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Infrastructure Linux News for Dec 28, 2010
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The Real Future of Linux and FOSS (Is Not Shiny Toys)
(Dec 28, 2010, 23:48)
Linux Planet: "There is a word that is to me as
a pebble in a shoe, as fingernails on a blackboard, and that is the
word consumer. Consumer is a perfectly good word that has become
incurably tainted."
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FCC Poised to Clear Comcast-NBC Merger (Dec 28, 2010, 23:04)
Datamation: "Comcast appears poised to win the
blessing of one regulatory body reviewing its proposed $30 billion
takeover of NBC Universal, as officials at the Federal
Communications Commission have indicated that the agency could
approve the merger as early as next month."
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IBM announces solid-state memory breakthrough (Dec 28, 2010, 21:34)
LinuxDevices: "IBM announced what appears to be
a breakthrough in its development of "racetrack" memory, which
stores data by manipulating the magnetic state of regions --
magnetic domain walls -- within nanowires."
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Manage iPhone's SpringBoard Icons on Ubuntu (Dec 28, 2010, 21:04)
Softpedia: "The following tutorial will teach
GNOME, Ubuntu, and other Linux users how to manage the icons
(SpringBoard) on their Apple iPhone 3G, 3Gs, or iPhone 4
devices."
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9 Free and Open Source Software Stories to Watch in 2011 (Dec 28, 2010, 20:34)
Datamation: "From Gnome 3.0 to Chrome OS to
Wikileaks, the year ahead should prove interesting for Linux and
open source."
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Do You Want a Piece of My Mind? (Dec 28, 2010, 20:04)
Tech Chords: "I have lost myself. Literally.
Late last year, a neurological disorder (Hydrocephalus, for the
medically inclined) robbed me of cognitive abilities and 27 years
of memories, personality, and emotions"
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Managing Yum Plugins (Dec 28, 2010, 19:04)
ServerWatch: "Yum is one of the most widely
used package management tools, but many users don't know that Yum
has a plugin system to extend its capabilities. Let's take a look
at how to extend Yum to add some very useful features."
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Oracle extends open source VirtualBox 4.0 (Dec 28, 2010, 18:34)
Netstat -vat: "And guess what? The core product
remains licensed under the GPLv2 - but wait there is a catch."
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Understanding the Open Invention Network (Dec 28, 2010, 18:04)
Network World: "Whether Google or another
company, a few folks have commented that the Open Invention Network
(OIN) can protect members against patent threats from other OIN
members. When it comes to Linux, that's true. When it comes to
other things? Not so much."
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Raising Caine (Dec 28, 2010, 17:34)
Linux Pro Magazine: "Caine is a Linux
distribution based on Ubuntu 10.04 for forensic scientists and
security-conscious administrators."
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Fuduntu 14.7 Review (Dec 28, 2010, 15:34)
The Linux Experience: "A young and rapidly
developing distro, Fuduntu is a fork of Fedora aiming to sit
somewhere in between Ubuntu and Fedora. The current version is
based off Fedora 14, but it adds quite a few interesting features
that I believe should make the RedHat cousin more atractive to the
average user."
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Ubuntu update policy change is probably a good thing (Dec 28, 2010, 15:04)
Linux Journal: "Despite some premature reports
on the net, Canonical isn't moving to a rolling release schedule
for Ubuntu. However, the organisation is open to making some
changes to the way that some software packages are updated."
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Understanding the Open Invention Network (Dec 28, 2010, 14:34)
Network World: "Whether Google or another
company, a few folks have commented that the Open Invention Network
(OIN) can protect members against patent threats from other OIN
members. When it comes to Linux, that's true. When it comes to
other things? Not so much."
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Windows 7? On ARM Tablets? I don't think so! (Dec 28, 2010, 13:56)
ZDNet: "You've got to be kidding me. First,
Bloomberg and then the Wall Street Journal reported that at CES
next month, Microsoft will unveil a full-featured version of
Windows that runs on ARM processors."
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It's too hard is no excuse (Dec 28, 2010, 13:04)
IT Toolbox: "Linux is too hard. Linux is too
different. Linux doesn't have this or that program. Linux is not
compatible with x or y or z. Linux is blah blah blah...."
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8 More Bash Tips for Working Faster With the Shell (Part 2 of 2) (Dec 28, 2010, 11:04)
TuxArena: "This is the second article in this
series, and brings eight additional tips for working faster with
the shell. Here is the first article of the series, containing 10
tips."
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Ten Linux Distros that use Enlightenment (Dec 28, 2010, 09:04)
Thoughts on Technology: "In case you haven't
noticed I've had a bit of an obsession with the Enlightenment
desktop of the late. Even though this desktop is fantastic there
are currently not very many distributions that utilize it."
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A Guide to Wine on Ubuntu for Beginners (Dec 28, 2010, 07:04)
Debian/Ubuntu: "This guide is divided in four
parts, so that you can jump to whichever you want using the links
below:"
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Familiarity Breeds Fondness, not Contempt (Dec 28, 2010, 03:04)
Das U-blog: "The thought about the content of
this post occurred to me yesterday when surfing the web as normal.
(Interestingly enough, I forgot about it until this afternoon.) It
started with Mozilla Firefox crashing."
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