We got a nice helping of slides dropped on our virtual doorstep this evening, fleshing out Dell's upcoming netbook -- which they seem to be calling the "Dell E." Um, Eeenteresting name choice, but that doesn't seem set in stone, and there's plenty else going on here to ponder over.
Read more »Dell E and E Slim revealed, taking on Eee and Air in one fell swoop
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What is the Right Interface for UMPCs?
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From full, unmodified interfaces to very limited, locked-down interfaces, UMPC interfaces certainly vary a lot, but what interface is best?
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Shell Script To Produce Prime Numbers On Linux And Unix
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A bash script to find all prime numbers up to a user-specified ceiling.
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Test your environment's security with BackTrack
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In the field of penetration testing, BackTrack is today's premier Linux distribution. Designed for, created by, and used by security professionals around the globe, BackTrack is the result of a merger between two earlier, competing distributions -- WHAX and Auditor Security Collection. The most recent beta version was released on June 10.
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Red Hat looks out for OSS community with patent settlement
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Red Hat announced today that it has settled a patent dispute with Firestar and DataTern over two patents, including one that covers object-relational database mapping—a technique that is used in Hibernate, a component of the JBoss middleware stack.
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Linux’s Chance to Leap Ahead of Apple And Microsoft
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Apple and Microsoft are both in a situation where they are essentially forced, due to past mistakes or a lack of foresight, to spend a significant amount of time making behind-the-scenes changes. In this time, Linux could potentially get a real leg up on other OSs.
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Run a Business Network on Linux: Intrusion Detection (Part 4)
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In our first two installments on intrusion detection (see Resources), we got as far as setting up a Snort sensor on our network. Now it's time to set it up to automatically collect new rulesets, and set up BASE (Basic Analysis and Security Engine) to present all that data in a nice digestible way with graphs and sorting tools.
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The Inevitability of Open Source Windows
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The FOSS (Free/Open Source Software) Community knows, thanks to leaked Microsoft internal documents, that since about 1998 Microsoft has been in a sort of war against them. Because of this, it is not surprising that the FOSS community has looked at Microsoft with suspicion and has vilified it to no end. But, is Microsoft really evil?
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Review of Deluge 0.5.9.1 - BitTorrent Client for GNOME
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Deluge is a complete BitTorrent client for GNOME, offering many options for configuration and plenty of plugins, which can make it very useful for working with torrent files.
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ODF News Roundup: More Power to the International Standard
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This is a roundup of some good news for ODF, collected over the past couple of days.
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Forrester Paid by Microsoft to Generate Anti-Linux ‘Studies’
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A story from 2005 returns and more new cases of biased (incorrect) research are brought to light.
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BECTA’s Latest Disappointment: ‘Open Source’ from a Windows Shop?
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What was supposed to be an open source push in UK education seems to have been designated to the wrong hands.
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Linux Mint 5.0 is Simple (in a good way)
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I finally found time to download and install Linux Mint 5.0 today, and happily wiped my already-feeling-outdated Ubuntu 8.04. The moral of the story is, Linux Mint 5.0 (Elyssa) is not a “rock your world” kind of distro, but it certain is easy to use as promised.
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Forth and back again - having a look at Fedora 9 and KDE 4.1beta
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Recently my distribution of choice, Fedora, published a new version, Fedora 9. This one featured KDE 4.0, and there were also KDE 4.0.80 packages available, and I decided to take a look at them. Unfortunately, I had to return to Fedora 8 and KDE 3.5.9 - but not for long, that’s for sure.
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Little PC Gets the Big Stuff Wrong
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Hewlett Packard's $499-and-up 2133 Mini-Note comes from the same basic template as the Eee but falls woefully short in some aspects.
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