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[Linux Today] The Microsoft Elephant in the Open Source Room

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:04:17 +0000

Boycott Novell: "Summary: Assorted new reports about how Microsoft abuses “open source” to gain control of it, change its direction and goals, or even to misuse the label to promote proprietary software that harms standards and promotes patenting of software"http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0oxOIS0a4S_glXVsjhRKGcAIqjU/0/di http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/0oxOIS0a4S_glXVsjhRKGcAIqjU/1/di

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[Linux Today] How To Harden PHP5 With Suhosin On CentOS 5.4

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:04:17 +0000

Howtoforge: "This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on a CentOS 5.4 server. From the Suhosin project page: "Suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installations that was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core."

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[Linux Today] Seven Firefox Plug-ins That Improve Online Privacy

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:04:17 +0000

Data Protection: "Worried about preserving your privacy in an online world where privacy is disappearing? Here are seven Firefox add-ons that will help."

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[Linux Today] Bash History: Display Date And Time For Each Command

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:04:30 +0000

nixCraft: "How do I display shell command history with date and time under UNIX or Linux operating systems?"

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[Linux Today] Leading Edge? Bleeding Edge? Be careful!

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:04:30 +0000

Jamie's Random Musings: "Sometimes, though, it is possible to get a bit too far ahead of the general development/release cycle. The HP Pavillion dm1-1020ez that I purchased in January is a case in point."

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[Linux Today] One Year Later: What Do You Think of Linux.com?

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:04:30 +0000

Linux.com: "This month marks the one-year anniversary of Linux.com in its newest form. A year ago, we built the site based on your rankings of features on IdeaForge. Today, we want to hear how you're using Linux.com and what is most useful"

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[Linux Today] Vacuum Tube Radio Hat

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 08:04:30 +0000

Retro Thing: "Here it is, the complete two-tube radio built into a hat!"

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[Linux Today] A System Monitoring Tool Primer

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:04:30 +0000

CertCities: "Linux comes with a number of utilities that can be used to monitor one or more of these performance parameters. The following sections introduce a few of these utilities and show how to understand the information presented by them"

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[Linux Today] Linux coolness: Linux Cooler, Linux serves you beer

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:04:30 +0000

Handle With Linux: "Linux is cool, Linux users know that much. There are a lot of cool things Linux, and to kick off, here is one of them: A linux beer machine."

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[Linux Today] OSI Board Addition May Bring Needed Change

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:02:55 +0000

IT World: "The OSI has been one of those organizations that seemed to fall short of its true potential, which is always a source of frustration; you want them to succeed, and don't understand when things go awry."

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[Linux Today] Top 10 IT Billionaires -- A Closer Look

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:02:55 +0000

DevX: "Forbes released its annual list of the world's billionaires Thursday, and technology companies are well represented, even though Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest person."

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[Linux Today] Proof Of Concept: Open-Source Multi-GPU Rendering!

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:02:55 +0000

Phoronix: "David's goals with Prime are to allow a second GPU to render 3D applications onto the screen of the first GPU, with it being configurable by the client, and just to handle the rendering side."

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[Linux Today] How to compile the Linux kernel

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:02:55 +0000

TuxRadar: "Do you want to remove bloat from your Linux installation? Are you looking to enable extra features that aren't provided by your distro? Fancy trying some of the cutting-edge patches doing the rounds? You'll need to recompile your kernel, and while it might look like black magic if you've never done it before, it's actually pretty straightforward."

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[Linux Today] Novell's Motion to Allow Evidence: SCO Opened the Door

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:02:55 +0000

Groklaw: "SCO's attorney Stuart Singer may have gotten carried away with his theatrical indignation. And when a party slips like this, what lawyers call opening the door, it can indeed have consequences. Novell was just waiting for a moment like this."

