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Developer Linux News for Jul 22, 2009
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NVIDIA 190.16 Driver Brings OpenGL 3.2 To Linux (Jul 22, 2009, 21:03)
Phoronix: "However, now that we have had a
chance to analyze this driver, there is more in store than what the
change-log shares regarding this driver. There is in fact support
for the unreleased OpenGL 3.2 specification."
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Akademy 2009 Technical Papers Published: Research And Innovation In The KDE Community (Jul 22, 2009, 20:33)
KDE.news: "While many universities still feel
uneasy about working with Free Software, the open and welcoming
attitude in the KDE community has already brought several
scientific research projects to life. A prime example is of course
the Nepomuk project..."
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Greasemonkey for beginners (Jul 22, 2009, 19:33)
TuxRadar: "However, it doesn't do anything in
and of itself: what it does is to enable you to run scripts, either
by other people or by yourself, which will alter the way webpages
look and function."
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NEC pledges WiMAX software to Moblin Project (Jul 22, 2009, 18:03)
Moblin Zone: "NEC announced its plans to
support the Moblin project at "Wireless Japan 2009," a three-day
expo in Tokyo this week. A computer translation of the announcement
suggests that NECs contributions will include Linux drivers for
WiMAX radio chipsets."
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Google Chrome OS: Desktop Linux's Last Chance (Jul 22, 2009, 17:33)
Datamation: "But even now, despite the apparent
popularity of distros such as Ubuntu, and even green shoots of
interest from big OEMs such as Dell, desktop Linux languishes with
a sub 1% market share. And what growth that is occurring happens at
a snail’s pace."
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Hams, hackers, hobbyists and model railways (Jul 22, 2009, 14:33)
The H Open: "Back in 2003, Scott McNealy, then
CEO of Sun Microsystems, dismissed GNU/Linux as a "great
environment for the hobbyist" but not for the enterprise."
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Canonical opens Launchpad (Jul 22, 2009, 09:03)
Cyber Cynic: "An open-source irony has long
been that Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, used its own
closed-source software development platform, Launchpad, to create
Ubuntu and other open-source programs."
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10 reasons open source smartphones will win (Jul 22, 2009, 06:03)
10 Things: "...the smartphone is actually smart
and the average user can gain serious benefits from using one. How
did this come about? In a word: competition."
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Linux's Thickening Waist Line (Jul 22, 2009, 01:33)
ServerWatch: "How come Linux (or UNIX for that
matter) doesn't suffer from feature creep in the same way? Or does
it?"
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