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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Frugalware Linux 1.3 RC1 was unleashed after two pre-releases and exactly on schedule: "The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 1.3rc1, the first candidate of the upcoming 1.3 stable release. Here are some of the major improvements and changes since 1.3pre2. Improvements: .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Feature: Taking a Look at openSUSE 11.3
News: FreeBSD elects a new Core Team, TrueCrypt improvements and an alternative to Flash
Questions and answers: Adding updates to the install process
Released last week: Sabayon, Tiny Core, Peppermint Ice, PC-BSD
Upcoming releases: Frugalware Linux 1.3rc1
New distributions: Buluo .



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Source: Linux Today

IT World: "Like it or lump it, sometimes you must add proprietary software to your Linux distribution. Here's how to do it."


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LinuxBSDos: "Sabayon is a multi-purpose, Gentoo-based Linux distribution. It is part-source, part-binary distribution. I just call it a hybrid distribution. The latest update, Sabayon 5.3, was made available to the public in early June"


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Tech Source: "Have you ever wondered what will happen to your Linux/UNIX system if you'll run any of the 7 deadly Linux commands?"


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Netstat -vat: "According to data presented by DiBona, the GPLv3 license now represents more than half of the GPL licensed code that Google hosts on its Google Code site."


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Linux.com: "Reducing keystrokes isn't the only path to productivity, but it certainly helps. If you find yourself visiting the same directories on your system (or systems) every day, save yourself some time and bookmark your most frequently used directories with CDargs."


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Serverwatch: "I recently came across the GoogleCL project, which provides a command-line interface to various Google tools (e.g.., Calendar and YouTube)."


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Linux Journal: "Saxophone? Check. Digital recorder? Check. Camera? Check. Ready to rock & roll. Or do some blues. A bit of jazz? How about some Zydeco. Honky Tonk?"


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Linux Journal: "OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 was released on June 4 and a new master workspace was branched off for the upcoming 3.3 on June 5. The code in this branch will be stabilized and later become the product release that will find its way onto your desktops."


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The Register: "It was reported that Dell had given up on its Linux experiment by going back to being a Microsoft only shop, however the firm responded to those stories by telling The INQUIRER that it will continue to sell selected machines with Ubuntu installed."


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The H Open: "Measures to optimise the power management code and fully support the Turbo Core function of recent AMD six-core processors increase the data throughput and processing speed of Linux 2.6.35"


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Cyber Cynic: "That's because, according to Web Technology Surveys, in July 2010, "For the first time, CentOS is now leading the Linux distribution statistics on web servers with almost 30% of all Linux servers.""


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Small Business Computing: "Choosing a good mobile smartphone is crucial for many small businesses. The right smartphone can make all the difference between being productive on the road and being ineffective away from the office."


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IT World: "After a couple of bad experiences with Flash this past week, I'm almost beginning to think that Steve Jobs might have had a point. Then I slap myself."


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Linux Links: "To provide an insight into the quality of software available, we have compiled a list of 5 excellent typing tutors. Hopefully there will be something of interest for anyone looking to improve their typing skills."


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Phoronix: " but now the FFmpeg developers have created their own decoder and it's shockingly faster than that of Google's own open-source library."


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MakeUseOf: "Due to the complexity of Linux dependencies, and the different way different distributions locate these dependencies, the portable Linux application long seemed like a pipe dream.

Until now."


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LWN.net: "Here is the text of a ruling by the US Court of Appeals in a suit by MGE UPS Systems against General Electric. The court has ruled that simply circumventing technical measures is not, by itself, a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act"


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Tech Drive-in: "Though still in its initial stages of development, Tab Candy is an interesting new Firefox 4.0 feature, which has every potential to get adopted by every single browser out there."


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Computerworld UK: "While the colourful needs of "open source businesses" may fascinate, we must not lose sight of the true nature of open source communities"


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Datamation: "Why do some people choose to run Linux as their PC platform of choice while others opt instead for other ways of running their computing experiences?"


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Project Gus: "Unfortunately, the current crop of Android tablets aren't nurturing open source at all."


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Thoughts on Technology: "One of the mottos the Linux community has is "if you don't like it - then fork". While this is interesting idea it has created as many Ubuntu derivatives as the day is long."


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PCLinuxOS: "It was PCLinuxOS who finally won my heart; since 2005 it always sits on one of my PCs. I still do a lot of distro-hopping but never use my PCLinuxOS partition for that purpose. It feels home."


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Linux Devices: "HP has confirmed it plans to release multiple tablets, including some running Microsoft's Windows 7 and others running the Linux-based WebOS it acquired along with Palm."


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Blog of Helios: "The idea was to gather 20 kids, ranging from 3rd to 5th grade and teach them how a computer works. We were going to use perfectly good computers, take them apart, teach the kids how to identify the components, teach them the function of said components, put it back together and then install Linux on it."


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Nekohayo !: "Why would I ever want to reproduce this kind of chaos onto my computer screen? Isn't it the computer's job to give me unlimited storage and triaging capability for me not to shuffle things around constantly?"


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Opensource.com: "Building a community is core to all open source projects. In fact, an open source project that lacks a community is likely missing the point of being open source. So what happens when your open project is designed to create communities?"


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Linux User and Developer: "Pros: This tiny home theatre box is the perfect partner for streaming HD content to your TV, or as a mini Linux entertainment system"



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Source: developerWorks : Linux : Technical library

Learn how to download and install a Ubuntu image and then go through some basic
shell commands to help you navigate through the UNIX environment.
This is part 1 of a 4 part demo series to show you how to implement a solution
stack (Rational Application Developer, WebSphere Application Server, and DB2 Express-C) on
Ubuntu Linux, as well as how to integrate them in a Java application.



Updated: Tue Jul 27 23:55:01 2010


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