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Linux and Open Source News for 18th June 2010

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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

The latest release of SystemRescueCd, a Gentoo-based live CD designed for data rescue and disk management tasks, comes with the brand-new version of GParted (0.6.0) and updated network card drivers. From the changelog: "Updated standard kernels to 2.6.32.15 (rescuecd + rescue64) and alternative kernels to 2.6.34 (altker32 + .


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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 8.1: "The first release candidate for the FreeBSD 8.1 release cycle is now available for amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and sparc64 architectures. Files suitable for creating installation media or doing FTP-based installs through the network .



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Linux.com: "Modern Linux desktop environments make the basic keyboard configuration process far simpler than it used to be, but it is still confusing."


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Linux Magazine: "It's time for the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and other free software supporters to stop being the Party of Gno, and start thinking of positive ways to push for software freedom."


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Tech Comics: "Recently at the Computer Museum"


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Linux Insider: "Canonical's Ubuntu may have that special je ne sais quoi when it comes to the desktop, but will enterprise users be similarly enchanted by its new commercial support?"


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IT World: "Another shoe has dropped for the SCO Group -- this makes about a dozen -- but when will this outfit go away? After enriching many a law firm, part of the case finally made it in front of a judge. That judge ruled that the SCO Group had no clothes, nor did it have the rights to Unix."


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Linux Magazine: "Ubuntu has played a large role in the rise in popularity of Linux, but it's not everyone's cup of tea. If you don't like it, change it. And that's exactly what a small group of Linux loving hackers are doing. Meet, elementary."


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IT World: "I recently made the leap, at the prompting of my Update Manager. The process went fairly smoothly, but I did have to deal with a couple of minor annoyances. Since you never know exactly what may happen when you decide to upgrade, here are a few tips to get you started."


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The H Open: "The WordPress development team have released version 3.0 of their popular open source blogging and publishing platform, code named 'Thelonious'. This major update has more than 2,700 changes, including 1,217 bug fixes and feature enhancements."


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Product Design & Development: "When paired with the Lithium Ion BeagleJuice module, the BeagleBoard acts like a handheld tablet computer with Linux and capable of running the Android operating system."


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Enterprise Storage Forum: "I had to think long and hard for reasons why sites would not use both tape types, and I came up with two reasons: library support for enterprise tape drives, and a lack of standards for enterprise tape."


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CSO Online: "Free and open-source software (FOSS) is everywhere. Its offerings span far and wide in the technology industry. The networking space is an excellent example of FOSS, with feature-packed firewalls, routers, VPNs and even UTMs, for nearly every need."


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Handle With Linux: "Android on desktop video terminals, a great idea especially when they are extendable with apps and widgets. I can think of lots of possibilities, for instance installing the openremote home automation app."


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Hubfolio: "You'll spend plenty of time in the terminal, so why not customize it to suit your tastes? This article steps you through installing and configuring bashish, a terminal prompt theming utility."


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HowtoForge: "This tutorial explains how you can integrate ClamAV into PureFTPd for virus scanning on a CentOS 5.4 system. In the end, whenever a file gets uploaded through PureFTPd, ClamAV will check the file and delete it if it is malware."


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Webopedia: "An architecture whose specifications are public. This includes officially approved standards as well as privately designed architectures whose specifications are made public by the designers. The opposite of open is closed or proprietary."


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Ubuntu Geek: "RabbitVCS is a set of graphical tools written to provide simple and straightforward access to the version control systems you use."



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Lomegor writes "'Ever wanted to upload a folder full of photos to Picasa from a command prompt?' Google introduced today a new project, Google CL, that lets you do that and much more. It's a new command line tool for Linux that acts as an interface with Google services; you can upload videos to YouTube or maybe post a new blog post in Blogger in just one line."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Adobe has, at least temporarily, ended support for Flash Player on 64-bit Linux. No updated version is available. Adobe's message for 64-bit Linux users, at least for now, is "No Flash for you!"



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Facebook isn't just for college kids anymore. Thousands of companies use the site for everything from project collaboration and advertising to filling--and finding--jobs. This Mini Missing Manual is aimed at professionals who want to use Facebook to help them in the work world. Whether you're looking for a gig or want to boost your company's sales, you'll find useful tips you can apply today.


