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Source: Linux Today Linux Today Blog: "While I was writing last Friday's editor's note, "Linux Should Copy Amiga", I kept thinking what a different story it would have been if Amiga had been released under a Free Software license. I'm sure I'm not the only one with that thought "

Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "GCC and Linux are a great pair. Although they are independent pieces of software, Linux is totally dependent on GCC to enable it on new architectures. Linux further exploits features in GCC, called extensions, for greater functionality and optimization. This article explores many of these important extensions and shows you how they're used within the Linux kernel."
Source: Linux Today WebReference: "In this chapter, we explain how to access the Book-O-Rama database from the Web using PHP. You learn how to read from and write to the database and how to filter potentially troublesome input data."

Source: Linux Today Datamation: "Netbooks are a new category of laptop computer, defined mostly by their small size and cheap price. The category started only a year ago and has evolved drastically since. I tried the first netbook, an Asus Eee PC with a 7-inch screen and didn't like it; the keyboard and screen were much too small. But many disagreed with me, and the popularity of that first Eee PC led to dozens and dozens of imitators."
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Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "I checked out half a dozen of the more popular and stable graphical ID3 tag editors available for Linux. I found that going from no tags to great tags requires keeping more than one of these editors on hand."
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "There is one other major point that goes hand-in-hand with free as in freedom, and that is that ethics matter. All decisions have an ethical basis. We hear "leave the zealotry and politics out of it, and just make a purely technical decision." There is no such thing, and if you don't make a consciously ethical decision then it will be made for you."
Source: Linux Today IT Wire: "Businesses everywhere are looking to cut costs in the grip of reduced consumer spending, decreased advertising and a general slowdown of trade. Linux can aid you in cutting your infrastructure costs - no matter your platform of choice."
  
Source: Linux Today ServerWatch: "Linux therefore has multiple copies of the superblock in different locations. Thus, even if you get a "bad superblock" error, you can still rescue your filesystem, as described here."
Source: Linux Today Ubuntu Geek: "By default, apt-rdepends shows a listing of each dependency a package has.It will also look at each of these fulfilling packages, and recursively lists their dependencies."
Source: Linux Today Linux Magazine: " when people did talk about "Openness", it had the focus of "It is great that your product is open, but why should I open up mine?""
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Source: Linux Today PC World: "Google may be preparing to lay off thousands of workers, if a Silicon Valley information service is to be believed. WebGuild cites anonymous inside sources as saying up to 10,000 Google jobs could be on the way out, with smaller scale layoffs already underway."
Source: Linux Today The Open Road: "Novell has been doing a lot of good things lately in its Linux business, but counting certified applications is apparently not one of them. Novell on Monday announced that it has taken the lead in certified applications vis-a-vis Red Hat, with more than 2,500."
Source: Linux Today Matthew Garrett: "The "powersave" and "performance" CPU governors in the Linux kernel are misleadingly named. Powersave will generally not save you energy. Performance will generally not provide you with extra performance."
Source: Linux Today Linux Journal: "I did a very informal survey and discovered that most people do not carry any bills in their pockets on most days, relying instead on their debit cards."
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Source: Linux Today LinuxDevices: "Binary-only Linux drivers will never work for the majority of Linux users, Harald Welte told hardware developers at a Taipei conference. The Linux kernel's lack of an ABI and intentional lack of stable APIs make binary drivers a losing battle purely for technical reasons, he suggests."
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Source: Linux Today Jamie's Random Musings on Video IM: "As Thanksgiving falls particularly late this year, we opted for the weekend before, and had 20 or so people for dinner Saturday. That resulted in a lot of digital pictures being taken, which brought my attention back to photo management on Linux."
 
Source: Linux Today Managing L'unix: "There is no OSS accounting solutions worth a hoot. This is the main reason we still run so many Windows machines in the office. Of course this is the main drawback of any OSS adoption. There is a serious lack of good applications."
Source: Linux Today ECommerce-Guide: "Fed up with waiting for eight long years with no final product in sight and no visible development activity, a splinter group of osCommerce programmers has left the dormant project and officially formed a new osCommerce project."
Source: Linux Today ars Technica: "A particularly exciting community-driven effort for Ubuntu 9.04 is the jump to Mono 2.0, a major update of the open source .NET implementation that was recently released by Novell."
  
Source: Linux Today InfoWorld: "In the real estate world, the mantra is location, location, location. In the network and server administration world, the mantra is visibility, visibility, visibility. If you don't know what your network and servers are doing at every second of the day, you're flying blind. Sooner or later, you're going to meet with disaster."
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Source: Linux Today Erlends hjem i skyene: "I just marked the Vi input mode ("V.I.M."? :) ) for the Kate kpart as done in the feature plan for KDE 4.2. It feels a bit weird to mark it as done, though, as there are tonnes of things I want to implement after KDE 4.2."
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Source: Linux Today Linux and Open Source: "I would love to go through 2009 and never have to use the tag "legal" on an open source blog post."
Source: Linux Today James Selvakumar's Blog: "WUBI dramatically reduces the gap that prevents windows users to try Ubuntu Yes, with WUBI, installing Ubuntu is just like installing Firefox or Thunderbird on a windows machine.:
Source: Linux Today Abhishek Rane's Weblog: "Well I simply love KDE4 but one thing that really annoyed me was the way firefox looked in KDE4 and so after googling a bit I found some simple solutions to make firefox look more Kde4ish."
 
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "Shen says four million EeePC netbooks have been sold this year, with models offering pre-installed Windows versions rolling out in the later quarters. He says ASUS has found the return rates for the Linux and Windows models are similar."
Source: Linux Today WFTL Bytes!: "This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Monday, November 24, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagne. Stories for today include the end of the road for SCO, (honest, finally, really) first tenuous hops from Ubuntu's Jaunty Jackalope, a brighter than bright future for ASUS, Google and Apple netbooks, and why you aren't safe online."
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Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "Paul Reiners shows how to animate images in unexpected and artistic ways using the Java 2D API and cellular automata. In the process, he demonstrates implementation of an image operator in Java code and explains cyclic space, a type of 2D cellular automaton. You can use the ideas from this article to create your own image operators and artistic programs using Java technology."
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "Some customers are finding they have a place for both, and that Linux isn't necessarily an economic no-brainer."
Source: Linux Today PRWeb: "TuxMobil, the largest current web directory of Linux and mobile hardware, announced this month that it has surpassed the unrivaled milestone of 8,000 different installation guides in one place to help users install Linux on their laptop and notebook computers."
Source: Linux Today WebReference: "The Internet License Plate Gallery showcases automobile license plates with an Internet theme. Plates like NET GOD, and HTMLGAL qualify, and EMILY and UMGOBLU do not. The brainchild of Richard Wiggins owner of Michigan's INTRNET license plate, the gallery came about after he heard Andy King owned a vanity Net plate WEBMSTR. Rich figured that there were lots of people with these things, why not make a gallery?"

Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Spreadsheets might be called databases for the timid, since they're more user-friendly than databases and do a good job working with limited amounts of data. Some tools for databases can work well with spreadsheets too. Take for instance DataForm, a new OpenOffice.org Calc extension that provides a form-like interface designed to make entering and finding spreadsheet data easier."
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