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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

The Tiny Core project, representing only the core needed to boot into a very minimal X desktop typically with wired internet access, has unleashed a major release: "Team Tiny Core is pleased to announce Tiny Core 3.0 is now available. Changelog: New kernel update to 2.6.33.3 (a upx'ed .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Feature: Taking a Walk on the Zen Side of Life
News: Virtualization Comparisons, the Future of OpenSolaris, Squashing Debian Bugs
Questions and answers: Fine-grained file permissions
Released last week: openSUSE, Netrunner, Zencafe, Mint, SuperGamer
Upcoming releases: Frugalware Linux 1.3rc1
New additions: Uberstudent
New distributions: Chameleon OS
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Source: Linux Today

Tech Broiler: "openSUSE 11.3, the latest version of Novell's community Linux OS was released on July 15th. I've put the OS through its paces for the last several days and I have to say that while I continue to be impressed with the functionality of openSUSE, I'm not seeing a huge amount of sexy in the latest release."


Source: Linux Today

Softpedia: "The Sabayon Linux team has now released two new flavours of the Gentoo-based Linux distro packed with alternative desktop environments for those who prefer them or have slower computers."


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Source: Linux Today

Dell: "WHICH OPERATING SYSTEM SHOULD I CHOOSE ?

UBUNTU is not a Microsoft Windows operating system"


Source: Linux Today

Groklaw: "In the good old days, the community might have gotten into flame wars, but that was the worst that happened. Litigation was virtually unknown. Competition was by writing the best code, creating the most flourishing community, not by dirty tricks and using courts to crush a competitor. It's the proprietary software folks who designed that template."


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxLinks: "To provide an insight into the quality of software available, we have compiled a list of 5 excellent student information systems. Hopefully there will be something of interest for any educational establishment that needs to manage student data."


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Source: Linux Today

Distrowatch: "The Zenwalk team recently released version 6.4 of their operating system. The project's website, which is presented in an attractive combination of blue and white, offers four editions of the distro:"


Source: Linux Today

Packt: "We can guide children to write simple sentences and paragraphs by creating different kinds of activities. Additionally, we can use many different applications to allow the student to record the sentence instead of writing"


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Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "the Linux desktop has become the testing ground for exactly what the future of computing will be."


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Source: Linux Today

Cyber Cynic: "I've long thought that someday Windows security problems could end up fouling up the Internet for everyone. That day may be arriving.

That's not just me being paranoid about Windows. That's the ISC (Internet Storm Center), the group that tracks the overall health of the Internet "


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Python4Kids: "Ultimately, the reason these tutes are on Python is because Python rocks!!, and it rocks in so many ways:

For a start, the Python language is extremely, sublimely beautiful."


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LinuxPlanet: "It is pretty much impossible to manage a help desk without some kind of help desk tracking system. Eric Geier rounds a sampling of five of the best Free/Open source help desk software systems."


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Skipsjunk: "Computer cases cost more than plastic baskets, so while in China for a consulting assignment, I began experimenting with the idea of not using cases."


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The Hill: "Wall Street Journal technology columnist Walt Mossberg is glad the federal government is finally creating a national broadband plan but wishes it were more aggressive about broadband speed and less vague about the details."


Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Mobile Today: "Motorola is saying 'look, it's our phone, it's got our reputation, we're making sure you have a good user experience. If you jailbreak it, all bets are off.' Because if you jailbreak it, how can they support it?"


Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "Rackspace on Monday launched OpenStack, an open source cloud computing operating system, designed to take on the likes of VMware's vSphere and Microsoft's Azure. NASA, Citrix and Dell are among the key partners."


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SFGate: "One day after Steve Jobs responded to the iPhone 4 antenna controversy by offering free phone casings, San Mateo County withdrew the search warrant issued against an editor at Gizmodo, the tech blog that unveiled the new iPhone to the world in April."


