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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

The lightweight and fast "Openbox" edition of PCLinuxOS 2010 completes the release line-up of the distribution's 2010 series: "PCLinuxOS 2010 Openbox edition provides a fully-featured desktop, showcasing the small, fast, and fully compliant Openbox window manager. Internet applications include Firefox web browser, Sylpheed email client, Pino twitter client .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: First look at CDlinux 0.9.6 News: Mandriva for sale, RHEL 6 kernel genealogy, Ubuntu "Unity" desktop, KDE 4.4 in Debian and Slackware, Sabayon daily builds, Unity Linux with Enlightenment, Astaro update troubles Questions and answers: Linux hardware support Released last week: PCLinuxOS .


Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Robert Lange has announced the release of VectorLinux 6.0 "KDE-Classic-Live" edition, a live CD featuring the legacy KDE 3 desktop: "The VectorLinux team is happy to announce the release of VectorLinux 6.0 KDE-Classic-Live. KDE 3 veterans will appreciate that this release retains the solid KDE 3.5.10. There are .



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Source: Linux Today

Technology FLOSS: "Some things are meant to happen:

- We will all eventually die
- Windows gets filled with viruses over time (if we don't consider Windows a virus in itself, of course)"


Source: Linux Today

Tech Source: "So if you are using Linux, you may have to rely on Wine to play the game (see 10 Best Windows Games That Can Be Played on Linux). However, if you want to play MMORPGs that are native on Linux, check out this list that I've compiled:"


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LinuxExchange: "LinuxExchange is a collaboratively edited question and answer site about Linux and Open Source. It's 100% gratis and no registration is required."


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Netstat -vat: "A new Linux distro is officially hitting its 1.0 release today, but you'll have to forgive me for not being too excited. Peppermint OS is now out, with the aim of being a fast, cloud focused Linux operating system."


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Cyber Cynic: "When Oracle bought Sun, there were many unanswered questions about Sun's open-source portfolio of programs. Over a year later, we still don't know, for example, if OpenSolaris is going to have Oracle's support."


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Source: Linux Today

Port 25: "The latest update to CodePlex, Microsoft's Open Source software project hosting repository, brings integration with PreEmptive Solutions' Runtime Intelligence Service, which lets users instrument their applications to get analytics on their runtime usage."


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Source: Linux Today

Dan Williams' blog: "Every so often I get questions about D-Bus and I end up giving a mini-lesson on what D-Bus is and how it's used. It took me a while to wrap my head around D-Bus long ago so I don't expect everyone to pick up D-Bus like Yo-Yo Ma sight-reading. So this is D-Bus, simplified."


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Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Networking Planet: "Until this week, Latin characters were required to access a complete domain name on the Internet. That has now changed as the first full Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) are now live, enabling users for the first time ever to access websites with an entirely non-Latin character set."


Source: Linux Today

Computerworld UK: "Welcome to my new ComputerWorldUK blog, where I'll aim to bring you regular dispatches from the front lines of the free and open source software revolution."


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ServerWatch: "This week's column has been written a little more slowly than normal because on Wednesday, I tripped over the dog and broke my left thumb."


Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevices: "The SmartU2 for Linux System consists of core management server software called "SmartU2 Manager," as well as a 100KB "SmartU2 Agent" client that runs on embedded Linux devices, says the company"


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Enterprise Irregulars: "Software patents are a disaster for innovation. The system is asymmetrical, in the sense that it is very expensive to defend against a patent suit."


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Enterprise Mobile Today: "Shipments of smartphones in the first quarter of 2010 grew to 54.7million units, a 56.7 percent increase over the first quarter of 2009,according to a report from market researcher IDC. That's more than double the rate of the overall mobile market "


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Source: Linux Today

NetworkWorld: "If you're building an internal or private cloud, Canonical wants you to use Ubuntu Linux 10.04 as your operating system of choice. To that end, the newest version of Ubuntu includes a feature set called Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud."


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Linux Planet: "In this two-part series, we're going to take a look at the options, starting with simple programs for doing basic tasks and then the more complex tools on par with Gimp."


