For a few years now, I have worked on a replacement for the trusty old way of organising the Debian boot. Did you ever make a package with an init.d script, and wonder which sequence number to pick for your script?
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Free Range, not Free Beer
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I was eating breakfast in my favorite restaurant today and I noticed a sign up on the wall that said: "Free Range Eggs, $4.00 per dozen"
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Beijing: Red Hat opens two facilities
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Red Hat has launched a testing and certification facility in Beijing, China, as well as opened another research and development (R&D) center in the Chinese state.
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Open season on open-source software
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Open-source software, which by its traditional definition is developed collaboratively by informal groups and available free to anyone, has been a major factor driving the growth of the internet, and especially the proliferation of blogs and small websites.
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Linux attack worse than feared
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Security researchers claim that a mass attack of websites is much worse than was feared. According to ScanSafe, the attack has affected at least 10,000 sites.
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Some reflections on Linux and its community
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Over the past weekend, I spent most of my time playing around with OpenSUSE and Ubuntu in an attempt to reintroduce myself into the wide world of Linux.
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What open code developers can teach PR
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Is the real challenge for PR just "influence"? Or is it something bigger thatn that? If so, are there ways we can help PR move past its history of spinnage and into a future of usefulness?
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IBM, Google quietly supporting OOXML?
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In spite of their public opposition to Microsoft’s attempt to get the ISO standardization nod for its Office Open XML (OOXML) document format, IBM and Google quietly are supporting OOXML.
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IBM Offers Collaboration Support for Ubuntu
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IBM today announced that it will offer an integrated Open Collaboration Client Solution with support for Ubuntu, a Linux-based operating system from Canonical Ltd. that is especially popular for desktops, laptops and thin clients.
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Brightside extends GNOME window manager
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Brightside is a small utility for extending the functionality of Metacity, the default window manager for the GNOME desktop. Now at version 1.4.0, it currently offers two mutually exclusive functions: corner actions that are activated when the mouse cursor moves to one of the desktop's corners, and scrolling with the mouse between desktops.
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HTML 5 published as W3C First Public Working Draft!
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"W3C today published an early draft of HTML 5, a major revision of the markup language for the Web... «HTML is of course a very important standard,» said Tim Berners-Lee, author of the first version of HTML and W3C Director. «I am glad to see that the community of developers, including browser vendors, is working together to create the best possible path for the Web. To integrate the input of so many people is hard work, as is the challenge of balancing stability with innovation, pragmatism with idealism.» ..."
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No FOSS please, we’re Microsoft: checking out the .NET source code license
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Since early this decade, Microsoft has been promoting their software framework, the .NET platform and its associated libraries. Now up to incarnation v3.5, Windows developers worldwide have rejoiced at the framework source code finally being made available. Yet, does this reflect any trend towards open source by the Redmond giant? How generous is the license and what does it mean?
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Gentoo: Linux for Men!
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Windows is an operating system for babies. It does things for you and does them spontaneously. Frequently, it breaks things because it tries too hard to be helpful. Ubuntu is a Linux distribution for normal people...
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Linux security guru joins Microsoft
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Crispin Cowan, the Linux security expert behind StackGard, the Immunix Linux distro and AppArmor, has joined the Windows security team.
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January 22, 1998 -- the Beginning of Mozilla
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"Anyone remember this? ...«Netscape Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: NSCP) today announced bold plans to make the source code for the next generation of its highly popular Netscape Communicator client software available for free licensing on the Internet. The company plans to post the source code beginning with the first Netscape Communicator 5.0 developer release, expected by the end of the first quarter of 1998...»"
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