In Q4'07 we had looked at Ubuntu's power consumption with all of their Linux releases going back to Ubuntu 5.04. While Linux has improved in recent years when it comes to power efficiency and optimizations, more processes running on the desktop had canceled out any real power improvements.
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Three Linux HTML editors reviewed
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Today's Web development tools offer capabilities that go beyond basic HTML editing. I compared three Web editors for Linux -- Screem 0.16.1, Bluefish 1.0.7, and Quanta Plus 3.5.7 -- to determine how well they handle today's Web editing needs.
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WebKit GTK+ port passes Acid3 on Linux
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The GTK+ port of WebKit is the first open source HTML render to fully pass the Acid3 test on the Linux platform. WebKit, which is Apple's increasingly popular fork of KDE's KHTML rendering engine, is used by Apple's Safari web browser and the iPhone.
Read more »GNU Emacs 23.0.60 git repo
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This directory tree holds version 23.0.60 of GNU Emacs, the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. See also emacs-tiny-tools.git: http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=emacs-tiny-tools.git;a=tree;h=a78de25444...
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Remote Lisp Hacking
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"You have several machines from which you would like to hack on a lisp project but do not wish to run seperate instances of /emacs/slime/sbcl/ on each machine. You'd like to use the single running emacs instance and view it remotely from any of those machines. How to best achieve this? ..."
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The Perfect Server - Ubuntu Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server)
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This tutorial shows how to set up an Ubuntu Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Courier POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.
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Latest Server Release Expands Ubuntu Enterprise Profile
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Canonical Ltd. announced the upcoming availability of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition for free download on Thursday 24 April. In related news, Canonical also announced the simultaneous release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition.
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Enterprise Unix Roundup: And the Most Reliable OS of All Is ...
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If you were to be asked, out of all the server operating systems on the market, which platform had the highest reliability (in terms of downtime), what would your guess be?
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Linux firewall fits inside Windows laptops
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Yoggie will offer its tiny Linux-based hardware firewall in the PCMCIA ExpressCard form factor. Available next month, the Gatekeeper Card Pro firewall fits completely inside host laptops, and runs 13 different applications aimed at keeping Windows-based PCs safe from viruses, spam, malware, and other security threats.
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From camera to website: Building an open source video streamer
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YouTube is a very popular web service that allows people to share video content online. Although YouTube and other streaming video websites satisfy many users, you may have reasons to create your own streaming video website. Perhaps you work for a company that wants a more professional face on their media. Or, you may want more control over exactly how your videos are presented.
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Installing and tracking software updates with toast
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Using toast takes the burden out of building, installing, and keeping track of software built from source. You can use toast to build and maintain software installed in your /home directory as a regular user, or to set up software for all users in /usr/local. toast can obtain packages over HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and via SSH and CVS.
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Get your fingerprint reader to work in Ubuntu
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Previously, Linux support for such devices has been scattered amongst different projects (many incomplete) and inconsistent in that application developers would have to implement support for each type of fingerprint reader separately...We're trying to change that by providing a central system to support all the fingerprint readers we can get our hands on.
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tekuti :: metablog
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"Well, it's been a little while since I wrote about tekuti, my Scheme-powered, git-backed blog software. Time for an update..." - http://wingolog.org/software/tekuti/
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CEDET in Emacs
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"Hi, I would be happy to see CEDET in Emacs. It has always been a goal of mine, but I also know my long-term vision for CEDET does not always map onto what others want to see, and picking out only the tasty bits of CEDET may be hard without using the entire thing. Here is the good news..."
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Setting up a Mercurial VCS on Ubuntu
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"I’ve been meaning to set up a Version Control System for a long time now. VCS as a concept has been around for a while but recently a new paradigm in VCS called DVCS (for distributed version control system) has emerged. This new paradigm has cured or at least mitigated the warts of the old “centralized” version control systems and brought new benefits.
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