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Datamation: "In the next release, which is due this fall, he estimates that Debian will include 23,000 packages and provide support for ten different architectures, ranging from i386 and amd64 to the powerpc or sparc -- figures that no other distribution even comes close to." (original story)
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ZDNet: "The developer warned that Linux kernel development was "not a 'warm and fuzzy' environment where people sing Kumbaya around the fireplace" and that some "very opinionated people" were involved." (original story)
Posted from DistroWatch.com: News 1 day 16 hours ago
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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Mandriva Flash 2008.1 on ASUS Eee PC 900 News: Slackware tests KDE 4.1, Fedora suffers from update outage, attackers crack LinuxMint.com, interviews with Ubuntu's Scott Remnant and gOS's David Liu, Zypper tips and tricks Released last week: Scientific Linux ... (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 17 hours ago
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Phoronix: "Cheese, the GNOME web-camera software that was introduced with GNOME 2.22, is also scheduled for a few improvements. Cheese is supposed to pick up a new OpenGL backend with new video effects, improved desktop integration, and data synchronization." (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 17 hours ago
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IT Wire: "Like all teenagers it can be temperamental, and always capable of annoying the middle-aged mainstream. As Debian turns 15 today, iTWire says HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!" (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 18 hours ago
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Salt Lake Tribune: "Buoyed by a court ruling and prospects for new mobile phone products, The SCO Group says it is on track for a Phoenix-like rebirth." (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 18 hours ago
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Linux Loop: "The usual numbers, those from Net Applications, would indicate that less than 1% of people use Linux." (original story)
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Tech Broiler: "Surprise! There’s some Linux back-ending all that Windows Media." (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 19 hours ago
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Standards Blog: "The inclusion of two questions in the ballot is (to me, at least) rather curious, in that each asks the same question in a different way, but with a "yes" vote having the opposite import." (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 1 day 21 hours ago
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SUSE & openSUSE: "clive is an open source command line tool to extract videos and to bypass the need to use Adobe Flash in order to view user-generated content available on video-sharing websites. Clive supports Youtube, GoogleVideo, Dailymotion, metacafe, Guba, Sevenload, Myvideo. Clive converts th... (original story)
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The first alpha release of Mythbuntu 8.10, a project developing an easy-to-use MythTV system based on Ubuntu, is out: "Today we are introducing the first Mythbuntu 'Intrepid Ibex' alpha release: Mythbuntu 8.10 alpha 4. It is very important to note that this release is not compatible with Mythbuntu..... (original story)
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OStatic: "Open source developers and proprietary developers alike can benefit from Opera Web Standards Curriculum and W3 Schools." (original story)
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Tech Enclave: "Linux has it all what it takes to provide a strong, stable and secure desktop. Thanks to the concrete architecture, Linux don't have Viruses and hackers out there fail to Hack Linux box! So having Linux at your end just free your mind with Virus attacks, hacks and all..." (original story)
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Serverwatch: "A couple of innocuous words that have insidious consequences. A simple marketing tagline, yet it appears to be seriously undermining a vast segment of the computer sector. What is it? The phrase, "industry standard."" (original story)
Posted from Linux Today 2 days ago
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HowtoForge: "This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with lighttpd on a Debian Etch server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the lighttpd server so that they do not need to be ... (original story)