We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.22.4 kernel. It contains one security fix and all users of the 2.6.22 series are encouraged to upgrade to it.
Read more »New OpenSUSE education apps available
While there has been some controversy over whether LTSP support would be added to SUSE’s so-called EduCD, to be distributed with their fourth quarter version 10.3 release, a wide variety of software slated for inclusion in their education-centered set of add-ons is now available for download and testing.
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Operator 0.8 is available
"Operator leverages microformats and other semantic data that are already available on many web pages to provide new ways to interact with web services."
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Debian Lenny & initng
"...Debian Lenny might be called the 'testing' version but I find it stable enough to be used every day as your main OS. The rough edges make it an excellent distribution for the real geek, the computer user that finds that other distributions are either to polished (Ubuntu, SuSe) or too rough (Gentoo, Slackware)..."
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How to make a GTK theme that uses multiple theme engines
Since the publication of my Pidgin review a few months ago, I've received a steady stream of e-mails and instant messages with requests for my GTK theme. To my great surprise, readers actually seem to think that I have good taste.
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Why XSserver 1.4 won't make it into Ubuntu Gutsy
If everything goes well, Ubuntu 7.10, Gutsy Gibbon, the next community version of the popular Linux distribution, will appear in October. It will not, however, include the latest and greatest X window server and utilities: Xserver 1.4 and X.Org 7.3.
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A guide to better understanding the KDE 3.5 Konsole
One of the greatest tools of any Linux or BSD system is the console. There are numerous different shells that go with it as well as graphical interfaces to allow you to make use of it. In this overview we will be covering just one of those applications, namely the KDE "Konsole" graphical console interface application.
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2007 Desktop Linux Survey results revealed
According to DesktopLinux.com's just completed survey, the number of Desktop Linux users has more than doubled in the past year, and Ubuntu remains their Linux distribution of choice.
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Resource Representation
"Software developers seem largely incapable of understanding the difference between resources and their representation. Understanding that difference is absolutely vital in understanding REST and the Resource Oriented Architecture (ROA).[...]Understanding this distinction is vitally important if we are to move forward successfully in building the functional web of information..."
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Firefox 3 - XUL Application Runtime
"Firefox 3 will be able to launch full blown XUL applications - running in their own separate processes and separate profiles. Up until now, XULRunner was the only way to deploy XUL-based applications..."
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Turn ChatZilla into an Universal Instant Messaging Client
"Considering shortcomings of various universal IM clients, be they feature or technical (see below), I opted to use a basic client of my choice with the hopes of increasing its interoperability. I was successful. [...]Without further reading, this is how to get Bitlbee and ChatZilla to connect to your IM accounts.
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Freebase - public alpha
"Freebase, a cutting-edge service that could turn out to be a milestone in semantic web technologies, is now in “public alpha”... [...] Freebase gatheres its data from open accessible data sources such as wikipedia and does an obviously highly sophisticated semantic analysis on it, which means this database/searchengine “knows” the data it handles..."
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Mozilla to release Firefox Campus Edition
"...We'll wait to see what other add-ons Firefox bundles with its campus edition before passing judgment, but it looks like you might as well just download and install Firefox 2.0.0.6 and install the appropriate add-ons yourself..."
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Midnight Commander in Action
Midnight Commander (mc for short) is the most popular console (command line) file manager. Its design was inspired by classic two-panel interface found in the famous Norton Commander, a DOS file manager. Midnight Commander is equipped in many functions.
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Ubuntu 7.10 Tribe 5 Released
"Tribe 5, the fifth alpha release of Ubuntu 7.10 “Gusty Gibbon” is out..."
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