A dispute between Adam Cox and Linus Torvalds on the Linux kernel mailing list has led to Cox standing down as TTY subsystem maintainer.
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Open-source Project Aims to Makes Secure DNS Easier
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A group of developers has released open-source software that gives administrators a hand in making the Internet's addressing system less vulnerable to hackers.
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More RAND and Hostility Towards Standards, Courtesy of Microsoft
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Another look at how Microsoft and its affiliates suppress Free software (a potpourri of new examples)
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GNOME 2.27.5 Released, Marks Feature Freeze
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Vincent Untz has announced the release of GNOME 2.27.5. This unstable release of GNOME in the road to GNOME 2.28.0 also marks the entering of the feature freeze for this bi-annual update to GNOME.
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Developers threaten to leave CentOS
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This is an Open Letter to Lance Davis from fellow CentOS Developers. You seem to have crawled into a hole ... and this is not acceptable. You have long promised a statement of CentOS project funds; to this date this has not appeared.
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Go Back to School With Linux: Part Two
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The openSUSE Education Project is an effort to support schools using Linux and to provide an openSUSE-based Live DVD that can be used to set up a quick educational environment without installing any software.
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US labs virtualize 1 million Linux kernels
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Researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories said on Tuesday that they have successfully run more than one million Linux kernels as virtual machines on a single high-performance cluster.
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Further Progress for ODF, But Derailing Still Attempted by the Microsoft Crowd
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Listing of some new OpenDocument milestones and warning about those who try to push a stick into wheels of standards
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Making PDF documents in Ubuntu 9.04 with CUPS-PDF
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Yesterday , I wanted to send some web pages to a friend . I decided that I will make a PDF document and send the pdf. I looked around on internet for information about a pdf printer. Several sources pointed to cups-pdf.
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SCO vs. Linux: Forget Hans Bayer!
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The court proceedings concerning the bankruptcy of the SCO Group were finalised on Monday with a 12-hour marathon hearing. The judge's ruling is expected in about a week. A surprising aspect of the hearing was a controversy that developed around the role of SCO's Vice President Hans Bayer, the former CEO of SCO Germany.
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Some people have taken their love for Unix and Linux on the streets literally by displaying their Unix/Linux-related personalized license plates. Though I haven't actually seen one in real life yet, I have collected several photos that will show some of these cool custom license plates in action, which I'm going to share with all of you...
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Of Spiders and Scrapers: Decomposing Web Pages 101
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Not all sites proffer slick RESTful interfaces and XML feeds. In those cases, collecting data requires some good, old-fashioned scraping. This week, let's look at some of the tools and techniques required to scrape a site.
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Arch Linux 2009.02
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Arch Linux is a distro developed without assitance from any of the major distributions, and is targeted at experienced users of Linux.
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Open source adoption 'anomaly' in Philippines
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Like several economies in the region, open source adoption in the Philippines is gradually expanding as organizations to seek alternatives to expensive proprietary software. But, unlike some markets, early adopters in the country come from the private sector.
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The not-so-intuitive Intuition of Intuit
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The lines between open source and proprietary vendors’ software strategies continue to blur. Intuit announced the launch of a community site for developers interested in creating connected on line applications for small businesses, providing them with a number of open source tools.
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