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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

The second test release of UHU-Linux 2.2, a general-purpose Linux distribution designed for Hungarian speakers, is out and ready for testing. Changes since test 1 include: informative text in Live and Normal installation modes; in Live mode /boot partition's file system can be ext2 or ext3; in Live .

Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Ian Wells has announced the release of SME Server 7.5, a CentOS-based distribution for enterprise servers: "The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 7.5. This release is based on CentOS 4.8. Changes in this release: the backup service has been made .

Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Andreas Jaeger has announced the availability of the seventh (and last) milestone release of openSUSE 11.3: "Milestone 7 (M7), a snapshot of the openSUSE Factory 'work in progress' build, leading up to openSUSE 11.3 release in July, is now available for download. M7 is the last milestone release, .

Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Mario Colque has announced the availability of the first alpha release of Tuquito 4, an Ubuntu-based, beginner-friendly desktop Linux distribution designed for Spanish-speaking users. The most interesting characteristics and new features of the distributions are: Linux kernel 2.6.33 and GNOME desktop 2.30.0; faster boot; Tuquito upgrade manager; parental .

Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Jack De La Mare has announced the release of iMagic OS Sho, a commercial desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu: "Welcome to iMagicSho, the next in the iMagic OS line. Based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and running the latest KDE 4.4, iMagicSho is based on bleeding edge technology; .

Source: Linux Today

Simple Thoughts: "According to Nick Carr, marketing director of Red Hat, Linux desktop has developed very rapidly over the past few years. Even from the technology viewpoint the Linux desktop is well developed, feature rich and mature."

Source: Linux Today

Ghacks: "OpenSuSE 11.2 has a number of nice features and update, although you may find some of the included applications a bit behind. For example, the included GNOME in 11.2 is 2.28, whereas Ubuntu 10.04 released with GNOME 2.3. Of course OpenSuSE is due for an update itself."

Source: Linux Today

Developer.com: "After attending the Google I/O conference and witnessing the Froyo announcement, here are the top ten features (in no particular order) that we think developers cannot wait to get their hands on."

Source: Linux Today

Tech Drive-In: "This is something I always asked myself. How is Google Chrome different from Chromium. Apart from the logo, there is hardly any difference visually between the two. So I decided to dig further. Here are some of the interesting facts you should know."

Source: Linux Today

Ubuntu User: "I'm going to start this Ubuntu-User blog entry with an apology combined with a bit of an explanation. I'm going to talk about Facebook. Yes, me too -- I'm sorry"

Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "Checking whether a specific Web server is up and running is as easy as issuing the ping command in the terminal, but if you are looking for a more versatile tool that you can use while on the move, try httpmon for Android."

Source: Linux Today

Tom's Hardware: "Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is pinning its hopes of OEM acceptance on the Lucid Lynx. We've put the screws to this new Long Term Support (LTS) release, comparing it to Canonical's previous LTS release, 8.04 Hardy Heron, to look for progress."

Source: Linux Today

The Inquirer: "Silicon Graphics International (SGI) represents how a once fiercely proprietary company has been able to leverage open source for High Performance Computing (HPC), much to its benefit."

Source: Linux Today

Wired: "Apple's market capitalization officially passed Microsoft's this afternoon, making the Cupertino company, for the first time, the largest technology company in the world."

Source: Linux Today

Linux User and Developer: "Features include RAW support, layers, Zones, and Regions. It's a great deal for the price, and probably the best option for Linux users"

Source: Linux Today

IBM Developerworks: "Summary: You don't have to break into a Watergate office to uncover the secrets of UNIX power users. There's an informant, and this month he's spilling the beans."

Source: Linux Today

Linux Planet: "Emery Fletcher has been exploring small-footprint Linux distributions like Damn Small Linux, SliTaz, and Puppy. Since even small mobile devices have lots of RAM and storage these days, and cloud apps are everywhere, are these small Linuxes still worthwhile?"

Source: Linux Today

Netstat -vat: "Novell's openSUSE developers have been a busy bunch this week.

Today openSUSE 11.3 milestone 7 is out which is the last stop ahead of a Release Candidate in June and a final release in July"

Source: Linux Today

akgraner: "Stan, who was also involved in the American Dairy Goat Association Festival, talked to the other planners about Ubuntu. Why you ask?"

Source: Linux Today

InfoWorld: "But none of the aforementioned companies nor their free offerings would constitute open source companies, at least as defined by Paul Cormier, Red Hat's president of products and technologies, in a recent interview."

Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Mobile Today: "For the longest time, Dell was considered a loyal Wintel shop, selling only Windows machines on Intel hardware."

Source: Linux Today

Network World: "But there's good news/bad news for those of you who love Fedora, but prefer Xen as your hypervisor. Bad news: Xen was dropped from Fedora a few releases ago, says a Red Hat spokesperson and it hasn't come back in 13. Good news: But Fedora 13 still supports Xen guests and, better still, Xen.org hasn't abandoned you."

Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "Let's begin with a quick introduction of virtualization to set the stage for the following exploration. Virtualization is nothing more than an abstraction over physical resources to make them shareable by a number of physical users (see Figure 1)."

Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "Google's Chrome 5 Web browser is now available as a stable release for Mac and Linux, extending the availability of a stable version of the service to the three major operating systems."

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "I'm less of a Google or Apple fanboy than I am an OpenOffice.org fanboy.

It's one of the greatest values in consumer open source, ever."

Source: Linux Today

ABC Linuxu: "The Czech Ministry of Finance along with the BSA threaten to disallow deducting hardware from base tax if purchased without software. This idea stems from their joint proclamation that for software to be used legally, it must be bought"

Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "However, once Valve Software releases the Steam client for Linux, it looks like we will "almost certainly" get a Linux client for Red Orchestra:"

Source: Linux Today

ars Technica: "The company behind the BitTorrent technology has opened the source code of its uTorrent Transport Protocol (uTP). A production-ready implementation of the protocol code in C++ is now available from GitHub under the MIT license."

Source: Linux Today

Packt: "In this article,by Kim Schulz, author of Hacking Vim 7.2, we will introduce a list of recipes that will help you personalize Vim in such a way that it becomes your personal favorite."

Source: Linux Today

Desktop Linux Reviews: "The last time I looked at SimplyMEPIS was the 8.0 release. In this review I'll be taking a look at the latest version, SimplyMEPIS Linux 8.5. SimplyMEPIS is based on Debian, and it uses KDE as its desktop environment."

Source: Linux Today

CIO Update: "The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Project today officially released the Fedora 13 Linux distribution, codenamed "Goddard," with improvements aimed at both new and experienced Linux users."

Source: Linux Today

Inatux: "Let's look at it mathematically, "GNU / Linux" means GNU divided by Linux. How does that make any sense? At best it implies Linux is dividing GNU, making it harder to work and communicate with contributors; which is simply not true."

Source: Slashdot: Linux

omlx writes "KDE SC 4.5 is in feature freeze right now. Therefore, I decided to share some of early screenshots with you. In General there are no major changes. It is all about polishing and fixing bugs. There is a lot of under-hood changes in libs which as end users we cannot see. KDE SC will be released in August 2010." Note: you can also try out a beta of the release now, if you'd like.

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Source: Slashdot: Linux

tc6669 writes "Tom's Hardware just posted an interesting review of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. It includes an expanded set of OS benchmarks which they also performed on the previous LTS release (8.04) to see just how much the mainstream Linux distro has progressed in two years."

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Source: Slashdot: Linux

Julie188 writes "So details on this are admittedly sketchy, but both Red Hat and Xen.org have gone on record promising that some kind of support for the Xen hypervisor is forthcoming for Fedora users. As we know, on Monday, Fedora 13 was released and it was chock full of features to appeal to business users. One of the ballyhooed improvements to 13 is virtualization — meaning KVM and only KVM — for Red Hat. Xen was dropped from Fedora a few releases ago and it hasn't come back in 13, except that 13 still supports Xen guests. Meanwhile, 'work is underway in Xen.org to add platform support to Fedora 13 post-release,' promises Xen.org's Ian Pratt."

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Source: ONLamp.com

PSTSDK -- Apache-licensed code from Microsoft to read Outlook files. Covered by Microsoft's Open Specification Promise not to assert related patents against users of this library. Cheap Android Tablet -- not multitouch, but only $136. Good for hacking with in the meantime. (via Hacker News) Real-Time Collaborative Editing with Websockets, node.js, and Redis -- uses Chrome's websockets alternative to

Source: Security DevCenter

Our problems in education are too intense, funding is too thin and time too precious to take on duplicative efforts. We need to apply some of the same discriminating standards in our philanthropic Edu2.0 projects that we use in for-profit ones.

