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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

The release candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx", the last testing build before the final version scheduled for release next week, is ready for download: "The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the Release Candidate for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) Desktop and Server editions and Ubuntu 10.04 .



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Source: Linux Today

Desktop Linux Reviews: "Why do a review of OpenSolaris? Well why the heck not? It's always fun to check out a different kind of desktop operating system. Sometimes you can find an unexpected jewel when you least expect it."


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Source: Linux Today

Stop: "Last week I interviewed Tony Baechler, an active member of the Blinux mailing list, to check how things are going in 2010, and to know more about a very interesting project for Linux vision-impaired users he's trying to launch."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "In this guide, we'll look at five plugins that will help protect your blog from spam and malware, simplify keeping backups, and even help you make a little cash off your blog if you're so inclined."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "Songbird, the popular open source cross platform music player, has decided to dump support for Linux. Such a move could be fatal and here's why."


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Source: Linux Today

Technology & Life Integration: "This is a stoooory about a cat who's gone to the dogs. Whoops, too much Muppet show. It's not a story about a cat who's gone to the dogs but the story of a transition from windows to Linux."


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Source: Linux Today

Howtoforge: "munin produces nifty little graphics about nearly every aspect of your server (load average, memory usage, CPU usage, MySQL throughput, eth0 traffic, etc.) without much configuration, whereas monit checks the availability of services like Apache, MySQL, Postfix "


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "Yesterday we showed proof of Steam's Linux client existence via its Mac OS X launcher that is currently in closed beta, then this morning we showed further signs of Linux support."


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxInsider: "Many large businesses and government organizations use OSS, but keep in mind that open source doesn't necessarily mean free -- or even cheap."


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Source: Linux Today

Handle With Linux: "This is a wall mounted, touch screen, low power, linux computer. Made from recycled materials, this is a pretty environmental friendly device."


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Source: Linux Today

Ghacks: "For many Linux users, The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Project) seems to mostly be a tool of mystery and confusion. The biggest reason for this is lack of exposure. Most users that complain about The GIMP's interface really only need to get to know the interface."


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Source: Linux Today

SFGate: "I don't see how it's meant to benefit Facebook users. I can see what it will get you is data mining and targeted advertising."


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Source: Linux Today

Modern Perl Books: "The thing about volunteers is if it's not worth their time or energy or health or sanity or happiness to keep volunteering, they can walk away whenever they want."


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Source: Linux Today

Tuxmachines: "Last month, the Debian Live Project released live CD and DVD images of the next version of Debian, codenamed "Squeeze." They included an installer that uses the live filesystem rather than packages, so it has the advantages of being fast and allowing you to preview on the live media"


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Source: Linux Today

The Register: "The Obama White House has contributed code back to the Drupal community, six months after it made headlines by adopting the open source CMS."


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Source: Linux Today

Small Business Computing: " many SMBs vulnerable to natural and man-made disasters because few small business owners have been able to tackle the cost and complexity of data backup and disaster recovery processes. Zmanda, an open source, cloud-based data backup company, aims to change that."


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Source: Linux Today

PC World: "Intel is developing an edition of the Linux-based Meego OS that will work on mainstream laptops and desktops, a company executive said this week"


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Source: "We've got here our very first entry for "The $100.00 (USD) Coolest Linux Workspace Contest". It's from Mauricio, a Music Theory student. If he wins the contest, he says that he will be using the money to buy a USB mic for some serious music recording."


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Source: Linux Today

TechDirt: "Last year Time Warner Cable took a pretty severe beating from the press and public for plans to impose not only monthly broadband usage caps as low as 5 GB a month, but also for their decision to charge users up to $2 per additional GB."


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Source: Linux Today

The Register: "Google won't allow the co-inventor of Unix and the C language to check-in code, because he won't take the mandatory language test."


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Source: Linux Today

OStatic: "But like the fanboys who pine for the days before indie bands went to major labels, there's a loud minority in the Linux community protesting the commercial offerings that come along with success."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Planet: "The /etc/fstab file gives you control over what filesystems are mounted at startup on your Linux system, including Windows partitions and network shares. You can also use it to control the mount points of removable storage devices like USB sticks and external hard disks."


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Source: Linux Today

Rose Blog: "Check it out! Mackenzie 'maco' Morgan and Celeste Lyn Paul appear in this PBS News Hour clip: Examining the Motivations of the Modern Workforce."


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Source: Linux Today

The Changelog: "Now here's my dilemma. For my purposes, OfflineIMAP is, well, finished. It does everything I ever wanted it to do, and does it better than I ever expected it would."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "Did you ever see one of those terrible Sci-Fi movies involving a killer Octopus? Ceph, while named after just such a animal, is not a creature about to eat an unlucky Spring Breaker, but a new parallel distributed file system."


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Source: Linux Today

Tom's Hardware: " the fastest internet in the world, according to a report from Akamai Technologies, is in Berkeley, California at an average speed of 18.7Mbps."


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Source: Linux Today

Benjamin Humphrey: "Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04 is going to be re-released as a one-off Second Edition at the end of July with an emphasis on fixing all the bugs that we didn't manage to fix for the First Edition "


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Rights: "Summary: FUD tactics or cheap shots against Free(dom) software no longer jives well with Jive Software"


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Source: "Exactly one year ago The Pirate Bay Four were sentenced to a year in prison, and on top of that each ordered to pay $905,000 in damages. The entertainment industries hoped that the ruling would set an example, but today The Pirate Bay is larger than ever before."


