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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Alexander Reichle-Schmehl has announced the availability of the fifth revision of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 "Etch", a security and critical bug-fix update of the project's current stable release: "The Debian project is pleased to announce the fifth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (code name 'Etch'). This .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

The release candidate for Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex" is out: "The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop and Server. We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable, and suitable for testing by any user. Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop edition delivers the .



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Source: Linux Today

Linux Today Blog: "We will never become a truly paper-less society until the Palm Pilot folks come out with WipeMe 1.0. --Andy Pierson"


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Source: Linux Today

Computing Tech: "In recent years Linux has emerged as a powerful and innovative UNIX work-alike. Its popularity is surpassing that of its UNIX predecessors. Although it mimics UNIX in many ways, the Linux operating system departs from UNIX in several significant ways"



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Source: Linux Today

IBM Developerworks: "Learn how to use Argus and client/server Perl code to monitor your network connections and shut down machines no longer in use."


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxHaxor: "Ubuntu, the only second Linux distro to have a six month release cycle, is the most popular Desktop Linux distribution of all time, with a market share of 30% among all Linux distributions."


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Source: Linux Today

Polish Linux: "Cheap notebooks with preinstalled Linux distributions conquer Western markets. Polish hardware distributors did notice it and one of them launched a new subnotebook in the Polish market. They call it: Airis I-Design IL-1 Nanobook."


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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet Education: "Here's a quick update on my wife's computer. As you probably remember, an increasingly kludgy Vista Home Premium install finally irritated us enough that I installed OpenSUSE. The install went fine, but without a lot of fiddling, the Broadcom wireless card just wasn’t going to do its thing."



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Source: Linux Today

people.samba.org: "Their salespeople will still complete furiously, and I'm sure the
patent saber-rattling with continue, but for a short time (Microsoft
is still appealing the fine, and will some day seek to be excused
from oversight), we have a beachhead at Redmond, and a department
committed to providing the Free Software community with answers or
clarification on any reasonable interoperability question."


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxPlanet: "Javascript bookmarklets have been around since the early days of Javascript, and are possible because Firefox and most other modern browsers (except Konqueror) offer the special protocol "javascript:" to let you execute bits of javascript code directly. Akkana Peck shows us how to harness this power to turbocharge our Web-surfing."


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Source: Linux Today

ServerWatch: "UNIX is a ship very slowly letting in water. The rats aren't about to abandon it quite yet, but they are certainly checking where the life vests are stored.
The cause of the leak is Linux."


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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet Asia: "Technology is one of the few aspects of business in which decision makers allow themselves to get locked in, due in large to their lack of IT understanding "


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Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: "Open-source software is being used just about everywhere to power everything from ERP systems to email. BMW, however, has even better plans for open source:
It wants The Ultimate Driving Machine to be powered by The Ultimate Software Development Methodology."



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Source: Linux Today

ServerWatch: "ssh is a vital sysadmin tool, but it does have one major lack: the inability to transfer files within a session. scp is of course intended for this job, but it can be a nuisance to have to start up another connection for the transfer."


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Source: Linux Today

Cyber Cynic: "If he wasn't so utterly wrong and, it appears that he's taken seriously, Andrew Keen's delusion that the economy is about to "Give Open-Source a Good Thumping" would be funny."



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Source: Linux Today

IT Wire: "Just how do you put a value on an open source, free for all, piece of code such as Linux? The Linux Foundation has attempted to do just that, and valued just one single distro at more than USD $10 billion."



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Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: "A colleague today showed me a cool, new browser that he's been using to browse the web at blisteringly fast speeds. The browser? Minefield. The author of the code?
Mozilla."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux and Open Source: "Without Microsoft there is no Windows. Without Apple there is no Mac.

Without Red Hat there is still Linux."


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Source: Linux Today

451 CAOS Theory: "GOSCON always provides a good measure of how, similar to the enterprise, open source has become pervasive in government IT."


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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet News: "The website of Australia's annual Linux conference has become temporarily inaccessible scant months before the event because of policy confusion over whether or not it is allowed to use its long-standing domain name."


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Source: Linux Today

Phone News: "Yes, Android is a Linux phone. But, none of the apps are. Read more for a simple guide about how Android software works and why it doesn't work the way most believe."



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Source: Linux Today

Tech Broiler: "But Android is not just an OS for mobile phones, it's a system that could be applied to non-phone devices as well, such as set-top boxes, DVRs and even netbooks. It also occurred to me yesterday while writing my review of the device that Android would be perfect running as the OS for Amazon's Kindle."



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Source: Linux Today

IT Wire: "Aha, all becomes clear. What Apricot means is that it could not manage to get the Picobook Pro out to customers with Linux ready to roll in any usable fashion."


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Source: Linux Today

The Toybox: "Yikes. So what's a user to do?"



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Source: Linux Today

5 Minute Genius: "You might ask: who else uses their monitors in portrait mode? Here's a couple of photos from the Googleplex to give you an idea:"


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Source: Linux Today

TuxArena: "I guess most of the readers are already familiar with Ubuntu, but I'm also writing this for new users, which use Linux for the first time. I use Debian for over a year now, but I used both Ubuntu and Kubuntu in the past (especially Dapper Drake and Edgy Eft) and also 8.04 and 8.10 Beta."


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Source: Linux Today

SmashingDownloads: "Songbird is one of the best music application for Linux. It supports MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis on all platforms; WMA and WMA DRM on Windows; and AAC and Fairplay on Windows and Mac."


