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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

The second beta release of PCLinuxOS 2010 is now available for download and testing. What's new? "Linux kernel updated to 2.6.32.10 - updates, bug fixes and suggestions based on community feedback over the past week were implemented on the live CD. In addition to the KDE 4.4.1 version, .

Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Yuichiro Nakada has announced the release of Berry Linux 1.01, a Fedora-based Japanese distribution and live CD (with support for English) for the desktop, featuring the KDE 4 desktop environment. This is the project's first release based on Fedora 12. From the changelog: "Berry Linux 1.01 released. Based .

Source: Linux Today

Free Software Magazine: "Nina Paley is a cartoonist and animator who in recent years discovered the serious faults of our long-standing copyright and licensing system through her experiences in making and releasing “Sita Sings the Blues.” After considerable trouble involved in fulfilling all of the licensing obligations for the film, she became a serious advocate for both free culture and copyright "

Source: Linux Today

The Volokh Conspiracy: "Under this new decision, if the government wants get your e-mails, the Fourth Amendment lets the government go to your ISP, wait the seconds it normally takes for the e-mail to be delivered, and then run off copies of your messages."

Source: Linux Today

KDE.news: "The first Krita hackers started arriving on Thursday 25th, with the rest filtering in during the Friday. Thanks to KDE e.V. sponsorship, six Krita developers (every single one from a different country) were able to come as well as interaction designer -- Peter Sikking, of Gimp fame. The seventh Krita hacker was already in place!"

Source: Linux Today

Groklaw: "The judge said what SCO told the jury was inappropriate, and he merely warned SCO not to go "close to the line again." I'm sure SCO will mend its ways immediately."

Source: Linux Today

Jono Bacon's blog: "One thing that we have been really keen to facilitate in Ubuntu is an ethos of just do it. I really believe our community should feel engaged to be creative in their ideas and be able to get out there and do it, with plenty of support resources so others can help them achieve their goals."

Source: Linux Today

Wired: "Take Ghana, West Africa, for example. If you are a school in a small village with satellite internet and solar power, what device would be best for you? The power-sucking, data-heavy iPad, or the Kindle "

Source: Linux Today

Tech Republic: "If you spend any length of time in the shell, chances are you’ve typed the same commands over and over. It’s usually not anything you can necessarily script as the commands may vary slightly on each invocation, but there are certain commands that can be used often with a little variation on each call."

Source: Linux Today

Australian IT: "OPEN source software is seen by some as akin to religion. However, Ingres chief executive Roger Burkhardt insists he is not on a crusade to convert the Microsoft and Oracle faithful."

Source: Linux Today

Linux Admin Zone: "Sometimes in large deployments, there are cases when MySQL server, setup by you long time back which has been in use by multiple teams in your organization, needs some change or update or intrupption in its service and you are in need to know how many clients are there which connects to this server."

Source: Linux Today

Fogo na Caixa: "A mighty System-/Config-management frontend using LDAP as a backend. It is able to manage POSIX, Samba, Mail, Kolab, FAX, Asterisk and many more services."

Source: Linux Today

Distrowatch: "Going-around-in-circles asks: What is a loopback device and how do I use it?"

Source: Linux Today

Open Enterprise: "Europe should be learning from China's example, not sending patronising nastygrams that just makes it look petulant and anachronistic."

Source: Linux Today

Sourceforge: "Swedish student Thomas Eriksson says a lot of advanced computer usage is still best done from the terminal. Given that, he’s developed Bashish to provide a more useful and beautiful terminal environment."

Source: Linux Today

Computerworld UK: "Both Google and the Chinese government appear to be leaking word that the search firm may soon shutter its operations there as negotiations between the two break down."

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "The continuing conflict between Google and China, which may be a proxy for deeper conflicts over economics and values, could easily impact open source."

Source: Linux Today

LinuxBSDOS: "Epidemic is a desktop-oriented, KDE, Debian-based (GNU/Linux) distribution developed in Brazil. Epidemic 3.1, the latest edition, features a number of custom tools and improvements."

Source: Linux Today

Distrowatch: "When talking about kernel scheduling and desktop responsiveness, it's common to hear people in the tech community talk fondly of BeOS, a desktop system which hails from the 1990s. BeOS had a well-deserved reputation for providing users with a polished desktop and smooth interaction, even when the processor was under heavy load."

Source: Linux Today

LinuxLinks: "Now, let's explore the 7 imaging software at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, a screenshot of the software in action, together with links to relevant resources and reviews."

Source: Linux Today

Motho ke motho ka botho: "I tease the Gnome crowd a lot for being chubby, but I didn't realize that the weight problem had exceeded 256Mb. That's not overweight, that's clinical obesity."

