How to Make Windows Faster than Linux Tech Source: "I can go on and on explaining about its quickness but since I'm here to teach you how to make Windows faster than Linux, I will now share with you these tips:" (Jul 16, 2010)
Linux Today Features
Claimed Proof That UNIX Code Was Copied Into Linux Slashdot: "SCO's ex-CEO's brother, a lawyer named Kevin McBride, has finally revealed some of the UNIX code that SCO claimed was copied into Linux." (Jul 12, 2010)
Python development - the golden rules (Jul 29, 2010, 19:36 UTC) (234 reads)
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(feedback) Linux User and Developer: "As part of his massive Python Masterclass article, Kunal Deo drew up some golden rules when working with Python."
Demonstrating multi-processing in Bash 4 (Jul 29, 2010, 16:06 UTC) (770 reads)
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(feedback) I Am, Therefore I Think: "I have an on-going project, to code the Collatz sequence in as many languages as I can. So far, I've implemented it in C (integer and floating-point), assembly (x86, x86_64, and SPARC32), Java, BASIC in Open Office.org, Tcl, Lisp, Ada, Python, and Bash."
The U.S. Government and Its Partners Open Up To FOSS (Jul 29, 2010, 15:06 UTC) (635 reads)
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(feedback) Acrossad: "In a rapidly evolving world, people at high levels in the government have come to the realization that FOSS may offer higher levels of software development flexibility than the traditional proprietary models. The fact that FOSS helps to alleviate some of the pressure created by tight budgets and other fiscal constraints doesn't hurt."
Red Hat, 16%. Canonical, 1%. (Jul 29, 2010, 14:06 UTC) (2056 reads)
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(feedback) Greg DeKoenigsberg Speaks: "If you doubt, for a nanosecond, that Canonical is a marketing organization masquerading as an engineering organization, then you’re either an unapologetic Ubuntu fanboy or you’re not paying attention"
Oracle shuts down open source test servers (Jul 29, 2010, 13:06 UTC) (1537 reads)
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(feedback) IT News: "Oracle has shut down servers Sun Microsystems was contributing to the build farm for open source database software, PostgreSQL, forcing enthusiasts to scramble to find new hosts to test updates to their software on the Solaris operating system."
Spotlight: Kate Scripting (Jul 29, 2010, 12:36 UTC) (542 reads)
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(feedback) Milian Wolff: "Dominik asked me to blog about a feature in Kate that is still (sadly!) pretty unknown and seldom used: Kate Scripting. As you should know you can script KatePart completely via JavaScript."
Python Development Masterclass (Jul 29, 2010, 03:06 UTC) (1610 reads)
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(feedback) Linux User and Developer: "Mostly seen as a scripting language for system administrators, it is actually capable of doing almost everything and beyond the limitations of regular programming languages. Python started its life as a time-saver programming language."
LinuxCon 2010 - Just for Fun - Poll (Jul 28, 2010, 21:34 UTC) (846 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Given this amazing year, we want to hear from you about what you think are some of the most important milestones in the areas that we're going to be exploring at LinuxCon in a couple weeks"
Why Free Software is a Matter of Life and Death (Jul 28, 2010, 19:04 UTC) (1178 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld UK: "But for most people, it's hard to understand why software freedom is really that important. So this new report “Killed by Code: Software Transparency in Implantable Medical Devices” from the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) provides a handy opportunity to get the message across:"
Novell opens Linux appliance gallery (Jul 28, 2010, 18:34 UTC) (1187 reads)
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(feedback) Channel Register: "Novell has opened an online gallery for SUSE software appliances.
It has been a year since Novell launched its SUSE Appliance Program, which offers a set of online tools, dubbed SUSE Studio, for spinning up software appliances based on its SUSE Linux distro."
Why Android won (Jul 28, 2010, 17:04 UTC) (3985 reads)
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(feedback) ZDNet: "The LiMo Foundation and GNOME sent out a press release this week touting their cooperation and the media laughed."
