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Linux and Open Source News for 2nd July 2010

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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Kevin Thompson has announced the release of Element 1.3, a Xubuntu-based distribution for home theatre personal computers: "We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of Element OS 1.3. This is the first version of Element OS to provide streaming content services out of the box through the .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Jan Paul Tuecking has announced the release of IPFire 2.7, a specialist distribution of Linux for firewalls: "Today we are going to release IPFire 2.7. At first we will only release the ISO files, the update is not yet available via pakfire. The reason for this is the .


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The second release candidate for FreeBSD 8.1 is out and ready for final testing: "The second and most likely final release candidate for the FreeBSD 8.1 release cycle is now available for amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, and sparc64 architectures. There was a recent regression fix related to Atheros .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Muayyad Al-Sadi has announced the availability of the first beta release of Ojuba 4, a Fedora-based distribution optimised for Arabic speakers: "We are pleased to announce the release of Ojuba Linux 4 beta. This is the first release to have 64-bit as well as 32-bit support which we .



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Source: Linux Today

Staying focused on one simple principle clears away any confusion: creative artists have a right to be paid. If we enjoy a piece of recorded music, a book, drawing, photo, movie, and the condition of owning a copy of that work is paying for it, then not paying for it is stealing. Legally it is copyright infringement, but I call it stealing, just like shoplifting or any petty theft.


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KTVU.com: "Mule Creek State Prison has a sensitive needs facility housing some of the state's most notorious inmates, and those who other inmates might want to harm."


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Ulteo: "Ulteo OVD v2.5 brings scalability to address IT departments need to manage much larger desktop deployments and application delivery projects."


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Matthew Casperson's Hubfolio: "Twitter will be forcing the use of OAuth for all access to their API from August 2010. If you use the Twitter API from the command line rather than having your shiny GUI client taking care of OAuth for you, there are some options to make the transition as painless as possible."


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Linux For You: "Let's take a look at the BeOS-inspired Haiku OS."


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Enterprise Networking Planet: "Open source network monitoring and management vendor Zenoss is out this week with a new version of its commercial Zenoss Enterprise platform. Zenoss Enterprise 3 is built on an open core model, with the core product based on the Zenoss Core open source project and including some proprietary bits on top."


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Linux Journal: "On of the great aspects of Qt is that it is cross platform. Not only across desktops, but also across devices. The Qt make tool, qmake, can be configured to cross compile for different architectures using different compilers and different settings."


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The Educated New Village Boy: "CyanogenMod is an independent 3rd party effort by a group of volunteers to produce an enhanced Android ROM that mirrors the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) relatively faithfully."


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OMG!Ubuntu: "No, That wasn't a joke without a punchline but an introduction to one of the more interesting applications I've tried in a while a while: A messaging client that is a curious hybrid of both Firefox & Pidgin."


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Tech Comics: "With today's tightly controlled patent environment, even the most innocent users can encounter roadblocks."


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ZDNet: "Whether your machine is a Mac or based on Linux or Windows, when it fails to boot you need a dependable recovery tool. Here are a few Linux tools that may save the day"


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fewt@blog:~$ _: "Open Office is pretty slow and painful to use out of the box. This simple step by step procedure speeds up the software, making it much more pleasant to use."


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Computerworld UK: "Linux-based Millenium Exchange trading platform by two months, in order to give clients and IT suppliers more time for development and testing."


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Phoronix: "If you happen to have Google's Nexus One or other phones based upon Qualcomm's Snapdragon processor, there is great news today. Qualcomm has just released an open-source 2D/3D kernel driver for their OpenGL ES graphics processor."


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Howtoforge: "This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card - I'm using an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 here). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop."


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Good Gear Guide: "From digital forensics to open source engineering: We take a look at some strange, cool and niche Linux distributions"


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Linux Magazine: "We have to face it. Linux isn't going to win the desktop war any time soon, but perhaps we don't need to. With products like MeeGo and Android, Linux is going to complete its domination of the embedded space, and find itself in every single home. "


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Softpedia: "A few minutes ago, the KDE developers announced the fifth maintenance release of KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC) 4.4 branch."


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Tech Source: "I've already shared with you a list of some of the best and most well-known Linux distributions used on web servers. However, there are still plenty of excellent server-oriented Linux distros that I failed to mention there."


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LinuxDevices: "U.K.-based Anders Electronics announced two fanless PCs measuring just 4.5 x 4 x 1.05 inches. The fit-PC2 and fit-PC2i include 1.1GHz or 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z-series processors "


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Daniweb: "Microsoft got some good news this week when new data showed they had gained market share on rivals Firefox and Chrome last month."


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Packt: "Taking from the same setup we had for the creating the smoke, making a fire is almost a similar process except for a few changes: the halo shader settings and force field strengths."


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Bob Sutor: "We're officially adding a new piece of software to the list of default common applications we expect employees to use, and that's the Mozilla Firefox browser."


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GullFOSS: "Playing back audio and video content on Unix system was and is still a matter of choices.

On the one hand, this is a good thing for the user."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "Ben Bitdiddle of MIT fame sends an open letter to system administrators encouraging them to stop patching their systems so they can play 'Security Vulnerability Bingo.'"

Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: Security DevCenter

Brien Lane, Melbourne -- an alleyway painted with statistics about the area. Urban spaces as screens. Check out the other photos. (via Pete Warden) Apps 4 Africa -- from US State Department, The challenge is to build the best digital tools to address community challenges in areas ranging from healthcare to education and government transparency to election monitoring. (via



Updated: Sat Jul 3 23:55:01 2010


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