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Mandriva Flash 2008 Spring released

Submitted by AdamW on Wednesday 11th of June 2008 06:37:46 PM Filed under
MDV

Mandriva today announces the release of Mandriva Flash 2008 Spring, the new release of its popular bootable distribution on a USB key. This new version uses the new Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring as its base, doubles the key's capacity to 8GB, introduces a new installer which allows you to install Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring to the system's hard disk, and comes in an attractive new white color scheme.

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Spawn of Ubuntu

Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 11th of June 2008 04:31:23 PM Filed under
Linux

linux-mag.com: All the major distributions including Slackware, Red Hat, SUSE, Gentoo, and Debian have reproduced to the point where the children scarcely look like the parent. Now the children have grown up enough to begin procreating new and exciting distributions of their own for every whim and user type.

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Linux in Education: Concepts Not Applications

Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 11th of June 2008 04:29:53 PM Filed under
Linux

linuxjournal.com: One of the biggest arguments used against Linux in grade school level education is that we aren't teaching kids to use the applications they'll use in the "real world". As the Technology Director for a K-12 school district, I've heard that argument many times. After all these years, I still don't buy it.

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Desktop Effects Power Consumption

Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 11th of June 2008 04:27:57 PM Filed under
Software

linuxappfinder.com: I recently installed the KDE4 version of Kubuntu on my laptop using the Wubi installer and was able to start using KWin's desktop effects on my laptop. After installing KDE4.1 beta 1 I started to get curious about battery life.

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The Power of Plasma theming - a gallery of 23 themes

Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 11th of June 2008 02:14:25 PM Filed under
KDE

liquidat.wordpress: One of the most often mentioned concerns at the KDE booth at LinuxTag was the question if Plasma would force the user to have a black panel. While we did have a second machine showing another theme to resolve all doubts it showed that not all users now yet the power of Plasma theming.

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PCLinuxOS 2007: Funny name, serious distro

Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 11th of June 2008 02:13:15 PM Filed under
PCLOS

techiemoe.com: The last time I looked at PCLinuxOS was version 0.92, which according to DistroWatch was about 3 years ago. I was asked to take a look at it again, so here I go.

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Review: TinyMe 2008

Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 11th of June 2008 02:09:07 PM Filed under
PCLOS

raiden.net: About a year ago we reviewed TinyMe when it was still in its beta and test stage. But a lot has happened in the past year, and all of it good. But what makes it so good? Well, in addition to fixing all the bugs and little quirks, TinyMe has become more stable and loads faster than it was in the early days.

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Announcing GNOME Do 0.5: “The Fighting 0.5″

Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 11th of June 2008 12:19:18 PM Filed under
Software

blog.davebsd: It has been 41 days since we released GNOME Do 0.4.2, and today I’m honored to present GNOME Do 0.5: “The Fighting 0.5″. Without further ado, here are the main improvements and new features, accompanied by plenty of sexy screenshots.

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What is the ultimate goal of Linux?

Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 11th of June 2008 12:16:51 PM Filed under
Linux

blogs.ittoolbox: Microsoft has a goal. Apple has a goal. What is Linux's goal? Linux is such a large amoebic entity that it has no clear boundaries. There are no real limits to what Linux can be made to do.

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Settling is Not Winning

Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 11th of June 2008 12:14:58 PM Filed under
Linux

beranger.org: Dear Red Hat, I know it might have been cheaper and definitely shorter this way, and I know your North American users will think you did it right, but it's NOT right!

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Chiron FS lets you set up RAID-1 over the network

Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 11th of June 2008 10:08:26 AM Filed under
Software
HowTos

linux.com: The Linux kernel includes support for performing RAID-1 in software. RAID-1 maintains the same filesystem on two or more disks, so that you can lose all but the last disk and still retain all of your data. This seems wonderful until you consider that an error in RAM, a power supply failure, or another hardware component in the machine can still potentially corrupt your precious data.

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Invigorating GNOME

Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 11th of June 2008 10:06:11 AM Filed under
Software

jonobacon.org: There has been some discussion recently about the future of GNOME. Although I am an ardent supporter and fanboy around GNOME, and I love the desktop for its simplicity and elegance…GNOME has become the software equivalent of my dad’s comfortable trousers - predictable and reliable.

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Red Hat settles 2 patent lawsuits filed against it

Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 11th of June 2008 10:03:37 AM Filed under
Linux
Legal

reuters.com: Business software maker Red Hat Inc said on Wednesday that it has settled two of three pending patent lawsuits that the company has been fighting.

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Open source vs. proprietary? Turn the question around!

Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 11th of June 2008 10:01:26 AM Filed under
OSS

geekzone.co.nz: Several decades ago the software 'industry' managed to re-write our perception of history and make most people believe that proprietary software is normal, and open source is the aberration, while in reality software actually started out as open. It is time to change our thinking and to stop trying to justify the use of open source software.

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OpenOffice 3.0

Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 11th of June 2008 09:57:29 AM Filed under
OOo

computerworld.com.au: OpenOffice 3.0 shows that you don't have to pay a bundle for a great office suite — in fact, you don't even have to pay a penny. OpenOffice 3.0 is a free, open-source software suite that provides most of what anyone could want in an office suite.

Also: Openoffice vs Microsoft Office
And: I'm actually using OpenOffice Writer

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today's leftovers

Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 11th of June 2008 04:59:17 AM Filed under
News
  • Ubuntu Eee 8.04: Custom Ubuntu distro for the Eee PC

  • Shuttleworth talks up app launcher for 'netbooks'
  • Neelie Kroes: "Choosing open standards is a very smart business decision"
  • OpenOffice.org template collections
  • 2008 Open Source CMS Award Details Announced
  • Testing ebook readers for Project Gutenberg
  • Xubuntu Hardy died on me… Testing Gentoo Linux
  • Four national standards bodies appeal against approval of ISO/IEC DIS 29500 (PR)
  • Let's stop playing the numbers game: free software has changed the game.
  • Violate the GPL at your own risk
  • The amazing power of the community: real numbers from Apache
  • New FSF online store
  • Monitoring and Display Commands For LVM On Linux And Unix
  • Gentoo Linux Live USB key
  • Chapter 3: Configuring your project with Autoconf
  • Ubuntu Hardy on Compaq Presario 1240 (Living Without X)
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Red Hat Summit sessions preview: Rik van Riel, Fedora 9, and RPM with Spot

Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 11th of June 2008 03:02:00 AM Filed under
Linux

redhatmagazine.com: Here’s a little sneak preview of some of the educational sessions at this year’s Summit. And who better to outline their talks than the speakers themselves?

Also: Should Novell Invade Red Hat Summit?

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IBM Lotus Symphony turns old OOo code into enterprise Judas goat

Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 11th of June 2008 02:59:23 AM Filed under
Software

linux.com: Oracle and now IBM seem to have strange ideas about creating a business around open source software for the enterprise. IBM has taken old OpenOffice.org code under the now-retired Sun Industry Standards Source License and released it as a proprietary closed source freeware office suite.

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Why Python is The Best

Submitted by srlinuxx on Wednesday 11th of June 2008 02:57:07 AM Filed under
Software

linuxjournal.com: At the Geek Ranch we recently made a decision to implement some software in Python. Or, more accurately, I decided and there was no disagreement. Then Python gets picked as the best scripting language in the LJ Readers' Choice survey. That inspired me to write this article (and get ready for Perl and Ruby fans to start yelling at me).

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"Fake" Write Support

Submitted by srlinuxx on Tuesday 10th of June 2008 11:57:24 PM Filed under
Linux

kerneltrap.org: In a series of seven patches, Arnd Bergmann proposed adding in-memory write support to mounted cramfs file systems. He explained, "the intention is to use it for instance on read-only root file systems like CD-ROM, or on compressed initrd images. In either case, no data is written back to the medium, but remains in the page/inode/dentry cache, like ramfs does."

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