Source: Linux Today

Linux Devices: "Solid state disks (SSDs) moved closer to commodity status, with the announcement of a 40GB model from Intel for $125, and a sub-$100, 32GB version from OCZ Technology."

Source: Linux Today

Netstat -vat: "What's important to note about the 25 year milestone in my view is not the success of dot com, but rather its failure."

Source: Linux Today

The ERACC Web Log: "The fact that malware are written primarily for PC systems is a given and is well reported in the news. The fact that malware are written primarily for Microsoft Windows based PC systems is often not reported."

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Mozilla has launched a contest to spur on development of add-ons for its recently-released Firefox for Mobile browser. Between now and April 12, developers are encouraged to create extensions or other add-ons tailored for the mobile browser."

Source: Linux Today

Kristanix Games press release: "Kristanix Games announces the release of Linux versions of its most popular games. The Linux Games project now includes such high quality casual games as Sudoku Epic, Solitaire Epic, Mahjong Epic, Jewel Twist, Fantastic Farm, Crossword Twist and many more."

Source: Linux Today

Handle With Linux: "A keyboard running Linux on common hardware, at least the operating system.
This is really a very Cool device."

Source: Linux Today

System 76: "System76 has partnered with a non-profit, Kids on Computers, to help bring computers and free and open source software to disadvantaged kids."

Source: Linux Today

Groklaw: "Before I do my full report, a couple of highlights:
Groklaw was discussed (with jury out of the room) twice, with respect to the Maureen O'Gara deposition. The first was to strike a mention of Groklaw; the second, a mention of pj."

Source: Linux Today

Standards Blog: "Our story so far: Now under surveillance, Frank begins to plan his escape."

Source: Linux Today

Linux Foundation: "Matt took some time recently to share his perspective with me on why Canonical can take Linux places Red Hat can't, how Linux beats Apple, and how the Ubuntu community's passion and focus on design will change the way people see Linux for a long time."

Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Storage Forum: "Instead of predicting which technologies will take over in the future, let's predict what won't be there, or what will gradually start to fade in the storage and data center world."

Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "Wondering where all that bloat comes from, causing even the classic 'Hello world' to weigh in at 11 KB? An MIT programmer decided to make a Linux C program so simple, she could explain every byte of the assembly. She found that gcc was including libc even when you don't ask for it. The blog shows how to compile a much simpler 'Hello world,' using no libraries at all. This takes me back to the days of programming bare-metal on DOS!"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

In the last article we looked at using strace to examine the IO patterns of simple serial applications. In the High Performance Computing (HPC) world, applications use MPI (Message Passing Interface) to create parallel applications. This time around we discuss how to attack parallel applications using strace.

Source: Security DevCenter

The Where 2.0 Conference has its traditions, but we also bring in new activities and participants to inform and inspire. This year, one of the show's highlights is a mash up of the new with the traditional in the form of recognizing winners of the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge during Ignite Where on Tuesday night, March 30.

Ignite Where kicks off at 7:00 p.m. and NAVTEQ's seven year old Global LBS Challenge developer competition takes the main stage live at 8:00 p.m. All twelve finalists will make a one minute pitch of their location-based applications, giving the audience a taste of what it takes to make it to the Challenge finals.

NAVTEQ has added a few new wrinkles to the competition this year, including polling the audience live via SMS to see if their predictions jibe with the judges' conclusions. There's a lot at stake, so it's bound to be a nail-biter--the winner walks away with a share of a global prize pool valued at over $10 million in cash, data licenses, and other prizes.

Ignite Where and the NAVTEQ Global LBS Challenge are open to the public as well as to all Where 2.0 Conference attendees.

Source: Security DevCenter

The all new Windows Phone 7 Series holds a promise to be an amazing personal mobile phone with new innovative user interface and functionality, as well as a great development platform on which you can quickly and easily build games and applications. I hope you are ready to start coding your first Windows Phone (WP) application and get hands-on experience with the platform. Learn more about Windows Phone programming now.

Source: Security DevCenter

Catch Google Wave, the revolutionary Internet protocol and web service that lets you communicate and collaborate in realtime. With this book, you'll understand how Google Wave integrates email, instant messaging (IM), wiki, and social networking functionality into a powerful and extensible platform. You'll also learn how to use its features, customize its functions, and build sophisticated extensions with Google Wave's open APIs and network protocol.

Source: Security DevCenter

After blogging about talking to government departments and scientists about truly open data, talking up an "open source approach" to data, pushing hard to get them to release datasets in machine readable formats with reuse-friendly licenses, readers sent me a lot of interesting links. I've collected them all to share.

Source: Security DevCenter

Modeling Scale Usage Heterogeneity the Bayesian Way -- people use 1-5 scales in different ways (some cluster around the middle, some choose extremes, etc.). This shows how to identify the types of users, compensate for their interpretation of the scale, and how it leads to more accurate results. This and more in today's Four Short Links.