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iBooks and ePeriodicals on the iPad: The This Mini Missing Manual takes you down the virtual rows of Apple's iBookstore, to help you find, buy, download, read, and navigate ebooks and subscribe to magazine and newspapers on your iPad.


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Sebastopol, CA, April 27, 2010 - The sixth annual O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference showed a capacity crowd how to build on location as a platform March 30-April 1, 2010 at the San Jose Marriot in San Jose, CA. The sold-out event attracted the leaders and grassroots developers of the burgeoning location technology field to three full days of putting location to work.

The Where 2.0 program navigated along the three tracks of mobile innovations, mapping for consumers, and local opportunities and models. Participants explored topics such as the map as an information ecology, the new meaning of mapping, government's role as a clearinghouse for data, open source mapping, local data, local search, augmented reality, location sharing, mobile cloud, game mechanics, and web vs. native apps.

Read the full press release.


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Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free In this live, one-hour webcast, bestselling author J.D. Biersdorfer will guide us through the most entertaining apps on the iPad. She'll cover: Books (reading, loading, finding) Photos (slideshows, digital picture frame) Movies (playing, finding, converting your own for the iPad) Music (making playlists *on* the iPad, navigating the Now Playing screen) Maps (directions, digital compass) There will be plenty of time for Q & A and sharing, so come prepared! About J.D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer is the author of iPad: The Missing Manual, iPod: The Missing Manual, and The iPod Shuffle Fan Book, and is co-author of The Internet: The Missing Manual and the second edition of Google: The Missing Manual. She has been writing the weekly computer Q&A column for the Circuits section of The New York Times since 1998.


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My New iPad guides you through dozens of simple projects that will have you doing useful things with your iPad right away—like surfing the Internet, sending email, listening to music, taking notes, reading ebooks, using iWork, and playing with digital photos. Since no one wants to read a long, dry manual to learn how to use their new toy, Wang takes a practical approach and keeps the tone light. You'll be using your new iPad immediately to do cool things you didn't know it could do.


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Learn computer programming the easy way with Processing, a simple language that lets you use code to create drawings, animation, and interactive graphics. Programming courses usually start with theory, but this book lets you jump right into creative and fun projects. It's ideal for anyone who wants to learn basic programming, and serves as a simple introduction to graphics for people with some programming skills.


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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®.


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This Missing Manual helps you quickly and painlessly master the latest version of this industry-standard web design and management program. Perfect for beginners who need step-by-step guidance and for longtime Dreamweaver masters who need a handy reference, the 7th edition of this bestselling Missing Manual offers jargon-free language and clear descriptions for designing, organizing, building, and deploying websites. It's the ultimate atlas for Dreamweaver CS5.


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The Swiz micro-architecture for Flex development is nearing version 1.0. This is an important milestone for the Swiz team, some of whom have been working on the product for over two years new. If you haven't tried Swiz yet now is a great time to start. If you've been using Swiz for a while, make sure you submit any bugs for 1.0 before it's too late!


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This year, the Italian Perlmongers are proud to host YAPC::EU in the beautiful town of Pisa on 4-6 August. Speakers include Damian Conway (Perl Best Practices), Dave Cross (Perl Template Toolkit) and brian d foy (Mastering Perl) and many more.


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Stop by the O'Reilly booth. You can check out our newest titles and possibly meet our author Adewale Oshineye (Apprenticeship Patterns).


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Author Damian Conway (Perl Best Practices, Perl Hacks) teaches Regular Expressions properly.


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Join author Jesse Vincent (RT Essentials) who is giving several talks and visit our booth for a chat.


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Facebook Changes Crawling Policy (for the better) -- they're implementing their crawling policy in robots.txt and not in additional contractual terms. This is in response to Pete Warden pointing out that robots.txt is industry standard and will avoid confusion such as landed him with large lawyer bills. This change came from Bret Taylor, their CTO, who was product manager



Updated: Sat Jun 19 23:55:01 2010


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