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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Matthew Dawkins has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Unity Linux 2010, a minimalist distribution and live CD based on Mandriva Linux: "The Unity Linux project is pleased to announce its first candidate for release, 2010 RC1. We have taken the last nine weeks to .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Jesse Keating has announced the availability of the first alpha release of Fedora 13: "The Fedora 13 'Goddard' alpha release is available. Among the top features for end users, we have: automatic print driver installation so when you plug in a USB printer, Fedora will automatically offer to .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

MCNLive, a Mandriva-based distribution and live CD, has been resurrected by the members of the Dutch Mandriva Club. The first beta of the brand-new MCNLive Kris, is now available for download: "After a few years of silence around MCNLive, here we are again with a brand new MCNLive .



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Electropages: "Availability of uCLinux for the APS3 family of processors has been announced by Cortus. This version of Linux is ideally suited to low-power, high-performance, embedded systems."


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Source: Linux Today

Food For Monkeys: "In the past weeks (actually, months) I've been doing some changes in the MonoDevelop GUI to make it more functional and better looking. Here is the result:"


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Source: Linux Today

Intellectual Property Watch: "“Apple is selling directly to consumers, who aren’t the best guardians of their own self-interest. The open PC model works for knowledgeable users who know what they are doing and how to protect themselves, but not so for 15-year-old fashionistas and techno-phobic geriatrics,” Kahney said."


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Source: Linux Today

Open Enterprise: "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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Ghacks: "KPlato is one of those tools that could easily get overlooked – but certainly shouldn’t. KPlato is project management tool that offers more features that many similar tools costing significantly more money"


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New Zealand Herald: "Several weeks ago the Australian high court ruled in favour of Aussie ISP iiNet in a landmark legal battle where AFACT (Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft) argued that iiNet was as guilty as some of its subscribers of online copyright infringement."


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Source: Linux Today

Developer.com: "SQL-based relational database management systems (RDBMS) are beginning to be challenged by a new movement of NoSQL databases. Among those NoSQL databases is the open source CouchDB "


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Source: Linux Today

PCLinuxOS: "The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the March 2010 issue of the PCLinuxOS Magazine."


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Source: Linux Today

Blog of Helios: "It's spring time in Texas.

The Bluebonnets are fixin' to get ready to bloom, today's temperature is going to be around 80 degrees Fahrenheit and a solid date for the second annual Linux Against Poverty is, with a fair amount of certainty official."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "It’s been a few days but the latest kernel, 2.6.33 is out. There are some changes that affect the storage world that you probably need to check out"


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Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "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."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux For You: "Uptake of Fedora 12 has been very good overall. There have been a number of very visible improvements in free video drivers for ATI and Intel that make for a better experience out of the box. Those improvements allow users to make use of 3D effects on the desktop "


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Source: Linux Today

Serverwatch: "The Apache HTTP Web Server is the most widely deployed Web server on the Internet today, which means that vulnerabilities in the open source server can have a devastating impact. That also makes security updates like the new 2.2.15 release critical, since it addresses several security vulnerabilities in Apache's flagship HTTP Web server."


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Source: Linux Today

Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris: "Schema bellow modifying content of mentioned src.rpm allows to build set of RPMS upgrading Xen Hypersor 4.0 matching current tip CS of http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg,"


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Source: Linux Today

The H Open: "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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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "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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Source: Linux Today

Groklaw: "Happily, cpeterson was able to attend this morning's session.

Update: It looks like that will be all the news for today. They are keeping the public in the hall mainly, to fit all the prospective jurors in, so unless there is something unexpected, tune in tomorrow. "


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Source: Linux Today

John S. Dembowski: "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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Source: Linux Today

LXer: "In the area of window managers Linux users are completely and totally spoiled rotten."


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Wine-Reviews: " The Wine development release 1.1.40 is now available.

What's new in this release:"


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "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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Source: Linux Today

Serverwatch: "There are several ways to ignore files or directories in Subversion so that Subversion will not include them in the output of svn status and will not keep them under version control"


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Linux User and Developer: "When we reviewed the Lenovo IdeaCentre Q100 not long ago, we had one critical complaint: while the system looked sleek, it ran too slow for even rudimentary tasks."


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Netstat -vat: "Linux founder Linus Torvalds has just pushed out a the first Linux 2.6.34 kernel release candidate and he's included some big stats as part of the announcement."