Open source startup takes over OpenSSO (Jul 28, 2010, 15:34 UTC) (1266 reads)
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(feedback) TechWorld: "A Norwegian startup is assuming responsibility for maintaining an open source web authentication technology originally developed by Sun Microsystems, and seemingly neglected by Oracle, which purchased Sun in January."
GNOME 3.0 delayed to March 2011 (Jul 28, 2010, 14:04 UTC) (2022 reads)
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(feedback) der Standard: "Developers want to take more time to "polish" their next major release - GNOME 2.32 in September"
Is Oracle trying to kill VirtualBox? (Jul 28, 2010, 13:34 UTC) (5947 reads)
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(feedback) Muktware: "It seems Oracle is hellbent on destroying whatever good Sun had done to the Open Source Ecosystem. The latest product to get the axe seems to be none other than the Flagship Virtualization program xVM VirtualBox."
Kernel Log: Who’s responsible for troubleshooting and quality assurance? (Jul 28, 2010, 12:34 UTC) (2088 reads)
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(feedback) The H Open: "Recently, a Red Hat developer got rid of a flaw in an Intel graphics driver, probably for a special corporate customer. For years, the flaw had been a thorn in the side of numerous users of systems with the 945GM chip-set."
Announcing the world’s fastest VP8 decoder: ffvp8 (Jul 27, 2010, 21:33 UTC) (1717 reads)
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(feedback) Diary Of An x264 Developer: "Back when I originally reviewed VP8, I noted that the official decoder, libvpx, was rather slow. While there was no particular reason that it should be much faster than a good H.264 decoder, it shouldn’t have been that much slower either!"
Python4Kids New Tutorial: Random Imports (Jul 27, 2010, 18:03 UTC) (1112 reads)
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(feedback) Python Tutorials for Kids: "In our last tutorial, we met the concept of functions. It turns out that functions (and another concept called classes, which we haven’t got to yet) are the workhorse of Python. Almost everything you will end up doing with Python will involve the use of functions."
Bash Co-Processes (Jul 27, 2010, 17:03 UTC) (1620 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Journal: "One of the new features in bash 4.0 is the coproc statement. The coproc statement allows you to create a co-process that is connected to the invoking shell via two pipes: one to send input to the co-process and one to get output from the co-process."
Five Handy Tips for MySQL's Powerful UPDATE Statement
(Jul 27, 2010, 16:03 UTC) (1252 reads)
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(feedback) Database Journal: "Rob Gravelle explores the MySQL UPDATE statement, which is used to modify existing records in a table. Among its many features, he looks at how to update multiple tables, avoiding mistakes, and how to limit how many rows are updated."
Forking KDE 3: Trinity KDE's Timothy Pearson (Jul 27, 2010, 15:03 UTC) (1860 reads)
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(feedback) Datamation: "To most users, KDE 3 is obsolete, replaced two years ago by the KDE 4 series. Yet, many continue to lament the loss of KDE 3, and greeted enthusiastically the news earlier this year that a project called Trinity KDE had started in order "to keep the KDE 3.5 computing style alive, as well as polish off any rough edges that were present as of KDE 3.5.10.""
Writing Better Shell Scripts – Part 2 (Jul 27, 2010, 13:03 UTC) (2254 reads)
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(feedback) Innovations: "There are a lot of opinions about how error handling should be done, which range from doing nothing to implementing comprehensive solutions. In this post, as well as my professional work, I try to err on the side of in-depth solutions."
What? Already? Yep, it's Kiara 15! (Jul 27, 2010, 06:03 UTC) (1905 reads)
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(feedback) The Kiara Blog: "Now available for download!
Apparently, two days after 3.6.7, Firefox released version 3.6.8, and so, in keeping with my "follow Firefox" policy, two days after releasing Kiara 14, I am releasing releasing Kiara 15."
GPLv3 now dominates at Google Code #oscon (Jul 27, 2010, 00:03 UTC) (1353 reads)
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(feedback) Netstat -vat: "According to data presented by DiBona, the GPLv3 license now represents more than half of the GPL licensed code that Google hosts on its Google Code site."
