The Debian project was given a new server from Thomas Krenn AG, Intel and Adaptec for its image building. With the Dual-Xeon computer the build process was reduced from 20 to two hours.
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More than 100 italian political candidates support FOSS
More than 100 candidates to Italian regional elections that will take place at the end of this month officially support Free Software and have committed to actively promote it if elected. Many of them are in smaller parties with smaller probability to get a seat, but for Italy it's a good result anyway.
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Windows Versus Ubuntu
Like most people I use Microsoft Windows and Office on my computer at work, and up until recently I had a similar setup for my home computer. But I recently changed to use the Ubuntu version of Linux and OpenOffice at home and and feel that both systems perform comparably.
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Firefox, Gecko, HTML5 and more: Interview with Mozilla's Asa Dotzler
If it were not for Mozilla and its numerous open source projects that saved us from the IE Dark Ages, the browser market today would definitely be very different.
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Search Patterns: Design for Discovery
Whether you think "search" is sexy or not, you probably can't live without it. In fact, according to the blurb on the book's back cover, "It (search) influences what we buy and where we go. It shapes how we learn and what we believe." That's a powerful statement, and probably more true than we realize (or we wish).
Read more »Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Beta 1 Released [Screenshots Tour]
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Beta 1 was released and because it features so many visual changes, I decided to make an article with most of them (fresh new screenshots of course), even though I already posted most of them.
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More Evidence of Potential MS Involvement in Apple-HTC Lawsuit Against Linux/Android
Microsoft's top "IP" bullies commend Apple's legal action and Microsoft owes VirnetX $105.75 million for patent violation
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OpenGL and 2011 as the year of Linux – Will it be because of the Apple/Valve romance?
Somehow, no matter how many “will 20xx be the year of Linux” articles get published every year, the moment never seems to arrive and why is that? Linux has been packaged into great consumer desktop OS’s for at least six years, and by that I mean that even a novice could use it.
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How to convert currency using terminal/command line
Let’s build a cool command line currency converter using google’s currency converter. You might require wget or curl and sed to do this.
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NVIDIA Pre-Releases Its 195.xx Linux Driver
While NVIDIA has been working on the 195.xx Linux driver since before last November, they have yet to officially release a stable driver in this series as of yet. Betas have been available and they even had to recall their recent drivers over a fan speed issue.
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The GNOME Census project
For as long as I’ve been involved in GNOME, we have been asked the same questions over and over again: How many GNOME developers are there? Which companies invest in GNOME, and how much? Where can I go for professional GNOME development services?
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Speed Up DPKG With TDPKG (Using A Tokyocabinet Or Sqlite3 Database)
dpkg is pretty slow in Debian-based systems, usually because of the many files which are stored in the /var/lib/dpkg/info folder. To speed up things, Luca Bruno created a project called tdpkg which uses an sqlite3 or tokyocabinet database for loading the dpkg .list files in the /var/lib/dpkg/info folder which makes dpkg a lot faster.
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Novell and Ingres announce SUSE Appliance Program agreement
Novell and Ingres have announced a new cooperative agreement under which the Ingres database is now available within SUSE Studio as part of the SUSE Appliance Program
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Security vulnerability in SpamAssassin filter module
Attackers are attempting to take control of mail servers, in particular those running Postfix and SpamAssassin, by exploiting a security vulnerability in the Milter plug-in
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Week 2, Day 9 of SCO v. Novell Trial - Jury Hears About Kimball's Rulings
Chris Brown's first report of the day is in, filed by phone during an extended break in the court session. The jury got to hear today about Judge Dale Kimball's earlier court rulings. We have all the important rulings in a new, special section on Groklaw's Novell Timeline page, so you can follow along.
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