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Linux and Open Source News for 28th September 2008

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Source: Linux Today

SUSE & openSUSE: "The Linux Kernel offers you something that allows you to recover your system from a crash or at the least lets you to perform a proper shutdown using the Magic SysRq Keys. The magic SysRq key is a select key combination in the Linux kernel which allows the user to perform various low level commands regardless of the system's state"


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Source: Linux Today

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "So I leave you with this pun, that both begs to be written and, at the same time, put out of its misery: You can't have your Pi and eat it "


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Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "Have you ever heard of or considered using Linux? Here are five reasons to give it a look for your desktop or server."


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Source: Linux Today

O'Reilly: "To be honest we fixed effectively the entire Linux desktop space. It's not--PowerTOP is more--it's not just what we fixed with PowerTOP is not individual pieces. We fixed everything. For me that was a success."


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Source: Linux Today

Free Software Magazine: "In my last article I talked about how interest leads people to program. Then life rose up behind me like a giant Doberman pincer and bit me on my backside; so, I didn’t think of programming for over four months. However, just this week something happened that made me want to program again."


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Source: Linux Today

Softpedia: "As you (probably) already know, the most awaited desktop environment of the year, GNOME 2.24 was released two days ago and it brings a lot of interesting features and new functionality."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

Hugh Pickens writes "Professor Avishai Wool has unveiled a program to watch for malware on servers with a modification to the Linux kernel. 'We modified the kernel in the system's operating system so that it monitors and tracks the behavior of the programs installed on it,' says Wool. Essentially, Wool says, his software team has built a model that predicts how software running on a server should work (pdf). If the kernel senses abnormal activity, it stops the program from working before malicious actions occur. 'When we see a deviation, we know for sure there's something bad going on,' Wool explains. Wool cites problems with costly anti-virus protection. 'Our methods are much more efficient and don't chew up the computer's resources.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader submits news of the million-laptop order from Venezuela of Intel's version of the kid-friendly laptop. The computers are produced in Portugal. "The machines, rebranded 'Magellan,' will also come with Linux pre-installed as opposed to Windows XP. This order alone is 50% bigger than the entire OLPC project has managed to sell worldwide."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



Updated: Mon Sep 29 23:55:02 2008


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