Source: Security DevCenter

The Sr. Web Developer will be a thoughtful, enthusiastic, and adaptable team player to help us maintain and invigorate the Maker Media network of content and commerce websites, including: Makezine.com Craftzine.com Makershed.com Makersmarket.com Makerfaire.com Makezine.tv This position requires an innovative thinker in this space, who is comfortable working on the bleeding edge of the technology. This position reports to the Online Manager and is located in our Sebastopol, CA headquarters offices. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. Critical features of this job are described under the headings below. They may be subject to change at any time due to fluctuating business realities, reasonable accommodations, or other reasons.

Source: Security DevCenter

The Director of IT will provide product and technology vision, leadership, and operational oversight to the organization in support of varied business areas to include print and electronic publishing, ecommerce, mobile applications, inventory management, datacom, events management, and more. This position will create and maintain strategic plans, policies, programs, and schedules for both software development and systems administration departments to accomplish corporate goals and objectives; direct the information, security, data integrity, and disaster recovery of the company and all business units; and ensure all computer capabilities and network systems are responsive to the needs of the company's current and growth requirements. This position reports to the COO and is located at our headquarters offices in Sebastopol, CA. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. Critical features of this job are described under the headings below. They may be subject to change at any time due to fluctuating business realities, reasonable accommodations, or other reasons.

Source: Security DevCenter

Virtual children will never be a replacement for the real thing. Not until they can leave empty pizza boxes on the kitchen table

Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) "Widget Packaging and
Configuration" specification is currently in candidate
recommendation status. The widgets, which can be used to provide rich Web application
elements for mobile devices and Web sites, are an emerging technology to be used with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).
They are packaged as compressed (.zip)
files and can be deployed in HTML files with a Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) type of
application or widget. This article dives deeper into the specification, exploring how Web
application developers can use it and what the benefits are.

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Extracting business data is a challenge every company faces. Discover some of the secrets to extracting data from Excel and converting it between Excel and XML using Java technology.

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

The complexity facing embedded systems architects today is daunting because of added requirements in safety, reliability, and network accessibility. Yet, the tools typically used are often a step behind large-scale software spaces and do not provide the ability to transition smoothly between the detailed device level and a total system view. Learn how to use open source standards such as DITA and PHP and tools such as blob representations to create a system-level environment to address these needs.

Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

A lot of scientific data is freely available on the Internet. Combine
that with open source tools to efficiently process the data, and anyone can
experiment and explore and share their results with the rest of the community.
See one approach to community-driven science by connecting PHP to Scilab.

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

XML schemas come in various types, including an XML schema with or without a namespace, XML schemas consisting of multiple definitions, and XML schemas consisting of multiple namespaces. This article takes those kinds of XML schemas, and introduces ways to register XML schemas, ways to validate XML data, ways to get the XML schema used for validating XML data, and so on. This article is described based on DB2 9.7 for Linux, UNIX and Windows.

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

SugarCRM is the world's leading open source Customer Relationship Management
(CRM) software provider, with over 5,000 customers and 500,000 downloads of the
SugarCRM application all around the world. SugarCRM has long had a very useful Web
Services framework, allowing applications to access the SugarCRM instance and work
with data on it. But new to SugarCRM 5.2 is a framework for accessing other
outside Web services from inside the application itself. SugarCRM 5.2 ships with a
LinkedIn connector by default that uses this framework. Thus, users of the
SugarCRM instance can check on the LinkedIn status of various companies, contacts,
and leads they might have. In this article, learn how the connectors framework
works in Sugar 5.2 by building an example connector that allows users to see any recent Google News items pertaining to companies in their SugarCRM instance.

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

The pureXML capabilities of IBM DB2 allow you to store XML natively in a database
without modification, while Adobe Flex applications can read XML directly and
populate Flex user interfaces. In this three-part article series, you will create
a microblogging application that takes advantage of pureXML, Web services, and
Adobe Flex; and even allows you to publish your microblogging updates on Twitter.
In Part 1 of the series, you learned about Web Services and how they are enabled
using DB2 pureXML as you created the microblog database and tested it. In this
article, Part 2 of the series, you will tap into Adobe Flex and ActionScript to
create the user interface of the application.

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Within the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) community, Spring is becoming a widely accepted framework. One new feature in the latest release of Spring is its Object/XML (O/X) mapping support. The API enables developers to convert Java objects into XML and vice versa. In this article, learn to use the Object/XML mapping in Spring and explore its advantages.

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

XML provides a way to identify data items and subcomponents within any structured data set, but has its roots in documentation development and production. Robust, open standards for XML document markup and a rich set of freely available tools for XML document parsing and format conversion make it easy to install and configure a complete documentation development and formatting environment on any UNIX or Linux system.