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Linux and Open Source News for 24th November 2008

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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

The government of Extremadura (Spain) has announced the availability of a beta release of gnuLinEx Lenix, a Debian-based distribution customised for use in schools and government offices around the region. The new version includes many productivity applications for office, Internet, graphics design and multimedia use. It is compatible .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Feature stories: Novell wins and SCO loses, Linux netbooks hit store shelves News: Fedora claims 9.5 million users, openSUSE plans for Zypper 2, Gentoo outlines Council activities, sidux celebrates second birthday, Shift Linux changes direction Released last week: Mandriva One 2009 "Xfce", Yellow .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Greenie Linux is an Ubuntu-based distribution customised for Slovak and Czech users. A new version, now based on "Intrepid Ibex", was announced earlier today: "A new version of Greenie Linux, based on Ubuntu 8.10 'Intrepid Ibex' is here! Main changes: Greenie is now based on Ubuntu 8.10, with .



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Source: Linux Today

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "For this week's Monday Linux/Unix bash shell script continuation, we're finishing up the blog version of our cabletv.sh script from last week. If you liked that one, and want to check out other versions, please revisit last week's cabletv.sh script, and that page will link back to all the other versions of the script hosted on this blog."


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Source: Linux Today

Packt: "In this article by Andre Bogus, we will be focusing on migrating from Apache to Lighttpd web server. Lighttpd is the perfect solution for every server that is suffering load problems, as it has a small memory footprint compared to other web-servers, effective management of the cpu-load, and advanced feature set, such as FastCGI, SCGI, Auth, Output-Compression, URL-Rewriting, and many more."


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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0 on a headless CentOS 5.2 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI."


Source: Linux Today

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: ""They're such NICE young men," said
78 year old Mildred Matthews, walking her dog nearby. "They would pet my
dog, and we'd talk about Art Bell, Deep Space Nine and the X Files. I think
they just got tired of being repressed and kept down by The Man "


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Source From Bohol: "It's a known fact that Free and Open Source software developers are inspired by the words of Stallman and Torvalds, but I think it won't hurt if they will also reflect on some of these great quotes by Steve Jobs:"


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Source: Linux Today

Blog of Helios: "Blog of helios is happy to publish their findings after over 1000 separate Linux installs. This will be the first part of a three part weekly series. We hope there is something for all of us to learn within."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "The Bash Debugger Project (bashdb) lets you set breakpoints, inspect variables, perform a backtrace, and step through a bash script line by line. In other words, it provides the features you expect in a C/C++ debugger to anyone programming a bash script."


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Source: Linux Today

Register Hardware: "Episode Three-- Considering that Linux netbooks are designed to present a simplified interface that can be used by complete newbies, it's amazing how buzzy hackers have become about them. Even people who wouldn't consider themselves hardcore techies love to tinker under these machines' hoods."


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Source: Linux Today

Builder AU: "The Australian subsidiary of the non-profit One Laptop per Child (OLPC) organisation today said it would commence a local "Give 1, Get 1" program on November 30 that would deliver the machines to both geeks and disadvantaged children."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "The practice of law is a knowledge, information, and document-intensive profession. In many respects, lawyers ply their trade in the same way independent programmers do: we sell our expertise, experience and technical skill in using what is, essentially, the aboriginal "open" source code -- the code of laws and courtroom procedure."


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Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: "Microsoft blames add-ons for its Internet Explorer security woes, according to InternetNews, yet in separate news from TechCrunch Mozilla's Firefox just hit its one billionth add-on and yet delivers better security, according to several studies."


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxPlanet: "As so many wise persons say, migrating from Windows on your computer desktop to Linux is all about having the right applications. Eric Geier introduces KompoZer as a good option for users wanting to find a Microsoft FrontPage replacement."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "Today we are marking a new milestone in the history of Multi Theft Auto [ ] we have made the decision to re-launch Multi Theft Auto as an open-source project."


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Source: Linux Today

Cyber Cynic: " the big, bad wolves--IBM, Red Hat, and Novell--had attacked it with their big nasty Linux penguin buddy, Tux the Destroyer! And-oh no!--they had stolen SCO's picnic basket of Unix intellectual property goodies."


