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Philip Newborough has announced the availability of the first alpha release of CrunchBang Linux 10. A lightweight distribution featuring Openbox and Xfce, CrunchBang is now based on Debian GNU/Linux, rather than Ubuntu. From the release announcement: "The first alpha release of CrunchBang 10 is now available. Code-named 'Statler', .

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Steve Langasek has announced the availability of the first beta release of Ubuntu 10.04, code name "Lucid Lynx", a long-term support (LTS) version: "The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop, Server, and Netbook editions and of Ubuntu 10.04 Server .

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Handle With Linux: "Too bad it's only for professional use the HGZ Linux based coffee machine. I'd love to have on of these. A Dream come true. The Linux coffee maker."

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The cloud, the smartphone, the tablet, the Web itself as a big giant operating system-- what's the fatal flaw in all of these? It's all about feeding content to passive "consumers". Plug me in, baby, I'm not lifting a finger ever again.

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Apachelogger's Log: "This post is supposed to make it clear why Kubuntu is what it is. Writing this down is necessary because people constantly get the wrong picture."

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Linux Magazine: "When other mailers aren’t doing the trick, it’s time to break out Claws: An extremely configurable and extensible GUI mailer that gives you all the control you’d ever want over your mail without sacrificing ease of use."

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Softpedia: "MEPIS has now made available the third release candidate of its upcoming Linux-based operating system, SimplyMEPIS 8.5 RC 3. The new release comes with several updates, both upgraded packages and fresh features, and is available for 32-bit, as well as 64-bit platforms."

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Moved by Freedom - Powered by Standards: "Recently at OpenOffice.org we have decided to give more highlight to our many native-language communities, who are in charge not just of localization, but also QA, users support, documentation translation and marketing."

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Phoronix: "Before devoting this hardware to the farm, we ran a few benchmarks comparing the performance of NVIDIA's ION GeForce 9400M graphics processor to the ATI Radeon HD 4330 graphics processor found on the MSI 6667BB-004US and several other Atom-powered devices."

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Tech Source: "Since our collection of Free and Open Source finance/accounting software for Linux has been quite popular, I would like to add 7 more to that list."

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Enterprise Mobile Today: "Motorola's planned rollout of the Android 2.1 operating system for its popular Droid smartphone has been delayed indefinitely -- with some reports blaming it on the discovery of a serious bug."

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Blog of Helios: "Over the past few weeks, we've received a number of quality laptops to give out to our kids. Unfortunately many of these laptops did not come with power adapters and pretty much qualify for doorstops."

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Tech Comics: "Social networking activities like Facebook and Twitter consumer so much attention that it may be hard to find a balance with life itself."

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Sure, It's Secure: "In the last 24-hours, I received e-mails about March Madness, Sandra Bullock's hubby, and Michael Jackson's estate and every one of them contained a link to malware."

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LWN.net: "Recently, there have been a number of reports that Linux is not ready to work with these drives; kernel developer Tejun Heo even posted an extensive, worth-reading summary stating that "4 KiB logical sector support is broken in both the kernel and partitioners.""

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Linux Planet: "Businesses are struggling with how to make money from open-source software. Is going closed-source still the only way?"

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IT World: "At OSBC, a company exec noted that Microsoft relies upon a diverse ecosystem that includes open source to satisfy customers"

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LXer: "Apart from Apple, some other companies are bringing some interesting tablets. In contrary to the iTab, those other tablets do run Linux. Some are already available, such as the TouchBook from Always Innovating (AI), and some have supposedly better screens, like the Notion Ink Adam tablet."

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Tech Radar: "Opera has seen a massive increased in downloads of its browser following the introduction of the browser ballot 'choice screen' into Microsoft Windows."

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Ardour: "There hasn't been much news posted here for a while, so I thought it was appropriate to update subscribers and other supporters of my work on Ardour on what has been going on."

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fewt@blog:~$ _: "By now my launchpad, brainstorm, and Ubuntu forum accounts have been removed .. at my request. I have decided to completely unequivocally leave the Ubuntu community."

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LinuxPlanet: "Paul Ferrill introduces us to the Shutter screen grab for Linux application. Shutter offers a simple interface and a whole lot of functionality. including cursor capture, whole Web page capture, and annotations."

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The H Open: "Free software has won: practically all of the biggest and most exciting Web companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter run on it. But it is also in danger of losing, because those same services now represent a huge threat to our freedom "

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ZDNet: "Allianz Australia Insurance chief information officer (CIO) Steve Cole said yesterday he had done the equivalent of losing hair while undertaking an upgrade that saw the company move from multiple Wintel servers to a Linux mainframe."

