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• March 09, 2010
• 23:40

  today's leftovers:

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  Tags:  news  

  • Linux 2.6.34 development marches on
  • Open-PC will use KDE
  • For Sale: Linux OS and Other Assorted Assets
  • Best Lucid Feature: edit-patch
  • Project: Getting Ready For Ubuntu 10.04 - Part 1
  • Haiku OS Hopes For New 3D Stack
  • Your way is the right way
  • Distros and End Of Life
  • London Government Accused Of Open Source Inaction
  • Ubuntu's new look
  • Mozilla borrows from WebKit to build fast new JS engine
  • Mozilla lays foundation for web's next 100 years
  • New Ubuntu Design Created on Apple Mac
  • Task Coach - Your friendly task manager
  • For teaching touch typing, it’s clearly Klavaro
  • Yellow Dog Linux licks CUDA
  • DtO: Orphaned process...
  • Linux Basement - Episode 51 - Eating the Tonido

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• 22:06

  some howtos:

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  Tags:  Howtos  

  • Create a Larger than 4GB Casper Partition
  • Resuming Broken Downloads with Firefox
  • How To Share Files and Folders Between Windows and Linux
  • Install Avira Antivir on Linux
  • How to Create Space Scenes Quickly and Easily in Gimp
  • Automated Linux Server Backup Tips and Tricks
  • Intro to IO Profiling of Applications

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• 20:02

  Operating Systems and Market Share Statistics

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  jeffhoogland.blogspot: Did you know that 55% of statistics are made up on the spot? (or maybe it was 68% I don't recall) If you have ever taken a statistics class you know that data is everything, but it's not just about the data itself.

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• 20:01

  Ubuntu 10.04 Live CD Installer gets improved look

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  Tags:  ubuntu  

  omgubuntu.co.uk: The Ubuntu 10.04 Live CD has ditched the boring ‘black on white text’ menu approach and instead delivers up a GUI menu. Whilst we’re still 2 months away from the final installer design, here’s a quick peek at it as it currently exists: -

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• 19:58

  Jonathan Schwartz: How to play patent games

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  • Jonathan Schwartz: How to play patent games with Steve Jobs, Bill Gates
  • Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal
  • Jonathan Schwartz: What He Couldn't Say (on Patents, OpenOffice, and Bill Gates)

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• 17:01

  HTC Touch Pro2 Runs Ubuntu Linux

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  • HTC Touch Pro2 Runs Ubuntu Linux
  • Freescale’s $200 tablet will support Chromium, Android and Linux OSes

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• 16:15

  The Linux community is fragmented, or is it?

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  Tags:  Linux  

  toolbox.com/blogs: It has been said many times that if only the Linux community were to band together and start rooting for the same team so to speak, then Linux could easily surpass other proprietary operating systems.

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• 15:12

  The Linux desktop is already here

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  Tags:  Linux  

  blogs.computerworld.com: I found it more than a little sad that someone in 2010 could still think that Linux is "still a non-starter on the desktop." Please — wake up: We're all Linux desktop users now.

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• 15:11

  Embrace Your Inner Geek At The New Linux Store

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  Tags:  web  

  • Embrace Your Inner Geek At The New Linux Store
  • Wear Your Linux Pride on Your Sleeve, Linux.com Launches New Store
  • The Linux Store

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• 14:11

  Why online resources are not free and ChromeOS will fail

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  tech-no-media.com: On the surface it looks like this is a big win for freedom as you are much less dependent on your operating system or proprietary applications, all is in the browser. There is a big caveat however: this makes you overly dependent on your internet connection, and in a world that is more and more mobile this is a recipe for disaster.

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• 14:10

  Open Source Saves the Day (and Lots of Dosh)

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  Tags:  oss  

  computerworlduk.com: It seems every day we hear about hideous cost overruns on public sector projects in the UK. What makes it even more frustrating is that open source, a real no-brainer for many applications, is rarely given the chance to prove itself here.

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• 13:54

  The first pre-release version of Fedora 13 arrives

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  Tags:  Linux  

  h-online.com: One week later than scheduled, the Fedora Project has released the first and only alpha version of its Fedora 13 Linux distribution, aka Goddard, which is scheduled for release in mid May.

