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NVIDIA Issues An Open-Source Driver Update
07/02/2009 
NVIDIA's Aaron Plattner has just announced the release of the xf86-video-nv 2.1.14 driver, but does it have anything in store? Not really. The NVIDIA ... 
Study:GPL loses ground in open source development
07/02/2009
The GNU General Public Licence is falling in popularity, looking at all the versions of the GPL as a whole, according to figures released on Tuesday b ...
The Open Source Public Relations Engine
07/02/2009
I have trolled my Twitter feeds looking for something exciting or provocative related to Open Source, but nothing, other than the release of Fedora 11 ...
[Video] Making Processes Feel Important
07/02/2009
Linux Journal's Shawn Powers shows us how to use nice and renice to change the priority level of your processes. ...
A Root-less X Server Nears Reality
07/02/2009
One of the benefits of moving the different graphics hardware drivers over to using kernel mode-setting, an in-kernel GPU memory manager (whether it b ...
Installing Adobe AIR 1.5.1 For Linux On Ubuntu 9.04 (i386)
07/02/2009
Adobe AIR is a technology that lets you run Internet applications on the desktop. With AIR you do not need a browser to run such desktop applications. ...
Five best download managers for Linux
07/02/2009
The typical download manager at a minimum provides means to recover from errors without losing the work already completed, and can optionally split th ...
Linux Migration Guide: Finding Linux Equivalents to Your Favorite Windows Programs
07/02/2009
When it comes time to move from Windows to Linux, one of the first things you want to consider is what software you rely on in the Windows world, and ...
VirtualBox 3.0: No More Booting Windows
07/02/2009
VirtualBox 3.0, with its improved 3D support, can ensure that some users won't need to boot Windows even when gaming. With its version 3.0 of VirtualB ...
Slackware 13.0 RC1
07/02/2009
Release candidate #1 for Slackware 13.0. Hi folks -- the TODO isn't entirely empty here, but it's pretty much down to minor nits, and so we're going t ...
5 Useful Add-Ons for Firefox 3.5
07/02/2009
A while ago I put up this article, reviewing 5 so-called'essential' add-ons for Firefox. To continue in the same manner in this second part, here are ...
[Ubuntu] Mono Position Statement
07/02/2009
The Ubuntu Technical Board has been asked for a position statement on the use of C#, specifically the Mono implementation, by applications in Ubuntu. ...
The Open Source Public Relations Engine
07/02/2009
Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian friends, both at home and abroad. June was a very busy month for me, which is why there were so few postings and I ...
GoldenDict: A Dictionary Nugget
07/02/2009
While StarDict touts itself as"the best dictionary program for Linux and Windows," it has a serious challenger to the title called GoldenDict. ...
Debian plans draw sharp warning from GNU guru
07/02/2009
As the Debian project releases a second update of its Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 ("Lenny") distribution, a controversy has broken out over the next version, ...
PostgreSQL 8.4 Improves Database Management, Security
07/02/2009
In total, PostgreSQL 8.4 includes 293 enhancements from the previous 8.3 release, an update that was primarily centered around performance."There is n ...
Linux based Solar-powered networking anywhere
07/02/2009
In many parts of the world, the power grid is shoddy, computers are scarce, and connectivity is even rarer. Thus, as with many other modern practices ...
A Root-less X Server Nears Reality
07/02/2009
One of the benefits of moving the different graphics hardware drivers over to using kernel mode-setting, an in-kernel GPU memory manager (whether it b ...
PostgreSQL 8.4 now available
07/02/2009
The PostgreSQL developers have released version 8.4 of the open source database saying it is"Now easier to use than ever". The release, which comes af ...
Reserve Your Space on the Australian Stage
07/02/2009
The Triple Crown of Linux conferences— if there is one— is surely the Linux Symposium, the Linux Kongress, and linux.conf.au. It was just ...
GPLv3 Celebrates Two Years, GPLv2 Still in Front
07/02/2009
In June of 2007, after many months delay, the Free Software Software Foundation released GPLv3. Since that time, the license has been gaining an incre ...
Canonical's Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services: Room for Partners?
07/02/2009
Canonical has launched Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud Services, an effort to help customers build and support cloud infrastructures that live behind corporat ...
This week at LWN: What ever happened to chunkfs?
07/02/2009
"What ever happened to chunkfs?" This is a question I hear every few months, and I always answer the same way,"Chunkfs works, the overhead is reasonab ...
Changing the World, One Penguin at a Time
07/02/2009
Does the idea of"advocacy" make you nervous? It does sound a bit scary, doesn't it, like those annoying door-to-door religious people. But it's not th ...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 beta released
07/02/2009
Red Hat today officially announced the beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 (RHEL), which in my view is a lot more than a typical point r ...
Firefox 3.5 already downloaded more than 4 million times
07/02/2009
Less than 24 hours since it was released, Firefox 3.5 has already been downloaded more than four million times. According to Mozilla's Worldwide Firef ...
How-To: Install FrostWire 4.18.0 in Debian Lenny
07/02/2009
FrostWire is an open-source, free Java-based peer-to-peer client with support for the BitTorrent protocol, skins and iTunes. The latest release, 4.18. ...
Help Me Go Mano a Mano with Microsoft
07/02/2009
Next week, I'm taking part in a debate with a Microsoft representative about the passage of the OOXML file format through the ISO process last year. S ...
Considerations on Patents that Read on Language Infrastructure
07/02/2009
Since the torrents of IANALs have been filling the Internet tubes with passionate arguments on Mono/No Mono, it seemed a good time to weigh in with an ...
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