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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "While KDE users get to boss KIO slaves for easier access to system and network resources, humble GNOME users can perform similar feats with its virtual file system, called GnomeVFS "


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HowtoForge: "This document describes how to set up an installation environment with kickstart and NFS "


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Wine Review: "Here is the first of a two part post of benchmarks that compare the performance of CrossOver Games 7.0 against Wine 0.9.58 "


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Mad Penguin: "A lot of people have been reporting issues with Ralink chipsets and the Gutsy upgrade "


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Jayson Rowe's Ramblings: "Well, first off, I gave up on CentOS. I reached a point to where it was not worth any further troubleshooting "


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Raiden's Realm: "Well, shortly after hearing about Dream Linux, I was intrigued by it, if for no other reason than it's name. Dream Linux hails out of the wonderful and balmy country of Brazil "


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Source: Linux Today

451 CAOS Theory: "In short, Ringside's Social Application Server is designed to add social networking capabilities to existing applications and content "


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tecosystems: "Overheard at an airport within the last seven calendar days "


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Datamation: "After a week of regularly using KDE 4.0.2 and 4.03 releases on my laptops, these are the improvements that would enhance KDE the most "


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The VAR Guy: "But he's also starting to wonder if Google Android--rather than Ubuntu--will be the open source platform of choice for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) "


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Socialized Software: "However, when it comes to IT buying decisions I have never been much of a fan of the big analyst firms "


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Newsvine: "Apart from the fact that this is just impossible, I'd like to argue that this fragmentation is actually beneficial. Benefits that go beyond 'more choice '"


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sp's Free Software Blog: "This is one question I have been interested in ever since I started using GNU/Linux "


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Pack Rat Studios: "From time to time I am asked which operating system is the best in my opinion. This is a tough question to answer as there is no definitive answer "


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Computerworld UK: "I must confess to a certain disappointment with Red Hat. On the one hand, it is clearly the leader of the open source world--both historically and in terms of its size "


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A.P. Lawrence: "At Linux in the long run I expressed the opinion that Linux in general could suffer when Linus Torvalds steps aside or dies. That opinion is generally unpopular with the Linux community, but I think it's defensible "


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The Open Road: "The cheekiness/gall of Free/Iliad is almost shocking "


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Computerworld NZ: " [T]he State Services Commission has agreed to release the code for the new New Zealand government portal under the open source GPL licence "


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Hoosier Penguin: "In the quest to get as much content to the mobile end user as is humanly possible, much of the content delivery to IP-enabled devices and cell phones is being handled by the large telecommunications providers themselves "


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Computerworld Australia: "When the KDE-centric Ubuntu derivation, Kubuntu, was installed on the old gear--a mixture of Acer Veriton 3600s and 2.1Ghz V5100s--the school found it performed just as efficiently as on the newer hardware "


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internetnews.com: "Juniper's new platform comes at a time when the market for high-end intrusion prevention/detection systems is becoming a hotly contested one


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Computerworld Australia: "The news organisation is turning out to be a big fan open source software "


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Linux.com: "The white paper notes that Linux is growing beyond its initial usage roots in the enterprise, where it provided basic infrastructure components such as Web, print, and DNS servers, networking, and security services "


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Ars Technica: "That pivotal event represents the point at which software freedom extended its reach beyond the enthusiast community and began its ascent into the mainstream "


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Roundup: And all the while, Microsoft still wonders what the fuss is about. Articles within.


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Linux-Watch: "How do you herd cats? Well, as the famous EDS commercial shows, it isn't easy "


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Register Hardware: "HP has launched its attempt to grab a little or a lot of the Asus Eee PC's success, two months after the sub-notebook slipped out onto the web "


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Why am I still typing?'s Weblog: "In fact it is my considered belief that the best hardware to run Linux on is infact (almost) any machine that is at least 12 months old "


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FLOSS Ruminations: "I'm happy to announce that BytesFree.org will be represented at its first event, Lug Radio Live, which will be held at the Metreon in San Francisco on April 12th and 13th "


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Polish Linux: "The time has come to present you the new version of the virtualization environment: VMware Workstation 6.5 beta 1 "


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Geek.com: "One of the bigger things happening in the OS industry right now is the pending arrival of Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) "



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

Aron Schatz writes "VIA has announced that they will start a new site (http://linux.via.com.tw — doesn't exist yet) specifically for the development of open source drivers. From their press release: 'Over the following months, VIA will work with the community to enable 2D, 3D and video playback acceleration to ensure the best possible Open Source experience on VIA Processor Platforms. 'To further improve cooperation with the community, VIA will also adhere to a regular quarterly release schedule that is aligned with kernel changes and release of major Linux distributions. In addition, beta releases will be issued on the site as needed, and a bug report and tracking feature will also be integrated.' Nvidia should be next."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Just an FYI, in one week, the video podcast series, "Spotlight on FOSS" is scheduled to air in exactly one week from today from what I hear. We have a background article in which we explain some of the "fun" of arranging


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Has anyone read Putting Our Own House In Order? I thought this little quip was funny: "Tony's background is in academia, a place where Microsoft has had some challenges." (Queue the old graphic of a million students sitting in class with Macs.)


