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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Warren Woodford has announced that the third release candidate for SimplyMEPIS 8.5 is ready for testing: "MEPIS has released SimplyMEPIS 8.5.00, RC3 of MEPIS 8.5, now available from MEPIS and public mirrors. We've updated the kernel to 2.6.32.10. The release notes from the Linux kernel team indicated that .



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Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "Some of us are still waiting for the year of the Linux desktop. Some think it’s already here. One thing is certain however, Linux does not have a majority desktop market share. By the time we get there, perhaps the entire idea of what a Desktop is will have been re-defined, thanks to “The Cloud”."


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Source: Linux Today

The H Open: "Ruby Logo According to a new schedule, the next version of the dynamic Ruby 1.9.2 scripting language will probably be released in mid August."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "The goal of this article is to review the history and architecture of Linux as well as its present day developments to understand how Linux has become today's leading platform for cloud computing. We will start with a little history on Unix system development and then move to the Linux system itself."


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Source: Linux Today

Ghacks: "Although MySQL works exceptionally well from the command line (it's not as hard as one would think), having a solid GUI tool just opens the user up to learning more powerful tasks and getting more work done faster."


Source: Linux Today

Stop: "The campaign consists of inviting all the candidates to any political or administrative election to subscribe the italian version of the Pact. The candidates who do it commit to actively promote Free Software and Open Standards in the Public Administrations where, if voted, they will work after the elections."


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Source: Linux Today

Postfix Mail: "One great alternative client is Thunderbird, Icedove if you are on Debian. Here is a step by step approach to setting up the Thunderbird client for TLS and SMTP AUTH."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "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."


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevices: "The Xeon Processor 5600 series also includes the chipmaker's first six-core embedded processors, plus a dual-core processor for "micro servers" that has a TDP of only 30 Watts, the company says."


Source: Linux Today

IT Wire: "For the first time in its 16-year history, the Debian GNU/Linux project has a woman in the running to become leader of the project when voting for the post takes place between April 2 and April 15."


Source: Linux Today

IT World: "Many have tried to build and sell a $200 tablet; none have succeeded. Freescale's tablet prototype could change that."


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Source: Linux Today

Handle With Linux: "Look at this: a microwave running Linux (yes we can!) and a washing machine also."


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Source: Linux Today

BeginLinux: "The major goal of the regional server is to distribute the results of all service checks to the central server. The regional Nagios machines must use OCSP and OCHP in order to send the proper updates to the central server."


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Source: Linux Today

Netstat -vat: "Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 is now out for developers to try out and test -- well kinda/sorta. You see the IE9 Test Drive Platform Preview isn't really a browser is it?"


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Source: "I've been looking for a Panorama creator application for my Linux box and bumped into Hugin. It's a free and open-source graphical user interface (GUI) for Panorama tools that's simple, easy-to-use, and gets the job done."


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Microsoft News Center press release: "Industry standards and innovation took center stage at MIX10, as Microsoft Corp. made a series of announcements that underscore the company’s commitment to interoperability and performance on the Web."


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TechRepublic: "Should you change your passwords often? What's the risk if you don't? Little did I know, listening to one podcast would cause me to rethink how I would answer those questions."


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Source: Linux Today

Ghacks: "
If you have read any of the Samba content here on Ghacks you probably will have noticed that within the smb.conf configuration file a line that begins with security =. This is a very important part of Samba setup and generally the section that gives users the most problems"


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Source: Linux Today

Linux User and Developer: "Let's look at some hacks that will allow you to become more of a power user of OpenOffice, enabling you to be more productive with the software."


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Source: Linux Today

Wine-Reviews: "New winetricks 20100316: new verbs steam, adobeair, 7zip, d3dxof and win7"


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Ghacks: "Pardus has a few features that most will have never heard of or seen before. In this article I will introduce you to some of these features as I introduce you to Pardus Linux."


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Tech Drive-In: "OpenShot video editor has steadily improved since its official release 2 months ago. OpenShot 1.1 even got included into upcoming Ubuntu Lucid 10.04. That news itself speaks volumes about quality and functionality of this budding new video editing app for Linux."


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Kernel News: "Whether you are new to Linux and asking "Which Distribution should I use?", or if you have been using Linux for years and want to see what the other distributions offer, this article highlights the differences between the major Linux Distributions. For those new to Linux, we will also try to fill you in as to what makes a good Linux distribution and what sets each distribution apart."


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MyBroadband: "Proprietary giant is licensing open source to its partners. What is going on? "


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Developer.com: " the trend is only increasing, though new research has found that over the course of the last year, there has been a shift in which mobile platform has the most open source development activity."


