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Release Day for many Linux distributions

Apr 282011

natty Today it’s the day, Ubuntu 11.04 has been officially released and they server are now under “attack” by all the Ubuntu users that are trying to download the new release or update a former version, for me it took around 3 hours to finish the download of the 1400 packages needed to upgrade from Xubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 with two disconnection.

But Ubuntu is not the only thing released in these days; yesterday, has been released Slackware 13.37 ( codenamed leet ) and today it was also released version 2011.04 of Chakra Linux. Really a lot of news.
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Sun’s Open Source Projects Find New Life After Oracle

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Apr 202011

Brief introduction, on April 15 2011 Oracle announced that it will abandon the development of the commercial version of Open Office and so the project will become officially a community only driven project. Or: goodbye OpenOffice, welcome libreoffice.

Original article By: Michael Dorf

When Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems, Sun was actively sponsoring a number of open source projects. In the past, Oracle has had limited success with open source software and many felt that Oracle didn’t understand open source. As Oracle began to assimilate the various parts of Sun Microsystems, the community waited and watched to see if Oracle would be a good open source citizen.

The community didn’t need to wait long. One of Oracle’s first missteps in the open source community came when they filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Google’s Android platform. This suit rocked the open source community as many viewed it as a poor use of Sun’s Java related patents. It has also caused many in the community to question the future of Java. And for those that relied on other Sun open source projects, it called into question the future of those projects.

Humble Bundle – part 3

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Apr 122011

I’ve talked of the Humble Bundle 2 in this post, and now you have around 14 days to buy 5 good games and choose the price you want to pay for them, this seem too good to be true?

Then I add also that you can decide whether, and to what percentage, allocate part of the sum for the charity in two associations.

Yes The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle is arrived !
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Another down, sorry !

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Apr 112011

Today i got another 4 hours of down of the site.
When i logged into my hosting site i found that my homedir was empty and when i requested some informations at the support i got:

“We have checked your issue and found that you have deleted all main dirs(public_html,etc) thats why your site is not working.

We need to reset your account and then you need to start from scratch.”

So my hosting say that’s i’ve deleted everything and than i forgot everything about this…. sure.

I think it’s pointless to spend time with the support trying to understand what really happened, perhaps it’s not even their fault and so i’ve spent the last 3 hours in recovery the site from a backup (luckily i’m used to do this at least once at week).

So sorry for this further down of the site, i’m already searching for a new hosting company and i promise that i’ll not delete again all my files in my homedir in the future.

Is IE9 a modern browser?

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Apr 102011

This interesting article is not so neutral for sure (it’s hosted on the mozilla site), but from a first reading seems very well made and supported by numbers.