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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Magic Linux, one of the oldest surviving community distributions in China, has released its version 2.5 after at least 7 development builds. Major components of this release include Linux kernel 2.6.30.10, X.Org Server 1.6.5, GCC 4.4.0, and KDE 4.4.3 (with KDE 3.5.10 also available). The "magic_win" installer now .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Dieter Plaetinck has announced the availability of an updated set of Arch Linux installation CD images, version 2010.05: "New installation media are available. There are fewer of them and they are smaller. But they can do more. Notable changes: all ISO files can now be burned onto CDs .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Interviews: OpenBSD's Stefan Sperling News: Mandriva CEO on company situation, BLAG gets revived with new alpha, Pioneer Linux closes shop, APT and RPM package management Questions and answers: Linux adoption Released last week: PCLinuxOS 2010 "Openbox", Puppy Linux 5.0, CentOS 5.5 Upcoming releases: .



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Source: Linux Today

IT World: "Go offline. The Universe Needs a Break."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "This is a blog post about blog post comments. Not just comments on Linux Journal, but blog post comments in general, especially about blogs that support 'Anonymouse' contributions."


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LinuxDevices: "Future Electronics and Nokia will host six full-day, hands-on workshops across the North America on using Linux and Nokia's Qt development framework to develop user interfaces (UIs) for Freescale's ARM-based i.MX system-on-chips (SoCs)."


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Technology & Life Integrationt: "Many moons ago ( and I am not talking about those drunken moons at passing cars :), while the IT jungle was still fresh and green. There was a big blue king of the jungle. This top monkey position was usurped by an up and coming tiger that, while the tigers name seemed small and soft, it wasn't afraid to show its teeth."


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Source: Linux Today

LWN.net: "So, I'm now back and with some feedback to share. I'll first post (in
this mail) a summary of the replies I got to this "poll" and later on a
more general summary of what I did at UDS."


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Source: Linux Today

Distrowatch: "Katie McCarley has announced the release of Element 1.2, an Ubuntu-based distribution for home theatre or media-centre personal computers"


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IT World: "In the embedded space, there's been a lot of talk about whether Android is fragmented, and if that fragmentation will ultimately hurt Android, because developers won't know what version to code for and users won't know which one to use."


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Standards Blog: "Crouching like a pack of hyenas on the floor between the subcommittee and witness tables were dozens of photographers, polishing their lenses in anticipation of the kill"


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Cyber Cynic: "Poor top management decisions led Linuxcare to lose first its way, and, then, years later, to quietly vanish. Now, one of its founders, Arthur F. Tyde III, has brought Linuxcare back from the grave and made it ready for the 21st century."


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Linux Planet: "The newest Linux kernel release continues its rapid development pace, adding a pair of new filesystems and boosting virtualization performance."


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Google Blog: "So how did this happen? Quite simply, it was a mistake. In 2006 an engineer working on an experimental WiFi project wrote a piece of code that sampled all categories of publicly broadcast WiFi data."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "At last year's event participants received Android phones with a free month of service, fueling speculation that this year's attendees may receive some goodies as well."


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Source: Linux Today

Jamie's Random Musings: "Sometimes you just have to "bite the bullet" and do what needs to be done, rather than what you would prefer to do, or what you would really like to do. That's what happened to me with my friends' laptop over the weekend."


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Enterprise Mobile Today: "Handsets powered by Google's Android are becoming increasingly popular, but the open source smartphone platform is facing a threat that could cause it to self-destruct."


Source: Linux Today

LinuxInsider: "European privacy advocates have added their voices to complaints about Facebook's privacy changes, and they say certain ways Facebook treats data may even be illegal under European laws."


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Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "KDE is a great desktop, just not for new users"


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KDE.news: "In about 6 weeks the biggest yearly gathering of the KDE community starts in Tampere. To give you all a little taste of Akademy 2010, Guillermo Amaral interviewed Aaron Seigo and asked him about his keynote."


