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Linux and Open Source News for 16th June 2010

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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Stanislav Hoferek has announced the release of Greenie Linux 7L, a user-friendly, Ubuntu-based distribution designed primarily for Slovak and Czech speakers: "The seventh major version of Greenie Linux, an Ubuntu derivative for (primarily) Slovak and Czech users, is available for free download. What is new? New logo, new .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Ben Gras has announced the release of MINIX 3.1.7, a new version of the UNIX-like computer operating system based on a microkernel architecture: "MINIX 3.1.7 is released. Major features: userspace scheduling and a scheduling server; proper support for multiple Ethernet cards of the same type; bug fixes (such .



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Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "In a recent walkthru we outlined the steps for taking an existing server and converting it into a NAS box. This article takes examines an alternative: a dedicated NAS distribution called OpenFiler that allows you to very simply create a stand-alone NAS box that can be administered over the web."


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Source: Linux Today

eWeek: "Red Hat's Fedora 13 open-source software can serve in a full gamut of Linux roles, as long as users are prepared to upgrade their systems about once a year."


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Source: Linux Today

PACKT: "Themes are among the most powerful features that can be used to customize a web site, especially in Plone. Most Plone users still continue to use default themes as developing and deploying themes that are flexible and easily maintainable is not always straightforward."


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Source: Linux Today

OSTATIC: "In this post you'll find seven online books that you can get comfortable with quickly. They introduce essential concepts for getting started with Linux, Firefox, Blender (3D graphics and animation), GIMP (graphics), the OpenOffice suite of productivity applications, and more."


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Source: Linux Today

ZD Net Blog: "Linux is an operating system that begs to be online, so it wants to be secure. Sure it's fairly secure out of the box, but NO operating system is 100% secure if it's, well, turned on."


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Source: Linux Today

ServerWatch: "The Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP software of the popular LAMP stack used by Web servers that the SM10000 is optimized around, will run unmodified on the SM10000, no recompile needed. 'We are a LAMP stack crushing machine,' boasted Feldman."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux User & Developer: "The PocketBook 301+ is actually a recent update of the original model released in 2007, itself based on a popular eReader design that's been sold by various companies. Ukrainian in origin, the original 301 was a variant on the Netronix EB-600 eReader. "


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Source: Linux Today

IT Pro Portal: "The Linux version of the beta browser will come with private tab browsing, as well as improved KDE and Gnome skinning to enhance the browsing experience for Linux users."


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Source: Linux Today

DevX: "At the end of 2008, the open source Ruby on Rails and Merb Ruby frameworks merged together in an effort to unify development of Ruby on Rails 3. Fast forward 18 months and Ruby on Rails 3 (RoR) has yet to be officially released, though a release candidate is set for this week."


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Government Technology: "No one is quite sure how to define fire, but everyone knows what it is. Open source software is the same. Like fire, we know what open source does, we know what open source looks like, and we know it when we see it, but no one agrees on a definition."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Pro Magazine: "Twilio Cloud Communications announced OpenVBX, an open source, enterprise telephony suite that the company is touting as a Google Voice for businesses."


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxLinks: "Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It was founded in 1980 to enable users to read and post public messages to various newsgroups. To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 8 high quality Usenet tools. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to join in with Usenet."


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Source: Linux Today

Forbes: "Open source by and large was created for the single-tenant architecture. There are companies like Acquia that have created multi-tenant versions of Drupal for their commercial hosting service, but that was done by the founders of the project."


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Source: Linux Today

Hubfolio: "Eclipse with FDT is a powerful combination for Flash development in Linux, even if it is unsupported at this time. This article shows you how to get a functional Flash development environment up and running in Ubuntu 10.04."


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Source: Linux Today

Webopedia: "To split source code into different development directions. Forking leads to the development of different versions of a program."


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Source: Linux Today

Standards Blog: "Carl looked alarmed. 'Now, Marla, come on - this is highly technical work, and dangerous, too! You can't expect to be part of it.'"



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

If something doesn't work, try something else. That's a lesson that the FSF needs to embrace, if it wants to succeed with a mainstream audience. Being the Party of Gno, and trying to tell users to just avoid Windows, Cloud Computing, iPads, and proprietary software isn't cutting it. It's time to come up with credible alternatives or be satisfied with remaining irrelevant to the majority of users.



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Source: Security DevCenter

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free This tutorial will teach how to automate infrastructures using Chef, including real examples of application deployment and system integration of infrastructure components such as load balancers, application servers and monitoring systems. About Joshua Timberman Joshua Timberman has over 10 years experience in Linux and Unix system administration. He has worked for companies from 5 person startups, up to the largest IT company in the world. His background includes deploying highly available enterprise application environments and providing internal infrastructure services and team-based training. Joshua currently works for Opscode, where he is an infrastructure cooking expert with Chef. He speaks at local user group meetings and has a passion for teaching people how to make the most out of automation.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Sebastopol, CA, June 16, 2010 - Velocity, the O'Reilly Web Performance and Operations Conference, has become a sold out event in its third year. At maximum capacity a week in advance, Velocity brings the leaders taking web performance and operations into the future to the Hyatt Santa Clara in Santa Clara, CA, June 22-24.

