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ApacheCon 2010 is Open for Registration

Linux Today News - 16 hours 16 min ago
Linux Pro Magazine: "ApacheCon organizers have opened registration for ApacheCon 2010. The event is scheduled for November 3-5 at the Westin Peachtree hotel in Atlanta, Ga. The theme for this year's ApacheCon is "Servers, The Cloud, and Innovation.""


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CodeWeavers open invitation to Wine-Doors and other closed projects users

Linux Today News - Fri, 09/03/2010 - 00:36
Wine-Reviews: "A couple weeks back I noticed the Wine-Doors project was down and on their front page they have a message "Very very broken and I don't have time to fix it""


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No Need Get Excited About Steam On Linux Again!

Linux Today News - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 23:06
Digitizor: "The Steam on Linux rumor is up and running again."


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Does the Fate of OpenSolaris Tell Us Where Unix Is Headed?

Linux Today News - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 21:36
Enterprise Networking Planet: "That scruffy beard... those suspenders... that smug expression... You're one of those condescending Unix computer users!"


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The People Who Support Linux: At Work and at Home

Linux Today News - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 20:06
Linux.com: "Chase Crum is a U.S. Army veteran, a Shriner, an IT infrastructure manager, and a member of The Linux Foundation. This certainly does not capture all that defines Chase, but it begins to illustrate where he derives his ideas about Linux, community and giving back."


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Use Ubuntu/GNOME Desktop as Alarm Clock

Linux Today News - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 19:02
Tech Source: "You may find our Python alarm clock too geeky or complicated, so I thought I should share with you an easier way to use your Linux desktop (particularly Ubuntu and other GNOME-based distributions) as alarm clock."


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Oracle Squelches Open Source Spirit

Linux Today News - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 18:17
Serverwatch: "Microsoft used to be known as the Great Satan when it came to enterprise operating systems. Now it seems Oracle has taken over software hell."


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Samsung unveils Android tablet with 3G telephony

Linux Today News - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 17:32
Linux Devices: " Samsung Electronics announced its much-anticipated Android consumer tablet, due to ship in Europe in mid-September. The Samsung Galaxy Tab runs Android 2.2 on a 1GHz Cortex-A8 processor, and offers a seven-inch, 1024 x 600 capacitive touchscreen, a three-megapixel camera..."


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Linux machines with no rebooting�? Is this what we want?

Linux Today News - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 16:47
Standalone Sysadmin: "The other day, I caught a message that KSplice was available for Fedora. I thought I'd be a wiseguy and I replied �Yeah, great. Call me in 20 years when it's available for for RHEL�. Well, as several people pointed out, it turns out the joke is on me."


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Best Practices with sudo on Linux

Linux Today News - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 16:04
Linux Planet: "Ubuntu's use of sudo to simplify Linux administration is ingenious, but barely scratches the surface of what sudo can do. Follow along as Yvo Van Doorn of Likewise Software unlocks the powers of sudo."


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ArtistX 0.9 Screenshots

Linux Today News - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 15:34
Easy Linux CDs: "ArtistX is an Ubuntu GNU/Linux-based live DVD that includes a pretty big lineup of free multimedia applications. The most recent version, ArtistX 0.9 is based on Ubuntu 9.10 and features the 2.6.31 Linux kernel, GNOME 2.28, KDE 4.3.5, Compiz Fusion, Ubiquity Installer, and more."


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Three locks for your SSH door

Linux Today News - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 15:04
IBM Developerworks: "Summary: Security always requires a multi-layered scheme. SSH is a good example of this. Methods range from simple sshd configuration through the use of PAM to specify who can use SSH, to application of port-knocking techniques, or to hide the fact that SSH access even exists."


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KDE 4.5: KDE 3.5's Stability + KDE 4.0's Promised Features

Linux Today News - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:34
Das U-Blog: "My last review of KDE 4.X was a bitter disappointment, as KDE 4.4 refused to work. Period. Follow the jump to see if this version of KDE works out any better."


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Qt and Layouts

Linux Today News - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:04
Linux Journal: "When I first started with graphics - I plotted pixels onto the screen by calculating a memory address and then poking the corresponding value. Times have changed since then."


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Who Contributed The Most During X Server 1.9?

Linux Today News - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 13:34
Phoronix: "Two years ago we compiled a list of the top contributors to the X Server over the years and that was followed by compiling a similar list of the developers behind Mesa. Tiago Vignatti has now compiled some statistics surrounding the top contributors to X.Org Server 1.9..."


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Play .mkv and .xvid Files on Your Android Phone

Linux Today News - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 02:04
Linux Pro Magazine: "Android App Uses FFmpeg library to decode video "


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IBM ships 5.2GHz chip, its fastest yet

Linux Today News - Thu, 09/02/2010 - 00:04
Cnet: "IBM's newest chip for mainframes boasts one of the highest speed ratings to date and will go into Big Blue's fastest mainframe computers."


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7 Providers of Pre Installed Linux Laptops/PC's

Linux Today News - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 22:04
Tech Drive-in: "Not many mainstream PC manufacturers have a Linux preinstalled version of their products. But some do have and the there are many other not-so-mainstream providers of Linux preinstalled laptops, netbooks and PC's. Here are a few of them you should know."


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Startup Offers Angry FB Users an Alternative

Linux Today News - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 20:04
Internet Evolution: "Is it possible for four young people, the ink barely dry on their NYU diplomas, to battle a social networking giant and win? Is there enough pent-up anger against Facebook to translate into a wholesale exodus from the site?"


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A snapshot of a Lan party.

Linux Today News - Wed, 09/01/2010 - 19:03
Technology & Life Integration: "Three computers, each running Linux, Windows and MacOS respectively meet up at a lan party. It is a typical lan party. A semi dark room, lit only by the glow of monitors with network cables snaking haphazardly across the floor littered with empty bottles, crushed chip packets and piled up against the wall, a stack of pizza boxes"


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