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• 12:40

  GNOME and KDE: Seven Attractions in Each

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  Tags:  kde  

  earthweb.com: Despite all the talk about the mythical Year of the Linux Desktop, somewhere in the last few years, free software passed a milestone without anyone noticing. At some point, after years of struggling to rival proprietary desktops, both GNOME and KDE have caught up in features and narrowed the gap in usability. We are now at a point where free software is often an innovator on the desktop.

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• 12:39

  Open source makes psychological sense

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  Tags:  oss  

  theinquirer.net: ACCORDING TO a recent study random acts of kindness have a very positive impact on humans and regularly spread this good feeling to others.

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• 12:37

  Linux on the desktop: Still not happening

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  Tags:  Linux  

  computerworld.com: I'd love to see viable alternatives to the current mainstream operating systems. The PC market stands ready to be revolutionized by something new. But is Linux the agent of change that can do all of that? Not yet, I'm afraid.

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• 12:35

  PCLinuxOS 2010 beta review

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  Tags:  pclos  

  linuxowns.wordpress: Once upon a time, PCLinuxOS was the biggest desktop distro. It came from nowhere straight to the top, beating Ubuntu and other big distros.

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• 12:30

  Kubuntu vs Ubuntu

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  Tags:  ubuntu  

  latest-technews.com: The official derivative of the Ubuntu is Kubuntu. Instead of GNOME, Kubuntu uses KDE graphical environment, and shares its underlying system along with Ubuntu; Kubuntu is a project of Ubuntu.

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• 10:30

  Listen Music Player 0.6.5 Released!

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  Tags:  Linux  

  Listem Music Player 0.6.5 was released yesterday and it comes with many changes and fixes:

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• 6:40

  Paul Frields on Fedora 12 and beyond

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  Tags:  Linux  

  linuxforu.com: Two months after the launch of Fedora 12, we spoke to Paul Frields, Fedora Project Leader at Red Hat, about how this release has been received by the community, and what is in store for the next.

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• 6:38

  Five Improvements for KDE 4.5 (Part 1)

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  Tags:  kde  

  itnewstoday.com: The KDE 4 series has been a very good experience for me. Sure, I have complaints (who doesn’t) but for the most part, the latest generation of KDE contains quite possibly the best open source innovation I have ever seen.

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• 6:36

  PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1 released

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  Tags:  pclos  

  h-online.com: The PCLinuxOS developers have announced the release of the first beta for the 2010 edition of their Linux distribution. The distribution's goal is to be "radically simple" and easy to use. The latest development release includes a number of changes and updates.

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• 6:35

  The Post-Oracle Sun Exodus

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  linuxquestions.org: It appears Oracle is starting to experience some high profile departures from ex-Sun employees now that the acquisition has been finalized.

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• 6:32

  I’m a Mac, I’m an Ubuntu PC

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  Tags:  ubuntu  

  manilastandardtoday.com: MAKE desktop Linux more attractive than Mac OS X. That was the challenge that Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth issued to open source developers in July 2008. Now, almost two years later, Shuttleworth seems ready to put his money where his mouth is.

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• 5:27

  Shotwell 0.5 To Bring PicasaWeb Publishing, Tags, Printing, More

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  Showtwell is an open source photo organizer for the Gnome desktop which progresses really nicely and the latest version 0.5 (not yet released but available in our PPA) brings a lot of cool new features:

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• March 08, 2010
• 23:20

  today's odds & ends:

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  Tags:  news  

  • Oracle: Open Source’s Friend or Foe?
  • PCLinuxOS-2010-beta1.iso release information
  • Elive 2.0 Stable review
  • OpenArena 0.8.5 Released
  • Browse the Web as it Looked in 1993
  • 2.6.33 is Out! Say Good Bye to the Anticipatory Scheduler
  • Victoria expands Linux e-voting rollout
  • The Primal Carnage Game Is Looking Great
  • Easy Peasy 1.6
  • Red Hat Cloud Business Unit
  • Video: Interview with Jim Zemlin, Linux Foundation
  • Interview with Emma Jane Hogbin
  • Network booting with boot.fedoraproject.org
  • Saving Becta: a great new open source venture
  • Screenshot App Shutter adds stuff
  • Scientific computation software revisited
  • Karma made easy.
  • The history of MySQL AB
  • Roasted Laptop

