The Neo1973 is the first physical manifestation of a grand idea -- a new breed of wireless handheld built for the open-source age.
Read more »A First Tussle With Linux's iPhone Killer: The OpenMoko Neo1973
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Open-source advocate discusses the movement
Brian Behlendorf, 32, is a leader of the open source movement and a high-tech Renaissance man. He was a key developer of the Apache Web server and is now the CTO at CollabNet, which provides hosted solutions for Web-based software development to Intel, Sun, Motorola and others. He also is a lover of all-night raves, techno music and art.
Read more »Do you Ubuntu? I do!
I’ve always wanted to use a Linux distro without getting rid of a prior working version of Windows XP. I have now succeeded. Here’s what I did:
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Endian Firewall Community version 2.2 Beta 1.
Endian Firewall Community is an all-in-one Linux security distribution that turns every system into a full featured security appliance.
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Video Card Giant AMD Goes Linux
Video card giant AMD announced the release of new Linux drivers for its popular line of video cards today. The new drivers, Linux Catalyst 7.10, provide updates and features for desktop effects and gaming.
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Three Racing Games for Ubuntu
Here are three racing games for Linux, on this article I assume you use Ubuntu:
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Mozilla's Prism to Pull Web Apps Off the Browser
Popular as Web-based applications are becoming, the fact remains that most of them are tightly tied to the browser. In order to run Google Docs, for instance, you have to access it through a browser like Firefox or IE7. Mozilla Labs is working on Prism, a project it says could make Web apps run with the same ease and efficiency on the desktop as those natively installed on one's hard drive.
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Real reveals six new bugs in RealPlayer
Unlike last week's problem, however, four of the six vulnerabilities disclosed also can be exploited on Mac and Linux machines that have RealPlayer installed. Updated editions are also available for those operating systems, with links available from the security bulletin RealNetworks posted on its site.
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Revenge of the activist-writers
Brian Proffitt over at LinuxToday posted a rebuke of an InfoWorld troll experiment in which a writer purposefully tried to incite an entity known as the "Linux community" to attack him.
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The Past 12 Linux Kernels Benchmarked
Taking a break from our graphics excitement last week with the release of AMD's 8.42.3 Display Driver, we have finished our largest (and most time consuming) Linux performance comparison to date. We have taken the last 12 major kernel releases, from Linux 2.6.12 to Linux 2.6.23, built them from source and set out on a benchmarking escapade.
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NetApp losing 'spew dot oh' blog war to Sun
The "Participation Age" has revealed a brand new aspect to patent lawsuits - Executive Spew Dot Oh.
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Setting up a search engine for your website
"If you run a website and one people to be able to search it then installing a local spider to crawl your site and create a small database of your content which users may search is a relatively straightforward thing to do. Here we'll look at using mnoGoSearch - which is packaged for Debian and simple to install...
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Give JavaScript 2 a Look
"Last week, I attended a talk on JavaScript 2 by John Resig. John wrote jQuery, and is now the JS evangelist for Mozilla..."
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The Perl Foundation: Grants Committee elects a new Chair
"The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce the election of Alberto Simões to the position of Grants Committee Chair. Alberto was elected by the Grants Committee members from a pool of four strong candidates..."
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Thunderbird won't open http links
"Sometimes, in Linux, after an update or a brand new install, Thunderbird won't open http links (e.g., with Firefox). This might depend on some default configuration value of your distribution.However, the quickest, and, as far as I know, distribution independent solution, is to manually set these preferences in the prefs.js file...
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