Keep an eye on IceBuntu (and its dedicated forums here), because it’s steadily improving. This isn’t a one-time, just-for-fun, let’s-see-if-we-can-roll-our-own distro effort.
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How To Learn Lisp
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"In the spirit of my last post, I decided to turn one of my favorite long comments on Hacker News into a blog post in the hopes that someone would find it useful. There was a good discussion last week about how to learn Lisp, and since I was a little late to the thread, most of the things I wanted to say had already been said. So, in an effort to pull it all together, I made a nice long summary comment, which is reproduced and cleaned up below [...]
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Linutop 2
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"Linutop 2 has an internal flash memory to store the software and the operating system (External USB Key for Linutop 1)..."
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Mandriva relaunches the OS Refugee discount program
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Mandriva is relaunching its OS Refugee program offering discounts on its commercial Linux distributions to owners of a license for any commercial operating system. You can trade in your license for a 35% discount on Mandriva Linux 2008 Powerpack, Mandriva Flash 2008, or a one year Powerpack subscription.
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Who will take over perl101.org?
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"Who out there has some free time and is interested in helping out beginners? [...] All I require is that you'll do something useful for the beginners. Any interest?
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AllPeers Service Shutting Down Today
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"It is with deep regret that we inform our users, friends and fans that we will be shutting down the AllPeers service today. We are tremendously proud of the product that our team has built, and we remain convinced of the potential of adding social features like file sharing to the web browser. However, we have not achieved the kind of growth in our user base that our investors were expecting, and as a result we are not able to continue operating the service..."
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Instantbird 0.1.1 released!
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"We are glad to announce the release of Instantbird 0.1.1. This release is mostly a bug fix release. We've been impressed by the success of the 0.1 release and thought it would be nice to deliver a more stable version for the users we already have before making big changes for version 0.2. The things we focused on for this release are..."
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Mandriva relaunches its OS Refugees operation targetting linked sales
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"...Mandriva, signatories of the « Non aux racketiciels » "Say No to software racket" movement, wishes to join the fight on linked sales spearheaded by the AFUL's Détaxe/Racketiciel working group supported by APRIL, by relaunching its OS Refugees operation from 3rd March 2008 until April, the 8th , 2008 ..." -- http://www.racketiciel.info/petition/
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CC Salon Belgrade: Festival of Free Culture
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"CC Serbia will be hosting the first CC Salon in Belgrade on March 7th - 10th. The program features many fantastic local projects, including CCBit, the first Creative Commons-licensed music CD compilation in Serbia, and Freedom Toaster, a device/interface for individual file-sharing in public spaces..."
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Debian Documentation Project moved to SVN, webwml might follow
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"The topic of switching from CVS to something else regularly came forward but nobody did anything. The net result is that several documentation are now maintained outside of the debian-doc repository because their respective maintainers didn’t want to stay with CVS. After noticing that the developers-reference also switched to SVN, I decided to convert the whole debian-doc CVS repository and import it in the new “ddp” SVN repository on Alioth. This is now done..."
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Fedora Project Leader: Hello and Goodbye
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For the last two years Max Spevack has lead the Fedora Project through many changes. Now, he has decided it's time for him to move on to other areas and so a new leader has been found: Paul Frields. Paul, coming into the role from the position of a community contributor, is already well known and has some exciting new ideas resulting from his previous experiences. In this interview we catch up with both Max and Paul as they discuss their experiences of the Fedora Project Leader job, the project's past and its future.
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Pidgin 2.4.0 Released With New Features
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Pidgin, the popular IM client once known as GAIM, has flown out of the coop today with a new release. Pidgin 2.4.0 is the first update in about three months, but it brings a number of features to the client as well as libpurple and Finch.
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New add-ons for OpenOffice.org Writer
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After a slow start, add-ons for OpenOffice.org are finally starting to reach a critical mass.
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Setting Up A High-Availability Load Balancer (With Failover and Session Support) With HAProxy/Heartbeat On Fedora 8
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This document describes how to set up a two-node load balancer in an active/passive configuration with HAProxy and heartbeat on Fedora 8.
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GNU IceCat 2.0.0.12-g1 released
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"I am pleased to announce the new version for the GNU IceCat web browser. GNU IceCat is based on the Mozilla Firefox source code. While the basic Mozilla Firefox source code is free software, and we thank them for their significant contributions to the community, some non-free files are distributed in the Firefox source tree, and Firefox can recommend non-free plugins. IceCat is entirely Free Software..."
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