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Intense (and really thoughtful) ranting from the OLPC front

http://education.zdnet.com

Ivan Krstić has made his way into this blog before. As OLPC’s former director of security architecture and one closely involved with their Peru rollout, his posts offered great insights into just how the XO worked (or was supposed to work) on the backend.

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The Bipolar Lisp Programmer

http://jjinux.blogspot.com

"Have you ever wondered how it could be that Lisp is so powerful, and yet C is so much more successful and ubiquitous? How is it that so many brilliant coders know Lisp, and yet we so rarely hear from any of them other than Paul Graham? This is a great article that tries to explain it: the bipolar Lisp programmer." -- «So what's the problem with Lisp?

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Created by can.axis 1 day 48 min ago
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Terminator runs multiple GNOME terminals in the same window

http://www.linux.com

In a sense, the desktop is the best thing that ever happened to the command line. Because a virtual terminal runs in a graphical environment, it boasts all sorts of enhancements that the unadorned shell lacks -- everything from multiple tabs to easy selection of display fonts and background and foreground colors.

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Adobe Introduces Flash Player 10 Beta with Linux Support

http://www.techenclave.com

Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named "Astro," introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. These new capabilities also empower the community to extend Flash Player and to take creativity and interactivity to a new level.

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Git from the Bottom Up

http://www.xcombinator.com

"John Wiegley recently wrote a great article about git called Git from the Bottom Up (pdf). I found it to be very helpful in clarifying how git works and that understanding makes git feel more accessible..." -- http://www.newartisans.com/blog_assets/git.from.bottom.up.pdf

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Fedora 9 hits the streets

http://www.networkworld.com

The Fedora Project Tuesday said Fedora 9, a free, open source Linux operating system, is ready for download.

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Verizon, Mozilla join mobile Linux group

http://www.linuxworld.com

Verizon Wireless is throwing its support behind mobile Linux, becoming the first U.S. operator to join the LiMo Foundation, a group developing mobile Linux technology.

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IPlist Protects Torrent Traffic in Linux

http://lifehacker.com

Free IP-filtering application IPlist protects your BitTorrent downloads from third-party snoopers and blockers by controlling which IP addresses can and cannot connect to your system.

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Created by switchpin 1 day 2 hours ago
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Welcome to the Linux Command Line Interface Desktop

http://tuxtraining.com

TuxTraining.com has covered numerous commandline applications but now it’s time to tie it all together. So Ctrl Alt F6 and get to that command line, because you don’t need no stinkin GUI.

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Open Source Security Myths Dispelled

http://www.oss.itproportal.com

The decision to deploy proprietary, rather than open source security solutions (OSS), is often influenced by some commonly held perceptions. Many IT professionals can’t seem to shake off the belief that OSS is inherently risky unreliable and complex. I am going to examine the most common of these perceptions to highlight how the facts are very often the exact opposite to what people believe.

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Created by extra 1 day 3 hours ago
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North-by-South Announces Close of Investment Round

http://www.northxsouth.com

In short: there's an incredible free software movement happening in Latin America. To support this movement, North-by-South is a San Francisco-based business whose goal is to give businesses in Silicon Valley access to this pool of talent and to materially support the open source developers in Latin America.

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Predictive text input with Soothsayer

http://www.linux.com

Soothsayer is a predictive text input system. Many folks reading that sentence will think of the word completion offered by mobile phones. Soothsayer is different from such mobile phone systems in that it tries to use context and other statistical information to offer predictions instead of just presenting a list of words that might match the first few letters you type.

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Created by extra 1 day 4 hours ago
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Howto Install Truecrypt with GUI tool in Ubuntu Gutsy

http://www.ubuntugeek.com

TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume (data storage device). On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without any user intervention.

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Fix for OpenSSL/SSH/VPN Vulnerability in Ubuntu 7.04/7.10/8.04

http://www.ubuntugeek.com

A weakness has been discovered in the random number generator used by OpenSSL on Debian and Ubuntu systems. As a result of this weakness, certain encryption keys are much more common than they should be, such that an attacker could guess the key through a brute-force attack given minimal knowledge of the system. This particularly affects the use of encryption keys in OpenSSH, OpenVPN

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Embedded Linux Conference videos available

http://www.linuxdevices.com

Free Electrons has published an amazing multimedia re-cap of CELF's Embedded Linux Conference, which took place Apr. 14-18 in Mountain View, Calif. Featuring video transcripts, slides, and detailed notes from 22 talks, the article offers something for every Linux device developer or user.

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