Founded by a leading Cassandra developer, new company Riptano offers training, consulting, and support for the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database
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Red Hat, HP: Together Targeting Sun Solaris and SPARC
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Sources say Hewlett-Packard and Red Hat are set to meet for dinner in Las Vegas the night of April 26. So what's on the menu? How about a healthy serving of Sun Microsystems customers. Here are the details.
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Upgrading Servers to Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) on Amazon EC2
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Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid is expected to be released this Thursday (April 29, 2010). This is the first LTS (long term support) release since Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy, which has itself been a stable and reliable server platform for years both inside and outside of Amazon EC2.
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PlayOnLinux 3.7.5 is available
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PlayOnLinux 3.7.5 is now available.. What's new ? - Improvement on icon managing. Thank you Congelli501 for the patch - Manual installation now supports .msi files. PlayOnLinux automaticaly detects if the setup file is a .exe or a .msi file - Highest rank category added in install menu. (You can vote for your favourite script) - And much more...
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Keeping 1000 devs focused: new Debian leader speaks
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Ten days back, the new leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project, Stefano Zacchiroli, began his term as the only elected leader of a free software project. But that's not the only thing that makes Debian unique in the FOSS space.
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Sabayon – Nightly Builds, Installer & Recruitment
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So what is going down in Sabayon HQ? Well there have been many interesting developments recently which I want to talk about.
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new features in Ubuntu 10.04
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Ubuntu 10.04 is just around the corner, and it's shaping up to be one of the most eagerly awaited (and controversial) releases in the distro's history. What new goodies are included? How does it tap into the ever-expanding world of social networking? And most importantly, can you move those window control buttons back to the right of the titlebar, as nature intended?
Read more »My Ubuntu 10.04 strategy
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OK, so I had a not-so-great night running Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx — in release-candidate stage at this writing — and wondered what exactly made things so sluggish during a 2+ hour production session hacking away at Dailynews.com. Was it Firefox 3.6.x swallowing CPU and memory? All the social-networking and cloud-integration stuff running in the background?
Read more »15 Stunning Linux Desktop Customizations - Must Watch!
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If you think Linux desktops are ugly, think again. Here is an awesome collection of 15 jaw dropping Linux desktop customizations made by users. I wouldn't mind calling them works of art instead of just customizations. They are that good. A good number of them include clever conky modifications.
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How to Use KDE’s Clipboard and Klipper App
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The clipboard is one of the oldest and most important features of desktop computing. With it, you can temporarily store pictures, images, and even file information in the system’s memory, and then copy or move that information to a new destination. KDE has an advanced clipboard system, largely due to a small program called Klipper, which can store more than one piece of data.
Read more »Using graphical su in Fedora
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There are times that I would like to open an app as root user without having to use the command line in order to do that. I learned of a nice app in the Fedora repos called beesu and I will show you how to set up a menu entry to be able to use this nice app.
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Ubuntu 10.04 - Running before release, maybe schizophrenia is part of the deal
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Between all that's been happening in the weeks before the release of Ubuntu's third long-term-support release and what's happening in my own computing oeuvre (hey, if you can throw in an obscure French word every once in a while, why not just do that?) I think schizophrenia (hello, Latin) is my personal order of, if not the day then this Debian-FreeBSD-Ubuntu month.
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Free NVIDIA Fermi Cards To Open-Source Developers
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Prior to launching their next-generation graphics processors, NVIDIA dropped their obfuscated open-source driver and have said they will not provide any open-source support at all for their GeForce GTX 400 "Fermi" series as they just recommended their customers use the X.Org VESA driver until they can install the official binary Linux driver.
Read more »Freescale tips embedded partnerships for multi-core SoCs
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Freescale Semiconductor announced that it has signed strategic agreements with Enea, Green Hills Software, and Mentor Graphics to support Freescale's QorIQ, PowerQUICC, and StarCore processors. The agreement with Mentor Graphics calls for the company to work with Freescale on developing a common Linux build and distribution methodology for PowerQUICC and QorIQ system-on-chips (SoCs).
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More Konqueror tips and tricks
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In this article I am going to show you a few more nifty tips and tricks you can do with good old Konqueror.
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