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Linux News for Nov 29, 2008
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Interview with Jokosher maintainer Laszlo Pandy (Nov 29, 2008, 20:02)
Footnotes: "In this first in what I hope will
be a series of interviews about linux multimedia I talk with Laszlo
Pandy, the leading force behind audio editing application Jokosher.
In addition to talking about Jokosher itself and Laszlo's
involvement we also will talk about the general state of Linux
multimedia."
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Ubuntu TIP: Automating Package Installation � apt-get to the rescue (Nov 29, 2008, 16:33)
Shantanu's Technophilic Musings: "Have you ever
had to reinstall your ubuntu installation, and then bear the pain
of manually installing the applications you've come to love (i mean
use :)) everyday? If yes, then cheer up buddy, because all you
really need is some magic (read scripting), some typing and spend
some time digging the package names of your favourite
applications."
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Obtaining Alfresco Web Content Management (WCM) (Nov 29, 2008, 16:02)
Packt: "In 2007, Alfresco released its formal
web content management functionality that added features most
people expect when they think of a Web Content Management (WCM)
offering, including templating, site preview, snapshots,
virtualization, and deployment."
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Spice up Your System with Open Source Fonts (Nov 29, 2008, 14:02)
Linutop: "Fonts are like candies: you can never
get enough of them. So if you are getting tired of the fonts that
come with your system, here is a hand-picked collection of a few
open source fonts that deserve a closer look."
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Wordpress Plugin To Subvert Chinese Keyword Blocks (Nov 29, 2008, 12:02)
17Lamp.net: "Last year, Ryan McLaughlin at
DaoByDesign came up with a plugin called Censortive, which replaces
sensitive keywords in Wordpress blog posts with image equivalents,
thereby avoiding keyword blocks like those mentioned in the last
post. At the time, though, Chinese language support was
problematic."
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LOL With Funny Linux Man Pages (Nov 29, 2008, 10:02)
Tech Source From Bohol: "Are you feeling a
little down lately? Why not open a Linux terminal and read some man
pages. Well, not those man pages that can sometimes make our head
spin. I'm talking about the funny man pages that will make you
laugh out loud."
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Quick And Easy Local Filesystem Troubleshooting For SUSE Linux (Nov 29, 2008, 08:02)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today we're
going to take a look at some quick and easy ways to determine if
you have a problem with your local filesystem on SUSE Linux (tested
on 8.x and 9.x). Of course, we're assuming that you have some sort
of an i/o wait issue and the users are blaming it on the local
disk."
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Fedora 10 vs. Ubuntu 8.10 Benchmarks (Nov 29, 2008, 04:02)
Phoronix: "With Fedora 10 finally entering the
world earlier this week, we have performed benchmarks comparing the
performance of Ubuntu 8.10 and Fedora 10. In our testing we used
both the 32-bit and 64-bit builds of each distribution and then ran
a series of automated tests through the Phoronix Test Suite."
Link fixed--ed.
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The world's fastest computers are Linux computers (Nov 29, 2008, 00:02)
Cyber Cynic: "There are fast computers, and
then there are Linux fast computers. Every six months, the Top 500
organization announces "its ranked list of general purpose systems
that are in common use for high end applications." In other words,
supercomputers. And, as has been the case for years now, the
fastest of the fast are Linux computers."
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