As the winter snows begin to melt, revealing a landscape full of promise and hope, a hacker’s thoughts turn to flights of fancy: specifically, the thought of being in Las Vegas during the last weekend in July.
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GNUmed 0.7.0 released
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This release features a rather unexpected new functionality: visual progress notes. Those are sketches/images (such as visual markers onto templates or clinical photographs) standing side by side with the clinical narrative of any given encounter.
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Netrunner (Albedo) – A look at a brand new distro!
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Code named Albedo, its an Ubuntu based distro, but before I hear groans about “another product derived from Ubuntu” let me explain some important differences.
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ZFS 24 Support via (pygrub & fsimage.iso) patch for Xen 4.0 Dom0 (pvops 2.6.32.11) on top of F12
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Finally Mark Jonson submitted to xen-devel mailing list patch for ZFS 24 support at Xen 4.0. Patch mentioned bellow was successfully tested at Xen 4.0 Dom0 with pvops kernel 2.6.32.11 on top of Fedora 12 via modifying Michael’s Young xen-4.0.0.7.fc12.src.rpm and direct patching xen 4.0 official tarball on Ubuntu Karmic Koala Server.
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Awn & Awn-Extras 0.4.0 are out
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It's been over 14 months the Awn and Awn Extras teams had interesting news, but the time has come to introduce our latest and so far greatest release.
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Learn Linux, 101: Boot managers
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Learn how to choose and configure a boot manager for your Linux® system. You can use the material in this article to study for the LPI 101 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or just to learn for fun.
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Selling Ubuntu to the “Third World”
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Ubuntu adoption for communities in the "Third World" seems like it should be a no-brainer: how could a functional, free operating system not prove wildly popular in developing countries? Nonetheless, I believe Ubuntu use outside rich nations remains limited. Here's a look at some suggested explanations of that reality, and how to change it.
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Wayback machine for Debian repositories
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The Debian project has announced the availability of a new archive snapshot service at snapshot.debian.org. With the new service, users can access older packages based on dates and version numbers
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One Hand Shows “Open Source”, Another Hand Shows SaaS
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A look at Microsoft's fascinating strategy of embracing competition through deceptive maneuvers and playful use of words
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Autonomously Generating An Ideal Kernel Configuration
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While most Linux users are fine with just using the kernel supplied by their distribution vendor, there are some enthusiasts and professional users who end up tweaking their kernel configuration extensively for their needs, particularly if they are within a corporate environment where the very best performance and reliability is demanded for a particular workload.
Read more »Forking TangoGPS
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Fork of TangoGPS (easy to use, fast and lightweight mapping application for possible use with GPS) is being done with all possible respect, and hoping that it will be on the best possible terms -- like when EGCS forked from GCC, or when people "fork" the Linux kernel to work on new subsystems: a good-natured fork to do more "experimental" exploration that may not be immediately possible or appropr
Read more »How to get Linux in your office
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With Linux and free software making a name for itself in the world of big business, many more people are testing the feasibility of switching small and home office software to their open source equivalents.
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Will ACTA end the purchase of foreign titles by libraries?
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With the release of leaked versions of the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, opposition to the drafting process continues to grow.
Read more »ATI's Gallium3D Driver Is Still Playing Catch-Up
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Yesterday we delivered benchmarks showing how the open-source ATI Radeon graphics driver stack in Ubuntu 10.04 is comparing to older releases of the proprietary ATI Catalyst Linux driver. Sadly, the latest open-source ATI driver still is no match even for a two or four-year-old proprietary driver from ATI/AMD, but that is with the classic Mesa DRI driver.
Read more »< 2 hours left to vote for free codecs in YouTube and only 280 needed to be #1 again!
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YouTube is having a special vote where only partners are allowed to submit ideas which leaves out most FLOSS people but i have a partner account and am submitting on our behalf!
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanFrom the very start, directories have served a very useful purpose on the Internet. (One I find useful for example is Free Web Directory). News sites can also be considered directories: they index and categorize news stories! What about categorizing software? In the open source world you get Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat; there are still, believe it or not, shareware and freeware directories like FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and Freeware Downloads (although you need to be careful, as they are not like their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselAbout Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software?, it's clear that the topic of software directories is very hot. Most of what you find on Google, however, are not pointing to free and open soruce software -- or worse, they mix the two. Examples of such sites are Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download, which simply don't focus on "free as in freedom", and still can be used as good free software directories.
