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Desktop Linux Reviews: "The .iso file of Puppy Linux 5.0 weighs in at an incredibly petite 128 MB. It's much, much smaller than all of the usual desktop heavyweight distros. But don't let its small size fool you, Puppy Linux 5.0 is anything but an also-ran in terms of functionality and usability."

Linux Pro Magazine: ""People with disabilities deserve to have control of their own technological destinies." With this statement, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announces that it is turning its attention to accessibility."

MyBroadband: "Automatic driver installations, better mobile broadband and the end of PowerPC support can be expected from Fedora 13."

LinuxLinks: "For each title we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with an in-depth analysis of its features, a screenshot of the software in action, together with links to relevant resources and reviews."

Ubuntu User: "Amidst reports that Ubuntu would ditch longtime default browser Firefox for Google's Chrome browser were put to rest with a resounding "sort of.""

Dr. Dobbs: "Live, installable Linux distribution that communicates between clusters of computers so that they can work in parallel"

Webreference: "To demonstrate one-way encryption in PHP, this article describes how to start building a secure online diary application. The one-way encryption will allow the diary to log a user in and generally encrypt the contents of the file that it loads."

Systhread: "In this the third and final part of the series compulsory checks are added, the main loop is constructed and the finall full source listing produced."

Handle With Linux: "QNAP VS-5020 VioStor NVR (Network Video Recorder) is a high performance network video surveillance system for high-end IP-based real-time monitoring and video recording"

Database Journal: "MySQL is a great database for web-facing applications, however, it tends to be a bit rough around the edges. Enter Maatkit, a great toolkit with a bewildering array of command line tools that fill the gap where MySQL's native tools leave off. From data replication to query profiling and optimizing, Maatkit has tools to make you smarter, and help you get your job done."

Marcel Gagn�: "She was directed to me by a colleague of mine who suggested that I might just be the sort of person she wanted to talk to. Specifically, she wanted tech-savvy parents so she could find out how they explain copyright violations to their children."

Netstat --vat: "The release was pushed back by a week to fix a number of blocker bugs, among them is an interesting one that many users might simply consider to be just a papercut nuisance."

The H Open: "The Arch Linux developers have announced the release of the project's official 2010.05 installation images."

ERACC web log: "Old Unix hands already know this, but new Unix (Linux) users may be asking, �What is a �watchdog script�?' Basically it is a bash or other script that is run via cron periodically to check on a persistent service"

Phoronix: "Mark Shuttleworth wants to release Ubuntu 10.10 on the 10th of October (10/10/10), and so that's when the Maverick Meerkat will be introduced to the world."

Enterprise Mobile Today: "After using Outlook/Exchange since 1997 and RIM/BlackBerry devices since 2004, I recently spearheaded a move to migrate TPC Healthcare (the boutique healthcare technology firm that I founded) to Google Apps and to Google's Android devices."

Datamation: "However, open source security tools do offer a great deal of flexibility � not to mention cost advantages. If you want complete control over the way your network functions, having access to the source code gives you that ability. For this list, we've compiled a set of open source security tools and their commercial counterparts."

Hemisphere Games: "A couple of weeks ago, we announced the release of Osmos on Linux. Even before I had finished the port, we had been invited by a few members of the Linux community to do a post-mortem on our experiences. We were asked, �What would have made the port easier?�"

Raiden's Realm: "It's been awhile since I had used Epiphany,and was never really impressed with it, as far as I was concerned it was just a firefox clone, and I'd rather use the real thing. I had seen that they recently moved to a webkit browser engine, much like Google Chrome and Safrai use. I have been meaning to check it out So here goes!"

Netstat -vat: "Zend, one of the lead commercial PHP vendors, today announced that they have received another $9 million in venture capital funding, led by Greylock Partners."