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• 23:07

  some howtos:

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  Tags:  Howtos  

  • How to Convert Text Document to Speech on Ubuntu Using eSpeak
  • Combine the Address & Search Bars in Firefox
  • Scan a Windows drive for viruses using Linux
  • How and where should I change proxy settings in Linux?
  • How to upgrade Ubuntu 9.10 to Ubuntu 10.04
  • Howto use backtrack4 from hard disk with Grub2
  • How to install Avant Window Navigator-AWN on Mandriva 2010

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• 18:01

  Ubuntu: reverse type is cool. And unreadable

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  Tags:  ubuntu  

  itwire.com: There are times when one gets the feeling that the good folk at Canonical who design and develop the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution have got their heads screwed on the right way. There are other times.

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• 17:58

  Windows: Choice But No Choice

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  Tags:  Linux  

  lxer.com: In the area of window managers Linux users are completely and totally spoiled rotten. We constantly debate the merits of one desktop environment/window manager over another. I wish Windows users had this problem, but they don't. Why? Because they have no choice.

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• 17:55

  A fork is not a bad thing

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  Tags:  Linux  

  kmandla.wordpress: It has happened again, so I have to wonder again: What’s the reason for a sudden, vitriolic knee-jerk reaction to the idea of someone forking a distro?

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• 16:18

  The Linux Box in My Pocket

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  linux.bihlman.com: My wife and I picked up new ‘phones’ last week. Penny wanted a phone with a slide out keyboard so she would be able to text more easily. I wanted a Droid.

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• 16:17

  If Novell gets bought, will Red Hat follow?

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  Tags:  Linux  

  news.cnet.com: Elliott's proposed acquisition of Novell promises to shake up the software industry, which has grown a bit staid in the past year or two. But what will it mean for Red Hat, and for the broader open-source software industry?

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• 16:15

  US eases sanctions to allow freer web

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  Tags:  web  

  • US eases Cuba, Iran, Sudan sanctions to allow freer web
  • US government makes move toward software freedom

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• 14:24

  OK Palm, We're Ready for the Foleo Now

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  linuxjournal.com: Ahh, poor Palm. Sure, they have their fancy new WebOS toys -- but it wasn't that long ago they were banking on the Foleo changing the mobile world as we knew it. Sadly, they were just a little too early.

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• 14:23

  Mozilla Public License to get overhaul in 2010

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  Tags:  moz/ff  

  blogs.zdnet.com: The 10-year-old Mozilla Public License will be updated by the end of 2010. It appears that the higher ups want the language updated, the terms simplified and the license modernized.

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• 14:21

  Conquer Video on Linux with MPlayer

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  Tags:  software  

  linux.com: MPlayer is not your run-of-the mill video player. It's a multi-platform codec-chewing monster truck of a video player for the connoisseur of video players. It has options galore and has the flexibility to play almost anything under the sun.

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• 14:20

  Ubuntu, The Ultimate Linux Distribution

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  Tags:  ubuntu  

  daniweb.com: From its Debian roots to its commercially available support to its overwhelming popularity, Ubuntu is the ultimate Linux distribution. For me, Ubuntu became a significant force within the Linux community with its 2006 releases: 6.04 and 6.10. From April 2006, I've installed and used every new version.

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• 12:02

  What should be the colours of Gnome-Terminal?

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxers.org: While clearing out the big pile of emails today, I came across this huge discussion on ubuntu-dev -discuss list about the colours of gnome-terminal. Honestly, I never thought this could be a point of discussion at all, but I was wrong.

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• 12:00

  78% of adults believe Internet access a fundamental right; 50% want no regulation

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  Tags:  web  

  blogs.zdnet.com: Four of every five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right, and more than half believe it should never be regulated, according to a new survey.

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• 11:02

  Kernel Log: Stable kernels analysed, Linux without firmware, new graphics drivers

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  Tags:  Linux  

  h-online.com: The development of Linux 2.6.34 has started and is causing heated discussions on the LKML. LWN.net has analysed Linux 2.6.32.9 for security fixes and found almost twenty of them. Linux-Libre removes proprietary files from the kernel, and new graphics drivers for Radeon cards offer numerous improvements.

