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● Links 27/7/2010: KDE SC 4.5 RC3 Out, CentOS Dominates

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↺ GNU/Linux is so Easy Even a Child Can Do IT

Desktop

↺ Userful prepackages Linux and applications for multiseat educational use
↺ Dell’s ‘Brilliant’ Windows vs. Ubuntu Analysis

Server

↺ Lenovo Steps up Server Bid With New Entry-level Systems

Applications

↺ GNU libextractor – a simple library for keyword extraction.
↺ Two Creative Button Concepts For Ubuntu By Izo Design

Instructionals

↺ Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.04
↺ Writing Better Shell Scripts – Part 2
↺ Linux security – A few useful, tactical tips
↺ Fantastic OpenOffice.org Writer extension for searching and replacing carriage returns (two in a row, etc.) with regular expressions, plus much much more
↺ Test Drive webOS Without Buying a Phone
↺ Compiz Screensaver install and troubleshooting
↺ Nautilus PyExtensions – Nautilus file manager python extensions
↺ Remove Old Kernel in Ubuntu and Grub2
↺ Installing Indian Rupee font in Fedora, Ubuntu & Debian Linux
↺ Create an Application Shortcut to Open Nautilus as Root in Ubuntu
↺ Writing Better Shell Scripts – Part 2
↺ Using Linux To Create a Music Blog

Desktop Environments

K Desktop Environment/KDE SC)

↺ KDE Software Compilation 4.5 RC3 Release Announcement
↺ The Mission of KDE’s Wikis
↺ Speak(er Setup0 Now, or Forever hold your Peace.
↺ KDE file transfer with KBluetooth
↺ Simon at Akademy 2010: Interview with Peter Grasch
↺ Gereqi – Yet Another Amarok 1.4 Clone That Just Works

Distributions

↺ PlainSight – Open Source Computer Forensics LiveCD

PCLinuxOS/Mandrake/Mandriva Family

↺ PCLinuxOS 2010.07 now Running perfectly On My Toshiba Satellite A100

Red Hat Family

↺ The most popular Linux for Web servers is …

Debian Family

Canonical/Ubuntu

↺ Ubuntu Global Jam: Start Your Engines!

Flavours and Variants

↺ Ubuntu Studio 2.0 (Puppy Edition) Screenshots

Devices/Embedded

Phones

Android

↺ Android Will be Dominant Mobile OS According to Motorola’s Sanjay Jha
↺ High-end Android sliders ready to roll from Motorola, HTC

Tablets

↺ The Real $35 Tablet from India: an OLPC Complement, not Competitor

Free Software/Open Source

↺ The State of Open Source: Startup, Growth, Maturity or Decline?
↺ Military Adoption of Open-Source Software May Increase Flexibility and Lower Cost
↺ Quamachi: The VPN GUI with the funny name
↺ Inverting Monopoly
↺ Periodic table of the open source graphics and design apps

Web Browsers

Mozilla

↺ Mozilla delays second Firefox 4 beta

Oracle

↺ OpenSSO, Neglected by Oracle, Gets Second Life

CMS

↺ Drupal trademark policy: update after 11 months

Open Data

↺ Patching democracy with open data

Open Access/Content

↺ Climategate data sets to be made public

Leftovers

↺ Theater Owner Begs Hollywood Not To Give Consumers What They Want
↺ Can The Operators Of A Site Targeted By Homeland Security Crowdsource A Defense?
↺ “Journalist” Who Wrote Fake GTA Story Ridicules Gamers
↺ Vision Media’s Bogus Lawsuit Dismissed; And Much More Attention Focused On Vision Media’s Business Practices

Security/Aggression

↺ Ian Tomlinson’s family accuse CPS of ‘cover-up’
↺ Passwords in the wild, part I: the gap between theory and implementation
↺ Battle joined for future of open source IPS

Environment/Wildlife

↺ How Concentrated Solar Power Can Meet India’s Future Power Needs
↺ Would Obama’s ocean drive have stopped BP?
↺ BP locking in scientists, research to prep for lawsuits
↺ “Giving Up Faith”: The EPA, Dispersants, and the Commons in Chains
↺ Dead penguins wash up on Brazil’s beaches
↺ Whales Scream Over Noise Pollution
↺ UK-imported animal feed blamed for rainforest destruction
↺ As nation, Russia, and world swelter under record-smashing heat waves, The New York Times sets one-day record for most unilluminating stories
↺ US Senate drops bill to cap carbon emissions
↺ Amazon deforestation in dramatic decline, official figures show

Finance

↺ State Finances Rigged in Conspiracy by Banks, Advisers
↺ Basel Group Agrees to New Global Rules for Banks
↺ Debating the Securitization of Mortgages
↺ Former Northern Rock executive fined, banned
↺ ‘Systemic risk’ theory gains in stature as way to prevent the next bubble
↺ SEC now freer to hike whistleblower awards
↺ Central Bankers Reach Initial Accord on Global Standards
↺ Mistake: Why Goldman Sachs Channels Richard Nixon and Watergate
↺ Booked: Suzanne McGee on Chasing Goldman Sachs
↺ Video: Bloomberg’s Harper Discusses Goldman’s AIG Protection: Video
↺ Wall Street Still Doesn’t Have a Sheriff
↺ F.C.I.C. Said to Aim at Goldman Derivatives Profit
↺ Goldman Sachs Relied on Citigroup, Lehman for AIG Protection
↺ In Short
↺ How Much Credit Card Rewards Cost the Poor
↺ Ratings Agencies: Don’t Use Our Ratings

Censorship/Privacy/Civil Rights

↺ Access to clean water is most violated human right
↺ Journalism court threat to Iraqi media
↺ Yes Men documentary goes online via Bittorrent to evade censorship
↺ US Senate passes ‘libel tourism’ bill
↺ DMCA used to shut up sarcastic blogger
↺ FTC wants to hold firms responsible for privacy

Internet/Net Neutrality/DRM

↺ Gov’t Unlocks Apple’s iPhone But Is The Jailbreak Era Over?
↺ Funny How All The Senators Supporting Anti-FCC Bill, Have Raised Lots Of Money From AT&T
↺ Time To Face Facts: Broadband Caps Are Really About Protecting Video Revenue

Intellectual Monopolies

Copyrights

↺ Three Strikes for Industry and Heritage
↺ SAS copyright lawsuit referred to European Court of Justice
↺ How Is It That New Copyrights Are Being Claimed On Work Done By An Artist Who Died 70 Years Ago?
↺ Torrentfreak blasts a ‘bogus’ so-called ‘anti-piracy’ study

Digital Economy (UK)

↺ A Guide to the Digital Economy Act – Part 4

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