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July 31, 2010
8:04
Desktop Summit 2011 Announced
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KDE.news: "GNOME and KDE are teaming up again to host the 2011 Desktop Summit in Berlin, Germany. Due to the success of the 2009 Desktop Summit the projects will co-locate GUADEC and Akademy once again in August, 2011 for the largest free software desktop event ever."
4:04
Setting Up OpenVPN on a DD-WRT Router, Part 2
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Serverwatch: "This is the second installment of a two-part series on setting up the OpenVPN server on DD-WRT router firmware. This is a great way to set up secure connections to your network for road-warriors or to remotely connect offices."
0:04
Editor's Note: Ubuntu, the Bad Selfish Linux
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In my grumpier moments their relentlessly positive, cult-like Kumbaya-or-else approach makes me want to turn the hose on them. But I don't remember them attacking anyone else the way they've been attacked.
July 30, 2010
23:34
Lockheed Goes Open Source. Blankenhorn Hates It.
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OnePeople: "I was really pleased to read the announcement that Lockheed Martin's social networking platform, EurekaStreams, was released as an open source project today. Lockheed is a very conservative company, and while they're happy to use open source internally and on projects for their customers, this is their first experiment with actually running a project themselves."
23:04
GNOME Census report now available as free download
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Neary Consulting: "I was delighted to see that the GNOME Census presentation I gave yesterday at GUADEC has gotten a lot of attention. And I'm pleased to announce a change of plan from what I presented yesterday: The report is now available under a Creative Commons license."
22:34
Adding periods to SCHED_DEADLINE
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LWN.net: "The Linux scheduler, in both the mainline and realtime versions, provides a couple of scheduling classes for realtime tasks. These classes implement the classic POSIX priority-based semantics, wherein the highest-priority runnable task is guaranteed to have access to the CPU."
22:04
Speeding up Ruby on Rails
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IBM Developerworks "Ruby on Rails, a popular Web development framework based on the Ruby programming language, makes it easy to access your database, but it does not always do so efficiently. Learn more about common performance problems with Rails and discover how you can fix them."
21:34
EVO 4G's Froyo features detailed in pictures, car dock coming in September?
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Engadget: "We're not far from seeing this big update in the flesh, but in the meanwhile, EVO 4G owners (and fans) might be interested to take a closer look at the features they'll be getting once it arrives."
21:04
OpenGL 4.1 Released
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Linux Pro Magazine: "The Khronos Group announced that finalizing the OpenGL 4.1 specifications had been completed and that its release would be immediate. "
20:34
Where do you find Linux?
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Linux Journal: "Looking through my home for Linux systems I just realized that it is everywhere. First of all, I find it on my computers - from servers to laptop. That is the obvious place though. I wonder, where else can I find Linux running?"
20:04
Richard Stallman answers your top 25 questions.
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Reddit: "1. corevette: If you could have one proprietary package/software released as Free Software, which would it be and why?"
19:34
Open games with closed content
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Examiner: "Some of the games mentioned in this column, in the past as well as in the future, are licensed such that the game itself is under the GPL or a similarly free license, but the content is not."
19:04
Dell release OpenManage Server Administrator for Ubuntu
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The H Open: "Dell has announced the release of its proprietary OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) 6.3 for Ubuntu 9.10 or later."
18:34
Ten outstanding cross-platform apps
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ZDNet: "Organisations and individuals have to operate across many platforms these days. So we all need apps that can function reliably regardless of operating system, says Jack Wallen."
18:04
Tech Comics: "Intellectual Property Infringement"
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Tech Comics: "People in all walks of life run into problems with IP infringement"
16:04
Device support in Windows vs. Linux
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ZDNet: "One of the highly debated subjects with Windows and Linux is with device support. The two have different methods of how drivers are created and implemented into the operating system."
15:34
How to make a see-through to image text effect in GIMP
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Scott Photographics: " really simple little trick to adding normal text to an image and making it look interesting! This technique can be used for nearly any photograph, however it is a lot easier to see the text with less detailed and contrasty photographs."
15:04
Get a Blazing Fast Computer for Free
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Slate: "How to give your creaky old Windows computer an Ubuntu makeover."
14:34
Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6
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Rakudo: "On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the July 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6."
14:04
New controller chip sets stage for color e-readers
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Linux Devices: "While Amazon announced a smaller, lighter version of its Kindle e-reader today, the device still has a monochrome-only screen. Color E Ink displays are on the way, however, as today's announcement of a relevant controller chip -- the Epson S1D13524 -- made clear."
12:04
The PHP Content Management/Framework Upgrades in ExpressionEngine 2
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PHPBuilder: "A few months ago I wrote a series of articles highlighting PHP-driven content management systems and frameworks, and I singled out ExpressionEngine as one particularly impressive solution that effectively balances the best features of both. This popular Web development solution recently took another major step forward with the July 12 release of ExpressionEngine 2.1"
10:04
Millions of Home Routers at Risk
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eSecurity Planet: "In his presentation at Black Hat, security researcher Craig Heffner detailed how an external attacker could gain full control of a user's router and use that to gain access to the internal local area network (LAN)."
8:04
Emulating an Amiga in Linux
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Matthew Casperson's Hubfolio: "The Amiga was one of the most powerful PC's of it's time, easily trumping the emerging IBM PC's in the 80's. You can relive this classic PC on your Linux desktop thanks to a number of emulators that are available."
6:04
5 Best Web eCommerce Software for Linux
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Tech Source: "For those of you who are planning to build or setup an online shop to sell goods or services, I have here a list of some of the most popular web eCommerce software for Linux. The following web eCommerce programs that I'm about to feature here are all free and open source, so try or use them as you wish:"
4:04
In Search Of... Android Tablets
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Tech Broiler: "Along with Bigfoot, the lost city of Atlantis, and the Bermuda Triangle, the lack of Android tablets continues to be an unsolved mystery."
2:04
MeeGo Selected as Platform to Power In-Vehicle Infotainment Devices
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Linux Pro Magazine: "GENIVI, the nonprofit industry alliance that was founded by BMW, Delphi, Intel, GM, PSA, Wind River and Magneti-Marelli, announced that MeeGo would become the operating platform for the next generation of In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) devices."
1:36
CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 9.1 And CrossOver Games 9.1 For MAC And Linux
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Wine-Reviews: "On the heels of the highly-anticipated release of Wine 1.2, CodeWeavers, Inc. today announced the simultaneous release of CrossOver 9.1 and CrossOver Games 9.1 for both Mac and Linux."
1:06
Warning: Five Things to Know Before Switching to Linux
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PC World: "A happy customer might tell someone. An unhappy customer tells everyone. Converting to Linux before taking a dose of reality might make you a very unhappy customer."
0:36
Ubuntu 10.04: A Second Look
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IT News Today: "After I review an operating system or Linux distribution, it's always fun to go back and try out the product again, with all updates, and see how it's improved. Ubuntu 10.04 was something I thought was pretty decent, but not decent enough to steal me away from Arch."
0:06
KDE 4.5 Screenshot Tour
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Abhi Blog: "KDE 4.5 is coming out in August but I simply couldn't wait to try it out a few days before the release. Hence, I got my hands on the Release Candidate v2 via kubuntu-beta ppa.Apart from some dazzling eye candy,KDE4 has matured a lot when it comes to stability."
July 29, 2010
23:36
DNSSEC is Here. Now What?
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Enterprise Networking Planet: "Two years ago at the Black Hat USA 2008 conference, security researcher Dan Kaminsky detailed a critical flaw in DNS that could have destroyed the Internet as we know it. Two years later, the root zone of Internet DNS is now signed with DNSSEC, partially as a response and a solution to Kaminsky's 2008 finding."
23:06
LVM, RAID, XFS and EXT3 file systems tuning for small files massive heavy load
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Linux Blog: "We reduced the CPU I/O wait from 30% to 0,3% (XFS) and 5% (EXT3) with these combined previously undocumented file system tuning tips."

