyalpha writes "Mark Shuttleworth described the beginnings of what could a great step forward in making file systems more usable. I've personally had the experience of trying to find a file for a customer who had just finished editing a critical report, saved it, and then couldn't locate it to deliver to their client. Quoting: 'My biggest concern on this front is that it be done in a way that every desktop environment can embrace. We need a consistent experience across GNOME, KDE, OpenOffice and Firefox so that content can flow from app to app in a seamless fashion and the user's expectations can be met no matter which app or environment they happen to use. If someone sends a file to me over Empathy, and I want to open it in Amarok, then I shouldn't have to work with two completely different mental models of content storage.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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This is the first of a series of monthly columns in the blog associated with the Algorithms in a Nutshell, published October 2008 by O'Reilly Media, Inc. All algorithms are fully implemented and available in the online code repository associated with the book.

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Cloud computing has been "the next cool thing" for at least the past 18 months. The current economic climate, however, may be the thing that accelerates the maturity of the technology and drives mainstream adoption in 2009.