Igel has announced five new thin clients that run Linux, using Via or AMD processors. The new UD2, UD3, UD5, UD7, and UD9 (left) offer a variety of form factors, as well as "Digital Service Pack" software that can simply thin-client configuration, says the company.
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A Mesa (OpenGL) Driver For The Nintendo Wii?
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There is now talk on the Mesa 3D development list about the possibility of having a Mesa driver for the Nintendo Wii. Those working on developing custom games for this console platform have already experienced some success in bringing OpenGL to the Wii through the use of Mesa.
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Moblin2 first impressions -- wow, does it boot fast!
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A lot of notebooks and even netbooks these days run Windows, but also offer a minimalist Linux environment that boots in seconds. Now, with the Intel-sponsored Moblin project's alpha release of Moblin 2 Monday, it looks like insanely fast boots will become a standard feature of full-featured Linux desktops, too.
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Forked Magit that works with Tramp
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« When I tried Magit a while back, I discovered that it didn’t work with Tramp. This is a deal-killer for me, since I do almost all my editing on remote hosts. I decided to revisit it today, and spent a little time hacking. The result is a fork of Magit that works via Tramp.»
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Exporting translations back upstream
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There is a lot of translation work going on in Launchpad, for Ubuntu as well as for other projects. There is also a lot of translation work going on for the projects, that is not done in Launchpad. This is especially true for many of the Ubuntu packages that have their own translation effort “upstream”.
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Release Candidate 2 of Debian Installer
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"The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the second release candidate of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Lenny..."
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Lock the CD tray when the laptop’s lid is closed
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When I carry my laptop around from one room to the other I often open the DVD tray accidentally. This is only a minor annoyance, but nevertheless I decided that I wanted to do something against it.
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Apache Security: A Watched Bot Never Spoils (Your Server)
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In my last article I introduced the idea of having robots.txt be a dynamic document, rather than a static text file. The reason for this was to allow it to respond in real-time to the particulars of the robot that was making the request.
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Set Up A Linux PlayStation 3 Media Server (CentOS 5.2
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The Sony PlayStation 3 is a DLNA compatible device, DLNA is a framework where home electronics can share digital media and content seamlessly. This tutorial is a followup to the previous howto on Ubuntu. Given that I like most others use CentOS as their server distribution of choice, I find it fitting to run my DLNA server on it as well.
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NVIDIA Releases Four New Linux Drivers
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The NVIDIA 180.22 Linux driver was released less than three weeks ago, but today NVIDIA has released a new 180.xx display driver update. In addition, NVIDIA has updated all three of their legacy display drivers.
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Location-aware software comes to the Linux platform
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Several powerful open source software frameworks aim to bring mapping and geolocation capabilities to the Linux platform. Ars takes a look at this emerging technology and how it is being used in several popular desktop applications.
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Perl Scripting: Check If a File Exists
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It's not often that I write about Perl Scripting on Unix Tutorial, but that's just because I don't script in Perl this much on a regular basis. Today, however, I'd like to share one of the building blocks - a really basic piece of functionality which you'll find really useful in almost any Perl script.
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Keep the fun in free software
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This article could also have been entitled "is it possible to still have fun developing a free software once it is successful". It is non-technical, very subjective, and summarize something I've seen happening in many projects. I promise my next post will contain some command lines again
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Multi-pointer Remote Desktop: Ending the Mouse/Keyboard Wars
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Developer Chris Ball has patched the Vino Virtual Network Computing (VNC) server to display multiple simultaneous mouse and keyboard events. The result could be an end to the battle over mouse and keyboard control among local and remote users in a VNC environment.
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SSH Tunnel Setup and Configuration Guide
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"What is an SSH tunnel?" I hear you ask. Put simply, an SSH tunnel is a direct link from your PC that you sit in front of (we shall call this the Client) and a remote machine at an entirely different location preferably outside the control of the filtered zone.
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