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Linux News for Dec 30, 2010
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Editor's Note: Where the HECK Did 2010 Go! (2010-12-30 23:03:59)
A new year, new beginnings, new opportunities!
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�Single window� GIMP release delayed � but why? (2010-12-30 22:17:59)
OMG Ubuntu: "I was only recently made aware
that GIMP 2.8, a.k.a. 'the one with single window mode', had
strayed off course from its intended release date of December 26th
this year."
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The Kno Textbook Tablet Preview (2010-12-30 21:32:59)
MakeTechEasier: "Almost every new tablet that
has emerged in the iPad-dominated market has essentially been a
direct competitor to the iPad, offering little, if any, basic
usability advantages."
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Looking back, looking ahead (2010-12-30 20:47:59)
Larry the Free Software Guy: "Now that I have
finally disengaged myself from the what is commercially and
socially — and for some, spiritually (and God bless you,
every one) — known as "the holiday season," I have been
giving a lot of thought to how good a year 2010 was, the Sun
purchase by Oracle and the Novell deal notwithstanding, and what
2011 has to offer."
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Top 50 Programming Quotes of All Time (2010-12-30 20:04:59)
Tech Source: "I hope you have enjoyed our
collection of funny computer quotes, Linux quotes, and all those
quotes that we have shared with you so far. For today, I've decided
to gather a good number of my all-time favorite programming-related
quotes."
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Kernel Log: Coming in 2.6.37 (Part 5) - Drivers (2010-12-30 19:34:59)
The H Open: "Support for fast USB 3.0 storage
devices with USB Attached SCSI Protocol (UASP), an audio loopback
driver plus extensions to support Apple's Magic Trackpad are only
some of the advances"
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Oracle wins the 2010 Open Source Enemies Prize (2010-12-30 19:04:59)
TechRepublic: "The year 2010 has seen a number
of enemies of open source software making waves. After thinking
about it long and hard — about five minutes or so — I
have determined the proper winner of the 2010 Open Source Enemies
Prize, though some other contenders deserve a Dishonorable
Mention"
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Net Neutrality 2011: What Storms May Come (2010-12-30 18:34:59)
InternetNews: "When the Federal Communications
Commission passed its first binding network neutrality rules
earlier this month, it brought a sort of closure to a long-running,
raucous debate that had left nearly all participants exasperated,
if not exhausted."
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Skype Expresses $1 Worth of Sorrow (2010-12-30 18:04:59)
ZDNet: "Skype is sorry that their house of
cards collapsed. Sorry, to the tune of $1."
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Transform Gedit Into A Web Developer IDE (2010-12-30 17:34:59)
MakeTechEasier: "To many, it may seems like a
normal text-editor with no special functions (just like notepad in
Windows), but for those regular users, they will swear by it and
marvel at how powerful and versatile it can be. With its plugins
system, it can easily transform itself from a basic text-editor to
complicated and powerful programming IDE."
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Hedgewars - Awesome Open-Source Worms-Like Game for Linux (2010-12-30 17:04:59)
Tuxarena: "A few days ago I reviewd WarMUX, a
free and open-source Worms-like game for Linux. Today I'll take a
look to Hedgewars, another free Worms clone with funny characters,
good playability and support for online multiplayer."
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Finally a Download Accelerator for Linux that Works with Chrome/Chromium (2010-12-30 16:34:59)
Ubuntu Vibes: "There are not many download
accelerators for Linux that integrate well with web browsers and
have support for downloading links right from the browser."
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OSI asks German Federal Cartel Office to investigate CPTN transaction
(2010-12-30 16:04:59)
Michael Tiemann's blog: "Earlier this month it
was revealed that a consortium of companies led by Microsoft have
offered over $400M to strip out all of Novell's patent assets from
the Attachmate transaction and place them into a new entity called
CPTN."
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Browsers 2010: The Year in Review (2010-12-30 15:34:59)
Internetnews: "The past year was one of the
busiest in recent memory for browser developers, with multiple
releases and innovations from Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple
Safari, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Opera."
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Pidgin 2.7.9 updates for security and smileys ?! (2010-12-30 15:04:59)
Netstat -vat: "The open source pidgin instant
messenger client, is out with a new update fixing at least one
security issue as well as an interesting emoticon/smiley
issue."
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We're Hiring: Full-Time Developer Opening in Corvallis, Oregon (2010-12-30 14:34:59)
Open Source Lab: "Want to write code and
support the missions of some of the world's most important open
source projects?"
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Android Market said to surpass 200K (2010-12-30 14:04:59)
LinuxDevices: "Android Market is now offering
200,000 applications, only a few months after surpassing 100,000,
according to estimates published by AndroLib."
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Kick off for GNOME:Ayatana Project... (2010-12-30 13:34:59)
Lizards.OpenSUSE: "Follow effective action with
quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more
effective action."
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TENQ P07: a 10-inch tablet that runs Ubuntu (2010-12-30 13:04:59)
Geek.com: "If you are in the market for a
tablet device at the moment, the two choices you have are an Apple
iOS iPad or one of the growing number of Android tablets. But next
year the choice of OS could double."
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6 Linux Burning Applications - Overview & Screenshots (2010-12-30 11:04:59)
TuxArena: "K3b is a powerful, feature-complete
burning application for KDE 4 which comes with support for burning
CDs, DVDs, ISO images, Blu-ray discs, audio CDs, creating ISO
images."
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Genealogy Program: Gramps 3.2.5 released (2010-12-30 09:04:59)
Gramps: "The Gramps Developers are happy to
announce a new bug fix release: Version 3.2.5 — the "I intend
to live forever" bug fix release."
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Putin orders Russian gov't to move to open source (2010-12-30 05:04:59)
IT World: "Russian Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin [cq] has ordered government agencies there to open-source
software by 2015, according to translated documents."
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PCLinuxOS 64-Bit Suffers Delays, but Still Coming (2010-12-30 03:04:59)
OStatic: "A long anticipated 64-bit version of
PCLOS was reported to be in development this past November. And as
2010 draws to a close, some wonder what its current status is."
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Linux for the rest of us? (2010-12-30 01:04:59)
Fan: "Back in the late 1990s, people were
touting Linux as the "next big thing." Think back to 1998 when an
internal memo released by Microsoft about the "Linux threat" was
leaked to the public."
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Top 50 Programming Quotes of All Time (2010-12-13 19:05:33)
TechSource: "I hope you have enjoyed our
collection of funny computer quotes, Linux quotes, and all those
quotes that we have shared with you so far. For today, I've decided
to gather a good number of my all-time favorite programming-related
quotes."
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