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Groklaw: "Believe it or not, Groklaw is seven years old today. It just *feels* like seventy. "


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Source: Linux Today

We'll See: "I spent last week at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Belgium, where we kicked off the 10.10 development cycle.

Due to our time-boxed release cycle, not everything discussed here will necessarily appear in Ubuntu 10.10, but this should provide a reasonable overview of the direction we're taking."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Planet: "The open source OpenOffice productivity suite is a cross-platform powerhouse, and you can can add additional functionality by installing extensions. Eric Geier offers six OpenOffice extensions for analyzing readability, special text effects, advanced math functions, and more."


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "For those looking into an entry-to-mid-range or high-end workstation graphics card, today we are completing our look at AMD's Evergreen-based FirePro family with a review of the ATI FirePro V4800 and ATI FirePro V7800."


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OSNews: "Software patents, however, are only valid in some parts of the world, so an enterprising developer has started a project that was sure to come eventually: Firefox builds with H264 support."


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Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Storage Forum: "We've all probably heard more than we want to hear about clouds this week, thanks to EMC World, but there are some things you need to think about if you're considering adopting a cloud model as part of your storage networking architecture."


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Source: Linux Today

The H Open: "Oracle's forthcoming version 5.1.47 of MySQL is said to contain several important security patches. The changelog states that the developers have closed three security holes "


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevices: "Intel will launch its first dual-core Atom processor for netbooks and other mobile devices during the third quarter, Fudzilla claims. The N550 will be clocked at 1.5GHz, have 512KB of second-level cache per core, and offer an 8.5 Watt TDP, Fuad Abazovic writes."


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Source: Linux Today

FOSSBazaar: "In one recent deal we were left with the thorny problem of Indemnity and who pays for it. Typically, if you are using proprietary code you are buying a pig in a poke (buying something in a black sack that the vendor says will do the job)."


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Source: Linux Today

Delimiter: "If you go back five years, there was a great deal of hype about the potential for large Australian organizations to deploy Linux on their desktop PCs."


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SF Examiner: "Google Inc. has been vacuuming up fragments of people's online activities broadcast over public Wi-Fi networks for the past four years, a breach of Web etiquette likely to raise more privacy worries about the Internet search leader."


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Source: Linux Today

Stubborn Tech Problem Solving: "I'm building a pair of Ubuntu systems for kids. For a variety of reasons, including lack of time and hardware problems, this has taken far longer than expected and I ended up with one running 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and the other 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

diegocg writes "Linux 2.6.34 has been released. This version adds two new filesystem, the distributed filesystem Ceph and LogFS, a filesystem for flash devices. Other features are a driver for almost-native KVM network performance, the VMware balloon driver, the 'kprobes jump' optimization for dynamic probes, new perf features (the 'perf lock' tool, cross-platform analysis support), several Btrfs improvements, RCU lockdep, Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (RFC 5082) and private VLAN proxy arp (RFC 3069) support, asynchronous suspend/resume, several new drivers and many other small improvements. See the full changelog here."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

The ethtool utility provides ethernet card information and management to die for.



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Source: Security DevCenter

Want to get in on the fun of programming graphics? With this little book, you can learn how even if you have no programming experience. Processing, an open-source programming environment, makes it easy for anyone to create drawings, animation, and interactive images. Written by the co-founders of the Processing project, Getting Started with Processing is packed with projects you can dive right into.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Stop by the O'Reilly booth (#1845). You can check out our newest titles from Microsoft Press and O'Reilly Media. You'll also have a chance to win $500 in books when you enter our drawing. Follow us on Twitter @oreillyatteched


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Author George Reese (Cloud Application Architectures, MySQL Pocket Reference, and Database Programming with JDBC and Java) will present a short session on auto-scaling enterprise applications in public and private clouds.


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Author George Reese (Cloud Application Architectures) will present the affirmative position in a debate at the OSCON Cloud Summit on the question "Are Open APIs Enough to Prevent Lock-in?"


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Author George Reese (Cloud Application Architectures, MySQL Pocket Reference, and Database Programming with JDBC and Java) presents an overview of hybrid clouds with a short panel discussion to follow.


