"Now it’s finally official: the Asus EeePC (for Easy to Learn, Work, and Play) will be available from December in Germany and Austria for a recommended end user price of €299,- including tax. [...] The good news? Debian developer Ben Armstrong has realized that this is the perfect text editing device for himself and his wife, bought two of them, and is currently porting Debian to it! ..."
Read more »Debian-eeepc: the little next big thing
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How to get feisty running in a chroot for PiTiVi development on ubuntu 6.10
PiTiVi is an open source video editor, written in Python and based on GStreamer and GTK+.
Read more »Compiling emacs-unicode from cvs on Debian etch
"Emacs-22+ doesn't support Xft fonts, hence the look and feel of emacs on X-Windows is not that good. But development is going on to provide this feature in emacs. The emacs-unicode-2 branch for emacs has this feature, hopefully this will get integrated to emacs-23.
I followed the following steps to compile emacs unicode from CVS..."
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Python Link Dump
Python is a great programming language and one of the easiest to learn. That doesn't mean that it isn't capable of powerful stuff, however, because Python is known to handle almost every kind of programming task quite well. From basic scripting to enhanced graphical 3D programs: Python can do it all.
Read more »Writing your first Django app, part 1
"Let’s learn by example. Throughout this tutorial, we’ll walk you through the creation of a basic poll application..."
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Building Open Komodo
"This is a wikified version of the README.txt that accompanies the Open Komodo sources (which should always be the most current version of this document). It tells you how to get started building, using and developing with the Open Komodo source base. Komodo is based on Mozilla, so prepare yourself for some serious build time..."
Read more »PR: New version of Care2x HIS was released
Care2x is a GPL'ed Hospital Information System like Vista.
Check it out!
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Django: Moving into production
"At some point, every Django-based project (hopefully) moves out of the development phase and into production deployment, and this can be a traumatic experience.
Read more »Designing/Programming a Window Manager
Recently I started learning what makes Linux work, meaning the core of the whole system. One of the most complex things to understand was the X Window System, or X11 (because the current version is Version 11). In case you don't know, X11 is the part of Linux that actually makes everything graphical and runs windowed programs, and not run programs through a command line interface
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Customizing X Window: An Introduction
X Window, X11 or "X," as it is known for short, provides the programming framework and the underlying runtime system for most Unix and Linux-based network-transparent windowing implementations. It runs on a huge number of Linux and Unix flavors, including Mac OS X and with a bit of help, on several Windows varieties.
Read more »Constructing the Bazaar: Taking advantage of the open-source development model in your project
The open-source development model can can be powerful and incredibly beneficial for any software development project. Yet, even most open-source projects do not follow this style of development. Today, I want to talk a bit about why this is the case, and what can be done to set your project on the right path to enjoy the advantages of the open-source development process.
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script.aculo.us 1.8, Prototype 1.6 and the Book released!
"As part of today’s triple release celebrations, script.aculo.us 1.8 is now available for your download pleasure! ..."
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Why I moved from Prototype to jQuery
"jQuery is a JavaScript library which follows unobtrusive paradigm for application development using JavaScript. jQuery inherently supports Behavior driven development and is based on traversing HTML documents using CSS Selectors. On the other hand, Prototype is a JavaScript library for Class driven development which makes life easier working with JavaScript.
Read more »HOWTO Mutt and Gmail on Debian
Mutt is a text-based e-mail client for Unix-like systems. It was originally written by Michael Elkins in 1995 and released under the GNU General Public License. -- (wikipedia)
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The Dojo Foundation Releases Dojo 1.0
"The Dojo Foundation is proud to announce version 1.0 of Dojo, an Open Source JavaScript toolkit for Ajax development that can be used to build rich Web 2.0 applications..."
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