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How to help build a free software search engine and use it too. Welcome to Wikia -- Part 2
Wiki evolution
The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed a toolbar in the screenshots. This is the wikia evolution extension which adds a toolbar to the browser (it works in both Firefox and Netscape Navigator). This is a really, really useful addon because it means you can still help Wikia to build the web index and the search engine even when you are not searching directly from the Wikia search page.
The toolbar gives you the main features you have when working directly from Wikia itself. So, I opened a page from one of my bookmarks about adding repositories to the Asus EeePC and clicked on the “Add URL to Keyword”. A dialogue box opens and you are prompted to submit a search term under which the URL will be submitted to the Wikia search index. You will know that your URL has been added because an entry will have added to the toolbar.
Shouldn’t Obama use Linux, and not a Mac?
Source: http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/amanda/2008/11/17/shouldnt-obama...
For those of you who haven’t heard, Barack Obama will be the first president to have a laptop on his desk at the oval office. (He does however have to give up his trusted Blackberry.)
Google CEO Eric Schmidt, in a conversation with Arianna Huffington on MSNBC, today said that he hopes Obama uses a Mac and not a PC. Excuse me Eric (and Arianna) isn’t there another option you may be missing?
Unjustifiable Criticism of Richard Stallman by Linus Torvalds
A recent attack piece against Richard Stallman was written by Linus Torvalds on the eve of Obama’s election.
Black and white by Linus Torvalds
Linus begins with this:
So I’m pretty well-known for not exactly being a huge fan of the FSF and Richard Stallman, despite the fact that I obviously love the GPLv2 and use it as the license for all my projects that I care about.
Download BlankOn Linux 4.0
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BlankOn Linux is a distribution created in cooperation between the Indonesian Linux User Group and the Indonesian Ubuntu community. Its primary goal is to deliver a desktop-oriented Linux distribution with full support for the Indonesian language. |
Download Clonezilla Live 1.2.1-17
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Steven Shiau has announced the release of Clonezilla Live 1.2.1-17, a Debian-based live CD designed for hard disk cloning and partitioning tasks: |
Download Ultimate Edition 2.0
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Glenn Cady has announced the release of Ultimate Edition 2.0, a desktop distribution and live DVD based on the recently released Ubuntu 8.10: |
Linux Foundation November Newsletter
In this month’s Linux Foundation newsletter:
* Linux Foundation publishes guide to participating in Linux community
* Linux valued at $10b by new Linux Foundation white paper
* Linux Foundation holds successful first End User Summit
* The flagship LSB portability tool Linux Application Checker is released
* The Linux Foundation launches Linux Developer Network beta
* CME Group, Nokia, and Canonical among many making membership moves
* Linux Fast Boot Developments
Repair Vista Boot Loader
More often than not, when removing Linux partitions in a dual boot Vista-Linux environment, or when using GPARTED to resize partitions, Vista can no longer boot.
Rock the Linux Vote!
Source: http://ldn.linuxfoundation.org/blog-entry/week-46-rock-vote
The US elections are (blessedly) over, and like any political junkie, I am suffering from withdraw symptoms. After months of polls, blogs, and cable news, I find myself craving the process of democratically electing something, anything.
So you can imagine how excited I was to see that some LDN users were starting taking advantage of our Brainstorming tool. I wanted to take this opportunity to explain what this section of the LDN is all about and encourage everyone to participate!
Songbird plus Mozilla, the ultimate media mashup for your music -- Part 3
Concerts
If trawling through the official websites of your favourite artists in the Songbird library to view their tour itinerary is a bit of a slog, Songbird has an addon to for that too. Once you download and install Concerts, it will appear in the side panel of the library tab. Clicking on it will bring up configuration options for country and artist:
