A new book that teaches users how to create themes for Drupal websites has been announced today by Packt Publishing. Written by prominent open source and Content Management expert Ric Shreves, ‘Drupal 5 Themes’ helps readers create striking new looks for their Drupal websites.
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Open Source Code Contains Security Holes
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Popular open source projects such as Samba, the PHP, Perl, Tcl dynamic languages, and Amanda were all found to have dozens or hundreds of security exposures.
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4Front Technologies realeases the source code for open sound system
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4Front Technologies is proud to announce the release of the source code to Open Sound System (OSS) v4.0 under the BSD license for FreeBSD and other BSD compliant operating systems.
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Wikia Search issues community-based challenge to Google and Yahoo
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"Yesterday brought the alpha release of Wikia Search, a new engine built on free software and free culture values. For Wikia co-founder Jimmy Wales, the release is a milestone in the realization of a long-held dream. However, as he tells Linux.com, Wikia Search is still a couple of years from maturity, with many of the details still to work out. «Philosophically, I'm a big supporter of free software,» says Wales..."
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Osmo: A daily organizer
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Osmo, a compact yet feature-rich personal information organizer for Linux, separates itself from the pack of other calendar applications due to its light weight and easy-to-use design. The GPL-licensed Osmo includes a datebook calendar, a to-do organizer, and a contacts list, all with lots of intuitive options.
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OSL 3.0: A Better License for Open Source Software
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There are many ways to license open source software. Given the attention paid recently to the General Public License (GPL) and its latest version (GPLv3), you may be interested to know that there are other licenses that satisfy the principles of free and open source software without the confusion and polemics that surround the GPL.
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OLPC would welcome Intel back
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The One Laptop Per Child Project would welcome Intel back if the chip maker returned to the group, the head of OLPC said Tuesday.
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WengoPhone Firefox Extension For GNU/Linux Alpha Testing Instructions
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"At last, you can download and use an alpha WengoPhone Firefox extension for GNU/Linux. It has been flagged alpha because, as you may know, GNU/Linux systems are very different from each others, so it's difficult to provide a WengoPhone Firefox extension that works blissfully on most of them. We'd like, by publishing this alpha version, to test WengoPhone Firefox extension for GNU/Linux on the largest number of different GNU/Linux distributions. For this, we'd be pleased that you follow the small set of instructions below, it will greatly help us to publish a stable and robust version soon! ..."
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Will Software Businesses Really Move Toward the Middle in '08?
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Anne Zelenka recently predicted that software businesses will move from the extreme 'closed' and 'open' licensing models toward the center, what she refers to as 'clopen', or hybrid closed and open licensing models. I think she's missing something.
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Prototype 8.9″ Asus EeePC Spotted at CES
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Not a full day after news comes from Asus that they’ve got some larger screen EeePCs in works do pics of one show up online. jkkmobile hits us up with some pictures of this new model. No word on release date yet.
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CyberNotes: Top 10 Firefox Extensions by Category
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We’ve done all kinds of top 10 Firefox lists in the past, including a rather comprehensive list where we aggregated top 10 Firefox lists from around the web. But nothing really compares to the list that we’ve put together this time around.
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Flipping the Linux switch: Package management 101
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Your shiny new Linux system has it all -- except that one program you really needed it to install. You get online, you find the program's website, and click 'download'. Except there's not just a link to the program there.
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Ten challenges and priorities for free and open source in 2008
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Last week I started a series of blog entries about my personal view of challenges and priorities for this year. That first entry was about open standards and today I’m going to look at free and open source (FOSS). Incidentally, the first item on this list was on the previous list as well.
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Rails 2: The Top Five Features List
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I thought I'd pen my first Developer.com column of the year in similar fashion, highlighting my personal take on top five features of the new Rails 2 release.
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Cinelerra is very easy - 1/3
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I love to use Linux distro (particularly ubuntu). So I chose to learn cinelerra and I discovered that, over first impression, it's a software very easy to use. The envy of the "Windows users" is priceless.
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