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Fedora 17 moving Linux system folders to /usr
Developers are busy working on Fedora 17 and found out they are making a few changes. What changes? They are moving some system files to the /usr directory.
The Following directories will be moved there: /bin /sbin /lib and /lib64 including their sub directories. For now they will keep a symbolic link from the / directory to the
/usr directory, that is to prevent compatibility issues with older Linux software and scripts. This way making it only possible to have a few system files under root and letting
the system creating a seperate mount point for the system files under /usr . Why are they doing this? The simplified directory structure brings advantagesto virtualization
and cloud computing. And developers want to improve compability with other unix varients and GNU software. See more information here. What do you think of this?
change?

Sources: tweakers.net and linux.com
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SOPA video
US Spy Drone switch to Linux?

Remember a while back when a US drone crashed? Well the cause of the problem that caused it to crash seems to have
been a malware infection. Here's a picture of the controls is 2009 . Check the middle screen between the two pilots. Recognize the well know windows menu bar? And here's a more recent picture from 2011 The second picture is really a clear picture. But how cool is that
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Debian most popular Webserver distro again

I came across an interesting article showing the statistics about what distro is the most popular as a webserver. It was CentOS
but just recently Debian took that position back. With Ubuntu in 3rd place but not even close to be being 2nd. I wonder why
Debian has become more popular then CentOS as a webserver and why webmast favorite distros change so quickly. Interesting
to see how there are a variety of linux distros all used as webservers even though I expected before I came across this that most
webservers would be CentOS/RHEL. Interesting how wrong our perception of things can be sometimes. I'm still running SL as
a webserver, and have never used Debian as a webserver before. Does make me curious and thinking of maybe trying debian as
a webserver just to feel and see the differences. What does your webserver run on?
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Munic Linux Migration Success
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Wallpaper Changer Wally
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Skype history for Linux?
Haven't used skype much, but it was a great app. I'll be looking for a good alternative.
sleep(60) - a minute's silence for the passing of a legend.
http://www.theregist...dennis_ritchie/
He knew what he started, and it ain't over yet.
Dennis, from one geek to another - I salute and thank you for your vision and inspiration, and what you've achieved in your uptime.
init 0;
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Not Linux News
to have a moment of silence for Steve Jobs here on the forum too. RIP Steve!!
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kernel.org website hacked
Kernel.org is offline; They are still investigating the attack and making backups and doing reinstalls
I wonder what effect this hack will have on linux and linux users?No online system is safe, everything
can be hacked but if kernel.org got hacked and their security must be high. What are the chances of
your system or my system getting hacked?
Source
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Ubuntu switching to a monthly release cycle?????
Firefox's example(copying Firefox?!). A reason behind it, because people like to explore. There would be no more code
names and updates would go through /etc/apt/sources.list just like Debian's testing repository(copying Debian?!). Problem
with this is same as the problems with Firefox moving too fast. Developers not being able to keep up and having alot less
time to develop decent applications for the OS. Applications would have more bugs making ubuntu even less stable Other
problems would be users losing confidence in the Operating system. Who wants to upgrade their OS every month? or
re-install every month?I know I don't, a 6 month release cycle I already find short. That's why I switched from Ubuntu to
Debian and same reason why I never liked fedora. But one month release cycle is insane!!Any Ubuntu users here?!I'm glad
I'm not
release cycle.
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Is Firefox moving too fast?
and Firefox having reasons for becoming faster. Reasons has some of the following: A browser being the
delivery vehicle for the internet, the internet being very fast(being real time), so needing to deliver when
ready. So the web browser can be the internet interface it has to keep up with the internet. But on the
other hand web developers have a hard time keeping up because so many changes happening
that they aren't able to implement everything into web apps because of the so rapid changes.
And not to forget that users need time to get used to something new, and I know from
experience that alot of users tend to freak out when all of a sudden something has changed
which they weren't aware of. Because most users like sticking to what they are used to.
And if you want them to step over to something new you need to give them time and
an explanation they as users can understand. I do think that isn't necessary to release
a new version of a web browser every 6 weeks. Because when a web browser
makes changes in such a short time and frequently. I tend to get annoyed that I have to upgrade
again and it can start to frustrate me and make me decided to start using a different browser.
And my last point is it may be good to have a newer release of a web browser to make it
more secure but at the same time where they fix security issues in web browsers there will
always pop up other security issues in place of the ones that they fix. So it's kind of
like en endless circle. Just wondering what your opinions are on this topic?
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facebook via command line
You need php5 so check php -V
Then download:
curl -O https://github.com/d...bcmd_update.php or download it from the website
log into root
sudo php fbcmd_update.php sudo
php fbcmd_update.php install
Get your authorization code from facebook
run fbcmd
And it should work ( I still have to try it myself)
Source
More information
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CentOS 6 is out
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http://isoredirect.c.../6/isos/x86_64/
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Android getting sold for money
And what does everyone think of that Android is getting sold with mobile phones?
While it runs on a linux kernel which is actually opensource. And they are keeping
some of the code back I read and then they are selling it? Doesn't really sound to me
like Android is really respecting Linux GPL, and then Android wouldn't really be
opensource? What are your opinions on this?
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