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KDE: It's Time For a Fork Practical Technology: "OK, I've now tried KDE 4.1. I'd been assured that it would be better than KDE 4.0x. It is. That's the good news..." (Jun 29, 2008)
Linux Today Features
Why Linux Developers Are Wasting Their Time Red Devil's Tech Blog: "How many Linux users do you know who, once they have installed a new distribution, are so happy with its default appearance that they leave it alone...?" (Jun 28, 2008)
Defending Openness in the European Union (Jul 4, 2008, 04:00 UTC) (153 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld UK: "One of the most surprising recent developments in the field of openness has been the rise of Europe as a key player there..."
Michael Robertson, Where's the Cash? (Jul 3, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (1115 reads)
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(feedback) Kevin Carmony: "I have been contacted by several Linspire employees and shareholders, asking me what the Linspire asset sale to Xandros means..."
Identi.ca Launches, an Open Source Twitter (Jul 3, 2008, 16:30 UTC) (667 reads)
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(feedback) Ross Mayfield's Weblog: "Evan Prodromou, one of the better citizens of the wiki community and founder of WikiTravel, launched Identi.ca today..."
Guinness Bestows Download Record on Firefox (Jul 3, 2008, 15:00 UTC) (854 reads)
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(feedback) CNET News: "The de facto registrar of superlative achievements has credited Mozilla for officially setting a record for downloads in a 24-hour period: 8,002,530 copies of Firefox..."
Openmoko to Release Linux Handset Tomorrow (Jul 3, 2008, 12:45 UTC) (1385 reads)
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(feedback) Register Hardware: "Anyone fond of creating their own applications within a open source environment will soon be able to get mobile. Openmoko has finally announced the launch date of its Neo FreeRunner open-source phone..."
How To Install Ubuntu Linux In 12 Easy Steps (Jul 3, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (1348 reads)
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(feedback) InformationWeek: "Canonical's Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution is one of the more popular versions of the open source operating system, and it's easy to see why..."
Top of the Charts: Five Open Source File Sharing Apps (Jul 3, 2008, 07:30 UTC) (1504 reads)
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(feedback) TechWorld: "The answer to that question may be obvious to some, but the explosion in paid-for, online digital content services in recent years hasn't dented the download rates of free file sharing applications..."
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 [Review] (Jul 3, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (1686 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "Back in March we had looked at the Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 mobile processor with its Penryn core and 6MB of shared L2 cache between its two cores clocked at 2.50GHz..."
The Six Kinds of Anti-FOSS Trolls (Jul 3, 2008, 03:00 UTC) (1360 reads)
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(feedback) Penguin Pete's: "Since I wrote about the seven kinds of anti-Linux FUD pundits, it occurred to me that plain old forum and blog-comment trolls could be classified, too..."
Linux's Dirty Little Secret (Jul 2, 2008, 22:30 UTC) (4426 reads)
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(feedback) Hardware 2.0: "That said, there are a few aspects of Linux that do annoy/frustrate/anger me/make me hulk out* (delete as overall mood dictates), and one of these aspects is so core to an OS that I’m surprised that it hasn't been addressed already..."
The Critics are Wrong: KDE 4 Doesn't Need a Fork (Jul 2, 2008, 20:15 UTC) (2552 reads)
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(feedback) ars technica: "After the recent release KDE 4.1 beta 2 and openSUSE 11 with KDE 4.0.4, some critics have been especially vocal in expressing their displeasure with the KDE 4 user interface paradigms..."
Networking with Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows Part 2 (Jul 2, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (1994 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxPlanet: "Part 2 will give you a tour of the networking interfaces in Ubuntu; which are surprisingly somewhat similar to Windows XP. You'll soon be connecting, checking connection details, and browsing network computers in the Linux world..."
Beating Sandvine on Linux with iptables (Jul 2, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (1720 reads)
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(feedback) Tux Training: "Multiple sites reported a while ago that Comcast was using Sandvine to do tcp packet resets to throttle BitTorrent connections of their users..."
Ndiswrapper in Slackware (Jul 2, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (1057 reads)
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(feedback) PolishLinux: "The following article is about using a HP-530 laptop with Slackware-12.1 and Lantech wireless router with WEP encryption..."
A Symphony For Viola: Parsix 1.5r0 Review (Jul 2, 2008, 03:00 UTC) (771 reads)
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(feedback) Red Devil's Tech Blog: "Regular readers of this blog will know I'm a huge fan of Parsix, the Debian-based Linux distribution created by a small team in Iran..."
Ten Sticking Points for New Ubuntu Users (Jul 1, 2008, 21:00 UTC) (2653 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "With Ubuntu, Canonical has had notable success in convincing people to switch from other platforms, but potential Ubuntu users are still running into trouble in several areas..."
Which Linux Distributions Are Dying? (Jul 1, 2008, 20:30 UTC) (4805 reads)
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(feedback) Coding Experiments: "Like everything else, what goes up must come down. This must apply to Linux distributions too, right? So, what's happening with Linux? Which distributions are growing...?"