Source: Security DevCenter

Make information work for you with the FileMaker Pro 11 desktop database and FileMaker Pro 11: The Missing Manual. This book helps you get started, build your database, and produce results, whether you're running a business, pursuing a hobby, or planning your retirement. It's a thorough, accessible guide for new, non-technical users, as well as those with more experience.

Source: Security DevCenter

The Marketing Manager is responsible for planning and implementing marketing efforts for the Conferences division. The Marketing Manager has a strategic marketing vision, is extremely organized with excellent project management skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. A strong communicator with proven writing skills in addition to marketing and technical savvy, the Marketing Manager will also reach out on a grassroots level, gaining the involvement of key community members and organizations in conference marketing efforts through social media as well as traditional marketing channels. The Marketing Manager is proactive and self-directed, yet able to work as part of a close-knit team. Travel to all assigned conferences is a necessary component of this position. This position is located at our Sebastopol, CA headquarters office and reports to the Communications Manager. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. Critical features of this job are described under the headings below. They may be subject to change at any time due to fluctuating business realities, reasonable accommodations, or other reasons.

Source: Security DevCenter

The Audience Development Manager will have a detailed understanding of print and online audience behaviors with the goal to increase audience size, engagement and transactions to help us maintain and invigorate MAKE magazine. This position requires someone who is comfortable developing and executing new business promotions including e-newsletters, acquisition emails, partnerships and database marketing. This position reports to the Publisher and will be located in New York City or our headquarters in Sebastopol, CA. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. Critical features of this job are described under the headings below. They may be subject to change at any time due to fluctuating business realities, reasonable accommodations, or other reasons.

Source: Security DevCenter

The Advertising Sales Manager will be a dynamic, top sales producer who will prospect, qualify and convert leads to opportunities to help us maintain and invigorate MAKE Magazine. This position requires an innovative advertising sales star that is comfortable developing and selling integrated, custom, multi-platform programs with a focus on Online and Digital platforms. This position reports to the Publisher and is located in New York City to cover East Coast territory. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. Critical features of this job are described under the headings below. They may be subject to change at any time due to fluctuating business realities, reasonable accommodations, or other reasons.

Source: Security DevCenter

The use of ICT to tackle climate issues is growing in sophistication, as well as the methods for tracking and measuring their effectiveness

Source: Security DevCenter

There seemed to be some disagreement about my previous post on InsideRIA about moving your Flex Components from MXML to an ActionScript only base. The article was intended to teach readers about the Flex Component lifecycle; but backed into

Source: Security DevCenter

Joshua Noble and Todd Anderson, Senior Software Engineer for Infrared5, join us to discuss the Flex 4 Cookbook and other projects they are currently working on.

Source: Security DevCenter

The new iPhone and Android apps will allow organizations responding to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to report on the go. "The cool thing about the app is that the photos and information will be open to anyone to use," said Heather Blanchard, co-founder of Crisis Commons.

Source: Security DevCenter

Join Dux Raymond Sy (SharePoint for Project Management) as he presents various sessions at Best Practices Conference.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

When new technologies emerge -- programming languages and models in
particular -- there typically follows a period where many useful "how to"
articles appear to help developers get themselves started. As time passes, the
guidance works its way deeper into the more advanced concepts, but it is not
often that the implementation details behind an actual application of the
technology is revealed. "Hello World" examples are fine for basic lessons, but
as you reach the point of wanting to build something yourself, there is
nothing like a real example to help provide the inspiration for that next
killer application project. This article series presents three actual
examples where IBM WebSphere sMash was selected and used to perform innovative
and valuable tasks. These examples are all related to the operations of IBM's
Green Innovation Data Center (GIDC) in Southbury, CT, USA, which has been set
up both as a client briefing center and a living lab, where some of IBM's
latest energy efficient hardware, software, and operational practices are being tested and developed.
In Part 1, you'll see how WebSphere sMash was used to build a flexible framework for
constructing data center dashboards.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Over the past year, there have been many heated debates over the
readiness or otherwise of OSGi for enterprise applications. OSGi is a proven and tested technology, so in that sense it's been "ready" for a long time. What has been missing are specifications and implementations of tools and frameworks that are required for Java EE programmers to properly utilise OSGi enterprise features. The recent release of the OSGi Service Platform Enterprise Specification (4.2) and the announcement of the IBM WebSphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and Java Persistence API (JPA) 2.0 changes this. Here is an overview of this new feature pack and the reasoning behind its development.