"This will not be another “I just installed Ubuntu — it beats Windows — try it yourself” type of review. It is going to be rather a report from another successful upgrade, pointing out the biggest surprises and the most miserable failures of the latest release of Ubuntu Linux, codenamed Feisty Fawn."
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No Penguins On Today’s Safari? — TalkBMC
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"Moments ago Apple announced that Windows users can now download and run their popular Safari web browser. That's right, more Apple software on Windows boxes. Safari is a pretty cool browser, and I do use it on my MacBook Pro. But where's my Safari for Linux? Why wasn't today's announcement about open sourcing Safari?"
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Is Zenoss ambition justified?
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Whether this release makes the “big four” wake up screaming at night is not the issue. If it keeps lawyers, doctors, and parents from losing hair in their network management duties, that will be more than good enough.
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Novell's Redacted Reply Memo re SCO's Lack of Slander of Title Special Damages
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One of the motions argued on May 31st, is fascinatingly blunt. "After three years of litigation, SCO seeks more than $100 million in 'special damages' based on nothing but some hearsay accounts of what mostly unidentified third parties supposedly said about unspecified potential licenses." Oof.
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Quick First Review of the Dell Ubuntu Notebook Computer Inspiron E1505N
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The Internet was operational immediately without any further setup. Using Firefox, I was able to access all my favorite websites. Going to youtube.com, the Flash plug-in installation was required, which was successfully completed in a few simple steps. Along the way I plugged in a USB mouse which was immediately functional without even asking a question.
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SCO to be deleted from Russell Microcap Index June 22
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The Russell family of U.S. indexes is designed to be a comprehensive representation of the investable U.S. equity market. These indexes are value-weighted and include only common stocks belonging to corporations incorporated in the United States and its territories.
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Read more »Linux Game Review: Nexuiz Linux Game Review: Nexuiz
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Nexuiz is a 3d first person shooter (FPS) done in the old Quake 1 style of gameplay where graphics weren't as important as was the raw fun of pure deathmatch play. That form of gameplay has been lost in many ways in the newer games of today with their greater concentration on graphics and less on gameplay.
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Ubuntu Linux's Mark Shuttleworth in the Hot Seat
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Mark Shuttleworth made news in 2002 when he fulfilled a lifelong ambition and became the first South African to travel into space, paying $20 million to be a civilian cosmonaut on an eight-day flight aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. In 2004, he founded Ubuntu Linux to bring the operating system to people around the world.
Read more »Why so many Linux distributions?
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Seriously, there are so many different distributions and they are all very similar to each other with superficial differences to separate one from the other. So why is it that there are so many slightly different copies of Linux floating around?
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Doubt no more that mySQL is enterprise class
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The open source database based in Finland started from nothing, and the argument against it has always been that it lacks the features and functionality enterprises need, that it’s three, or two, or at least a year behind Oracle in vital respects.
I don’t think you can make that argument any more.
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Installing The PHP-MSSQL Module On CentOS 5.0
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As you might have noticed on Centos 5.0, there is no PHP-MSSQL module/extension available in the default yum repositories. So if you want to use it you can alter the PHP binary or you can compile an mssql module/extension. In this article I will explain how to compile the mssql module/extension.
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IBM Jazzes up Eclipse
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IBM expanding its backing for Eclipse with the release of an open source application lifecycle management (ALM) platform serving its Rational tools.
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A Sample Function inline with Bashprompt
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In a recent text configuring colors for the Bash prompt was discussed. In this text a method of messing with the prompt is expanded upon by actually inserting a shell code function inline with the bash prompt.
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Taking OpenSolaris for a spin
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If you're like most Linux users, you've heard of OpenSolaris, but I'm willing to bet you've never tried it. One reason, as former Debian co-founder and now Sun Chief Operating Platforms Officer Ian Murdock explained, is that OpenSolaris doesn't come as a packaged operating system like Linux does.
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How to boot Knoppix 4.0 from a USB Flash Drive
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The following instructions describe the process for installing Knoppix Linux on a USB flash drive. This allows the OS to be booted directly from the flash drive. The instructions have been tested to work on Dell Optiplex GX270 and GX280s.
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