"I am currently in the process of organising the half-day Gentoo mini-conf at the next linux.conf.au, Australia's annual technical conference about Free Software..."
Read more »Gentoo Down Under: Call for Presentations - Portage and Pkgcore
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New book on Service Oriented Architecture and its Approach to Integration Published by Packt
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Packt is pleased to announce a new book “SOA Approach to Integration” which shows how to define SOA integration architecture, what technologies to use, and how to best integrate existing applications with modern e-business solutions.
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Linux Blog Safari: Asus's eeePC and the GPL, Linux in 2008
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"They've taken a community-developed kernel module and have modified it, and then released the result as a binary-only kernel module without including the source or at least posting an offer to obtain the source to the kernel module," wrote morgan_greywolf on Slashdot. "That's a direct letter violation of the GPL. Sounds like the author of asus_acpi has a lawsuit
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FOSS.IN 2007 is here!!
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FOSS.IN 2007 is going to start here in Bangalore, India in a few hours from now. This is one of the largest FOSS conferences held in India with distinguished speakers and delegates coming from all over the world and from wide and varied backgrounds.
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GNU IceCat 2.0.0.11-g1
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"Hello, I just uploaded a new version of GNU IceCat updated to Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11 including all the changes we discussed recently on this mailing list..."
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The free software sites changed for better design
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Fsdaily is not the only free software site that changed for better looking design.See the GNU website (http://www.gnu.org/).
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Doin' it for the Noob...
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I am going to present to you the desktop I present to my clients and Kids via the Komputers4kids program. Now you will find that I work exclusively through KDE and if you can prove to me there is a better new-user environment to be used...
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Howto Install Avant Window Navgator in ubuntu gutsy gibbon
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Avant Window Navgator (Awn) is a dock-like bar which sits at the bottom of the screen (in all its composited-goodness) tracking open windows.
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Foresight Newsletter is out (Nov 30, 2007)
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Welcome to the November edition of the Foresight Linux Newsletter. With the recent release of the first alpha of Foresight Linux 2, this month's newsletter will take a detailed look at the release, including changes from the 1.x releases, how to test both the GNOME edition and new KDE edition, and the next alpha of Foresight Linux 2.
Read more »Extending Python with C: A case study
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I recently wrote about an algorithm for fuzzy matching of substrings implemented in Python. This is a feature that I needed for a piece of software I'm currently developing.
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sudo vs su
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Is sudo really needed everywhere ? Of course not ! This article tries to explain why sudo is worse than su for most desktop *nix users out there.
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The company suing OLPC, answers Groklaw's questions
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Adé Oyegbola, CEO of LANCOR, the company that says it is suing OLPC, was gracious enough to answer some of the questions I sent to the company and to the attorney representing it in the threatened litigation. I'll present the questions and answers, along with some photographs he sent as attachments, as he presents at least an outline of his case.
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Microsoft and OOXML: 662 resolutions, but only if you can find them
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Microsoft has managed to get JTC1 to clamp down on information. What was a transparent process is now mired in multiple levels of security leading to delay, denial of information to some NB participants and total opaqueness to the public
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3 million downloads for Sunbird and Lightning
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"Somewhere on Sunday evening, we passed the 3-million-downloads barrier for Sunbird and Lightning downloads in total. That's an increase of nearly 600,000 total downloads since we started the download counting exercise on September 12, 2007 nearly three months ago..."
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Debian Policy 3.7.3.0 uploaded
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"There are many Policy change proposals, including some obvious and uncontroversial ones, that didn't make it into this release. That doesn't mean they've been rejected, only that a Policy release was long-overdue and it was better to set a deadline and upload what was finished by that deadline than postpone it further. I expect that 3.7.4.0 will not be far in the future..."
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