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Testing The Different Ubuntu 10.04 Kernels (Mar 15, 2010, 12:47 UTC) (377 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "The release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" is quickly approaching next month and it will arrive with a whole set of new features and improvements including a faster boot process, a long-awaited new theme, the Nouveau driver to replace the crippled xf86-video-nv driver, the unveiling of the Ubuntu One Music Store, integration of Plymouth, Ubuntu ARM advancements..."
Turn Firefox into an Ebook Reader with EPUBReader (Mar 15, 2010, 12:04 UTC) (430 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "You can use a dedicated application like FBReader or Calibre to read and manage ebooks on your machine, or you can do it without leaving the convenience of the Firefox browser courtesy of the EPUBReader extension."
How To Harden PHP5 With Suhosin On CentOS 5.4 (Mar 15, 2010, 04:04 UTC) (805 reads)
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(feedback) Howtoforge: "This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on a CentOS 5.4 server. From the Suhosin project page: "Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations that was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core."
Leading Edge? Bleeding Edge? Be careful! (Mar 14, 2010, 16:04 UTC) (2868 reads)
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(feedback) Jamie's Random Musings: "Sometimes, though, it is possible to get a bit too far ahead of the general development/release cycle. The HP Pavillion dm1-1020ez that I purchased in January is a case in point."
One Year Later: What Do You Think of Linux.com? (Mar 14, 2010, 12:04 UTC) (2682 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "This month marks the one-year anniversary of Linux.com in its newest form. A year ago, we built the site based on your rankings of features on IdeaForge. Today, we want to hear how you’re using Linux.com and what is most useful"
OSI Board Addition May Bring Needed Change (Mar 13, 2010, 20:02 UTC) (1390 reads)
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(feedback) IT World: "The OSI has been one of those organizations that seemed to fall short of its true potential, which is always a source of frustration; you want them to succeed, and don't understand when things go awry."
How to compile the Linux kernel (Mar 13, 2010, 08:02 UTC) (3433 reads)
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(feedback) TuxRadar: "Do you want to remove bloat from your Linux installation? Are you looking to enable extra features that aren't provided by your distro? Fancy trying some of the cutting-edge patches doing the rounds? You'll need to recompile your kernel, and while it might look like black magic if you've never done it before, it's actually pretty straightforward."
Novell's Motion to Allow Evidence: SCO Opened the Door (Mar 13, 2010, 04:02 UTC) (3210 reads)
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(feedback) Groklaw: "SCO's attorney Stuart Singer may have gotten carried away with his theatrical indignation. And when a party slips like this, what lawyers call opening the door, it can indeed have consequences. Novell was just waiting for a moment like this."
Blake Stowell Email to Maureen O'Gara: "I Need You to Send a Jab PJ's Way" (Mar 13, 2010, 00:04 UTC) (2829 reads)
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(feedback) Groklaw: "So. Now I know. Now we all know.
Blake Stowell, then the PR guy for SCO, sent an email to Maureen O'Gara, saying "I need you to send a jab PJ's way," and then right afterwards she wrote that invasive so-called expose, in which she revealed, or at least intended to reveal, things like who I called on my phone."
'Rising Tide' for x86 Servers Lifting Intel, AMD (Mar 12, 2010, 23:32 UTC) (1487 reads)
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(feedback) Serverwatch: "Stating it believes server sales are being underestimated by Wall Street, Broadpoint AmTech's latest report predicts both Intel and AMD will post better-than-expected earnings in the first quarter."
Text-to-Speech Software for Linux (Mar 12, 2010, 22:02 UTC) (2351 reads)
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(feedback) Tech Source: "If you've been looking for a free speech synthesizer for Linux, the one that I can highly recommend is a program called Festival."
Microsoft Office 2007 on OpenSolaris (Mar 12, 2010, 21:32 UTC) (2556 reads)
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(feedback) Wine-Reviews: "Today I thought I would show everyone just how easy it is to install and use Microsoft Office 2007 on OpenSolaris 2009.06 and 2010.03 with Bordeaux for Solaris. I have installed Office 2007 on both OpenSolaris 2009.06 and 2010.03"
Here comes Linux's iPad clones (Mar 12, 2010, 21:02 UTC) (3676 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld: "You can pre-order an Apple iPad starting today, March 12th, but seriously, do you really want to?"
Does HTML5 Really Beat Flash? The Surprising Results of New Tests (Mar 12, 2010, 19:32 UTC) (4210 reads)
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(feedback) ReadWriteWeb: "However, recent tests have put Flash up against HTML5, the new web markup language that eliminates the need for the Adobe plugin. The results of these tests show that this is not a simple black-and-white issue. Is Flash really a CPU hog?"
Ubuntu Server: The Linux OS Dark Horse (Mar 12, 2010, 18:02 UTC) (2419 reads)
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(feedback) Serverwatch: "Everyone has heard of Ubuntu Linux and how great it is on the desktop, but have you heard that there's a server version of that same uber-cool operating system? There is, and you should know about it."
Vimperator: Use Firefox the Vim Way (Mar 12, 2010, 17:32 UTC) (1648 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "Bring the mightiness of Vim to Firefox! If you’re ready for a fully keyboard-driven browser, the Vimperator add-on for Firefox can help you do away with mouse-based drudgery and add the awesomeness of vi-like keybindings to Firefox 3.5 and later."