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• 11:00

  Redesigning Ubuntu – behind the scenes on 10.04

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  Tags:  ubuntu  

  linuxuser.co.uk: The next version of Ubuntu – codename Lucid Lynx – will be the 10.04 release, and is scheduled to be released and declared stable in April. As a long-term support version, coupled with increasing popularity, this is undoubtedly the most important Ubuntu release to date.

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• 10:02

  Power & Memory Usage Of GNOME, KDE, LXDE & Xfce

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  Tags:  kde  

  phoronix.com: Xfce, LXDE, and other desktop environments are often referenced as being lighter-eight Linux desktop environments than KDE and GNOME, but what are the measurable performance differences between them?

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• 10:00

  OpenShot 1.1 Released - Gets New Effects

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  Tags:  software  

  • OpenShot 1.1 Released - Gets Undo/Redo, New effects, in Ubuntu 10.04
  • OpenShot Linux video editor updated

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• 8:20

  DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 344

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  Tags:  Linux  

  This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
  

  • Reviews: Taking a look at PC-BSD 8.0
  • News: Ubuntu unveils new desktop theme, KNOPPIX releases 6.3 CeBIT edition, openSUSE adds LXDE desktop to install media, multicd.sh
  • Questions and answers: RHEL 6, useful shell tips
  • Released last week: Elive 2.0, Linux From Scratch 6.6
  • Upcoming releases: Frugalware Linux 1.2, Fedora 13 Alpha
  • New additions: Lubuntu
  • Reader comments

  Read more in this week's issue of DistroWatch Weekly....

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• 8:18

  Ubuntu Linux for Mainframes? Not Quite…

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  Tags:  ubuntu  

  thevarguy.com: Canonical wants Ubuntu Linux to run on a range of devices — from mobile Internet devices all the way up to high-end servers and cloud systems. But there are two markets where Canonical has no plans to push Ubuntu.

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• 8:17

  An intelligent move

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  Tags:  suse  

  cbronline.com: Novell’s latest CEO has got the company back on an even keel, but can his bold new strategy help it return to growth?

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• 8:13

  Apache bug prompts update advice

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  Tags:  software  

  zdnet.com.au: IT security company Sense of Security has discovered a serious bug in Apache's HTTP web server, which could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control of a database.

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• 8:11

  Docky and GNOME Do, now separated

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  Tags:  software  

  h-online.com: Alex Launi, a GNOME Do developer, has announced that GNOME Do and Docky are now separate applications. GNOME Do was created as a rapid keyboard driven launcher for the GNOME desktop, similar to applications such as QuickSilver for Mac OS X.

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• 8:01

  Open Source and Security: Are there Limits?

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  Tags:  oss  

  computerworlduk.com: You might think that's a pretty ridiculous question to ask, since the canard about open source being less secure than closed source has been debunked many times. But it seems that some people didn't get the memo:

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• March 07, 2010
• 23:02

  today's howtos & leftovers:

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  Tags:  news  

  • Booting ISO files from GRUB 2
  • Monitoring System Usage with systat
  • Change Ubuntu Login Screen
  • Change the Hostname in Linux
  • Try to navigate up the directory using cd followed by consecutive dots
  • Virtual Consoles / Terminals in Ubuntu / Debian Linux
  • Manage your projects with KPlato
  • Abusing MySQL and Thoughts on NoSQL
  • Developing with HTML5
  • Make Ubuntu apply all updates automatically
  • Version 1.98 Of GRUB2 Boot Loader Released
  • Unigine Engine Advances, But No Linux Heaven Yet
  • The Linux Action Show! Season 11 Episode 3
  • Linux Outlaws 139 - The Facegroup Twisness Model

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• 23:00

  82st Annual Academy Awards Winners

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  Tags:  movies  

  It's that time of year again when all of Hollywood dressed to the nines came together to honor the best performances and movies of 2009. I didn't see as many of the nominees this years as in the past, but the awards ceremony was as glamorous as ever.

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• 18:25

  Moonlight's Olympic-sized failure

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  Tags:  software  

  zdnet.com.au/blogs: Microsoft only produces the Silverlight runtime for Windows and OS X, leaving Linux support to Novell's Mono project, which produces Moonlight. Mono developers argue that Mono is not chasing tail lights, but in the case of Moonlight it very clearly is.

