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Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Alan Baghumian has announced the release of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.6, a desktop distribution with GNOME, based on Debian's testing branch: "We are proud to announce that the final version of Parsix GNU/Linux 3.6 'Vinnie' is available now. Parsix 'Vinnie' package repositories are synchronized with Debian testing repositories as .

Source: DistroWatch.com: News

Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Linux Mint 9 "Fluxbox" edition, a lightweight variant of the popular Ubuntu-based distribution with many usability tweaks: "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 9 'Fluxbox'. Based on Lubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, Linux 2.6.32, Fluxbox 1.1.2 and .

Source: DistroWatch.com: News

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: Peering timidly at AUSTRUMI News: openSUSE launches 11.4 development cycle, Debian publishes 6.0 release update, Fedora announces systemd test day, Ubuntu improves netbook interface Interviews: Dru Lavigne, director of community development for PC-BSD Released last week: Zentyal 2.0, Element 1.4, Kiwi Linux .

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Das U-Blog by Prashanth: "This is how I felt when testing Kubuntu 10.04 Trinity. It's a weird mishmash of old-school and new-school KDE."

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Ubuntu Musings: "Utilities. They're what help make computing a lot easier and more convenient, no matter what operating system you use."

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ars Technica: "As browser competition continues to heat up, 2010 looks like the year when the market was repeatedly disrupted."

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OStatic: "I did the upgrade, and made the meeting in time to get a cup of coffee on the way. This is how upgrades should work for everything."

Source: Slashdot: Linux

theodp writes "Raw intellect ain't always all it's cracked up to be, advises Ted Dziuba in his introduction to Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier, so don't be too stubborn to learn the things that can save you from the headaches of over-engineering. Here's some sample how-to-avoid-over-complicating-things advice: 'If Linux can do it, you shouldn't. Don't use Hadoop MapReduce until you have a solid reason why xargs won't solve your problem. Don't implement your own lockservice when Linux's advisory file locking works just fine. Don't do image processing work with PIL unless you have proven that command-line ImageMagick won't do the job. Modern Linux distributions are capable of a lot, and most hard problems are already solved for you. You just need to know where to look.' Any cautionary tips you'd like to share from your own experience?"

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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

The Google App Engine launched in April 2008, and included a method to upload bulk data stored in CSV files using Python. Java language support was added a year later. To date, the App Engine lacks Java-native support for bulk uploads and CSV remains the only data storage medium supported by the bulk uploading tool. Explore the various methods to store data from XML documents on the App Engine persistent database in this article.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

A number of websites cater to non-profits that provide easily set-up and used forms for taking polls and collecting data. This tutorial introduces a simple architecture for designing similar applications for Android -- dynamic user interfaces that allow non-programmers to collect data from mobile users. You will create an example forms engine in this tutorial with both server and mobile sides.