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iPad's Popularity Comes at Netbooks' Expense

Enterprise Mobile Today: “Nearly one in three buyers who had been considering a netbook did their evaluations and then bought an Apple iPad tablet instead, according to a survey of more than a thousand U.S. consumers by the consumer electronics... (Continue reading)

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11 of the Best Free Linux Plotting Tools

LinuxLinks: “To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 11 excellent plotting tools. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone interested in producing high quality graphs.” Article taken... (Continue reading)

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Scene from an Airport

Schneier on Security: “This isn’t the sort of job that rewards competence, you know.” Article taken by RSS feed. Link to this post!... (Continue reading)

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Damian Conway on Perl and its future

O’Reilly GMT: “We often hear people saying that Perl is dead. I assume that you don’t agree, but what do you say to people who try to tell you that?” Article taken by RSS feed. Link to this post!... (Continue reading)

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Logs: Your Linux System's Lovable Worker Bees

Linux Magazine: “The lowly and lonely log files sit there day after day gathering dust and events as your system purrs along without issue. That is, until something bad happens.” Article taken by RSS feed. Link to this post!... (Continue reading)

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Fedora 13 Linux "Goddard" Takes Flight

CIO Update: “The Red Hat-sponsored Fedora Project today officially released the Fedora 13 Linux distribution, codenamed “Goddard,” with improvements aimed at both new and experienced Linux users.” Article taken by RSS feed. Link to this post!... (Continue reading)

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Is VP8 open source?

Netstat -vat: “With VP8, the promise from Google is a video codec on par with H.264 that will be available royalty-free. It’s a good idea, but there might be a problem.” Article taken by RSS feed. Link to this post!... (Continue reading)

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AbiWord: The Underappreciated Word Processor

Linux Planet: “OpenOffice.org isn’t the only game in town for open source word processing. One of the best, and underexposed, open word processors is AbiWord.” Article taken by RSS feed. Link to this post!... (Continue reading)

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The kernel column by Jon Masters #87

Linux User and Developer: “The past month saw steady progress toward the final 2.6.34 kernel release, including the announcement of initial Release Candidate kernels 2.6.34-rc1 through 2.6.34-rc4. The latter had an interesting virtual memory bug that added a week of... (Continue reading)

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Why GNU+Linux is > GNU/Linux and > just Linux

Inatux: “Let’s look at it mathematically, “GNU / Linux” means GNU divided by Linux. How does that make any sense? At best it implies Linux is dividing GNU, making it harder to work and communicate with contributors; which is simply... (Continue reading)

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