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• 18:24

  Elive 2.0 'Topaz': The Gem That Comes At A Price

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  Tags:  Linux  

  reddevil62-techhead.blogspot: DIFFERENT is good. Different is refreshing, interesting, challenging. Elive 2.0 is different, but that does not necessarily mean that you are going to be happy with it.

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• 18:21

  Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #183

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  Tags:  ubuntu  

  Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #183 for the week February 28th - March 6th, 2010.

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• 16:29

  Will Novell Sell Before BrainShare?

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  Tags:  suse  

  thevarguy.com: Novell’s board of directors is facing a pair of symbolic deadlines: The VAR Guy thinks Novell will need to somehow address the pending private equity takeover bid by Elliott Associates before the BrainShare conference starts March 21 in Salt Lake City, Utah and before Red Hat announces quarterly results on March 24.

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• 16:28

  Gentoo@SCALE

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  Tags:  Gentoo  

  blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph: I'd say we had the most diverse assortment of machines at any booth -- something like 10 different machines on 5 architectures. Certainly we had a bunch of developers; we haven't had a showing like this since SCALE 5x.

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• 14:11

  The style is light, the software is …

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  Tags:  ubuntu  

  kmandla.wordpress: While the Ubuntu rebranding is still at the forefront of everyone’s mind, I think I’ll throw in my meager opinion: Waitaminute. Are we talking about the logo, or are we talking about the software?

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• 14:06

  Microsoft’s Toyota Letter

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  Tags:  M$  

  blogs.zdnet.com: Hearing about the Toyota recall and extent to which the company has gone towards compensating Toyota owners makes me imagine a letter from Microsoft addressing Windows operators.

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• 14:02

  An Interview with KDEPIM Contributor Tobias König

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  Tags:  kde  

  kdenews.org: Welcome to another interview with a KDE contributor. This time we talked with Tobias König from KDEPIM about Akonadi and the TV series Lost.

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• 10:02

  Saving PCs from viruses - the Linux way

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  Tags:  Linux  

  blogs.techrepublic.com: This past week we were inundated by PCs with viruses. Either people were bringing their infected machines to the office or calling us to come and get them. It was a madhouse. It wasn’t until I pulled out all the stops, with the help of my good old friend Linux, that I was able to finally say goodbye to those infections. But how?

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• 9:01

  A Picture-Happy Overview of Ubuntu 10.04

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  Tags:  ubuntu  

  itlure.com: The recently announced visual rebranding of the world's numero uno Linux distribution caused quite a bit of stir. Here's a short visual tour with some of the new things that are coming straight to your Ubuntu machines at the end of April.

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• 8:58

  Bug fixing in Gentoo: How we are performing

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  Tags:  Gentoo  

  blog.hartwork.org: I’ve been playing with matplotlib and Gentoo bug numbers from the last ~6 month to be able to see how we are performing at fixing bugs lately. This is the current output:

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• 8:54

  The Case Of Nexuiz

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  Tags:  gaming  

  linux-hardcore.com: The founder of the Nexuiz project with many of it’s major contributors agreed to “sell” their domain and GPLed sources to IllFonic, LLC. While the GPLed Nexuiz will remain free the “New” Nexuiz (which is developed for the consoles) will be closed source.

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• 7:14

  Build Your Own Video Community With Lighttpd And FlowPlayer (Debian Lenny)

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  Tags:  Howtos  

  This article shows how you can build">[httpd-and-flowplayer-debian-lenny">build] your own video community using li [httpd] with its mod_flv_streaming module (for streaming .flv videos, the format used by most major video communities such as YouTube) and its mod_secdownload module (for preventing hotlinking of the videos) on Debian Lenny. I will use FlowPlayer as the video player, a free Flash video player with support for li [httpd's] mod_flv_streaming module. I will also show how you can encode videos (.mp4 .mov .mpg .3gp .mpeg .wmv .avi) to the FLV format supported by Adobe Flash.

