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Ubuntu Muslim Edition (UbuntuME) 8.04, an Ubuntu-based distribution featuring Islamic software, a Quran study tool and a web content filtering utility, has been released: "The Ubuntu Muslim Edition team is proud to announce the final version of UbuntuME 8.04. It includes an installable live desktop CD, a second .

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Stephan Kulow has announced the availability of the third beta release of openSUSE 11.0: "The openSUSE team is proud to announce the third beta release of openSUSE 11.0. Over 700 bugs were fixed since beta 2, more new artwork was added and several new package versions were includes ..

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ConsortiumInfo: "On Wednesday, I introduced The Hague Declaration to those that visit this blog, promising to write again shortly to introduce the new organization that created the Declaration "

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internetnews.com: "While I have a great deal of respect for Mr. Shuttleworth and what he has accomplished in his life, I don't think distribution syncronicity is something that will ever happen--nor should it "

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Editor's Note: "In this, I completely agree with Aslett: there's a lot of friction between the community and the vendors who are working with Linux and open source software. Where I diverge from his opinion is that this is anything new "

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Practical Technology: "Sometimes, people do such stupid things that words almost fail me. That's the case with a Debian 'improvement' to OpenSSL that rendered this network security program next to useless in Debian, Ubuntu and other related Linux distributions "

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Boycott Novell: "As rudimentary as Splashtop may be at the moment, this could be the start of something greater that will be extended and improved over time "

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LinuxPlanet: "Author John Terpstra continues his look at the challenges facing the desktop and server markets, with a close examination of current market dynamics "

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internetnews.com: "A year after the introduction of Microsoft's Silverlight cross-platform, cross-browser media plug-in and streaming technology, Novell has released a Linux version for testing "

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Spinellis: "We analyze the source code of the four systems by collecting metrics in the areas of file organization, code structure, code style, the use of the C preprocessor, and data organization "

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kloeri: "Some important things for Gentoo happened over the last few days. First of all we have a bit of good news as all the paperwork for the Gentoo Foundation was filed and approved a few days ago "

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Softpedia: "The third and last beta version of openSUSE 11.0 was announced last night "

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Beyond Binary: "The One Laptop Per Child project and Microsoft announced Thursday that indeed the XO laptop will be available in both Linux and Windows varieties "

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Roundup: With the 18-month gap in OpenSSL publicly discovered, already tools built to exploit the not-so-random keys have surfaced. Computerworld details the threat, and Computerworld Australia gives tips on defending against this and other brute-force attacks.

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KernelTrap: "'I'm please to announce [the] POHMEL high performance network filesystem. POHMELFS stands for Parallel Optimized Host Message Exchange Layered File System,' began Evgeniy Polyakov "

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LinuxPlanet: "With a SystemRescueCD or USB stick you can perform heroic rescues on any Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, Windows, and probably a number of lesser-known platforms as well "

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Ars Technica: "Thanks to the end-of-term for many colleges and some K12 schools, brute-force attacks against SSH servers surged sharply this past weekend, according to the SANS Internet Storm Center "

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Linux.com: "JavaScript VirtualKeyboard provides a virtual keyboard entirely written in JavaScript with more than 130 supported keyboard layouts allowing you to enter text in a variety of languages "

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Diomidis Spinellis writes "Earlier today I presented at the 30th International Conference on Software Engineering a research paper comparing the code quality of Linux, Windows (its research kernel distribution), OpenSolaris, and FreeBSD. For the comparison I parsed multiple configurations of these systems (more than ten million lines) and stored the results in four databases, where I could run SQL queries on them. This amounted to 8GB of data, 160 million records. (I've made the databases and the SQL queries available online.) The areas I examined were file organization, code structure, code style, preprocessing, and data organization. To my surprise there was no clear winner or loser, but there were interesting differences in specific areas. As the summary concludes: '..the structure and internal quality attributes of a working, non-trivial software artifact will represent first and foremost the engineering requirements of its construction, with the influence of process being marginal, if any.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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An anonymous reader brings news that Verizon Wireless has announced plans to use a Linux-based software platform for phones on its network. Verizon is the first US mobile carrier to join the Linux Mobile Foundation, the goal of which is to "collaboratively develop a comprehensive Linux-based mobile software stack that can be modified easily and used at no cost on a wide range of hardware devices." Many had expected Verizon to go with Android, but according to the Register, Verizon feels Android "isn't as open as it would prefer." Continuing: "Yes, Google bills Android as open. And, yes, it's backed by the Open Handset Alliance, another industry consortium calling for the open development of mobile apps. But [Verizon spokesman Jeffrey] Nelson argues that at this point, Google is calling the shots. 'Google said "Here's the plan. Sign on the dotted line if you support." It may end up being collaborative. It may end up being collegial. But it need not be.' He actually has a point. But maybe Verizon just wants more control over the situation. It should be noted that the company made sure it has a place on the LiMo board. In any event, Verizon says that customers will be free to attach any device and any application to its network by the end of the year - provided those devices and applications met certain minimum specifications. So, in theory, you'll have free rein to attach an Android phone even if you don't buy it from Verizon."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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A proposal to help editors work better with dynamic languages — by not pretending they are static, and by leveraging their unit tests. As a Test Driven Developer, using dynamic languages, editors frequently disappoint me. The main thrust of editor research, for

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I've spent several hours optimizing Parrot over the past few months. In particular, I've concentrated on the build process for Rakudo (Perl 6 on Parrot), as it exercises a lot of parts of Parrot. We don't yet have accurate numbers on the