Guanzhou, China-based Skytone announced the Alpha 680, a 533MHz ARM11-based netbook with a 7-inch touchscreen that appears to be the first commercial netbook running Android.
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How To: Pain Free Backups With GRsync and Gnome Schedule
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Advanced backup tools that keep multiple copies of files and so on have their place, but sometimes you just need a simple scheduled sync, not a full backup. For example, I have an SD card that stays in my laptop almost all the time. On this, I keep a copy of most of my home folder that gets updated every day at 1:30 in the morning. I no longer have to think about it, it just happens.
Read more »SCO Motion for More Exclusivity Denied, the March MORs, and A Proposed Amicus in the Novell Appeal
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The judge in the SCO bankruptcy has denied [PDF] SCO's motion to extend exclusivity. Surprise, surprise. The only way to grant it was to rewrite bankruptcy law, as I read it, so everyone else can file a reorganization plan now, if they wish to. I notice they are not falling over each other to do so yet. And SCO has finally filed its monthly operating reports for March.
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Are any open source projects too big to lose
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The pending purchase of Sun by Oracle will leave the proprietary database king in clear charge of open source’s crown jewels.
Java
Openoffice.org
mySQL
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Building a Stronger Foundation for Linux
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The Linux Foundation and Novell team up to deliver Build Service, which will aid in the creation of software packages for CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise and Ubuntu.
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Security flaw leads Twitter, others to pull OAuth support
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A security hole in OAuth, the open-source protocol that acts as a "valet key" for users' log-in information, has led services like Twitter and Yahoo to temporarily pull their support, CNET News has learned.
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Webmail Solution from Open-Xchange Offered by Versatel
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The leading provider of business-class open source collaboration software, Open-Xchange, announced today a deal with Versatel, Germany's third-largest telecommunications provider, to bring free webmail to Versatel’s customers, which include more than 1.3 million e-mail accounts.
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Conky-like Desktop Info Application With Html Support (gtk-desktop-info) [Ubuntu / Linux]
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gtk-desktop-info is a python tool to display various pieces of information directly on the desktop, using plugins for html rendering, with html templates and css style sheets for formatting.
Read more »10 Straight forward but proven ways to harden your LAMP servers
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Over the years I have had to harden a great number of LAMP boxes, I have found some methods work for better than others. I will now share with you all my favorite 10 along with methods to implement them on Debian/Ubuntu.
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Linux Foundation bows to RMS
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It's more than a bit ironic that the Linux Foundation, an organisation that drips with bizspeak, has chosen as the winner of its Linux promotional campaign an ad that espouses the virtues of freedom.
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Pupeee 4.2 released
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Pupeee 4.2 is released. This Eee PC optimized Netbook distro is based on Puppy Linux. Puppy Linux (and the Puppeee distro) was written from scratch with 2 goals in mind: speed & ease of use.
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PulseAudio 0.9.15 Brings Major Improvements
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While a test release has been around for a few months, last night PulseAudio 0.9.15 was officially released. This open-source sound server has a number of significant enhancements in this latest update.
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My First Boot of Ubuntu 9.04
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I was so excited this morning as I will now have the new version of Ubuntu 9.04 on my system. I had used the beta and rc and was happy with the way it worked. So I was anxious to see what the final version was really like. Now, just a little background, I switched to Debian 5 previously because I was tired of bugs an problems with Ubuntu.
Read more »Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Released
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Few hours ago latest version of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) was released. After three days without Internet connection, today evening the damaged optical fiber was patched just in time for the release.
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Microsoft Unleashes Its Paid Guns to Fight European Regulators
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Microsoft sends ACT to fight back against the European Commission on its behalf
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