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Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "Add one part GNU, one part Linux kernel, stir lightly, bake for 19 years, and you get 452 different meals."


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Linuxers: "Had a night out with friends, the plan was to watch a lot of movies but ended up playing this awesome game from 3am until morning."


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LWN.net: "The following is a summary of changes to the security subsystem for the
2.6.36 kernel, which may be found in my development tree at:"


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Delimiter: "Max McLaren has for the past five years been pushing the cause of open source software in Australia in his role as general manager of Red Hat in Australia and New Zealand."



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eldavojohn writes "Linus has announced the release of 2.6.35 for people to download and test after he found not a lot of changes between this week and last. The big features to look out for include: "Transparent spreading of incoming network traffic load across CPUs, Btrfs improvements, KDB kernel debugger frontend, Memory compaction and Support for multiple multicast route tables" as well as various performance and graphics improvements. Linus also praised the community saying that 'regression changes only' after rc1 improved this time around and gave numbers to back it up saying "in the 2.6.34 release, there were 3800 commits after -rc1, but in the current 35 release cycle we had less than 2000." Good to see the process is becoming more refined and controlled after the first release candidate — hopefully there's no impending burnout."

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supersloshy writes "The GNOME Census, a project to see who contributes to GNOME and how, has released its first set of results. The results group people by their reasons to contribute code, what they contributed code to, and what percentage of the total contributions they have. For example, 23.45% of code contributions were volunteer, 16.3% of code contributions came from Red Hat, 1% of contributions came from Canonical (which has caused a lot of controversy), and 0.24% came from Mozilla Corporation. The census results are also represented in diagrams (release activity, why contributions were made, and what was contributed to and by who). The report is also available here and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license."

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Real World Data Analysis shows you how you think about data and the results you want to achieve with it. Author Philipp Janert teaches you how to effectively approach data analysis problems, and how to extract all the available information from your data. Many people can apply a data analysis formula. This book shows you how to look at the results and know whether they're meaningful.


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REST continues to gain momentum as the best method for building web services, leaving many web architects to consider whether and how to include this approach in their SOA and SOAP-dominated world. This book offers a down-to-earth explanation of REST, with techniques and examples that show you how to design and implement integration solutions using the REST architectural style.


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None of the JavaScript libraries today has a more impressive track record than Google Closure, the tool suite used for Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps. Closure: The Definitive Guide has precisely what you need to get started with these tools, including valuable information not available publicly anywhere else.


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With over 250,000 apps to choose from, you can make your iPhone or iPod Touch do just about anything you can imagine -- and almost certainly a few things you would never think of. But how do you know which apps rise above the rest? The second edition of Best iPhone Apps guides the way, with an updated collection of gee-whiz apps that delight, empower, and entertain. Author J.D. Biersdorfer stress-tested thousands of titles from the App Store emporium to handpick the ones that will make the biggest difference in every aspect of your life.


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Host Your Web Site On The Cloud is a step-by-step guide to hosting web sites on Amazon EC2. Authored by Amazon's Senior Manager of Cloud Computing Solutions, Jeffrey Barr, this book covers all aspects of best-practice cloud hosting and migrating your existing applications and websites to the Cloud.


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Subversion is the most popular open-source version control system on the planet. Development teams-big and small, enterprise and open source-use this fast, feature-rich tool daily. Pragmatic Guide to Subversion presents the 42 core uses that have powered Subversion's success. Stripping away the exhaustive details of reference books, this guide gives you a shortcut to the Subversion master's recommended set of features and best practices. With this book, you can get to the good parts quickly, and be more productive and effective.


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Join the next wave of Web 2.0 software development in the cloud! Cloud applications are the next big shift in application development: instead of building single-user applications to run on a personal computer, new applications are being built as multi-user services that run in data centers around the world. One of the most exciting new environments for building services in the cloud is Google's AppEngine. AppEngine is a powerful, easy-to-use framework for developing cloud-based services. This book will teach you what you need to make the shift to cloud development using AppEngine.


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Learn how to code, package, deploy, and test functional Enterprise JavaBeans with the latest edition of bestselling guide. Written by the developers of the JBoss EJB 3.1 implementation, this book brings you up to speed on each of the component types and container services in this technology, while the workbook in the second section provides several hands-on examples for putting the concepts into practice. Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1 is the most complete reference you'll find on this specification.


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Now that JavaScript plays such a key role in modern websites, programmers who once dismissed it as a language for amateurs find themselves immersed in JavaScript code. JavaScript Patterns identifies key problem areas you might face when working with the language, and provides design patterns and coding patterns as solutions. Author Stoyan Stefanov includes several examples for each pattern as well as practical advice for implementing it.


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LEGO TECHNIC is designed to allow builders to create more advanced models with moving parts, like those built with LEGO MINDSTORMS. The LEGO TECHNIC Idea Book: Gears offers hundreds of ideas and examples for building mechanisms with TECHNIC. This volume focuses on gears and power transmission. The book is color throughout, with little to no text accompanying its diagrams; rather than tell you what to think, you're encouraged to use your own imagination. The book's illustrations demonstrate various ways to combine TECHNIC gears, which you'll use as a starting point for your own creations. Gears begins with the basics of gears, shafts, connectors, and gear combinations, then demonstrates more complex actions, like how to build winches, cranes, and chains; change rotational motion to linear motion; launch projectiles with rubber bands; change speed and direction; and even create musical instruments. The LEGO TECHNIC Idea Books are for anyone who wants to create a moving masterpiece, as well as those who want to make original robots with MINDSTORMS. It can also be used to demonstrate how machines work and to experience the fun of mechanics.



Updated: Mon Aug 2 23:55:01 2010


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