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Source: pcbsd

Kris Moore has announced the release of PC-BSD 7.0, a user-friendly, desktop operating system based on FreeBSD: "The PC-BSD team is pleased to announce PC-BSD version 7.0 'Fibonacci'. This release marks a milestone for PC-BSD, by moving to the latest FreeBSD 7-STABLE and also incorporating the KDE 4.1.1 .


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Source: pardus

Ekin Mero lu has announced the release of Pardus Linux 2008.1: "We're happy to announce Pardus Linux 2008.1 'Hyaena Hyaena', the first update release in Pardus 2008 series. It contains all the bug fixes, enhancements and new feature additions since the release of Pardus Linux 2008. Features: new and .


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Source: weekly

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Editorial: On Ubuntu, its derivatives and trademark enforcements News: Ubuntu "Jaunty Jackalope", Ubuntu for Eee PC, openSUSE and KDE, Fedora updates, Red Hat security controversy Released last week: Linux Mint 5 "Xfce", CentOS 4.7, OpenGEU 8.04.1 Upcoming releases: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1, Ubuntu .



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Source: Linux Today

OStatic: "Sun Microsystems has launched a new effort to compete with Google Code and various Forge sites with its beta site Project Kenai (pronounced Keen-Eye). According to a blog post, the site was launched quietly on Friday, and a primary goal of the site is to host open source projects and encourage collaboration on them."


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Source: Linux Today

Debian Admin: "First of all We are going to download the Net-Install of Debian Lenny with can be found on the official site.
For the easy way just simply click here for the direct download so you wont make mistakes."


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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "I find myself removing packages that I don't need, especially if the packages belong to processes that are using processor resources. There is a way to start from the ground up, you can have a minimal system and just add what you need."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com "To help bridge this divide, the GIMP is reviving the User Filter from its 1.x releases. This filter is a kind of meta-plugin that allows users to import and manage Photoship filters or, if they have the knowledge, to write their own."


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Source: Linux Today

Computerworld: "Life just got easier for users of the downloadable or boxed retail versions of the Ubuntu Linux 8.04 operating system who want easy and cheap ways of adding DVD playback and improved audio capabilities to their machines."


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Source: Linux Today

ServerWatch: "The PAM module pam_cracklib can enforce both length and complexity. For length, it uses the minlen option. For complexity, it has options dcredit, ucredit, lcredit, and ocredit "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Today Blog: "I've been using KMail for several years, but I get in ruts and don't notice new features until I trip over them by accident. One such feature is Templates, which has become one of my biggest time-savers."


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Source: Linux Today

OStatic: "The sixth annual OLF takes place October 10th and 11th in Columbus, Ohio. Though some ingredients may not work for every LUG planning an event, it's an interesting recipe to follow."


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Source: Linux Today

Ubuntu Geek: "PyTube is a GUI for various command-line tools such as:youtube-dl, sox, mplayer, mencoder, ffmpeg and others.It allows you to resize, rotate, apply an external mp3 into a video, generate a 10 to 30 seconds mp3 ring tone."


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Source: Linux Today

AP Lawrence: "Yes, troubleshooting is an art!. The key points to mastering this art is knowing the system in and out, using the right tools and, of course, googling. Troubleshooting a problem is not something that can be spoon fed or taught with precise steps. It has to evolve from logical thinking and thorough knowledge of the system."


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "Following our Linux desktop encryption benchmarks of the ASUS Eee PC 901 and Intel Atom N270 CPU we have a performance comparison of Xandros, Fedora, Ubuntu, and Mandriva on this low-cost netbook PC."


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Source: Linux Today

Computing Tech: "Although most systems today support USB drives, the ability to boot from a USB thumb drive is not consistent. Even if you create a bootable USB drive, your BIOS may still prevent you from booting from it."


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxLinks: "Linux is a very strong platform for budding artists, photographers, animators, and designers. With inexpensive hardware, free software, and a modicum of talent and inspiration, anyone can create professional-looking computer graphics."


