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GNU/Linux powers state-of-the-art hearing aid research
LWN.net: "The next generation of digital hearing aids is being developed and
tested on real-time GNU/Linux systems from 64 Studio Ltd, using
dedicated multi-channel audio interfaces and standard Lenovo notebooks."
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Assessing the Tux Strength: Part 2 - Into the Kernel
MWR Labs: "The previous article in this series on Linux security described different userspace protection mechanisms that can be applied to protect binaries on a Linux system. Unsurprisingly, without additional kernel settings and protections most of the previously described mechanisms cannot be utilised to their full extent."
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Assessing the Tux Strength: Part 1 - Userspace Memory Protection
MWR Labs: "Probably every attack mitigation technique that has been developed over time to mitigate memory corruption exploits can be implemented and used in one form or another in a Linux operating system."
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The Desktop Linux Reviews Forum
Desktop Linux Reviews: The Desktop Linux Reviews blog now has a brand new discussion forum.
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Prying Loose the Grip of Broadband Giants
The Tyee: "Injecting greater competition into that market lies at the heart of last week's CRTC decision to require incumbent telecom companies -- such as Bell, Bell Aliant, and Telus -- to provide independent ISPs with speed-matched open access to their network..."
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How Ubuntu is Made
Linux Planet: "Canonical CTO Matt Zimmerman gives an inside look at how he works with Ubuntu's engineering teams and the upstream community."
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Start of feature cull for Firefox 4
The H Open: "Mozilla has confirmed that it has started culling features for version 4.0 of its open source Firefox web browse"
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Android Caution: Stay away from making your app free for a short time
Shantanu's Technophilic Musings: "The bad news is, the developer console will not let me change it! I have to pull the app until I can get this resolved."
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GRASS GIS 6.4.0 released
GRASS: "GRASS includes tools for spatial modeling, visualization of raster and vector data, management and analysis of geospatial data, and the processing of satellite and aerial imagery."
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Manage Linux Downloads with wget
Linux.com: "Firefox, Chrome, and other browsers do an acceptable job of downloading a single file of reasonable size. But I don't like to trust a browser to grab ISO images and other files that are hundreds of megabytes, or larger."
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CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project
CodePlex: "The Microsoft CodePlex.com team has donated $25,000 to the Mercurial project, responding to the recent appeal by the project leader, Matt Mackall."
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"Saner Defaults" remix of Ubuntu beta released
The H Open: "A beta of an unofficial remix of Ubuntu 10.04.1, the "Saner Defaults Remix", which offers "better default choices" and a Mono-free experience, has been released"
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GNU Debugger adds D language support
The H open: "The GNU Project Debugger release team has published the second point update to version 7.0 of its standard debugger for the GNU software system."
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Gnome-do: Open Source Software App Launcher
ServerWatch: "This week, I've been experimenting with gnome-do, the Gnome application launcher that also allows you to specify particular actions to take on whatever file or application you've found."
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Debunking the 1% Myth
O'Reilly Broadcast: "There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it." --William James"
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Wine 1.3.2 has been Released
Wine-Reviews: "Whats new in this release:
* Update of the Gecko engine, now including a 64-bit version.
* New implementation of console support on Unix terminals."
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Linuxables: Compiz window switcher
Linux.com: "Thanks to Compiz you have better, slicker, and more efficient ways to switch from one application to another. Take a look at Compiz Switchers, and you'll never want to go back to the boring old panel buttons!"
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Alien - Use Any Package On Any Distribution
Linux Journal: "Sometimes, a utility or an application that you want to install is impossible to find in the format of your distribution. Alien is a utility that can convert one package type into another."
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NVIDIA Puts Out A Major Beta Linux Driver Update
Phoronix: "...for those wishing to live on the bleeding edge of NVIDIA's proprietary Linux driver development, the first beta release in the 260.xx series is now available for testing."
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The Value of Clear Code is Clear
Computerworld UK: "This might sound far from enterprise open source, but the way the Climate Code Foundation is proceeding shows the connection:"
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