Developers of sunhelp.ru released a Damn Small Solaris 0.1 distro. The distro size is 64 Mb and included all main utilities from Solaris Express, window manager, JWM and other utilities from Linux DSL
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eeeXubuntu
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This morning I installed eeeXubuntu on the solid state disk of the little Eee. It's pretty cool. The default Xandros in advanced mode was okay, but it was also a bit limiting.
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Linux, the language of love
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It’s St Valentine’s Day in much of the western world (and, it seems, the World of Warcraft too). Did you know Linux is unique among operating systems due to its inherent romanticism? Here’s how Linux helps sling forth Cupid’s arrows on this day. Spice up your love life with these seven sure-fire tips.
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Take advantage of multiple CPU cores during file compression
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With the number of CPU cores in desktop machines moving from two to four and soon eight, the ability to execute computationally expensive tasks in parallel is becoming more important. The mgzip tools that can take advantage of multiple CPU cores during file compression, while pbzip2 uses multiple cores for both compression and decompression.
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Sun lays its open source virtualization cards on the table
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News just in is that Sun is buying innotek, the open source virtualization player whose VirtualBox enables desktop or laptop PCs running the Windows, Linux, Mac or Solaris operating systems to run multiple, different operating systems side-by-side...
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Open Source breaking barriers
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Besides the apparent commercial benefits of adapting open source approach, technology developers also appreciate the possibility of altering the software to suit their architecture
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The Expanding Role of Open Source in the Data Center
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Forrester Research advises its clients who are considering open source tools to examine the so-called ecosystem around a particular product -- the pool of developers, forums, paid support and commercial versions -- to determine if there's enough support available. It notes that if an open source project has, say, 700 developers and a good ecosystem, then it's a better risk than a proprietary product from 20-person startup.
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Slax 6 : The Pocket OS [A Preview]
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Slax 6, the latest version of the modern, small and fast Slackware-based distro Slax, was released yesterday.Slax participated in the development of sqlzma patches, where the code implements LZMA - 7-zip compression - into squashfs filesystem. Squashfs now supports bigger block sizes than before. These two enhancements transform Slax 6 in one of the best compressed Linux distributions.
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Mini-laptop sweeps through schools
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It weighs less than a bottle of Coke, is smaller than an A5 pad and is so cheap the odd one left on a bus wouldn't break the bank. A lightweight laptop, hailed by self-confessed techno-geek Stephen Fry as the future of computing, has found an unexpected market: schools.
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OOXML: disquiet across the Tasman
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In a few short weeks, it will be time for national standards bodies to decide whether the Microsoft Office Open XML specification will be accepted as an ISO standard or not.
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There can be only one
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There cannot be two International Standards. Indeed in the past we had two or three different industry standards. But what has happened? Only one has survived. The better? Not always, and what a waste of resources in the process. The clear example of VHS surviving over Betamax, expunging the better standard to the benefit of the worst one, should be indicative. And when I say the worst, it is not just a matter of taste!
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The Best Linux gmail Checker
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The best Linux gmail checker is named CheckGmail. Now why am I raving about a gmail mail checker? You ask, how different can it be from the other gmail checkers, because don't they all do the same thing, notify you when you get mail?
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From counterculture flag to corporate gold star
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CIOs love Linux, but what does your Linux-using reputation say about you as an employee? IT execs say it shows a kind of problem-solving skill they're looking for.
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The World is Open Source
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The World is Open Source, a very nice wallpaper for your desktop.
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JTV Tech Talk: Jans Aasman on "How Lisp will make Web 3.0 a reality"
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"Our next Justin.tv tech talk at the JTV office is this Thursday. Free pizza will be served at noon, and the talk will start at 12:30 (for approx. 40 min) [...] Jans Aasman will be talking about how Lisp and Web 3.0 (the Semantic Web) are intertwined..."
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