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Source: Linux Today

The VAR Guy: "Many pundits say Colado has to strengthen Novell's SUSE Linux partner ranks. But in reality, The VAR Guy believes, Colado has to build a bridge between vastly different software islands."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Magazine: "Architectural features, that were once only present on very large computer systems, are gradually being implemented on ever smaller systems Here I'll describe the best way to get the best performance out of a NUMA machine."


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Source: Linux Today

Computerworld UK: "Why indeed would one now change desktops, why in the past were we so willing, eager even, to do just that and now are so reluctant?"


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Source: Linux Today

The Register: "When Vista RTM first hit our desks on that fateful 2007 day, not only did we expose it for the piece of DRM ridden junk that it was, but also forecast a dark and gloomy future for it. And on that particular occasion, we were right "


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Source: Linux Today

Cyber Cynic: "Steve Ballmer may be a great salesman, and he does a mean monkey dance, but he's no businessman. Would someone fire Ballmer already and put Microsoft out of its misery?"


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Source: Linux Today

Computerworld: "I think it's going to change the desktop world in a way we haven't seen since Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina released the first modern Web browser, Mosaic, back in 1993."


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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "We need something completely different. How about a high quality voice interface, based on Perlbox?"


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Surveillance State: "However, with a bit of careful analysis, it's possible to see that this is little more than snake oil, designed to look good for the newspapers, without delivering real benefits to end users."


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Source: Linux Today

Tech Broiler: "To battle VMWare and Red Hat, Microsoft and Citrix need to finally consummate the marriage."


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Source: Linux Today

Begin Linux: "F-Spot photo manager allows you to import your favorite photos from your hard drive, camera or iPod. Best of all once you've imported your photos you can quickly edit your photo by removing red eye, cropping, adjusting colors and more."


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "Unigine Tropics is an absolutely stunning test with impressive graphics capabilities and it really sets a new precedence for Linux graphics capabilities through its OpenGL renderer."


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Source: Linux Today

Launchpad Bug Report: "Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
STARTING UP A CERTAIN 3.0.2 VERSION OF FIREFOX BROWSER MAKES AVAILABLE TO YOU A VERY CAPITAL END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT. THIS AGREEMENT IS OBNOXIOUS and largely irrelevant to Ubuntu user."


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Source: Linux Today

CNet News: "A United Nations agency is quietly drafting technical standards, proposed by the Chinese government, to define methods of tracing the original source of Internet communications and potentially curbing the ability of users to remain anonymous."


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Source: Linux Today

ITWire: "I have been talking about Ubuntu for a number of articles now and how easy it is to use. In this article I will look at the next two upcoming versions and investigate what they have to offer."


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Cyber Cynic: "This new version brings users a lot of features that they've been waiting for since 2007. One prime example is that you'll be able to import Office 2007's Open XML documents into OpenOffice."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Weekly: "In this article I will explain 5 of the most useful and used tips in Firefox, together with screenshots where I considered necessary. Most of them are related with the about:config variables, but I also provided a graphical way of doing things where it was possible."


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Source: Linux Today

Joomla!: "In this article I show how I used VisualVM to look at the garbage collection and the configuration and statistics of Ehcache to increase the performance by 10-15 times, to about 200-300 requests per second."


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Free Software Magazine: "Posted on September 1st, in honor of GNU's 25th anniversary, it turns out to be only the latest in a series of entries on Mr. Fry's official blog site praising the virtues of free software."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Weekly: "One way of installing Skype in Ubuntu 8.04 'Hardy Heron' is to get all the dependencies, then install the DEB package provided on the official website. In order to do it, follow the steps below:"



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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

We live in the era of mashups. Creating Web pages that give users the information they
want is a good start, but offering a source of raw data that other Web developers can
easily mix in with their own applications is better. In this installment of Mastering Grails, Scott Davis introduces various ways to get Grails to produce XML instead of the usual HTML.



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