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DE: Aktueller deutscher Artikel ueber das Muenchner LiMux-Projekt.

EN: Recent article written in German, reporting about Munich's city council's LiMux project. LiMux is a project to migrate virtually all PC IT kit to GNU/Linux, including desktops.

Not to be outdone by the debut of Internet Explorer 7 last week, the Mozilla team has released Firefox 2.0 with a minor makeover, a few new features, and a number of enhancements to existing features. It's not a drastic change from the 1.5 series, but Firefox 2.0 bring enough improvements to make the upgrade worthwhile.

Developers Gain Improved Performance, Availability and Ease of Use with Newest Release of Open Source, Embeddable Database

Citrix says it has no interest in delivering native Linux support in its products, and that it will continue to rely on the Windows platform. The company, which is a close partner of Microsoft, says there is no significant demand for Linux in the public and private sector.

[Let me guess. They read one of those Microsoft-sponsored studies. Meanwhile, in other FUD... - dcparris]

Most UNIX and Linux programs are built by running make. Make and utilities like it are fundamental tools for streamlining the application build process. Learn the structure of the makefile, how to avoid common mistakes in its creation, and how to solve or work around portability issues and other problems as they crop up.

This bare-bones computer module measures 3 x 5 x 1 in., weighs approximately 9.1 ounces, and packs the functions of a full PC based on a 1GHz processor running Linux -- minus the power supply, display, and I/O connectors.

Sometimes the comments are better than the story:

"[Announcer] Today's guest is Sam Higgins, who insisted that security in regards to Firefox is "a concern but it needs to have a proper cost benefit analysis done and is dependant on the organization's protection strategy..."

[Chip] Mr. Higgins has had a pacemaker installed in his chest. It has been designed to run based on whether Internet Explorer keeps from being hacked..."

The ready-to-download sample application in this article uses a Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture to illustrate the power of the MyFaces components and the ease of developing with Apache Derby and the latest view technology, Facelets.

If we want the world to embrace free software, we have to make it beautiful. I’m not talking about inner beauty, not elegance, not ideological purity… pure, unadulterated, raw, visceral, lustful, shallow, skin deep beauty.

The joint initiative includes sales collaboration, expanded technology solutions centres.

Die Stadt München will die begonnene Umstellung von über 80 Prozent der Desktop-Systeme auf Linux bis 2008 abschließen und verweist auf positive Erfahrungsberichte erster Anwender der freien Software in der Verwaltung.

Man pages are an endangered species. Give me back my man pages!
HTML docs are nice, but not very readable on a headless server that does not run X windows. First of all, hunting down whatever weirdo directory the HTML help docs is not a fun use of time. Then reading them in a text HTML browser is an even bigger waste of time, if you even have one installed.

Linux Format has put Fedora Core 6 through its paces, finding out what's new, what's good, and what's not so good. Covering package management, look-and-feel and Xen virtualisation, this first-look sports screenshots galore of the new features.

Whats up everyone? I was just taking a look at Google Trends and I found out something interesting. Apparently Ubuntu Linux has not only surpassed its major competitor in Linux ( SuSE ) in popularity, as well as the distro it's based off of (Debian) , but it seems to have also surpassed another major competitor. Yes, that's right! Apple Computer's very own Mac OS X has also been defeated in popularity by Ubuntu!

For Munich, there's no turning back now. After some delay, the city is pushing full-speed ahead with its migration to Linux on the desktop, and even mayor Christine Strobl, a newly converted open-source user, likes what she sees.

This is a detailed description about how to set up a Fedora Core 6 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc.

A journalist gives her precious advice to GNU/Linux distributors: "Convert your distros into ms windows or mac os, then it'll sell and I'll buy it. I don't care about freedom anyway, it's just that using ms s/w is uncool. I'd rather be in chains than be uncool. Penguins are so cute they must be cool. Otherwise, I don't have a clue."

If you happen to use a Microsoft operating system you are most likely to be familiar with finding your partitions using drive letters, such as C: and D:. When you pop in your brand new Ubuntu CD and start the installation, you will notice that there are no C and D drives, but instead lots of letter and number combinations. Do you feel lost? Let’s work it out.

Tonight on The Linux Link Tech Show, episode 164:
We talk to Linux legend Patrick Volkerding of Slackware fame
Firefox 2.0, Flash 9, Fedora 6 and other upcoming releases
Is Dell a friend to Linux?
Linc gets a Nokia 770 and does some book reviews
Time to upgrade bashpodder
fighting BB spam
And much, much more

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