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Source: ubuntu

Steve Langasek has announced the fifth alpha release of Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron": "Welcome to Hardy Heron Alpha 5, which will in time become Ubuntu 8.04." Features include: "X.Org 7.3; Linux kernel 2.6.24 with dynticks support for amd64; PulseAudio enabled by default; PolicyKit integration; Firefox 3 Beta 3 .


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Source: foresight

Paul Cutler has announced the fourth alpha release of Foresight Linux 2.0, a desktop distribution based on rPath Linux and its Conary package management system: "The Foresight team is proud to announce the latest test release of the upcoming Foresight GNOME edition 2.0. This latest release features numerous .


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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the third release candidate for FreeBSD 7.0: "We're doing a 'mini-RC3' to encourage testing of the Highpoint driver (hptrr) backout. Testing of 7.0-RC2 showed there were problems with the driver update done between RC1 and RC2. Because it's a 'mini-RC' targeted .



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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "About a week ago I got an e-mail asking me to comment on rumors that Nvidia might buy AMD "


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Source: Linux Today

Tux Deluxe: "The arguments over high-definition digital video standards has a salutary lesson for the world of document formats "


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Source: Linux Today

Editor's Note: You might think that greed and control is the reason for Redmond's pushing OOXML as a standard. Actually, it might be that, and a whole lot more.


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Source: Linux Today

TechCrunch: "After months of positive news, the group has had its first hiccup, a cease and desist letter from RedHat over their use of the Fedora logo "


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Source: Linux Today

Roundup: As promised, the media and analysts' positive and negative opinions on the whys and wherefores of yesterday's "opening" of Microsoft. One common thread seems to be: they'll believe it when they see it.


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Source: Linux Today

Underexposed: "Sometime last night, Firefox downloads crossed the 500 million threshold "


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Softpedia: "Yesterday, Dell announced to its customers in Canada and Latin America that the Inspiron 1525n now has the option of shipping with Ubuntu 7.10, as well as with the Canadian models of the XPS M1330n and Inspiron 530 "


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NetworkWorld: "The disk encryption technology used to secure the data in your Windows, Apple and Linux laptops can be easily circumvented, according to new research out of Princeton University "


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Source: Linux Today

Roundup: As expected, the reaction to yesterday's announcement from Microsoft regarding their new openness concept has garnered a lot of reaction in the Linux/open source community, as well as the tech media/analyst punditry. In this Roundup, a look at notable industry/community members' responses. Later today, a mix of the pundits' theories and musings.


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International Herald Tribune: "But the European Commission and some of those competitors reacted coolly to the disclosure by the world's largest software maker, noting that Microsoft had made similar claims in the past "


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Linux.com: "As Metropolitan acquired more banking interests, IT Director Tom Johnson needed to find a way to reduce costs and increase efficiency in the face of the company's rapid growth ."


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Source: Linux Today

With Suficient Thrust, Pigs Fly Just Fine: "I've been on the lookout for a small, portable machine with enough power to read PDF files, make notes, write text, do some coding perhaps and surf the net "


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KernelTrap: "'These patches add local caching for network filesystems such as NFS,' began David Howells describing an updated set of thirty-seven patches to introduce FS-Cache "


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LinuxPlanet: "In this two-part series we'll set up a Webcam on Linux, and then use it to perform a number of amazing and fun tasks "


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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "This how to describes the installation and configuration of a mail system on Centos 5.1 with selinux enabled for enhanced security "



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

In my experience, the open approach, promotes open discussion, open experimentation, open solutions, and rapid growth. If you were looking for a market where the concept of "give a little and get a lot" works, you have arrived.


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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

If you've administered any remote Linux machines then you are already familiar with SSH, but you might not know that you can use SSH for much more than just connecting to a shell on a remote system. By using SSH's port forwarding features, you can set up encrypted tunnels for many services, or connect to systems behind a firewall from home.



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I've slaved away for the past 8 months or so writing a book on Dojo. It's definitely not a lot of fun moonlighting for such an extended duration on a single project, but my hope is that it's all going to be


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"Hooray," says Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices to Expand Interoperability. I care most about: Microsoft is providing a covenant not to sue open source developers for development or non-commercial distribution of implementations of these protocols. That's sort of



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The spread of Threading Building Blocks (TBB) into Linux distributions is gaining momentum: TBB will be packaged into the upcoming Ubuntu Hardy Heron release. If you're not familiar with TBB -- it's an open source C++ template library that



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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Part 1 and Part 2 of this three-part tutorial series showed you how to
develop Web services and clients, and configure HTTP basic authentication. In this
final installment, you create a self-signed certificate, keystore, trust store, and
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) configuration using the IBM WebSphere Administrative
Console. Then you configure HTTPS for your Web services and Web services client, and
test HTTPS Web services from both a Java EE client and a stand-alone Java client.



Updated: Sat Feb 23 23:55:01 2008


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