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MeeGo & SUSE: What's Up With That?

I agree with his assessment of Red Hat. As far as I can determine, there’s not a for-profit company on the planet more dedicated to both the spirit and letter of the GPL. But SUSE? The distro that crawled into bed with Microsoft under Novell’s ownership, and remains Redmond’s Linux lover under the stewardship of Attachmate? Excuse me, but I think we can depend on SUSE staying the course about as much as we can depend on Apple not suing Samsung.

For Ubuntu, The Road To 200 Million Desktops Starts With 11.10

The official launch of Ubuntu 11.10, which had been code-named “Oneiric Ocelot,” is the first major launch of the Linux-based OS since its top developer announced an ambitions goal to reach 200 million desktops within a couple of years. Ubuntu 11.10 became available as early-development alpha software earlier this year, and it was clear from the outset that this operating software has clearly found its stride.

Dennis Had A Bigger Effect Than Jobs: Pike

  • EFYTimes; By EFYTimes (Posted by scan2006 on Oct 14, 2011 4:37 AM EDT)
  • Story Type:
There is no denying the fact that the death of Steve Jobs is a great loss to the world but death of Dennis Ritchie, the father of Unix, is no less. Rob Pike, the programming legend and Googler, said, “When Steve Jobs died last week, there was a huge outcry, and that was very moving and justified. But Dennis had a bigger effect, and the public doesn’t even know who he is.”

Tech Tip: Create an Automatically Scrolling Reader



By combining three useful command-line tools (less, watch and xdotool) along with two xterm windows, you can create an automatically scrolling reader.



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The Linux GPU Driver Limitations For Opera 12

For those interested in the GPU hardware acceleration support for Opera 12 that was made available with this morning's release of Opera 12 Alpha, here's the stipulations regarding the "out of the box" Linux GPU driver support...

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Has Been Released | What’s New | Download

Latest stable release of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot has just been released. We already seen many of the new features in earlier development releases. So let’s check what’s new in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot and Download options.

Down but not out: Flash in an HTML5 world

Adobe hedges bets with Nitobi Anyone hoping to pronounce Flash dead as Adobe transitions to the brave new HTML 5 world will have been disappointed, based on the company's MAX Conference last week.…

Book Review: Node Web Development

  • krzychukula.blogspot.com; By Krzysztof Kula (Posted by sean007 on Oct 14, 2011 12:32 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews
Node Web Development by David Herron is book written for those who want to start using Node.js for real Web Applications. Book is short and written for purpose of practical examples. Of course if it will be longer it would be even better but this is very good starting point for learning Node.js.

Things To Tweak After Installing Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

  • WebUpd8; By Andrew Dickinson (Posted by hotice on Oct 13, 2011 11:14 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Ubuntu; Story Type: News Story
Back when Ubuntu 11.04 was released, we wrote a post about stuff you may need to tweak or fix. Some of those tweaks still work but since this is a new version, there are new things that need tweaking so I've decided to make a new post with some popular old tweaks as well as some new ones.

Dennis Ritchie, Creator of C and Unix Passes Away

  • TechNonStop; By Naweed Chougle (Posted by abdullah on Oct 13, 2011 10:17 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
Dennis Ritchie has passed away, and will be remembered by everyone who has made programming their career and hobby.

Is Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot Another Headache?

  • BeginLinux.com; By Andrew Weber (Posted by aweber on Oct 13, 2011 9:23 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
This morning I noticed Ubuntu 11.10 Oneric Ocelot is here. After switching to Linux Mint when Ubuntu started using Unity as the default desktop, I'm wondering if Ubuntu 11.10 is just another Ubuntu headache or the real deal?

Getting Started with Wine

  • xjonquilx | Mepis, Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux, Oh My!; By Jonquil McDaniel (Posted by Jonquil on Oct 13, 2011 8:26 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Fedora, Ubuntu
A lot of people make the mistake of downloading Wine and expecting it to work out of the box with their Windows applications. It should be noted that Wine is simply a compatibility layer by itself; it does not include the necessary drivers and library files needed to run most Windows applications.

Ubuntu 11.10 Introduces DVD and Netboot Images

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Oct 13, 2011 7:29 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu
As you all know, the final and stable version of the Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system was released earlier today by Canonical.

How to Add a Random Quote to Terminal

  • xjonquilx | Mepis, Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux, Oh My!; By Jonquil McDaniel (Posted by Jonquil on Oct 13, 2011 6:31 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Fedora, Ubuntu
In this article I’m going to tell you how you can add a random quote to Terminal

Relishing the release name

  • Larry the Free Software Guy; By Larry Cafiero (Posted by lcafiero on Oct 13, 2011 5:34 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial, Humor
Quick (and no Googling): What are the release names for Fedora 12 and Ubuntu 7.10? Chances are you couldn't name Constantine and Gutsy Gibbon off the top of your head because those release names, and probably every other one that distros come up with, weren't seared into your subconscious. The moral of this story, according to Larry the Free Software Guy, is that release names, though sometimes fun, are forgotten quickly.

Ubuntu 11.10 Officially Released

  • Softpedia; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Oct 13, 2011 5:05 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Ubuntu
Ladies and gentlemen, dear Ubuntu geeks, it is our greatest pleasure to announce today, October 13th, that the final release of Ubuntu 11.10 is here, available on mirrors worldwide (see the download links at the end of the article).

Ubuntu 11.10 is out: A quick look at what’s new

Ubuntu 11.10 a.k.a Oneiric Ocelot has just been released. This highly anticipated release brings the latest open source applications along with some great improvements to the Unity interface. In case you’ve been dying to find out what’s so great about the Ocelot, read on as we give you a quick overview of everything that’s new in 11.10.

Ubuntu 11.10 'Oneiric Ocelot' Released, Full Review, Video and Screenshots Tour

Ubuntu 11.10 'Oneiric Ocelot' has been released. This release brings numerous changes as compared to last version. With this release, Ubuntu has completely switched over to Gnome 3 stack. Many applications and application indicators have been ported to GTK3. Ubuntu 11.10 is based on 3.0.4 stable upstream Linux Kernel and comes with Gcc 4.6 as the default compiler. Multiarch support has been improved greatly and Ubuntu now supports hybrid CD/USB images.

Top Free Android E-book Readers

  • LinuxLinks.com; By Steve Emms (Posted by sde on Oct 13, 2011 2:14 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews, Roundups
An electronic book (commonly abbreviated e-book) is a text and image-based publication which can be read on many different types of devices including dedicated e-book readers, smartphones, tablets, and computers.

The greatest security vulnerability: You

  • ZDNet Zero Day Blog; By Ken Hess (Posted by khess on Oct 13, 2011 1:16 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
You are the weakest security link but you can be fixed. The fix is simple to say out loud but not so simple to do.

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