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Linux News for Dec 29, 2010
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For Commercial Software Firms in 2011, Open Source is Ripe for Picking (2010-12-29 23:02:59)
OStatic: "While our recent roundup of 2010's
biggest open source events emphasized the fact that two large,
public U.S. companies focused primarily on open source--Sun
Microsystems and Novell--lost their independence, 2011 promises to
be the year that open source takes on massive appeal..."
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More command-line fun (2010-12-29 22:32:59)
Distrowatch: "This week I'd like to cover some
command line tips and tricks. There are a lot of tasks which can be
completed with one or two lines and I'd like to share a handful
that I've found useful."
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How You Know When It�s Time to Switch to Linux (2010-12-29 22:02:59)
PC World: "It's easy to be content with your
computer installation as long as it keeps doing what you want it to
without too much trouble. When frequent problems arise, however,
it's hard to remain faithful for long."
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Season of KDE 2010 (2010-12-29 21:32:59)
KDE.news: "This year was the 4th Season of KDE.
Season of KDE (SoK) allows KDE to help support students and
worthwhile projects who didn't manage to get one of the limited
places in the Google Summer of Code program."
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Paul Allen Refiles Massive Patent Suit Against Tech Heavies (2010-12-29 21:02:59)
Datamation: "A company owned by Paul Allen, the
billionaire investor and Microsoft cofounder, has reintroduced a
patent-infringement lawsuit against some of the nation's biggest
Internet companies, including Google and Apple."
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Ext4 filesystem hits Android, no need to fear data loss (2010-12-29 20:32:59)
ars Technica: "Google's new Nexus S smartphone
is the first Android device to use the Ext4 filesystem"
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Microsoft: Novell is toast and the patent Juggernaut rolls on (2010-12-29 19:32:59)
Free Software Magazine: "The end of 2010 has
been interesting. Mass defections from Oracle's OpenOffice team and
the software is ported as LibreOffice. Then Mark Shuttleworth
announces that Wayland is in, Xorg is out and Unity will be the
next Ubuntu desktop."
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Book review: Linux Kernel Development, third edition (2010-12-29 19:02:59)
LWN.net: "It has been well over five years
since LWN reviewed the second edition of Robert Love's Linux Kernel
Development. Needless to say, things have changed a little since
the 2.6.10 release covered by that edition."
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The Big Presentation: The Familiar, the Frustrating and the Flashy (2010-12-29 18:32:59)
LinuxInsider: "The world of Linux includes
several options for users who need to create slide presentations in
the style of Microsoft PowerPoint. OpenOffice.org's Impress does a
great job of mimicking most of PowerPoint's functions, giving
Redmond refugees a familiar tool."
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Allen v. World and Dog - First Amended Complaint (2010-12-29 18:02:59)
Groklaw: "Paul Allen's Interval Licensing has
met the deadline to file an amended complaint [PDF] with
specificity. If you can read it without passing out laughing and/or
having your head explode with disgust, I'd like to know what
happened to you as a child that blunted your normal emotions"
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Behind the KOffice split (2010-12-29 17:32:59)
LWN.net: "On December 6th the KDE Project
announced the Calligra Project, which was called a "continuation of
the KOffice project." Others, though, might call it a fork or a
split between the bulk of the KOffice developers and KWord
developer Thomas Zander."
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Coding styles comparison in the Open Source Software world (2010-12-29 17:02:59)
Balau: "While looking for existing C coding
standards I discovered that the GNU and Linux projects officially
suggest very different styles. Inside the Linux kernel
documentation, Linus Torvalds goes so far as to mock GNU coding
standards:"
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10 Server Predictions for '11 (2010-12-29 16:32:59)
Serverwatch: "These 10 predictions for 2011
will have you watching the latest developments from the big
hardware manufacturers. Sure, some are wishful thinking, but others
are clearly within reach for a 2011 delivery time frame."
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21 More Notable Free Linux Games (Part 3 of 3) (2010-12-29 16:02:59)
LinuxLinks: "This article is the third and
final part in this series. If you missed the first two parts, they
are available to read here: Part 1, Part 2. We have again tried to
cover a wide range of game genres. Hopefully there will be
something in this article which will be of interest to any type of
gamer."
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Apologies about the Slackware Review (2010-12-29 15:32:59)
Das U-blog: "A couple days ago, I reviewed
Slackware 13.1. I wanted to see if I could use it
post-installation, though from what I had read from commenters and
writers on various blogs, it would be tough. At the end, it did
prove to be as tough (and for me, fruitless)"
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The Right's war on Net Neutrality (2010-12-29 15:02:59)
Daily Kos: "No one, other than the big telcos,
seems to be particularly happy with the FCC's Net Neutrality rules,
as Chris documented earlier. But it's important to be clear about
what it is exactly the Right is doing on this one. It's death
panels all over again."
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DesktopNova Background Changer For Gnome & Xfce Desktop Environments (2010-12-29 14:32:59)
LinuxNov: "DesktopNova helps you to auto change
backgrounds after an adjustable time from multiple files and
folders you can add it to different profiles."
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Ex-Red Hat CEO Szulik sues over $60M loss (2010-12-29 14:02:59)
Triangle Business Journal: "Former Red Hat CEO
Matthew Szulik, his wife, father and other family members have
filed a federal suit against a St. Thomas-based investment advisory
firm, claiming the family lost $60 million in high risk and
illiquid investments they did not approve."
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Dependency-confessions of a slacker (2010-12-29 13:32:59)
Linux Beginner: ""Recently there has been a
thread at the Slackware-forum (at linuxquestions.org) about the
occupation of Slackware-users. It was expected there would be a
great deal of IT-workers amongst them. But instead, the answers
showed that there were all kinds of professions. It's not a uniform
community"
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Buying a Dell without Windows is not easy, but possible (2010-12-29 11:02:59)
The Geek Stuff: "Buying a PC from any large
manufacturer/retailer without a copy of Windows pre-installed is
difficult. You have some companies that refuse to sell a machine if
you want Windows removed"
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Linux in education: a genuine alternative (2010-12-29 09:02:59)
TechRadar: "Using free software in education is
not just about saving money. It's also about preserving choice, not
locking a student's experience into a certain way of doing
something."
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Time of Trolling (2010-12-29 07:02:59)
Linux Pro Magazine: "The Internet was invented
for effortless sharing of information. Creators and purveyors of
information, however, do not always intend for it to be
effortlessly and freely shared."
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OpenSceneGraph: Managing Scene Graph (2010-12-29 05:02:59)
Packt: "Create high-performance virtual reality
applications with OpenSceneGraph, one of the best 3D graphics
engines."
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How to Restore Missing Volume Control Icon/Button in Ubuntu Linux (2010-12-29 03:02:59)
Tech Source: "One of the most annoying bugs in
the latest versions of Ubuntu (versions 10.04 - 10.10) is the
disappearing or missing volume control applet from the system tray
inside the GNOME panel."
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The Top 5 Networking Stories of 2010 (2010-12-29 01:02:59)
ZDNet: "I'd much rather write about what was
new and neat about networking in 2010, but the sad truth is I think
the many of the most important networking stories in 2010 were
about regulations rather than innovations."
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