"Over the past three years, the Velocity Conference has become the nexus in the movement to build a better, faster, more reliable web. The incredible growth in Velocity's attendance shows that the world has finally recognized the critical nature of the work done by this amazing community," says Jesse Robbins, who co-chairs Velocity with Steve Souders.

Read the full press release.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free The ease and simplicity of jQuery's API can be attributed to its success and shortcomings as new developers tackle larger and more complex tasks. Join us for this session as we walk through The Top 5 Mistakes jQuery Developers Can Make. We'll look at lower level syntax issues up through architectural decisions with jQuery. This session will discuss selector performance, iterating with jQuery, event binding strategies, Ajax handling techniques and jQuery on public CDN's for applications large and small. Gain a greater understanding of these core concepts and where developers can go wrong. About Jonathan Sharp Jonathan Sharp has been involved and developing for the internet in one form or another since the early days of 1996. Over the past 14 years, Jonathan has worked the full stack from hardware and networking (former CCNA) up through front-end architecture and development. Jonathan is passionate about the adoption and advancement of technology for businesses, consumers and developers. His diverse background and experience brings a comprehensive understanding of the impact that technology decisions can have. Jonathan is one of the jQuery Project Team and is now President of Denver, CO based appendTo, the jQuery company providing enterprise level expertise in front-end development and integration. Jonathan is also a co-author of The jQuery Cookbook (O'Reilly) and has spoken and presented at conferences such as The Ajax Experience, StackOverflow Dev Days (Austin), The jQuery Conference and the upcoming OSCON (2010).


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Source: Security DevCenter

A special MySQL track at Kaleidoscope, the upcoming Oracle Developer Tools User Group
conference, should give MySQL a nice bounce.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free CouchDB is known for having a flexible schemaless JSON storage API. But that is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to flexibility. In this webcast we'll learn how replication can be used to share data securely, build offline-capable applications, provide redundancy, and manage large-scale clusters. We'll start with replication basics, then cover offline replication, filtered replication, and replication in a cluster About J. Chris Anderson J. Chris Anderson is an Apache CouchDB committer and co-author of the O'Reilly book CouchDB: The Definitive Guide. He is a director of couch.io, offering commercial hosting, support, consulting, and custom development. He enjoys working on JavaScript CouchApps which can be peer-replicated just like any other data. Chris is obsessed with bending the physics of the web, and giving control back to users.


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Source: Security DevCenter

In the near future, more people will have access to more "books" than ever before in the history of mankind. This is future of e-publishing.


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Source: Security DevCenter

Whether you need an example-driven programmer's guide or a complete desk reference, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide is the most authoritative book on the language that runs the Web. The sixth edition offers comprehensive coverage of ECMAScript 5 (the new language standard) and also the new APIs introduced in HTML5. The chapters on functions and classes have been completely rewritten and updated to match current best practices. A new chapter covers language extensions and subsets.


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Source: Security DevCenter

First Steps with Arduino -- Happening TodayPresented by Brian JepsonJune 16 @ 10am PT

Effective User Interfaces Presented by John McReeJune 17 @ 10am PT

What's new in CouchDB 0.11 & 1.0Presented by Jan LehnardtJune 22 @ 10am PT

Effectively Planning, Tracking and Controlling Projects with Microsoft Project 2010Presented by Dux Raymond SyJune 25 @ 10am PT

Effective Data Destruction PracticesPresented by Ben RothkeJune 29 @ 10am PT

Check out our Webcast page for on-demand videos of past webcasts and more upcoming live events.


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Source: Security DevCenter

In this podcast, Chris Mattmann, a senior computer scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, discusses objected-oriented data technology (OODT) and health IT.


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Source: Security DevCenter

So You Want to Be A Consultant -- absolutely spot-on tips for understanding the true business of a consultant. (via Hacker News) BBYIDX -- a free and open source idea-gathering application written in Ruby, [ ] the basis of the Best Buy IdeaX website. The Git Parable -- The following parable will take you on a journey through the creation


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Source: Security DevCenter

Wow. Flashbelt Day 3. It's been a great ride so far. I'm back, to give you my picks of today's sessions, and, if you've been following, you'll know I'll be back this evening to tell you how they went .


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Source: Security DevCenter

Aviary is an amazingly powerful suite of free online content creation tools, many of which provide all the base line functionality of much more expensive commercial tools. Today Aviary released a beta version of their new simple music creation tool named Roc. I took Roc for a test drive and this is what I found.



Updated: Thu Jun 17 23:55:01 2010


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