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48 min ago | OStatic

It's Easier Than Ever to Slap Your Favorite Linux Distro Onto a Chromebook

If you've been in the market for a portable computer, you may very well have considered buying a Chromebook.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux, Ubuntu, Computers

4 hrs ago | Linux Journal

Designing Electronics with Linux

In many scientific disciplines, the research you may be doing is completely new.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux, CPU

7 hrs ago | The Code Project

How to Run Plantronics Spokes in a Mac or Linux Machine

This article is in the Product Showcase section for our sponsors at CodeProject.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux, Tellme

11 hrs ago | Linux Today

Hybryde Fusion: A very unique Linux distribution

From the release number, you can probably guess that it is based on Ubuntu Desktop 13.04. But what you cannot guess from the name or release number is that it ships with its own desktop environment called HY-D-V1. It also makes it super easy to test-drive other desktop environments from the same installation, without ever rebooting the computer or ... (more)

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux, Ubuntu

15 hrs ago | I programmer

Kivy 1.7 Released

A new version of Python library Kivy has been released with an Android Emulator and innovations for organizing widgets and addons.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux

Tue May 21, 2013

LXer Linux News

Steganography In Ubuntu, Hide Your Files Inside An Image

LXer is read by around 350,000 individuals each month, and is an excellent place for you to publish your ideas, thoughts, reviews, complaints, etc.

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Related Topix: Ubuntu, Science / Technology, Linux

ComputerZen.com

How to setup a Load Balanced Web Farm of Virtual Machines (Linux or...

A buddy of mine was thinking to move some of his Linux-based website to Azure. If you're running a Web Site that this node.js, ASP, ASP.NET, or PHP, it's easiest to use Azure Web Sites.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux, GitHub, Ubuntu

PR-inside.com

Psychsoftpc Responds to the Cry That Windows 8 Sucks by Offering...

So Psychsoftpc is now offering consumers a choice of which Windows Version they want installed on their machines, Windows 7 or Windows 8. If they prefer Linux, Psychsoftpc offers a choice of Debian, SUSE or Ubuntu.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux, Ubuntu, Microsoft, Startups

OStatic

Maintain A Local Repo

NextStep4it has a nice little tutorial on setting up a local CentOS yum mirror using reposync.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux

The Code Project

It's LEMP not LAMP

I'm sure many of you have heard the term LAMP before A- standing for Linux Apache MySQL and PHP.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux, PHP, Programming Languages

Red Hat Magazine

Top 5 misconceptions about open source in government programs

On March 15, 2013, ComputerWeekly.com, the "leading provider of news, analysis, opinion, information and services for the UK IT community" published an article by Bryan Glick entitled: Government mandates 'preference' for open source .

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science, US Military, US Navy

OStatic

Mageia 3 Released with Steamy Goodness

The third official release of, the popular Mandriva fork, Mageia is now available.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux, GNOME

Mon May 20, 2013

HawaiiNews

Bmo analyst cuts rating on Red Hat shares a Bmo analyst downgraded...

BMO Capital Market's Keirstead noted some industry concerns that growth expectations maybe be too high for companies adopting Linux.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux, Computers

Slashdot

Open Source Projects For Beginners

But if you're determined to donate your time and talents, there are some things you can do to get off on the right foot.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux

Lifehacker

How to Uninstall Windows or Linux After Dual-Booting

We've talked a lot about running multiple operating systems on the same computer-whether it's Windows and Linux , Windows and OS X , or something else -but what happens when it's time to get rid of one? Here's how to delete Windows or Linux from your system after you've dual-booted them.

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BuilderAU.com.au

Best open source HRM and ERP solutions

There's a reason why enterprise companies "get" Linux and open source. It's not just because of the security and reliability - it's for the software.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Linux, Openbravo

NixCraft

Ubuntu Linux: Turn On Exec-Shield Buffer Overflow Protection

This does exactly the same thing to prevent code execution on a per memory page basis.

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Related Topix: Ubuntu, Science / Technology, Linux

Sun May 19, 2013

I programmer

Arduino YAon Brings WiFi

The Arduino Yun has been unveiled as the first of a family of wifi products that combine Arduino with Linux by using a system on a chip running Linino, a customized version of OpenWRT.

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Related Topix: Wireless, Science / Technology, Wi-Fi, Emerging Technology, Linux

NixCraft

Ubuntu / Debian Linux: Install gcutil Tool To Manage Google Compute Engine

It uses KVM and supports Debian and CentOS Linux running on Google platform. Google Compute Engine offers a RESTful API for managing resources such as disk, images, and instances.

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Related Topix: Ubuntu, Science / Technology, Linux

Richard Jones' Stuff

pyocr added to PyPI

Pyocr is an optical character recognition tool wrapper for python. That is, it helps using OCR tools from Python.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Python, Programming Languages, Ubuntu

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