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Linux and Open Source News for 8th September 2010

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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Julian Lavergne has announced the availability of the first beta release of Lubuntu 10.10, a lightweight, unofficial variant of Ubuntu featuring the LXDE desktop. What's new? "- New LXAppearance from LXDE git (without Openbox integration); the usual updates from Ubuntu; update notifier was added; Xpad was added; Parcellite .



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Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevices: "Navigation device manufacturer Rydeen Mobile Electronics announced a seven-inch, Android-based tablet called the "gPad GCOM701" at last weekend's IFA show in Berlin."


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Xen Virtualization on Linux and Solaris: "In meantime Xen 4.0.1 is available via rawhide repositories . Been installed along with 2.6.32.21 pvops kernel and the most recent libvirt 0.8.3 on top of F14 (rawhide) via just several yum install commands,it doesn't require any longer to build xen rpms using corresponding xen-4.0.1-1.f14.src.rpm."


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Linux Journal: "The Red Hat board of directors announced a new chairman Monday, August 30, to replace outgoing Matthew Szulik. Henry Hugh Shelton, retired Special Forces general, has been serving on the board since 2003 after leaving the elite Army division."


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LinuxPR: Instead, every piece of technology was chosen from the open source community. Here is the story of the technology behind stock photo agency YayMicro.com.


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Conceivably Tech: "Following Qualcomm, Samsung is also close to be launching a new smartphone processor with two cores. Based on ARM architecture, the new processor promises five times the graphics performance of current chips and enable 1080p video recording and playback."


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Standards Blog: "I've been re-working The Alexandria Project in preparation for approaching a literary agent. One thing I'm toying with is whether the book needs to get to a quicker, edgier start than the original first chapter provides - such as what follows below. What's your opinion?"


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ZDNet Asia: "OrangeHRM, the open source human resource management (HRM) software company, wants to join the million-dollar revenue club by 2011."


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MakeTechEasier: "With the coming of KDE 4, the number of effects has multiplied, and KWin (KDE's window manager) is now on par with Compiz (a window manager with numerous desktop effects). Moreover, KWin's primary advantage over Compiz is that it is part of KDE and integrates perfectly with the rest of the desktop."


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Digital Versus: "What is using Linux like in 2010? Can anybody pick it it? What about giving it a trial run first? Well, we're going to find out."


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Serverwatch: "Love Microsoft or hate it, there are two things about the Redmond enterprise OS maker you can't deny: It's very, very big, and it likes to get its fingers into every pie around."


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Dedoimedo: "Several readers contacted me, urging me to review Zorin. My interest piqued, I set about the lanes of Google, searching for more information. The initial findings were quite positive. Zorin was praised in the reviews I read. The official website looked posh, sending a subliminal message that it was a kind of a freebie Mac OSX. "


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Datamation: "The race to accelerate browser features continues as Mozilla developers race towards the finish line to get the finished version of the Firefox 4 Web browser out the door."


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Packt: "The Open Source Awards is an annual online event held by Packt Publishing to distinguish excellence among Open Source projects."


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LWN.net: "The next generation of digital hearing aids is being developed and
tested on real-time GNU/Linux systems from 64 Studio Ltd, using
dedicated multi-channel audio interfaces and standard Lenovo notebooks."


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Source: Linux Today

MWR Labs: "The previous article in this series on Linux security described different userspace protection mechanisms that can be applied to protect binaries on a Linux system. Unsurprisingly, without additional kernel settings and protections most of the previously described mechanisms cannot be utilised to their full extent."


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MWR Labs: "Probably every attack mitigation technique that has been developed over time to mitigate memory corruption exploits can be implemented and used in one form or another in a Linux operating system."


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Desktop Linux Reviews: The Desktop Linux Reviews blog now has a brand new discussion forum.


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The Tyee: "Injecting greater competition into that market lies at the heart of last week's CRTC decision to require incumbent telecom companies -- such as Bell, Bell Aliant, and Telus -- to provide independent ISPs with speed-matched open access to their network "


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Linux Planet: "Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman gives an inside look at how he works with Ubuntu's engineering teams and the upstream community."


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The H Open: "Mozilla has confirmed that it has started culling features for version 4.0 of its open source Firefox web browse"


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Shantanu's Technophilic Musings: "The bad news is, the developer console will not let me change it! I have to pull the app until I can get this resolved."


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GRASS: "GRASS includes tools for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and vector data, management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of satellite and aerial imagery."


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Linux.com: "Firefox, Chrome, and other browsers do an acceptable job of downloading a single file of reasonable size. But I don't like to trust a browser to grab ISO images and other files that are hundreds of megabytes, or larger."


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CodePlex: "The Microsoft CodePlex.com team has donated $25,000 to the Mercurial project, responding to the recent appeal by the project leader, Matt Mackall."


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The H Open: "A beta of an unofficial remix of Ubuntu 10.04.1, the "Saner Defaults Remix", which offers "better default choices" and a Mono-free experience, has been released"


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The H open: "The GNU Project Debugger release team has published the second point update to version 7.0 of its standard debugger for the GNU software system."


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ServerWatch: "This week, I've been experimenting with gnome-do, the Gnome application launcher that also allows you to specify particular actions to take on whatever file or application you've found."


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O'Reilly Broadcast: "There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it." --William James"


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Wine-Reviews: "Whats new in this release:

* Update of the Gecko engine, now including a 64-bit version.
* New implementation of console support on Unix terminals."



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The O'Reilly School of Technology is excited to announce the release of Perl 2: Intermediate Perl. This is the second course in the upcoming Perl Programming Certificate Series, and right now you can enroll at 50% off normal tuition.

Check out the below video of me introducing our Perl author, Peter Scott:



Updated: Thu Sep 9 23:55:01 2010


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