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Source: Linux Today

Quick Tweaks: "Canonical, the distributor of Ubuntu OS, is often blamed for not listening the community such as ignoring the request for changing/improving default appearance. But not this time. Ever since they launched brainstorm.ubuntu.com, they have been very responsive about what the Ubuntu fans want."



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Source: Linux Today

Register Hardware: "Asus CEO Jerry Shen has denied claims that consumers are sending back more Linux netbooks than they're returning Windows-based models.
Speaking in an interview with Laptop Magazine, Shen said return rates were the same for both operating systems."


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Source: Linux Today

ChannelWeb: "One JeffSherlock, of Virginia USA, has left a "Dear John" letter for the Linux community on the Ubuntu Forums board. It's worth quoting in its entirety:"



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Source: Linux Today

Ben Kevan's Blog: "Have you booted up your computer and wondered, what is really going on here. Why is it taking so long, or how could a new kernel, or a kernel modification help speed up my boot. Well wonder no more."



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Source: Linux Today

openSUSE Lizards: "openSUSE 11.1 Beta3 is a bit later than expected (it should go out later today). Of course, this raised couple of questions why. So let me explain how a build of a Beta release works in general from release manager perspective and what are the reasons for the slip."


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Source From Bohol: "Since there are already plenty of lists out there that features some of the most essential add-ons, I'm left with sharing to you all this collection of fun Firefox add-ons. So what exactly is a fun add-on? --It is an add-on that's simply made for entertainment purposes."


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Source: Linux Today

Bobcares: "Your Kernel just crashed or one of your drive is not working!! What do you do?
Well, this article gives an introduction to some kernel debugging tools for Linux. These tools makes the kernel internals more transparent. These tools help you to trace the kernel execution process and examine its memory and data structures."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "STUX 2.0, released last month, is a remarkable improvement from the 0.9.2 release I reviewed a couple years ago. While the look and feel of the Slackware-based distribution have stayed pretty much the same, STUX lacks the glaring technical problems that made it unusable on the previous occasion."



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Source: Linux Today

Federal Times: "This system, known as Biowulf, has 6,500 processors communicating over a fast network and 8,800 gigabytes of memory. It would have cost the agency millions of dollars to buy enough software to make such a supercomputer possible."



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Source: Linux Today

InternetNews: "Android's creators - the Open Handset Alliance (OHA), Google and T-Mobile - have pledged to fully support third-party application development, promising no one will dictate what users can download to the G1, or what developers can upload to the Android Market storefront."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

JP writes "Andrew Bartlett of Samba fame has written a document describing their recent collaboration with Microsoft's Active Directory team. In brief, it would seem that the sky is falling, as Microsoft's engineers seem to be really committed to making Samba fully interoperable with AD. They have organized interoperability fests and have knowledgeable engineers answering technical questions without legal or marketing drones getting in the way. However according to Andrew the Samba AD team is currently very short on manpower, so if you have network experience, now is the time to get coding."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

ruphus13 writes "The Linux Foundation's recently released report claims, ""it would take approximately $10.8 billion to build the Linux community distribution Fedora 9 in today's dollars with today's software development costs". The article states why this might actually understate the value of the distros, though, since it doesn't include the power of the brand and the goodwill value. "There were several approaches that the Linux Foundation employed to reach the $10.8 billion dollar figure, including calculating the number of lines of code in Fedora 9 (204,500,946), and using an average programmer's salary of $75,662.08--as determined by the U.S. Department of Labor--to measure development costs On the balance sheets of Coca Cola and many other huge corporations, you find goodwill listed as a major asset.""Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: ONLamp.com

The Android isn't the same as the iPhone. Its got a different philosophy behind it.



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Source: Security DevCenter

Web 2.0 Summit kicks off on November 5 and the full schedule, including workshops, is now available. Registration for the Web 2.0 Summit is by invitation only and space it limited to maintain an intimate setting for conversation and collaboration. However, we’re eager to accommodate you if we can, so request an invitation. We'll let you know quickly if there is space available.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One — Mastering Photoshop CS4 fundamentals and all of its incredible new features is easy with Deke McClelland as your guide. "I couldn't be more pleased with the results," notes the popular Photoshop trainer about his latest book. "I covered all the new stuff and added several brand-new exercises. Plus I doubled the amount of video content. There's more than 4 hours now!" You'll find 12 self-paced tutorials, engaging real-world projects, and nearly 1000 full-color photos, diagrams, and screen shots that illustrate every key step. Learn more.


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Google wants me to sync my T-Mobile G1 Android-based smartphone with Google Contacts and Google Calendar. That's fine. But, I would also like this information synced to OS X's Address Book and iCal. It can't be that hard, can it?



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Source: Security DevCenter

Photo Downloader is one of the unheralded stars included in Photoshop CS4. In this screencast, based on Chapter 2 of The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers, Derrick shows you how Photo Downloader can help you keep your images organized. Plus he de


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Source: Security DevCenter

Join us the Friday, Oct 24th for Trends and Technologies in Where 2.0, a free live webcast presented by Andrew Turner.
Andrew Turner will discuss the current evolution of Where 2.0 and how it is affecting the entire landscape of Web 2.0 and next generation applications. Open standards such as GeoRSS, KML, and Microformats provide a huge wealth of information for mashups and applications, and libraries such as Mapstraction can be used for cartographic visualization. To illustrate the power of these tools, Andrew will talk about some interesting applications and hacks that have pushed the boundaries of the GeoWeb. Attendance is limited, so register now.



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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Discover a
simple tool to parse the STMM log files to simplify the task of monitoring the
decisions made by the memory manager. Starting in IBM DB2 9, STMM, a new memory
tuning feature, simplifies the task of memory configuration by automatically setting values for several critical memory configuration parameters.



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