"...We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG-2 release: Version 2.0.9 -- The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data, create digital signatures, help authenticating using Secure Shell and to provide a framework for public key cryptography.
Read more »GnuPG 1.4.9 released
"Hello! We are pleased to announce the availability of a new stable GnuPG-1 release: Version 1.4.9. This is a maintenance release to fix a possible vulnerability introduced with 1.4.8. [...] Note that this version is from the GnuPG-1 series and thus smaller than those from the GnuPG-2 series..."
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Speed Up Your System With Preload On Fedora 8
This document describes how to install preload on Fedora 8. Preload is an adaptive readahead daemon - it will monitor which programs you use at the most. Parts of these programs will be cached to speed up their load time.
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Salasaga burns brightly at its start
One of the remaining gaps in the GNU/Linux desktop is an editor for producing Flash content. When viewing Flash files, users can limp along with Adobe's proprietary player or the still-incomplete although free Gnash player, but the best they can do for Flash creation is employ the limited ability of OpenOffice.org Draw to export to the format.
Read more »Open Source Joomla Emerges as a Top CMS Tool
The Joomla website proclaims that, "Joomla is one of the most powerful open source content management systems on the planet." Sure, they're biased about their collaborative open source creation. But there's no arguing that Joomla is quickly becoming one of the top content management system (CMS) platforms on the Internet. Late last year Joomla won the best PHP Open Source Web CMS award.
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Alternative Software Development Tools for Linux
Just about every Linux distro comes with a variety of programming tools. Some automatically get installed when you install Linux, and others are available in the distro's package repositories. But, what if the development tools that come with your distro don't do the job for you?
Read more »Installing a secure instant messaging server on Linux
The popularity of Microsoft's Live Communication Server and the many XMPP/Jabber Server implementations have tech analysts like the ones over at Slashdot asking the question "Is XMPP the 'Next Big Thing'?" The advent of instant message (IM) servers has heralded the age of live communication in the enterprise.
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Mercurial 1.0 released!
"After nearly three years of development (and nearly that many of production use) we're proud to announce the release of Mercurial 1.0.
Thanks to the countless people who've contributed to development and testing! Available at http://selenic.com/mercurial/ ..."
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Testing SeaMonkey 2.0a1pre
"...Testing our code is a very major and important task in every software project, and the good thing is that anyone can participate in that by downloading "Nightly" builds, using them and reporting bugs..." -- ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/seamonkey/nightly/latest-trunk/
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Wicked Cool Emacs: BBDB: Use nicknames and custom salutations
"I like starting my e-mail with a short salutation such as “Hello, Mike!”, “Hello, Michael”, or “Hello, Mikong!”, but it can be hard to remember which nicknames people prefer to use, and calling someone by the wrong name is a bit of a faux pas. Sometimes people sign e-mail with their preferred name, but what if you haven’t sent e-mail to or received e-mail from someone in a while?
Read more »Arc + Emacs
"So Paul Graham releases Arc, a new dialect of Lisp. It's been out for a little while now, so it's not exactly news, but the language itself is pretty cool. It seems to embrace the idea of programs rapidly changing, by making programs smaller. So, how does one actually get to play around with Arc?
Read more »Using Emacs with DVC
"I did translation of my article about working with distributed version control systems from Emacs using DVC package..." -- http://xtalk.msk.su/~ott/en/writings/emacs-vcs/EmacsDVC.html
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Some of my favorite things about linux…
Seriously the command line does it for me, gets me all hot and bothered ;). I just love having all the tools (including the shell itself) to be able to do what I need to do.
Read more »Introduction to Ubuntu 8.04 Beta
The Ubuntu developers are moving very quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the open source community has to offer. This is the Ubuntu 8.04 beta release, which brings a host of excellent new features.
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Image Magick Banner Generator - part 3
In part 2, we learned how to generate solid backgrounds and gradients. In this part, I'll show you how to generate patterned and random noise backgrounds.
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