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Linux and Open Source News for 27th September 2006

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Source: myah

Jeremiah Cheatham has announced the first release candidate of a new Myah OS, version 2.3: "Myah OS 2.3rc1 is now available for download. I know it's only been a week or 2 since 2.2 came out but I have been working day and night making improvements. I was .


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Following the recent DVD release of SabayonLinux 3.0, its smaller cousin, called "miniEdition", is now also out: "SabayonLinux 3.0 miniEdition is the CD release of the latest SabayonLinux x86/x86-64 DVD. New features and bug fixes since 3.0 DVD: extraordinary AIGLX support thanks to NVIDIA 1.0-9625 beta drivers, Beryl .



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Author and columnist Marcel Gagne talks about his latest book


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Voice recognition has been a dream of many for the last 10 years. It's an illusive goal because interpreting speech is very complicated and takes a lot of computing power


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'A lot of people thought the company had disappeared but CA continued to invest in the technology and made some smart and well thought-through investments, adding high-performance features,' Burkhardt says


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This blog entry is in part a mea culpa account from the blogging trenches. Mea Culpa, because the first draft of my last blog entry turns out to have been very inaccurate


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When most people think about the Mozilla Firefox browser, they think of it as being open source and free


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In August 2006 Adrian Bunk took over maintainership of the 2.6.16.y stable kernel. With the release of the 2.6.16.30-pre1 patch, concerns were expressed as to what makes a stable tree


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Another addition to the available browser choices is Flock, which is also based on the Gecko engine


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Oracle today unveiled a new version of Berkeley DB, the lightweight, non-relational and embeddable database management system


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Linus Torvalds responded to Moglen's statement by saying that his position on the license is clear and that he's "fed up" with the FSF


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Looks like after four versions of colourful names, the next (to next) version of Ubuntu (Edgy+1) is going to be called--Ubuntu 7.10. Thats it


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Today, DesktopLinux.com learned what distribution they plan to use: a homegrown, Debian-offshoot dubbed 'IT@School GNU/Linux '


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I wrote up a long update on where we are in the software and hardware for the One Laptop per Child project. We've gotten a lot done, but I don't think that's been communicated to the outside world very well


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It might also be good to remind folks of a few key points about the summary judgment process


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In a move that some may have sensed was coming, Eric S. Raymond--one of the co-founders of the open-source movement--will become the newest member of the Freespire Leadership Board on Sept. 27


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Software maker Red Hat on Tuesday reported that quarterly profit tumbled 34 percent from a year earlier, on a sharp increase in operating expenses


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"The release isn't expected to introduce any new features or major functionally but it will improve stability and fix bugs that have been found in the still-under-development Firefox 2.0 release " Actually, the RC1 release is live now.


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For several years a group of academic researchers has been quietly working on a new kind of search engine--one that recognizes the semantic meaning of a query instead of only taking input as a keyword to be literally matched


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Putting Linux on 64-bit blade servers sounds like a good idea, thanks to the cost savings offered by both


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The Kurumin Linux project, which produces a Knoppix-based distribution, released a stripped-down, live CD edition of Kurumin Linux 6.1 on Sept. 24


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Adapting downloaded code and finding developers to submit bug fixes back to the projects are just two of the many costs associated with incorporating open source code, according to Don Rosenberg


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If you do business on the Web, you are, to some degree, vulnerable to Denials of Service attacks


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Windows administrators who are making the jump to Linux are often disoriented by how different everything is; not just the terminology, but the way things work, including many of the same basic types of applications


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Today's security advisories: kernel-source-2.6.8 (Debian GNU/Linux); ImageMagick, GnuTLS, and Tikiwiki (Gentoo Linux); squirrelmail (Red Hat Linux); openoffice.org (rPath Linux); and gzip (SUSE Linux).


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The previews of this year's GOSCON indicate that the Department of Defense's new Open Technology Roadmap and at least one of its authors will play a prominent role in the conference


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Why do you give Microsoft a platform to spread its FUD? Why are you guys deliberately spreading FUD ?


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In this introductory article, I summarize the benefits of using OpenSource software in an educational environment, where budgets are often tight and staffing support is minimal


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If we look at the future, Linux seems to be doomed to a slow death in a dozen years: DRM, proprietary hardware, technologic innovations and political choices are behind this forecast



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Most technical writing I’ve read isn’t very good. One of the reasons the Head First series works is because applying a little cognitive science to the process of writing forces writers and editors to think from the audience’s point of view now and then.

The mini-rant How Not to Teach Database Design uses an existing article to show mistakes common to much technical writing. Even if you don’t know or care about databases, read and think about the post if you might someday write documentation, an article, a tutorial, or even a set of instructions in your weblog or a wiki or an e-mail somewhere.

Don’t worry; they’re not grammatical rules you’ll never remember. They’re just five tips that will help you craft better prose.


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Fuzzyman just posted yesterday about TIOBE’s index of top programming languages. It’s interesting, but not particularly meaningful, that Python and C# have swapped places since last year, putting Python in slot 7 and C# in slot 8. What’s interesting about this? It implies that Python is in the realm of being commercially competitive. This is a good statistic to provide to dynamic-language-leary bosses when that next project rolls around. What’s not particularly meaningful about this? It doesn’t mean anything, really, in regard to Python’s usefulness compared to C#. Nor does it mean that Python is really being used more than C#. Python had a 3.144% and C# had a 2.992%. I’d say that statistical wiggle room outweighs the 0.152% variance between these two numbers. At best, I’d put all these statistics in the category of “rough guess” even though they have hard evidencial “proof”. Regardless, it’s encouraging how hight up in the list Python is. And it was amusing that Python bumped C#.



Updated: Thu Sep 28 23:55:03 2006


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