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Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Imagine a customized GNU/Linux distribution, built to your specifications with a minimal amount of effort on your part. If you are running Fedora 7, that dream is now a reality, thanks to Revisor, a graphical interface for building custom install images for Fedora. Taking the shape of a GNOME wizard, Revisor comes close to being an ideal desktop tool. Inexperienced users can use its default settings without much knowledge of what is happening behind the scenes, while more expert users can customize each aspect of producing an .ISO."
Source: Linux Today LinuxInsight: "The other day I stumbled upon this neat tool that helps cleanup your GConf registry, called GConf Cleaner. While GNOME registry size isn't nowhere near the size of Windows registry, and thus shouldn't slow your computer too much, it's still nice to have a tool that cleans unused and obsolete entries "
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "Nixstaller 0.2.2 is a command-line tool for creating graphical installers for archived files on Unix-like systems. If that sounds paradoxical, it is "
Source: Linux Today LawFuel: "Cherry Lane Music Publishing Co, one of the world's leading independent music publishers--responsible for catalogues of world famous artists such as Elvis Presley, Quincy Jones, The Black Eyed Peas, John Legend, and more than 65,000 other copyrights -- along with the national French tennis organization (Federation Française de Tennis) and French soccer league (Ligue de Football Professionel) join and strongly support the copyright infringement class action claims against YouTube and Google "
Source: Linux Today OSI: "I was 22 years old at the time, and I still harbored a dream that I might someday write 'The Great American Compiler '"
Source: Linux Today Hoosier Penguin: "Say thanks to Xandros, everybody, for validating Microsoft's plan to kill Linux "
Source: Linux Today Computerworld: "But the desktop is uncharted territory. Over the past year, I've been on a quest to find an operating system that balances ease of use, stability, low cost and high functionality "
Source: Linux Today LinuxInsider: "Many people are surprised to hear that Stallman's free software dream has been realized "
Source: Linux Today iTWire: "A few days ago, I became aware of a fact I'd never known before: the chief executive officer of Xandros Corporation is named Andreas Typaldos "
Source: Linux Today Linux Journal: "All the big film studios primarily use Linux for animation and visual effects. Perhaps no commercial Linux installation is larger than DreamWorks Animation, with more than 1,000 Linux desktops and more than 3,000 server CPUs "
Source: Linux Today Daniweb: "Two European journalists have independently told us that Google representatives have contacted them with the claim that 'Privacy International has a conflict of interest regarding Microsoft.' I presume this was motivated because Microsoft scored an overall better result than Google in the rankings '"
Source: Linux Today internetnews.com: "The U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday endorsed its second anti-spyware bill in less than a month. Both bills target unauthorized downloads but take significantly different approaches."
Source: Linux Today eWeek: "Open-source IT monitoring and management provider Zenoss on June 11 will seek to build momentum behind its alternative to the big four enterprise management offerings when it introduces the second major release of its Zenoss Core tool "
Source: Linux Today Computerworld UK: "Sun has unveiled compiler and tool technologies that work on multicore chip architectures and extend to application development on Linux "
Source: Linux Today Ars Technica: "The fifth public alpha build of Firefox 3 has been officially released "
Source: Linux Today internetnews.com: "After nearly two years of development, the open source Apache Synapse enterprise service bus (ESB) is ready for prime time with its 1.0 milestone release "
Source: Linux Today ZDNet UK: "Malware targeting OpenOffice documents is spreading through multiple operating systems including Mac OS, Windows and Linux, according to Symantec "
Source: Linux Today ConsortiumInfo: "I am overdue in offering a few thoughts on the news that open format legislation has gone down in flames in legislatures throughout the US "
Source: Linux Today Computerworld UK: "The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum is releasing its first mobile phone specifications, in order to encourage more application development for Linux phones "
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "KOffice 1.6.3 is out with a long list of changes, particularly for database management tool Kexi, the KOffice answer to Microsoft Access "
Source: Linux Today AP/KGO-TV: "As a murder trial gets under way Monday in the disappearance of Nina Reiser, a 31-year-old mother of two missing since September, defense lawyers are trying to sow doubt about whether she is dead at all "
Source: Linux Today New York Times: "Microsoft sang a very different tune in 1991. In a memo to his senior executives, Bill Gates wrote, 'If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.' Mr. Gates worried that 'some large company will patent some obvious thing' and use the patent to 'take as much of our profits as they want '"
Source: Linux Today ABC Linux: "Of the big vendors I deal with I would say Intel are probably the most co-operative today, they provide good documentation, errata information and also fund or write key drivers for their hardware such as the 3D support (done by Tungsten Graphics) and the wireless. That has really paid off and made their systems hardware of choice."
Source: Linux Today FreeTheBBC: "The
BBC plans to offer old content only through Real or Windows Media DRM
technology. DRM, or Digital Restrictions Management, is technology that
artificially limits what users can do with media."
Source: Linux Today IBM Developerworks: "You'll learn how to use Solr to index and search content and explore Solr's support for faceted browsing. I'll conclude Part 1 with a look at Solr's schema and an explanation of how it is configured for the example application's index structure."
Source: Linux Today Linux-Watch: "Microsoft has quietly hired Tom Hanrahan, formerly the Linux Foundation's director of engineering, to become its Director of Linux Interoperability. As part of his responsibilities, Hanrahan will manage the Microsoft/Novell Interoperability Lab that Microsoft began staffing up earlier this year."
Source: Linux Today LinuxQuestions: "Today, we will cover the GtkAssistant widget, which was added in GTK+ 2.10. It allows you to create "Wizard" dialogs that span multiple pages."
Source: Linux Today DesktopLinux: "Parallels today said it is shipping the final version of its virtualization software, Parallels Desktop 3.0 for Mac, for Intel-powered Apple Macs. The software aims to enable users to install and run Linux or Windows alongside Mac OS X on their Mac desktops without rebooting."
Source: Linux Today LinuxWorld: " Microsoft XML technology is simply not good XML."
Source: Linux Today BBC News Click: "Free. It is not something Western culture does particularly well. It is certainly not something that features big in the plans of the millionaires at Microsoft, Apple and Intel - to name but a few."
Source: Linux Today MyADSL.co.za: "Duncan McLeod spoke to software billionaire Mark Shuttleworth last week about his Ubuntu Linux deal with Dell, the Microsoft software patent fracas, and his desire to return to live in SA."
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