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Linux and Open Source News for 17th June 2010

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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Two specialist editions of Sabayon Linux 5.3 were announced yesterday. "SpinBase" is a minimalist Sabayon which can be extended and re-mastered into a custom installation or CD/DVD image, while "CoreCDX" is a small graphical Sabayon with X.Org and Fluxbox: "Directly from our server department, two new Sabayon editions .



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Source: Linux Today

Softpedia: "AMD announced another improved version of its ATI Catalyst Linux display driver, available for both x86 and x86_64 architectures."


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Source: Linux Today

FSM: "This is not exactly a tutorial. These modelling tasks are challenging for me as well (part of the fun of these projects is learning how to use the tools), and my goal here is to explain how we're solving problems, without necessarily going into blow-by-blow detail."


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Source: Linux Today

DaniWeb: "Is it true that, if you speak up for GNU/Linux on the Desktop, you get flamed? The Apple Community is too glazed over with iCrap to care what we do. But, there is one 'community' that might take issue with Linux on the Desktop. Who could it be?"


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Source: Linux Today

FSM: "These are exciting times for Falcon's language development. New and interesting features are being implemented, tested and rolled out at break neck speeds!"


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxPlanet: "Making an image copy of your system disk is a great way to create a backup. If your main drive does crash, you could be back up and running in a matter of minutes. Now all that's left is making the actual image copy. There are lots of ways to accomplish this task, and we'll spell a few of them out to help you along."


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Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "Let's face it. People screw up -- some more than others. Screw ups could be a result of poor choices, bad planning, insufficient skills, unexpected circumstances or simply bad luck. But should your first reaction be 'I'm going to ring their neck?'"


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Source: Linux Today

Toolbox for IT: "Mononucleosis is a very infectious disease which many people suffer through in their childhood. Related by the shortened name to this biological virus is the Mono project for Linux."


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Source: Linux Today

Network World: "There is a fervent debate going on in the open source community about cloud computing. Will the cloud kill open source?"


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Source: Linux Today

nixCraft: "Core dumps can serve as useful debugging aids. This article explains how to turn on core file support and track down bugs in programs."


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Source: Linux Today

The VAR Guy: "When Red Hat Summit starts June 22 in Boston, Red Hat will maintain a careful virtualization balancing act. During one session, Red Hat and Microsoft will discuss how they work together on virtualization. But during a separate session, Red Hat will describe how Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) offers cost advantages over both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V."


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Source: Linux Today

PC World Australia: "It's still relatively early days for MeeGo, but, judging from this release, we suspect this Linux distribution has a great future ahead of it"


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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "Amanda is an open source client/server solution to back up filesystems. Backups are triggered by the backup server, backup definitions are located on the servers but exclusion lists are located on the client."


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Source: Linux Today

Cyber Cynic: "Hardware companies don't tend to have their own Linux distributions. But, no major OEM (original equipment manufacturer) has had a house-brand Linux until now. Surely HP is not getting into the Linux distribution business? Are they!?"


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Linux Pro Magazine: "Google software engineer John Koleszar addressed the open source community regarding the VP8 codec and the steps needed to further optimize to codec within the WebM project."


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Webopedia: "A type of computing, comparable to grid computing that relies on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers or personal devices to handle applications. The goal of cloud computing is to apply traditional supercomputing, or high-performance computing power, normally used by military and research facilities, to perform tens of trillions of computations per second, in consumer-oriented applications."


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Source: Linux Today

Handle With Linux: "If you are looking for a rugged Android phone this may exactly be what you are looking for. This is the Bluebird Pidion BIP-6000. The phone is IP65 sealed and tested for drops from 1.8 meter on a steel surface."


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Source: Linux Today

nixCraft: "It is no secret that I am a pretty big fan of excellent Linux Software RAID. Creating, assembling and rebuilding small array is fine. But, things started to get nasty when you try to rebuild or resync large size array."


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Source: Linux Today

My GNU/Linux: "Lately I was trying to achieve a more unified login experience on my pc. I was thinking that a change of the background of both the KDM Login screen and of the Splash screen that follows would do the trick. In the process I learned a few more things that I decided to share with all the co-n00bs out there."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

azop writes "Today Bluecherry released a GPL'd driver for its multiple-input MPEG-4 hardware compression cards. The driver supports audio and video capture from 4-, 8-, and 16-channel single-card encoders using the Video4Linux and ALSA APIs. More information about the driver and its features can be found on Bluecherry's development blog and on Ben Collins' personal blog. Bluecherry is the first Linux software company to release a complete driver based on Linux kernel APIs (Video4Linux and ALSA) for multiple-input hardware-compressed MPEG-4 capture cards under the GPL. The cards are designed for security applications (digital video recording), but other applications could potentially make use of the compressed streams and Video4Linux API integration. An H.264 version is 'in the works.'"

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Source: Slashdot: Linux

azop writes "Today Bluecherry released a GPLed driver for its multiple-input MPEG-4 hardware compression cards. The driver supports audio and video capture from 4-, 8-, and 16-channel single-card encoders using the Video4Linux and ALSA APIs. More information about the driver and its features can be found on Bluecherry's development blog and on Ben Collins' personal blog. Bluecherry is the first Linux software company to release a complete driver based on Linux kernel APIs (Video4Linux and ALSA) for multiple-input hardware-compressed MPEG-4 capture cards under the GPL. The cards are designed for security applications (digital video recording), but other applications could potentially make use of the compressed streams and Video4Linux API integration. An H.264 version is 'in the works.'"

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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Flock has undergone a major evolution in the last year. From the Swiss-Army knife of social media to a slimmed down browser that tackles Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube only. Even more shocking, the project has dumped Firefox for Chromium. Was the switch worth it?



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Source: ONLamp.com

In this podcast interview, Apache co-founder Brian Behlendorf discusses the CONNECT project and the role data can play in improving patient care and the medical system.



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Source: Security DevCenter

Learn how to create a Variable Spark Tile Layout that doesn't size every column's width/height the same!


Source: Security DevCenter

Graph visualization is the study of how to turn abstract representations of graphs (think network diagrams of nodes and edges, rather than XY-coordinates) into diagrams. I love graphviz (the program that produced this image), and have used it in several different projects, like this visualization of Senate voting patterns I wrote about in Beautiful Visualization.

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Source: Security DevCenter

The addition of animation and interactivity breathes new life -- and insight -- into a Senate voting visualization. Andrew Odewahn discusses his visualization process and how revisions made a big difference.


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Source: Security DevCenter

This is the second in a series of Robotlegs articles that will appear here on InsideRIA in the coming weeks detailing core Robotlegs concepts and working through some more advanced concepts involving third party utilities and libraries built to interact with them.


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Source: Security DevCenter

What is IBM's Watson? (NY Times) -- IBM joining the big data machine learning race, and hatching a Blue Gene system that can answer Jeopardy questions. Does good, not great, and is getting better. Google Lays Out its Mobile Strategy (InformationWeek) -- notable to me for Rechis said that Google breaks down mobile users into three behavior groups: A .


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Source: Security DevCenter

Photo: Joichi ItoNow that I've been mostly away from the copyright battles for a while and am unlikely to have much to do with them in the foreseeable future,



Updated: Fri Jun 18 23:55:01 2010


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