Devil-Linux might sound hellish for a Linux distribution, but this live CD offers many blessings for your server needs. Originally developed as a router/firewall distribution, Devil-Linux has expanded its functionality to include nearly every service that a server might offer.
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Stay Lifted on AutoZone as of December 31st
The stay on SCO v. AutoZone has been lifted, and the case will resume after December 31. We learn this from the minutes of the status hearing that was held on the 22nd, now listed on PACER. I gather from the minutes that SCO asked for the stay to remain in place, which surprises me, but then again, nothing SCO does should surprise me any more.
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Hello World
Howdy, Comrades! It's Shane, guest-blogging from the new Union of American Socialist States (UASS). As many are aware, I haven't contributed much here in the previous year or so - save my last cameo appearance when Roy took a well-deserved break, so perhaps there are some folks here who have never heard from me before.
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Latest LiMo phone touted for voice clarification
Panasonic Mobile Communications is shipping another LiMo (Linux Mobile)-compliant phone for NTT DoCoMo's FOMA network
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How the LSB Keeps Linux One Big Happy Family
The Linux Standard Base is the grand attempt to create a binary-level interface that application developers can use to create software which will run on any distribution of Linux.
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Debian-Edu Skolelinux Developer Gathering in Oslo, Norway, 10th-12th of October 2008
"Hello everyone!
Once again the board of Free software in schools Norway are happy to invite everyone who wish to contribute to the Skolelinux-project to our developer gathering in Oslo on the 10th-12th of October..."
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Revisiting SECD and the power of Lisp
"While visiting the ICFP Conference 2008, I was discussing my SECD microprocessor reimplementation project with my co-worker Kilian. The SECD is a classic virtual machine architecture supporting functional programming languages invented by Peter J. Landin in the early 1960ies.
Read more »Too much Law and not enough Gospel
It was nice to see the large response from my Linux Plumbers Conference talk, and there seems to be a few common themes of questions about the talk that I figured I'd clear up here.
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Converting One Person At The Time
On Sunday I installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 AMD on my friends laptop, an Acer. I won’t go into detail how easy the installation and tweaking was. I was done within an hour.
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One Desktop Per Ten a Workable Model
The Digital Divide -- there isn't a nation where it doesn't exist, yet it seems so relative. In one place, a child going online via dial up using a PII seems at a disadvantage. Elsewhere, that child has a tool that could change his life.
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Query Replace
"Maybe emacs users should do more to promote it. Emacs has a reputation of being overwhelming. But we don't promote emacs enough. There are great reasons to learn and use it. I don't think emacs is difficult to learn, there is a great help system and an interactive tutorial to begin..."
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Open source firm chosen for schools IT framework deal
An open source company has, for the first time, been chosen to become an accredited IT services supplier for schools and colleges across the UK.
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8 hacks to make Firefox ridiculously fast
Firefox has been outperforming IE in every department for years, and version 3 is speedier than ever. But tweak the right settings and you could make it faster still, more than doubling your speed in some situations, all for about five minutes work and for the cost of precisely nothing at all. Here's what you need to do.
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Is Google hiding behind beta products to limit liability?
Go Google the search giants product base and you will discover, even if you discount the experimental labs stuff, that nearly half of everything it produces is still in beta. That includes Gmail which has remained a beta product for 4 years! What possible reason could there be for this?
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Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6 - Good News for Laptop Users
I installed Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Alpha 6 on both of my laptops over the weekend, and it looks very good. In the original announcement of the Intrepid Ibex development, Ubuntu spoke of giving priority to "pervasive internet access", and it appears to me that they have made good progress on that.
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