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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Andreas Jaeger has announced that the sixth milestone release of openSUSE 11.3 is ready for testing: "Milestone 6 (M6), a snapshot of the Factory 'work in progress' build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M6 is the first release during the .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: First look at Ubuntu 10.04 News: Ubuntu 10.04 features list, Linux Mint for PowerPC, Fedora Kiosk spin, overview of SUSE Studio Questions and answers: The future of OpenSolaris Released last week: Ubuntu 10.04, Ultimate Edition 2.6, EasyPeasy 1.6 Upcoming releases: DEFT Linux .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Jon Ramvi has announced the release of EasyPeasy 1.6, an Ubuntu-based distribution optimised for netbooks: "The team has been working hard to bring you the best netbook experience: EasyPeasy 1.6. Features: new boot system and new boot artwork (uses Plymouth); 25% faster boot; sports full removal of the .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Julien Lavergne has released Lubuntu 10.04, an Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the lightweight LXDE desktop: "Lubuntu 10.04 is now available for download. Lubuntu is a Ubuntu variant using the LXDE desktop. It's designed to be a lightweight and easy-to-use desktop environment. Lubuntu is actually not part of the .



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Source: Linux Today

Ernie Leseberg blog: "Does having an open license for a software project, have all the advantages negated if the development process is basically closed to the outside world?"


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Source: Linux Today

Scott Photographics: "There are a few tutorials for this in Photoshop and Illustrator, but I haven't found any for the GIMP, so I attempted it myself! It is a fairly simple method and easily done with great results!"


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Source: Linux Today

Motho ke motho ka botho: "I have no idea if these things work. None whatsoever. They might do what they claim and then again, they might spiral wildly out of control and create more problems than they're worth."


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Source: Linux Today

Howtoforge: "This tutorial shows how to set up an Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters"


Source: Linux Today

Michael Geist: "The U.S. government has released its annual Special 301 report in which it purports to identify those countries with inadequate intellectual property laws. Given the recent history and the way in which the list is developed, it will come as no surprise that the U.S. is again implausibly claiming that Canada is among the worst of the worst"


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Source: Linux Today

Opensource.com: "Plaintiffs attempted to exploit this inexperience by arguing that open source software involved behavior that was, if not downright illegal, at least ethically dubious. They promoted the fallacy that open source distributors unfairly take the property of others and thereby unfairly profit."


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Source: Linux Today

The Virtual Circle: "The webOS is a platform for devices yet to be thought up. It frees HP from being forever chained to Microsoft Windows."


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Source: Linux Today

Packt: "In this section, we will look at a few extra tips that can be handy when you create scripts for Vim. Some are simple code pieces you can add directly in your script, while others are good-to-know tips."


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LWN.net: "Marketing isn't the first word that one associates with the Linux community, but it is a necessary activity for those who wish to bring new users into the fold (and perhaps make a buck at the same time)."


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Blog of Helios: "For those that do not know, Linux Against Poverty is an annual event organized by Lynn Bender that gathers some of the top tech people in the area and assembles them to evaluate, triage, repair and then install the Linux Operating System on those computers."


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Source: Linux Today

Help Net Security: "The word about Immunet's free anti-virus solution is spreading fast. The agent installed on my computer tells me that there are currently 162,597 people in the Immunet Cloud, and that I'm protected from 12,637,576 threats"


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Source: Linux Today

Android Developer: "Android is fairly unique in the ways it allows multiple applications to run at the same time. Developers coming from a different platform may find the way it operates surprising."


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "While Linux has long been talked about as being a faster operating system than Microsoft Windows, in 2010 is this still the case?"


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Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "When we talk about virtualization solutions, we tend to talk about specific products offered by specific companies. But when we talk about virtualization solutions with Linux, we instead talk about a rich and diverse open source ecosystem."


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Source: Linux Today

Ed Bott's Microsoft Report: "While researching the recent battle over H.264 as the default HTML5 media format, I've discovered that open-source advocates are just as capable of spreading FUD as those mega-corporations."


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Source: Linux Today

Maratux: "If South Korea is an example of what Panama is attempting to do by following the Microsoft guide on how a country can jump into technological advancement, then things sound like it's going to be a bumpy road to get there."


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Source: Linux Today

Mark Shuttleworth: "The Ayatana Indicators work has given us a crisp, clean basis for indicators in the panel. We've said they will all look a particular way, and behave a particular way. And we've said they will be placed on the right of the panel.

