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Glen MacArthur has announced the release of AV Linux 5.0.3, a Debian-based multimedia oriented distribution with a custom kernel enabled for low-latency audio performance: "AV Linux 5.0.3 'Tube' has been released. It represents some important refinements and tweaks to the very successful 5.0.2 release. AV Linux 5.0.3 will .

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LinuxPlanet: While many people work on and with Linux, the Linux Foundation employs only a precious few as fellows.

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Ubuntu Vibes: "This is not any kind of joke. Its RebeccaBlackOS. First Live CD to run Wayland Display Server. Its Fan Made."

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LinuxJournal: LAN parties offer the enjoyment of head to head gaming in a real-life social environment.

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Tech Laze: "Here are some of the best Reddit Apps for Android which will let you browse the site from anywhere."

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eSecurityPlanet: Adobe debuts new beta Flash Player with security sandbox for Firefox. Will it make the web more secure?

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Ubuntu Manual: "Recently there has been quite a bit of buzz regarding the announcement that Canonical was dropping commercial support for Kubuntu."

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InternetNews: From the 'Security by Obscurity' files:

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Linus Torvalds: Another week, another -rc.

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PC World: "February seems to be shaping up to be the month of Linux tablets."

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Linux User & Developer: "Successful code isn't just about stringing bits and bytes together. Code has to be accessible to users and users have to know what the code is doing, and coders are not always the best people to document a project."

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Social Barrel: "Research In Motion (RIM) has announced that its BlackBerry 10 Native Software Development Kit (SDK) will be bound to open source."

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CFO World: "Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of "R," the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops."

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Datamation: "You may not have noticed, but Valentine's Day is just around the corner. Don't panic if you haven't planned the perfect date yet -- the open source community has you covered."

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Canonical: If you're as keen as we are that the Ubuntu sound theme is on brand, now is your chance! We are calling for pitches for the Ubuntu sound theme!

Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

The high adoption rate of smartphones and
tablet devices is ultimately increasing the demand for mobile web developers and designers.
The jQuery Mobile framework lets you create mobile web experiences that rival the results
of native application development by providing instant access to applications and websites
via the web browser rather than making users download and install mobile applications.
Learn how to use the jQuery Mobile theming framework to create custom-branded mobile
websites and web applications.

Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

xdotool is a helpful library of instructions that allows
programmers to emulate keystrokes and mouse actions. The particular strength of the tool
comes when the keyboard or mouse is absent or in accessibility situations where the user is
not physically able to employ regular input methods. This article has two goals: first,
to provide an introduction to the use of xdotool in a Linux desktop
environment, and second, to use voice input to trigger actions typically done through
hardware input. A concluding example uses XML to store xdotool-oriented
code fragments for insertion into auto-generated dialog manager code.

Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Part 2 of this series details how
pseudo's root emulation works by tracking the path of an intercepted
call to the database and back. If you want to replace open(2)
with your own code, this is where you find out how.

Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Cfengine is a popular data center automation solution used by
organizations around the world. It is scalable to tens of thousands of
machines from laptops, desktops, and embedded devices to mainframes. Learn how
you can use this versatile and flexible technology for solving data center
issues.

Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Many web developers consider security a low priority. Security is frequently relegated to the end of the software development life cycle, as little more than an afterthought. Sometimes, software security is neglected entirely, resulting in applications rife with common vulnerabilities. Because such bugs might manifest only under conditions present during an attack, they can be hard to detect prior to such events without knowledge of how the exploitation process works. Using a web application built with jQuery Mobile, PHP, and MySQL, this tutorial shows how many types of vulnerabilities occur along with common methods of exploitation and, most importantly, their respective countermeasures.