Emtec, the company behind the Gdium netbook, is launching the One Laptop Per Hacker program. Interested developers can apply to get a pre-release Gdium system at a reduced price of €250.
Read more »Mplayer, FFmpeg Gain VA-API Support
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Nice article at Phoronix about adding VA-API (short for Video Acceleration API) support in mplayer and ffmpeg.
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Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part II
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"This is the second part of a three-part article on the famous sed one-liners. This part will explain sed one-liners for selective printing of certain lines. See part one for introduction of the series..."
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A Linux Literary Trilogy
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When I started delving into the world of Linux development, I was not only befuddled by the strange code layout and conventions, I also found the culture and ethos of Linux very confusing. There were three books that were invaluable in pulling my understanding out of this quagmire
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Second 2008 Edition of Nectarine City Handbook of C Programming Style
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"This is the second edition of the Nectarine City Handbook of C Programming Style. It comes pretty soon after the first, but is mostly new material rather than corrections of the first edition..."
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Open source programming languages for kids
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The past couple of years have seen an explosion of open source programming languages and utilities that are geared toward children. Many of these efforts are based around the idea that, since the days of BASIC, programming environments have become far too complex for untrained minds to wrap themselves around.
Read more »githubredir.debian.net - Delivering .tar.gz from Github tags
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"There is quite a bit of software whose upstream authors decide that, as they are already using Git for development, the main distribution channel should be GitHub - This allows, yes, for quite a bit of flexibility, which many authors have taken advantage of. So, I just registered and set up http://githubredir.debian.net/ to make it easier for packagers to take advantage of it..."
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Rinari: a top-notch Ruby and Rails development environment for GNU/Linux
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"...Rinari is an Emacs minor mode that is aimed towards making Emacs into a top-notch Ruby and Rails development environment. For the latest version see..."
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LPI set to launch new and revised LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 Linux certification programs
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The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) announced it has completed an extensive review and update of the exam objectives for the popular LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 certification programs. New versions of these exams will be published and available on April 1, 2009.
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Five Features Perl 5 Needs Now
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Perl's 21st anniversary of release is next Thursday, 18 December. Perl 5 is already 14 years old. Though the language has seen many changes since 1994, it can't stand still. Perl 5.10 added many wonderful features and Perl 6 will change the landscape for programming languages, but what's the vision for Perl 5? How can the language stay relevant?
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The A-Z of Programming Languages: Perl
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This time we chat with Larry Wall, creator of the Perl programming language and regarded as the father of modern scripting languages.
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Linux distributions ranked for speed, security, support, performance: Whirlwind Tech Tour
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After a Thanksgiving break, the Whirlwind Tech Tour is back on the move. This week, we address the issue of how Linux distributions compare in performance under different enterprise conditions.
Read more »Apache HTTP Server 2.2.11 Released
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"The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.11 of the Apache HTTP Server ("Apache"). This version of Apache is principally a bug fix release..."
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Open Source E-Books for Linux
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Lists of books about: Installation and Getting Started, Security, Sys Admin, Programming, Migration, Kernel, and more
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GnuTLS 2.6.3
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"We are proud to announce a new stable GnuTLS release: Version 2.6.3. GnuTLS is a modern C library that implement the standard network
security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS), for use by network
applications. GnuTLS is developed for GNU/Linux, but works on many
Unix-like systems..."
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