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• March 06, 2010
• 21:26

  today's howtos & leftovers:

   » ‎ tuxmachines.org

  Tags:  news  

  • How to Restart a Unresponsive Linux System with Reisub
  • Monitoring Memory Usage in Linux Machines
  • Convert .m4a files to mp3 (AAC to MP3)
  • How to enable Debug repository in CentOS Linux
  • Toggle SSH Session using SSH Escape Character
  • Installing ATi Drivers in OpenSUSE
  • 5 Best Addictive Free Multiplayer Android Games
  • Taking Linux into the Wild Woods
  • Desktop Linux vs. Windows 7 - Response to comments
  • Red Star OS, a Linux Distro Made in North Korea
  • New Opera Snapshot
  • Pre and Pixi Plus: Is WebOS Ready to Take Off?
  • Couple of amusing linux commands
  • Forget the Mouse, Love Your Keyboard
  • 50 Linux Discussion Forums
  • Davenport & Lyons/ACS Law to get their very own warning letter?
  • Eschalon Book II Beta Testers Wanted
  • CAOS Theory Podcast 2010.03.05

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• 18:00

  Windows is Easier, Just Like Stabbing Your Own Eyeballs is Easier

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  Tags:  Linux  

  linuxtoday.com: Lately I've been breaking my own "don't help friends with their Windows PCs" rule. Now I remember why I made that rule in the first place.

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• 17:58

  A shared object is (not) enough

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  Tags:  software  

  blog.flameeyes.eu: When building shared objects for plugin usage, like the case for NSS I noted, PAM plugins or extensions for languages like Ruby, Python, Perl, Java… you don’t need static libraries at all, so a shared object is enough!

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• 17:55

  The newbie's guide to hacking the Linux kernel

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  Tags:  Linux  

  tuxradar.com: You don't need a PhD in computer science and years of experience to hack the kernel. We asked prolific kernel hacker (and Linux Format reader!) Greg Kroah-Hartman to tell us what it takes for newbies to patch the Linux kernel - here's what he had to say...

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• 15:58

  FreeBSD webcam support: video4bsd

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  Tags:  software  

  freebsdnews.net: Hans Petter has been working hard recently on webcamd, making Linux webcam drivers work on FreeBSD.

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• 15:56

  wicd is good stuff

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  Tags:  software  

  kmandla.wordpress: The other thing I wanted to mention about my brief interlude with Arch a day ago, was my surprise at using wicd. I have frustrations with Windows 7 and something like this is just the ticket.

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• 15:52

  Best Twitter and Facebook apps

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  Tags:  software  

  • Post Twitter and Facebook status from the GNOME panel
  • Get the best Twitter app for Linux

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• 14:13

  Special 301: FOSS users. Now we're all Communists and Criminals

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  Tags:  Linux  

  There seems to be no respite from the predations of Microsoft FUD and the machinations of Big Business. Just when it seemed safe to come out of the closet and admit to being a user of free and open source software without being accused of being a Communist, it appears that we are now criminals too—

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• 13:22

  6 Desktop Fonts to try in Ubuntu

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  Tags:  ubuntu  

  • 6 Desktop Fonts to try in Ubuntu
  • First impressions of Ubuntu's new look
  • Ubuntu One KDE Tech Preview
  • Kubuntu apps repraise
  • Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) Alpha 3 Screenshots Gallery

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• 13:18

  openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 113 is out

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  Tags:  suse  

  Issue #113 of openSUSE Weekly News is now out.

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• 13:17

  Oh dear! Qt incompatibility on the horizon

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  Tags:  software  

  kamikazow.wordpress: The Symbian Foundation and Nokia with Maemo (now MeeGo) are building two widget sets on top of QGraphicsView – while both are called Direct UI, they are entirely different. It’s totally braindead to have incompatibe widget sets.

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• 13:14

  How Linux Can Achieve Faster World Domination

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  Tags:  Linux  

  tomshardware.com: Today we have Keith Curtis returning for a new discussion on Linux. Curtis spent 11 years as a Software Design Engineer at Microsoft before examining Linux and the open source side of things, which resulted in a change of perspective and a published book.

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• 13:13

  Linux Nvidia drivers might also have the GPU fan speed issue

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  Tags:  Hardware  

  linuxers.org: According to Nvidia, until the problem is resolved, Linux users should revert to 190.53 web release or the 195.30 public beta. They are going to remove the 195.36.08 and 195.36.03 drivers from NVIDIA's FTP site.

