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Linux and Open Source News for 6th May 2010

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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Patrick Volkerding has announced that the Slackware development branch, called "Current", has now reach beta status: "Hi folks! We have some pretty big changes today, with an update to the latest KDE SC 4.4.3, and the addition of support for ConsoleKit and PolicyKit which have been enhanced to .



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Source: Linux Today

Federal Computer Week: "The challenges to government's adoption and participation in open-source communities is often thought to be a simpe culture clash, but in reality it goes deeper than that, accordning to NASA's newly-appointed chief technology officer."


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Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Storage Forum: "While Sun Microsystems may have struggled with making money from its OpenSolaris operating system prior to Sun's acquisition by Oracle, that doesn't mean that others haven't had better success."


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Source: Linux Today

Packt Publishing: "Handbrake is considered the Swiss Army knife of video conversion tools. Running on the three major operating system platforms, Handbrake can open a huge variety of formats, including common ones that others can't handle (like the titles in the MPEG TS structure of a DVD)."


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Source: Linux Today

Desktop Linux Reviews: "KahelOS is essentially a remastered version of Arch Linux. Arch Linux has always had a reputation as being somewhat inaccessible to average desktop users, and KahelOS is an attempt to make Arch Linux more accessible to more people."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "The Linux Foundation's individual members help to support the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and other important activities that advance Linux, while getting a variety of other fun and valuable benefits. The series begins with Matthew Fernandez, a senior application developer based in Sydney, Australia. Matthew has been using Linux since 2001 and just recently became a Linux Foundation member."


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Developer.com: "The open source R language has been in use by statisticians to do data analysis, predictive modeling and visualization for over a decade. This week, R is set to undergo a revolution of sorts with a revamped commercial effort."


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The Inquirer: "As operating systems increasingly become visual feasts, those who want to create useful interaction enhancements are having to bend over backwards thanks to closed source software in order to bring innovation to the user's environment."


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ZDNet Blogs: "We use the phrase Tower of Babel a lot in the technology world, often badly. But evidence is mounting that Google's Android project is becoming just that, a failed attempt to unify."


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Source: Linux Today

IT News Today: "In the past, Kubuntu was new and fresh, and had that extra bit of attention paid to it that made a real difference."


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ComputerWorld UK: "One of the key thinkers in the free software world is Eben Moglen. He's been the legal brains behind the most recent iterations of the GNU GPL."


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DeveloperWorks: "A recent addition to Linux's impressive selection of file systems is Ceph, a distributed file system that incorporates replication and fault tolerance while maintaining POSIX compatibility."


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Help Net Security: "The recent Facebook privacy changes, the public outcry they caused and the petition by a group of U.S. senators to the Federal Trade Commission to restrict the amount of personal information that online social networks can use."


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Wired: "TechRestore, an electronics repair shop, has taken apart the Incredible and then it put all back together. What's fascinating to watch in the video is how small and compact the components are and how well they pack into the circuit board."


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Groklaw: "Now that SCO has sold off the caldera.com domain name, their previous robots.txt file no longer blocks access to the legacy Caldera web pages on Internet Archive. And what has popped up?"


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The Open Sourcerer: "To remove Mono from your shiny new desktop installation of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx enter the following command (after taking the usual precautions like backups of your data etc)."


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Katonda: "The high-profile blogs by the two proprietary companies of the world hints at a conspiracy. It seems an environment is being created to 'distract' developers and users from true free formats."


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Datamation: "Chrome's JavaScript delivery is powered by Google's V8 technology, now improved with what the search giant described as double-digit gains over the previous Chrome beta release."


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PACKT Publishing: "In this article by Jose Argudo, we will explore scripty2 library. We will discuss the core aspects of scripty2 right from how to get started to Scripty2 UI and Scripty2 FX."


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ZDNet: "Zach Whittaker projects Firefox overtaking Internet Explorer by the end of 2012, and while Google's fans cheer you may wonder if it matters."


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IT Pro: "In the case of LOVEFiLM, now a well-known name in the DVD and digital film market, open source has underpinned much of the company's work thus far."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

tux writes with this snippet from The Register: "Ubuntu's commercial sponsor Canonical has tried to clarify how — if not why — it has licensed a closed-source and patented codec for video on PCs running its Linux. Canonical is the first Linux shop to have agreed to license the codec in question, H.264, from MPEG LA. Even though Red Hat and Novell are also available for use on PCs, they have not licensed H.264."

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Source: Slashdot: Linux

acemtp writes "Breakthrough for Free Software gaming. Ryzom announces full release of source code and artwork, and a partnership with the Free Software Foundation to host a repository of the game's artistic assets."

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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

It seemed like they'd be ice skating in Hades before Apple would bless a real competitor to Safari on the iPhone, but Opera Mini has made its way into the App Store. Now that Opera has sailed past the gatekeepers, what's the verdict?



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Updated: Fri May 7 23:55:02 2010


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