With openSUSE 11.0 just a few days away, it’s time to look at one of the stars of the show: KDE. In openSUSE 11.0, you get two KDEs for the price of one. Here we’ll take a look at what’s coming in KDE, and talk to one of openSUSE’s KDE contributors, Stephan Binner.
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LVM Quick Command Reference For Linux And Unix
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Quick reference guide for the most commonly used LVM commands.
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Nicely handled, Thawte!
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I was delighted to see Thawte’s elegant handling of the recent OpenSSL random number generator flaw in Debian, Ubuntu and other Debian derivatives. They offered a free replacement for anyone who was affected.
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A virtual appliance primer
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Virtual machines are virtually taking over the world. By itself a virtual machine is just a container that describes various resources such as memory, disk space, processor, and network card, and allocates them from a physical machine. As with a physical machine, it's the software bits (the operating system and applications) that make a virtual machine usable.
Read more »Compiere launches open source forum
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Open source business applications provider Compiere has launched the Compiere Community Wiki to enable collaboration and information sharing across its open source community.
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Songbird 0.6 Released
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In this release you’ll notice significant performance improvements and many new features. Larger Library Support, Smoother Scrolling, Faster Filtering, Improved Memory Management, Sync Support for MTP Devices, SHOUTcast Radio, and more.
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Can we advance open source by sacrificing software freedom?
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The relationship of mutual benefit that exists between mobile device makers and the open source development community on which they increasingly depend presents a unique paradox. Specifically, advancing the development of free software sometimes necessitates compromises that limit software freedom, particularly when it comes to providing open-source support for technologies like DRM.
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Where Is Mainstream Video Content On Desktop Linux?
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One has to admit, regardless of their feelings of just how idiotic the idea behind Digital Rights Management (DRM) may be, it is frustrating to watch the other two platforms have content we cannot enjoy ourselves.
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Microsoft now sponsor of Open Source Census
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Microsoft has become a sponsor of The Open Source Census, a project started earlier this year that aims to track and catalog the use of open-source software in enterprises worldwide, the group announced Monday.
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The People Behind Mesa 3D
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Following our article looking at the state of X.Org (along with announcing the release of X Server 1.4.1), we proceeded to share the contributors behind the X Server -- both the individual developers and companies involved with fostering the growth of this important free software package since 1999.
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Installing An Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 LTS DNS Server With BIND
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This tutorial shows how to set up an Ubuntu Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04 LTS) based server that offers DNS services. This tutorial is written for the 32-bit version of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, but should apply to the 64-bit version.
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Some history for ubuntu and worst releases
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Canonical releases a new ubuntu every 6 months and time to time it does a LTS (long term support) release which is suppose to be most stable. And are they really that stable
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If only schools could change
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Right now, many schools’ technology systems are corrupt, but not necessarily for the right reason. It seems that schools are completely locked in to Microsoft, not only as a platform, but also as a curriculum.
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GNU autotools primer (part two)
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This is the second part of our series on the GNU autotools system, looking at autoconf, automake and libtool. In the previous installment, we looked at building a very simple C program, with just one source file, using autotools. In this article, we'll extend our program slightly, by shifting some data into a header file, and adding a man page.
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ISP condemns sharing
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RMS: « A major ISP in the UK has taken the side of the music factories against its customers, the public.
Virgin's customers should cut off their service. But, more than that, this shows that we must organize to loudly condemn and oppose the very idea of stopping people from sharing — no matter how it is done.
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