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Source: Linux Today

OpenSUSE Revolution: "However, I believe that users should be left clues to discover their desktop on their own. There should not be an intro popup or anything like that. Ponder about this for a moment."


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Standards Blog: "McInnerney gave a gasp that was half astonishment and half rage. Baldwin was calling him after nuking an FBI target that morning? He punched the phone ferociously with his index finger and cut loose."


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Focus: "According to Linux.com, the United States Department of Defense is the "single biggest install base for Red Hat Linux" in the world."


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Tech Drive-in: "Now, the default Dragon Media Player of KDE have a serious competition in Bangarang. Dragon player is simple yet totally functional, which I think are the most basic trait to became the default in any desktop environment."


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Linux User and Developer: "The gentle learning curve of this programming language, coupled to the easy-to-read and maintainable form of the scripts, makes this a valid choice for sysadmins."


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aseigo: "I ended up taking two "breaks" during the day today to do "30 minute hacks". This is where I do something in the codebase that may or may not end up being useful but which I find interesting to try out, keeping the exercise to a length of 30 minutes or less."


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LinuxDevices: "Meanwhile, Motorola responded to complaints over the Droid X's eFuse ROM lock-down chip, reassuring potential buyers that it won't destroy the phone if ROM modifications are made."


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Phoronix: "On this Sunday evening we have now confirmation from NVIDIA that they have no plans on providing xorg-server 1.8 support for their oldest legacy driver."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Mint: "Based on Lubuntu 10.04, Linux 2.6.32, Openbox 3.4.10, LXSession 0.4.3, and Xorg 1.7.5, Linux Mint 9 LXDE features a complete desktop computing experience while being easy on system resource usage thus making it suitable for older hardware and situations where speed is a crucial factor."


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Datamation: "Seven weeks after Mozilla first announced Firefox Home for the iPhone, the open source browser maker has made good on its pledge to deliver a Firefox-synchronization app for the iTunes App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users."


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Ghacks: "So, in this article I am going to reveal some of the little secrets you may not have discovered with Evolution yet. Hopefully, after reading this, you will come away using one or two of these."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

Barence writes "Remember how Dell put up a website declaring Ubuntu was safer than Windows, only to later change its mind? Well, the company has gotten right back into the Windows vs. Ubuntu debate with a highly sophisticated website arguing the pros and cons of each OS. People should choose Windows, argues Dell, if: they are already using Windows, are familiar with Windows, or are new to computers. People should choose Ubuntu if they're interested in open-source programming. Brilliant."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

In this two-part article, explore techniques for handling two of the most common data
formats used on the Internet -- XML and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) -- on the Android platform. This first part covers the basics of XML and JSON and shows you how to build an Android application that parses and displays a Twitter status-update feed provided in both formats.


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Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

For years Web developers have salivated over some of the features
promised in the next generation of Web browsers as outlined by the HTML 5
specification. You might be surprised to learn just how many of the
features are already available in today's browsers. In
this article, learn how to detect which capabilities are present and
how to take advantage of those features in your application. Explore
powerful HTML 5 features such as multi-threading, geolocation,
embedded databases, and embedded video.


Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

The Zend Framework contains several classes that make using cloud-based
services easy. Part 1 of this "Cloud computing with PHP" series looks at using
Zend classes with Amazon's S3 cloud storage service. Part 2 covers the Zend
classes that make it easy to work with virtual machines in Amazon's Elastic
Compute Cloud (EC2). This article focuses on the Zend classes for working with
Amazon's Simple Queue Service (SQS).


Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Investigating client-server communication issues is troublesome at the
best of times, and when the communication is secured with SSL, it becomes much
more difficult. This tutorial takes you through the steps involved in configuring
Tomcat and Wireshark so that the SSL Dissector in Wireshark can decrypt the
captured communication. This allows your investigation to proceed as if SSL was
not involved.



Updated: Tue Jul 20 23:55:02 2010


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