But the German government has made an official statement on Secure Boot (and Trusted Computing). Since it’s just a position statement, it does not count as a legal challenge to Microsoft, but it’s s start.
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Linux Mint 14 MATE and Cinnamon preview
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That’s less than 10 days after the first Release Candidate was announced. What type of testing does this thing get? By the way, that’s normal for Linux Mint distribution, but again, how well is this distribution tested before it’s released to the public?
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OSSEC 2.7 released
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OSSEC is cross-platform, with binary packages available for all Linux distributions, the BSDs, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS, VMWare ESX, AIX, and HP-UX.
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Portuguese Government Adopts ODF as Sole Editable Document Format
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According to a press release issued today by the Portuguese Open Source Business Association, the government of Portugal has decided to approve the OpenDocument Format as the single editable, XML-based document format for use by government, and in public procurement.
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How to install your favorite Linux distribution on a Series 3 Chromebook
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That was one thing I did not like about it. The other thing I wondered is, will I be able to install my favorite Linux distribution on the it just as easily as I can on a regular notebook or desktop computer? The answer to that question, it turns out, is a
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How To Install MySQL 5.6 On Ubuntu 12.10 (Including memcached Plugin)
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According to What's New in MySQL 5.6, MySQL 5.6 will bring some performance improvements over MySQL 5.5. If you want to test out MySQL 5.6, you have to install one of the development releases from the MySQL downloads page because there is no stable release yet. This tutorial explains how to install the MySQL 5.6.8rc1 (Linux Generic) development release on an Ubuntu 12.10 server.
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Higher Ed CMS Usage Results
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At the end of February, .eduGuru set out to begin another round of research on a trend in higher ed web development and took a look at the CMSs being used from school to school. PHP and Java rule the roost as programming language, with PHP just barely leading.
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How to dual-boot BackTrack 5 R3 and Windows 7
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If you’ve ever attempted to dual-boot BackTrack 5 and Windows by installing the former on partitions that you created manually, you know that the installer will not allow you to install GRUB in the boot partition or any of the partitions used for BackTrack 5.
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One of the ways that Anaconda on Fedora 18 will be different from the previous editions is that it will no longer handle upgrades. That feature has been pushed on that a different system called Fedora Upgrader.
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The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 12.10
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This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 12.10 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops. The advantages are clear: you get a secure system without DRM restrictions that works even on old hardware, and the best thing is: all software comes free of charge.
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Join the FSF and friends on Friday November 16th, from 2pm to 5pm EDT (18:00 to 21:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory by adding new entries and updating existing ones. We will be on IRC in the #fsf channel on freenode. While these meetings will continue, this Friday will be our volunteer Andrew's last time running them, so lets make it a big one!
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Interview: Linus Torvalds – I don't read code any more
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Glyn Moody interviewed at the recent LinuxCon Europe 2012 in Barcelona, Spain. A lot has changed since his earlier interview back in 1996.
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PostgreSQL tuning example for 9.1 postgresql.conf
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Each tuning is almost unique. We show postgresql.conf file for 9.1 version as a starting point on Debian GNU/Linux systems.
These examples were deployed for a given major query profile, discovered using PgFouine.
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Serving CGI Scripts With Nginx On OpenSUSE 12.2
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This tutorial shows how you can serve CGI scripts (Perl scripts) with nginx on OpenSUSE 12.2. While nginx itself does not serve CGI, there are several ways to work around this. I will outline two solutions: the first is to proxy requests for CGI scripts to Thttpd, a small web server that has CGI support, while the second solution uses a CGI wrapper to serve CGI scripts.
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Elementary OS Luna preview
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What I especially like about the whole desktop is that every aspect is clean, uncluttered and very intuitive to use. This is definitely one distribution to keep an eye on.
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