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Linux and Open Source News for 10th September 2010

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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Michael Creel has announced the release of PelicanHPC 2.2, a Debian-based live CD that makes it easy to set up a high-performance computing cluster in a few minutes: "Version 2.2 final release is available. This release has many new features, the main new feature is a simple way .


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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Mark Preetorius has announced the release of a new update of Ubuntu Privacy Remix 9.04, an unofficial Ubuntu variant whose goal is to provide a completely isolated working environment and to protect data against unsolicited access: "The Ubuntu Privacy Remix team has published the fourth stable release of .



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Source: Linux Today

Linux Made Easy: "Recently at work we installed a biometric access control system. I was not in charge of this buy, but I tried the Windows software that is responsible for data handling and connects to biometric terminals."


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Source: Linux Today

Tirania: "Apple has removed the restrictions that were introduced earlier this year (the famous section 3.3.1). "


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Source: Linux Today

PC World: "However, when I got my hands on this book, OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet Macro Programming, I was curious and hoped to find I was wrong, that this would open up new opportunities for clients and organizations that want to get away from Microsoft Office, clients who are already using OpenOffice, so I was really interested to see the level of capability that Calc had in its macro programming."


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Source: Linux Today

Sankuru: "I guess quite a few joomla administrators regularly run into batch conversion issues. You have an entire folder of files in the one format, and now you need the same files, but in another format."


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Source: Linux Today

Dilbert: "I didn't have any accurate numbers so "


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Source: Linux Today

IT World: "We all know that Google is in the operating system business these days. What hasn't been clear is exactly what Google has planned for its Chrome operating system."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Linux users have never been well-served by Flash. The official browser plugin offered by Adobe has tended to lag behind releases for other platforms. Flash is available only for 32-bit Intel-compatible processor architectures, and it has long been a source of browser slowdowns, freezes, and crashes."


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Source: Linux Today

Computerworld UK: "When people say "community" it's important to work out just who they mean, as there is no single "open source community" - it's a meta-community built from many kinds of communities."


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Drive-in: "
Mozilla Labs is what it name stands for. A place where people come together virtually to produce creative works mostly web based technologies. Mozilla Labs hosts a number of popular projects and involves active community participation."


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Comics: "Online social networks like Twitter and Facebook can allow humor-challenged people to be funny."


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Source: Linux Today

Thoughts on Technology: "I started writing this article but then felt it's point could be better represented in comic form"


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Insider: "The number of reported mobile malware attacks is low, not because mobile phones are impenetrable fortresses, but because potential attackers have yet to figure out how to monetize their spoils. Cloud access solves that monetization problem."


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Phoronix: "Since last year we have been talking about Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, one of the official ports for Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" that will bring a 32-bit and 64-bit FreeBSD kernel as an option to using the Linux kernel."


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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "Now, Broadcom has released an open-source driver for its latest 802.11n chip sets.

See? Miracles do happen!"


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Source: Linux Today

Linux User and Developer: "In this months kernel column John Masters discusses another eventful kernel cycle, not to mention the latest round of Linus Torvald (justified?) rants, the Kernel Summit 2010 and some pretty intense penguin-on-penguin action "


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Ever-increasing Entropy: "Last October, after my third Sylvania netbook failed, I took the refund I had received and bought an HP Mini 110 netbook as a replacement."


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Source: Linux Today

IT World: "One of the things that really throws new Unix users is when to use quotes and which kind of quotes. Between single quotes, double quotes and back ticks, a person can start to feel that Unix is unnecessarily tricky."


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Source: Linux Today

Seattle PI: "After news broke that the Texas Attorney General's office is just the latest to open an antitrust investigation into Google's business practices, a company attorney wrote a blog post that indirectly pointed a finger at Microsoft."


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Source: Linux Today

Network World: "It doesn't give me any pleasure in saying this, but the evidence is overwhelming that Linux is not huge on the desktop. Saying it has maybe 1% of the desktop marketshare is probably not realistic, but not as far off the mark as we'd like."


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openSUSE Revolution: "The launcher menu paradox has almost been around ever since graphical environments were created. They provided a simple method through which users could access their applications pertaining to a particular task."


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PC World: "If the idea of using Linux in your business is one that makes you nervous, chances are you've fallen prey to one or more of the many myths out there that are frequently disseminated by competing vendors such as Microsoft. After all, each Linux user means one less sale for such companies, so they have a powerful motivation to spread such FUD."


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Seeing the fnords: "Why do people choose to participate in Open Source ? It's always a mix of various reasons, so let's try to explore and classify them."


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Datamation: "Smartphone sales will continue to exceed even the most optimistic expectations this year, according to the latest industry forecast by IT researcher IDC."


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LWN.net: "Many have criticized syslog-ng, a replacement for the syslog logging daemon with many additional features, for not being open enough. Syslog-ng has a closed-source commercial version and keeps the entire code base under a single copyright by requiring copyright transfer for contributions, which has been a sore spot in the eyes of many people."


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Source: Linux Today

My Gaming: "Get on your tuxedo's - MyGaming pays respect to our oft-forgotten PC gaming brother, the Linux user"


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Tech Drive-in: "Brand new Firefox 4.0 is on its final descent. Be it the introduction of awesome TabCandy feature or the new super fast "JaegerMonkey" JavaScript engine, Firefox 4.0 is all over the news for all the right reasons. I think this is the best time to introduce some cool Firefox commercials/videos. Take a look."


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Source: Linux Today

tildehash:~#: "Below is a still image from the film's official trailer, in it you can see what appears to be an old version of the KDE Desktop Environment. This particular still image is from a scene in the movie taking place in 2003, so KDE 3 would be an accurate version for the year."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

Brad Linder of Liliputing posted an interesting analysis today about Google's reluctance to endorse Android for tablets. Linder argues that while there may be legitimate concern that Android just isn't polished enough for devices without phone access (because some apps need it), it would be smart for Google to segregate the apps themselves, so users can simple know which apps will work on Wi-Fi only tablets. But from Google's perspective, he observes, "pushing a version of Android that isn’t exclusively for phones could be all it takes for Chrome OS to be dead on arrival."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Updated: Sat Sep 11 23:55:01 2010


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