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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:06:32 +0000
Part of an ongoing series of on open-source geographic information system (GIS) programs, this article offers an introduction to uDig GIS. uDig is for GIS users of all levels, from beginners to advanced.
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Source: Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community (Since 1994: The Original Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community)
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Google has released version 3.0 of the photo management software Picasa for Linux.
Picasa is a program for comprehensively locating and organizing images on a computer system. It's main objective is...
Source: About Focus on Linux (Focus on Linux)
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Many things will change for the Linux community during and after JavaOne, and this page will be completely revamped to account for that chance. New projects are about to join the community, and new possibilities will be opened. Stay Tunned!
Source: Linux Features (Items from java.net's Linux community homepage.)
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:07:13 GMT
SUSE & openSUSE: "Krusader is an advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for KDE and other desktops in the *nix world, similar to Midnight or Total Commander. It provides all the file management features you could possibly want with features like extensive archive handling, mounted filesystem support, FTP, advanced search module, an internal viewer/editor, directory synchronisation, file content comparisons, powerful batch renaming..."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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![[James Bottomley]](http://lwn.net/images/conf/lk2008/james_bottomley-sm.jpg)
James Bottomley opened this year's Linux-Kongress with his views on the Linux community's values. What these
values are is not entirely obvious. Other groups have well-articulated value systems which
define them, but while the Linux community's values are not so clearly expressed, they are central to what we do. Click below, subscribers only, for LWN's coverage of the keynote.
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community.)
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It was a big week for our favorite technology last week, as true believers no doubt already know. Not only was Linux 2.6.27 released -- causing no small amount of discussion on Slashdot -- but the operating system itself also turned 17 years old. The Linux Journal article noting that momentous day had already received well more than a thousand Diggs by Friday.
Source: LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider -- "Linux News & Information from Around the World")
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:17:34 +0000
The October 9, 2008 edition of Linux Journal Live! Associate Editor, Shawn Powers, and Kyle Rankin, "Hack and /" columnist and author of Knoppix Hacks, Linux Multimedia Hacks, Knoppix Pocket Reference and others, discuss Linux distributions.
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Source: Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community (Since 1994: The Original Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community)
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This is a very easy to use, yet very useful software for creating graphical documents for children.
The user interface is designed for intuitive use by children as young as three...
Source: About Focus on Linux (Focus on Linux)
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The Java.Net Community Corner in the Java One Pavillion will feature a few talks of special interest for Linux developers, ranging from on Sun proprietary JVM and new JCP standards to F/OSS JVMs.
Source: Linux Features (Items from java.net's Linux community homepage.)
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:07:13 GMT
Echoes: "Some things which don't work as they are supposed to, or some things which may be annoying - Linux forever, I love it, but sometimes it's not so funny fun as it should be."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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The sub-title for this
article is Proprietary data formats may be legally defensible but
open standards can be a better spur for innovation. "Dan
Cohen, director of GMU's Center for History and New Media, and Sean Takats,
a GMU history professor, are also directors of Zotero: open-source software
developed by the history centre that lets researchers organize and share
their digital information iTunes style, whether it is in the form of
citations, documents or web pages. Zotero is free and popular, and has
attracted some 1 million downloads since its launch in October 2006.
Thomson makes the proprietary bibliography software EndNote, and claims
that Zotero is causing its commercial business "irreparable harm" and is
wilfully and intentionally destroying Thomson's customer base. "
(Thanks to jerbol)
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community.)
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Rishi Patel had an epiphany when he saw "Toy Story" more than a decade ago. The Smyrna, Ga., resident has long been interested in merging science and art -- he graduated with a physics degree from the University of Georgia and enjoyed making clay models as a child -- and the Pixar movie drove the point home.
Source: LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider -- "Linux News & Information from Around the World")
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There are a number of Linux commands you can use to copy files from one computer to another. The rcp ("remote copy") command is meant to work like the cp...
Source: About Focus on Linux (Focus on Linux)
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Novell, Red Hat and others are proposing a new Eclipse project focused on a better user experience for Eclipse on Linux, with a focus on making Eclipse packaging and updating compatible with Linux package managers like RPM. I hope they collaborate with the JPackage project!
