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Linux and Open Source News for 23rd November 2008

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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a free book that provides instructions for compiling a basic Linux operating system from scratch, offered primarily as an educational tool for those who wish to learn more about Linux internals. A brand new version was released today: "The Linux From Scratch community .



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Source: Linux Today

Journal of Martin Michlmayr: "Martin Michlmayr built the Debian archive with a snapshot of the upcoming GCC 4.4 and described common build failures: some failures are caused by stricter preprocessor checks in GCC 4.4 and many by missing #include statements."


Source: Linux Today

Google Blog: "The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination; The Mansell Collection from London; Dahlstrom glass plates of New York and environs from the 1880s; and the entire works left to the collection from LIFE photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gjon Mili, and Nina Leen. These are just some of the things you'll see in Google Image Search today."


Source: Linux Today

dwayne's blog: "If you are planning to be at the soccer world cup in 2010, planning to deliver your web content to a 2010 audience, then these trends are very important. They influence what technology decisions you need to make today to deliver to your 2010 audience."


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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu Studio 8.10 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge."


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Source: Linux Today

MyDigilife: "Dust is a concept for a new, refreshing look for Ubuntu. The idea was to take the defining aesthetic elements of Ubuntu and remix it into something clean, modern, functional, and unique ."


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Source: Linux Today

17Lamp.net: "There are Chinese web browsers, of course: there are about 250 million Internet users in China. But there's a bit more to the Chinese Firefox than simply a browser that can display Chinese characters.
The new version, just
announced
includes a new feature: Live Margins"


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Source: Linux Today

FOSS Boss: "This time around I will be playing around with nexenta OS. Nexenta is a marriage between OpenSolaris and Ubuntu, or what I like to call SolaBuntu :) Solaris has a pretty decent record in the data-center. It is a solid and widely trusted paltform, however, it was showing its age pretty badly."


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Source: Linux Today

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "As per usual, we're doing our best to find some quirky and/or original humor out there on the web, since no one ever wants to work on the weekend, much less read about it."


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Shantanu's Technophilic Musings: "I'm back from my vacation and this is a smallish post before we return to our regular programming (I'm full of puns.)



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

TRNick writes "How can developers who are working for free protect themselves and avoid getting exploited by business users of Linux? TechRadar has an interview with former Fedora project leader Max Spevack to find out how his new role as manager of the community architecture team is designed to help. Quoting: 'About two-thirds of the Fedora packages are maintained by community people, and if we didn't have that community, that chunk of work would either not get done, which would significantly harm Red Hat's entire value, or would have to made up by more [paid] engineers. The challenge on the flip side of that is to make sure that everyone in the Fedora community feels valued, that everyone who contributes can be proud of the way that Red Hat uses their code.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Steven A. Reisler explains his experience with GNU/Linux, and how he has completely freed his computing environment from proprietary software.



Updated: Mon Nov 24 23:55:01 2008


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