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• 12:31

  The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine March 2010 issue Released

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  Tags:  pclos  

  The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the March 2010 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine. Highlights include: *Flash! PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1 Available For Download*, KDE 4: A Brief Look at Configuring Dolphin, and Web Browser Roundup.

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• 12:29

  Ubuntu Artwork Gaining Momentum - 5 Cool Community Themes from Ubuntu Artwork Pool

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  Tags:  ubuntu  

  techdrivein.com: The trend had already started with the release of Ubuntu Karmic. A number of community contributed themes started pouring in and some of them even got into the list of default themes for Ubuntu.

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• 11:07

  Top 10 Addictive games on Linux

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  For millions of users who are hooked onto that square-rectangular box for most part of their day, passing time becomes almost imperative sometimes. And if the source of this entertainment is addictive enough, then we are definitely talking about Computer games and especially if the games are played on an Open source platform like that of Linux. You possibly have no reason to complain.

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• March 05, 2010
• 22:59

  today's leftovers, part 2:

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  Tags:  news  

  • PCs for technophobes go head-to-head
  • 137 years of Popular Science Magazine now online
  • Feel a “natural flow” in your desktop (Panel at the top)
  • The Mint Newsletter – issue 101
  • Hypervisor supports Linux guests
  • I did it! I found a Linux that works well with Laptops
  • And Ubuntu changed again!
  • Meego: Towards Day One
  • CeBIT 2010: Debian with BSD Kernel
  • Computer choice
  • Five ways to keep your PC free of viruses and Trojans
  • Microsoft Has Become The Follower & Will Lead No More
  • First Impressions of OpenSuse 11.2
  • Package KDE applications easily for multiple distributions
  • The Possibility Of Nouveau 1.0.0?
  • Midnight Commander: Small Update, Big Enhancements
  • TuxRadar: Podcast Season 2 Episode 3

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• 22:49

  today's leftovers, part 1:

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  Tags:  news  

  • Is Open Source Creating a 'Tidal Wave of Job Losses'?
  • Linux Australia to fund research into licence compliance
  • The OSI Categorically Rejects IIPA's special pleadings
  • Guest post: 2010 - Threats to copyleft
  • Can open source make 311 relevant?
  • Federal Intellectual Property Enforcement Gears Up
  • MySQL migration and risk management
  • Second maintenance release for PHP 5.3
  • Hillary Clinton Touts the Work of OLPC
  • Laptops aid villagers
  • MySQL's Urlocker Joins Revolution Board
  • Rugged railroad computer runs Linux
  • FLOSS Weekly 111: CMake

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• 20:52

  some howtos:

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  Tags:  Howtos  

  • Bash Shell: Convert Tabs To Spaces In a File
  • Virtual Machine clocksource issue
  • Map your mind with VYM (View Your Mind)
  • How To Setup Squid Proxy Server to use outgoing IP address
  • Nautilus With Zeitgeist Integration [How-to]
  • Tulip - Graph visualization software
  • Stop CPU beep in Ubuntu/Debian
  • Lucidor: Simple eBook Reader for Ubuntu
  • Linux RAM Disk: Creating A Filesystem In RAM

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• 18:10

  some shorts:

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  • Nautilus + Zeitgeist
  • Let me tell you where to put the buttons…
  • Small systemtray change for KDE 4.5

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• 18:06

  Interview with Deborah Nicholson of the FSF

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  Tags:  Interviews  

  ostatic.com: The Free Software Foundation is gearing up for a big event March 19th through 21st to be held in Cambridge, Mass. at Harvard's University Science Center. LibrePlanet 2010 is a three day event with workshops on using free software for everything from Web development to video editing and graphics.

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• 18:05

  Finding sources for FLOSS projects: Make it easy!

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  Tags:  oss  

  dissociatedpress.net: One of the more difficult things for reporters working in the tech industry, especially those who aren't really familiar with a beat, is finding contacts for free software projects.

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• 18:03

  Firefox alpha dons Flash flack jacket

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  Tags:  moz/ff  

  theregister.co.uk: Mozilla has pushed out a Firefox developer preview that runs Adobe Flash and other plug-ins as a separate process, hoping to prevent crashing plug-ins from crashing the browser proper.

