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Linux and Open Source News for 11th July 2010

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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

The just-released Parted Magic 5.0, a live utility distribution designed for hard disk partitioning and data rescue tasks, comes with an upgraded kernel and GParted, as well as improved internationalisation support: "Parted Magic 5.0 brings Linux kernel 2.6.34.1, significant international language support (German, French, Italian, Norwegian, Brazilian Portuguese .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

After a series of alpha builds, the first release candidate for the upcoming Tiny Core Linux 3.0 is now available for testing: "Team Tiny Core is pleased to announce that Tiny Core 3.0 RC1 is now available. Changelog: new kernel update to 2.6.33.3 (a UPXed version is also .



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Source: Linux Today

TechRadar: "It's said that during the early days of the opensource operating system's development, this fellow took to attending conferences in complete silence.

All attempts to communicate via means other than hand gestures were refused. Instead, he pointed at things."


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Source: Linux Today

Softpedia: "Through this article, we would like to inform all current and future Ubuntu users that the next release, dubbed Maverick Meerkat, will have a completely revamped and accessible (by Linux beginners) installer."


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Source: Linux Today

Andreas Grech: "By allowing access to the DOM, an attacker can thus read form fields including username and password fields. This is what sparked my idea of creating this PoC."


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Drive-in: "Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator and CorelDraw, using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. This wallpaper collection is a pictorial illustration on what Inkscape can do in terms of creating art that stands out."


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Source: Linux Today

ars Technica: "Brazil has proposed a broad update to its copyright law (Portuguese) and it contains a surprising idea: penalize anyone who "hinders or impedes" fair use rights or obstructs the use of work that has already fallen into the public domain."


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Source: Linux Today

The H Open: "Kirk Wylie, CEO of London based startup OpenGamma, has announced the company has come out of stealth mode and in the coming months, will be presenting its financial analytics platform to the world."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

walterbyrd writes "SCO's ex-CEO's brother, a lawyer named Kevin McBride, has finally revealed some of the UNIX code that SCO claimed was copied into Linux. Scroll down to the comments where it reads: 'SCO submitted a very material amount of literal copying from UNIX to Linux in the SCO v. IBM case. For example, see the following excerpts from SCO's evidence submission in Dec. 2005 in the SCO v. IBM case:' There are a number of links to PDF files containing UNIX code that SCO claimed was copied into Linux (until they lost the battle by losing ownership of UNIX)." Many of the snippets I looked at are pretty generic. Others, like this one (PDF), would require an extremely liberal view of the term "copy and paste."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Join several Perl authors for a panel discussion and mixer at Powell's Technical Books during OSCON in Portland. Confirmed Perl authors include chromatic (Masterminds of Programming), brian d foy (Learning Perl), Joshua McAdams, Ovid (Perl Hacks), Peter Scott, and Randal Schwartz (Learning Perl). Bring your Perl books for your favorite authors to sign!


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Join brian (Learning Perl, Mastering Perl) as he presents his Effective Perl Programming class on August 7, 2010 at YAPC::EU in Pisa, Italy. Register for the class at the conference website.


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Join Dux Raymond Sy (SharePoint for Project Management) as he presents "How to Effectively Utilize Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010" at the PMI Global Congress 2010 North America.



Updated: Mon Jul 12 23:55:01 2010


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