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Linux and Open Source News for 17th September 2008

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Source: Linux Today

Linux Planet: "TCP is wonderfully complex, but don't worry: We aren't going to tell you to go read RFC 793. This is a gentle introduction, or demystification, if you will."


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Source: Linux Today

WorksWithU: "We’re striving to identify 1,000 businesses and organizations across the globe that run Ubuntu on servers, desktops, laptops or mobile devices."


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Source: Linux Today

Cyber Cynic: "It's not, however, an actual port of Chrome to Linux or Mac OS X. Instead, using their expertise in bringing Windows applications to other operating systems, the CrossOver developers have ported the Windows version of Chrome to Linux and Mac."


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Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "The descriptive words I can print were brash, arrogant, overbearing and even cocky."


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Source: Linux Today

TechTreasures: "After months of speculation, TechCrunch reports that the first Android powered phone, the HTC Dream is set to be released in the US by T-Mobile on October 20th Android is the open source cell phone operating system that has been developed by Google over the last year or so."


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Source: Linux Today

emil krueper: "
On Sunday we have been on a visit to my older brother and his family. Nerdy as I am I had our Sony Handycam with me on the trip and arrived back at home with plenty of new video footage."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Today Blog: "Remember Apple's famous 1984 commercial? That is one of the most brilliant TV commercials of all time "


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Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "3) Let the manager know how fed up your are with your prior employer’s technology."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "Adobe has issued its second release candidate of Flash Player 10, which should be approaching the finish line. Developers have not only fixed a number of bugs, but added a few new features."


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Source: Linux Today

LWN: "Unleash the 50,000 watt flamethrower of content creation in your UNIX box. Cinelerra does primarily 3 things: capturing, compositing, and editing audio and video with sample level accuracy. It's a movie studio in a box."


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Broiler: "Sometimes, to make an omelette, you need to break a few eggs. However if this week's bloodbath on Wall Street is any indication, then I would say we've made ourselves a full-blown deep dish quiche the size of Yankee Stadium"


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Source: Linux Today

TechRepublic: "Untangle, Inc. has released the Untangle on Windows open source gateway software for use on Windows PCs. Until now, Untangle has provided a Linux-based open source gateway as a free download or as a purchased piece of hardware."


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Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: "Bringing it to Linux removes yet another roadblock to bringing disruptive applications to Linux."


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Source: Linux Today

TechRepublic: "Recently I wrote about how you can open (and use) Linux applications in Windows using a combination of PuTTY and XWin32. This system was fairly easy but a bit cumbersome. With a recent update to XWin32 Live, PuTTY has been removed from the equation and the setup/use is now easier than ever."


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Source: Linux Today

Jamie's Random Musings on Video IM: "I no sooner write about SightSpeed, and how things have been looking good for them, than I hear that there is going to be an announcement of a Linux version. Hooray! This is going to be very, very good news for a lot of people."


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Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: "Peter Lofgren of Redpill (Sweden) sent over a link to Scratch, a cool open-source project from MIT Media Labs. The purpose? Make programming easy and approachable for kids as young as eight-years old."


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Source: Linux Today

Manila Bulletin: " but it seemed like she did not spend that much time using Linux or updating her knowledge of what or where Linux is now and ended up with a confusing conclusion."


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Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: " The Register is reporting that Microsoft is saying all the right things to the UK government in its attempt to placate the European Commission over interoperability with open file formats. Everything, that is, except how it intends to make its software more interoperable."


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Source: Linux Today

Practical Technology: "Ubuntu users who couldn’t stand the idea of a EULA (End User License Agreement) for the popular Firefox Web browser are going to get their way."


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Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: "If there is one thing that open source has taught us it's that there are "users" and there are "customers." Odds are that all of your customers will be users first"


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Source: Linux Today

Crypto-Gram Newsletter: "Return on investment, or ROI, is a big deal in business. Any business venture needs to demonstrate a positive return on investment, and a good one at that, in order to be viable It's a good idea in theory, but it's a mostly bunk in practice."


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Source: Linux Today

dralnuX: "If your users keep using up all the space in your home directory, here is a way to apprehend the top offenders."


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Source: Linux Today

Sidux: "Later than planned (due to a hard to find bug in virtualbox-ose), sidux 2008-03 "Ουρέα" is now ready to enter the preview season for amd64 and i686 systems. As usual the previews are shipping only as a small (≈460 MB), but fully functional, KDE-lite flavour, accompanied by a ≈695 MB large combined xfce-lite flavour for amd64+i386."


