dpkg is pretty slow in Debian-based systems, usually because of the many files which are stored in the /var/lib/dpkg/info folder. To speed up things, Luca Bruno created a project called tdpkg which uses an sqlite3 or tokyocabinet database for loading the dpkg .list files in the /var/lib/dpkg/info folder which makes dpkg a lot faster.
Read more »Speed Up DPKG With TDPKG (Using A Tokyocabinet Or Sqlite3 Database)
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Novell and Ingres announce SUSE Appliance Program agreement
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Novell and Ingres have announced a new cooperative agreement under which the Ingres database is now available within SUSE Studio as part of the SUSE Appliance Program
Read more »Security vulnerability in SpamAssassin filter module
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Attackers are attempting to take control of mail servers, in particular those running Postfix and SpamAssassin, by exploiting a security vulnerability in the Milter plug-in
Read more »Week 2, Day 9 of SCO v. Novell Trial - Jury Hears About Kimball's Rulings
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Chris Brown's first report of the day is in, filed by phone during an extended break in the court session. The jury got to hear today about Judge Dale Kimball's earlier court rulings. We have all the important rulings in a new, special section on Groklaw's Novell Timeline page, so you can follow along.
Read more »RC3 Brings SimplyMEPIS 8.5 Close to Final Release
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MEPIS has released SimplyMEPIS 8.5.00, RC3 of MEPIS 8.5. "We've updated the kernel to 2.6.32.10. The release notes from the Linux Kernel Team indicated that they have been hard at work making improvements. We have changed the Live media to use isolinux."
Read more »If Dreams Were Real: Convergence of Distro and Kernel Versions
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Mark Shuttleworth had a dream: the big Linux distros should agree to have version numbers identical to those of kernel components and refresh them every two years. The dream now is more real than ever.
Read more »Pinta 0.2 simple paint application for Gtk released
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Novell open source programmer Jonathan Pobst has released version 0.2 of his simple Pinta painting application for Gtk modelled after Paint.NET, adding a number of new features, including 5 new tools, 5 new adjustments and 5 new effects
Read more »viking - GPS data editor, analyzer and viewer
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Viking aims to be easy to use, yet powerful in accomplishing a wide variety of GPS related tasks. It uses a hierarchical layering system to organize GPS data, maps, and other layer types with spatial data, such as coordinate lines.
Read more »Notable Note Apps for Fastidious FOSS Freaks
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At their heart, note-taking apps perform a very simple function: put letters on the screen. They differ widely, though, in the special features each offers.
Read more »An example of the awesomeness of the open source community
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OpenSSO is one of the best (if it isn't the best one) open source web Single Sign On projects out there. It's sad to see Oracle shutting down this amazing open source project. But here it comes the awesomeness of the open source community:
Read more »GNOME and KDE to co-locate 2011 Desktop Summit
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Following the success of last year's Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, the GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. Boards have announced that they have decided to once again co-locate their flagship conferences, Akademy and GUADEC, in 2011
Read more »Microsoft to take active role in jQuery JavaScript Library development
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Microsoft has announced that it will be taking a more active role in the development of the open source jQuery JavaScript Library, including contributing code, such as a templating engine
Read more »Desktop Summit 2011 - Call for Hosts
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The KDE and GNOME communities are looking for a host for the Desktop Summit 2011, the combined annual conference featuring KDE's Akademy and GNOME's GUADEC events. Following up on the successful Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, the second edition of the combined event in 2011 will be the premier place to learn about, discuss, and work on free software on the desktop.
Read more »Find out the clients of your MySQL server
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Sometimes in large deployments, there are cases when MySQL server, setup by you long time back which has been in use by multiple teams in your organization, needs some change or update or intrupption in its service and you are in need to know how many clients are there which connects to this server.
Read more »Time to Learn from China on Open Standards?
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Europe should be learning from China's example, not sending patronising nastygrams that just makes it look petulant and anachronistic.
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