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September 2006

Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Beta 1 Screenshots

Submitted by srlinuxx on Saturday 30th of September 2006 09:20:02 PM Filed under
Ubuntu

The developers of Ubuntu have reached the Beta stages in their road to Edgy Eft. Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Beta 1 ships with X.Org 7.1, GNOME 2.16.0, and the assortment of other state-of-the-art packages. The other *buntu derivatives have also released their Beta 1 candidate in the 6.10 cycle. *The Screenshots.*

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forgot root password or reset root password in Debian

Submitted by gg234 on Saturday 30th of September 2006 05:48:24 PM Filed under
Linux
HowTos

There are times for system administrators they might have forgot their debian machine root password and they want to reset this password.We will see the available options.

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Akregator Review

Submitted by srlinuxx on Saturday 30th of September 2006 03:50:51 PM Filed under
KDE
Reviews

Akregator is a RSS feed aggregator for K Desktop Environment. Feed aggregators provide a convenient way to browse different kinds of content, including news, blogs and other content from online sites. Instead of checking all of you favorite web sites manually for updates, Akregator collects the content for you.

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Views on the GPLv3 hoo-har

Submitted by srlinuxx on Saturday 30th of September 2006 03:49:04 PM Filed under
OSS

There has been a lot of hoo-hah recently regarding the pros and cons of certain aspects of the drafts of Version 3 of the GNU General Public License from the Free Software Foundation. The originator of the Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds himself, is playing a role here.

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KDE Regional Groups at Akademy

Submitted by srlinuxx on Saturday 30th of September 2006 03:47:42 PM Filed under
KDE

Last Wednesday the KDE regional groups Birds of a Feather session took place at Akademy 2006, Dublin. The focus of this BoF session was to share experiences that regional KDE-groups have had in building a community. A regional group is generally country based, e.g. KDE-IT for Italy and KDE-NL for Netherlands.

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Kiswahili web browser goes online

Submitted by srlinuxx on Saturday 30th of September 2006 03:46:16 PM Filed under
Moz/FF

The Department of Computer Science of the University of Dar es Salaam has developed a new Swahili web browser called JAMBO MOZILLA FIREFOX for public use.

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Novell Files Motion for Preliminary Injunction Against SCO

Submitted by srlinuxx on Saturday 30th of September 2006 03:29:06 AM Filed under
Legal

Every time I almost finish the Ralf Flaxa Declaration as text, more filings, and again here we are with boatloads of filings in both SCO v. IBM and in SCO v. Novell. I'll show you the Pacer text, and I'll get the filings up as soon as I can.

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A mini Linux PC for less than $100

Submitted by srlinuxx on Saturday 30th of September 2006 03:27:03 AM Filed under
Linux

A Taiwanese hardware manufacturer is shipping a Linux powered PC (code named TU-40) for just (US)$99. The specification of the PC is modest and it runs with 128 MB RAM and has a 200 MHz processor. The company claims this is enough power to run lightweight GNU/Linux distributions.

More Here and Here.

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LinuxToday: Freedom Is Choice

Submitted by srlinuxx on Saturday 30th of September 2006 03:24:47 AM Filed under
OSS

It is no secret that Linus Torvalds and several Linux kernel developers are less than thrilled with the notion of shifting the license from GPL 2 to GPL 3 when GPL 3 is completed. When someone asked Torvalds "hey, what do you think about this?" and he proceeded to state exactly what he thought about it.

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