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Source: mythbuntu

The third alpha release of Mythbuntu 8.04 is out and ready for testing: "Today we are introducing the third Mythbuntu 8.04 alpha image. It is very important to note that this release is not compatible with Mythbuntu 7.10 or any other MythTV 0.20.2 based distribution. Changes from Alpha .


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Source: mint

Clement Lefebvre has announced the final release of Linux Mint 4.0 KDE Community edition: "Linux Mint 4.0 KDE released. Daryna KDE is nearly as 'minty' as the main edition now. The packages are (safely) up to date and the kernel is the Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon kernel 2.6.22. Mint .


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Source: weekly

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: First looks: FreeBSD 7.0 News: Debian 5.0 "Lenny" updates, KNOPPIX 5.3 CeBIT edition, what's new in FreeBSD 7.0, Cooker vs Rawhide, RHEL risk report Released last week: FreeBSD 7.0, SystemRescueCd 1.0 Upcoming releases: Gentoo Linux 2008.0 Beta, Ubuntu 8.04 Alpha 6 Donations: Frugalware .



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Source: Linux Today

,bHowtoForge: "This document describes how to set up a two-node load balancer in an active/passive configuration with HAProxy and heartbeat on Fedora 8 "


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Source: Linux Today

developerWorks: "The XO-1 is a laptop computer designed to be inexpensively manufactured and distributed to children in developing countries around the world "


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Source: Linux Today

Softpedia: "Version 2.6 of GoblinX, the Slackware-based Live CD Linux distribution, was released 10 days ago, and it was a good opportunity for me to take it for an in-depth test drive "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Love: "So many distributions, so many available choices. Why such endless variety? Wasn't Linux supposed to make things easier for the former/future ex-Windows user ?"


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Lunch: "PC manufacturer Elonex is launching ONE, an ultra-portable laptop, at this week's Education Show at the NEC "


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Computerworld: "Mozilla says it is working hard to convince cellular operators to allow 3G subscribers use mobile Firefox, which, in a nutshell, demonstrates how the operators are resisting open Internet access "


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Source: Linux Today

Socialized Software: "Drupal recently made a deal with the devils (venture capitalists) by virtue of the a $7 million investment in Acquia "


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Source: Linux Today

PC Ton!c: "Can you think of any changes that will take place if Linux dethrones Windows and Microsoft goes broke ?"
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tuxtoday: "Many users of GNU/Linux these days, think that projects like Gnash are stupid, when you can get the original Flashplayer "


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OSI: "The OSI adopted a mandate of working on Open Standards two years ago. We put forward a statement on requirements for an Open Standard which boiled down to a simple proposition "


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Linux Loop: "Many decisions and opinions in the Linux world are justified by the idea that the decision will help attract new users to Linux, but why should anyone care at all if other people use Linux ?"


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Source: Linux Today

aseigo: "Here's another of the topics I was going to show in the screencast: Packages. The test case was getting Apple's Dashboard Widgets to work out of the box "


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Source: Linux Today

Mashable: "And now the company's gone and done another decent thing with is music download service: it has opened its doors to Linux users "


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Source: Linux Today

The News & Observer: "Matthew Szulik, who built Red Hat into a global technology company, will take a pay cut with his reduced role at the Raleigh software developer and could step down in February 2009 "


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Gentoo: "New trustees for the Gentoo Foundation were just elected. The foundation takes care of Gentoo's intellectual property (copyrights, trademarks) and money "


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tecosystems: "But the one area in which we've never seen eye to eye is the Linux desktop. I certainly don't agree that desktop Linux is 'utter crap' compared to Mac or Windows, and I've disagreed with his statements on desktop Linux for years "


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Source: Linux Today

Roundup: 451 CAOS Theory has a wrap-up of all the different spins coming out of last week's Ballot Resolution Meeting regarding the OOXML proposal before the International Standards Organization. Meanwhile, a ZDNet blog noticed something surprising about the way the US voted.


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Source: Linux Today

Roundup: The latest release candidate of Mandriva hit the servers this weekend, and Planète Béranger offers a quick peek at the GNOME version.


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internetnews.com: "The open source Drupal content management system is going commercial thanks to a new company, called Acquia, that's led by Dries Buytaert, the founder of the Drupal project "


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Linux.com: "Four months after being announced, the End Software Patents project is launching a new Web site with arguments for economists, computer scientists, lawyers, and lay people about why they should support the project "


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Source: Linux Today

OpenTheBlob.com: "We the GNU/Linux community and the undersigned, kindly request that you, NVIDIA Corporation, increase your efforts in better enabling the open-source community to develop free software drivers for your graphics hardware "


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InformationWeek: "One index of success for an open source project is how many other projects are derived from it--or how many people have created alternate builds of the same project "


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Source: Linux Today

Adventures in Open Source: "Foresight is a distro I've been interested in for quite some time, I knew it had a lot of cutting edge features but I was a little worried about the stability issues that might cause "


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Source from Bohol: "Today, two Slackware-based Linux distributions from the lightweight division will square off to find out once and for all, who has the clear edge "


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Source: Linux Today

developerWorks: "This article describes a way to add another layer of depth to your security strategy: using PAM to polyinstantiate world-writeable shared directories "



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When I read Bill Hilf's See Change blog entry reflecting on Microsoft's Feb. 21 Open Source Interoperability announcement, I didn't think this direction shift would be felt by the Internet Explorer team. I mean IE7 doesn't leak like Firefox 2 does (on


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You know, I’m really starting to wonder about OpenOffice after reading this note from Ed Moltzen. So great, OpenOffice 2.4 is about to be released. That’s.. boring. Who really cares? There just doesn’t seem to be much of a vibe around OpenOffice


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Source: ONLamp.com

Todd just commented on WISP (Windows, IIS, SQL Server, PHP) and I have to say I’m curious. I have to admit I wonder how viable WISP really is. With LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), most developers are relying on the built-in “free”


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Source: ONLamp.com

The last time I installed Apache httpd in Microsoft Windows was, hmm, early 2002, I think. And, I've never tried installing Tomcat under Windows. So, I read through Garrett Serack's comments on Microsoft's Port 25 site with interest since two of his



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