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Desktop Summit 2011 Announced

Setting Up OpenVPN on a DD-WRT Router, Part 2

Editor's Note: Ubuntu, the Bad Selfish Linux

Lockheed Goes Open Source. Blankenhorn Hates It.

GNOME Census report now available as free download

Adding periods to SCHED_DEADLINE

Speeding up Ruby on Rails

EVO 4G's Froyo features detailed in pictures, car dock coming in September?

OpenGL 4.1 Released

Where do you find Linux?

Richard Stallman answers your top 25 questions.

Open games with closed content

Dell release OpenManage Server Administrator for Ubuntu

Ten outstanding cross-platform apps

Tech Comics: "Intellectual Property Infringement"

Device support in Windows vs. Linux

How to make a see-through to image text effect in GIMP

Get a Blazing Fast Computer for Free

Announce: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6

New controller chip sets stage for color e-readers

The PHP Content Management/Framework Upgrades in ExpressionEngine 2

Millions of Home Routers at Risk

Emulating an Amiga in Linux

5 Best Web eCommerce Software for Linux

In Search Of... Android Tablets

MeeGo Selected as Platform to Power In-Vehicle Infotainment Devices

CodeWeavers Releases CrossOver 9.1 And CrossOver Games 9.1 For MAC And Linux

Warning: Five Things to Know Before Switching to Linux

Ubuntu 10.04: A Second Look

KDE 4.5 Screenshot Tour

DNSSEC is Here. Now What?

LVM, RAID, XFS and EXT3 file systems tuning for small files massive heavy load