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Source: Linux Today

Red Hat Magazine: "We were trying to innovate, and we were trying to stabilize, both at one time in one product. And it didn't work very well."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Devices: "CompuLab introduced a tiny fanless PC using 4-6 Watts of power. The Linux-ready "Fit-PC Slim" measures 4.3 x 3.9 x 1.2 inches (110 x 100 x 30mm), but includes a 500MHz AMD Geode LX800, Ethernet, VGA output, WiFi, and a 2.5-inch hard drive option"


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InfoWorld: "Microsoft continued to make its case on Tuesday that it is a friend to open source, listing a number of efforts it has undertaken in spaces ranging from Linux to virtualization and rich Internet application technology."


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Linux.com: "The ability to save user settings can come in handy if you want to make your OpenOffice.org solutions more flexible, efficient, and user-friendly. In this article, we take a look at how to save user settings in a plain text file and then retreive them from there."


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Source: Linux Today

LWN: "The only solution was to learn more about operating systems, and quickly. So I pulled out my favorite operating systems textbook and read and re-read it obsessively over the course of the next year. It worked well enough that my company tried very hard to convince me not to quit when I got bored with my "dream job" and left to work at Sun."


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Source: Linux Today

Slashdot: "5) Have you ever accused an innocent? -- by BitterOldGUy
From your Bio you started gpl-violations.org."


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Source: Linux Today

Vnunet.com: "Developers are choosing commercial, rather than non-commercial, distributions of Linux when it comes to building high-performance or mission-critical systems, according to new research."


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LKML: "It's been a busy week with all the checkins. Not all of them from me!
And Tux3 university, which seems to be going quite well. For the next
session (Tuesday, 8 p.m. pacific time on irc.oftc.net #tux3) the theme
will be: VFS read and write. Yes, that's all, and it's a lot."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Haxor: "A common misconception with Linux is that you have to know how to use the terminal in order for you to use linux. The fact is you won’t have to use the linux terminal more than you would use CMD in Windows or the terminal in Mac OS X."


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Source: Linux Today

Computing Tech: "Novell divides its SUSE Linux products into Enterprise and Personal. This is essentially the distinction between the versions that are sold with a paid-for software maintenance system and those that are not. The Personal category now consists of just one product, SUSE Linux Professional."


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Datamation: "However, once you move beyond techie circles, you'll find that, for many people, the concept is unknown. Even worse, when people have heard of it, they have alarming -- and rather discouraging -- misconceptions of what it involves."


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ZDNet: "With the Virtual Datacenter OS, VMware wants to essentially de-emphasize the traditional OS in the server room (Windows, Linux, and Unix) and use a new software layer-- the VDC-OS-- to aggregate different types of hardware resources and make the hardware itself invisible to the applications that run on it."


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Echoes: "Amarok gained its huge popularity due to a vast number of features and very good functionality, like a complex collection management, support for iPod and several other MP3/Ogg players, integration with Wikipedia, lyrics fetching, support for scripts, cover manager, dynamic playlists, podcasts."


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Interop News: "Can you build a mainframe computer at home in your spare time? On your kitchen table? Using only common utensils and your bare hands?"


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OStatic: "This post from the CodeWeavers blog details how the company has succesfully ported versions of Chromium--the open source core of Google's Chrome browser--for Mac and Linux."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

Da Massive writes "The government of Peru will run the first ever trial of the One Laptop Per Child association's XO laptop running on Windows XP. This puts the nation at the heart of a software controversy that has been raging for years between those who advocate making software and its source code free, such as Linux OS developers, and those who charge for software and keep the development recipes secret, such as Microsoft."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: developerWorks : Linux : Technical library

Inotify is a Linux feature that monitors file system operations, such as
read, write, and create. Inotify is reactive, surprisingly simple to use, and
far more efficient than, say, busy polling from a cron job. Learn how to
integrate inotify into your own applications, and discover a set of
command-line tools you can use to further automate system administration.


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Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Explore a simple Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) system that lets your users assemble pages
by adding and arranging pre-made widgets. Many sites provide this kind of functionality,
but this easy-to-use system lets you do it on your own site and provides a simple
library for creating new widgets.



Updated: Thu Sep 18 23:55:02 2008


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