Source: Linux Features (Items from java.net's Linux community homepage.)
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:07:13 GMT
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: ""These MP3 users are taking money straight from my client's pocket," said Metallica's lawyer in an exclusive interview with Humorix reporters. As he lit up a Cuban cigar with a hundred dollar bill and puffed leisurely into the air, he continued, "I will make sure these actions against my client are stopped, even if it means suing every single person who ever downloaded a Metallica song over the internet. If necessary, I'll work on this case continuously for the next twenty years, 365 days a year, 8 hours a day, $200 an hour."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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LinuxMedNews looks
at multi-head, the killer application in health care.
"Multi-head, multi-user systems running off a single PC. This is
where multiple displays, keyboards and mice can be attached to a single PC
with multiple users all working simultaneously from one system unit. This
can dramatically lower the cost of an individual workstations as well as
the cost to support individual workstations. This setup is becoming more
and more viable as hardware power increases."
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community.)
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"It is a race, and we're not slowing down." That is how Ross A. Mauri, the general manager of IBM's Power Systems product series, describes competing against Sun Microsystems and HP for the Unix server market. IBM announced a number of new products and upgrades Tuesday to help keep its current lead in revenue.
Source: LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider -- "Linux News & Information from Around the World")
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Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:34:13 +0000
eBay is not going through the happiest of times. Not only has it found it necessary to make 1000 people ? 10% of its workforce ? redundant, it has had to own up to a serious breach of trust with its Internet telephony program, Skype.
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Source: Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community (Since 1994: The Original Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community)
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In this game your objective is to move a set of atoms into the configuration of a particular molecule. The atoms are placed in a maze-like environment, but the user...
Source: About Focus on Linux (Focus on Linux)
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Version 4.0 of GCJ introduced a new deployment model that made is much easier for distributors to package traditional Java programs as native applications without requiring any source level changes. For version 4.1 of GCJ, this new binary compatibility (BC) ABI has also been used for parts of the core library. This change means that those parts of the core library can easily be upgraded with newer versions by the end user.
Source: Linux Features (Items from java.net's Linux community homepage.)
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:07:13 GMT
Linux Dynasty: "I finally found a good Linux Distribution for kids. My daughter who is turning 5 soon completely loved the learning games on Foresight, especially TuxTyping. I highly recommend this OS for us Linux Geeks that have kids."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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CentOS has updated cups (several
vulnerabilities).
Fedora has updated ruby (F9,
F8: multiple vulnerabilities),
condor (F9: multiple
vulnerabilities), postfix (F9, F8: multiple vulnerabilities), dbus (F9: denial of service).
Gentoo has updated portage
(privilege escalation).
Red Hat has updated cups (several
vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated ruby (multiple
vulnerabilities).
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community.)
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Founded in 1998, EZ Prints is an Atlanta-based provider of digital image fulfillment technology for retailers, portals, ISPs, digital content owners and professional photo services. About 500 online and offline retailers in the U.S. and Europe, including six of the top 10 online photo sites, use EZ Prints' technology platform to offer services that allow consumers and businesses to personalize digital content.
Source: LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider -- "Linux News & Information from Around the World")
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Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:17:30 +0000
Wildcards in bash are referred to as pathname expansion.
Pathname expansion is also sometimes referred to
as globbing.
Pathname expansion "expands" the "*", "?", and "[...]" syntaxes
when you type them as part of a command, for example:
$ ls *.jpg # List all JPEG files
$ ls ?.jpg # List Jread more
 
Source: Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community (Since 1994: The Original Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community)
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"In Feb 6 1996, Tim Wilkinson released the first version of Kaffe as version 0.1, which is the first independent free and open source implementation of Java Virtual Machine" (by Jim Huang). Note that this was about just a year after Sun released the first Java release!
Source: Linux Features (Items from java.net's Linux community homepage.)
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:07:13 GMT
InternetNews: "The latest Linux 2.6.27 kernel release is out with support for Webcams as well as a new file system for SSDs (solid state disks) (define) among its improvements."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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Michael Meeks has taken a
detailed look at contributions to OpenOffice.org and come away
worried. "Crude as they are - the statistics show a picture of slow
disengagement by Sun, combined with a spectacular lack of growth in the
developer community. In a healthy project we would expect to see a large
number of volunteer developers involved, in addition - we would expect to
see a large number of peer companies contributing to the common code pool;
we do not see this in OpenOffice.org. Indeed, quite the opposite we appear
to have the lowest number of active developers on OO.o since records began:
24, this contrasts negatively with Linux's recent low of 160 . Even spun in
the most positive way, OO.o is at best stagnating from a development
perspective."
