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Last Update: Sat Sep 30 07:18:54 2006

+ Ubuntu Developer Summit Paris: New alliances, new horizons + Last week, more than 60 Ubuntu developers met in Paris to plan Ubuntu's next release, codenamed Edgy Eft. Officially, the meeting was [...] to 10 attendees brainstormed, drafted, and advanced specifications in more than 60 sessions in up to 10 parallel tracks. These...

+ Choosing an open source CMS + It seems as if everyone is a Web publisher today -- from the habitual bloggers and online diarists to the companies running major [...] content management system (CMS) to do it. There are a lot of CMS choices -- Drupal, Mambo, Bricolage, WordPress, and Plone...

+ Contributing to FLOSS projects + As a free software maintainer, I get to read lots of email messages by people who want to contribute to the projects I am responsible [...] are some tips that every aspiring developer should know about the customs and techniques prevalent in FLOSS culture and about...

+ GNOME needs women + The GNOME Foundation received 181 applications for the Google Summer of Code (SoC) program, but not a single application was from a [...] GNOME, and free software in general, has spurred the GNOME foundation to start a summer program to reach out to female developers.

+ Wine Doors opens Windows under Linux + When I first used Wine to try to install Windows software on my Linux machine, I found it less than user-friendly. Fortunately there ...

+ My desktop OS: Zenwalk + There are so many desktop distributions that I often find myself testing them like I'm looking for the Holy Grail and forgetting what ...

+ See distros. See distros run. Run, distros, run. + OSvids.com, a new site launched last week, is a twist on the traditional Linux screenshot gallery. It provides video views of dozens ...

+ Creating virtual private networks with tsocks and VTun + Virtual private networks (VPN) let remote users connect back to corporate networks over encrypted links. Many VPNs are built with ...

+ CLI Magic: ext2hide veils sensitive files + User Level: Advanced ext2hide is a proof-of-concept program that seeks to magically hide confidential data and files where nobody ...

+ Ubuntu Dapper: Ready for the long haul + The long-awaited Ubuntu 6.06 Long Term Support (LTS) release, also known as Dapper Drake, made its debut last week. After extensive ...

+ Libranet's last goodbye + After six months, the Libranet community has learned that its wait for the revival of the distribution was futile. Tal Danzig, ...

+ Glom, the point-and-click database tool + I am by no means a database wizard. I know a bit of SQL, but primarily my interaction with databases is secondhand, through either ...

+ Using Debconf to configure a system + DebConf is best known as an annual gathering of Debian developers. But the Debian project likes the name so much that it uses it -- ...

+ First look: Xara Xtreme LX + Xara Xtreme LX (Xara LX), the port of Xara's flagship graphics program released under the GNU General Public License, has been ...

+ Emacs tips: Making outlines + The ability to make outlines, or to view any structured document in an outline view, are touted features of Microsoft Word and just ...