The MacRuby developers have announced the availability of MacRuby 0.6, the latest version of their Ruby implementation which is tightly integrated with Mac OS X and Cocoa. The new version has been marked as "Stable for Cocoa Development"
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PostgreSQL 9.0 beta has replication built in
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The new beta version of PostgreSQL has a high speed streaming replication system built in along with a number of other improvements
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Using sidux with the newly updated KDE SC 4.4.3
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The Debian KDE team has not been releasing KDE updates with each monthly incremental version, and so there have been no snapshots between KDE SC 4.3.4 and KDE SC 4.4.3. As of yesterday, however, the Sid repositories began to be populated with KDE SC 4.4.3, and as of today, we now have Sid (and sidux) implementations of KDE SC 4.4.3 available. I am using it now.
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European embedded Linux show seeks presentation ideas
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The Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) announced a call for papers for the next Embedded Linux Conference Europe (ELCE), scheduled for Oct. 27-28 in Cambridge, UK. CELF is looking for a variety of technical presentations focused on the use of embedded Linux in consumer electronics products.
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EasyPeasy 1.6 final released
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One week after the arrival of the release candidate, the EasyPeasy developers have released version 1.6 of their Ubuntu-based Linux distribution aimed at netbooks, adding a brand new interface and the open source Nouveau driver for NVIDIA graphics hardware
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On bootstrapping a community-run FOSS event
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On Saturday, April 10th, I was in Austin Texas for the inaugural Texas Linux Fest (TXLF), a community-run FLOSS conference. The idea to stage the show arose last August during OSCON, picked up steam in the fall, and in the end a little under 400 people turned out — including speakers and volunteers — which most considered a successful number for a first year event.
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CLI on the Web
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...ECMA CLI would have given the web both strongly typed and loosely typed programming languages. It would have given developers a choice between performance and scriptability. A programming language choice (use the right tool for the right job) and would have in general made web pages faster just by moving performance sensitive code to strongly typed languages.
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Novell BrainShare EMEA: Sold Out
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For the first time in five years Novell is hosting a BrainShare conference for EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) partners and customers. Novell Chief Marketing Officer and Channel Chief John Dragoon says the event is sold out. Here are the details.
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Peppermint: Ask and they deliver
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Wow, got a lot of traffic on the review I posted Monday about the new Peppermint OS!
I wanted to post a quick update to that review, because things move fast in the new Linux distro world, and the Peppermint OS team is already moving on some of the relatively minor things I brought up.
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I Love WordPress But…
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At RedMonk, we’e big fans of WordPress. But between a few issues of our own and some challenges helping spin up someone else’s new business on WordPress.com, there are some macro areas for concern, I think.
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Why you should not use client-side window decorations…
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So finally I know who had the idea of client side decorations: it’s Canonical. Why didn’t I think of it before? I have been aware of the fact that GTK wants to do client-side window decorations since it was mentioned on the EWMH mailinglist and I think it is a completely stupid idea which has the potential to destroy one of the most important advantages of the free desktop...
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Chrome grabs almost all the share that IE loses
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Virtually all of Chrome's April expansion came at the expense of Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer, which dropped 0.7 percentage points to finish the month at 59.95%, the first time that IE has fallen under the 60% mark.... Mozilla Corp.'s open-source Firefox, on the other hand, was up last month, albeit by only 0.07 percentage points to 24.6%.
Read more »Wearable linux computer, makes you feel like cap'n crunch
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While you wouldn't spot me in the wild wearing the "scanner ring" I would certainly not mind owning this beauty. This is the W200 Wearable Computer it's a powerful computing device designed to be attached to the user's wrist for hands-free operation. ...It's available running Linux. The ultra rugged version is Linux only. (obvious as Linux is much more "rugged" after all ;-)
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How To Build A Standalone File Server With Nexenta 3.0 Beta2
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Nexenta is a project developing a debian user-land for the OpenSolaris kernel. This provides all of the advantages of apt as a package respoitory (based on the Ubuntu LTS apt repository, currently using 8.04) as well as the advantages of the ZFS filesystem. In the resulting setup every user can have his/her own home directory accessible via the SMB protocol or NFS with read-/write access.
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Linux Versus E. coli
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Scientists have been comparing manmade and natural networks. Once such comparison has been between the development of the Linux kernel and the genetic structure of - "living equivalent of Linux" - E. coli.
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