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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Alexander Tratsevskiy has announced the release of Calculate Linux Desktop 9.6 "Xfce" edition, the first version of the Gentoo-based distribution based on the Xfce environment: "The main differences: The system is optimized to work on slower computers; The size of the image stored on a CD; Instead, the .



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Source: Linux Today

Linux Today Blog: "Here is the latest hot trend in anti-Linux baloney: supposed Linux fans and advocates who really really love Linux and have been using it for years, but can't recommend it for anyone else because "It's not ready.""


Source: Linux Today

KDE.news: "After 5 months of hard work the Amarok team is proud to announce the next major release, Amarok 2.1, codenamed "Let There Be Light"."


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Groklaw: "Basically I remain convinced that the patent policy most fair and most suitable for the world will regard mathematical ideas (such as algorithms) to be not subject to proprietary patent rights."


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Tech Source From Bohol: "As of April 2009, Firefox claimed 22.48 percent of Web browser market, according to Net Applications."


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LinuxDevices: "Embedded Alley (EA) announced it is has completed its port of the Linux/Java-based Android platform to the MIPS architecture. The Embedded Alley Development System for Android-based Devices initially targets devices ranging from set-top boxes (STBs) to industrial equipment running the MIPS-based RMI Au1250 processor."


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SmartPlanet: "Taiwan's tech industry is boxed in by Microsoft. It's all hardware, dependent on software."


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Source: Linux Today

Crux PPC: "CRUX PPC 2.5 is now available. Supports Apple 32bit "NewWorld" G3/G4 and Apple 64bit G5, Genesi PegasosII and Efika, Acube Sam440ep, IBM RS/6000 CHRP32 (604e), YDL Powerstation, IBM Intellistation POWER, and IBM pSeries RS64/POWERn."


Source: Linux Today

Computerworld: "Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created."


Source: Linux Today

Howtoforge: "This guide explains how you can migrate mailboxes between IMAP servers with imapsync. imapsync is an IMAP synchronisation, sync, copy or migration tool. More than 32 different IMAP server softwares are supported with success. All flags are preserved, unread will stay unread, read will stay read, deleted will stay deleted."


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ZDNet: "While desktop Linux adoption has yet to go completely mainstream, recent indicators show that a major change is underfoot."


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The Open Road: "The path forward for Linux is in new, as yet underdeveloped markets like mobile, and for an as yet under-monopolized audience: youth"


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Softpedia: "Despite previous rumors, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant Microsoft has officially confirmed that its next-generation Windows 7 operating system will not provide consumers with support for ARM-based devices."


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Open Enterprise: "This is big:
Intel Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wind River Systems Inc, under which Intel will acquire all outstanding Wind River common stock for $11.50 per share in cash, or approximately $884 million in the aggregate."


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LinuxPlanet: "The Moblin project started out in life as an operating system targeted at the Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform but has morphed into a prime candidate for the Netbook world. Paul Ferrill tests Moblin on a Lenovo S10e; hits some bumps, has some fun, and reports on his findings."


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Linux Magazine: "KDE 4 creator Matthias Ettrich, envisaged a Unix desktop with a common look and feel. KDE 4 has been released for over a year now, has it met this goal?"


Source: Linux Today

Electronic Frontier Foundation: "Terms of Service" policies on websites define how Internet businesses interact with you and use your personal information. But most web users don't read these policies -- or understand that the terms are constantly changing. To track these ever-evolving documents, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is launching "TOSBack": a "terms of service" tracker for Facebook, Google, eBay, and other major websites."


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Source: Linux Today

Distrowatch: "Alexander Eremin has announced the release of MilaX 0.4, a mini-distribution and live CD with a graphical desktop, based on OpenSolaris"


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Blog Safari: ""If the militaries of all nations standardize on Windows, then eventually they will all be immobilized by malware -- thus bringing about world peace," pointed out jhansonxi."


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Source: Linux Today

Internetnews: "Justice Department wants to know if top Silicon Valley firms have a wink-wink agreement not to poach from each other, thus keeping salaries down."


