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High End - free software for the pro/admin/hacker - high-end distros (Red Hat, Debian, etc.), kernel development, programming and heavy duty CLI work, networking, databases, web- and sys-admin stuff, advanced howtos, high end hardware (servers, workstations, thinstations) etc.
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Proactive Spam Fighting with Akonadi

http://blog.martin-graesslin.com

"Current Spam fighting techniques like for example SpamAssassin are reactive. SpamAssassin uses a rule based approach and a Bayesian filter.[...]Bayesian filtering requires to collect a rather large amount of mail messages before messages can be filtered. This illustrates that reactive Spam fighting is no real solution."

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Created by cpoliticas 11 years 11 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 11 weeks ago
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Khronos Releases Final WebGL 1.0 Specification

http://www.khronos.org

The Khronos Group today released the final WebGL 1.0 specification to enable hardware-accelerated 3D graphics in HTML5 Web browsers without the need for plug-ins. WebGL defines a JavaScript binding to OpenGL ES 2.0 to allow rich 3D graphics within a browser on any platform supporting the industry-standard OpenGL or OpenGL ES graphics APIs.

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Created by JRepin 11 years 12 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 12 weeks ago
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Exciting developments in GNU Radio

http://www.fsf.org

GNU Radio had a pretty good year in 2010, and we are already on track for an even more productive year in 2011. While we only produced one release in 2010, a large amount of work went into our source repository to improve the quality and stability of the project, and we are on track for a new release soon that incorporates many of these fixes into a new stable release.

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Converting MySQL database to Firebird

http://www.firebirdnews.org

I decided to automate conversion of MySQL database to Firebird. I got
tired of manual find&replace process, and created a small parser that
changes from MySQL to Firebird syntax. Currently it only supports
database structure dump (no data, only structure) from PHPMyAdmin. Not
all datatypes are supported, but feel free to "fix" it. It's written

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Created by mariuz 11 years 13 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 13 weeks ago
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Getting Started with MeeGo Linux

http://www.linux.com

The MeeGo project is about to celebrate its first birthday, but there may still be Linux and open source developers who aren't quite sure how it relates to other Linux-based distributions for tablets, netbooks, or phones — like Android, Chrome OS, or the netbook remixes of popular desktop distros.

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Created by JRepin 11 years 15 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 15 weeks ago
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Once Upon A Time, There Was A USB Vulnerability In Linux

http://www.muktware.com

GNU/Linux systems are immune to viruses is anything but myth. Viruses, malware are programs with destructive intentions and can be installed on any machine throgh various means. It becomes extremely easy if an attacker/cracker (not hacker for god's sake, you idiot) gets physical access to the machine. You can install a malicious code on your own computer if you want.

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LibreOffice VS Openoffice

http://www.unixmen.com

When a group of German coders at OpenOffice (belonging to database major, Oracle) finally forked away on Sept28th 2010 there was much for everybody to talk about while Oracle OpenOffice maintained dignified silence.

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AMD Releases Cayman (Radeon HD 9600) Documentation

http://www.phoronix.com

AMD has put out their first public documentation concerning their Radeon HD 6900 "Cayman" series graphics processors. This 492 page document describes the Cayman instruction set architecture. We have also received an update at Phoronix from AMD concerning the Radeon HD 6900 series open-source support under Linux.

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GNU/Hurd in 2010

http://www.gnu.org

The Hurd doesn't fully deliver on the everyday usability goal yet, but it is seeing continuous improvement---and 2010 has been no exception. Let's take a look at the progress throughout the year.

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Created by JRepin 11 years 16 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 15 weeks ago
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Job Opening at the FSF: Campaigns Manager

http://www.fsf.org

Must be a US citizen. The FSF is hiring a second Campaigns Manager to be part of a team that directs and coordinates our campaigns for software freedom. This is an opportunity to take a senior role in the organization that sponsors the GNU project, publishes the GNU GPL and works to promote the message that software freedom is a civil liberty.

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Created by spanky 11 years 16 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 15 weeks ago
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How to unclutter your Debian source package from autogenerated files

http://theopenhelp.com

It’s quite common that the upstream build system generates/updates some files but does not clean them up properly when you call make clean.

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Created by gokulvarma 11 years 16 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 16 weeks ago
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KDevelop 4.2 Released

http://dot.kde.org

New features and other notable changes: improved C++ support, find and replace in files, more embedded documentation, improved problems toolview, rename assistant, better handling of locked sessions

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CMU Sphinx- An Open Source Toolkit For Speech Recognition | Linux

http://www.unixmen.com

CMU Sphinx is one of the most popular speech recognition applications for Linux and it can correctly capture words. it also gives the developers the ability to build speech systems, interact with voice and build something unique and useful.

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Created by linuxadmiral 11 years 17 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 17 weeks ago
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Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?

http://www.linuxinsight.com

The purpose of this book is to help you understand how to program shared-memory parallel machines without risking your sanity. By describing the algorithms and designs that have worked well in the past, we hope to help you avoid at least some of the pitfalls that have beset parallel projects.

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Created by zlatko 11 years 17 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 17 weeks ago
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Updated Debian GNU/Linux: 5.0.8 released

http://www.debian.org

The Debian project is pleased to announce the eighth update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (codename "lenny"). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems.

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Created by stargrave 11 years 17 weeks ago – Made popular 11 years 17 weeks ago
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