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APT2 progress report for the 1st half of December
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| This week was successful. I have pushed
| some changes from November to the
| repository which change the license to
| LGPL-2.1+ (which makes bi-directional
| sharing of code with other projects
| easier, since most Vala code is under the
| same license) and implement HTTP using
| libsoup2.4 directly, instead of using GIO
| and GVFS for this. I also added a parser
| for the sources.list format which uses
| regular expressions to parse the file and
| is relatively fast. The code needs a
| current checkout of Valaâs git master to
| work correctly; as released versions had a
| bug which I noticed today and JÃrg
| Billeter fixed in Vala 25 minutes later;
| thank you JÃrg.
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http://juliank.wordpress.com/2009/12/13/apt2-progress-report-for-the-1st-half-of-december/
Mozilla's Firefox - the big challenger in the browser wars
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| There wasn't much in the way of choice in
| web browsers in the late 1990s, after
| Microsoft's Internet Explorer edged out
| Netscape Navigator and got itself pre-
| installed on almost every PC. Microsoft's
| strategy left competitors few options.
| But, after the dust settled, Netscape made
| its source code open, allowing a community
| of developers to create an open source
| browser, presented to the world in 2004 as
| Firefox.
|
| Since then, Firefox - with its logo of a
| fox circling the globe - has captured the
| hearts of surfers around the world. It has
| surged globally, even becoming the market
| leader in Germany, where 44 per cent of
| computer users prefer it, according to a
| recent poll by Fittkau & Maass. That
| compares to 37 per cent for Microsoft's
| Explorer.
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/299053,mozillas-firefox--the-big-challenger-in-the-browser-wars.html
Back up your data - Optical Discs
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| There is a good selection of software
| available for Linux which enables a
| CD/DVD/Blu-ray burner to backup and
| archive files. Two applications which
| particularly stand out are K3b...
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http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20091212150921113/OpticalDiscs.html
Related:
Debian & APT - Why I love it
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| I donât want to say its the best, but Iâve been using Debian, Ubuntu and
| other APT based Linuxes for years now. Ubuntu on desktop PCâs and Debian on
| Servers (only because I have a few servers already on Debian and keeping all
| identical is worth doing). I donât run GUIâs on my servers.
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http://www.itpro.co.uk/blogs/danj/2008/02/12/debian-apt-why-i-love-it/
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