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Infrastructure Linux News for Jun 23, 2008
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Funny Side of Linux (Jun 23, 2008, 23:15)
LinuxHaxor: "In all seriousness of being a
Linux user we sometimes forget the fun side of it all, here is an
attempt to capture some of it..."
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The Invisible Closed Source Overhead--1 (Jun 23, 2008, 22:30)
Brendan Scott's Weblog: "Many people focus on
the 'hard' costs of software acquisition and maintenance such as
licence fees and implementation costs. However, the adoption of a
closed source solution has a number of hidden costs which are
rarely properly accounted for..."
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Accenture, SpringSource Team Up, But Here's the Real News (Jun 23, 2008, 19:30)
The Open Road: "In an example of the real news
lurking behind the press release, SpringSource and Accenture have
announced that they are teaming up to provide an open-source batch
processing solution to the market..."
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Mandriva's Linux on a Stick Will Wow All the Ladies This Summer (Jun 23, 2008, 18:45)
The Register: "The Flash sticks come with a
complete, bootable version of Mandriva Linux and make it dead
simple to take your Linux with you wherever you go--a huge help
when you're trying to impress the babes at the beach..."
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Opera 9.5 Gives Firefox 3 A Run for Its Money (Jun 23, 2008, 17:15)
Linux.com: "Two of the most popular Linux
browsers were unveiled this month after years of development--the
open source Firefox 3 and the proprietary Opera 9.5..."
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Run Windows Apps in Linux with Wine 1.0 (Jun 23, 2008, 16:30)
lifehacker: "No matter how easy Linux
distributions make it for newcomers to install and use a free,
open-source operating system, nearly everyone has at least one
program that only works in Windows..."
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Testing Linux Ubuntu (Jun 23, 2008, 15:45)
BBC: "The second big advantage of Linux is also
obvious: it's free as in speech--or 'open source'--and therefore
any code created on this machine would be available to anyone else,
free..."
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HP Contributes Source Code to Open Source Community to Advance Adoption of Linux (Jun 23, 2008, 15:00)
HP: "Continuing its efforts to advance customer
adoption of Linux, HP today announced the contribution of its Tru64
UNIX Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code to the open source
community..."
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Gphone Launch Delayed Until End of 2008 (Jun 23, 2008, 14:15)
The Times: "Google's ambitions in the mobile
industry have suffered a setback after it was reported a new
handset powered by the search giant's software is now unlikely to
appear until the end of the year..."
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Novell Enters the UMPC Linux Market (Jun 23, 2008, 13:30)
Practical Technology: "...Novell's SLED (SUSE
Linux Enterprise Desktop) 10 SP2) is now available on MSI's
(Micro-Star International) new Wind Notebook..."
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Benchmarking NFSv3 vs. NFSv4 File Operation Performance (Jun 23, 2008, 11:15)
Linux.com: "NFS version 4, published in April
2003, introduced stateful client-server interaction and 'file
delegation,' which allows a client to gain temporary exclusive
access to a file on a server..."
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PulseAudio Tames the Linux Audio Zoo, Part 1 (Jun 23, 2008, 10:30)
LinuxPlanet: "There are a lot of great
sound-related applications for Linux, from basic audio drivers and
sound servers to sophisticated mixers, editors, and special effects
engines..."
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How To Make A Fully Customized KDE Live CD/DVD Using Kubuntu (Jun 23, 2008, 06:00)
HowtoForge: "There are tools available to allow
anyone to create and distribute a completely customized Ubuntu
Based distribution using the Gnome Desktop..."
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Using apt in an RPM World (Jun 23, 2008, 04:30)
Field Commander Wieers: "Everytime I am
surprised that people don't know that apt-get works on RPM-based
distributions and works much better than the alternatives..."
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Iceweasel Goes 3.0 Too (Jun 23, 2008, 00:00)
LinuxWorld: "Debian's 'Iceweasel' build of
Firefox 3.0 is out. Working fine for me so far with one
exception..."
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