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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

George Vlahavas has announced the release candidate of Salix OS 13.1, a Slackware-based distribution with Xfce as the preferred desktop: "Salix 13.1 has been released. Available in both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, Salix 13.1 is fully backwards compatible with Slackware 13.1. Salix 13.1 is built on top of .

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Gizmodo: "Since its 2008 debut, Android has grown - not only meeting all of the functionalities of the iPhone, but besting it in nearly all aspects. Here is our list of the top 10 things Android does better than the iPhone."

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It's vacation time, hurrah, and your editor has two whole weeks to play. And to slip in a bit of work, taking the Teo netbook on a 2500-mile roadtrip through the wilds of Montana to give it the ultimate real-world torture-test.

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The Register: "Red Hat's CEO Jim Whitehurst declined to dismiss the possibility of buying out his company's Linux rival Novell in a meeting with reporters in London today."

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Cyber Cynic: "On June 7th, Canonical will start offering new Ubuntu Server and Ubuntu Desktop "Ubuntu Advantage" business support services."

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Tech Source: "There is a new tablet PC in town that runs Linux, and its name is Shogo. Made by realease, a Hong Kong-based platform provider, this device features a 10-inch capacitive touchscreen and will be available in two models: one has a Freescale i.MX37 (ARM 11) processor; the other model is loaded with a Freescale i.MX51 (ARM Cortex A8) processor."

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Linux Journal: "There's only one truly pure Linux, and that is Slackware."

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Zona-M: "If you need to produce slideshows and think that the cleaner they are the better, but don't like the time it takes to put them together in a GUI, here's a solution. Like any other ODF document, OpenDocument slideshows are very easy to generate and process automatically."

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LWN.net: "Mark Shuttleworth posts his thoughts about Linaro. Canonical will be working closely with the project, which has plans for six-month release cycles like Ubuntu. Linaro will also be using some Ubuntu infrastructure such as LaunchPad"

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ServerWatch: "The desktop form will be supported for three years and the server version five years, making the OS an appealing option for enterprise users. I looked at the server edition for ServerWatch."

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Salon: "At the All Things Digital conference, the Apple CEO acts like closed-system critics are cheaters or porn peddlers"

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Howtoforge: "This tutorial shows how to prepare a Fedora 13 server (x86_64) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more."

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Scribbles and Snaps: "Of course, renaming each and every photo by hand is not particularly practical, especially if you take dozens or even hundreds of photos each day. This is when digiKam's Rename feature can come in rather handy. You can use it to define rather advanced renaming rules and apply them to multiple photos in one fell swoop."

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Matthew Casperson's Hubfolio: "Old MegaDrive/Genesis games can provide hours of fun on even modest PCs. In this article we take a look at some of the emulators that are available for Ubuntu."

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Tech Drive-In: "Light the world with Firefox video is a nice depiction of Firefox through the years. But how many of you actually knew that there are a number of Firefox based browsers which are as good or oven better than Firefox? Here is a list of 5 Firefox based browsers you should know."

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Begin Linux: "This image represents a basic network plan for a small company. The goal of this article is to use this image to help describe basic concepts of networks and how they typically constructed as well as why they are designed the way they are"

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Ubuntu Geek: "GNOME Commander aims to fulfill the demands of more advanced users who like to focus on file management, their work through special applications and running smart commands. This program is not aimed at users wanting the weather forecast in a sidebar in their file manager."

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Softpedia: "While Ubuntu fans out there still discover and enjoy the brand-new Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating system, somewhere deep in the
Ubuntu headquarters, the Canonical developers are working on the next major update for their popular Linux distribution."

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IT World: "One of the constants in my interactions with the Linux and open source communities is that they--all of them--are out there, in the big wide world, while I remain ensconced in my fortress of solitude here in Northern Indiana."

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Digitalkamera: "There is a huge range of Open Source software available to create, modify and convert 2D and 3D computer graphics. To provide an insight into the software that is available, we have compiled a list of 25 high quality Linux graphics applications."

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Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris: "Add two lines to /etc/apt/sources list:"

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FSFE: "David Reyes Samblas Martinez is the founder of Spanish Copyleft Hardware store Tuxbrain, and attended the famous Open University of Catalunya. He's also the subject of this month's Fellowship interview, in which he answers questions on hardware manufacturing, e-learning and Free Software politics."

Source: Slashdot: Linux

adeelarshad82 writes "Dell Streak, the android-based 5-inch tablet (which has also been called out as a smartphone rather than a tablet) is set to ship out starting July, both from a US carrier and direct on Dell.com for $500. Even though Dell has not disclosed the name of the carrier, some experts believe that it will be AT&T because the Streak is a 3G GSM 850/1900 device and AT&T is the only major US carrier that supports those frequency bands. According to a hands-on, Streak is a sharp looking device with a black front and candy-apple red back which unfortunately shows fingerprints very easily. On the upside though Streak's curved body is comfortable to hold. Streak runs a customized version of Android 1.6, however the Android aficionados will have to get used to the unusual button layout. Its 800-by-480 screen makes images look tight, and web pages will benefit from the horizontal resolution. The 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, the same as in the HTC Incredible and Sprint EVO 4G, functions snappily. There's a 5-megapixel camera on the back, a VGA camera for video calling on the front, and a MicroSD memory card slot under the back cover."

