Mandriva today announces the release of Mandriva Flash 2008 Spring, the new release of its popular bootable distribution on a USB key. This new version uses the new Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring as its base, doubles the key's capacity to 8GB, introduces a new installer which allows you to install Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring to the system's hard disk, and comes in an attractive new white color scheme.
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How To Set Up A Loadbalanced High-Availability Apache Cluster Based On Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
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This tutorial shows how to set up a two-node Apache web server cluster that provides high-availability. In front of the Apache cluster we create a load balancer that splits up incoming requests between the two Apache nodes. Because we do not want the load balancer to become another "Single Point Of Failure", we must provide high-availability for the load balancer, too.
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Nokia: Linux role growing, not yet mainstream
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The world's largest cellphone maker Nokia said it expected the role of Linux operating software in mobile handsets would grow, but it would take some time to become mainstream.
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UK unix beardies appeal for $cash
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THE UK UNIX USER Group may have to drop its legal challenge to Microsoft's controversial international document standard because it doesn't have the money to see it through.
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Microsoft's standards bid stalled
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Four countries have appealed a decision to fast-track the international standardisation of a Microsoft document format, called OpenXML.
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How-To: Compile and Install XMMS in Debian Lenny
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Several major distributions like Debian or Slackware dumped support for XMMS and no longer include it in their repositories due to the fact that it's old, hasn't been updated for some time and uses the GTK 1.x libraries. XMMS was replaced by the newer Audacious, which uses the newer GTK 2.x libraries. To install Audacious, just type as root apt-get install audacious.
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Testing ebook readers for Project Gutenberg
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Project Gutenberg (PG) collects and maintains a library of public domain books in electronic text format, in an assortment of languages. That's all well and good, but potential readers still need a method to access PG's collection. I recently sat down to test a handful of e-text readers that offer integration with the 24,000 PG titles.
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Neelie Kroes: "Choosing open standards is a very smart business decision"
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Neelie Kroes just gave a speech at OpenForum Europe today on standards, "Being open about standards". I put it in News Picks, but I wanted to be sure you didn't miss it, so I am putting it here also.
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The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has filed two more copyright infringement lawsuits, on behalf of two principal developers of BusyBox, alleging violation of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The defendants in this new round of lawsuits are Bell Microproducts, Inc. and Super Micro Computer, Inc.
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EU competition chief advocates open standards
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Europe's competition commissioner Neelie Kroes delivered a thinly veiled warning to Microsoft Tuesday that the software giant's behind-the-scenes maneuverings to secure industrywide standard status for its document format, Office Open XML earlier this year "risk falling foul of the competition rules."
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High court rules against multiple royalties
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The Supreme Court on Monday limited the ability of companies to collect multiple royalties on their patents, the latest step by the justices to scale back the power of patent-holders.
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Interview: John De Goes Introduces a Newly Free Source Code Editor
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"The tools market is dead. Open source killed it. The only commercial tools that can survive today are the ones that leapfrog open source tools." Thus argues John De Goes, president of N-BRAIN, which creates and provides UNA, a source code editor.
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Open source Astaro security appliance installed at insurance company
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At Underwriters Safety & Claims, security abruptly rose to the top of IT Director Grant Nickle's to-do list late last fall when it became clear that the existing security system needed replacement.
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Sun SOA launch sucks in open source
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You remember SeeBeyond Technologies? Rather successful application integration company? Lots of really big customers and $140m in annual revenue? Purchased by Sun Microsystems in 2005 for the knockdown price of $387m.
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Beginning a Rails app -- for beginners
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After some trial and error, I got my first significant Ruby on Rails application off the ground. By significant, I mean a dozen related tables, about 20 controllers, and some tricky business logic. I had been exploring Rails for a while and created a few toy applications, but hammering this one out still presented a challenge.
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