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May
21st

Twitter open sourced RoR reputation system

Author: Satchitananda | Files under syndicated

The last time Twitter makes Opens Source community happy by intending new tools and Open Sourcing it. And a few days ago they had open sourced a Ruby on Rails gem that provides reputation system, to integrate in your application.


May
20th

Remembering Claire Lotion

Author: bob@lxer.com | Files under syndicated

Claire LotionThis week we heard about the death of KDE contributor Claire Lotion. People within the KDE Community were shocked and upset by this tragedy.


May
20th

How To Install VMware Player in Sabayon 8

Author: Jonquil McDaniel | Files under syndicated

Installing the latest VMware Player in Sabayon 8 with the 3.2 Linux kernel was an absolute pain. There are positively NO recent resources on how to get VMware Player working in Sabayon. So in this article I’m going to share with you how I got VMware Pl…


May
20th

Mandriva Becomes A Community Distribution

Author: bob@lxer.com | Files under syndicated

The troubled GNU/Linux distribution Mandriva, which continue to survice despite all odds has announced that the development of the once most popular distribution is going back to the community. Mandriva is controlled and developed by Mandriva SA, a Fre…


May
20th

Ubuntu more “commercial”, but always free …

Author: Giuseppe Sanna | Files under syndicated

Anyone who knows the world Linux will surely heard of Ubuntu. A distribution that has done so much for Linux and the Open Source world itself! In fact, thanks to the hard work of Canonical, Ubuntu is one of the first user-friendly distributions that ha…


May
20th

Lightspark For Open Flash Inches Forward

Author: bob@lxer.com | Files under syndicated

While Adobe has abandoned Linux Flash Player support, the open-source Lightspark Flash Player alternative continues to inch forward…


May
20th

12 More Enlightening Free Linux Books

Author: Trevor James | Files under syndicated

The purpose of this article is to identify insightful and well written Linux books that can be downloaded without charge. The majority of the books featured in this article are themselves released under an open source license. All of the books featured…


May
20th

A Microblogging Client for Twitter and Identi.ca Through CLI

Author: mhnassif | Files under syndicated

Shell prompt fans! here’s a microblogging client for Twitter and identi.ca you can use through the command line interface. Twidge allows you to view the recent tweets, add a new tweet, view messages, replies, retweets by those you follow and many oth…


May
20th

Create And Restore Partition Images With Partimage

Author: Christian Schmalfeld | Files under syndicated

Backups are usually made in one of two ways – either file-based which means that single files are backed up, often via synchronization and on an external disk, or image-based which means that a whole partition is stuffed into an image file that can be …


May
20th

Bash / sed / tr / Linux word occurrence counter and analyzer (e.g. for song lyrics)

Author: relst | Files under syndicated

With these commands you can analyze a text file. It will count all the occurrences of all words and put out the stats. It is usefull for song lyrics, books, notes and everything. It helps me analyze my writing style, which words do I use more often, wh…