July 2010
An Accurate Comparison of Perl 5 and Rakudo Star
Submitted by srlinuxx on Saturday 31st of July 2010 10:07:23 PM Filed under
modernperlbooks.com: Rakudo Star is a useful and usable subset of Perl 6 you can use right now. It does not implement the complete Perl 6.0 specification, and it's by no means the final release.
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Interview of the Free Software Foundation
Submitted by srlinuxx on Saturday 31st of July 2010 10:04:35 PM Filed under

zeropaid.com: Open source has been in the media for quite some time whether directly or indirectly. With ACTA leak and the ASCAP letter two big news items that affects open source, we decided to sit down with the Free Software Foundation and talk about these.
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GhostBSD 1.5 Screenshots
Submitted by srlinuxx on Saturday 31st of July 2010 10:02:31 PM Filed under
easylinuxcds.com: GhostBSD 1.5 is based on the FreeBSD live CD however because this release is a little larger it comes on as a live DVD. As of this release GhostBSD is completely installable by issuing a list of commands and pc-sysinstall.
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Why the risk of running as root is overblown
Submitted by srlinuxx on Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:17:47 PMtuxteam.com: “Don’t run as root” is an oft-repeated mantra of *nix security. While I agree 100%, it’s not as big on the desktop as some would think. I’d like to point out why here.
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Is OpenSolaris About To Be Forked?
Submitted by srlinuxx on Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:16:15 PM Filed under
phoronix.com: There are still a few weeks left before the deadline that demands Oracle appoint a community liaison for their OpenSolaris operating system. However, some OpenSolaris community developers have already had enough: they've begun work on a new project.
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Distribution - A Brief History
Submitted by srlinuxx on Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:14:35 PM Filed under
linuxjournal.com: Add one part GNU, one part Linux kernel, stir lightly, bake for 19 years, and you get 452 different meals.
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My life in Linux
Submitted by srlinuxx on Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:13:04 PM Filed under
- Man Driver - Mandriva Linux
- Mepis Mepis Mepis
- Sabayon - no, I dont know what it means!
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openSUSE Weekly News, Issue 134 is out
Submitted by srlinuxx on Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:11:14 PM Filed under
We are pleased to announce our brand new openSUSE Weekly News 134!
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NVIDIA's Dead Open-Source Driver Gets Updated
Submitted by srlinuxx on Saturday 31st of July 2010 07:09:41 PM Filed under
phoronix.com: Back in March an announcement came out of NVIDIA that they would be dropping support for the xf86-video-nv driver. However, today they have decided to release an updated driver.
Also: NVIDIA Puts Out Two Drivers, Including For OpenGL 4.1
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today's leftovers:
Submitted by srlinuxx on Saturday 31st of July 2010 04:37:31 AM Filed under
- Free Resources For Getting Your GIMP Graphics Game On
- Samsung Open Sources Captivate’s Code
- 5 lessons for win-win open source projects
- full circle magazine Issue 39 Ready
- Negroponte Offers OLPC Technology for $35 Tablet
- openSUSE 11.3 LiveCD with MeeGo desktop
- Kubuntu gets Global Menu
- Snort Creator Slams Open Source IDS Suricata
- Festbox for building new speech synthesis voices
- Open Source IDS Wars: You Were There
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5 Top Free and Open Source Erlang Web Frameworks
One of the types of software that’s important for a web developer is the web framework. A framework “is a code library that makes a developer’s life easier when building reliable, scalable, and maintainable web applications” by providing reusable code or extensions for common operations. By saving development time, developers can concentrate on application logic rather than mundane elements.
A web framework offers the developer a choice about how to solve a specific problem. By using a framework, a developer lets the framework control portions of their application. While it’s perfectly possible to code a web application without using a framework, it’s more practical to use one.
| Flock over to Mastodon on July 8 for an interactive session
As you probably know, the FSF is on Twitter (with caveats), Mastodon, and GNU Social. We simultaneously post to all three microblogs. You can read all the details about this at https://fsf.org/twitter, which has been updated recently to include more information about centralization, decentralization, and microblogging exclusively with free software.
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EndeavourOS Artemis is here about two and a half months after EndeavourOS Apollo to bring you an up-to-date installation medium that contains all the latest and greatest GNU/Linux technologies, starting with the Linux 5.18 kernel series and Mesa 22.1 graphics stack, and continuing with the latest Calamares (3.2.60) graphical installer.
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