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Linux and Open Source News for 9th June 2010

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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Silvan Calarco has announced the availability of the second test release of openmamba GNU/Linux 2.0, a desktop Linux distribution featuring the latest KDE 4: "The second pre-release of openmamba GNU/Linux milestone 2 is ready with over 700 software package updates. The system is based on Linux kernel 2.6.31.13 .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Paul Sherman has announced the release of Absolute Linux 13.1.1, a lightweight Slackware-based distribution with IceWM: " Absolute 13.1.1 released. New kernel and a boatload of updates from Slackware. Almost replaced Firefox with Google Chrome (which I really like) but due to an endless 'upload' bug that keeps .



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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "This tutorial describes how to scan emails for image spam with FuzzyOCR on a Fedora 12 server. FuzzyOCR is a plugin for SpamAssassin which is aimed at unsolicited bulk mail containing images as the main content carrier."


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Source: Linux Today

BeginLinux: "The primary purpose of the slave server is to provide a backup to the primary master server should it go down for any reason."


Source: Linux Today

Handle With Linux: "There's a scripting environment available for the Android and that makes it possible to run python, which in turn makes it possible to run the python version of stkeys."


Source: Linux Today

Ubuntu Geek: "DeaDBeeF (as in 0xDEADBEEF) is an audio player for GNU/Linux systems with X11 (though now it also runs in plain console without X, in FreeBSD, and in OpenSolaris)."


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Source: Linux Today

IT World: "This debate arouses vehement opinions, but according to one IT consultant who spends a lot of time with both Windows and Linux, it's a matter of arguing which server OS is the most appropriate in the context of the job that needs to be done."


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Source: Linux Today

developerWorks: "Whether you are monitoring your network to identify performance issues, debugging an application, or have found an application on your network that you do not recognize, occasionally you need to look deep into the protocols being used on your UNIX network to understand what they are doing."


Source: Linux Today

Chao-Kuei's Notes: "Human rights are gradually eroding at several fronts as international interest groups lobby and pressure governments all over the globe to 'protect copyright' using big-brother-like information and communication technologies (ICT)."


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Source: Linux Today

IT World: "Taking the results at face value, the likely respondent from the 1696 total is a male programmer who works for a high-tech company with fewer than 100 employees. Oh, and their favorite IDE is some flavor of Eclipse."


Source: Linux Today

Linux Planet: "Have you ever thought about how you really spend your time at work? If you're wondering where the time goes, the GNOME Time Tracker is a great tool to help you keep an eye on which activities eat up your days."


Source: Linux Today

The H Open: "Ingres have made Ingres VectorWise generally available to download for free evaluation or commercially licence and say that an open source release for the accelerated database technology should be expected by the end of the year."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "Q: What did one lumberjack say to the other lumberjack? A: Watch those logs. Now, what will you, as a system administrator, use to watch logs? Logwatch, of course."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "If you blinked you might have missed the announcement of the new 2.6.34 kernel. Things have been happening very quickly around file systems and storage in the recent kernels so it's probably a good idea to review the kernels from 2.6.30 to 2.6.34 and see what developments have transpired."


Source: Linux Today

All Facebook: "If you are a developer that read about yesterday's Facebook Insights announcement but want examples of tools that can be implemented, look no further than Facebook's open source Insights API sample that was released yesterday."


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Source: Linux Today

Computer Weekly Blog: "Grynzpan reckons that Brazil has to find a unique selling proposition and its vast pool of knowledge in open source software could be the real advantage of the local IT industry."


Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Storage Forum: "CTERA Networks is giving the Linux Ext3 file system additional data protection in the form of new snapshot capabilities. The file system is also the basis of the company's Cloud-Attached Storage appliances, the C200 and CloudPlug."


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Source: Linux Today

Webopedia: "IT outsourcing is a phrase used to describe the practice of seeking resources -- or subcontracting -- outside of an organizational structure for all or part of an IT (Information Technology) function."


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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can set up a Fedora 13 desktop (GNOME) that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

snydeq writes "Canonical is preparing a version of the Ubuntu OS for tablet computers as the company looks to extend its presence in the mobile space, InfoWorld reports. The OS will be a lightweight version of Linux with a simplified, touch-friendly user interface, and tablets with the Ubuntu OS could become available late in winter 2011. The focus will be on developing an OS with a simplified user interface that provides quick access to the most-used applications. Development efforts will also focus on adding on-screen keyboard features and compatibility for multitouch drivers."

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dmbkiwi writes "The latest in the 4.x series of the KDE Software Compilation is due to be released in early August 2010. With the first beta of this release recently unleashed, I thought I'd download the openSuse packages and see what 4.5's got in store for us."

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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Red Hat is the king of commercial Linux support, no doubt about it. Canonical has entered the market and with some refined support products could present a very compelling alternative. Is it enough to make the company profitable long term, though?



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Source: Security DevCenter

Nobody will end up with a completely SaaS model, says Randi Levin, at least not in the next couple of years. "What I do see is that most organizations are going to end up in a hybrid world where you have some on-site infrastructure; you have some hosted infrastructure, and you have some SaaS."


Source: Security DevCenter

Game Dev 101 lessons with WarioWare DIY -- Nintendo's long-running and (at its debut) groundbreaking WarioWare franchise has always been predicated on discrete games played for 5-10 seconds at a time, in rapid succession, and it's precisely that stripped-bare approach that makes it an ideal launchpad for re-wiring the way aspiring designers think about what makes games fun. With


Source: Security DevCenter

A key group of technically savvy people could do a lot to improve projects, not just document them.


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Source: developerWorks : Linux : Technical library

Learn the correct location for files under the Filesystem Hierarchy
Standard (FHS) on a Linux system and learn how to find important files and
commands. You can use the material in this article to study for the LPI 101
exam for Linux system administrator certification, or just to explore file
organization and management.


Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

If you're considering using Spring or Hibernate with IBM WebSphere
Application Server, this article explains how to configure these frameworks
for various scenarios with WebSphere Application Server. This article is not
an exhaustive review of either framework, but a critical reference to help you
successfully implement such scenarios. (Updated with new security information.)



Updated: Thu Jun 10 23:55:01 2010


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