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Source: Linux Today DennyHalim: "what make this installation different is that you have complete control what you want to install. you decide every single piece of your linux. you decide if you want opera over firefox or gnumeric over openoffice.org calc, etc… and it's still 100% ubuntu."
Source: Linux Today IBM Alphaworks: "This system enables text-centered enterprise applications by extracting structured information from unstructured text. Unlike previous systems for information extraction, System Text incorporates AQL, a declarative rule language that makes it easy to express precise specifications for complex patterns in text."
Source: Linux Today LinuxHaxor: "Every week I find a new interesting site that I wish I knew about before; so today as I share with you some of the interesting Linux/FOSS blog I follow, I am hoping you will also share your favorite Linux blogs that I might not have seen before."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "But in 2000, when Python creator Guido van Rossum announced that he was embarking on a new version of Python, he did not sugar coat his plan: Version 3.0 would not be backward-compatible. Now that the first release candidate of Python 3.0 is out, with final release planned for later this month, developers must grapple with the issue of whether to maintain older code or modify it to use the new interpreter."
Source: Linux Today ServerWatch: "Lenovo recently entered the server marketplace with five new 1-way and 2-way servers. Branded as ThinkServer, these single and dual-core offerings are aimed at the lower end of the server marketplace."
Source: Linux Today Linux Today Blog: "Some months ago I wrote What's on Your Bookshelf?. Readers chimed in with their own favorite reads: the Iliad, Odyssey, Art of War, the original un-sanitized Grimm's Fairy Tales, Kipling, Divine Comedy, and other cool books. I was pleased to see so much fiction mentioned, as a lot of my friends only read what they have to for work. Which seems like a great way to fossilize the brain and nurture a sour outlook on life."
Source: Linux Today LinuxHaxor: "Brief history of Docks: NeXTstep was first to introduce the idea of "docks" in an operating system back in 1989 when neXTstep 1.0 was first released. Later as most of Nextstep's codebase was used on OpenStep and then on OS X, "dock" was one of the few original and the most prominent features that stayed with OS X."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "Some distributions are consistently left off these lists, seemingly regardless of whether they are a better fit than the usual candidates. I always read these lists, and wonder why Zenwalk is rarely mentioned. Perhaps it isn't for brand new users, but it's a great distribution that is overlooked far too often."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: " we wrote about Radiohead's successful effort to open source a music video and Bojam's effort to get musicians around the world to collaborate in open source fashion. So I was interested in this post from Matt Asay about Severed Fifth, an effort to explore new music distribution approaches, headed up by Jono Bacon, who is Ubuntu's community lead."
Source: Linux Today Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "After posting 5 Things I Wish Linux Had, I did some mulling and gathered comments from readers and compiled this additional list of items that I wish Linux had. I've also included one thing that I wish Linux didn't have."
Source: Linux Today Cyber Cynic: "After a brief hardware hiccup with Intel's e1000e gigabyte Ethernet firmware, Linux 2.6.27 was released on October 9th. It's a good, but not ground-breaking, kernel. Still, it has at least five significant improvements."
Source: Linux Today Enterprise Networking Planet: "In this article, we’ll show you five ways you can keep up to speed with various aspects of Linux. Linux means different things to different people. There are Linux desktops in the home, Linux servers, Linux software development, Web servers on Linux, mainframes running Linux, and the interesting business aspects of Linux. We will try to cover the spectrum."
Source: Linux Today Linux Loop: "Standard proprietary you-need-a-new-computer-every-few-years software is not a model that allows everyone to have a computer. A very bottom of the line Vista desktop from Dell costs nearly $500, so it is hardly realistic for everyone to own one. Linux and open-source software, however, present an alternative."
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "For those of you willing to step up, to start off with a can-do attitude, making the switch is not so much difficult as potentially troubling. For example: being told that some non-compatible hardware or habits will need to be dropped off at the curb. Yet there are ways to make the switch painless."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "A common charge against free and open source software (FOSS) is that it lacks the ability to innovate. To that charge, the lifelong research of Eric von Hippel, professor and head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management, offers a thorough and scholarly refutation. Having studied the sources of innovation for more than three decades, von Hippel has found in FOSS both a confirmation and an elaboration of his ideas."
Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "This is a detailed description about how to set up a Mandriva 2009.0 Free server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. This tutorial is written for the 32-bit version of Mandriva 2009.0."
Mandriva Free contains no proprietary software--ed.
Source: Linux Today LinuxPlanet: "I ran across this funny and true rant about dimwitted tech support that thinks MS Windows is the whole world: "Linux is an older version of UNIX that crashes if you try to use it to look at graphics, or as a web server." This was published in September 2000-- has anything really changed?"
Source: Linux Today InternetNews: "The open source Ruby programming language is growing fast in terms of adoption, thanks in part to the Rails framework -- often referred to as Ruby on Rails. Rails, however, isn't the only game in town when in comes to Ruby frameworks."
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "At times, though, the community can be its own worst enemy. Certain attitudes, often long-ingrained, make the community less united than it should be, and work against common goals, such as providing an alternative to proprietary software or spreading the FOSS gospel."
Source: Linux Today Phoronix: "With Ubuntu 8.10 being released in two weeks and it's using this newest X Server, how will ATI graphics cards be supported? Well, an interesting event has occurred and we will tell you what has happened in this article."
Source: Linux Today ServerWatch: "Operating system makers may be forced to do some serious modifications to their TCP/IP stacks, thanks to the TCP sockstress vulnerability which has been hitting the news over the last few weeks."
Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "With this week's release of Mandriva 2009, Mandriva has continued to work on user-friendliness. Aside from a poorly organized installation program and a few scattered problems, Mandriva 2009 offers a desktop experience that is at least the equal of any other distribution for everyday use and that has a strong claim of being the most advanced available for system administration."
Source: Linux Today Blog of Helios: "To the surprise of many, Lindependence 2008 did not end in Felton California. What many thought to be a publicity stunt has proven to be exactly what the founders planned for it to be a template."
Source: Linux Today ZDNet: "The biggest mobile news of 2007 was definitely the Apple iPhone and I think the biggest news of this year is the Google Android. I enjoyed my trip out to see the T-Mobile G1 launch last month and have now had the opportunity to use the T-Mobile G1 for almost a week."
Source: Linux Today Linux Journal: "Recently I needed to create a script that processed two input files. By processed I mean that the script needed to get a line from one file, then get a line from the second file, and then do something with them."
Source: Linux Today ars Technica: "One of the most noteworthy additions in this release is native compatibility with the Mac OS X platform. Users no longer have to rely on the NeoOffice port or use X11 to run OOo on a Mac."
Source: Linux Today Datamation: "I found one developer I managed that had over 30 chat windows open when I popped into his cube. Thirty! And most of them were flashing so I'm assuming active conversations were taking place -- during the work day."
Source: Linux Today OStatic: "My MythTV box has been humming in my living room just shy of a year. It's not a project for a new user, but it's a better application, and less complicated to install and maintain than you've been led to believe."
Source: Linux Today Begin Linux Blog: "Schools in America are held hostage by Microsoft and are being choked one school at a time. We have allowed Microsoft and our State and Federal governments to force us into financing cycles that schools cannot afford."
Source: Linux Today IT News: "Dubbed 'Realtown', the newly-developed wireless environment incorporates a virtual supermarket, schools, pharmacy and bank, as well as background sounds that may be enabled to increase the environment’s realism."
Source: Linux Today CIOL: "James M Whitehurst, CEO and president, Red Hat, on his recent visit to India talks to CyberMedia News on many red-hot issues around open source technology and its business colours. Like, how to make money out of something free and open?"
Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "This Howto covers the installation of XenServer Express 5.0.0 and the creation of virtual machines with the XenCenter administrator console. XenServer Express is the free virtualization platform from Citrix, the company behind the well known Xen virtualization engine."
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