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Linux News for Jan 28, 2010
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Apple iPad Has a Little Trademark iProblem (2010-01-28 23:34:49)
Hardware Central: "Though Apple has finally
unveiled its widely rumored, long-expected iPad tablet PC, it's not
out of the woods yet: Other companies are claiming ownership of the
iPad name."
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Create Your Own Local Ubuntu Repository (2010-01-28 23:04:49)
BeginLinux: "There are several reasons you may
want to create a local repository. The first is that you want to
save on bandwidth if you have multiple Ubuntu machines to
update."
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Doonesbury on the iPad (2010-01-28 22:47:49)
Slate: "The geeks are calling the new device
the 'Jesus Tablet'"
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Apple’s iPad vs Notion Ink’s Adam tablet with Ubuntu: battle of two (2010-01-28 22:34:49)
sola's blog: "We can safely say that the Apple
iPad is received with mixed feelings by the IT-savvy community. The
main problem is that the tablet is just not as revolutionary as
many expected it would be"
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What's the Future of Linux and Solaris at Oracle? (2010-01-28 22:04:49)
Serverwatch: ""I love Linux. We're big
supporters of Linux, [but] Solaris is an older and more capable
operating system," Ellison said."
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Tech Tip: Use gxmessage for Displaying GUI Messages from Scripts (2010-01-28 21:34:49)
Linux Journal: "There are many dialog programs
out there, Zenity, Kdialog, xdialog, etc. I love programs like
these. They make it so easy to spice up a shell script with a
little GUI action. Today I'm going to go look at a dialog program
called gxmessage."
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OpenOffice.org Extensions for Business Users (2010-01-28 21:04:49)
WorldLabel: "OpenOffice.org is an excellent
all-around productivity suite as it is, but you can add a few
useful features using extensions to make it better suited for use
in a business environment. Here are a handful of extensions worth
considering if you are using OpenOffice.org as a business
tool."
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Tracking Time with Rachota (2010-01-28 20:34:49)
Linux Pro Magazine: "There are quite a few time
tracking solutions out there, including the nifty Rachota utility
which not only makes it easy to track time spent on different tasks
but also helps you to analyze the collected data."
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Make Pretty GUI Apps Fast with Python-Qt (2010-01-28 20:04:49)
Linux Planet: "KDE users love the look of all
those pretty applications. The key is the toolkit KDE uses: Qt.
Akkana Peck uses a poker game to show how quickly you can create a
nice-looking graphical application."
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6 of the best desktop search tools for Linux (2010-01-28 19:34:49)
TechRadar: "Do desktop search tools spell the
end of grep?"
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FOSS Feats and Follies: Q&A With Red Hat Fedora Project Leader Paul Frields (2010-01-28 19:04:49)
LinuxInsider: "Paul Frields, Red Hat's Fedora
Project Leader, talks about FUDCon, what lies ahead for the next
generation of FOSS, and how to address some of the lingering
problems of Linux communities."
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The Importance of Fitting In (2010-01-28 18:34:49)
Linux Magazine: "Is the success of Linux
directly proportional to its ability to integrate with existing
proprietary systems like Windows? If so, should free software
developers be spending more time integrating with it instead of
building better software for free platforms?"
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Anything the iPad can do, Linux can do better. (2010-01-28 18:04:49)
Cyber Cynic: "The Apple iPad has finally
arrived, and, as I predicted a while back, it's really just a big
iPod Touch. That's great. I love my iPod Touch. But, really, is
there anything here that Linux can't do just as well for less
money?"
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LCA: Cooperative management of package copyright and licensing data (2010-01-28 17:34:49)
LWN.net: "Kate Stewart is the manager of the
PowerPC team at Freescale. As such, she has a basic customer
service problem to solve: people who buy a board from Freescale
would like to have some sort of operating system to run on it. That
system, of course, will be Linux; satisfying this requirement means
that Freescale must operate as a sort of Linux distributor."
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A Look at KDE 4.4 (2010-01-28 17:04:49)
IT News Today: "The latest version of my
favorite desktop, KDE SC 4.4, is due to be released in just a
couple of weeks. Even though it’s still in beta, I just
couldn’t keep my hands off of it, being the desktop geek that
I am. Let’s take a quick look at how KDE 4.4 is shaping up
during the last leg of its development phase."
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Dear Netflix (2010-01-28 16:34:49)
PetitionOnline: " We, the undersigned, are
current or prospective subscribers of Netflix that would like the
"Watch Now" feature available to Linux users."
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GNOME Activity Journal Shows Your Recent Computer Work (2010-01-28 16:04:49)
Lifehacker: "Linux only: It's still a work in
progress, but GNOME Activity Journal already offers a nice
at-a-glance look at your file work over the last few days, offering
usage charts, image previews, and quick file access."