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Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "Any release of a GNU/Linux distribution marks a milestone in a continuous cycle of software development. However, Fedora 10 promises to be a larger milestone than most, both for its development community and users, according to Paul W. Frields, the Fedora leader and chair."


Source: Linux Today

Blog of Helios: "Microsoft IS paying attention to what the Linux Community writes it's come to a point where they can no longer ignore the obvious. With their stockholders on the verge of revolt and their numbers falling quickly, to do otherwise would be financial suicide."


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Source: Linux Today

IT Toolbox: "Linux has made some very big improvements over the past few years and I have always said that it is ready for everyone to use, if they can only get out of the proprietary mindset."


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "We had begun by providing Ubuntu 7.04 to 8.10 benchmarks and had found the performance of this popular Linux distribution to become slower with time In this article, we are now comparing the 64-bit performance of Ubuntu 8.10 against the latest test releases of OpenSolaris 2008.11 and FreeBSD 7.1."


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Source: Linux Today

Open "The present invention relates to a sandwich assembly tool and methods of making a sandwich, which may be a hot or cold sandwich, quickly by pre-assembly of various sandwich components and simultaneous preparation of different parts of the same sandwich."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "Way back in July, the word rang out that SCO - the arch-villains bent on squeezing every dime they can out of Linux - had been vanquished by the valiant legal team at Novell to the tune of $2.5+ million. Now comes word that the victory is final - or at least, as final as can be expected."


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Source: Linux Today

O'Reilly Digital Media: "That's all it is. Links to recordings of hard drives crashing."


Source: Linux Today

Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog: "Judging from the e-mails, however, people at Microsoft aren't always interested in his advice. The exchanges provide a rare glimpse of back-channel communications in the technology industry -- and illustrate how they can go awry."


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Source: Linux Today

LWN.net: "What we have here is a classic story of an impedance mismatch between a developer and the development community. In the process, this long story has helped to give the Video4Linux development community a bit of a reputation as a dysfunctional family - a perception which those developers are only now beginning to overcome."


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Source: Linux Today

OSNews: "However, there are exceptions - and this is one that really boggles the mind: the pixel? One of those little dots on your screen? It's well over 400 years old."


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Source: Linux Today

TechRadar: "Increasingly we're seeing big business jump on the Linux bandwagon, as companies wake up to the money that can be made out of a community of developers working for free."


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Source: Linux Today

Internetling: "Some people will argue with me in that these GNU/Linux distributions are as advanced as you want them to be. Well, of course Linux is all about choice. I took the user base perspective though and what I have for you today is a few distros which do not hide the manual (or for people like me, beautiful) underlying configuration"


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Tech Broiler: " I feel that Ubuntu Netbook Remix is probably not the ideal OS to hand to your typical netbook consumer who really just wants the device to "just work".


Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevices: "Mobisense is shipping a Linux-ready, robot-targeted "MBS270-520" single-board computer (SBC) that can control small robots such as Tomy's i-Sobot. The 6.5-inch-tall i-Sobot has been dubbed "the smallest humanoid robot in production" by Guinness World Records, says Tomy."


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Click: "I'm getting ready to give the $0 Laptop (Gateway Solo 1450) to our daughter to run her educational games (Childsplay, Gcompris, TuxPaint) on Ubuntu Hardy
To replace that machine for me, I pulled a Toshiba Satellite 1101-S101 laptop from the boneyard."


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Source: Linux Today

IP Pro: " MSI has had a lot more netbooks returned with Linux installed, than Windows. What is interesting is that there is a recent report that Asus has found no skew in the number of returns in either way. Very interesting indeed - so what does this say?"


Source: Linux Today

Suretec: "The golden rule:

Under no circumstances should you hijack name space belonging to others!"


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Source: Linux Today

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today we're going to shoot out another quick scriptlet that might be useful (or distracting ;) from time to time. It's a bit of a follow up on our post from earlier this week on using bash to produce fancy user names for folks logged into your machine, although it’s a little bit longer. Once again, if you go by the 65 character rule, this isn't a one liner, even though it's all going on one line ;)"


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxMedNews: "OpenEMR HQ, a small software startup in NE Oklahoma, announced the release of PhoneReminder for OpenEMR. PhoneReminder is add-in software to the OpenEMR medical records package that allows users to automatically notify patients by phone (voice or text message) of upcoming appointments."



