12th - 19th July '08Last week's Top Blog Posts on Linux

14 Jul

Linux 2.6.26 Out

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diegocgteleline.es writes “After three months, Linux 2.6.26 has been released. It adds support for read-only bind mounts, x86 PAT (Page Attribute Tables), PCI Express ASPM (Active State Power Management), ports of KVM…

Ghee Teo: GUADEC 2008 - My Impression and Experience

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GUADEC 08 in Istanbul is the fourth GUADEC I have attended. My first GUADEC was in Dublin back in 2003. Second one is in Kristiansand, Norway in 2004. Third GAUDEC in Vilanova, Spain in 2006. I totally enjoyed this…

Stormy Peters: Why me and computers?

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You can make a computer do fascinatingthings for you – and coding is the secret language. Rod Cope wrotethe first version of OSSDiscovery on vacation. At the time I laughedand asked if his wife was still speaking to…

Scott James Remnant: Intrepid Sprint (London)

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The great thing about the Ubuntu distro team development sprints is that you get to sit around a table and share your knowledge about workarounds for all of the broken things in the current release:To get the machine to…

Kees Cook: zooming in Xine

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I use Xine to watch DVDs. In the past I’ve encountered “full screen” (4:3) DVDs that carried a wide-screen (16:9) image. This means there were black bars on the top and bottom of the video frame. When watching…

13 Jul

The 2.6.26 kernel is out [LWN.net]

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Linus has announced the availability of thefinal 2.6.26 kernel release, noting that several regressions got fixedtoward the end of the cycle. For those just tuning in, some of the biggerchanges in 2.6.26 include PAT…

My trip to Istanbul by Matthew Garrett aged 28 and 4/365ths

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SaturdayArrive at Heathrow. Richard gets to be my special lounge buddy - we later discover Bastien sitting outside looking like a lost puppy. Flight is delayed by a mere hour, so we get to the hotel with little trouble…

Gabriel Burt: More Humor

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On PoliticsDiscussing the madness here in Turkey - youtube is completely blocked - with Aaron and Miguel tonight, finally put to words, in the dialect of our times, what I’d been thinking all week:On TabsThe tab meme on…

Jakub Steiner: One Canvas Workflow

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He’re a raw screencast of me demoing the one-canvas workflow for creating icons with inkscape (and ruby ;). I have such an annoying voice/accent, but you have to cope with it.I hope to create some more screencasts if…

Concept Art for Fedora 10

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For many, their first experience with Fedora leaves them in awe of the incredible artwork. This is an important part of Fedora’s reputation, so if your a fan of Fedora art, you should definitely check out what the art…

Luis Medinas: Brasero 0.8.0 "no tabs for burning" released

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HiThe Brasero Team is proud to announce after 7 months of development thenew stable series - 0.8.The first release 0.8.0 “no tabs for burning” codename contains newfeatures and lots of bugfixes from 0.7.x…

Johan Svedberg: Mid-term Report

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Wow, we are already at mid-term with our GSoC projects, time really flies. First, I have to apologize for not blogging about the progress like I’ve promised. The reason is mainly that I find it hard to post when I…

Sune Vuorela: kde / java / packaging

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The following is not a joke:KDE4 needs java for best performancemore precise, soprano, used by nepomuk (semantic desktop thingie), has a sesame backend (java) and a redland backend (c++). According to upstream and…

Missing Code Challenge

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Online identity management and single sign-on still doesn’t work. Not well enough, anyway. OpenID is a good step forward. So are a bunch of other less familiar approaches. But we still haven’t arrived.read more

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