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevices: "A startup that includes former members of Openmoko has begun shipping a hackable Linux-based "copyleft" clamshell for $99."


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Distrowatch: "Andrew Gillis has announced the release of VortexBox 1.2, a Fedora-based Linux distribution with the goal of turning an unused computer into an easy-to-use music server or jukebox:"



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

MrSmith0011000100110 writes "The lovely people over at AndroidCentral have broken the announcement that Android 2.1 is finally coming to the Motorola Droid, with actual proof on Verizon's droid support page (PDF). I don't know about my Droid brethren, but I'm pretty excited to see the new series of Android ROMs for the Droid phone that are based on a stock Android 2.1. As most of us know, the existing 2.1 ROMs can be buggy as hell and either running vanilla 2.1 or a custom ROM, this phone is still a tinkerer's best friend."

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Source: Slashdot: Linux

Glyn Moody writes "Horacio Gutierrez, Microsoft's Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, has just published a piece called 'Apple v. HTC: A Step Along the Path of Addressing IP Rights in Smartphones.' In it, he notes that today's smartphones are all about the 'software stack,' not the 'radio stack,' and that 'as the IP situation settles in this space and licensing takes off, we will see the patent royalties applicable to the smartphone software stack settle at a level that reflects the increasing importance software has as a portion of the overall value of the device. In the interim, though, we should expect continued activity.' That 'activity' obviously means lawsuits against those producing those software stacks, and Gutierrez seems to be hinting strongly that Microsoft intends to join in. So where does that leave all the Linux-based stacks such as the increasingly-popular Android? Is this just a clever way for Microsoft to start a patent war on Linux without appearing to do so?"

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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

New additions to Sun Grid Engine allow integration with Clouds and Hadoop (map-reduce) jobs



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Source: Security DevCenter

What do Amazon's product reviews, eBay's feedback score system, Slashdot's Karma System, and Xbox Live's Achievements have in common? They're all examples of successful reputation systems that enable consumer websites to effectively manage and present user contributions. This book shows you how to design and develop reputation systems for your own sites or web applications, written by experts who have designed web communities for Yahoo! and other prominent sites.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free Join Joe Albahari, author of C# 4.0 in a Nutshell and LINQPad, in an interactive session on the new and upcoming features of LINQPad. We'll demonstrate support for C# 4.0, the new extensibility model and some exciting enhancements to autocompletion and other new developments in the next beta. You'll get a chance to talk with Joe on feature requests, future direction, and LINQPad's emerging role as a scratchpad for C# 4.


Source: Security DevCenter

Since our limerick contest was such a hit last year, we decided to host it again! Today, we're encouraging you to write a limerick that is either tech-themed or that references O'Reilly Media or one (or more) of our books, conferences, or webcasts. Anything goes, so long as it fits the standard form of a limerick and is a PG rating. We'll run the contest until 11:59pm PDT and then randomly pick three winners out of a hat to win a free ebook of your choice.


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A couple Google Buzz experiments with long-form posts hint at a new use for the service. It's emerging as a hybrid option in the social/publishing space; a spot that's well equipped for deeper inquiry and conversation.


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Source: Security DevCenter

One week into its public launch, the Google Apps Marketplace has just under 1,500 (enterprise) apps. Combined with Salesfore.com's app exchange (also with over a thousand apps), enterprises interested in moving to cloud apps have an increasing number of software tools to choose from.


Source: Security DevCenter

I've puzzled over Google's Fiber project ever since they announced it. It seemed too big, too hubristic (even for a company that's already big and has earned the right to hubris) -- and also not a business Google would want to be in. But the FCC's announcement of their plans to widen broadband Internet access in the US puts Google Fiber in a new context. The FCC's plans are cast in terms of upgrading and expanding the network infrastructure. That's a familiar debate, and Google is a familiar participant. This is really just an extension of the "network neutrality" debate that has been going on with fits and starts over the past few years.



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Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

One of the ways that the IBM WebSphere Application Server V7.0 Feature Pack for Communications
Enabled Applications (CEA) simplifies embedding
communications capabilities into Web applications is through a ready-to-use set of Dojo widgets. These widgets
enable click-to-call functionality, cobrowsing sessions, two-way form
capabilities, and more. These widgets and the functions they provide can be
leveraged by simply including the appropriate HTML element on a user's Web
page. Beyond the functions they deliver right out of the box, you can extend
these widgets to provide a customized, enhanced communications experience in
your Web applications using your own HTML, Dojo, and JavaScript skills. To see how, follow this tutorial and extend
the Collaboration Dialog and Cobrowse widgets to deliver instant messaging
capability in a Web cobrowsing session.



Updated: Thu Mar 18 23:55:01 2010


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