Posted from Linux Today 19 hours ago
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Oregon Live: "The new funds will support growth and projects at a lab that has hosted some of the world's largest and most far-reaching open source efforts, including the Mozilla Firefox browser, portions of the One Laptop Per Child project, the Linux Foundation's main infrastructure, Apache Web Ser... (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 19 hours ago
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Linux Journal: "One of the advantages, touted by the Open Source community is that you can read the source code and make changes to it if you need to. Now to be honest, how many of us even bother to look at the source code?" (original story)
Posted from KernelTrap - 20 hours ago
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"The latest feature release GIT 1.6.0 is available at the usual places," began Git maintainer, Junio Hamano, announcing the latest stable release of the distributed version control system originally written by Linus Torvalds. Among the current changes, Junio noted, "with the default Makefile settin... (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 20 hours ago
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Lists: "Xfe is small, very fast and only requires the FOX library to be fully functional. Plus, it can be launched from the command line in a fraction of second. Xfe can also efficiently complete terminal commands." (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 21 hours ago
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Behind KDE: "Do you get to look out the window of your sub and see fish? "There are no windows." (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 22 hours ago
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a non-geek’s linux notes: "Here are some useful commands that you can use to find (almost) every information that you want to know about your system from the command line. Most of this commands can be run as non-privileged user, but more information can be obtained if (and should be) run as ro... (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 22 hours ago
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HowtoForge: "OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license." (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 23 hours ago
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HowtoForge: "The Ubuntu Live CD installer doesn't support software RAID, and the server and alternate CDs only allow you to do RAID levels 0, 1, and 5. Raid 10 is the fastest RAID level that also has good redundancy too. So I was disappointed that Ubuntu didn't have it as a option for my new file se... (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 3 hours ago
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Linux Today Blog: "One of my favorite features of Linux Today is the Talkbacks. A lot of times they're better than the articles. Or at least funny, or intriguing, or from such a different perspective they change how I think about the subject." (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 3 hours ago
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LinuxPlanet: "Eric Geier continues his series on digging up the many time-saving hidden treasures in Open Office, and how to migrate from Microsoft Office with a minimum of pain. Today's installment covers importing the custom dictionary of MS Office, setting OOo to always save in the MS Office form... (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 3 hours ago
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Cyber Cynic: "As Robin Rowe writes at LinuxMovies.org, "In the film industry, Linux has won. It's running on practically all servers and desktops used for feature animation and visual effects."" (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 3 hours ago
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EFY Times: "Proprietary solutions like drivers and codec aren't just a problem for the free and open source software community they are also a problem for users. Our ability to innovate and offer new solutions for users is often held up by proprietary solutions." (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 4 hours ago
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Lifehacker: "Those of us who have forgone a fancy BlackBerry, Treo, or iPhone know a standard cell phone is probably the most non-interactive, un-tweakable device in the gadget stable. But for many phones, there's a way around overpriced cables, intentionally weak Bluetooth software, and lack of goo... (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 5 hours ago
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EFY Times: "Helping develop and foster up and coming talent in the open source software field, the Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, has announced the newly created Fedora Scholarship programme." (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 5 hours ago
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The VAR Guy: "Lenovo is leaping from the desktop into the server market, and will launch its first Linux and Windows servers this September." (original story)