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Expert Tips and Tricks With Kate and Konsole

The Kate graphical text editor and Konsole graphical terminal emulator are chock-full of advanced features and time-saving shortcuts. They work nicely together to make the lives of system administrators, writers, users, and programmers easier. Here …

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Distribution Release: ConnochaetOS 0.9.1

Henry Jensen has announced the release of ConnochaetOS 0.9.1, an Arch-based Linux distribution for old computers (from i486 to Pentium MMX 166), built exclusively with "libre" software: "I am announcing the release of ConnochaetOS 0.9…

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Kuhn: Busybox GPL Enforcement Concerns Resolved

On the Busybox list, Bradley Kuhn (of the Software Freedom Conservancy) reports that he had a discussion with Tim Bird at the Embedded Linux Conference and was able to address most of Tim's concerns with regard to how GPL enforcement around Busy…

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Open Innovation – The Passion Behind the Civic Commons Community

From the beginning, Civic Commons has been a dynamic community initiative.  What began in January 2010 as a simple wiki of open government policies and practices (originally called “OpenMuni”, domains for which were simultaneously a…

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Firefox’s Jetpack Extensions Reach Mobile Browsing

Mozilla has begun adding mobile device support to its newer extensions framework–but it's also change Jetpack's direction and breaking earlier extensions' compatibility.

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NASA Calls for Vendors to "Open Source" NASA.gov

NASA is looking to open source as part of its revamp of nasa.gov and has put out a "Request For Information" looking for vendors who can take on the challenge…

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Ubuntu for Android to Star at Mobile World Congress

According to Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical is moving quickly ahead with its plans to bring Ubuntu to platforms going well beyond just desktop computers. In his latest blog post, Shuttleworth notes: "We’ll show Ubuntu neatly integrated into…

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ISPConfig 3 With Xeround Cloud Database Service

This tutorial is a companion to any of the Perfect Server tutorials. ISPConfig 3 will not work with the Xeround Cloud database service by default. With minor modifications from this tutorial you will be able to run your Perfect Server without having…

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No More Flash for Firefox on Linux

Adobe has announced that its proprietary Flash plugin will be moving to a new "Pepper" API for interaction with the browser, leaving the old Netscape plugin API behind. "For Flash Player releases after 11.2, the Flash Player browser p…

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First official release of Eclipse Code Recommenders

The project developers plan to provide intelligent code prediction for the Eclipse development environment as an "IDE 2.0" effort…

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