Linux Top 5: Linux's New Fellow LinuxPlanet: While many people work on and with Linux, the Linux Foundation employs only a precious few as fellows. (Feb 9, 2012)
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Linux 3.3 rc3 Linus Torvalds: Another week, another -rc. Feb 9, 2012
Eight features Windows 8 'borrowed' from Linux (Feb 10, 2012, 20:03 UTC) (26 reads)
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(feedback) IT World: "And while Microsoft has long been accused of stealing from the open source community, according to some Linux fans, it's getting to the point where Microsoft simply appropriates good Linux features."
Malware devs embrace open-source (Feb 10, 2012, 19:01 UTC) (473 reads)
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(feedback) The Register: "Cybercrooks have embraced the open-source model in the development of banking Trojans following the release of source code for the infamous ZeuS cybercrime toolkit last year."
A tale of two distros: Ubuntu and Linux Mint (Feb 10, 2012, 18:03 UTC) (1421 reads)
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(feedback) ZDNet UK: "he current rankings on DistroWatch have been taken by some as evidence that Linux Mint has overtaken Ubuntu as the most popular Linux distribution by a healthy margin. The culprit, under this analysis, is Ubuntu's latest desktop user interface — Unity."
A Selection of the Very Best Open Source Tutorials and Tools (Feb 10, 2012, 15:02 UTC) (1695 reads)
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(feedback) OSTATIC: "Whether you're looking for resources for working with and enjoying online video and audio, Linux tutorials, offbeat open source applications, or other items of interest, we have useful collections of resources on this site."
How to read a CSV file in Perl? (Feb 10, 2012, 12:00 UTC) (1852 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxInstall: Perl is used for manipulating text files and in this article I will teach how to read a CSV file in Perl?
Red Hat Brings Gluster to Amazon Cloud (Feb 10, 2012, 11:00 UTC) (1522 reads)
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(feedback) InfoStor:Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) is continuing to push forward its new storage vision this week with the release of Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance for Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Linux Top 5: Linux's New Fellow (Feb 9, 2012, 23:00 UTC) (2875 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxPlanet: While many people work on and with Linux, the Linux Foundation employs only a precious few as fellows.
The Future of Kubuntu (Feb 9, 2012, 17:01 UTC) (2903 reads)
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(feedback) Ubuntu Manual: "Recently there has been quite a bit of buzz regarding the announcement that Canonical was dropping commercial support for Kubuntu."
60 Fantastic Free Android Apps (Feb 9, 2012, 15:01 UTC) (3780 reads)
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(feedback) Datamation: "A free Android app has no downside. Simply download it, try it out and – if you don’t like it – download another."
How can the layman get involved with free software? (Feb 9, 2012, 13:02 UTC) (1514 reads)
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(feedback) Linux User & Developer: "Successful code isn’t just about stringing bits and bytes together. Code has to be accessible to users and users have to know what the code is doing, and coders are not always the best people to document a project."
Oracle Staking Claim in Open-Source 'R' Language (Feb 9, 2012, 11:01 UTC) (2314 reads)
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(feedback) CFO World: "Oracle is hoping to carve out a prominent place in the world of "R," the open-source statistical modeling language with roots in academia but an increasingly high profile in enterprise IT shops."
Ubuntu sound theme design (Feb 9, 2012, 06:00 UTC) (1815 reads)
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(feedback) Canonical: If you’re as keen as we are that the Ubuntu sound theme is on brand, now is your chance! We are calling for pitches for the Ubuntu sound theme!
mutter 3.3.5 Released (Feb 8, 2012, 22:00 UTC) (2614 reads)
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(feedback) Mutter: Mutter is a window and compositing manager that displays and manages your desktop via OpenGL.
Fedora 17 Is Still Trying For Btrfs By Default (Feb 8, 2012, 20:00 UTC) (2902 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: The Fedora / Red Hat developers working on the Beefy Miracle are tentatively moving ahead with their plan to use Btrfs as the default Linux file-system for Fedora 17 and beyond.
RIP Compiz (Feb 8, 2012, 19:00 UTC) (4606 reads)
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(feedback) TechRepublic: The Compiz desktop compositor, which looks all but dead now that Fedora is dropping it from its upcoming release
Sabayon Linux 8 Released (Feb 8, 2012, 15:09 UTC) (2319 reads)
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(feedback) Linux User & Developer: "Popular Gentoo derivative Sabayon Linux has just announced the immediate availability of Sabayon 8."
Introducing Comice OS 4: Mac-Looking Linux (Feb 8, 2012, 12:01 UTC) (4527 reads)
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(feedback) Softpedia: "It looks like David Tavares, the developer of Pear OS, prepares these days a revamped version of his Linux operating system, under the name of Comice OS."
7 Best Free Alternative Git Clients (Feb 8, 2012, 11:04 UTC) (2618 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxLinks: "Git is one of a number of open source revision control systems available for Linux. Other popular tools in this field include Subversion, Bazaar, Mercurial, Monotone, CVS, and SVN."