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[Linux Today] Blake Stowell Email to Maureen O'Gara: "I Need You to Send a Jab PJ's Way"

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:04:21 +0000

Groklaw: "So. Now I know. Now we all know.Blake Stowell, then the PR guy for SCO, sent an email to Maureen O'Gara, saying "I need you to send a jab PJ's way," and then right afterwards she wrote that invasive so-called expose, in which she revealed, or at least intended to reveal, things like who I called on my phone."

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[Linux Today] 'Rising Tide' for x86 Servers Lifting Intel, AMD

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:32:14 +0000

Serverwatch: "Stating it believes server sales are being underestimated by Wall Street, Broadpoint AmTech's latest report predicts both Intel and AMD will post better-than-expected earnings in the first quarter."

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[Linux Today] Digg Moves From MySQL to NoSQL

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:02:14 +0000

Datamation: "Social networking and voting site Digg is rewriting its underlying software infrastructure in an effort to improve performance and scalability. Part of that effort involves moving away from the MySQL database that has helped to power Digg since its creation."

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[Linux Today] Elliott Associates: Novell Won't Go to Pieces

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:32:14 +0000

The VAR Guy: "Elliott Associates, the hedge fund that's seeking to acquire Novell and SUSE Linux, is denying a report that it plans to break up Novell and sell off the pieces. Hmmm�"

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[Linux Today] Text-to-Speech Software for Linux

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:02:14 +0000

Tech Source: "If you've been looking for a free speech synthesizer for Linux, the one that I can highly recommend is a program called Festival."

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[Linux Today] Microsoft Office 2007 on OpenSolaris

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:32:14 +0000

Wine-Reviews: "Today I thought I would show everyone just how easy it is to install and use Microsoft Office 2007 on OpenSolaris 2009.06 and 2010.03 with Bordeaux for Solaris. I have installed Office 2007 on both OpenSolaris 2009.06 and 2010.03"

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[Slashdot] Here Come the Linux iPad Clones

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:13:00 +0000

CWmike writes "You can now pre-order an Apple iPad; but do you really want to, asks Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. 'I mean, I get why you'd want an iPad. I'd like one too,' he writes. 'But,' he says, 'when I consider that there are soon going to be literally dozens of cheaper, Linux-powered iPad devices on the market, I find it a lot easier to resist putting $499 on my credit card. On top of that, Apple will be including DRM on some eBooks and other iPad content. I really, really hate DRM. All that said, I agree the iPad is really cool. I predict with absolute faith that the iPad and its clones are going to kill off single purpose devices like dedicated eReaders such as Amazon's Kindle and GPS devices within the next three years. How can it not work out this way? For the same price as a high-end dedicated device you can get a tablet that will do everything they can do and far more. But, and this is the important bit, you don't have to buy an Apple iPad to get all of the iPad's goodies. ARM, a mobile microprocessor power, is predicting that we'll see no less than 50 ARM-processor-powered iPad clones by year's end. And, what will they be running? These ARM-powered entertainment tablets will all be running Linux.'"

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[Linux Today] Here comes Linux's iPad clones

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:02:14 +0000

Computerworld: "You can pre-order an Apple iPad starting today, March 12th, but seriously, do you really want to?"

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[Linux Today] Tech Comics: "The (Former) Freaky Nerd"

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:32:14 +0000

Tech Comics: "Men are sometimes not too communicative, yet Facebook helps with that. Sort of."

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[Linux Today] Firefox 3.6.2 Coming March 30th - Where is 3.6.1?

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:02:14 +0000

Netstat -vat: "No, that's not a typo. Mozilla is currently scheduled to release its next open source Firefox browser version 3.6.2 on March 30th."

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[Linux Today] Does HTML5 Really Beat Flash? The Surprising Results of New Tests

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:32:14 +0000

ReadWriteWeb: "However, recent tests have put Flash up against HTML5, the new web markup language that eliminates the need for the Adobe plugin. The results of these tests show that this is not a simple black-and-white issue. Is Flash really a CPU hog?"

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