The 1.1 Core OS provides a complete set of enabling technologies for mobile computing. The MeeGo stack contains Linux Kernel 2.6.35, X.org server 1.9.0, Web Runtime, Qt 4.7, and Qt Mobility 1.0.2, supporting the contacts, location, messaging, multimedia, and sensor and service frameworks.
Read more »MeeGo Linux 1.1 Released
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Google's Go has been called to go into GCC 4.6
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Last year one of the many projects introduced by Google was the Go programming language. Do you remember? It's reached a state of being a production-ready language, at least within Google's confines, but this project hasn't received as much attention and interest by the Linux and open-source communities as some of their other work such as VP8 and their new container format.
Read more »KDevelop 4.1 Brings Git Integration
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KDevelop 4.1 IDE brings Git integration, patch exporting, external scripts support, project fetching, integrated hex editor, PHP 5.3 support and more.
Read more »Thomas Fischer on KBibTeX, the KDE Reference Manager
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While they are not busy doing (crazy) research, most scientists do a lot of technical writing: papers, presentations, posters, reports. Such writing is usually accompanied by large number of references; managing them by hand can be tedious and long. That is why scientists use bibliography managers.
Read more »Linux Kernel 2.6.36 Released
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Linus Torvalds has just released Linux 2.6.36. Here is the summary of the changes and new features merged in the Linux Kernel during the 2.6.36 development cycle.
Read more »Trying Debian for ARM on QEMU
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How to try a full ARM Debian system complete of graphical environment, using prepared images for the Versatile platform.
Read more »Firebird 2.5 (final) released and overview after 10 years
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The community project Firebird 2.5 is released. You can read the press release and most importantly release notes. And sure, you can download it and use/test/deploy.
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Trace and profile function calls with GCC
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Using the -finstrument-functions option in GNU GCC to trace and profile code.
Read more »Secure Deletion Tools and Journaled Filesystems: Do they work?
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By now, everyone knows that if you want to make a file unrecoverable, you can't simply delete it - you have to use a tool like 'shred' or 'srm' to overwrite its contents. But a common question is whether this is effective on an ext3, ext4, or other journaled filesystems. This article discusses these filesystems, and whether secure deletion tools work on them.
Read more »Developing for the social web
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So you're fresh out of college with a degree in computer science. As you gleefully wait for that one phone call, you discover the computer isn't just what you were taught it'd be. It has metamorphosed into the pervasive social web. You have the tools, and the know how. All you need is a little tete-a-tete with the ways of the social web.
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Firebird to be included in Mageia : a new GNU Linux distribution based on Mandriva Ashes
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Firebird history and Mageia story are related to each other , here are the Philippe’s kind words
Read more »Converting MySQL database to Firebird Part 1 (from Lamp to Flaps)
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I have a heavy-used website powered by LAMP stack (CentOS Linux,
Apache 2, MySQL and PHP). It started on a shared hosting so I had to
use MySQL. Year and a half later, I switched shared, virtual hosting
and not run it on a dedicated server. I decided to try Firebird to see
how it performs and also how it compares to MySQL in RAM usage, disk
usage, etc.
Firebird 2.5 will be released October 4, 2010
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Please join Philippe Makowski, President of Firebird Foundation, and Dmitry Yemanov, lead Firebird developer, at the Launch Webinar devoted to the 5th major release of Firebird. It will take place at October 4, 2010, at 13-00 GMT.
Read more »BIND 9.7.2-P2 is now available
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New bugfix and security fix release of free softwared most commonly used Domain Name System (DNS) server on the Internet.
Read more »Arduino announces new open/free hardware products
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Arduino is getting a new logo, has acquired its own USB Vendor ID, owns Arduino branded webstore, is launching two new board and announcing some upcoming products and also several upgrades to existing hardware.
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