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Linux News for Feb 22, 2012
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 to 5.8 Risk Report (Feb 22, 2012, 23:01)
OSTATIC: "Cox reported that 118 vulnerabilities
were addressed in 42 advisories for the default install."
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Adobe Flash For Linux Will Only Be Available For Chrome (Feb 22, 2012, 22:06)
Web Upd8: "According to a blog post by Adobe,
after the 11.2 release, Flash Player for Linux will only be
available through a new 'Pepper' API as a part of Google
Chrome"
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Core Sponsors Announced For Spring 2012 Open Source Think Tank (Feb 22, 2012, 21:01)
The Sacramento Bee: "The Open Source Think Tank
is the only by-invitation gathering where leading global experts
come together to collaborate on the issues facing commercial open
source and the evolution of cloud computing."
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Actionable Control For Open Source Components (Feb 22, 2012, 20:03)
Dr.Dobb's: "Sonatype has released the Nexus
Professional 2.0 open-source repository manager. The new iteration
now includes more 'actionable' information about the open-source
components used in any development project."
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Aruba Delivers BYOD Control with ClearPass (powered with Linux and FreeRADIUS) (Feb 22, 2012, 19:00)
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: FreeRADIUS forms
the key underpinning for new commercial BYOD policy engine.
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Disable annoying bell in Gnome Terminal, vim, xterm, etc? (Feb 22, 2012, 18:00)
LinuxOS Pro: It's the simplest thing to do but
we never look into it ? because most of the time when the bell goes
off we?re in the middle of something else.
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Oracle's Java claims now less than $230 million (Feb 22, 2012, 17:00)
ITworld: Google claims damages report still
"riddled with fatal errors"
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Best Lightweight Linux Distribution for Older Computers (Feb 22, 2012, 16:00)
MakeTechEasier: The problem with advancement of
technology is that it makes the old gadgets almost obsolete.
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FlightGear 2.6.0 Released With Massive Changes (Feb 22, 2012, 15:00)
Ubuntu Vibes: "FlightGear, a free and open
source flight simulator has received yet another major update and
many new features have introduced."
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Hortonworks University Launches, and Can Teach You Valuable Hadoop Skills (Feb 22, 2012, 14:00)
OSTATIC: "Hortonworks officials have predicted
that half of the world?s data will be processed by Apache Hadoop
within five years."
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Ford's open source OpenXC platform as gateway to future high tech car gizmos (Feb 22, 2012, 13:04)
Torque News: "With the OpenXC platform Ford is
creating a channel for open collaboration with 3rd party
application developers, allowing them to use cars like the Ford
Focus to prototype their gizmos."
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Introduction To The Linux Mint Cinnamon Desktop (Feb 22, 2012, 12:01)
HowtoForge: "This tutorial is supposed to guide
the reader through the features of the Cinnamon desktop, Mint's new
desktop environment to be used in Linux Mint 13."
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SSH Inside & Out (Feb 22, 2012, 11:02)
Doug Vitale Tech Blog: "In the background SSH
sessions involve authentication, key exchange, encryption, and
passphrase generation and storing, making SSH a complex
protocol."
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Python4Kids New Tutorial: Starting our Config Editor (Feb 22, 2012, 10:04)
Python Tutorials for Kids 8+: "When people
write computer programs they try to write the program they don?t
necessarily know all the relevant details about how and where it
will be run."
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Firefox To Get A New Default Theme, Other Enhancements (Feb 22, 2012, 06:02)
Web Upd8: "nfortunately, there are still no
plans to support tabs in the titlebar for Linux (because of GTK
limitations), but most other UI changes should be available for
Linux too."
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Ubuntu in your pocket (Feb 22, 2012, 03:00)
Mark Shuttleworth: The desktop is the killer
app for quad-core smartphones in 2012.
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Linux Top 5: SCO Returns (Feb 22, 2012, 01:00)
LinuxPlanet: The past week on the LinuxPlanet
saw the return of SCO, a company most of us have long ago written
off as a footnote in the history of Linux's success.
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