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HowtoForge: "This document describes how to set up Songbird 0.5 on Ubuntu 8.04 "


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developerWorks: "Consolidating servers in an environment based on Linux for System z has many advantages, but as you know, there is no free lunch--not even for penguins "


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Techworld: "As corporate and government organizations embrace the Web for delivering more education and training programs, a wealth of free and open source e-learning applications will help lower the barrier to entry ."


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internetnews.com: "New generations of low-priced portable computers are on the way, but will they have much more than niche appeal ?"


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Between the Lines: "In an earlier post I talked a bit about a start-up called Kickfire who are releasing an accelerated database appliance for MySQL applications in the 1TB-3TB range that gives comparable performance to an equivalent Oracle RDBMS setup for around a quarter of the price "


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iTWire: "Why do large entities--be they companies or cities - decide to change operating systems? I'd like to think that, in the main, it is the cost factor that decides this--but that would not be correct "


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Cyber Cynic: "Congratulations Linux. Yesterday was the day you made Microsoft blink. Microsoft has changed its mind and has decided to keep XP Home around after all "


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Computer Business Review: "'Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems '" (Humor)


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Milking the GNU: "Over the years, I came to appreciate a number of organizations that although not directly linked to free software and open source are of interest to the FOSS community "


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All Things Digital: "In some tech-industry circles, Firefox already is preferred over Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Apple's Safari, but it still isn't used by most people, and Mozilla is hoping to broaden its appeal "


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internetnews.com: "Asus shook up the industry with its $300--$600 mini notebook last year. Asus continues to dominate the market for super small, super cheap mini-notebooks "


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Kernel Trap: "Tony Luck offered some statistics focused on the frequency of developers that only contribute to the Linux kernel one time "


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Fatal Exception: "Palm isn't dead yet! That's the word from Palm CEO Ed Colligan, speaking at the recent media launch of the Palm Centro in Australia "


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LinuxWorld: "IBM has officially launched the commercial version of its Lotus Symphony suite of productivity applications, and looks set amount a challenge to Microsoft Office in its enterprise heartland "


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Practical Technology: "Would you to talk to some of the biggest names in open source ?"


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LKML.org: "Another week, another batch of mostly pretty small fixes. Hopefully the regression list is shrinking, and we've fixed at least a couple of the oopses on Arjan's list "


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Boycott Novell: "The pressure is up for Microsoft Office to cope with. Yesterday we wrote about the press release from IBM, which covered the latest swing at Microsoft Office and Exchange "


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Seeing Through Windows: "If Google really wanted to deliver a knockout punch to Microsoft, it would integrate OpenOffice with Google Docs, and sell support for the combined suite to small businesses, medium-sized business, and large corporations "


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internetnews.com: "Mozilla has released Firefox 3 Release Candidate 2 for early adopter consumption "


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"Rosalyn Hunter writes about using Composer as a stand-in word processor. I too, have used it in this fashion on OS X. I like it for various reasons.


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Linux Journal: "If you're anything like the average System Administrator, you are understaffed, underfunded, and overworked "


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LinuxWorld: "Some device drivers need firmware to load into the hardware at initialization time "


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Linux.com: "Pat Volkerding and the Slackware team released the latest version of Slackware Linux, 12.1, on May 2. Even though it is a 'point one' release, the list of new features reads like what other distributions would consider a major new version "



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MahariBalzitch writes "Popular Mechanics shows step by step guide on how to install Ubuntu Linux on a PlayStation 3 and still keep the PS3 gaming functionality. Now I just need to get my hands on a PS3." Not bad specs for the price, either, since Blu-Ray players still aren't cheap. And though the article calls the procedure "somewhat complicated," it's a lot simpler than was installing Linux from floppies not so many years ago.Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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KernelPie writes "The Linux hardware site Phoronix.com has announced the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0, a Linux-based testing platform designed for benchmarking software and hardware. This suite ships with 57 tests and 23 test suites, which contain everything from open-source games to file encryption to encoding software. In addition, they have a global database where users can submit benchmark results and more — with over 1,000 submissions already. This testing software is licensed under the GPLv3 and can be downloaded here."Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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geekinchief points to a just-posted interview at Laptop Magazine "with Canonical's market manager, Gerry Carr, where he talks about Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Some interesting details: Canonical does not plan to make the Netbook remix available for download or sale. It will only come pre-installed on new systems. It will boot in 5-10 seconds."Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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Stony Stevenson writes to tell us IT News is reporting that Acer is betting big on Linux, looking to push Tux on many of their upcoming laptops and netbooks. "The company is already heavily promoting Linux for its low cost ultra-portable netbook range out later this year, but senior staff have said that Acer will also push Linux on its laptops. [ ] Acer sees two killer apps with Linux on computers: operation and cost. Its flavour of Linux will boot in 15 seconds compared to minutes for Windows, and the open source operating system can extend battery life from five to seven hours."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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If you are a ZSH nut like me, you find it is the first thing you setup on a new virtual machine. One thing that stumped me recently with a virtual machine running Ubuntu from an OS X Leopard terminal and ZSH,


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I've been mostly interested in Ruby for the past couple of years. But, before developing that interest, I spent a lot of time writing little utilities (and a few not so little ones) in Python. I decided to check where the IronPython



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