Jetway NC96 NC96-510-LF (Mar 12, 2010, 17:02 UTC) (1210 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "Jetway is one of the vendors that was quick to design a new IPC motherboard that bears the Intel Atom D510 dual-core processor with Intel GMA 3150 graphics and the NM10 Express Chipset."
And thank you for the penguins (Mar 12, 2010, 15:32 UTC) (1783 reads)
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(feedback) Raiden's Realm: "But what if Linus had chosen to instead use the Gnu (I know, that one was already taken, but humor me here), or a beaver, or a bear, or maybe a demon like Freebsd uses? (already, it's technical a "daemon", but let's ignore the technicalities for the sake of this argument.)"
Unix Tip: Sed & Awk -- Still friendly after all these years (Mar 12, 2010, 15:02 UTC) (2024 reads)
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(feedback) IT World: "Even after decades of using Unix on thousands of systems, I find that it's still fun to discover various convolutions of sed and awk commands to perform command line wizardry. There's a lot more to each of these tools than those uses I make of these commands on a routine basis."
HP Elite 7000 Microtower review (Mar 12, 2010, 14:02 UTC) (1564 reads)
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(feedback) Linux User and Developer: "In an age when Linux has become a powerful platform for development work, graphics processing and video production, it’s a welcome relief to see a mid-range system built for people who may or may not have experience with Linux."
GP-GPUs: OpenCL Is Ready For The Heavy Lifting (Mar 12, 2010, 13:32 UTC) (1938 reads)
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(feedback) Lnux Magazine: "The CUDA wave has definitely hit the beach and I’ll have more on nVidia as the Fermi GPU begins to filter into the HPC trenches. In this column I want to talk about the other GPU language: OpenCL"
Day 3 of the Trial, Through the Eyes of Groklaw and the SL Tribune (Mar 12, 2010, 11:02 UTC) (1600 reads)
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(feedback) Groklaw: "Here's what the Salt Lake Tribune reports happened today at the SCO v. Novell trial, all of which it records as if it were all so. Let's see if it is, by comparing what is reported about the testimony with what we already know. Part of what Groklaw does is insist on checking facts. So, let's do that."
Health Check: Mandriva (Mar 12, 2010, 03:02 UTC) (2222 reads)
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(feedback) The H Open: "Mandriva began life in July 1998 as Linux Mandrake in France in Gael Duval's bedroom after he ported a KDE 1.0 desktop onto Red Hat Linux 5.1, uploaded the result onto two FTP servers, went away on holiday, and came back to find that he had a popular and successful Linux distribution on his hands."
How to Create Space Scenes Quickly and Easily in Gimp (Mar 11, 2010, 23:33 UTC) (2067 reads)
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(feedback) MakeTechEasier: "Creating a cool space scene can be done in a few minutes once you’ve got the basic method down, and Gimp provides several ways to go about adding random elements to keep things interesting."
Survey of MySQL Storage Engines (Mar 11, 2010, 23:03 UTC) (1553 reads)
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(feedback) Database Journal: "MySQL has an interesting architecture that sets it apart from some other enterprise database systems. It allows you to plug in different modules to handle storage. What that means to end users is that it is quite flexible, offering an interesting array of different storage engines with different features, strengths, and tradeoffs."
SCALE 8x: Color management for everyone (Mar 11, 2010, 22:33 UTC) (1068 reads)
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(feedback) LWN.net: "Color management is sometimes unfairly characterized as a topic of interest only to print shops and video editors, but as Cruz explained at the top of his talk, anyone who shares digital content wants it to look correct, and everyone who uses more than one device knows how tricky that can be."
Virtual Linux (Mar 11, 2010, 21:33 UTC) (1790 reads)
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(feedback) Datamation: "The definition of virtual Linux is as fluid as the Linux platform itself. For the desktop user, virtual Linux translates into being able to use Linux without changing their existing operating system. For those working with servers however, virtual Linux can mean something very different altogether."
Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love (Mar 11, 2010, 21:03 UTC) (3408 reads)
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(feedback) ars Technica: "Did you know that blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit? We recently learned that many of our readers did not know this, so I'm going to explain why."
Motorola to put Bing on Android phones in China (Mar 11, 2010, 20:03 UTC) (906 reads)
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(feedback) Good Gear Guide: "Motorola will start loading Microsoft's search and map services onto its Android smartphones in China, bringing more non-Google services to the phones amid a row between Google and China"
Selecting an Open Source Operating System
(Mar 11, 2010, 19:33 UTC) (1806 reads)
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(feedback) Network World: "There's a large selection of free and open source (FOSS) operating systems available these days, and choosing the right one for any given circumstance can be quite a challenge. This article outlines the key factors you need to consider in order to pick the best operating system for your needs and experience level."
The Ubuntu One music store and free software for profit
(Mar 11, 2010, 19:03 UTC) (1572 reads)
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(feedback) LWN.net: "One of the features expected with the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 release is the Ubuntu One Music Store (UOMS). The UOMS is a mechanism by which Ubuntu users can purchase songs in the MP3 format, with some of the revenue going to support Canonical."
Why Use GRUB2? Good Question! (part 3)
(Mar 11, 2010, 18:03 UTC) (2886 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Planet: "As we come to the end of Akkana Peck's excellent series on mastering GRUB2, it's not clear what advantages it has over legacy GRUB, or even good old LILO. It seems it's gone backwards. In today's installment we learn how to translate some common and mysterious error messages, and how to manage a multi-boot system with GRUB2."
