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Infrastructure Linux News for Dec 29, 2009
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Abusing Copyrights to Silence Critics, Control Customers, and Crush Competition (Dec 29, 2009, 23:32)
Linux Today blog: "Hardly a day goes by without
yet another news story about creative uses of copyright, the DMCA,
and generic attack lawyers to stifle free speech, criticism, and
competition."
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Best of 2009 (Dec 29, 2009, 22:47)
Linux Pro Magazine: "The new year is almost
upon us, so it's a good time to wrap up the year 2009 and ruminate
over the best open source software and hardware this year brought
us. So without further ado, let me present my personal "Best of
2009" list in no particular order."
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Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So (Dec 29, 2009, 21:17)
Open Enterprise: "Once you've got past the
entertaining "top of mind" and "complete left to right
understanding" phraseology, this reveals something incredibly
important about the current thinking at Microsoft: that
OpenOffice.org now figures almost as largely in the competitive
landscape as does GNU/Linux."
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A little know but very powerful tool for homeschooling: Free Software (Dec 29, 2009, 19:47)
Stop: "One would expect Free Software to be
very popular among homeschoolers, due to their own philosophy: how
could an homeschooling advocate not love software that is all about
being "free as in freedom" and doing things by yourself? "
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Linux Gaming: Are We There Yet? (Dec 29, 2009, 19:02)
Anandtech: "Linux is commonly overlooked as a
viable gaming platform in most communities. Our intention today is
to shed some light on what does and does not work inside Linux, as
well as give solid performance data for those looking for another
option in the gaming world."
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Configure Samba with Gadmin-Samba (Dec 29, 2009, 18:17)
Ghacks: "But for those that prefer to do things
the GUI way, there are plenty of tools available for you as well.
One such tool is the gadmin-samba tool from the Gadmintools suite
of GUI Linux administration tools."
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Court orders three H-1B sites disabled (Dec 29, 2009, 15:32)
Computerworld: "A New Jersey judge has ordered
the shutdown of three H-1B opposition Web sites and seeks
information about the identity of anonymous posters."
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Most Popular Tips and Tricks of 2009 (Dec 29, 2009, 14:03)
Tech Source From Bohol: "We are about to say
goodbye to 2009, so it's only fitting to recap some of this site's
most in demand posts of the year."
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Problem with continuous monitoring of files with tail command (Dec 29, 2009, 12:29)
Shantanu’s Technophilic Musings: "If you
can’t get tail command to continuously monitor a file, then
read on."
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3 Wonderful Open-Source Games to Install After Installing Ubuntu (Dec 29, 2009, 07:37)
Tuxarena: "Battle for Wesnoth is one of the
most popular turn-based strategy games for Linux, if not the most
popular. Completely free and open-source, it provides both
singleplayer campaigns, as well as online multiplayer, hotseat or
LAN support."
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Inkscape - A noteworthy open source vector graphics software (Dec 29, 2009, 01:37)
All About Linux: "Inkscape is an open source,
feature-full vector graphics environment with capabilities similar
to Adobe Illustrator. Inkscape uses the W3C standard SVG file
format. It supports many advanced SVG features like markers,
clones, alpha blending and so on."
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