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Source: Linux Today

The H Open: "Several patches submitted by a Google developer will enable the kernel to push considerably more data through network cables on multi-core systems. Some of the LAN and Wi-Fi drivers also promise greater throughput, or to use less power, due to various driver enhancements."


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Source: Linux Today

MakeTechEasier: "Many people still cling to the notion that Linux is for 30-year-old male geeks. While that may be true, there are plenty of other people of all ages, ethnicities, and genders who enjoy Linux and other free and open source software."


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Tech Drive-in: "Morevna is an open source anime project made using open source tools like Synfig, Blender, GIMP and Krita. Unlike Project London Movie, Morevna is not only created using free and open source tools, but Morevna anime will also be released and distributed as free content."


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IT News Today: "As time goes on, I am becoming more and more fond of Linux Mint. The latest version of Mint (Isadora) was released back in May, and when I reviewed it I fell in love with it. However, I'm primarily a KDE user so I've been anxiously awaiting the KDE edition, which is about to be released. Will it be worth the wait?"


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ars Technica: "Sony did not make many friends in the tech community when the company forcibly removed the option to install Linux via a mandatory firmware update."


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Cyber Cynic: "Actually, it looks now like MeeGo is going to have its own niche where it will be the embedded Linux of choice: Car entertainment, Internet, and navigation systems."


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FOSSbazaar: "These days I am receiving quite a number of mails that ask the same question: If a FOSS project is sponsored by only one company or entity, do you think it's a healthy project?"


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ZDNet: "Windows by nature has more downtime per system, because Microsoft releases patches that require frequent rebooting. Windows patches are scheduled to be released on the second Tuesday of each month, so at a minimum once per month Windows systems will need to reboot."


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Developer.com: "Android, an open source mobile platform with no upfront fees, has emerged as a new mobile development option that offers many benefits over competing platforms. But is it right for your project? In this reference guide, you'll learn all the nitty-gritty details you need to know to evaluate Android "


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Source: Linux Today

Slash Gear: "Mobile photography could get a shot in the arm thanks to the combined efforts of Stanford University researchers and Nokia Research, who have pushed a new open-source digital photography platform out the door."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "Have you ever wanted to look inside a tar.gz file but without expanding it? Have you ever wanted to just dump files in a .tar.gz file without having to organize it and periodically tar and gzip this data?"


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How-to Geek: "There are lots of command-line utilities to kill unresponsive programs in Linux, but for the button-pushing-inclined, the Force Quit panel button lets you kill any app that you can click on without needing to remember anything."


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Phoronix: "Earlier this year we reviewed an Intel H55 motherboard and found it to perform well under Linux both in terms of compatibility with the latest Linux distributions at the time as well as the overall system performance with our slew of open-source benchmarks"


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Linux Journal: "What is agent-based modeling, otherwise known as ABM? What is distributed computing? Why do it?"


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Linux Planet: "PulseAudio was supposed to cure desktop audio in Linux. But for many Ubuntu users it has been a vexation. Carla Schroder shows us how to turn it on and off so that it runs when we want it to, not when it wants to."


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Serverwatch: "Back in 2005, IBM's DB2 database software was among the first major enterprise applications to be certified to run on Ubuntu Linux. Five years later, the partnership is expanding, with IBM's DB2 being packaged by Canonical to run as a virtual appliance instance of Ubuntu running in the cloud."


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AppleInsider: "The application describes an operating system that would present the user with an advertisement, preventing them from doing basic functions on the system for a set period of time. At the conclusion of the advertisement, the user would be able to resume their activities on the machine."


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The Register: "Google will crack open more of Android's development process but keep new versions of its mobile OS closed for competitive reasons."


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Datamation: "Something horrible could happen, but nobody knows what.

At least that seems to be the consensus among Location-Based Services (LBS) experts."


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eWeek: "IBM claims its new zEnterprise mainframe is the highest performing, most efficient mainframe ever and the z196 core server has something to do with that. The system is 60 percent faster than its predecessor and uses the same amount of electricity."


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Lifehacker: "Free utility Ear Candy makes your sound system smarter. If you're listening to music and a Skype call comes in, or you load a YouTube video, Ear Candy gently lowers your music volume to let the other sounds through."


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PC World: "While open-source coders have done a remarkable job of providing a complete open-source software stack, they haven't kept up with the emergence of Web services, charges an executive from a prominent open-source foundation."


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OStatic: "If you happen to have followed the path of speech recognition software over the years, you know that it's been a rocky road."


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Thoughts on Technology: "I have now found my new favourite distro and it goes by the name of Pinguy OS. Pinguy OS started off as an Ubuntu 10.04 Minimal CD that was customized like no other to include a fantastic range of default applications, Gnome applets, Firefox addons, and theme."


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The Register: "Every few years, Drupal violates done of the industry's most sacred rules: don't break your APIs."


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Datamation: "In the Linux desktop world, the graphical user interface is here to stay. Old Unix hands may grumble, but the fact remains that, without all the efforts poured into GNOME, KDE, Xfce and others, Linux would not be as successful as it is today."


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Lifehacker: "We love Linux, and want to make it easier for others to do so, too. This first edition of the Lifehacker Pack for Linux includes our favorite apps that get things done and make your desktop great."


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ZDNet: "I've spent the last few days using, rather than cursing at, my netbook."


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Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris: "The procedure driven by virt-install (libvirt 0.8.2) has been managed via keyboard due to mouse pointer stayed frozen at center of VNC window all the time of installation and finally at Gnome Desktop came up at the end"



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An anonymous reader writes "In my job all of our multifunction copiers scan to PDF but many of our users want and expect those PDFs to be text searchable. I looked around for software that would create text searchable pdfs but most are very expensive and I couldn't find any that were open source (free). I did find some open source packages like CuneiForm and Exactimage that could in theory do the job, but they were hard to install and difficult to set up and use over a network. Then I stumbled upon WatchOCR. This is a Live CD distro that can easily create a server on your network that provides an OCR service using watched folders. Now all my scanners scan to a watched folder, WatchOCR picks up those files and OCRs them, and then spits them out into another folder. It uses CuneiForm and ExactImage but it is all configured and ready to deploy. It can even be remotely managed via the Web interface. Hope this proves helpful to someone else who has this same situation."

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Join O'Reilly authors Dux Raymond Sy (SharePoint for Project Management), Errin O'Connor (Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Inside Out), Andrew Connell (Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010), Scot Hillier (Inside Microsoft SharePoint 2010), and Joel Oleson (SharePoint 2010: Best Practices for Upgrading and Migrating) as they present various sessions at the SharePoint Technology Conference (SPTechCon) in Boston. Receive a $100 discount: use registration code MEDIASPONSOR at www.sptechcon.com.



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The introduction of new multimedia presentation techniques in the W3C SMIL 3 recommendation has given the software industry a new challenge to bring professional tools up to date. In the meantime, developers and users can get a feel for the new techniques available in SMIL 3 using open source and other free tools such as Ambulant. Become familiar with what is new in SMIL 3 in this article.



Updated: Fri Jul 23 23:55:01 2010


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