Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier.
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Novell v. Vigilant Insurance
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Well, this is fascinating. Here's an order from Judge Ted Stewart in a dispute between Novell and its insurer, Vigilant Insurance Company. Novell tried to get them to pay for the SCO v. Novell litigation back in 2004 and they refused, so Novell sued last May.
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Five lesson for Google from Nexus One's sluggish start
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Barely four months after the launch of its first smartphone, the HTC-built Nexus One, Google's commitment to the device seems to be on the wane.
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The Bugs In Ubuntu 10.04
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Now that Ubuntu 10.04 ("Lucid Lynx") has been released, I can spend some time talking about my experience testing it.
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Kubuntu 10.04 Screenshots - Installation and Desktop
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The Kubuntu team is proud to introduce our latest release - 10.04 LTS, the 'Lucid Lynx'. This is our first long-term support release featuring the KDE Plasma desktop. Our selection of tools and applications will provide you with all that you need for most of your tasks, with many more available just a few clicks away.
Read more »Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx: a (free) Mactastic experience
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While Lucid Lynx still has some rough edges, this release is a huge leap for UI design in Linux and puts Ubuntu well on its way to Shuttleworth's goal.
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Proposal from OLPC Paraguay for better management of Sugar platform
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The project to deliver One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) for educational purpose in developing countries is doing great in Paraguay. According to developer Bernie Innocenti, this success comes from a way to manage the development of the Sugar educational software that other countries (or any other similar projects, see for example the Teachermate or the italian JumpPC) could and should imitate.
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Getting virt-install to work with Xen 4.0 guests on top of Ubuntu 10.04 Server
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Schema worked so nicely on Ubuntu Karmic Koala doesn’t help any longer. Virt-install crashes right away attempting to launch VNC console. Set up Xen 4.0 Dom0 with pvops kernel 2.6.32.12 on top of Ubuntu 10.04 Server. Install just two packages virtinst and python-virtinst.
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Window Indicators ("Windicators") Coming To Ubuntu
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Mark Shuttleworth just announced the plan for the empty space on the right created by moving the window buttons (controls) to the left: Window Indicators or "windicators".
Window Indicators will be just like the current Panel Indicators: they will have an icon which indicates the state and clicking it brings up a menu.
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The FLOSS four, then and now
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Okay, so now that you’ve downloaded the brand-spanking-new version of Ubuntu, what are you going to run it on? A similar question faced Linux users more than a decade ago. Desktop Linux distributions have always run on commodity hardware, but late in the last century a quartet of computer makers went a little bit further
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Incompatibility with nVidia upstream driver installer in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS includes improved integration for nVidia binary driver packages. Unfortunately, this comes at the expense of compatibility with the installer provided upstream on the nVidia website.
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Grml 2010.04 Live Linux adds VNC mode and detects host RAID devices
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The Grml project has released version 2010.04 of its Debian-based Live Linux distribution for administrators. Key new features are a VNC mode and automatic configuration of host RAID devices
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Sun Java moved to the Partner repository in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid)
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For Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, the sun-java6 packages have been dropped from the Multiverse section of the Ubuntu archive. It is recommended that you use openjdk-6 instead.
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Open-Xchange Simplifies SaaS Pricing, Targets Exchange
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Open-Xchange, the open source Microsoft Exchange competitor and collaboration platform that’s been turning heads in the hosted application market, has announced a simplified SaaS partner pricing structure that comes in two flavors: guaranteed revenue and flat rate. Here’s the scoop.
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Dell’s slate roadmap revealed: Android, MeeGo, smartbooks and more...
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A leaked slide from Dell’s mobile roadmap deck shows 5 inch and 7 inch slates running Android and MeeGo, a 3G slate bundled by Vodafone plus two ARM-powered 11 inch ‘smartbooks’.
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