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Linux turns 17

October 5, 2008

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community / Doc Searls

Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT, was the subject of Linus Benedict Torvalds post to comp.os.minix on October 5, 1991 -- seventeen years ago today. read more

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Matt Mullenweg Demo of Wordpress 2.7

October 6, 2008

CenterNetworks / Allen Stern

Earlier today we posted the "State of the Word" presentation by Wordpress co-founder Matt Mullenweg. After his presentation, Matt spent some time demonstrating the upcoming 2.7 release of Wordpress.

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MediaGuardian: The BBC can be an open source for everyone

October 6, 2008

Blog and news combined / Laura Oliver

The BBC's future lies in the technology that can 'open it up to the world' - it is in the position to create a 'cultural and commercial resource' for the UK.

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WordCamp NYC: Matt Mullenweg on the State of Wordpress (video)

October 5, 2008

CenterNetworks / Allen Stern

Today in NYC WordCamp was held at the Sun Microsystems HQ. A big thanks to Jonathan Dingman for organizing everything... having been to many "camps", this one was better organized than most.

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Pandora's box: The open source handheld gaming console

October 7, 2008

Shiny Shiny / LucyHedges

It looks a bit like a handheld games console from the 80s (which might explain the presence of the floppy disk), but technophiles have been singing Pandora's praises across the web for the past few ...

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Using Wordpress

October 7, 2008

Classic Creations Graphic Design / Nola

  I get asked, “Can I move my blog to WordPress?”.

NSA: Open source provides extreme security at lower cost

October 7, 2008

The Open Road / Matt Asay

In one of the biggest testaments yet of open source's security credentials, and of its ability to deliver security at lower cost, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has turned to open source to ...

Using Opera on Linux

October 7, 2008

java.blogs Recent Entries / Tom Talks Too Much

Tom Talks Too Much

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Ubuntu Confirms Linux Netbook Returns Higher than Anticipated

October 6, 2008

LAPTOP Magazine: The Pulse of Mobile Technology

MSI candidly told us that Linux netbooks see a 4 times higher return rate than netbooks that are preloaded with Windows XP.

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Bracketed USB Japanese desk lamp

October 6, 2008

Boing Boing Gadgets / John Brownlee

Japanese design firm Conof makes these wonderful bracket-shaped lamps with a light that swivles up to 270 degrees and a few spare USB ports for charging your gadgets.

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MSI Wind coming to retailer near you; Linux returns 4 times higher than XP

October 6, 2008

jkOnTheRun / James Kendrick

Laptop Magazine interviewed one of the top US executives for MSI about what is in store for the popular Wind netbook line.

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Hibernating a Linux Laptop...FINALLY!

October 5, 2008

TechRepublic Blogs / Jack Wallen

After much searching and hair pulling Jack Wallen has finally found a means to get a laptop to hibernate. It's not perfect but it works every time.

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The one thing I hate about Linux

October 5, 2008

Download Squad / Brad Linder

Filed under: Audio, Linux, Open Source There are plenty of things to love about a modern desktop Linux distribution like Ubuntu 8.04.

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Atif's Blogworld: gOS 3 - the most beautiful Linux

October 5, 2008

Bloggers.Pakistan

gOS is the best Linux offering A few months ago Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux, called upon open source developers to surpass Apple and their wonderful MacOS-X based user experience.

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Arms Deal to Taiwan Riles China

October 4, 2008

New York Times

The $6 billion deal in advanced weapons elicited strong reactions from leaders in China on Saturday.

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Stats In MySQL Pt. III: Alphabetical Distribution

October 6, 2008

Planet MySQL / Joseph Izenman

Not as snazzy-looking as my last two, but a useful query nonetheless.

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Misfits Skull Lamp

October 5, 2008

Instructables: exploring / madmanmoe64

This may have been done before, but here's my version. A very simple method to transfer your favorite design onto a lamp. I've chosen the skull logo from band, The Misfits.

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top 5 Linux references as found in popular culture

October 5, 2008

Tech News Watch / leftystrat

Five very interesting places where linux has popped up….

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Consumers hate Linux. Or perhaps they just hate SUSE.

October 5, 2008

Boing Boing Gadgets / Rob Beschizza

The Linux edition of MSI's Wind is returned four times as often as the Windows version. In an interview with Laptop mag, MSI's director of U.S.

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Matt Mullenweg Demos Wordpress 2.7

October 7, 2008

Podcasting News / James Lewin

WordPress creator Matt Mullenweg demos the upcoming update to the popular open source blogging/podcasting content management system. WordPress 2.7 is expected to be available in November.

Lamps focuses on wider picture

October 7, 2008

TEAMtalk Football News

Frank Lampard has brushed aside the age-old question about whether he and Steven Gerrard can operate effectively in the England team.

Silverlight vs Flash: Switching to Full Screen

October 7, 2008

DZone: latest front page / terence410

It’s not difficult to make a full screen application. But the sample below can save you a lot of time to look around a reference from the Internet.

Linux Meets 17 Years

October 7, 2008

Talk with Desiree / talkwithdesiree talkwithdesiree

Just one year short of Linux to become an adult. A majority of legal age, of course, because the maturity that has long reached.

php|architect Rebooted : One week later

October 7, 2008

Zend Developer Zone

Unless you live under a rock or code in Ruby, you know that last week, php|architect rebooted itself.

Open source and Steve Jobs is fine

October 7, 2008

ZDNet Blogs / Dana Blankenhorn

So what happened? The same thing that happened to Usenet, and e-mail, and all those stock boards happened. An anonymous, credible medium is easy for spammers and scammers to wreck.

Watch TV With Linux

October 7, 2008

Linux Today

The Linux Distillery: "In our modern, and busy, world the separation between home computers and home entertainment systems is fast fading.

[2/5] Fedora update for mediawiki

October 7, 2008

Latest Secunia Security Watchdog Blog Entries

Fedora has issued an update for mediawiki. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. http://secunia.

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