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Source: Security DevCenter

Consider this - I spend a significant amount of my working day staring at a web window pane within a browser. Now, that browser may be written in C++ (which would certainly have been the case even five years ago) but is increasingly likely to be written in JavaScript or Python of even Java, not necessarily because these languages are any faster (even with some of the most startling improvements in JavaScript, there's still an order of magnitude or two separating performance) but because these languages are generally easier to work with.


Source: Security DevCenter

Like a lot of people, I was feeling a bit of post-partum letdown after the election. Those of us who were really engaged, following the polls, making calls to undecided voters, arguing out the merits of the candidates, experienced a bit of a vacuum after the election. Doonesbury summed it up pretty well: "I've been on a constant news drip


Source: Security DevCenter

"Were it not for the Internet, Barack Obama would not be President," declared Arianna Huffington from the stage at Web 2.0 Summit, the day after the election. In "The Web and Politics" session, moderator John Heileman explores the new world of running for office--and governing once you win--with Huffington, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, and veteran politico Joe Trippi. Politicians


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Source: Security DevCenter

At 7:30 eastern this morning, one of my brothers called to tell me that he is, "being attacked by hackers." He was about to fall prey to a common scam. He did have some bad stuff on his computer (his existing anti-virus had indeed failed him), but it was trying to get him to pay to remove itself and a bunch of phantom viruses that didn't really exist.


Source: Security DevCenter

At OSCON 2008, Mike Hendrickson interviewed Jason Hunter about MarkMail.org a site which archives
34 million email messages from 6,470 open source mailing lists. Mike
asks Jason about the technology behind Markmail.org and how
MarkLogic's products can scale to handle Petabyte-scale data


Source: Security DevCenter

Over the past year, the news editors at O'Reilly have been shifting their focus a bit, adding coverage of green tech, biotech, innovations, economics and other non-computer areas to the existing news coverage. We may not be able to change human nature, but maybe we can make it irrelevant.


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Source: Security DevCenter

In the next few years a lot of people will be generating XBRL documents, in particular for financial filings to regulators. And a few years later a lot of people will be figuring out what to do with all that data too I decided to take a look at whether XBRL could, keeping the same instance syntax and concepts, have a schema language transplant so that Schematron was used instead of XSD.


Source: Security DevCenter

I bought a Windows PC this weekend and got ESET NOD32 Antivirus with
it. What struck me was the elaborate security theater ESET puts you
through to register for updates.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Like its misanthropic superhero, director Peter Berg created unintended havoc off the set of Hancock, as Sony Imageworks, the company that created the film's visual effects, scrambled to keep up with his run-and-gun style. Read about how the VFX team augmented the prison scene by creating a CG inmate whose head gets stuck in another inmate's, um, bum, and all about the spectacular SUV chase sequence that was largely practical. And digital effects supervisor, Ken Hahn, talks about the coming revolution in 3D delivery.


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Source: Security DevCenter

XML databases have long been something of a niche category in the database world, trying with varying degrees of success to provide the level of ease and accessibility for semi-structured content that is a hallmark of SQL databases, while at the same time providing as much of the sophisticated processing that XPath enables for stand-alone documents. The need is certainly there – a significant amount of the total "data" in the world does not necessarily fall neatly into Ted Codd's relational table structures without significant shredding – yet XML databases have had a hard road to acceptance, in great part because each one offered their own (typically very distinct) mechanism for getting at that data.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Author Nancy Duarte (slide:ology, The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations) will host a session at VizThink '09.



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Source: developerWorks : Linux : Technical library

Although GNU/Linux has the reputation of being a much more secure
operating system than Microsoft Windows, you still need to secure the Linux
desktop. This tutorial takes you through the steps of installing and
configuring antivirus
software, creating a backup-restore plan, and making practical use of a
firewall. When you finish, you'll have the knowledge and tools you need to
harden your Linux desktop against most attacks and prevent illegitimate access
to your computer.



Updated: Tue Nov 25 23:55:02 2008


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