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• 15:25

  Heaven and hell with SyncML (on Nokia's N900)

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  Tags:  software  

  You may recall that on a previous occasion I bitched and moaned about supposed "Linux phones" ignoring the open standard of SyncML and choosing Microsoft Exchange instead.

  Well, I finally got Nokia to loan me an N900 and thanks to a little app called SyncEvolution SyncML works like a dream!

  More here...

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• 15:08

  aLinux 12.9 – A Blast From the Past

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  Tags:  Linux  

  ostalks.com: On February 22, 2010. aLinux 12.9 stable was released to the public on ibiblio, after practically 3 years of waiting.

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• 15:05

  Are these the last days of Novell?

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  Tags:  suse  

  • Are these the last days of Novell as we know it?
  • Why Microsoft Can’t Afford To Let Novell Die

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• 15:02

  Swiftfox: a fast Firefox alternative for Linux users

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  Tags:  software  

  linuxcritic.wordpress: In my ongoing search to find the perfect browser, I’ve generally stuck to Opera for the past several years, on Windows and on Linux. Well, today, I’m here to report that this situation might well have changed, due to something called Swiftfox.

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• 13:23

  Google pumps out Chrome build which knows where you are

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  Tags:  Google  

  • Google pumps out Chrome build which knows where you are
  • Google open source guru says Android code will be in Linux kernel in time
  • Friday Fun: Play 3D Rally Racing in Chrome

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• 13:20

  Ubuntu 10.10 To Be Released on 28th of October

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  Tags:  ubuntu  

  • Ubuntu 10.10 To Be Released on 28th of October
  • Ubuntu Should Block User Choices
  • Hands-on: a close look at Ubuntu's new non-brown theme
  • What Can Less Brown Do For You?
  • Short: New in Lucid
  • 6 little things in Ubuntu 10.04 that I love
  • Is Ubuntu ready to run your business servers?
  • The Linux Desktop Will Have Its Day: Q&A With Mark Shuttleworth

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• 13:05

  Be Afraid if Someone's Got a Voltmeter Hooked to Your CPU

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  Tags:  oss  

  ebb.org/bkuhn/blog: I had a hunch what was going on. I quickly downloaded a copy of the academic paper that was cited as the sole source for the story and read it. As I feared, OpenSSL was getting some bad press unfairly.

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• 11:16

  Try the Linux desktop of the future

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  Tags:  Linux  

  tuxradar.com: For the tinkerers and testers, 2010 is shaping up to be a perfect year. Take a trip with us on a voyage of discovery to find out exactly what's happening and how the Linux desktop experience is likely to evolve over the next 12 months...

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• 11:14

  Red Hat extends Szulik's time as chairman

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  Tags:  Linux  

  newsobserver.com: Red Hat is keeping Matthew Szulik around at least a little longer. The Raleigh-based software company has agreed to extend Szulik's term as chairman for another year, until Feb. 28, 2011.

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• 11:11

  BBC claims angry iPlayer plugin mob 'conflated' open source term

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  Tags:  software  

  theregister.co.uk: The BBC has tried to draw a line under its decision to bar open source implementations of RTMP (real-time messaging protocol) streaming in the iPlayer, after The Register revealed the Corporation's quiet switcheroo last week.

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• 11:10

  Contributing Upstream

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  Tags:  Linux  

  lxer.com: The foundations of Linux, with how it has been developed and when we look at the Debian model on which Ubuntu is based, the contributions of developers by and large are because of their common interests and a willingness to accept conceptualizations.

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• 9:03

  Igelle DSV: A New Fast Lightweight Linux

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  Tags:  Linux  

  linuxplanet.com: Building a Linux distribution with the novice user in mind has been tried many times over the years. If you had to pick one area where many new users struggle, it would have to be installing new applications. Missing dependencies or improperly configured repositories lead to frustration and, ultimately, abandonment of the entire platform.

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• 9:01

  SimplyMEPIS 8.5 RC2 is Available

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  Tags:  Linux  

  mepis.org: Warren Woodford has released SimplyMEPIS 8.4.99, RC2 of MEPIS 8.5, now available from MEPIS and public mirrors.

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• 8:59

  Linux Video Editing with Openshot

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  Tags:  software  

  jeffhoogland.blogspot: Openshot is a non-linear video editor for the Linux operating system. It is designed to be easy to use, but powerful at the same time.

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