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So, I've been MIA for almost two weeks now. I'm sure you were pretty worried and possibly even losing sleep. But, it's okay. I'm fine and back. For now. But what happened? Well, the whole "SSO" happened. O'Reilly uses Single Sign-On (SSO)


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It is slightly old news to some that Google has gotten into providing Cloud Computing. The interesting part to Python Developers is that the runtime environment uses Python. All I can say, is way to go Guido! If you want to see


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Microsoft released another 14,000 pages of protocol documentation for Microsoft Office, Office Server, and Exchange Server (2007 versions). This brings the total documentation pages released up to 44,000 (and, no, I have not actually counted this to verify it :-). The documentation



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Just over a year ago, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the Linux Driver Project, which combined education and mentoring with the promise to write Linux drivers for any hardware manufacturer willing to work with the project. Greg has just released the Linux



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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

The Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) runs Linux, but getting it to run well requires
some tweaking. In the third and final article of this series on PS3 Linux, Peter
Seebach talks about ways to get X11 slimmed down to fit on a smaller memory budget.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

The OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) is an XML standard that lets you store and exchange office application documents, including word-processor, spreadsheet, and presentation files. Whether you try to perform special tasks on files saved from such applications or work on applications to process such files, you should become familiar with this important format. Learn about the two possible forms of OpenDocument files, as multipart packages and as single XML documents, and learn how to structure text and tabular information in OpenDocument.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

If you're a Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) developer, you'll want to preview the SQLXML technology. Check out procedures to create an XML document, store an XML document in a relational database, retrieve an XML document from a database, and navigate an XML document with the SQLXML Java data type.


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In this tutorial, Sean Walberg helps you prepare to take the Linux
Professional Institute Senior Level Linux Professional (LPIC-3) exam. In this fifth
in a series of six tutorials, Sean walks you through integrating LDAP with your
system's logins and applications. He also details the procedure to
integrate your server into a foreign Microsoft Active Directory.


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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Learn how to extend the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) Ecore metamodel by
adding elements and attributes to model reusable Java snippets. Also see, step
by step, how to use dynamic templates with JET to generate the implementation code for
the extended model elements.


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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

JSF and Struts are the traditional component frameworks developers turn to for
Web development. You have an alternative, however: Tapestry and
Wicket are component-oriented Web frameworks designed to create Web
applications. A simple example application implementing a to-do list workflow is
developed here, using Tapestry and Wicket technologies.


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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

If you can't find a validating XML editor you like, or prefer not to take
the time now to learn how to use one, you can edit the XML for your developerWorks
articles and tutorials using your preferred text editor. Ian Shields has created
some great tools to help you validate, transform, and preview your article or
tutorial. This article shows you how easy it is to use those tools on Microsoft
Windows or Linux.


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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

XML serialization has a myriad of uses, including object persistence and data transport. However, some XML-serialization technologies can be complex to implement. XStream is a lightweight and easy-to-use open source Java library for serializing Java objects to XML and back again. Learn how to set up XStream, and discover how to use it to serialize and deserialize objects as well as to read configuration properties from an XML configuration file.


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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Your article abstract goes here. Put the main points and key phrases at the
beginning of the abstract, because it may be truncated in search results. Make your
abstract enticing yet succinct. Aim for three to five sentences that express why the
reader would care about the content (motive) and what he or she can gain from
reading the content (benefits).


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Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

The Flickr photo sharing service is one of today's most popular Web applications. It provides a robust hosting service with slick social networking capabilities that make uploading, organizing, and finding photos very simple. That's all very cool, but from a developer's perspective, the most interesting thing about Flickr is its public API for reading and writing photo data. You can send API requests over HTTP using any programming language you wish, and many open source projects have sprung up to encapsulate this API for various languages. In this article, you'll learn how to "Zero-ize" the Flickr API by providing a Groovy binding that is easily reusable in your Project Zero applications. When you're done, you'll be able to read and write photo data from your Groovy scripts in just a few lines of code.



Updated: Wed Apr 9 23:55:01 2008


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