Linux kernel 2.6.30 has been released with hundreds of changes from the previous version, including a new architecture for suspend and resume which Linus Torvalds says switches the kernel to a "new world order".
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Free "Building Websites with Plone" eBook from Packt
Packt is giving away this eBook “Building Websites with Plone” written by Cameroon Cooper. To download an entirely free PDF copy of this book, simply login to your account, or create one if you don’t already have one, and scroll down to your download area.
Read more »Put jQuery and JavaScript effects into your Drupal 6 themes
Drupal 6 JavaScript and jQuery will help put jQuery, AJAX, and JavaScript effects into your Drupal 6 modules and themes.One will be able to learn about JavaScript support in Drupal 6.
Read more »Do You Do the Drupal?
The Drupal content management system is one of the most popular engines for dynamic websites — indeed, it powers the site you're visiting right now. All this powering doesn't happen by itself, though.
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Main development phase of Linux 2.6.31 completed
Just over two weeks after the release of Linux 2.6.30, Linus Torvalds has released 2.6.31-rc1, the first release candidate of Linux 2.6.31. As usual, "rc1" completes the merge window.
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Fear of fsck
"... they were afraid to run fsck for several months". That little sentence fragment was part of a support email I received this week. I've heard similar things in the past. The fear is that fsck will "make things worse".
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Contributing upstream, it will make or break Linux
Many fully fledged distros have drawn praise for bringing something new to the linux arena, while relying on the solid foundation of a mother distro. There has been much comment in the community about these new distros taking the mother distros work, adding to it and pushing out releases without passing those additions back to the mother distro.
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Benchmark for Linux desktops
Almost two years after its initial announcement, the Linux Solution Group (LiSoG) has now presented specificationsPDF for its OSDtBench (Open Source based Desktop Benchmark) desktop benchmark suite and demonstrated a prototype at LinuxTag 2009 in Berlin.
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Leveraging industrial-strength Python testing
This article asks what the Python frameworks do when they introspect a test module to discover what tests live inside of it. It also looks at details like how common test setup and teardown is supported, or not supported, by Zope, py.test and nose. Learn how these testing frameworks will support your Python development.
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openSUSE, Now with More Open
Novell has announced plans to make openSUSE more community driven by opening up their Online Build System which controls Factory to contributors outside their staffing ranks. What does it mean for the project and community at large?
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The UNIX versus NT Organization
...after finding almost no information on the subject for his own purposes, Kirch decided to write a paper that compared the two systems critically. The paper covered various topics such as the costs and licensing, functionality, system reliability, management, performance and security issues, common misconceptions about both operating systems, and others.
Read more »Review: CentOS 5.3
CentOS is a "Community Enterprise OS", hence it's name. It's designed with the business user in mind, both on the desktop and in the server room. Since the last time we reviewed CentOS, it's under gone some changes, and seen a minor version upgrade to improve a number of features.
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Clutter Approaches 1.0
Clutter, a library that is designed to make it easier for applicatio developers to integrate OpenGL into thier applications, is approaching their 1.0 release.
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10 (More) Hacking and Security Software Tools for Linux
I noticed that our list of hacking and security software tools for Linux was not enough so I figured out that I should add some more.
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The Proprietary Software/Linux Conundrum
Can proprietary software/driver modules find a home in an open source platform that was designed to be the complete opposite?
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