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Development Release: OpenGEU 8.04 Beta
Posted from DistroWatch.com: News 5 days ago
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The current stable Ubuntu combined with the latest Enlightenment 17 - that's OpenGEU 8.04, whose first beta was announced yesterday: "The i386 beta live CD of OpenGEU 8.04 'Luna Crescente' is here. Download it, seed it, spread it and install it if you don't have OpenGEU yet. Or.... (original story)
Coming Soon: AMD R600 3D Documentation
Posted from Linux Today 5 days ago
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Phoronix: "Since the end of 2007 it has been a mixed bag as to whether AMD would assist the open-source community in developing the Mesa 3D driver (as part of their open-source strategy) by releasing the register documentation covering the 3D engine or by providing sample source-code -- as they had ... (original story)
Converting troff to HTML
Posted from Linux Today 5 days ago
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Linux Journal: "This is another from my "rusty scripts" collection which was written for a specific task long ago. In this case, we were converting some internal documentation from troff using the mm macros into HTML." (original story)
CIO Reality Check: Linux Security
Posted from Linux Today 5 days ago
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Computerworld: "From my perspective, and in my own opinion, open source software has enjoyed security through lack of widespread adoption. When the market share of any single open source application gets large enough, it will become a target for exploitation." (original story)
Inside Dell's 'BlackTop' Laptop Linux OS
Posted from Linux Today 5 days ago
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APC mag: "Dell may be one of Microsoft’s largest customers, but the hardware heavyweight has decided that Windows simply isn’t good enough for today’s fast-paced and ‘instant on’ world." (original story)
A Big Day in Court for the FOSS Community
Posted from Linux Today 5 days ago
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Standards Blog: "...if a licensee does something under the particular license in question...that it wasn't supposed to do, then that doesn't constitute copyright infringement - it's just a violation of a contract term. That sounds abstruse, until you then look to what the consequences are under one... (original story)
Windows Apps on Linux the CrossOver Way
Posted from Linux Today 5 days ago
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Linux.com: "Who says you have to give up your must-have Windows applications when you migrate to Linux? If you can't leave some crucial Windows program behind, you can run it using CodeWeavers' latest version of CrossOver Linux." (original story)
SAP, Oracle Holding Out on Ubuntu?
Posted from Linux Today 5 days ago
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Internet News: "Yet though Canonical is trying valiantly to show momentum in its alliances, at least two notable companies are missing from its partner lineup for Ubuntu. Neither Oracle nor SAP currently support Ubuntu, and both lack immediate plans to do so." (original story)
Google Releases an Open Source Cryptography Toolkit
Posted from Linux Today 5 days ago
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OStatic: "Google has just released an open source cryptographic toolkit: Keyczar. The company is aiming to make inherently complex cryptography easier and safer for developers to implement." (original story)
Red Hat VP on CentOS, Virtualisation, the Cloud, and RHEL
Posted from Linux Today 5 days ago
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Computerworld: " So that is where we came up with RHEL, and frankly I think that was really the major driver in making open source a viable alternative in the commercial market." (original story)
From Scripting to Object-oriented Python Programming
Posted from Linux Today 5 days ago
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IBM Developerworks: "Often it is difficult to make the transition from procedural scripting to object-oriented programming. This article explores how to reuse knowledge from PHP, Bash, or Python scripting to transition to object-oriented programming in Python. The article also briefly touches on the... (original story)
Beef up the Find Command in Firefox
Posted from Linux Today 6 days ago
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IBM Developerworks: "This article presents tools and code needed to add your own text-searching interface to Firefox. With a Greasemonkey user script and some custom algorithms, you'll be able to add grep -v functionality to text searches — that is, highlighting a first search term where a sec... (original story)
Tip of the Trade: ps Options
Posted from Linux Today 6 days ago
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Serverwatch: "Admins use ps all the time to look at processes running on a system. But do you make the best use of the multitude of options this very useful tool has, or do you stick to a tiny, tested handful? Here are some ps options to check out that you may not have encountered before." (original story)
Review: Bash Cookbook
Posted from Linux Today 6 days ago
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Slashdot: "Bash Cookbook is by no means for the feint of heart. It seems that the book is meant for intermediate and above users of Bash. However, the first several chapters do a significant job of over viewing basic concepts of Bash navigation and combing simple commands. The book quickly changes g... (original story)
Building an Open Source Community
Posted from Linux Today 6 days ago
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FOSS Bazaar: "Some might say that open source communities "just happen", and that they operate on intuition and unwritten social rules, but this logic overlooks the vast quantity of open source projects that fail." (original story)
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