I'm amazed at all the technical people living here in Lawrence, Kansas, so I've decided to do a series of interviews to highlight what our small college town has to offer the international tech community. Recently I sat down with local author Stephen Figgins at a coffee shop to talk about what's new in the latest release of the popular Linux in a Nutshell book.
A boot time test as a rule brings more criticism than praise for the tester, seeing that the tests are usually considered flawed. A new test has fixed all that.
Game development team 2D Boy (Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel) have released the results of their pay-what-you-want Birthday sale. Results show Linux users to have donated one dollar more on the average in comparison to Windows users.
For Google to publish figures about its various projects and activities is unusual. With the web suite Chrome however, things are different. Google has released information on user numbers and bonus payments to team members.
The current discussion in the Ubuntu forums is about a possible security hole in GNOME, specifically about GNOME registered users having their passwords appear as cleartext on the keyring. Not a bug, say its defenders, but the security concept behind the GNOME keyring.
French Mandriva user Olivier Faurax registered a support case at Skype complaining about a missing Mandriva package. Instead of the package he received a reply of some amazement.
Mobile specialist Palm strengthens its team by hiring Matthew Tippett, the Linux graphic driver developer since 2003 at ATI, to be in charge of Linux kernel development.
Cover Theme:
ACCESS LINUX FROM A SMARTPHONE
DVD:
Ultimate Distro Sampler
Highlights:
Portable and Mobile: Whether you tote a camera, a GPS device, a smartphone, or a netbook, you want to be functional outside the home and office. This month we study some Linux tools for portable a...
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Ubuntu 9.10: Karmic Koala Complete :
Today Linux distributor Canonical announced the official release of Ubuntu 9.10, code-named Karmic Koala.
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BSDanywhere 4.6: Live-CD with Desktop Lite:
BSDanywhere, a Live-CD based on OpenBSD, is now available in version 4.6.
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Scientific Linux 5.4 with FUSE, Atheros and Lua:
The Scientific Linux distro, which derives from the freely licensed sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), is now available in version 5.4.
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Mandriva 2010.0: Faster and More Stable:
The new Mandriva 2010.0 has been ready for download since yesterday. After a month's delay, the French distributor has released the current version, code-named Adelie, for free. Some important changes were made.
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