It seems like a million moons ago that Red Hat announced the demise of Red Hat Linux in favor of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and embraced the Fedora project as the testing ground for its commercial releases. Last week marked the 13th Fedora release in nearly seven years.
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Mozilla opens up more on Firefox 4: Content Security, WebGL coming
http://www.betanews.com –
A newly published Mozilla developers' page characterizes Firefox 4 -- whose first public betas may be only a few weeks away -- as feature-laden.
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DesktopBSD lives on under new leadership
http://www.h-online.com –
Following the September 2009 announcement that version 1.7 of DesktopBSD would be the "last and final release", a small group of German developers have signed on to continue its development
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Parsix GNU/Linux 3.5 released
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The Parsix developers have released version 3.5 of their Parsix GNU/Linux distribution, updating a number of the included packages and the kernel to to version 2.6.32.14. A new experimental USB installer has also been added
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The Perfect Server - Fedora 13 x86_64 [ISPConfig 3]
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This tutorial shows how to prepare a Fedora 13 server (x86_64) for the installation of ISPConfig 3, and how to install ISPConfig 3. ISPConfig 3 is a webhosting control panel that allows you to configure the following services through a web browser: Apache web server, Postfix mail server, MySQL, BIND nameserver, PureFTPd, SpamAssassin, ClamAV, and many more.
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DesktopBSD – a new start
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According to the DesktopBSD website development of this KDE-based and FreeBSD based, user-friendly system will be restarted / continued by a group of developers.
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Google gives Windows the boot and opts for Mac and Linux
http://www.wine-reviews.net –
With Apples market share growth increasing you really dont see a lot of companies moving from Windows-based computers to Macs. Sure, you will find mixed environments, with Macs predominantly in the creative departments. But, you dont typically see a complete departure from Windows. Well, Google is making the move from Windows based computers to Macs and Linux based computers.
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Flash Without the Plugin: a new open-source project
http://smokescreen.us –
Smokescreen is a new open-source project aimed at converting Flash to JavaScript/HTML5 to run where it previously couldn’t and better interoperate with webpages where it previously could.
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Gish Goes Free Source !
http://lgn.linux-hardcore.com –
After the huge success of the Humble Indie Bundle, and the raise of over 1 Million Dollars in donations – the games in this “project” are “freeing their sources”.
After Lugaru and Penumbra Overture freed their sources, Gish is now following their example.
The source is under GPL and can be downloaded from here.
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More Linux Commands - A practical reference
http://www.pixelbeat.org –
"My previous reference for practical linux commands was surprisingly popular
with over 3.5 million hits in nearly 5 years. So I've decided to start compiling
another list of somewhat more involved/esoteric commands."
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Spinning off from Ubuntu
http://www.h-online.com –
Ubuntu is probably the best known desktop GNU/Linux distribution at street level. However, Linux and free software come in many different flavours, and the adventurous user goes in search of wider options, other distros and new desktops.
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Mozilla prepares coders for Firefox 4 features
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It was with delight that I read these words on Thursday: "The proposed IndexedDB standard, which provides a local database store for Web applications, will be supported by Firefox 4."
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Exaile 0.3.1.2 Has Been Released
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Exaile 0.3.1.2 has just been release, this being a bug-fix only release.
Among the changes in this version are:
* Full python2.5 compatibility was restored
* A bug resulting in unexpected duplicate playlist entries was fixed
* Several stability and interface issues were resolved
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How to generate and update ODF spreadsheets without OpenOffice
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What if your boss demands a new version of a spreadsheet, with fresh data, every day? Should you enter them manually? No, if your data have a fixed structure and the spreadsheet can be in OpenDocument format (ODF)! If that's the case, it only takes a bit of shell and Perl scripting to generate automatically a new spreadsheet whenever the raw data change.
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KDE 4.5 beta brings window tiling, new notifications
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The developers behind the KDE desktop environment have released the first beta of version 4.5. Although the major focus during this development cycle is stability, the release also brings some nice new features and user interface improvements.
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