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Developer Linux News for May 06, 2009
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Debian is switching to EGLIBC (May 06, 2009, 21:31)
Aurelien's weblog: "I have just uploaded
Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) into the archive (it is currently waiting
in the NEW queue), which will soon replace the GNU C Library
(GLIBC)."
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An early look at whats coming in PHP V6 (May 06, 2009, 21:01)
IBM Developerworks: "The main feature of PHP V6
is improved support for Unicode. Currently, PHP is essentially a
binary preprocessor. PHP V5 does not provide native Unicode
support; it assumes that all characters are 1 byte long, which is a
problem when handling non-Latin characters. You can do conversions
to Unicode, but it requires the mbstring extension, which is not
enabled by default or an external tool like iconv."
Link fixed-- ed.
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Novell Moonlight 2.0 previews Silverlight on Linux (May 06, 2009, 20:01)
Netstat -vat: "It wasn't all that long ago that
Moonlight 1.0 was released providing Linux users with a way to run
Microsoft Silverlight media on their screens. Now Novell is out
with the Moonlight 2.0 preview, including expanded functionality
and compatibility with Microsoft's media framework."
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The RGB/Green.org Sustainability Challenge (May 06, 2009, 16:31)
IBM Developerworks: "An organic social network
is one that arises naturally within a specific geographic
community. Some users of geographically dispersed social networks,
such as Facebook, feel "connected," yet report a lack of meaningful
relationships. Because organic social networks arise from local
relationships, they can provide meaningful and significant forms of
support. And a Web site that supports these local relationships can
have a significant impact on a local community."
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Forking Nagios: Behold Icinga (May 06, 2009, 14:31)
Open Enterprise: "A group of leading Nagios
protagonists including members of the Nagios Community Advisory
board and creators of multiple Nagios Addons have launched ICINGA -
a fork of Nagios, the prevalent open source monitoring system."
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PHP Speeds to the Cloud With Zend Framework 1.8 (May 06, 2009, 13:31)
InternetNews: "PHP developers will have new
ways to easily connect their PHP applications to the cloud, thanks
to the latest version of the open source Zend Framework."
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The LKML Summary Podcast (May 06, 2009, 12:31)
LWN.net: "I'm experimenting with recording a
short 3-5 minute summary of LKML traffic for those of us who like
to listen to Podcasts. It's modeled after e.g. the NYT Front Page
Podcast, though not quite as cool."
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Tridge -- Subject: [PATCH] Add CONFIG_VFAT_NO_CREATE_WITH_LONGNAMES option (May 06, 2009, 09:01)
Groklaw: "When this option is enabled the VFAT
filesystem will refuse to create new files with long names.
Accessing existing files with long names will continue to
work."
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Introduction to Arrays and Hashes in PHP - The ABC's of PHP Part 7 (May 06, 2009, 00:01)
PHP Builder: "What is an array? An array is a
list of a certain variable type, where each item in the list can be
referenced by a unique index number, usually starting at 0. Think
about it in real terms as you might think about a shopping
list..."
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