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Home, Events, and Ubuntu

by Linux Today on Feb.09, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

Just Me, Amber: “I have been working with the SCaLE 8x coordinators, and the CA Loco Team for the Ubucon event at SCaLE. I am giving a talk at the WIOS event at SCaLE - A Year NTEU the Ubuntu Community and the FLOSS World.” .... #read more#

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Has the Irresistible Rise of OpenOffice.org Begun?

by Linux Today on Feb.09, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

Computerworld UK: “Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m a big fan of OpenOffice.org, and that I think it has the potential to break through into the mainstream. Maybe it’s already begun…” .... #read more#

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Alexandria Project Chap. 4: Beware of Greeks bearing Trapdoors

by Linux Today on Feb.09, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

Standards Blog: “Our story so far: Security expert Frank Adversego comes under suspicion when the Library of Congress is hacked by a mysterious cracker with motives unknown and a taste for the bizarre; to protect himself, Frank had better get to the bottom of things” .... #read more#

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The kernel column by Jon Masters #83

by Linux Today on Feb.09, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

Linux User and Developer: “As I’ve mentioned before, one of the longer-term goals of the kernel development community is to kill off the Big Kernel Lock (BKL).” .... #read more#

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How to get information from the Netscaler using Python and Suds

by Linux Today on Feb.09, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

Linux Dynasty: “Recently I just started to use the Citrix Netscalers again ( Load Balancers ). Being the person that I am, I wanted a way to grab the information using the SOAP API.” .... #read more#

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Tweaking Linux Library Settings Within Readline

by Linux Today on Feb.09, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

Serverwatch: “Readline is the library that handles your Linux command-line input (and input for some other applications). The various customizable options for it are set either system-wide in /etc/inputrc or per-user in ~/.inputrc.” .... #read more#

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The KDE 4.3 System Settings - Part 3 - Computer Administration

by Linux Today on Feb.09, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

Raiden’s Realm: “Welcome to part 3 of our overview of the KDE 4.3 System Settings panel, the replacement for the old control panel of KDE 3.5. Today we’re going to look at the Computer Administration master section. This will be a key area for those wanting to administer their ow.... #read more#

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8 of the Best Free Linux Geometry Software

by Linux Today on Feb.09, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

LinuxLinks: “To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 8 free high quality Linux interactive geometry software. We have included 2D and 3D software. Hopefully, there will be something of interest in this article for both students and teach.... #read more#

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GNOME Boston Summit 2009

by Linux Today on Feb.09, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

The GNOME Journal: “GNOME Shell– Jon McCann from Red Hat ran the first Shell session, on design. An amazing amount of progress had been made since the hackfast one year prior that spawned the Shell project, but some major tasks remained.” .... #read more#

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Sketchpad (beta) (HTML5 drawing program)

by Linux Today on Feb.09, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

Colorjack: “Sketchpad uses the little-known [canvas] tag to provide users and publishers with full control over the presentational qualities of their work. Directly accessing vector graphics, the [canvas] tag gives publishers real-access to their users’ display. The [canvas] tag will be .... #read more#

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Cleaning Up The Linux Graphics Driver Stack

by Linux Today on Feb.09, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

Phoronix: “Yesterday Luc Verhaegen gave a talk at FOSDEM on reverse engineering a motherboard BIOS, but today we finally have X@FOSDEM for the last time. Luc has just begun his talk on unifying and simplifying the free software desktop’s graphics driver stack.” .... #read more#

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Ubuntu 9.10 and GNOME 2.28: Advancing Past Meh

by Linux Today on Feb.09, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

LinuxPlanet: “When GNOME 2.0 was born, it left a lot of GNOME users out in the cold because it jettisoned the very features we loved. Eight years later, your editor takes another look at GNOME in the form of the Karmic Koala.” .... #read more#

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One Dad’s Take: Why Windows Could be Worse Than Teen Dating

by Linux Today on Feb.09, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

IT World: “Though most of the machines at home are currently Linux driven, there are a couple of Windows machines in the house that are used by my children for Software they Cannot Live Without.” .... #read more#

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Let your inner Video Director loose: “We’re Linux” Video Contest 2010

by Linux Today on Feb.09, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

Standards Blog: “As you may recall, the Linux Foundation last year ran a video contest that drew a lot of entries, many of which were not only entertaining, but had surprisingly high production values as well. Last year’s invitation was to use the popular “I’m a Mac/I’.... #read more#

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PCLinuxOS 2010 is Shaping Up

by Linux Today on Feb.09, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

PCLinuxOS: “The version label “2010″ in that ftp URL caught my attention. Finally, PCLinuxOS is shaping up for a 2010 release!” .... #read more#

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ARM will fly without Windows? Then bring it on!

by Linux Today on Feb.05, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

Technology FLOSS: “He goes on about how ARM will succeed with or without Windows (not ME) supporting it once it starts being pumped into markets in the shape of a new architecture for netbooks.” .... #read more#

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The Latest, Greatest, Scariest, and the Future of Information

by Linux Today on Feb.05, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

Ubuntu User: “And yes, I’m just the sort of person who likes to mess with Alphas, so I downloaded the Kubuntu and Ubuntu versions, for the sheer unparalleled joy of seeing what’s new under the hood. The big news is no more HAL…” .... #read more#

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Health Check: FreeBSD - “The unknown giant”

by Linux Today on Feb.05, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

The H Open: “FreeBSD is the most accessible and popular of the BSDs, has code at the heart of Darwin and Apple’s OS X, and has powered some of the more successful sites on the Web, including Hotmail, Netcraft and Yahoo!, which before the rise of Google was the busiest site on the interne.... #read more#

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org-mode in your pocket is a gnu-shaped devil

by Linux Today on Feb.05, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

Dot Unplanned: “If the iPhone has helped me accomplish one thing, it has probably been to make it easier for me to stay away from Emacs.” .... #read more#

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Code it the Google Way

by Linux Today on Feb.05, 2010, under Linux Today, Syndicated

Hacking Truths: “Google never seems to just be satisfied with the status quo, and when they run out of fields to compete in they create their own! Google’s new �Go� programming language is one of their newest ventures, a language which is an amalgamation of Python and C++.” .... #read more#

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