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eWeek: "The team behind the cloud-based Peppermint OS flavor of Linux announces the availability of Version 1.0 of the technology."


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SilverWav's Journal: "Reduce the notify-osd time-out to 3 seconds, rather than the default 10.

Its amazing how much this changed my appreciation of the notifications
I have found the annoyance is mainly based on them being on screen too long"


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The H Open: "Almost two months after the technical preview was released, the development of version 4.7 of the cross-platform Qt C++ framework for GUI applications is beginning to take shape, as Nokia has now presented a beta version."


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Linux Line: "Of particular interest to me is the assertion in the report that "any given Linux machine is five times more likely to be sending spam than any given Windows machine.""


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Information Week: "Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Canonical and Ubuntu Linux on why he thinks Ubuntu will succeed on the desktop, where other equally famed competitors have failed "


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Blog of Helios: "But to quote Yoda, "Short of native game choices we are."

There's a reason for that I mean aside from the myth that the Linux market is too small to support game development."


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Handle With Linux: "If you are looking for a Linux toy that really rocks, your search ends here. This is a stringless digital guitar and it's powered by Linux."


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MLO: "In other words, the resale of the company appears as the only alternative to closure."


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Wine-Reviews: "The Wine development release 1.1.44 is now available.

Whats new in this release:"



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

Today at the Ubuntu Developers Summit, Mark Shuttleworth presented a few upcoming Ubuntu projects, including "Light" versions of the operating system for "both netbook and desktop, that are optimized for dual-boot scenarios." Shuttleworth also took the wraps off Unity, a new lightweight interface that will be included in Ubuntu Light and eventually in Ubuntu Netbook Edition as well. "First, we want to move the bottom panel to the left of the screen, and devote that to launching and switching between applications. That frees up vertical space for web content, at the cost of horizontal space, which is cheaper in a widescreen world. Second, we'll expand that left-hand launcher panel so that it is touch-friendly. With relatively few applications required for instant-on environments, we can afford to be more generous with the icon size there. Third, we will make the top panel smarter." Ars got a chance to try out a prototype of Unity, saying, "Its unique visual style melds beautifully with Ubuntu's new default theme and its underlying interaction model seems compelling and well-suited for small screens."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Know your rights. Protect your rights. Another lesson from the ACLU.



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Source: ONLamp.com

I knew in advance that venting my frustrations with Ubuntu in the form of an article yesterday would stir up a hornet's nest. [ ] Having read all the comments I'd like to clarify my thoughts on the subject.


Source: ONLamp.com

To whatever part of the general non-geek public is even aware of Linux the names "Linux" and "Ubuntu" are all but interchangeable. Over the past few years I've come to the conclusion that this state of affairs is, at best, unfortunate.


Source: ONLamp.com

Common MySQL Queries -- a useful reference. MySociety's Next 12 Months -- two new projects, FixMyTransport and "Project Fosbury". The latter is a more general tool to help people organise their own campaigns for change. riak -- scalable key-value store with JSON interface. (via joshua on Delicious) Notes from NoSQL Live Boston -- full of juicy nuggets of info


Source: ONLamp.com

zxing -- barcode library for iPhone, Android, Java, and more. Guido's Python -- how the compiler and interpreter see your Python programs. It wasn't until I had this level of knowledge of Perl that I really know what the hell I was doing. (via Hacker News) UK Election Data -- this was posted on the eve of the UK


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This post shows how to write a web service using Test-Driven Development. Our source code example is the exemplary active_merchant contribution to Ruby on Rails. It reveals how developer tests can correctly attack remote web services. Programmers writing clients (or servers) for any kind of web service should use these techniques. My next post will extend this one into the Abstract Test Pattern.


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Epigrams in Programming -- all from the remarkable Alan Perlis. By the time I learned that he was responsible for such gems as "Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon", "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing", and "Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to


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Python's xml.etree.ElementTree library makes it easy to use XML data in your application or library.