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Source: Slashdot: Linux

metasonix writes "While the rest of the industry has been babbling on about the iPad and imitations thereof, Qi Hardware is actually shipping a product that is completely open source and copyleft. Linux News reviews the Ben NanoNote (product page), a handheld computer apparently containing no proprietary technology. It uses a 366 MHz MIPS processor, 32MB RAM, 2 GB flash, a 320x240 pixel color display, and a Qwerty keyboard. No network built in, though it is claimed to accept SD-card WiFi or USB-Ethernet adapters. Included is a very simple Linux OS based on the OpenWrt distro installed in Linksys routers, with Busybox GUI. It's apparently intended primarily for hardware and software hackers, not as a general-audience handheld. The price is right, though: $99."

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courteaudotbiz writes "In a court battle in the province of Quebec, Canada, initiated more than two years ago, free software activists 'Savoir Faire Linux' (translated 'Linux know-how') won the right to submit offers (Google translation; original French version) when the government takes public requests for submissions to replace its desktop operating systems and office suites. This opens the possibility in the future of replacing MS Windows and MS Office in favor of Linux and Open Office, or any other operating system and office productivity suite. In his judgement, the magistrate said that the government acted illegally when it discarded the proposal of Savoir Faire Linux for replacing Windows XP with a Linux distribution."

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Source: Security DevCenter

Hear from Sarah Sorensen (The Sustainable Network) on some of the macro-trends IT leaders should be considering as they set the technology agenda for their universities. Understand the context of the opportunities that lay ahead for higher education and see how to create change that can save time, energy and effort on a scale that can truly make the learning environment a more sustainable one.

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With this full color, no-nonsense guide, you'll learn the quickest ways to create a presentation with Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. Easy-to-follow steps and concise, straightforward language make learning plain and simple!

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Gizmodo says: "O'Reilly makes some of the best tech books around, so we were super excited to hear about their new title Best Android Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders. Here are ten of those best Android apps for ten different activities." Get your copy today.

Source: Security DevCenter

At a VMware forum, a sense of expectancy about cloud computing seemed
to be expressed more by speakers than by attendees.

Source: Security DevCenter

Recently, I've been experimenting with various microarchitectural frameworks. I decided that it might be useful to others to share my thoughts as I work through this process as an absolute framework beginner. Last time, I tackled Maté. This time,

Source: Security DevCenter

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free This webcasts highlights new features and refines in the latest and upcoming release of CouchDB. It rehashes old solutions to problems that are now way easier to solve. We look at how the new features help you make your life and development work easier. We will cover: Views, Replication, Virtual Hosts & the Rewriter, Authentication. Chock full of awesome! About Jan Lehnardt Jan Lehnardt is CouchDB's chief evangelist and a CouchDB consultant for major industry players. Jan's has spoken about CouchDB at conferences such as O'Reilly's OSCON and Erlang eXchange. He's a director at couch.io which offers CouchDB Consulting, Training, Hosting & Support.

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"HTML5 and the Future of Adobe Flash" was published April 30 2010 by Ray Valdes, David Smith and Eric Knipp of Gartner. The last paragraph is most interesting. Read the entire document to learn more.This matches my experience as a contractor who focuses

Source: Security DevCenter

Author Christopher Schmitt (CSS Cookbook) hosts the 2nd Annual CSS Summit on July 28th which covers topics from CSS3, Web Typography, Mobile CSS, and much more!

Source: Security DevCenter

Jobe has developed over 200 Flash games and 9 virtual worlds over the last 10 years and has authored several books on advanced Flash, ActionScript, and game programming. Jobe took some time out to answer a few question for insideRIA.

Source: Security DevCenter

HomeSense -- an open user-centered research project investigating the use of smart and networked technologies in the home, with uber-Arduino-rockstar Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino. (via titine on Twitter) Kelvin's Thunderstorm (Instructables) -- "create lightning from water and gravity". Simple and impressive science. (via Paul Fenwick) Graph Visualization Code in Javascript (Stack Overflow) -- good pointers to interesting libraries. ChEMBL - Neglected

Source: Security DevCenter

Francesco Lazzarino has a project up at RubyForge for a Ruby runner for ISO Schematron. (Open source: MIT/ Consortium License) Schematron is a small ISO-standard language for making assertions or reports about patterns in and between XML documents, typically using

Source: Security DevCenter

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) is a vulnerability that allows attackers to inject client-side script. XSS stands for many of the attack we see on the Web today. Attackers find some kind of a creative way to inject script into web pages, which than allow them to expose the user to many security risks

Source: Security DevCenter

In mid-1980s, Steven Levy wrote a book that introduced the term "hacker" to a wide audience. In the ensuing 25 years, that word and its accompanying community have gone through tremendous change. In this Q&A, Levy discusses the book's genesis, its influence and the role hackers continue to play.

Source: Security DevCenter

Gameplay parameters are sent up to the server, the application running in the Cloud mixes the appropriate beeps and booms into the audio output buffer, which then streams the game soundtrack to your device. The data being transmitted up is small, the server has all the CPU power, memory storage, and data bandwidth you could ask for, and the download stream is like listening to a digital radio station.