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Infrastructure Linux News for Sep 19, 2008
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OpenOffice.org 3.0 Promises New Life for Office Software (Sep 19, 2008, 22:32)
OStatic: "It is also able to export altered
files into a "hybrid" PDF format -- the imported ODF file becomes a
source file embedded in the exported PDF."
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Webcams on Linux a Hit (Sep 19, 2008, 22:02)
ITPro: "A few weeks back I thought I'd give the
video aspect of Skype a go, so pulled out a Creative NX Pro webcam
and put it in place."
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Energy Efficient eBook-Reader Runs on Linux (Sep 19, 2008, 19:32)
Linux Pro Magazine: "The Hanlin eReader V3 from
Tianjin Jinke Electronics out of China claims to provide a month of
use between battery charges. By then 10,000 pages of reading should
have been possible -- provided you have the requisite time and
patience."
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OpenOffice.org Tips and Tricks: Customization, PDFs, and Smart Image Management (Sep 19, 2008, 18:32)
LinuxPlanet: "This tutorial continues by
highlighting OOo Options you may want to change, discusses the PDF
exporting feature, and shows how to overcome two issues you may
encounter when working with images."
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Ubuntu's BulletProofX Takes Simpler Step Forward (Sep 19, 2008, 17:02)
Phoronix: "Introduced in Ubuntu 7.10 was a
feature known as BulletProofX, which provides a fail-safe mode that
is by default used when the X server fails to properly
initialize."
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PCMan: An Alternative File Manager For Linux (Sep 19, 2008, 15:02)
Linux Prime Time: "I had been mostly using
Nautilus as my primary file manager and i was a bit sick to be
honest from using it, Nautilus is very basic and a bit heavy file
manager."
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Windows CE Takes on Linux in Low-end Netbooks (Sep 19, 2008, 12:32)
WindowsForDevices: "Quarta Mobile has announced
a version of Windows CE 6.0 tailored for netbooks and MIDs (mobile
internet devices). The San Jose company says the open-source
"MID-Shell for Windows Embedded CE 6.0" is designed as an
alternative to Linux for low-end devices with SSDs (solid state
disks)."
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EFF Sues NSA, President Bush, and Vice President Cheney to Stop Illegal Surveillance (Sep 19, 2008, 12:02)
Electronic Frontier Foundation: "The five
individual plaintiffs are also suing President George W. Bush, Vice
President Dick Cheney, Cheney's chief of staff David Addington,
former Attorney General and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales
and other individuals who ordered or participated in the
warrantless domestic surveillance."
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Why GNU/Linux Needs Slick Marketing (Sep 19, 2008, 11:32)
IT Wire: "In the wake of the Firefox EULA
issue, the well-known GNU/Linux news accumulation website, Linux
Today, ran a very short editorial which came to the rather hurried
conclusion that the free operating system does not need what it
characterised as "slick marketing.""
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Portrait: Linux Today Managing Editor Carla Schroder (Sep 19, 2008, 09:02)
Linux.com: "Carla Schroder says she just "kind
of wandered into" her current life as a free software advocate and
well-known IT journalist. "I don't have much in the way of formal
education. But I've always been mechanically inclined - your
classic ripping things apart and figuring out how they work. I
think that makes open source a natural fit for me.""
Hey- that's me!--ed.
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aMSN - Opensource MSN Messenger Client for openSUSE (Sep 19, 2008, 06:02)
SUSE & openSUSE: "aMSN is a free open
source MSN Messenger clone for Windows,Linux,Unix & Mac with
features like offline messaging, voice clips, picture display,
custom emoticons, webcam support, full speed file transfer, chat
logs..."
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Plug and Run Fedora on a TOSHIBA A300D laptop (Sep 19, 2008, 04:32)
Spread Fedora: " Recently I purchased new
laptop - A Toshiba A300D...that laptop was very carefully selected
among many others. So, I knew that it should work at least at the
minimum level with my favourite GNU/Linux distribution -
Fedora."
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IRC Clients for Linux Part 2: List of 5 CLI Clients (Sep 19, 2008, 00:03)
TuxArena: "A while ago I reviewed 6 GUI clients
for IRC, so today I'll continue with the second part with this
review of 5 CLI (Command Line Interface) clients."
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