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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

The first beta build of PCLinuxOS 2010 has been released: "PCLinuxOS 2010 Beta 1 features 2.6.32.8 kernel using the BFS scheduler for maximum desktop performance on i686 computers. This kernel supports up to 4 GB of memory. A PAE kernel is available from the Synaptic package manager providing .

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Ian Wells has announced the availability of the fifth beta release of SME Server 8.0, a CentOS-based server distribution: "The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 8.0beta5 which is based on CentOS 5.4 and will be the next major release of .

Source: DistroWatch.com: News

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Taking a look at PC-BSD 8.0 News: Ubuntu unveils new desktop theme, KNOPPIX releases 6.3 CeBIT edition, openSUSE adds LXDE desktop to install media, multicd.sh Questions and answers: RHEL 6, useful shell tips Released last week: Elive 2.0, Linux From Scratch 6.6 .

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Toolbox for IT: "Everybody loves statistics. Statistics can be used to say just about everything when they are boiled down to a nice colourful pie chart. I have also heard it said that 76.3% of people believe that you put a percentage sign behind any random number they will believe it to be true."

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eWeek Europe: "Make no mistake - The hedge fund offer for Novell could effectively mean the end of the company. And Microsoft could suffer the worst, says Peter Judge."

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HowtoForge: "This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with lighttpd on an Ubuntu 9.10 server."

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The H Open: "Following its recent acquisition by Google last month and removal from the App Store, reMail has now been released to the open source community."

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Linux User: "I'm a distinguished engineer at Novell. My primary role for the Linux kernel is to be SCSI subsystem maintainer, which means I have to run a Git tree for Linux and manage a mailing-list-based community."

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Delimiter: "Victoria's Electoral Commission has flagged plans to expand its use of electronic voting kiosks based on Linux software in the next state election in November this year."

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levenez.com: "This is a simplified diagram of unix history."

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IT World: "Google's Chrome OS Netbook will feature a host of built-in security technologies designed to protect users from malware and other threats."

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OStatic: "This year's LibrePlanet is going to feature a new 'Women's Caucus,' a day-long track on Sunday to boost participation by women in free software projects."

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Download Squad: "The entire 137 year archive of Popular Science Magazine is now available for online free browsing."

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TuxRadar: "We asked prolific kernel hacker (and Linux Format reader!) Greg Kroah-Hartman to tell us what it takes for newbies to patch the Linux kernel - here's what he had to say."

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OSS Watch: "Combining freedoms and copyleft in the Gnu GPL license (invented by Richard Stallman) was the cornerstone of free software. This is now questioned due to the proliferation of incompatible copyleft licenses."

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ZDNet Australia: "Every couple of years, Microsoft and its partners get to show off what the technology is capable of and push the limits of live video coverage. This year, the plethora of Canadian channels covering the Olympics were all available live from one website, and the experience was terrific."

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Silicon Alley Insider: "The following series of stories detail some of what happened in 2003 and 2004 after then Harvard-sophomore Mark Zuckerberg launched a site called theFacebook.com."

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Packt Pub: "You can use Audacity to import music into your project, convert different audio files from one format to another, bring in multiple files and convert them, and more."

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Tech Broiler: "Intel's Wind River Hypervisor and technologies like it could usher in a new age of Device-agnostic Smartphone Operating Systems and unprecedented customer choice"

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

It's been a few days but the latest kernel, 2.6.33 is out. There are some changes that affect the storage world that you probably need to check out.

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Download and use Nikto before an attacker reduces your website to a burned-out cinder.

Source: ONLamp.com

Consistent use of indentation is important in a langauge like Python, where white-space is significant. The tabnanny module provides a scanner to report on "ambiguous" use of indentation. The simplest way to use tabnanny is to run it from the command line, passing the names of files to check. If you pass directory names, the directories are scanned recursively to find .py files to check.

Source: Security DevCenter

The Art of Assembly Language teaches programmers how to understand assembly language and how to use it to write powerful, efficient code. Using the proven High Level Assembler (HLA) as its primary teaching tool, The Art of Assembly Language leverages your knowledge of high level programming languages to make it easier for you to quickly grasp basic assembly concepts.

Source: Security DevCenter

The iPhone app from Chipotle, the restaurant chain best known for its burritos, is an interesting mix of simple design, e-commerce functionality and location tools. Digging into the app's development reveals three aspects that could prove useful for businesses and programmers pursuing their own mobile paths.

Source: Security DevCenter

China's Cyberposse (NY Times) -- is vigilante justice ok if the cause is right? Is it okay if there wouldn't be justice without it? Does the end justify the means? Many interesting questions raised by this large-scale Internet-based "human-flesh-search" in China. In the future we are all 4chan. This and more in today's Four Short Links.

Source: Security DevCenter

Building a great software team requires more than just a good tool, technology, or technique. That's something we learned time and again from the many brilliant people who contributed to Beautiful Teams. It's an idea that seems to really fascinate people: that when a team build great software, even the right programming tools or best practices, solid processes or methodologies can't make up for a team that doesn't start with trust and respect (not to mention skill, talent and good ideas).

Source: Security DevCenter

The International Amateur Scanning League is off to a roaring start, newly equipped with official Government ID badges and starting to rip. I'm pleased to report that things are going swimmingly, and volunteers have successfully ripped the first 42 DVDs. Procedures have been worked out for volunteers to sign up for times on a spreadsheet, get a large number of blanks from the National Archives staff, and leave their completed DVDs at the reference desk to be sent back to Public.Resource on a weekly basis. We were also pleased to learn that there are currently over 3,000 DVDs at the College Park facility, more than twice the number we had expected.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

This article, the second in a three-part series, explores advanced topics in
Apache Wink 1.0 development, a new Java framework for implementing and consuming
REST-based Web services.