With our international program still developing, technological kinks being worked out, and our local teacher and University students still exploring and researching ways for the XO's to be integrated into the California 3rd grade curriculum, we have not yet done extensive documentation and created a resource model.
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Novell punts tools to make software appliances
Since earlier this year, commercial Linux distributor Novell has been working to get a set of online tools together, which it hopes will make it the force behind virtual machine server appliances. Today, the online tool, called SUSE Studio, and the related SUSE appliance program go into production.
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Build A Real Time Audio Studio
Linux is a fantastic platform for audio production. Find out how to build the perfect production environment.
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KDE 4.3, for later today?
I noticed that the official announcement page for KDE 4.3 is almost ready! It bears today’s date, and a text description, although there is no desktop screenshot as of yet.
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Tux in Your Wallet? Proceeds From Penguin-clad Credit Card Benefit Open Source Community
The Linux Foundation is rolling out its Tux-adorned Visa Platinum Card. Through a partnership with CardPartner, Inc. and UMB Bank, the Foundation will receive $50 for each activated card and a percentage from every purchase made with the card.
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Google tosses Android a Donut
Three months after Google released an "early look" at version 1.5 of its Android mobile operating system, a newer version has made its way into the eager hands of developers. Dubbed Donut, the new alpha version brings a raft of new features to 'Droiders.
Read more »Palm Pre Is the Most Open Mobile Platform on the Market
You're lucky that you missed the review I had written of Palm's Pre after working with it for six weeks. I couldn't see the attraction.
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AT&T's 4chan Block Raises Issue of Net Neutrality
It appears some of AT&T's broadband customers across the United States were intentionally blocked from accessing the infamous forum 4chan over the weekend.
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AntiX MEPIS 8.2 Released
The team behind the AntiX project recently announced, on July 24th, the final release of AntiX MEPIS 8.2, a fast and lightweight Linux distribution based on SimplyMEPIS and Debian Testing, including some features of sidux as well.
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Graffiti Tutorial (Gimp Howto)
Today we are going to create some realistic graffiti in the Gimp. This tutorial is partially inspired off of Photoshop tutorial by DreamDealer v5.0 at DreamDealer.nl Let's get started!
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Wiki founder hopes win over Apple bodes well for online freedom and Linux
The founder of a wiki site that attracted the force of Apple's legal team hopes that his stand against Apple will create a precedent that will encourage online freedom in the future.
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CrunchBang Linux 9.04 MiniReview
CrunchBang Linux 9.04 is an Open-Box distro based on Ubuntu with Gnome packages. CrunchBang promises performance and ultimate customization options. Version 9.04.01 was released a couple weeks ago, and we decided to give it a test drive.
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IBM, Novell to slash Linux prices for mainframes
With System z mainframe revenues down 39 per cent - and MIPS mainframe capacity shipments off 20 percent in the second quarter - IBM is keen on boosting mainframe sales. And it wants to use Linux as a lever.
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Active Media Products Introduces Penguin Bootable Linux USB Drive
Active Media Products (AMP), manufacturer of SSDs and WWF series USB drives, today announced immediate availability of a bootable Linux USB (BLU) drive that is compatible with Windows® 7 and benefits WWF. These new penguin BLU drives are preloaded with the full installation of Ubuntu Linux 9.0.4.
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Google Wave: Framework and Prototype
Google developers are giving out about 40,000 lines of Java code for two components of the Google Wave browser software.
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