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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Taking a look at Yoper 2010 News: openSUSE strategy meeting, interview with Slackware's Robby Workman, Ubuntu's new Firefox support model Interviews: Fedora's Ian Weller Released last week: Sabayon Linux 5.3, Ultimate Edition 2.7, Salix OS 13.1, Parsix GNU/Linux 3.5 Upcoming releases: FreeBSD .



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HowtoForge: "This guide explains how to install Alfresco Community 3.3 on Ubuntu Server 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)."


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Datamation: "No seriously, why is GNOME relying on this bloated file manager when it could instead be taking notes from the design of XFCE's Thunar file manager instead?"


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Brighthand: "Linux would seem to be a perfect fit for mobile phones, given its small footprint, low cost and ability to be easily modified by developers."


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ServerWatch: "Canonical, the lead commercial sponsor behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, is gearing up to launch a new series of support and services offerings for enterprise desktop and server users."


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IT Pro: "A coalition of major technology firms has come together to create Linaro, a not-for-profit group aimed at promoting the creation of Linux-based portable devices and Linux software for the ARM System-on-Chip (SoC) architecture."


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Web Upd8: "Note that the GNOME panel is locked in Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 so you need to unlock it. As far as I know, this will only work if you installed Ubuntu Netbook Edition, not if you installed Ubuntu desktop and then installed the netbook interface."


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Handle With Linux: "This is the prototype of the Kno a Linux based dual screen textbook replacement shown by Californian startup Kakai at at the 8th Annual Conference of D: All Things Digital, otherwise known as D8."


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Network World: "The zero-day vulnerability is reminiscent of one Adobe disclosed and patched in July 2009, and comes just days after the company's head of security admitted hackers have its software in their crosshairs."


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Developer.com: "Like many technologies, Git's shallow learning curve encourages adoption, yet it offers so many features and options that it can easily overwhelm beginners."


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LinuxPlanet: "Whether you're wanting to give away or charge your visitors for the wireless Internet, you should find something that will work. The best part is that most of these solutions are free -- you don't have to spends hundreds on a off-the-shelf hotspot gateway."


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LWN.net: "On behalf of the Rockbox developers, I'm very pleased to announce that Rockbox 3.6 has just been released!"


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Tech Source: "If you happen to own a business and are looking for CRM applications, I have here a list of some of the most well-known free and open-source customer relationship management (CRM) software available today."


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Mandriva Blog: "I'm now a researcher in bioinformatics working as a post-doc on bone cancer. During the past ten years Mandriva has proven rock solid on all the installations I had to perform for my own usage and for my colleagues."


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LWN.net: "Google unveiled something that many in the open source community had been expecting (and which the Free Software Foundation asked for in March): it made the VP8 video codec available to the public under a royalty-free, open source BSD-style license."


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Christofoo Review: "Right now, Lenny (5.0) is the stable release, and Squeeze (6.0) is in testing. Sometime "soon" Squeeze will get frozen, which means the regular flow of package migration will stop, and from then on it will only get bug and security fixes through a method of back-porting."


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The Geek Stuff: "An array is a variable containing multiple values may be of same type or of different type. In this article, let us review 15 various array operations in bash."


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OMG! Ubuntu!: "Whether you intend to download and install Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1 or not the following meerkat-themed wallpapers will certainly get you in the Maverick-y mood."


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DarkReading: "A new open-source operating system will come with the option of creating one-time, disposable virtual machines on the fly."


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Jim Lynch: "Hmm. It seems that one VERY prominent platform is missing. Yep, that's right. Amazon still has not released a Kindle application for Linux."



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RailsConf is now underway in Baltimore, Maryland. Don't miss the News & Coverage, including speaker slides, live stream, videos, and photo. Watch Keynotes live online.


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Ignite NYC is returning for its 9th edition during the third Internet Week; I'll be co-hosting with Igntie NYC Director Tikva Morowati. We've got a great set of speakers and we'll be holding the event this Wednesday at Internet Week's Headquarters (Metropolitan Pavilion; 125 W. 18th Street - register). As always each speaker will get just 5 minutes on


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Flashbelt is approaching quickly. If you are already planning to attend here are highlights to look forward to, if you are on the fence these are some reasons to attend, and if you are decided not to go here is


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Written by a key member of the Microsoft patterns & practices Enterprise Library version 5 development team.


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I spend a lot of time talking with companies that want to resell O'Reilly ebooks. Some are large companies you've certainly heard of, others are small startups that haven't yet


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This is the first in a series of Robotlegs articles that will appear here on InsideRIA in the coming weeks detailing core Robotlegs concepts and working through some more advanced concepts involving third party utilities and libraries built to interact with them.


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UKI: Simple UI Kit for Complex Web Apps -- Uki is a fast and simple JavaScript user interface toolkit for desktop-like web applications. It comes with a rich view-component library ranging from Slider to List and SplitPane. Includes the now-ubiquitous Mail.app mockup, which has become to UI library webpages what the bucket of grease and dirt is to household



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Web applications have traditionally been stuck in a single-threaded world. This really limited developers in what they could do in their code, since anything too complicated risks freezing up the UI of the application. Web Workers have changed all of that by bringing multi-threading to Web applications. This is particularly useful for mobile Web applications where most of the application logic is client-side. In this article, you will learn how to work with Web Workers and discover which tasks are most appropriate for them. You will see how you can use with other HTML 5 technologies to increase the efficiency of using those technologies.



Updated: Tue Jun 8 23:55:01 2010


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