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Join Yakov Fain (Enterprise Development with Flex) as he presents "Flex Application Modularization." This presentation is an overview of techniques and tips that every senior enterprise Flex developer must know and use.


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The smart way to learn the latest version of Microsoft Project 2010-one step at a time! Build exactly the skills you need by working at your own pace through easy-to-follow lessons and hands-on practice files on available online.


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Programming the Microsoft Cloud


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The book addresses "geeky" owners of Canon consumer cameras who would like to explore the possibilities of their cameras, and eventually tweak them to do things way beyond their original specifications, such as - RAW file (or DNG) support in addition to the camera's JPEG output - Manual control for aperture, shutter speed, and ISO - Expand shutter speeds way beyond the specification limits - Enable bracketing The hacks are based on the Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK), a free software maintained by a group of enthusiasts. Many scripts are already published on the web. The book teaches how to use existing scripts and how to write new ones. Canon cameras, especially their consumer lines of PowerShot/IXUS cameras, allow the user to temporarily upload so called add-ons into the camera through the memory card. The next time the camara is switched on, the add-on is active, when the camera is switched off, the camera returns to its original state, so there is no risk of loosing the manufacturers warranty.


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Take control of your funds with Personal Investing: The Missing Manual. This lively and easy-to-understand guide provides the confidence, tools, and insight you need to evaluate and invest in financial products that target success over the long term. You'll learn how to set goals and research the types of investments -- mutual funds, stocks, bonds, and other financial products -- that can best help you achieve them.


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Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free What would it mean to write a "Hello, Car" program? What kind of applications might interact with a networked automobile? What happens when the car becomes a platform for open innovation? It just might transform the auto industry by providing new opportunities for entrepreneurs and makers. Join Dale Dougherty, founder and editor of MAKE Magazine and Maker Faire, in a conversation about open innovation in the auto industry with K. Venkatesh Prasad, Technical Leader, Infotronics team in Ford Research & Advanced Engineering.


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In this multi-part series of blog posts, I'd like to tell the story of the O'Reilly School of Technology and the new Make: Mathematics project. This is also a great opportunity for me to explain and justify our overall mission


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Over the next little while, I am going to be exploring some of the more popular Flex Frameworks, and getting into the nitty gritty of what you need to know to get started with them. I'm not going to


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On the largest of scales, we rarely have the luxury of designing technological systems. Instead, technologies happen to us - our experience of them being ragged, volatile, turbulent and rife with unexpected interactions. Tim’s posts about the emerging internet operating system (here and here) describe a great example of this - the winner of that particular fight being very much


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In this week's Gov 2.0 review: Open government, open data, moving .gov into the cloud, crisis response, Government 2.0 events and more.


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Source: Security DevCenter

All systems fail. In the computing world, the best we can hope for is the creation of redundant systems and backup systems that help minimize the impact of those failures. Where people run into trouble in the cloud is when they believe that "putting a system in the cloud" means not having to worry about redundancy and backup systems.


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It's striking to see the different trajectories mobile operating systems are on when compared to the mobile web. The OS landscape is fragmenting as mobile browsers consolidate around WebKit. In 2006, two smartphone operating systems accounted for 81 percent of the market. Today no single operating system has more than 50 percent marketshare. Unlike mobile operating systems, mobile browsers were fragmented a few years ago. Today, every mobile browser is moving toward HTML5 support, if it isn't there already.


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MapReduce and Hadoop Algorithms in Academic Papers -- a collection of such papers, interesting for those who wrangle big data. (via tlockney on delicious) Facebook and Radical Transparency: A Rant (danah boyd) -- well-argued and well-written piece about what is becoming the tech issue of the year. The key to addressing this problem is not to say “public or



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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

In the first three articles of this series, you learned to model a NIEM exchange and
define subset and extension schemas that implement that model. Now you take the
final step and assemble the schemas, documentation, and all the other artifacts of an
exchange into a complete NIEM-conformant IEPD. This article also describes the process
of validating and publishing your IEPD.



Updated: Tue May 18 23:55:02 2010


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