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Adobe Flex Builder Linux Updated (Alpha 5)

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Flex Builder Linux Alpha 5 release

Adobe Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Flex Builder for Linux alpha bits posted on Adobe Labs have been updated to extend the hardcoded timeout period. The current FB Linux Alpha 4 product will expire on Dec. 1st, 2009, so if you are currently using Flex Builder for Linux be sure to download the updated Alpha 5 bits from Adobe Labs prior to Dec. 1st. There are no changes to the functionality of the product in these new bits; however...

Damaged udev Device Manager Leads to Critical Data Loss in Linux

mnkstllr | yesterday

Kernel is a core component of Linux operating system, which works as an interface between the application and actual data processing performed at hardware level. It is responsible for managing all of the system resources. Kernel uses a device manager to make its functions easier. For example, Linux 2.6 kernel series uses udev. Basically udev manages the device nodes in root directory. It also handles

Unix Meets Cloud: Ubuntu Linux Now Ships with Built-in Online Storage APIs

Programmable Web (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

With the recent explosion of cloud computing services , developers now have more opportunities than ever to take advantage of enterprise-scale computing platforms. However, most cloud computing services, such as Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), have unique and incompatible APIs. This has provided a challenge for organizations wanting to develop in-house applications that can later be seamlessly...

How To Access Windows Host Shared Folders from Linux (Ubuntu) Guest OS Virtual Machine

My Digital Life (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

After installing VirtualBox Guest Additions into Ubuntu (or any other Linux), one of the feature that available for communication between guest virtual machine and host operating system is shared folders. Shared folders allow folders or directories on the host machine to be mapped and access from within guest OS as a network share. By using [...] [ This is a content summary only. Visit My Digital Life...

How To Install VirtualBox Guest Additions in Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Red Hat and More)

My Digital Life (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

VirtualBox Guest Additions, similar to Virtual Machine Additions for Virtual PC (VPC), is an application that installs into guest operating system running in virtual machine (VM) of VirtualBox to add and enable extra features that allow better and seamless integration between guest OS and host OS, in addition to improve performance. Some of the features made [...] [ This is a content summary only....

NVIDIA Pushes Out 195.22 Beta Linux Driver

Phoronix (Free subscription) | yesterday

After talking about NVIDIA's forthcoming 64-bit FreeBSD driver we were alerted to the fact that the first 195.xx public beta driver is now available. Earlier this month we first talked about the NVIDIA Linux 195.xx driver series as Fermi GT 300 support was being worked on, but now a Fermi-less (or at least from their official change-log) driver has arrived...

Distribution Release: Scientific Linux 5.4 "Live CD/DVD"

DistroWatch.com: News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Urs Beyerle has announced the release of the "Live CD/DVD" edition of Scientific Linux 5.4, a distribution rebuilt from source packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 and enhanced with extra scientific and other software: "Scientific Linux Live CD/DVD 5.4 has been released for i386 and x86_64. Features:....

Use MP3 Diags in Linux to repair your MP3 collection – 1090th Edition

Efinditnow (Free subscription) | yesterday

Do you have a massive MP3 collection that contains files with problems? Don’t you wish you had a program that could search through that collection, find problems with those files, and fix the problems? Fortunately for all of your MP3 horders, there are programs for just that task. One of those programs, for the Linux [...]

• Use MP3 Diags in Linux to repair your MP3 collection - gHacks

Multi-threaded RISC cores released for Linux, Android

LinuxDevices.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Imagination Technologies is releasing its second-generation 32-bit Meta processor cores for wider availability. The Series2 Meta core IP integrates DSP functions, supports hardware multi-threaded execution, offers hard real-time capabilities, and supports Linux and Android, says Imagination, which also announced a new PowerVR SGX543MP graphics core family....

Jolicloud "Robby" Beta To Ship WIth Linux 2.6.32

Phoronix (Free subscription) | yesterday

In early September we featured an article on Jolicloud Linux, which sought to provide innovations atop Ubuntu Netbook Remix by enriching the experience for cloud computing and through their Jolicloud service to have easy access to various web-based applications. At that time we were seeded with an early alpha build of Jolicloud, but this morning (just a day after we published the first Chrome OS benchmarks),...

Trust Linux!

The Web Scene (Free subscription) | yesterday

A consortium of 23 research and business partners, working on the European OpenTC project, have developed open source software and applications for trusted computing (TC) environments using openSUSE, a commercially available version of the Linux operating system. Building TC support in openSUSE involved compiling a trusted software stack for Linux, developing universal virtualization layers, and [...]...

Linux: Convert Mac to UNIX Line Endings

JJinuxLand (Free subscription) | yesterday

I'm working with a project that has a bunch of ActionScript (.as) files with old Mac line endings (i.e. CR instead of LF). For some reason, I see a bunch of references to mac2unix online, but I don't see anything readily available in Debian packages. I want to convert to UNIX line endings, but without screwing up DOS files, etc. That is, I want it to be somewhat intelligent. This is what I came up...

[$] The 2009 Linux and free software timeline - Q1

LWN.net (Free subscription) | yesterday

We decided to break our annual timeline into quarters this year and have the first installment ready. Subscribers can click below to get a look at the significant events in the Linux and free software world from January through March of 2009. In the coming weeks, we will be putting together timelines for the rest of the year, one quarter at a time. With any luck, we'll end up finishing the timeline...

Linux: Do not unload the o3d plugin in the browser process. This is a tempora...

Code Review - All issues (Free subscription) | yesterday

Linux: Do not unload the o3d plugin in the browser process. This is a temporary workaround for a shutdown crash. BUG=25245 TEST=no crash on shutdown.

Damaged udev Device Manager Leads to Critical Data Loss in Linux

mnkstllr | yesterday

Kernel is a core component of Linux operating system, which works as an interface between the application and actual data processing performed at hardware level. It is responsible for managing all of the system resources. Kernel uses a device manager to make its functions easier. For example, Linux 2.6 kernel series uses udev. Basically udev manages the device nodes in root directory. It also handles...

Interrupted Process of GParted Cause Superblock Corruption and Data Loss in Linux

mnkstllr | 11/23/2009

In Linux operating system, GPT (GParted) is a useful tool that facilitates you to create, resize, move, delete, copy and check the hard drive partitions/volumes. It also copy file system on newly created partitions. It is helpful to create space to install new operating system, copying data stored on hard drive, mirroring one volume with another and recognizing disk usage. In some cases, using this...

How To Install Linux On PS3

klauswagner112 | 11/18/2009

So you wish to know the way to install Linux on your PS3 , huh? Well if you do not know what Linux is, it is an operating system just like Windows. This programme is available for free online and there are various versions available to suit different wants. Installing linux on your PS3 could be a tricky process, if you do not know what you do. Linux For Ps3 Installer simplifies this process by offering...