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more »Contrib for openSUSE
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more »Sierra Wireless Releases Linux SDK
Dec 16, 2008Maker of embedded software Sierra Wireless has released a Linux software development kit (SDK) for its 3G wireless modules.
more »Open Source HAL for Atheros WLAN Chipsets
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more »MySQL Founder Warns 5.1 Not Ready
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Nov 30, 2008Charly's Column The sys admin's daily grind: parallel SSH
Nov 30, 2008Parallel SSH is the name of an easy-to-configure tool that our resident sys admin, Charly, now routinely deploys whenever he needs to launch the same programs, copy the same files, or kill the same processes simultaneously on multiple computers.
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