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The Most Popular Web Server Linux Is…

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CentOS, with almost 30% of all Linux servers. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux-derived distro is #1 according to Web Technology Surveys. (read on…) Related items IBM offers cheaper Linux mainframe (TechWorld) IBM’s Newest Mainframe Is All Linux (Slashdot) 5 Great OEM Linux Servers (Linux Today) Red Hat defends subscription licence for Linux (TechWorld) Red Hat announces enhancements to Red Hat Enterprise...
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Phoronix Benchmarking.. Statistically Significant?

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Blogger Kevin Bowling takes a look at the never-ending stream of benchmarks from Phoronix, with various Linux distros pitted against each other and even different operating systems, and he wonders, are they bullshit? . Case in point, this Debian vs FreeBSD benchmark that was submitted to OSNews yesterday. (more here…) Related items Seeking the One True Linux:...
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Taking webm for a Spin

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Montana Linux: “I first blogged about webm the day Google released it. It has taken some time but now I have full support for webm in my preferred Linux desktop distro (Fedora 13). I’ve been doing some testing and I have to say I’m impressed.” (read on…) Related items Why Top Linux Distros Are For Different Users...
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Ubuntu Muslim Edition 10.04 (Sabily) Review

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Desktop Linux Reviews: “Ubuntu regularly spawns all kinds of different derivative distros. Some are officially supported and some are not. Last week I looked at Ubuntu Satanic Edition. This week I decided to review Sabily 10.04, which is the Muslim edition of Ubuntu.” (more here…) Related items Security expert releases Ubuntu Linux distro for malware analysis Security expert...
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Open Source OCR That Makes Searchable PDFs

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An anonymous reader writes “In my job all of our multifunction copiers scan to PDF but many of our users want and expect those PDFs to be text searchable. I looked around for software that would create text searchable pdfs but most are very expensive and I couldn’t find any that were open source...
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Sabayon Linux 5.3 XFCE and LXDE Spins Are Now Availble

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Softpedia: “The Sabayon Linux team has now released two new flavours of the Gentoo-based Linux distro packed with alternative desktop environments for those who prefer them or have slower computers.” (to be continued…) Related items Choosing a Desktop Linux Distro, Part 2: Installation and Support (LinuxInsider.com) Choosing a Desktop Linux Distro, Part 1: Getting What You Want (LinuxInsider.com) Gentoo:...
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Wine 1.2 Released

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David Gerard writes “Stuck with that one Windows app you can’t get rid of? Rejoice — Wine 1.2 is officially released! Apart from running pretty much any Windows application on Unix better than 1.0 (from 2008), major new features include 64-bit support, bi-directional text, and translation into thirty languages. And, of course, DirectX 9...
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Minimalist Linux distro rev’d to version 3.0

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Team Tiny Core announced the first release candidate for version 3.0 of its small-footprint, in-memory Linux desktop distribution. (read here…) Related items Taking webm for a Spin Why Top Linux Distros Are For Different Users (Slashdot) Choosing a Desktop Linux Distro, Part 1: Getting What You Want (Linux Today) Dell expands Ubuntu Linux desktop offerings Improving the Linux Desktop
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Security expert releases Ubuntu Linux distro for malware analysis

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A security consultant has released a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution specifically designed to help analyze and re-engineer malware. Lenny Zeltser on Thursday released REMnux on Sourceforge and it has already been downloaded nearly 2,000 times. Read more (read on…) Related items Security expert released Ubuntu Linux distro for malware analysis Ubuntu Linux wins over Windows power user New Ubuntu Linux...
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Security expert released Ubuntu Linux distro for malware analysis

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A security consultant has released a Ubuntu-based Linux distribution specifically designed to help analyze and re-engineer malware. Lenny Zeltser on Thursday released REMnux on Sourceforge and it has already been downloaded nearly 2,000 times. Read more (read on…) Related items Security expert releases Ubuntu Linux distro for malware analysis Ubuntu Linux wins over Windows power user New Ubuntu Linux...
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