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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Michael Hall has announced the release of Qimo 4 Kids 2.0, a Xubuntu-based distribution for very young children: "After much hard work, and some delay, we are pleased to bring your the second version of our popular Linux desktop for kids. We have introduced a new character to .


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George Vlahavas has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Salix OS 13.1, a Slackware-based distribution featuring a custom Xfce desktop: "So here is Salix 13.1 RC1. Let us test this and then release 13.1 final in about a week. The repositories for version 13.1 are .


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Jean-Philippe Guillemin has announced the release of Zenwalk Linux 6.4, a Slackware-based distribution with the Xfce desktop, custom package management, and many user-friendly features: "Zenwalk Linux 6.4 provides many enhancements at system and application levels, while confirming the maturity and feature stability of Zenwalk. The brand new 2.6.33.4 .


Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Kendall Weaver has announced the release of Peppermint OS One-05222010, a lightweight, Lubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution featuring the Openbox window manager and many web-based applications: "We're proud to offer the first official Peppermint OS respin, featuring a fully updated system, a few bug fixes, and a few new .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Endian Firewall 2.4, a specialist Linux distribution for firewalls and gateways based on CentOS, has been released: "Endian Firewall (EFW) Community version 2.4 is now available. This release introduces new features and lots of bug fixes that make EFW 2.4 a significant improvement in the development of the .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

MeeGo is an open-source Linux project which brings together Moblin, headed up by Intel, and Maemo, by Nokia, into a single open-source activity targeting netbooks and other mobile devices. The project's inaugural release, version 1.0, was announced yesterday: "Today we are announcing the project release of MeeGo 1.0 ..



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Source: Linux Today

Chao-Kuei's Notes: "If a self-proclaimed cloud computing provider tries to sell you some expensive and fancy new technology that requires a lot of training on your employees, then be alerted that this may just be a hoax."


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LinuxLinks: "To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 11 excellent plotting tools. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone interested in producing high quality graphs."


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Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Mobile Today: "Nearly one in three buyers who had been considering a netbook did their evaluations and then bought an Apple iPad tablet instead, according to a survey of more than a thousand U.S. consumers by the consumer electronics review site Retrevo."


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Source: Linux Today

Inatux: "Games have become the topic of late. Osmos developers wonder whether there is enough market share for GNU+Linux game ports to be worth the cost, but they aren't the only ones. It's been discussed time and time again, is a GNU+Linux -- or really any Unix or Unix-like -- port worth it?"


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Source: Linux Today

The H Open: "Known as "Goddard", Fedora 13 not only boasts a current software selection and a modernised design, it also offers an extensive range of technological improvements."


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Royal Pingdom: "So what kind of code names are developers out there coming up with? Here is a collection of code names for software products from companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Canonical, Red Hat, Adobe, Mozilla, Automattic and more."


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Source: Linux Today

eSecurity Planet: "Some might think WPA encryption is cracked, while others say it's secure. Here we look at each myth and tell you whether it's verified--or busted."


Source: Linux Today

Ubuntu Geek: "Ubuntu Control Center or UCC is an application inspired by Mandriva Control Center and aims to centralize and organize in a simple and intuitive form the main configuration tools for Ubuntu distribution."


Source: Linux Today

Polish Linux: "Filmaster.com, a social network for film lovers, has recently presented a new movie recommendations engine. The algorithm that generates recommendations is open source and has been released under AGPLv3 license."


Source: Linux Today

Developer.com: "The cloud isn't just for network administrators looking for scale, it's also a key development area for developers building applications with open source dynamic languages."


Source: Linux Today

Tech Source: "Pandora, the Linux-based handheld game console that is aimed to take advantage of free and open source software is finally shipping."


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Database Journal: "According to its motto, the underlying premise behind the open source CouchDB NoSQL database is about helping developers "relax" -- chiefly by providing them with a simple, powerful database alternative."


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Triangle Business Journal: "Matthew Szulik, chairman of Red Hat's board of directors, is stepping down in August after his term expires"


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ars Technica: "The developers behind the popular Fedora Linux distribution announced on Tuesday the official release of version 13, codenamed Goddard. It brings some important platform improvements and several new desktop applications."


Source: Linux Today

Serverwatch: "Our plan was to build a private cloud, for free, using open source operating systems and virtualization. Even with no money, we still had projects on the table that had to be done. We called our experiment, 'Nebulous,' named after the cloud. The end result was better than we had imagined."


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Linux Planet: "In part one we made a basic movie with kdenlive. Pretty easy! But we can make a better movie by adding some effects, so Akkana Peck shows us how to add transitions between scenes, music and titles"


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Zona-M: "However, there is also one more reason why ODF is great for everybody who must produce a lot of office documents, one that will be the subjects of many posts on this website: ODF is really simple to generate or edit automatically."