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The Open Road: "Open-source developers and businesses are focused on the wrong opportunity, according to industry luminary Tim O'Reilly. The future isn't programming for Linux or MySQL. The future is programming for the "whole Web.""

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Linux Journal: "Part 1 of this series introduced arpeggiators in general and profiled the QMidiArp application. This week we conclude our survey with a look at two more arpeggiators for Linux musicians: Hypercyclic and Arpage."

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Datamation: "Google doesn't get embarrassed too often, but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just dealt it a loss of face by rejecting its application for a trademark for the Nexus One smartphone."

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LinuxLinks: "Now, let's explore the 5 practice management applications at hand. For each title we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, a screenshot of the software in action, together with links to relevant resources and reviews."

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Boycott Novell: "Summary: War is peace and Microsoft is the new “open”; Details on the latest attack of Microsoft against GNU/Linux, using proxies"

Source: Slashdot: Linux

mikrorechner writes "The H Online has a writeup of the problems encountered by LiMux (Wikipedia entry), one of the most prominent Linux migration projects in the world, trying to introduce free software into the highly heterogenous IT infrastructure of the City of Munich. Quoting: 'Florian Schiessl, deputy head of Munich's LiMux project for migrating the city's public administration to Linux, has, for the first time, explained why migrating the city's computing landscape to open source software has taken longer than originally planned.'" Here is Shiessl's blog, in which he details some of the transition problems.

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Source: Security DevCenter

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free While there are many opportunities to connect and showcase yourself online, there is no way around the fact that you simply must be using LinkedIn. If you aren't using its features to their fullest, you may likely be missing out on opportunities to connect and impress. Show Me, Don't Tell Me (Reputation and Credibility) Research (Overt and Covert) LinkedIn as a Sales Channel (How to do it well or totally blow it) Joining Groups (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly) Crowdsource Knowledge and Expertise About Irene Koehler After a seemingly endless career is corporate management, Irene Koehler escaped to explore the world of self-employment. Along the way, she found herself deeply immersed in the world of online branding, reputation management and social media. She joined LinkedIn in 2004 and has been helping professionals and businesses get the most out of it ever since. A frequent speaker and social media consultant, Irene has a passion for helping people learn to use online tools and technology to achieve their business objectives. Using social media isn't difficult, it's only new. Irene has a particular talent for working with those in the early stages of learning, those who are AlmostSavvy. When she is not working with clients, Irene can be found busily blogging at www.AlmostSavvy.com , tweeting at @IreneKoehler on Twitter or interacting with the AlmostSavvy community on Facebook.

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Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free In this live event, Mac Slocum, online editor for O'Reilly Media, will conduct a video interview with J.D. Roth, financial expert and author of Your Money: The Missing Manual. Roth will discuss practical tips for saving money and helpful techniques that make saving less of a chore. He'll also field questions from the audience (free advice!), so come prepared with your financial queries. About J.D. Roth J.D. Roth is an accidental personal-finance expert--a regular guy who found himself deep in debt. After deciding to turn his life around, he read everything he could about money and finance. In 2006, he started the award-winning website Get Rich Slowly, which Money Magazine named the Web's most inspiring personal-finance blog. Over the past four years, Get Rich Slowly has grown into an active community where thousands of readers a month share ideas on how to improve their financial lives. J.D. lives with his wife and four cats in a hundred-year-old house in Portland, Oregon.

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Web 2.0 Expo is one of the biggest tech conferences in SF and NY every year--making it a great show for exposure and conversation. Because it's an appealing event, we generally get at least 10 session proposals for each available slot--but most of those proposals are, frankly, way, way off the mark. In this short webcast, we'll share tips and answer your questions to help you craft a proposal that will stand out in a good way.

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A fun follow up to my previous post about writing outside of technology. This one focuses on my childrens picture books and a series called Bugville Critters. All 16 of my original Bugville Critters books have been published. The latest

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Wired is leading the magazine-to-iPad charge with a great looking app, but it's also reverting to some back lock-in habits. Instead of trapping content and readers within a space -- a true exercise in futility -- Wired and other publishers should go the other way with their iPad offerings: create more web hooks, not less.

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Myth of China's Manufacturing Prowess -- The latest data shows [ ] that the United States is still the largest manufacturer in the world. In 2008, U.S. manufacturing output was $1.8 trillion, compared to $1.4 trillion in China (UN data. China’s data do not separate manufacturing from mining and utilities. So the actual Chinese manufacturing number should be much smaller). Also contains pointers to an interesting discussion of lack of opportunities for college grads in China. This and more in today's Four Short Links.

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Can HTML rival print for quality? I took a fresh look at hyphenation, body text fonts, sidebars, and dynamic layout.