Samba Team Releases Samba 3.2 (Jul 1, 2008, 17:15 UTC) (9658 reads)
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(feedback) The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 3.2, a major new release of the award-winning Free Software file and print server suite for Microsoft Windows clients. Announcement within.
Making Desktop Linux Work for Business (Jul 1, 2008, 14:15 UTC) (1437 reads)
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(feedback) InfoWorld: "Today's IT managers face tough choices. PCs that run fine today have an uncertain upgrade path, now that Microsoft has chosen to discontinue Windows XP..."
Ext4 is now the primary filesystem on my laptop (Jul 1, 2008, 13:30 UTC) (2950 reads)
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(feedback) tytso's journal: "Over the weekend, I converted my laptop to use the ext4 filesystem. So far so good! So far I’ve found one bug as a result of my using ext4 in production..."
Linux Experiences 'Prolific' Growth, Says Linux Foundation's Zemlin (Jul 1, 2008, 12:45 UTC) (1080 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Linux News: "Formed by the 2007 merger of Open Source Development Labs and the Free Standards Group and home to Linux's creator Linus Torvalds, the Foundation promotes the use of Linux through support for kernel development; the development of common definitions, standards and best practices; and resolution of legal issues..."
June 2008 Top500 Supercomputer Sites Dominated by Linux (Jul 1, 2008, 11:00 UTC) (1726 reads)
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(feedback) Top500 Supercomputer Sites: "With the publication of the latest edition of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers today (Wednesday, June 18), the global high performance computing community has officially entered a new realm—a supercomputer with a peak performance of more than 1 petaflop/s (one quadrillion floating point operations per second)."
Microsoft tactics push India toward Linux (Jul 1, 2008, 09:30 UTC) (2579 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Watch: "One of India's 28 states plans to distribute 100,000 Linux laptops to students there. It sounds like Tamil Nadu's volume purchasing agent decided to use Linux exclusively after being put off by Microsoft's bundling tactics for academic users."
Using Strings To Safely Get Program Usage Information On Linux And Unix (Jul 1, 2008, 08:00 UTC) (1410 reads)
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(feedback) Linux and Unix Menagerie: "One way I've found that is virtually foolproof, and works in every distro I've tested, is to use the "strings" command to extract usage information. If you've ever used strings before, you know that distilling what it spits out when you run it against a command to a universally acceptable output of help information for any and/or all binaries is next to impossible. The Linux version of the crash command comes much closer to doing this, and doing it better. But, for the rest of us (even those without the privilege to run "crash"), we can still get the information we need using "strings", like so:"
Ah Another Opening for Desktop Linux (Jul 1, 2008, 06:30 UTC) (2055 reads)
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(feedback) TechTreasures: "My colleague Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols recently wrote a piece on his fine Practical Technology blog called Dear Microsoft, Thanks for the help, Linux in which he argues that Microsoft’s ill-timed decision to cut off easy access to XP tomorrow (June 30th) combined with its announcement it would be releasing the next version of Windows in January, 2010 effectively lends a death blow to Vista and creates a huge opportunity for desktop Linux. With all due respect to my esteemed colleague, this is not the first time I’ve heard such a prediction."
Last.fm - Open-source Application for Last.fm Radio Review (Jul 1, 2008, 05:00 UTC) (1047 reads)
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(feedback) Echoes: "Last.fm is an open-source application licensed under the GPL, allowing you to listen to Last.fm radio stations and submit the songs in the same time. For those of you unfamiliar with Last.fm, it's a great social music community, allowing you to submit songs you currently listen to, statistics, forums for bands or music styles (or even more: Amarok has a group, most major distributions also, and you can start your own group about anything...together with information for each artist, open for anyone to edit, just like the Wikipedia style."
Surprise Desktop Linux Move: Xandros Buys Linspire (Jul 1, 2008, 00:38 UTC) (2197 reads)
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(feedback) Practical Technology: "In an announcement that was sent out today, June 30, to Linspire stockholders, CEO Larry Kettler wrote that the stockholders had decided to sell all of Linspire’s assets. This deal specifically includes Linspire, Freespire, and the company’s distribution agnostic CNR (Click ‘N Run) desktop installation platform.
This move is not being greeted with enthusiasm by all of Linspire stockholders’."
Super Micro C2SBX+ Linux Review (Jun 30, 2008, 20:30 UTC) (932 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "With Super Micro's focus on the workstation and server markets, they do support Linux on a number of their different motherboards. Among the Linux distributions they support on different products include Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, SuSE, and Fedora. We have already used the Intel X48 Chipset on Linux (in fact, even before the chipset officially made its debut) so we were not surprised when the Super Micro C2SBX+ had worked flawlessly with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. In addition to the core functionality of this motherboard working flawlessly with this Linux 2.6.24 kernel distribution -- even the LM_Sensors support was first-rate."