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Datamation: "May 31 is "Quit Facebook Day." Some users are outraged over new privacy policies that made sharing all personal content the default. The company "rolled out a simplified version of its privacy controls today, a single page where users can set who sees what."


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Source: Linux Today

Howtoforge: "SphinX is a great full-text search engine for MySQL. Installing the Sphinx daemon was straightforward as you can compile it from the source or use a .DEB/.RPM package but SphinxSE was a little bit tricky since it needed to be installed as a plugin on a running MySQL server."


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FSF.org: "Apple has removed GNU Go from the App Store, continuing their longstanding habit of preventing users from doing anything that Apple doesn't want them to do."


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Technology & Life Integration: "Linux is only for geeks. Windows is easy to use. Linux is hard. You have to use the command line under Linux. You never need to use the console under windows. Sooner or later you will be forced to use the console in Linux."


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Wine-Reviews: "The Wine development release 1.2-rc1 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations."


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Techworld: "Two exhibitors at the event last weekend showed off open source 3D printers that can build objects based on your instructions, another one introduced 3D design software."


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Packt: "In our previous Scripty2 article, we saw the basics of the Scripty2 library, we saw the UI elements available, the fx transitions and some effects. We even build an small example of a image slide effect."


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Fedora Documentation: "Shotwell is a free and open source photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment and has replaced Gthumb and F-Spot by default in Fedora 13."


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LinuxLinks: "To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 8 excellent video editors. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone interested in editing motion video footage."


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Source: Linux Today

Handle with Linux: "If you need wireless internet access on your boat, car, helicopter or while hiking, this may be the solution you are looking for. A Linux powered device sharing mobile broadband EVDO/HSDPA on a wifi router"


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Free Software Magazine: "The war is over: Internet Explorer lost. Everybody else won."


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Source: Linux Today

Slackware: "Yes, it's that time again! After many months of development and
careful testing, we are proud to announce the release of Slackware
version 13.1!"



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

infoLaw passes along this excerpt from Threatpost: "Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Emergency Response Team has released a new fuzzing framework to help identify and eliminate security vulnerabilities from software products. The Basic Fuzzing Framework (BFF) is described as a simplified version of automated dumb fuzzing. It includes a Linux virtual machine that has been optimized for fuzz testing and a set of scripts to implement a software test."

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ndogg writes "Security experts found that the iPhone 3GS has very little security, even with a PIN set up. They plugged one into Ubuntu 10.04, and it was automounted with almost all of the iPhone's data exposed. It has been reported to Apple, but they seem to be having difficulty reproducing the problem."

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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

If pork is the other white meat, GPUs might just be other "other silicon." Want to get started writing code for your graphics processor? Use this intro to NVIDIA's CUDA to get started.


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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

You win some, you lose some. The Mozilla project has won big with Firefox, but not so much with Thunderbird. Thunderbird 3 is a decent mail user agent, but it doesn't seem to have the right stuff to break out into widespread usage.



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Your easy, colorful, SEE-HOW guide to Office 2010! Use easy-to-follow steps and screenshots to learn the simplest ways to get things done with Microsoft Word, Excel®, Outlook®, PowerPoint®, Access®, Publisher, and OneNote®.


Source: Security DevCenter

Can you explain open linked data using a bag of chips? Tim Berners-Lee did precisely that yesterday in his keynote at the Gov 2.0 Expo. After the jump, you can watch an exclusive interview with Berners-Lee exploring open linked data, how governments' open data efforts should be judged, and more.


Source: Security DevCenter

Socorro: Mozilla's Crash Reporting System (Laura Thomson) -- We receive on our peak day each week 2.5 million crash reports, and process 15% of those, for a total of 50 GB. In total, we receive around 320Gb each day. Moving to a Hadoop-based system in the future, as they're limited by database and filesystem storage. DIY Atomic Force Microscopy


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Source: Security DevCenter

In this post, I have decided to focus upon one of my favorite topics, data visualization. It all started when an old friend from high school posted a link indicating that this past January and April were the hotest ever recorded, according to a NASA data set. I want to avoid the political discussions associated with this topic, and rather allow the data to tell its own story through visualization using Adobe Flex. You could stare at a grid of data for hours, and never see the trends or intricacies that become obvious once you put the data into a visual format.


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Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

pureQuery client optimization can improve the performance, security, and
administration of Java database applications.
The first article in this two-part series described how
how to enable client optimization on a single application server node.
This second article uses scenarios to describe how
to configure and work with client optimization
in clustered application server environments, specifically, clustered
WebSphere Application Server environments.
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Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Web 2.0 applications are quickly becoming the mainstream. Rich Internet
Applications and social networks are everywhere. Browser maturity, network
speed, and HTTP infrastructure have contributed to this. Ajax is the main
service invocation model for the client. Middleware is becoming more
stateless. All this, and yet many people still hold on to a legacy mindset
when building these modern applications, which can lead to some difficult
technical scenarios.



Updated: Fri May 28 23:55:01 2010


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