Last week, in part one we looked at how you could use a version of the Linux operating system, called Puppy Linux, to revive a dead Windows PC, access your files and hopefully carry on working; this week we're going to do the deed and download and burn Puppy onto a 'Live CD'.
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Vala's Jürg Billeter on GNOME's Newest Development Platform
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The GNOME project has a new tool coming into its own that enables developers to produce GObject libraries using the high-level Vala, as if they had used C. Blue GNU got Jürg Billeter to discuss the up and coming Vala platform.
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Perl Survey results released
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"...the entire data set for the survey has been released under a Creative Commons license, and I'd like to encourage everyone to download it and play with it..."
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127 million Oracle shares vote for open source at annual shareholders meeting
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While seemingly a lot, 127 million shares doesn't add up to much in Oracle's world. 127,717,018 shares only account for 3.58% of Oracle's total share count. Last week ~96.5% of Oracle shareholders voted to reject a resolution that would have forced Oracle to consider the social and environmental impact of using open source. No big surprise there.
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Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Samba Standalone Server With tdbsam Backend
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This tutorial explains the installation of a Samba fileserver on Ubuntu 7.10 and how to configure it to share files over the SMB protocol as well as how to add users. Samba is configured as standalone server, not as a domain controller. For this setup, I will use the Ubuntu Server installation CD but the same installation procedure will work on an Ubuntu desktop as well.
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Network security device adds WiFi, runs Linux
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A Taiwanese network-appliance system integrator announced a wireless network security appliance that runs Linux. Drawing only 2.4 Watts, AR Infotek's fanless Teak 3018 is equipped with four auto-sensing Ethernet interfaces, plus WiFi, and targets SMBs (small- and medium-sized businesses).
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Ubuntu vs openSUSE
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I was glancing through the top searches for my site and noticed one string I thought I'd try to answer it. That search was openSUSE vs Ubuntu. Now, I've avoided formally comparing Ubuntu to other distros such as openSUSE or Mandriva before because in my book it's like comparing apples to oranges, but for the sake of those searching, I will try.
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Huge amounts of open source development in Japan
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Who knew there was so much open source development going on in Japan?
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Linux still dominates the HPC arena
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For some time now, Linux has been the dominant operating system in high performance computing. For everything from IBM, with its rockstar status supercomputer Blue Gene, to NEC or U.S. HPC players SGI and HP–the bulk of the leading HPC clusters today are Linux-based.
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Give one get one, squared
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This morning I bought two pairs of laptops via the Give One Get One program of the One Laptop Per Child initiative. The moment my payment was received I saw this friendly acknowledgment
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Killing the FUD of your own
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I've just read the post by Brian Proffitt, regarding Microsoft's tactics in Africa. I have something to say to Brian:
Not everything a big corporation does is illegal. Yes, even Microsoft does most of its business in completely legitimate way. Now, you argue, that Microsoft has to "help" people choose its products?
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Google Android Screenshots & Video
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As expected Google released their Android Software Development Kit (SDK) today. It provides all of the tools needed to start creating applications that run on the next generation mobile operating system, and Google is getting their checkbooks out to help ensure that Android won’t be a flop…
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Minimo and Mobile.
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"...Recently you have probably read that the Mozilla Corporation is building the embeddable version of Mozilla and a mobile Firefox. In the new and expanded mobile effort the project will create a standards-based open-source browser engine and full open source development stack based on Mozilla technology, optimized for mobile devices, and embeddable on a variety of device targets.
Read more »Intuit slow on Quicken and Quickbooks for Linux
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Linux desktop users looking for good financial software to run natively can forget about Quicken and Quickbooks. One glance at Intuit's website should be enough to convince even devout users of that company's products that despite Quickbooks for Linux servers showing strong growth, a port to Linux desktops is a long way off and a Linux version of Quicken is not even on the radar.
Read more »Miro 1.0 is Here
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"I am incredibly excited to announce the launch of Miro 1.0..."
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