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Open Enterprise: "Since this was a gauntlet flung down for the dominant supplier in this space, Microsoft, it was inevitable that a battle of epic proportions would result. In fact, it turned out to be a very dirty fight, degenerating into ad hominem attacks on the person behind this move to open standards."


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Source: Linux Today

The H Open: "According to a post on TechCrunch The CrunchPad, a Linux based, browser only, touch screen computer is close to being launched."


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Source: Linux Today

Innerphaze: "It started with getting very tired of seeing "Windows only", or "Windows and Mac Only," or "Windows and Mac for now but Linux Support Coming Soon." These annoying statements seem to be showing up in more blog posts, and more download pages lately."


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Source: Linux Today

IT Wire: "Red Hat's community GNU/Linux distribution, Fedora, has decided to replace the Mono-dependent note-taking application Tomboy with Gnote in upcoming releases, according to a message posted to the Fedora Desktop mailing list."


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The Linux Foundation: "The Canola project announced that they are going to license their project with additional permissions to GPLv3 in order to provide their code "in different kinds of business models and product offerings, especially in CE devices.""


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Source: Linux Today

Cyber Cynic: "I can barely keep track of all the Linux netbook-related announcements from this week's Computex trade show, and I follow this stuff for a living. So, I sat down and put together a list so I could a grip on what's coming up with the Linux netbook for the rest of the year. This is what I came up with."


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IBM Developerworks: "One of the most important modern innovations of Linux is its transformation into a hypervisor (or, an operating system for other operating systems). A number of hypervisor solutions have appeared that use Linux as the core. This article explores the ideas behind the hypervisor and two particular hypervisors that use Linux as the platform"


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WorksWithU: "If this trend continues, it will assure Ubuntu and other Linux distributions a substantial advantage over Microsoft, which so far has announced no plans to build Windows for chipsets that are not x86-compatible."


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Howtoforge: "This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Fedora 10 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users."


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KDE: "KDE Community Ships Fourth Translation and Service Release of the 4.2 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates "


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SUSE & openSUSE: "IPplan is a free opensource IP Address management application. IPPlan is a web based IP address management software and tracking tool simplifying the administration of your IP address space."


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Source: Linux Today

Boycott Novell: "Now it's a very different story and Microsoft admits that Linux is their number one threat."



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

One of Firefox's great advantages is the ability for users to create custom extensions. While add-ons have historically been non-trivial to write, Mozilla Labs is looking to make this considerably easier with JetPack.


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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

As open source burgeons in popularity, contributors are flocking to websites to share and borrow code. Github is one of the most popular. This inaugural installment of "This Week in Github" introduces the service and highlights some of the best projects available.


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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

As multi-core solutions continue to grow, a new power saving single-core server approach takes hold



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Source: Security DevCenter

Open source technologies are some of the most economical choices you can make for your business and we've just made it a little easier to get the info you need to maximize the value open source affords: The early registration discount for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention has been extended to June 23, 2009!

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Be sure to save by signing up for OSCON before the early registration discount ends on June 23, 2009.


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Source: Security DevCenter

As I'm writing this, twenty people are watching their peers write code. They aren't looking over anyone's shoulders, or doing peer programming - they're watching mirrors of screens at the TopCoder Open, seeing exactly how competitors work their way through algorithm problems in C++, Java, and C#. Is this something we should be doing more of?


Source: Security DevCenter

One of the things I've learned about Google is that the most amazing things will come out of them with barely a whisper of fanfare. Such is the case with Google Squared, a new Google Labs tool that was released today. What does Google Squared do? It organizes and tables information from searches for you in a way that makes it much more useful.



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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

In this tutorial, set up Web access to your pureXML data through simple
insert, update, delete, select, and query operations known as the Universal
Services. Use the included download bundle with ready-to-install services to
explore the concepts of this tutorial, and learn how to quickly build
application prototypes with the Universal Services.



Updated: Fri Jun 5 23:55:01 2009


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