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Source: Linux Today

The VAR Guy: "When the Open Source Business Conference starts March 17 in San Francisco, The VAR Guy will be watching and listening closely for signs of corporate open source momentum."


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Source: Linux Today

nixCraft: "Nginx powers several high traffic web sites, such as WordPress, Hulu, Github, and SourceForge. This page collects hints how to improve the security of nginx web servers running on Linux or UNIX like operating systems."


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Source: Linux Today

Ubuntu Geek: "FBReader is an e-book reader for various platforms. Currently FBReader works on Linux desktop, Windows XP/Vista computer, FreeBSD computer, and various linux-based mobile devices."


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Source: Linux Today

Unixmen: "After 2 years of of development, Elive 2.0 landed under the codename 'Topaz'. The new release comes with many improvments. Elive Topaz is based on debian and use Enlightenment 17 as a default desktop."


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Source: Linux Today

DaniWeb: "From its Debian roots to its commercially available support to its overwhelming popularity, Ubuntu is the ultimate Linux distribution."



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

One of the sorely missing aspects of storage is analyzing and understanding the IO patterns of applications. This article will examine some techniques for performing IO profiling of an application to illustrate what information you can gain.



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Source: Security DevCenter

Author Christian Crumlish (Designing Social Interfaces) signs his book, Designing Social Interfaces (co-authored with Erin Malone), in the South By bookstore.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Co-authors Erin Malone and Christian Crumlish (Designing Social Interfaces) help teach the IA Institute Workshop "Beyond Findability: Practice & Strategy for the New Web."


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Source: Security DevCenter

Welcome to part 2 of my IntelliJ Idea 9 ActionScript 3/Flex workflow series. If you followed part 1 you should have a HelloWorldProject setup along with a HelloWorld module. Now it is time to learn how to compile our SWF and go over the other core features IntelliJ Idea 9 has to offer. Lets not waste any more time, here we go!


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Source: Security DevCenter

David Eaves, a public policy entrepreneur and a speaker at this week's Gov 2.0 International online conference, discusses the rise of open government in Canada's cities. He also looks at the country's federal inertia, and he explains how a beta mindset could benefit government projects.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Cooperative Behaviour Spreads Through a Group, But So Does Cheating (Not Exactly Rocket Science) -- Fowler and Christakis suggest that people tend to mimic the actions of those they played with. They could be directly imitating the actions of other players, or they could be looking out for cues that tell them the 'right' or 'normal' way of behaving .


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Source: Security DevCenter

Comparing a basic mobile phone to a spiffy new smartphone is like comparing a circa-1993 desktop computer to a Macbook Pro. They're related in a basic sense, but the discrepancies are immense. Arthur Attwell, co-founder and CEO of Electric Book Works, expands on the divide between mobile phones and smartphones in an interview.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Join author Francesco Cesarini (Erlang Programming) for the Erlang Factory London 2010. Erlang Factory is the biggest Erlang gathering in the UK, which offers opportunity for networking, learning and for sharing knowledge, experience and passion of the Erlang language.



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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

The OSGi framework is becoming increasingly popular. It provides great mechanisms for developing modular and dynamic applications.
The recent OSGi Service Platform Release 4 V4.2 specifications
introduced the Blueprint Container specification. In this article, learn
how the Blueprint Container provides a simple programming model for creating
dynamic applications in the OSGi environment. Numerous examples help get you started with the Blueprint XML file
and the component XML definitions.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

The pureXML Universal Services for JSON (abbreviated to JSON Universal Services in this article) are a set of database operations, including insert, update, delete, and query, exposed as Web services. These services enable an application to persist JSON in pureXML and to query it easily through HTTP with WebSphere Application Server. Get started with configuring and testing JSON Universal Services in this article.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Agavi is an open-source, flexible, and scalable framework for application development. One of its key features is a full-featured API for user authentication and role-based access control. Examine this API in detail, and see how to add sophisticated application-level privilege management and manipulation to a Web application.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Explore the software required to create, store, and manipulate optional XML relational data in this article -- the second in a two-part series. The software used includes fully worked code examples with Java(TM) Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB), the Java Persistence API (JPA)/Hibernate, an in-memory database, and persistence-related annotations.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

XML is an optimal format for writing documentation that you can use with many different documentation software packages and production environments. In this third article in the series, discover how to create single-source documents that can produce output in a variety of different output formats.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Learn how to leverage XML Web services to integrate cloud data with enterprise
applications, and build a sample application using the Salesforce Web Services API
with the Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS).


