When a vulnerability researcher discloses a flaw in a widely-used operating system or application, some IT professionals question the motive. Such has been the case with a Linux Kernel flaw that was disclosed last week.
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Novell takes steps to harden security for shoppers
It is not an area of business where you'd normally think of Novell providing the infrastructure. But business and retail transaction security is becoming a burgeoning business for the company that helped create the PC network.
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ALU International Lisp Conference, 2009
"The Association of Lisp Users (http://www.alu.org/alu/home) will be holding an International Lisp Conference in 2009 [...] I'd be interested in hearing any (serious) suggestions for what we should do at the conference. This is an opportunity for you to submit your suggestions very early, before we start real planning. In particular, do you have any suggestions for invited speakers? Who would you like to hear from? ...
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Eight Distros a Week: Epilogue
I have used more than eight distros — AntiX, Debian, Fedora, Fluxbuntu, gNewSense, Linux Mint, Wolvix and Xubuntu — but these eight are the ones that I use most, talk about most and would recommend to those looking for a distro.
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Mythbuntu 8.04 Alpha 2 now available
Today we are introducing second Mythbuntu 8.04 alpha image. With this release, we are providing mirroring on sponsored mirrors rather than a torrent only release.
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25 Coolest Linux Wallpapers
I’ve noticed that Linux newbies take so much pride with their newly installed distro that they will most likely spend a lot of time searching the web for Linux-themed desktop wallpapers. So, I decided to provide here or share some of the best (in my own opinion) Linux wallpapers that I have collected before. I hope you will like a few of them, at least. Here are my "25 Coolest Linux Wallpapers" in no particular order
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What’s Microsoft Offering Open Source On February 27?
What open source something will Microsoft forge on February 27 that will be world changing and make Scoble cry? I read Scoble’s post again (either I didn’t read it all the first time, or he has since added to it) and pulled out some more clues
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Enlightenment 17
Enlightenment 0.17 is the next generation of UNIX graphical environments. It is not just a window manager, but it is also a desktop shell. A desktop shell means, a window manager plus a file manager, plus configuration utilitys all in one. They are not separated as usual. Now, let’s take a closer look at all E17 features.
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New Default Ubuntu Wallpaper
After installing all of the latest updates to Ubuntu Hardy Heron, I noticed they made a major change to the theme: there is a new default wallpaper on the GNOME desktop. It is still based on the brown Ubuntu color scheme, but at least it is more cheery. I wonder if this thread had anything to do with the sudden change…
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Applications are Open Source too
I’m using LyX to write this article, but Firefox, GIMP, LaTex2RTF, ImageMagick, Apache, MySQL, PHP, Graphviz, bash, GCC and my own 4tH compiler are installed as well. And no, this is not a Linux laptop, it is a Windows XP laptop
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OLPC book & music drive and XO hackathon
We are collecting all the free books, movies, music, and other content that we can in the next five days. Then, on Tuesday (2/19) the Creative Commons will be burning a LiveDVD as part of LiveContent 2.0 with the selection of CC licensed materials being gathered
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Dutch "government ISV" adds ODF support
If I understood this Dutch article correctly, the Dutch ISV Centric, which seems to very active in the public sector, is adding ODF support to their applications. Apparently the adoption of ODF by the City of Heerenveen and the City of Groningen had some impact on the decision.
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Outcome of controversial XML format war depends on Asia
The XML document (Extensible Markup Language) format war, waged between IT giants IBM and Microsoft and their supporters, is expected to reach a conclusion next month with a crucial ballot by members of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO).
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Howto: Add Items to the Right-Click Menu in Nautilus
Linux is known for letting users configure settings to customize nearly every aspect of their desktops. In the past, this has largely been relegated to the more advanced crowd, since it often required editing text-based configuration files; but as Linux becomes more mature, many GUI programs are being written to allow easy customization of the user interface. The Nautilus Actions Configuration utility is one such program that lets you add custom commands to the right-click menu in Nautilus, the default file manager in Gnome.
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Red Hat Needs to Get Red Hot to Achieve Goals
Expanding on a plan it announced in November 2007 by which Red Hat (RHT) said it would capture 50% of the operating system market by 2015, the company announced on February 13 that it intends to also capture “50% of enterprise middleware workloads by 2015.”
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