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Linux and Open Source News for 2nd August 2010

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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Patrick Verner announced the immediate availability of Parted Magic 5.2, a live utility distribution designed for hard disk partitioning and data rescue tasks: "Parted Magic 5.2 updates GParted to 0.6.2, fixes some bugs, and improves international language support. The new GParted re-enables MiB partition alignment option and fixes .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

MeeGo is an open-source Linux project which brings together Moblin headed up by Intel, and Maemo by Nokia, into a single open-source activity targeting netbooks and other mobile devices. MeeGo for IVI (In-Vehicle Infotainment) Version 1.0 was just announced: "We are pleased to present this 1.0 release of .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Jo Harris just announced the availability of Karoshi 7.0, now an Ubuntu-based server operating system designed for schools providing a simple graphical interface for easy installation and network maintenance: "What's New? Built on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS; 64bit and 32bit available; choice of server and domain names; wide range .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Feature: Giving Credit Where Credit is Due (Linux Fund)
News: Improvements to DTrace in FreeBSD, guides to networking and changes in the openSUSE project
Questions and answers: A comparison of BSD and Linux
Released last week: Clonezilla, Linux Mint, GhostBSD
Upcoming releases: Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 3
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Source: Linux Today

Cyber Cynic: "Last week, Greg DeKoenigsberg, a former Red Hat developer on the Fedora community Linux project and now CTO of The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), ignited a firestorm by showing that, when it comes to code, Red Hat does far more for open-source projects "


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Source: "If your hard drive is unbootable due to corrupt partition tables, computer viruses, system errors, and other non-mechanical issues, you may consider using a hard drive data recovery tool to save your precious files or data from being permanently wiped out"


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Source: Linux Today

My Thoughts: "On August 1, 2010 Linus released the 2.6.35 kernel. This kernel is now available in the git repository of Ubuntu 10.04 and you are able to compile your own 2.6.35 kernel for Ubuntu 10.04. This kernel is backported from the Maverick kernel repository."


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Source: Linux Today

Digitizor: "Well, it has been quite a long time coming but, finally, there is a dictionary plugin for KRunner now. Jason Donenfeld posted in his blog today that he has completed the dictionary plugin for KRunner."


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Source: Linux Today

Kernel Newbies: "Summary: Linux 2.6.35 includes support for transparent spreading of incoming network load across CPUs, Direct-IO support for Btrfs, an new experimental journal mode for XFS, the KDB debugger UI based on top of KGDB, improvements to 'perf', H.264 and VC1 video acceleration in Intel G45+ chips, support for the future Intel Cougarpoint graphic chip, power management for AMD Radeon chips "


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Source: Linux Today

LWN.net: "A number of the community leaders from the OpenSolaris community have
been working quietly together on a new effort called Illumos, and we're
just about ready to fully disclose our work "


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Source: Linux Today

EnterpriseMobile Today: "Two separate reports today place sales of Android handsets ahead of Apple's iPhone for the first time amid a frenzy of Froyo, or Android 2.2, update news for major smartphones including the Evo 4G and Droid."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Planet: "Another day, another kernel release, and this one incorporates new performance-enhancing code from Google. There is also less bloat and less cruft, and many other goodies."


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Source: Linux Today

CircleID: "Most new domain names are malicious."


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Source: Linux Today

Wall Street Journal: "The online habits of most people who use the world's dominant Web browser are an open book to advertisers. That wasn't the plan at first."


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Source: Linux Today

Tales about Aliaksey's life: "I'm a long time Debian user. And I'm a happy Debian user. My current Debian installation is very (and I mean very, very) old. I don't remember exactly how old it is, but it's more than 6 years old. And it's probably as much as 9 years old."


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Source: Linux Today

Glx-Dock / Cairo-Dock: "An official beta release of the 2.2 version of GLX-Dock is available.

The main goal of this version is to approach the usability of the -panel.
To reach it, we aimed at making an "Unity" theme, based on the recent interesting remarks of Canonical."


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxBSDos: "Fedora 13 is one of a handful of Linux distributions with support for btrfs, the B-tree File System, one of the newest file systems in the Linux kernel. Btrfs is destined to be the default Linux file system."


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Source: Linux Today

Infostor: " Backup used to be simple in SMB environments: You slapped on your tape and autoloader, scheduled backup in the backup application, and set it to run. Occasionally you would test to see that it actually did run. Most of the time it worked "


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Source: Linux Today

Greg DeKoenigsberg Speaks: "It's easy to shoot your mouth off in the heat of anger, and it can be hard to apologize for it. But when you finally realize, unequivocally, that you've done the wrong thing, then apologizing is the right thing to do, no matter how hard it is"


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Planet: "The Linux/FOSS world is not just for grownups; Eric Geier rounds up a batch of Linux distros that are just for kids."


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxLinks: "An essential part of learning is to make music lessons fun. This can be achieved with music games, lesson plans, and worksheets.


To provide an insight into the quality of software available, we have compiled a list of excellent 5 music learning tools."


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Source: Linux Today

Blog of Helios: "It's been a problem from the start. Not a large problem nothing that can't be overcome "

But a problem that eats time and resources."


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Source: Linux Today

EasyLinuxCDs: "GhostBSD 1.5 is based on the FreeBSD live CD however because this release is a little larger it comes on as a live DVD. As of this release GhostBSD is completely installable by issuing a list of commands and pc-sysinstall"


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Source: Linux Today

TuxRadar: "The recent series of OpenSUSE releases seems to have been oscillating between trying to deliver the finest up-to-date apps and providing the easiest, most intuitive experience for users. History tells us that it's hard to do both simultaneously, but this release might just have managed to pull it off. We reckon it's worth 9 out of 10 - but why?"


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TechRepublic: "I've been using the latest version (10.04) of Ubuntu Linux since April and there's a lot to like about it. I announced earlier this year that I was giving desktop Linux another look, and I went with Ubuntu because it is the Linux distribution most focused on a desktop OS."


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Source: Linux Today

Scott Photographics: "This photo manipulation is called a stereographic projection, which takes a standard photograph and stretches it around in a circle creating a Globe or Planet like image!"


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Source: Linux Today

The H Open: "Leading up to the arrival of version 2.6.35 of the Linux kernel, The H published the final two parts of the Coming in 2.6.35 series, GNOME 3 was been delayed until March of 2011 and Oracle shut down PostgreSQL test servers."


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Source: Linux Today

Debian.org: "The Debian Project, the team behind the free Debian GNU/Linux operating system, would like to invite you to participate in the upcoming Debian Conference which will take place from August 1 to 7, 2010, at New York City's Columbia University in cooperation with the Columbia Computer Science department"



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

angry tapir writes "One Laptop Per Child wants to join forces to help develop the Indian government's planned US$35 tablet. In a congratulatory note to the government, OLPC Chairman Nicholas Negroponte said the world needs the $35 tablet, and he offered the country full access to OLPC hardware and software technology."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Updated: Tue Aug 3 23:55:01 2010


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