A Qt developer has brought a piece of KDE to Maemo. After plasmoids, this week brings the Plasma desktop. Also a KDE Maemo mailing list.
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Freescale aims Android at embedded kit
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Freescale Semiconductor has begun taking orders for a Power Architecture development platform for Android-based products, opening a new category of embedded devices to Google's open-source mobile operating system.
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LinuxCertified Announces Linux Device Driver Development Course
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LinuxCertified Inc, a leading provider of Linux training and services, today announced its next Linux Device Driver Development Course class to be held in South Bay, CA from November 9th - 11th, 2009.
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Amazon RDS out to eat open source vendor lunches with MySQL
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One way for open source vendors to respond is through proprietary features. News that Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) provides a MySQL 5.1 relational database in the cloud has met with a lot of interest. On the surface, this is good news for open source users and proponents.
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Samba 3.4.3 Released
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Samba 3.4.3 is released. Samba is an Open Source/Free Software suite that provides seamless file and print services to SMB/CIFS.
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Installing Open Suse 10.3 LAMP with vsftpd
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This install is less than 500 megabytes and will run Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and FTP users. Boot up is fast and hardware utilization is minimal, while giving a rock solid performance.
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A Taste of Android's Freshly Baked Eclair
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Android 2.0, nicknamed "Eclair," will make its big entrance on the Droid next month, and other handsets are sure to follow. However, the wide-open Android ecosystem may be prone to fragmentation as the underlying platform grows in strength and ability.
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Los Angeles Votes For Calendaring and Document Services from Google
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This week the Los Angeles city council voted to move forward with a proposal to replace the City's existing e-mail and productivity solutions with cloud-based e-mail, calendaring and document services from Google.
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Open Source Whitepaper updated for 2010
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The paper is now 5 pages of text and 2 pages of references. It is still relatively concise, but the fact that the numbers keep showing double- and triple-digit improvements in important metrics (compared with proprietary software), I felt that it would only be fitting to expand the content and the data by a commensurate amount.
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Phoronix 2009 Linux Graphics Survey
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For the past two years we have hosted an annual Linux Graphics Survey in which we ask well over 20,000 users each time their video card preferences, driver information, and other questions about their view of the Linux graphics stack. This survey will run from 31 October to 30 November, 2009.
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Motorola DROID: A Sleek and Powerful Android Phone
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After Motorola Dext (CLIQ), one of the leading handset makers will release another Android-powered phone that is appropriately called the DROID. It is poised to become the most advanced Android device on the market with its high-end specifications and extra features.
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Apple Scuttles ZFS: Community Picks it Up
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In like a lion, out like a Snow Leopard? Apple changed its spots on Sun's ZFS fairly quickly. This week the company shutterd the ZFS Project on Mac OS Forge, and there's no hide or hair of ZFS to be found in Snow Leopard. But as with all things open source, there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
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Sugar: The Cooler Desktop
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Most of you, Linux users have always been limited to the two big desktop names in Linux. GNOME and KDE today represent the Linux desktop. But one desktop was made with small screen and children in mind. Yes, the Sugar.
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List of Slackware-based mini Distributions
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Following is a list of Slackware-based mini distro’s I’ve collected from various sources (wikipedia/distrowatch..) The need of such a list came when I was trying to find a Slackware-based mini distribution to install it in my usb pen-drive.
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Experiencing Sabayon 5, oh!
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Sabayon’s strength has always been to showcase the power of FOSS on the desktop. Once upon a time, it used to come preinstalled with Linux-compatible games. But the current releases have done away with the idea of showcasing the games factor and concentrate on giving an out-of-the box desktop experience.
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