MEPIS has released SimplyMEPIS 8.5.00, RC3 of MEPIS 8.5. "We've updated the kernel to 2.6.32.10. The release notes from the Linux Kernel Team indicated that they have been hard at work making improvements. We have changed the Live media to use isolinux."
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If Dreams Were Real: Convergence of Distro and Kernel Versions
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Mark Shuttleworth had a dream: the big Linux distros should agree to have version numbers identical to those of kernel components and refresh them every two years. The dream now is more real than ever.
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Pinta 0.2 simple paint application for Gtk released
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Novell open source programmer Jonathan Pobst has released version 0.2 of his simple Pinta painting application for Gtk modelled after Paint.NET, adding a number of new features, including 5 new tools, 5 new adjustments and 5 new effects
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viking - GPS data editor, analyzer and viewer
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Viking aims to be easy to use, yet powerful in accomplishing a wide variety of GPS related tasks. It uses a hierarchical layering system to organize GPS data, maps, and other layer types with spatial data, such as coordinate lines.
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Notable Note Apps for Fastidious FOSS Freaks
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At their heart, note-taking apps perform a very simple function: put letters on the screen. They differ widely, though, in the special features each offers.
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An example of the awesomeness of the open source community
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OpenSSO is one of the best (if it isn't the best one) open source web Single Sign On projects out there. It's sad to see Oracle shutting down this amazing open source project. But here it comes the awesomeness of the open source community:
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GNOME and KDE to co-locate 2011 Desktop Summit
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Following the success of last year's Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, the GNOME Foundation and KDE e.V. Boards have announced that they have decided to once again co-locate their flagship conferences, Akademy and GUADEC, in 2011
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Microsoft to take active role in jQuery JavaScript Library development
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Microsoft has announced that it will be taking a more active role in the development of the open source jQuery JavaScript Library, including contributing code, such as a templating engine
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Desktop Summit 2011 - Call for Hosts
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The KDE and GNOME communities are looking for a host for the Desktop Summit 2011, the combined annual conference featuring KDE's Akademy and GNOME's GUADEC events. Following up on the successful Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, the second edition of the combined event in 2011 will be the premier place to learn about, discuss, and work on free software on the desktop.
Read more »Find out the clients of your MySQL server
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Sometimes in large deployments, there are cases when MySQL server, setup by you long time back which has been in use by multiple teams in your organization, needs some change or update or intrupption in its service and you are in need to know how many clients are there which connects to this server.
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Time to Learn from China on Open Standards?
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Europe should be learning from China's example, not sending patronising nastygrams that just makes it look petulant and anachronistic.
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Lucid Community Progress
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One thing that we have been really keen to facilitate in Ubuntu is an ethos of just do it. I really believe our community should feel engaged to be creative in their ideas and be able to get out there and do it, with plenty of support resources so others can help them achieve their goals.
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Enhanced history searching in zsh
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If you spend any length of time in the shell, chances are you've typed the same commands over and over. It's usually not anything you can necessarily script as the commands may vary slightly on each invocation, but there are certain commands that can be used often with a little variation on each call.
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Mastering Redirection in BASH on Linux
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It took me ages to learn bash redirection properly, and I still have to concentrate sometimes to keep my &s and my >s straight. Here's the lowdown in case you, too, have intermittent brain failure on this one. Bash has three standard file descriptors: stdin, stdout and stderr, which refer respectively to input, output and error output.
Read more »Installing GOsa2 on Red Hat / CentOS (rpm/yum based)
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A mighty System-/Config-management frontend using LDAP as a backend. It is able to manage POSIX, Samba, Mail, Kolab, FAX, Asterisk and many more services.
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