The Ripper Gang is pleased to announce the final public ISO release of PCLinuxOS 2009.1. This release features kernel 2.6.26.8.tex3, KDE 3.5.10, Open Office 3.0, Firefox 3.0.7, Thunderbird 2.0.0.14, Ktorrent, Frostwire, Amarok, Flash, Java JRE, Compiz-Fusion 3D and much more.
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Preventing Abuse of Free Software
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Earlier this year, madwifi.org, which had previously been home to the madwifi project, was "hijacked" (for lack of a better word), leading to much confusion for Linux users looking for wireless drivers. This unfortunate event highlights the legal and organizational vulnerabilities of free-software projects, which need to take steps to prevent such abuses if they want to be perceived as serious a
Read more »Database Corruption: Concurrent Appends to a Memo Field
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Memo fields are used by user when there is a need of saving large amount of text in the database. Access uses a pointer to another location for the data in large fields (memo, hyperlink, or OLE Object). If the pointer is written incorrectly, the field displays garbage.
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Why I Love Linux and FOSS
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FOSS is all about giving power and control to individuals. It embraces all of the important freedoms-- the freedom to create, share, invent, collaborate, learn, and change, all without penalties or artificial barriers.
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Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) Alpha 6 Released (With Screenshots)
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New in Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) Alpha 6: the installer's revamped timezone map (see the fourth screenshot on the third row). The notification system was improved. Also, The GIMP has only one entry in the panel and not three, or two if you leave only the Toolbox opened (see the fourth screenshot on the first row).
Read more »Critical Mass
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Dvorak has never had much love for Linux and he’s been very derogatory in the past. He seems to love the latest Ubuntu. The two words that really stuck out to me in the article though were “critical mass”.
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TomTom can license FAT without violating GPL
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Microsoft's lawsuit against GPS navigation device maker TomTom set off a flurry of speculation about whether or not the company had forced GPL violating terms on 18 licensees of its FAT patents. If Microsoft followed licensing guidelines that were once published on its website, the answer is a clear "no."
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After two years, a new PCLinuxOS ships
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Two years after its last major release, the interesting PCLinuxOS project has quietly posted a major new release.
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First encounters of the SimplyMepis kind
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It’s funny that my first encounter with SimplyMepis came as sort of an accident. I have been reading Preacherpen’s articles about Mepis and had actually downloaded the new SimplyMepis 8. Since I already had the CD of Mepis 8, I decided to see what it would do on the old laptop.
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Possible data loss in Ext4
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A bug report posted in the bug tracker for the next version of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) describes a massive data loss problem when using Ext4, the future standard file system for Linux.
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European open-source policy paper reflects Microsoft influence
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It's fascinating to see governments around the world embrace open source as a way to boost local economies and improve sovereignty. It's even better when the policy process itself is laid bare, allowing outsiders to see the partisan meddling that goes into a publicly articulated policy.
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Bruce Perens Calls Novell a “Highly Paid [Microsoft] Mouthpiece”
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Backlash against Novell; Ubuntu is rumoured to be considering abolishment of Mono
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Massive updates in slackware-current
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Today, Pat Volkerding published a massive amount of package updates to the slackware-current tree. Some of the absolute highlights mentioned in the ChangeLog are indication of a big step forward for Slackware, and most importantly: KDE 3.5.10 is gone, replaced by KDE 4.2.1.
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At Novell, Polluting GNU/Linux with Microsoft Technologies is “Taking Over the World”
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Novell's Jeffrey Stedfast calls Moonlight proliferation “Taking Over the World”
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Microsoft’s Patrícia Fernandes Fights GNU/Linux on Sub-notebooks, Vista 7 Deemed Unsuitable
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Signs of misery from Microsoft as Windows revenues dry up (on sub-notebooks) and GNU/Linux is increasingly adopted
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