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Source: Linux Today

Serverwatch: "IBM is turning to technology from Novell to build Linux OS powered software appliances -- a move that aims to deliver easy-to-deploy software for physical, virtual and cloud-based environments in use at small to midsized businesses."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

Annirak writes "With the bottom dropping out of the magnetic disk market and SSD prices still over $3/GB, I want to know if there is a way to to get the best of both worlds. Ideally, a caching algorithm would store frequently used sectors, or sectors used during boot or application launches (hot sectors), to the SSD. Adaptec has a firmware implementation of this concept, called MaxIQ, but this is only for use on their RAID controllers and only works with their special, even more expensive, SSD. Silverstone recently released a device which does this for a single disk, but it is limited: it caches the first part of the magnetic disk, up to the size of the SSD, rather than caching frequently used sectors. The FS-Cache implementation in recent Linux kernels seems to be primarily intended for use in NFS and AFS, without much provision for speeding up local filesystems. Is there a way to use an SSD to act as a hot sector cache for a magnetic disk under Linux?"

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Source: Slashdot: Linux

SheeEttin writes "Back in November 2008, Phoronix reported that Linux libraries appeared in the Left 4 Dead demo, and then in March, Valve announced that Steam and the Source engine were coming to Mac OS X. Now, Phoronix reports that launcher scripts included with the (closed beta) Mac version of Steam include explicit support for launching a Linux version."

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Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "It was way back on 2006-09-07 when Red Hat released its first public beta of Enterprise Linux 5. Today, after more than three years, Red Hat finally releases its first public beta of its next-generation OS: RHEL 6 public beta 1. From the news release: 'We are excited to share with you news of our first public step toward our next major Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform release with today's Beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Beginning today, we are inviting our customers, partners, and members of the public to install, test, and provide feedback for what we expect will be one of our most ambitious and important operating platform releases to date. This blog is the first in a series of upcoming posts that will cover different aspects of the new platform.'"

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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

It's Google's Internet, we just use it. Well, maybe not, but some days it seems that way. Google's gone from searching the Internet to being a big chunk of it. The latest moves from Mountain View include adding OAuth and contextual gadgets to email. Good on the surface for Google users, but what do they mean for everybody else?



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Source: Security DevCenter

Author brian d foy (Learning Perl, Mastering Perl) talks about how Perl programmers can manage the risk of using CPAN and its constant updates so they aren't constantly fighting the fires of module upgrades.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Author brian d foy (Learning Perl, Mastering Perl) teaches a two day master class based on his latest book, Effective Perl Programming, Second Edition. The class is offered in conjunction with YAPC::NA, the annual Perl conference sponsored by Perl Mongers.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Join author Scott Berkun (Confessions of a Public Speaker, Myths of Innovation) as he talks about the future, and the past, of publishing information.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Join Jim Van Meggelen (Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, Second Edition) for his talk titled "Saving Big on a VoIP deployment." If you are looking to deploy VoIP telephones, but are concerned about the network and cabling costs, you'll want to attend this talk.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Join Anton Chuvakin (Security Warrior) and Branden Williams for their talk titled "PCI Done Right and Wrong." They will go through some interesting teaching examples of PCI DSS controls implemented right and wrong.


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Source: Security DevCenter

The stream of updates and links that powers the realtime web is giving static websites a run for their money. In this Q&A, "Building the Realtime User Experience" author Ted Roden discusses the impact of the realtime web on developers and users.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Ruby engages in a little exercise in niche marketing. Actually, all she'd have to do is mention "Joe vs The Volcano", and she'd probably get a ton of volunteers.



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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

The maturity of SVG allows for a little-known style of use and development of currently undocumented visual elements. In a time when data-as-a-service is blossoming, it makes a lot of sense to script SVG instances from an enclosing Web application. A specific example of a dynamic choropleth illustrates how easy this technique can be.


Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Learn how to integrate business-critical XML data into your data
warehouse using IBM InfoSphere(TM) Warehouse Design Studio and DB2(R) 9.7
pureXML(R). This two-part article series provides step-by-step instructions
for using pureXML as both a source and target data source for extract,
transform, and load (ETL) operations developed with InfoSphere Warehouse
Design Studio. This article describes how to build a single control flow that calls multiple data
flows that extract, transform, and load XML data in a specific sequence.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Castor allows you to bind the data in your Java objects directly into database
tables. Learn how to marshal from Java objects to SQL in this article.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

In this article,explore a natural and performant approach to working with XML data in the database and the middle tier. A sample Web application combines XML data across an XML database and Atom services to explain the approach. You will build such an application using an XML database, JDBC 4.0 support for SQLXML, and the IBM WebSphere Application Server V7.0 Feature Pack for XML.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Discover a methodology that takes as input a spreadsheet containing high-level descriptions of device protocol messages, with the spreadsheet saved as an XML document. Then process the XML document through a PHP script that stores the descriptions as blobs in a database.


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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

This article is for authors; it shows you how to develop and submit
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Updated: Fri Apr 23 23:55:01 2010


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