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Developer Linux News for Feb 18, 2011
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Open Source Obama (Feb 18, 2011, 21:03)
ZDNet: "Every day, tens of thousands of
developers from businesses, colleges, and homes contribute patches
or new code to open-source programs. It's not every day though that
the White House does it."
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Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.38 (Part 2) � File system (Feb 18, 2011, 16:33)
The H Open: "Linux 2.6.38 contains patches to
improve the scalability of VFS that has been the topic of much
discussion for the past six months and that Torvalds himself was
waiting for. Ext3 and XFS now support batched discard, which is
interesting for SSDs, while Btrfs and SquashFS support additional
compression technologies."
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LibreOffice Community starts 50,000 Euro challenge for setting-up its foundation (Feb 18, 2011, 16:03)
LibreOffice: "The community around LibreOffice,
the free office productivity suite, today announced its
fifty-thousand Euro challenge for setting-up The Document
Foundation as a legal entity. The race for funds is open until
March 21st 2011, which marks the beginning of Spring in the
northern hemisphere. All users - especially enterprises - are
invited to donate to the capital stock of the future
foundation."
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Web Developer Class: How to Manually Install Joomla! 1.6 (Feb 18, 2011, 15:33)
HTML Goodies: "In this article you'll learn how
to install Joomla!. At the beginning of this series, we looked at
the minimum system requirements to install Joomla! For reference,
I've included that information again."
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Mozilla's "modern browser" attack on IE overlooks Firefox shortcomings (Feb 18, 2011, 14:33)
ars Technica: "Microsoft and Mozilla traded
barbs this week in a dispute over what constitutes a "modern" Web
browser. The competitive friction is starting to heat up because
the Redmond software giant and Silicon Valley nonprofit are
preparing to release the next major versions of their respective
Web browsers."
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Debian Packaging Tutorial (Feb 18, 2011, 11:03)
git.debian.org: An Introduction to Debian
Packaging (raw PDF presentation)
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