Deacon: Musings on Starting an Open-Source Project (Jul 26, 2010, 19:07 UTC) (890 reads)
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(feedback) daverea.com: "I’ve been using open-source software since the late-nineties – I can still remember the intrigued excitement I felt when my friend Seth first told me about a free system called “Linux”, and showed me the LRP box humming along in his attic."
FFmpeg's VP8 Decoder Blasts Google's Decoder (Jul 26, 2010, 18:07 UTC) (2866 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "...but now the FFmpeg developers have created their own decoder and it's shockingly faster than that of Google's own open-source library."
Portable Linux Apps Which Work With Any Linux Distro (Jul 26, 2010, 17:37 UTC) (2645 reads)
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(feedback) MakeUseOf: "Due to the complexity of Linux dependencies, and the different way different distributions locate these dependencies, the portable Linux application long seemed like a pipe dream.
Until now."
Open Source Does Not Need "Monetising" (Jul 26, 2010, 16:07 UTC) (1325 reads)
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(feedback) Computerworld UK: "While the colourful needs of "open source businesses" may fascinate, we must not lose sight of the true nature of open source communities"
Tool of the week – ftsh (Jul 26, 2010, 12:37 UTC) (1426 reads)
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(feedback) Mynitor: "The Fault-Tolerant Shell (ftsh) is a small language for system integration that makes failures a first class concept. Ftsh aims to combine the ease of scripting with very precise error semantics. It is especially useful in building distributed systems"
Open sound series: Part 3 - Ampache (Jul 26, 2010, 11:07 UTC) (1231 reads)
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(feedback) Opensource.com: "Building a community is core to all open source projects. In fact, an open source project that lacks a community is likely missing the point of being open source. So what happens when your open project is designed to create communities?"
Installing FB4Linux in Eclipse (Jul 25, 2010, 23:05 UTC) (1038 reads)
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(feedback) Matthew Casperson's Hubfolio: "FB4Linux is an Eclipse plugin that provides Flash development capabilities in Linux. Getting it installed can be tricky though, as there are a few undocumented steps you'll have to complete."
Perl Creator Hints at Imminent Perl 6 Release (Jul 24, 2010, 23:07 UTC) (3291 reads)
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(feedback) PCWorld: "In his annual "State of the Onion" speech at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON), Perl creator Larry Wall hinted that the long-awaited version 6 of the Perl programming language might finally be released soon."
Google executive frustrated by Java, C++ complexity (Jul 24, 2010, 19:07 UTC) (6239 reads)
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(feedback) Infoworld: "Today's commercial-grade programming languages -- C++ and Java, in particular -- are way too complex and not adequately suited for today's computing environments, Google distinguished engineer Rob Pike argued in a talk Thursday at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference."
Droid X rooted, bootloader still locked (Jul 24, 2010, 11:07 UTC) (2971 reads)
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(feedback) ars Technica: "Android enthusiast Stephen Bird found a way to gain root access on Motorola's new Droid X smartphone. He ported an exploit for the Motorola Milestone that was recently published by developer Sebastian Krahmer."
Taking webm for a Spin (Jul 23, 2010, 22:34 UTC) (3020 reads)
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(feedback) Montana Linux: "I first blogged about webm the day Google released it. It has taken some time but now I have full support for webm in my preferred Linux desktop distro (Fedora 13). I've been doing some testing and I have to say I'm impressed."
Why WordPress Themes are Derivative of WordPress (Jul 23, 2010, 14:34 UTC) (1759 reads)
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(feedback) Mark on WordPress: "It is the position of the WordPress core developers that themes cannot be considered wholly original creations even when they don’t copy large sections of code in from WordPress. Theme code necessarily derives from WordPress and thus must be licensed under the GPL if it is distributed."
SECURITY: New 'Kraken' GSM-cracking software is released (Jul 23, 2010, 14:04 UTC) (2330 reads)
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(feedback) PC World: "On Friday, an open source effort to develop GSM-cracking software released software that cracks the A5/1 encryption algorithm used by some GSM networks. Called Kraken, this software uses new, very efficient, encryption cracking tables that allow it to break A5/1 encryption much faster than before."