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community.)
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Flash memory drives the size of your thumb are dirt cheap and offer gigabytes of storage. It's tempting to fill one of them with important computer files, clip it to a key chain and hit the road. However, what if you lose it while fumbling for change at Starbucks and the hacker in the corner finds it? This is not a good thing. That's where a new breed of flash drives comes in.
Source: LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider -- "Linux News & Information from Around the World")
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Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:00:30 +0000
As if you didn't have enough to worry about, with the stock market crashing and all your savings going south . . . U.S. CERT issued a warning about a new browser exploit called "clickjacking". Worst of all, it even affects Linux browsers. Yikes! Jeremiah Grossman, founder and CTO of WhiteHat Security, U.S. CERT said, "Clickjacking gives an attacker the ability to trick a user into clicking on something only barely or momentarily noticeable. Therefore, if a user clicks on a Web page, they may actually be clicking on content from another page."
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Source: Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community (Since 1994: The Original Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community)
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The Orca software provides speech and magnification tools that make it easier to read and understand the text of applications, such as Firefox and OpenOffice.org. In fact it works with...
Source: About Focus on Linux (Focus on Linux)
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It's ready folks. Make sure your library works with it. (by Weiqi Gao)
Source: Linux Features (Items from java.net's Linux community homepage.)
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:31:25 GMT
OStatic: "The OpenOffice.org 3.0 suite of productivity applications arrives Monday, but, as noted at Download Squad, you can get it today. The OpenOffice team has posted it to a number of mirror sites."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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Regardless of all its hype, security in cloud computing is not a revolution; rather it's an evolution of the age-old business model of outsourcing. The concept of cloud computing has evolved from the concepts of grid, utility, and SaaS, and these models evolved from the application service provider in the mid-early '90s.
Source: LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider -- "Linux News & Information from Around the World")
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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:57:20 +0000
Having recently installed a new version of Linux I thought I'd see how progress on Compiz, the compositing window manager, was going. I tried it first on a system with an ATI video card and was met with a wonderful blank screen. Since I really didn't want to spend a bunch of time trying to figure out what was going on I just put things back to normal and got X working again.
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Source: Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community (Since 1994: The Original Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community)
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Amarok is a feature rich, state-of-the-art audio player for Linux. One of Amarok's strengths is its ability to manage large music collections, allowing you to keep track of and select...
Source: About Focus on Linux (Focus on Linux)
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During the end of 2005 I had a customer who could not run a Java Applet on his desktops, despite having the latest update from Sun. And the desktops ran the fastest-growing OS and browser in the market today
Source: Linux Features (Items from java.net's Linux community homepage.)
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:07:13 GMT
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Here's a little something quirky to start the weekend off. Yes, it "is" yet another spinoff on the ubiquitous "PC Mac" Commercial-"PC Mac Linux"-jokes, but it's got a neat little twist. You'll especially dig it if you're a big "South Park" fan."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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The Register
reflects on the history of Linux.
"Linux is what Windows had once promised to be - at least in terms of cross-platform support. In the wake of the PowerPC alliance from IBM, Apple, and Motorola in 1991, Microsoft made a commitment to support Windows NT 3.51 on PowerPC chips. Windows eventually added support for Digital's Alpha NEC's and SGI's MIPS chips. Workstation maker Intergraph ported Windows NT 3.51 to its Clipper chips and said it was creating a port to Sparc chips from Sun. Neither ports saw the light of day."
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community.)
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"Claiming itself to be a next-generation publisher, WEbook has successfully roped in venture capitalists to invest in their business," Deepak Thakur, senior research analyst in ICT Practice at Frost & Sullivan told the E-Commerce Times. If the dot-com burst and the more recent Wall Street fiasco have taught us anything, it is that investor confidence is not necessarily a harbinger of success.
