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U-boot for ARM on QEMU

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 13:30

Instructions to compile and run the U-Boot bootloader inside a QEMU emulation of an ARM platform.

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Kernel Log: Stable kernels analysed, Linux without firmware, new graphics drivers

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 13:30

The development of Linux 2.6.34 has started and is causing heated discussions on the LKML. LWN.net has analysed Linux 2.6.32.9 for security fixes and found almost twenty of them. Linux-Libre removes proprietary files from the kernel, and new graphics drivers for Radeon cards offer numerous improvements

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Fedora 13 Alpha Now Available, What are the features??

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 08:12

"The Fedora 13 'Goddard' alpha release is Now available. Now it supports automatic Printer Installation, You can Plug and Play your USB Printers in Fedora 13

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Victoria expands Linux e-voting rollout

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 06:55

Victoria’s Electoral Commission has flagged plans to expand its use of electronic voting kiosks based on Linux software in the next state election in November this year.


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Nexenta Core Platform 3.0 Beta 1 arrives

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 06:50

The Nexenta Project developers have released the first beta for version 3.0 of their Nexenta Core Platform (NCP) [--] the sixth development release in the NCP cycle

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Psi Is A Feature-Rich Jabber Instant Messaging Client For Windows, Linux And Mac OS X

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 06:11

Psi is a free, open source instant messaging application designed for the Jabber IM network (including Google Talk) compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

If you're tired with the Jabber functionality of Empathy or Pidgin, both lacking lots of important features for this protocol, you should give Psi a try.

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Gnome Do to change Rampantly

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 05:19

Gnome Do is to get all kickass. Yesterday evening the jolly folk behind launcher-and-then-some GNOME Do held a meeting to set out some goals for the future of the project.

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Jeff Jaffe now W3C CEO

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 04:59

Ex-Novell CTO, Jeff Jaffe, is now CEO of the web standards organisation

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Virtualization: An easy way to kill Apple's HTC lawsuit

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 04:21

Intel's Wind River Hypervisor and technologies like it could usher in a new age of Device-agnostic Smartphone Operating Systems and unprecedented customer choice

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Five Indispensable MySQL Tools

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 03:45

Thanks to a number of well-designed tools, MySQL simply is a very easy database to "talk to," a convenience which is particularly important because developers often are tasked not only with constructing very complex schemas and queries, but also with monitoring overall server health and performance.

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Moonlight's Olympic-sized failure

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 02:18

Microsoft only produces the Silverlight runtime for Windows and OS X, leaving Linux support to Novell's Mono project, which produces Moonlight. Mono developers argue that Mono is not chasing tail lights, but in the case of Moonlight it very clearly is.

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sshsplit - A utility to multiplex ssh dynamic tunnels

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 01:11

A utility to multiplex ssh dynamic tunnels. Frequently, for instance when proxying a torrent client through a tunnel established with ssh -D, the tunnel will be swamped by traffic. sshsplit spawns multiple instances and distributes the load among them.

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Rock it - The first pre-release version of Fedora 13 arrives

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 18:46

One week later than scheduled, the Fedora Project has released the first and only alpha version of its Fedora 13 Linux distribution, aka Goddard, which is scheduled for release in mid May.

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An Interview with KDEPIM Contributor Tobias König

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 17:33

Welcome to another interview with a KDE contributor. This time we talked with Tobias König from KDEPIM about Akonadi and the TV series Lost.

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Novell Never Mentioned UnixWare in its press releases in 2003

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 16:05

SCO's Chapter 11 Trustee Edward Cahn bragged at Friday's bankruptcy hearing that he had won all the Daubert motions and most of the motions in limine in Utah.

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Bug fixing in Gentoo: How we are performing

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 14:15

I’ve been playing with matplotlib and Gentoo bug numbers from the last ~6 month to be able to see how we are performing at fixing bugs lately. This is the current output:

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Elive 2.0 "Topaz " - Combine the stability, speed and beauty

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 13:32

After 2 years of of development, Elive 2.0 landed under the codename "Topaz". The new release comes with many improvments. Elive "Topaz" is based on debian and use Enlightenment 17 as a default desktop .The authors of Elive claim that it offers great visual appear even with minimal hardware resources.

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Setting up MySQL Cluster 7.0 in Linux

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 11:45

You might know that beginning with MySQL 5.1.24, support for the NDBCLUSTER storage engine was removed from the standard MySQL server binaries built by MySQL. Therefore, here I'm using MySQL Cluster edition instead of MySQL Community edition.

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Top 10 Addictive games on Linux

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 08:30

For millions of users who are hooked onto that square-rectangular box for most part of their day, passing time becomes almost imperative sometimes. And if the source of this entertainment is addictive enough, then we are definitely talking about Computer games and especially if the games are played on an Open source platform like that of Linux. You possibly have no reason to complain.

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Open Clip Art Library 2.0 released

Tue, 03/09/2010 - 08:24

The Open Clip Art Library team is proud to announce the
release of Open Clip Art Library 2.0. Open Clip Art Library now has over 26,000 original and remixed high quality scalable vector graphic (SVG) files that have been produced by over 1,200 creative artists!

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