Rumors are swirling that Dell's U.S. Web site has stopped selling Ubuntu-based desktop Linux PCs. Here's what The VAR Guy knows so far, and the potential implications for Canonical and the desktop Linux movement.
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Root vulnerability in DD-WRT free router firmware
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The management interface of the current stable version of DD-WRT, the free router firmware, suffers a vulnerability that lets attackers run programs with root rights on the router. The vulnerability, described at milw0rm and in the DD-WRT forum, is caused by inadequate handling of meta-characters in the query string in DD-WRT's httpd web server.
Read more »The LiVES Video Editor and VJ Tool Turns 1.0
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LiVES is a video editing and VJ tool for Linux and BSD systems and today it celebrates its version 1.0 birthday. LiVES provides realtime video performance and non-linear editing for all classes of video editors and VJs (VJ is the Video equivalent of a DJ).
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Managing Realeyes Memory
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First, I have to say that this is not a generic memory manager. It is specific to my application. It may be possible to adapt it to other applications, but the key word here is 'adapt'. However, it will hopefully give anyone who is considering doing their own memory management some food for thought.
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Move Over, Netbooks -- Here Come Linux Smartbooks
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Now that everybody has jumped on the Netbook bandwagon, a new mobile device parade is pulling into town. Led by Qualcomm, so-called Smartbooks are slated to debut in late 2009. Expected to be slightly larger than the iPhone, Smartbooks are mobile Internet devices (MIDs) that run Linux, Google Android and Windows. Here’s the scoop.
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5 Best Palm Pre Features That iPhone Can’t Beat
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The Palm Pre is considered by many as the most potent iPhone-killer. It has a sleek design, a powerful OS, and a great numer of supported 3rd party applications.Even though the iPhone is the most popular smartphone around and I'm quite impressed by some of its features, I still believe that Palm Pre beats the iPhone in certain important areas...
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Groovy’s SQL Switch: A Powerful Tool In The Quest For A Truly Real-Time Web
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The real-time web is shaping up to be the next online revolution, and as we saw during our RealTime CrunchUp earlier this month, it’s already begun. But there are still some things that are holding us back — for one, many services still aren’t actually real time, they’re just something close to it.
Read more »Microsoft, Red Hat Renew Linux Patent Spat
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Microsoft made waves this week with its GPLv2 contribution of virtualization code. On the other side of the coin, Microsoft continues to take issue with open source vendors over patents
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Are Speakers for FOSS Actually FOSS Supporters?
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Is the Free software debate being captured by those who just exploit it?
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Microsoft opened Linux-driver code after 'violating' GPL
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Microsoft was in violation of the GPL (General Public License) on the Hyper-V code it released to open source this week. After Redmond covered itself in glory by opening up the code, it now looks like it may have acted simply to head off any potentially embarrassing legal dispute over violation of the GPL. The rest was theater.
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Microsoft Patches Linux; Linus Responds
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Microsoft has released code for inclusion in the Linux kernel, but should it be accepted? Linus Torvalds gives his perspective.
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Why do smart people act like an idiot behind a PC?
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Most people these days have a computer, or at least sat behind one. The concept with most OS GUI’s (operating systems graphical user interface) is the same.
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GNU/Linux vs. Linux, when explaining it.
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A lot of people say calling Debian, Fedora, or Slackware, GNU/Linux opposed to calling it Linux, makes it harder to explain to people. An example, Bob could tell Sarah “You should use Fedora. It will work with your hardware, it’s fast, and it’s free” and Sarah might ask “What’s Fedora?” and Bob would tell her “It’s Linux.” and Sarah will understand. Wrong.
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Welcome to McBuntu's, would you like fries with that?
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The other day, I was engaged in a 'bored out of our mind' discussion with another tech who was sitting at another bench doing an install just like I was at my bench. As we went through the motions, we got to talking about how Linux distros are competing for peoples attention and the lengths they will go to to do it.
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Google O'Reilly Open Source Awards announced
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At OSCON 2009 in San Jose, California, Google announced the winners of this years Google O'Reilly Open Source Awards. The awards have been presented each year since 2005 to individuals for their "dedication, innovation, leadership and outstanding contribution to open source".
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