There was some sad news on the sidux front, because there were unfortunate conflicts within the development ranks that caused quite a stir, and I was accidentally involved in some of it.
Read more »sidux 2009.02, waiting for antiX M8.2
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Gentoo Celebrates 10 Years: 2009/10/04
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Gentoo is turning 10 years old. For the last ten years, Gentoo has been committed to bringing the cutting edge source based distro to users that need more flexibility than binary packages can give them. With a vibrant community and over 300 developers, much has been accomplished since the beginning, Gentoo remains true to its origin.
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CODEWEAVERS TO OVERTAKE MICROSOFT BY 2018
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Current Sales Trend Indicates Gadfly Open Source Developers Will Be Nation's Largest Provider of Windows Technology; Microsoft Imperiled CodeWeavers Offers to Buy Microsoft Campus "On Credit" The answer: third quarter, 2018.
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Firefox 3.0.12 security and stability release now available
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As part of the Mozilla Corporation’s ongoing security and stability process, Firefox 3.0.12 is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux users as a free download from firefox.com.
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Free Software and Google Bite Into Microsoft
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A group of new reports that would prove scary to Microsoft and symbolise triumph of Free software and SaaS
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Tether an Android Phone Using Proxoid
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The Android Market features a few tethering applications, so it should be easy to use your Android phone as a wireless modem.
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Microsoft and Novell Love Microsoft’s Self-serving Linux Patch
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Affinity for Microsoft code still comes from the Microsoft faithful for the most part
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Adobe peels off Flash layers for open source
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Adobe Systems has open-sourced two pieces of Flash technology to build community buy-in around its media player. Today, the company announced the release of the Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) and Text Layout Framework (TLF) under version 1.1 of the Mozilla Public License.
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Convert SpreadSheets to CSV files with Python and pyuno, Part 1v2
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Some months back I developed some pyuno code for converting spreadsheets into CSV files from the command line. Pyuno being the Python interface to the OpenOffice runtime. One of the enhancement suggestions I got was to add the ability to extract all the sheets and/or a specific sheet rather than always extracting the first sheet. The following update to the code does just that.
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Akademy 2009 Technical Papers Published: Research And Innovation In The KDE Community
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Over the last few years KDE has seen increased involvement of students and university researchers. While many universities still feel uneasy about working with Free Software, the open and welcoming attitude in the KDE community has already brought several scientific research projects to life.
Read more »Bargain Acer Extensa 15" Linux Notebook Released
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Get a proper Notebook for the price of a Netbook (and pay no Microsoft 'tax'!)
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Root Exploit Vulnerability in Kernel 2.6.30
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A recently discovered root exploit attacked the newest Linux versions and circumvented protection systems such as SELinux and AppArmor. A solution has been found.
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Ubuntu Tip:How to open PDF,postscript files inside Firefox
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If you want to open PDF files inside Firefox you need to install mozplugger.mozplugger allows you to seamlessly integrate external applications to view files downloaded from the web that Mozilla can not normally handle. The application is embedded within a Mozilla window as to act like and feel like a true plugin.
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Hacker Group to Release OpenSSH Exploit and Worm: "Give us 48 Hours"
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After rumors of an OpenSSH exploit vulnerability got out, an anonymous hacker group intends to release the exploit code and an accompanying worm "within 48 hours."
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Linux In the Movies-- Thumbs Up!
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Here is a collection of short videos starring Linux: from IBM, Novell, and random creative people doing random creative acts like taking Tux skydiving, running 165 Linux applications at once, and making movies with Blender. Enjoy!
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