But why limit indicators to the panel? Let's make it possible for applications to use indicators themselves, for all the things that indicators are good at:"


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ars Technica: "Watching two proprietary software companies deeply opposed to computer user freedom lob accusations back and forth about who is more opposed to freedom has been surreal, to say the least."


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Source: Linux Today

Thoughts on Technology: "As of 10.04 beta I have begun using the KDE desktop environment. I really like many of the things KDE has to offer, however KDE's network manager applet (knetworkmanager) still is lacking compared to Gnome's applet."


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LinuxLinks: "Now, let's scrutinize the 8 games at hand. For each game we have compiled its own portal page, providing screenshots of the game in action, a full description of the game, with an in-depth analysis of the features of the game, together with links to relevant resources and reviews."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Planet: "Eric Geier rounds up eight Linux router projects with a little something for everyone, from Internet gateways for home users to enterprise Cisco replacements."


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Source: Linux Today

The H Open: "Moodle , the E-learning platform, is one of the most significant and successful projects in open source. Despite its success, with hundreds of thousands of people being taught by courses written in Moodle, as a product it is not well known."


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PC World: "Kubuntu 10.4 ("Lucid Lynx") hit the servers late last week so I thought I'd upgrade. Plenty of people appear to have had a great upgrade experience. Mine was a nightmare. But few Linux disasters are unrecoverable. Here's how I got through mine albeit with a few outstanding issues."


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Source: Linux Today

WDVL: "In this article, I'll introduce you to 10 indispensable Linux commands that can make your web development work much easier and even more enjoyable"


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KDE.news: "The KDevelop Hackers are proud and happy to announce that KDevelop 4.0 is finally available as a stable release. Released together is the first version of KDevelop PHP plugins, which make KDevelop a very interesting option for PHP developers."


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Profession: Audio Terrorist: "On every Unix system there is one process with the special process identifier 1. It is started by the kernel before all other processes and is the parent process for all those other processes that have nobody else to be child of."


Source: Linux Today

Mandriva: "The second beta for Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring (2010.1) is available. There is information about the new release in various places:"



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

VincenzoRomano writes "While the latest version of Ubuntu is still smoking hot, the Ubuntu development community is already working on the next step. Both the Wiki and the bug tracking system at Launchpad have already been set up for Maverick Meerkat, which will be version number 10.10. This confirms the usual naming and numbering schema and the fact that the final release should be due sometime within the forthcoming October. This next version, which obviously won't be Long Term Support (LTS), should sport a lighter and faster environment with GNOME 3.0, aka GNOME Shell, among the main advances. Everything has been explained by Mr. Shuttleworth in his own blog since the beginning of April. It's important to say to the impatient among us that the first alpha release is not due earlier than the end of June, so maybe it'd be better to take advantage of the Lucid Lynx while the technical overview of the Meerkat will start getting more details."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Will the best Android tablet actually be a jail-broken iPad?


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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

It has been well over ten years since the first Linux clusters arrived in the HPC market. What's next?



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Source: Security DevCenter

The Oracle of Silicon Valley — Tim O'Reilly has been ahead of early every important technology innovation of the past 30 years writes reporter Max Chafin in his cover story for this month's issue of Inc. magazine. "And today the future is something O'Reilly is calling Gov 2.0." Read more.


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If you can't make it to Web 2.0 Expo next week in San Francisco, take part in our live broadcast from the conference. We'll discuss the buzz, analyze announcements, interview special guests, and take your questions from the live chat.
Click on the times below to participate:
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Source: Security DevCenter

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free What is the open government revolution and why should technologists care about it? Join Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Media founder and CEO, for a discussion about improving efficiency and transparency in government, citizen-government collaboration, and government as a platform. There will be an open question and answer session. For background reading, please see Tim's "Government as a Platform" chapter from Open Government: http://opengovernment.labs.oreilly.com/ About Tim O'Reilly Tim O'Reilly (@timoreilly) is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world, and an activist for open standards. O'Reilly Media also publishes online through oreilly.com and hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, the Web 2.0 Summit, the Web 2.0 Expo, and the Gov 2.0 Summit. Tim's blog, the O'Reilly Radar, "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. For everything Tim, see tim.oreilly.com.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Web 2.0 Expo is now underway in San Francisco. Don't miss the News & Coverage, including photo, speaker slides, and videos. And this year you can Watch Keynotes live online.


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Source: Security DevCenter

If you were going to pick an adjective to describe the Central Intelligence Agency, "open" wouldn't immediately spring to mind. But according to Carmen Medina, who recently retired from the CIA and will speak at next month's Gov 2.0 Expo, openness is just what the agency needs.



Updated: Tue May 4 23:55:02 2010


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