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Symphony OS
The funniest thing about Symphony OS is the posts you'll sometimes see asking if its Mezzo Desktop can be ported to Linux.
 
Lenovo To Drop Linux?
Frank Kardonski, worldwide product manager of PC manufacturer Lenovo, made comments to the extent that the company will no longer offer Linux as an option.
 
Ubuntu Linux Falls Into Sun's Niagara
Sun Microsystems and Canonical Ltd, a sponsor of the Ubuntu Linux project, announced the operating system will be supported on the Niagara platform in the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers.
 
Google Sends Picasa To Linux
The call for Google to port its software applications to Linux got off to a good start with the company's photo sharing and editing software Picasa making the jump.

Bash HISTCONTROL
I happened to come across Linux Tips: take control of your bash_history. This explains that setting "export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth" causes Bash not to store duplicate commands in history. For example, if you are checking "ps" waiting for some process to end:
 
CNN Shows The Linus Interview
The Linux operating system has reshaped the technology industry greatly over the past decade, but creator Linus Torvalds still comes across as just another techie who enjoys working on code.
 
Time to Fix the Bugs?
Almost two years ago I wondered about the negative aspects of companies like IBM and HP trying to control Linux by hiring top Linux developers. Well, part of the problem may be about to get some attention: Andrew Morton asserts that the Linux kernel is 'getting buggier' and that part of the reason may be from the strong influence of corporate money...

GDI Printers
"But I'm just sending data to Windows - why doesn't the Windows printer driver just take care of it?" I probably hear that question at least a dozen times a year.


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Ossim
Security Information Management

Ossim stands for Open Source Security Information Management. Its goal is to provide a comprehensive compilation of tools which, when working together, grant a network/security administrator with detailed view over each and every aspect of his networks/hosts/physical access devices/server/etc...

Besides getting the best out of well known open source tools, some of which are quickly described below these lines, ossim provides a strong correlation engine, detailed low, mid and high level visualization interfaces as well as reporting and incident managing tools, working on a set of defined assets such as hosts, networks, groups and services.

Size: 3.8 MB


BlogBridge
Blog Aggregation Utility

The BlogBridge UI was designed for you to easily categorize your news feeds, your blogs or your data feeds (like search feeds for example).

Feed articles are displayed on the right hand side. Feeds grouped together in a guide are listed in the middle panel. The different guides that you create are in the left hand panel.

Size: 3.4 MB

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gPhoto
Digital Photo Tool

gPhoto2 is a free, redistributable, ready to use set of digital camera software applications for Unix-like systems, written by a whole team of dedicated volunteers around the world. It supports more than 700 cameras

gPhoto2 runs on a large range of UNIX-like operating system, including Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, etc. gPhoto is provided by major Linux distributions like Debian GNU/Linux, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora Core, SUSE Linux, Mandriva, etc.

Size: 1.3 MB


ROX Desktop
ROX-based Desktop Environment

ROX is a fast, user friendly desktop which makes extensive use of drag-and-drop. The interface revolves around the file manager, or filer, following the traditional Unix view that 'everything is a file' rather than trying to hide the filesystem beneath start menus, wizards, or druids. The aim is to make a system that is well designed and clearly presented. The ROX style favours using several small programs together instead of creating all-in-one mega-applications.

Size: 4.9 MB


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