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Network World: "The Linux KVM hypervisor is gaining steam in the cloud computing market, with two major vendors using the virtualization software to create cloud platforms to compete against Amazon's popular EC2 service."

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Packt: "Basic and practical uses of the Particle System: Creating Dust, Creating Smoke, Creating Fire, Creating Bubbles, Simulating Rock Slides, Creating Hair/Fur/Grass"

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Hubfolio: "KDE Plasmoids provide a powerful platform to create desktop widgets and applications. In this tutorial we will look at how to get a simple Plasmoid created using Python."

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TechWorld: "Mac OS X and Linux are not completely secure"

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the Friday Blog: "I touched briefly upon OS independence when I wrote a little bit about the Q10 minimalistic word processor a few weeks ago and PyRoom, another minimalistic word processor, last week."

Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "Australia's largest ISP, BigPond, has decided to ditch its local mirrors of Linux and other open source operating systems, as well as various other open source software and Creative Commons media. BigPond posted a terse update on the service's website, citing reasons of low popularity and the existence of better services like download.com and Tucows. BigPond customers are not impressed by the move, given that the ISP is infamous in Australia for its high prices and relatively low monthly quotas of bandwidth (many users are on 10gb or 25gb per month plans) and all downloads from this service did not count towards their monthly limits."

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