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Android is a modern, open source operating system and SDK for mobile devices. With it you can create powerful mobile applications. This becomes even more attractive when your applications can access Web services, which means you need to speak the language of the Web: XML. In this article, you will see different options for working with XML on Android and how to use them to build your own Android applications.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Given that Resource Description Framework (RDF) query languages do not recognize documents that follow the Atom specification, how can you translate an Atom document into a distinct document that follows the RDF specification? The answer: Java technology. Learn how to make it happen.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

In the third and final part of this three-part series on building a hybrid cloud application, examine governance and security for cloud computing. Build on the example of the HybridCloud application from Part 2 by examining how to add access control policies to its use of Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS). Look in detail at how the HybridCloud application authenticates itself to cloud services and how to add a log audit trail to Amazon's S3 (Simple Storage Service). Lastly, see how Google Apps uses OAuth and how Force.com cloud services require built-in testing to avoid inadvertent Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Discover how to leverage XML and Amazon Web Services to integrate enterprise applications, and to build cross-platform application-integration capabilities using the Microsoft(R) .NET C#) and Java(TM) platforms.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

In this tutorial, the third installment in a series, learn how to use
IBM Rational Developer for System z to develop COBOL stored procedures that
manipulate XML data. This tutorial illustrates the XML schema support offered,
and provides step-by-step instructions for creating and testing stored
procedures.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Twitter is undoubtedly one of the most recent and successful examples of social networking to appear on the World Wide Web. Twitter provides an API so Web developers can enable their users to access the various features that the Twitter site provides. In this article, learn the basics of using the Twitter REST API.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Need help getting started with XML? The XML zone on developerWorks contains articles, tutorials, and tips to help developers with XML-based development. For users trying to find their way in a new topic, all of that information can be overwhelming. This page provides an overview for readers who want to learn about XML, but don't know where to start. This page helps you get organized and on your way -- whether you want to understand what XML is all about, explore Ajax, mashups or RSS, or prepare for XML certification.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Start here to find the tutorials, courses, and certification guides you need to stay up-to-date with XML technology and to keep your skills top notch.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

The world of XML is vast and growing, with a huge variety of standards and technologies that interact in complex ways. It can be difficult for beginners to navigate the most important aspects of XML, and for users to keep track of new entries and changes in the space. XML is a basic syntax upon which you develop local and global vocabularies. This index provides a detailed cross-reference of many XML standards, including links to additional coverage for each.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Optional XML elements -- for example, online forms -- are
special in that they might or might not appear in XML files. Representing such optional
elements is a challenge both in programming languages and in databases. In many cases,
null values are inserted in databases to represent empty optional elements, but null
database XML values can be difficult to retrieve. Discover alternative, less-invasive approaches
to handling optional XML elements without the need for data overloading or inserting null or
other sentinel values.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

In this tutorial, set up Web access to your pureXML data through simple
insert, update, delete, select, and query operations known as the Universal
Services. Use the included download bundle with ready-to-install services to
explore the concepts of this tutorial, and learn how to quickly build
application prototypes with the Universal Services.


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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Cloud computing is no longer a technology on the
cusp of breaking out, but a valuable and important technology that is
fundamentally changing the way we use and develop applications. As you
would expect, Linux and open source provide the foundation for the cloud (for
both public and private infrastructures). Explore the anatomy of the cloud,
its architecture, and the open source technologies used to build these dynamic
and scalable computing and storage platforms.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

In the first two articles of this series, you learned to model a NIEM exchange, map it to the NIEM base model, and create a subset of the NIEM model for use in your IEPD. Now explore what to do about the parts of your model that do not map directly to NIEM, as you create extension and exchange schemas to define your custom types and properties.


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Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Pyjamas is a cool tool, or framework, for developing Asynchronous
JavaScript and XML (Ajax) applications in Python. It's a versatile tool that
you can use to write comprehensive applications without writing any JavaScript
code. This series
examines the myriad aspects of Pyjamas, and this first article
explores Pyjamas's background and basic elements. Step through the process of
building a sample application with Pyjamas using the article's examples.



Updated: Wed Mar 10 23:55:01 2010


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