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Source: guadalinex

The first release candidate for Guadalinex 5.0, a Spanish Ubuntu-based distribution developed by the regional government of Andalucía, is ready for testing. Released to commemorate today's worldwide Software Freedom Day, this is the project's first version that comes on two CDs - an installable live CD with essential .


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Source: mythbuntu

A new alpha build of Mythbuntu 8.10, an Ubuntu-based distribution featuring MythTV and designed for home theatre PCs, has been released: "Without further ado, allow me to introduce Mythbuntu 8.10 alpha 6. It is very important to note that this release is not compatible with Mythbuntu 7.10 or .



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Source: Linux Today

KDE Developer's Journals: "Yes, KDE-4.2 will be 32 times faster deleting a large number of files compared to KDE-4.1!"


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Source: Linux Today

The Linux and Unix Menagerie:
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The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Probably a few people out there were thinking: "Why permutations if 1,2,3 and 3,1,2 are going to be considered equal? Isn't that just a bunch of extra work?" The answers to those questions are "why not" and "yes""


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SUSE & openSUSE: "InkScape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format."


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Wine-Reviews: "Over the past month we have made some major progress on the BSD port of Bordeaux. Bordeaux for FreeBSD now has a .sh installer, the same one that we use on Linux, so you will need to have py-gtk installed for the installer to work properly."


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Linux.com: "ExifTool is an efficient, flexible, and portable way to manage image, audio, and video metadata under Linux. In this article we'll see how to use ExifTool to manage EXIF data inside JPEG files."


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Packt: "MySQL introduced cursor in its release 5. You create a cursor to define a set of rows from one or more table that you want to access row-by-row sequentially. If your need is really to access the rows one at a time then use cursor."


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Polish Linux: "The issue of Polish institutions and public administration in general, being dependent on closed-source software providers, the main one being Microsoft, is largely spoken about. There are exceptions among the institutions however, and one of them will be featured in our today’s article."


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IBM Developerworks: "However, without actual text on a page, search engines like Google and Yahoo, as well as ad services like Google Ads, are hampered in identifying and classifying a site. This article explains how to get the beauty and elegance of image-based text, without sacrificing semantic meaning on a Web page."



Updated: Sun Sep 21 23:55:01 2008


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