Source: LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider -- "Linux News & Information from Around the World")
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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:23:45 +0000
"The Green Penguin" is a new blog devoted to ?green? IT related to Linux (though at times loosely). This week´s topic is about Google and General Electric´s recently announced plan to promote a ?smart? electric power grid and thus encourage greater use of renewable energy.
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Source: Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community (Since 1994: The Original Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community)
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The project FreeCol is developing a turn-based strategy game similar to Colonization. It is in the same category as the popular PC game Civilization, but with somewhat different objectives.
The players...
Source: About Focus on Linux (Focus on Linux)
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When a blogger trashed the anti-DRM features of the GPL3 draft, common sense from the community was quick to show how biased the blogger was and how the draft was sound.
Source: Linux Features (Items from java.net's Linux community homepage.)
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Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:07:13 GMT
Cyber Cynic: "The community was doing much better this time for the forthcoming release of Debian 5, Lenny, but some last-minute problems still need cleaning up and the Debian developers would like you to help."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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DesktopLinux.com features an
interview with Miguel de Icaza.
"GNOME project co-founder Miguel de Icaza discusses the release of Mono 2.0, in this detailed interview with Henry Kingman, executive editor of DesktopLinux. The conversation spans Mono's history, current state, and future, with stops along the way for updates on Moonlight and Mono Develop."
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community.)
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Yahoo has unveiled a new dynamic calendar service powered by open source developer Zimbra. Yahoo Calendar offers standard Web 2.0 information-sharing options along with an updated drag-and-drop interface and a handful of unique options. The program is available in beta to Yahoo users as of Wednesday.
Source: LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider -- "Linux News & Information from Around the World")
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The zip program is a useful tool for archiving or transferring a set of files. A simple command like "zip archive dir" can quickly package a whole directory into a...
Source: About Focus on Linux (Focus on Linux)
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From the projet home page:
"micro-libgcj is a lightweight version of the GCJ project’s runtime library (libgcj), intended to provide a usable subset of Java’s features while remaining small and self-contained.
We started this project with the goal producing small, self-contained executables from a mix of Java and C , targeting four platforms: Win32 (i386), Mac OS X (PPC), and Linux (i386 and amd64). GCC is an ideal tool for this purpose, since it is widely ported, and its Java and C compilers produce ABI-compatible object code
Source: Linux Features (Items from java.net's Linux community homepage.)
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Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:07:13 GMT
Linux.com: "Foresight Linux is best known by many as the distribution that features the Conary package management system. Perhaps soon it may become known as your child's favorite distro. The recent release of Foresight Kid's Edition 1.0 introduces a new generation to the benefits of Linux and open source software. Not that kids care about that -- they'll just appreciate the unlimited hours of fun at their fingertips."
Source: Linux Today (Linux Today News Service)
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Debian has updated
mon (insecure temp files) and
iceweasel (multiple vulnerabilities).
Source: LWN.net (LWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from
and about the Linux community.)
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AppDeploy, an online community for both systems management professionals and application and computer administrators has released a free software tool called "AppDeploy Repackager." The tool is the industry's first free application dedicated to the complex task of Windows Installer repackaging, according to the company.
Source: LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider -- "Linux News & Information from Around the World")
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Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:51:50 +0000
This article, and the one to follow, are based on a Software Development class
I taught a few years ago. The students in this class were non-programmers
who had been hired to receive bug reports for a compiler product. As
Analysts, they had to understand the software compilation process in some
detail, even though some of them had never written a single line of code.read more
 
Source: Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community (Since 1994: The Original Monthly Magazine of the Linux Community)
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The clipboard manager Glipper is now implemented in Python and specifically designed for desktop environments based on GNOME, which includes the standard desktop of the Ubuntu Linux distribution. Glipper makes...
Source: About Focus on Linux (Focus on Linux)
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Life of Linux System and Network Administrators and Developers would be easier if all Java software vendors started to use JPackage guidelines when b uilding their installation packages.
Source: Linux Features (Items from java.net's Linux community homepage.)
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Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:07:13 GMT
LWN: "Michael Meeks has taken a detailed look at contributions to OpenOffice.org and come away worried. "Crude as they are - the statistics show a picture of slow disengagement by Sun, combined with a spectacular lack of growth in the de |
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