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You need to know how to work with the bash shell if you want to get to the heart of Unix systems, including Linux and Mac OS X. Now covering the most recent version of bash, this concise little book puts all of the essential information about bash at your fingertips. You'll quickly find answers to annoying questions that always come up when you're writing shell scripts -- What characters do you need to quote? How do you get variable substitution to do exactly what you want? How do you use arrays? -- and much more.



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Source: Security DevCenter

Sponsored by the Journal of Information Technology & Politics, the
conference papers and a live stream are online. This article focuses
on the challenges of getting open source into government agencies.


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Advanced Flash Tactics or AFTs are techniques that come from deep within the Flash Art Of War, the oldest Flash military treatise in the world. In this AFT I will go over - Flash Next - Part 3. This


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Source: Security DevCenter

I think a lot of times we as developers get caught up in our own world, and we forget how all of the things we do to make our code clean and easy to maintain for ourselves and other


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Source: Security DevCenter

The earthquake in Haiti became a testing ground for disaster relief platforms. Ushahidi geolocated tens of thousands of mobile messages and provided critical information. Open Street Map and Google Mapmaker provided much needed maps. Digital Globe (amongst others) provided free satellite imagery. This Monday the U.S. State Department is pulling together many of these technology providers to review the


Source: Security DevCenter

A deep look at the ebook growth opportunities in global markets and how direct sales can offset print book cannibalization.


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Eclipse has built-in support for bookmarks. If you often need to navigate between various portions of a body of code, then bookmarks can provide you a productivity boost. To create a bookmark, right-click on the left margin of a code


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Flash is Not a Right (Ian Bogost) -- I worry that we're losing a sense of diversity in computation. This seems to be happening at both the formal and informal levels. Georgia Tech's computer science bachelor's degree doesn't require a language survey class, for example (although one is offered as an elective). This year in the Computational Media curriculum


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As I write these words, the culture of Education 2.0 is coming into being. This culture will bind and guide students, teachers, technology providers, consumers, parents, and children, well into the century ahead. Cultures are built using models - paradigms and ideals against which we compare our new community. Just as the American culture in the 17th and 18th century


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Watch more Web 2.0 videos.


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Ian Robinson (REST in Practice) will be giving three presentations at Uber Conf: "The Counterintuitive Web", "Hydras and Hypermedia", and "Business Architecture Foundations of IT."


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Join Dux Raymond Sy (SharePoint for Project Management) as he facilitates a comprehensive hands-on introduction to SharePoint 2010.


Source: Security DevCenter

Join Dux Raymond Sy (SharePoint for Project Management) as he provides guidance on how to effectively manage SharePoint projects. During the session, participants will learn how to gain executive support, properly develop a project plan, and appropriately managing expectations.


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Join Yakov Fain (Enterprise Development with Flex as he presents on Open Source Alternatives to LCDS.


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Join Dux Raymond Sy (SharePoint for Project Management) as he delivers two sessions at The SharePoint Exchange 2010:"Effectively Managing SharePoint Projects" and "Delivering SharePoint Success."


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Source: Security DevCenter

Topics in this week Gov 2.0 Week in Review include: Open 311, OGI, open government, open source, revisiting net neutrality and disaster response 2.0. If you have news and tips about the government 2.0 space, please let me know at alex@oreilly.com or @digiphile on Twitter.


Source: Security DevCenter

As the program co-chair for the upcoming Gov 2.0 Expo, I've had a lot of time to learn about what's happening at the edges of the space. And through my experience working on the topic with the Department of Defense, and now through a different lens at Microsoft's public sector division, I've had a lot of time to think about where it's been, and where it is now. I've seen three phases in what most people would agree is "Government 2.0" -- a phase of surprise, a phase of experimentation, and a phase of solutions.


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Apple’s iPhone 3.0 OS and Google’s Android run recent branches of the Open Source WebKit browser. To this end, they are able to support technologies that are only just making it to desktop browsers. In this article you can learn how you can build Web sites that target iPhone and Android Web browsers.



Updated: Tue May 11 23:55:01 2010


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