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20 Ubuntu Karmic Annoyances (2010-01-28 15:34:49)
Rocky Hillside: "If you are mounting shares
from disks on your network and you are using wifi, the shares don't
unmount when you try to shut down. This is a major pain. (The pain
is amplified because folks keep marking the bug "fixed" when it's
not.) "
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Linux Audio Plugin Update (2010-01-28 15:04:49)
Linux Journal: "LADSPA is the senior player in
the Linux audio plugin field. Its API (applications programming
interface) is stable, but development is no longer as lively as
when it first appeared. Nevertheless, some significant LADSPA
plugins have shown up in the last few months."
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The choices inside Ubuntu (2010-01-28 14:34:49)
Linux Pro Magazine "Hearing that the next
Ubuntu release will use Yahoo! as the default search engine in
Firefox leaves me with a twinge of uneasiness. My misgiving -- and
it's a small one -- is not so much with the decision as with why it
was made."
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MonitoringForge.org Reaches 2,000 Registrants and More Than 2,000 Projects in its First Four Months (2010-01-28 14:04:49)
MonitoringForge press release: MonitoringForge
(www.MonitoringForge.org), the epicenter of all open source
projects that relate to IT monitoring, announces its 2,000th
registered member and more than 2,000 projects since its launch in
September 2009. In addition to its expanding membership base,
MonitoringForge has established an advisory board of monitoring
gurus, and implemented new updates to the platform.
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Using Brasero for data backup and ISO burning (2010-01-28 13:34:49)
Linux.com: "From command line to stand alone
GUI to fully desktop-integrated tool, you can get your data (or
ISO) onto a CD or DVD in many ways. One such way is the Brasero
CD/DVD burner. Brasero is the default burner for the GNOME
desktop."
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Zap Provides Open Source Wireless Testing (2010-01-28 13:04:49)
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: "Ruckus has
released the Zap source code under a modified BSD license to
provide the tool to the world, and hopefully spur development of
this and other related analysis tools. Zap measures performance,
statistically, to provide insight into the true nature of how a
network can perform."
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And the best Linux desktop distro of all is... (2010-01-28 12:34:49)
IT World: "When it comes to Linux, there is no
one size fits all answer. But, unlike other desktop operating
systems, Linux doesn't try to squeeze you into a system's that's
too large or too small. Instead, Linux offers a wide variety of
distributions and one of them is likely be the right one for
you."
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Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.33 (Part 2) - Storage (2010-01-28 12:04:49)
The H Open: "Extended discard support means
that Linux now supports ATA TRIM, which can increase SSD lifespan
and throughput."
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Solid State Drives Get Faster with TRIM (2010-01-28 10:34:00)
Enterprise Storage Forum: "More companies are turning to the TRIM command, a subset of the data set management features within the latest ATA specifications, to help them improve the speed of SSD drives and ultimately boost the drives' overall read and write performance."
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What's Next for Firefox? Electrolysis (2010-01-28 09:04:49)
Datamation: "One of the key new features that
the Lorentz branch of Firefox 3.6 will aim to include is a
technology that rival browser Google Chrome helped to popularize
– out of process plugins."
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9 Hilarious USB keys (2010-01-28 07:34:49)
Uphaa: An oldie but goodie, featuring Barbie, a
real thumb drive, and a teddy bear.
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Just what is “Linux”? (2010-01-28 06:04:49)
Ghacks: "The central issue that I have is that
this issue causes great confusion with newbies and anger with power
users. To that end, I thought I would put forth a few ideas that
could solve this issue. It’s confusing, it’s
frustrating, and it’s rooted in years of heavy geek war. So
read on and chime in."
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What Would Life Be Like Without Windows? (2010-01-28 04:34:49)
PC World: "What would life be like without
Microsoft Windows? To listen to the free open source software
crowd, the demise of Windows -- and by extension, Microsoft's
hegemony over the PC universe -- would signal a kind of rebirth for
information technology."
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Installing the Elgg Social Networking CMS (2010-01-28 03:04:49)
Webreference: "Open Source CMSes are the latest
rage it seems, and we've tried out dozens. One that stands out
above the rest for small businesses and personal networks is the
Elgg open source "social engine," which can be used to create
social applications."
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Goodbye KDE, Hello XFCE (2010-01-28 01:34:49)
Doug in Real Time: "This past weekend I
uninstalled KDE4 from my Desktop. When I first started playing
around with Linux, my first desktop was KDE 1.something. Even
though it didn't have the polish of Windows, I could see that it
had a lot of potential."
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Meetings, Minutes, and Mootbot (2010-01-28 00:04:49)
Ubuntu User: "I found out the #ubuntu-meeting
Channel on Freenode uses mootbot. This great little bot that makes
keeping track of action items and gathering meeting minutes/notes
really easy."
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