I thought of this interesting question the other day while messing around with Slackware 9.0 which was one of the last versions of Slackware to come on a single disk. The goal was to try to take a Slackware 9.0 install to the most recent stable and it was almost accomplished.
Read more »Do Package Managers Spoil Us?
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Dimpress 3D – Sliding Panels – First Results
Three months has passed and there Dimpress 3D got his first cute face! We’ve developed a plugin structure and a plugin that describes a model for 3D presentations called Sliding Panels.
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How to check if your email server looks like a spam source
When you start doing it though, you soon find out that the hardest, or at least lest documented task, is not how to send email, or how to block spam. It is how to make sure that the email you send is always accepted by other sites, that is how to find out if your email server looks like a spam source.
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The Perfect Desktop - Linux Mint 9 (Isadora)
This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 9 (Isadora) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
Read more »Turpial 1.3.2 alpha1 available in a Development Snapshot PPA
Twitter client written in Python. Light, fast, fully functional and integrated to the user desktop
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What's new in Linux 2.6.34
Two new file systems, improved support of the power saving techniques offered by modern hardware, and many new or extended drivers are only some of the hundreds of advancements that characterise the new kernel version
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Linux kernel 2.6.34 released
Linus Torvalds has released the 2.6.34 version of the Linux Kernel, with new file systems, improved power saving and hundreds of new or extended drivers. The H has completed its coverage of 2.6.34 with an overview of the new features
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GM to Compete Against Ford and Microsoft Using Google’s Linux
Google's work in the area of Linux and the area of office suites is hurting two of Microsoft's primary cash cows; Microsoft responds with deception and hype
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FFII and ESP Respond to EBoA Regarding Software Patentability
Responses to a referral which was intended to help determine whether or not software algorithms should be patentable in Europe
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CentOS 5.5 released
The CentOS developers have released version 5.5 of their free Linux distribution, adding a number of new and updated packages. CentOs 5.5 is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 (RHEL)
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Ubuntu-based Puppy Linux 5.0 arrives
The latest release of Puppy Linux, code named "Lupu", was built using the Woof build system and is based Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx binary packages
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Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network v1.0 Released
We are pleased to announce the availability of version 1.0 of the CKAN software, our open source registry system for datasets (and other resources). After 3 years of development, twelve point releases and a several successful production deployments around the world CKAN has come of age!
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Alfresco announce Activiti BPM
The enterprise content management company have announced that they are developing, supporting and will integrate, Activiti, a new Apache licensed BPM solution
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First in-depth technical analysis of VP8
Author made some initial comments on the hope that VP8 would solve the problems of web video by providing a supposed patent-free video format with significantly better compression than the current options of Theora and Dirac.
Read more »cdrtools 3.0 release candidate after 5 years of development
After more than 5 years, author is proud to announce the release candidate for a new "stable" version of the cdrtools package. The next version will be called cdrtools-3.0 and be released in about a week and it contains more than thousand of changes.
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