Category: Linux
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Scratch on Linux
MIT has Scratch on Linux. Check the site for more details. It is interesting to note that Scratch runs on Squeak. Debian / Ubuntu Package You can download the latest Scratch package for Ubuntu from our Download page. The source code for this package is hosted on Assembla, as is the list of bugs. If…
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Linux: Where the Jobs Are
From a post By Katherine Noyes, PCWorld Check out the full post for links to related articles and a wealth of other information. Numerous studies have emerged over the past few years indicating that Linux skills are a hot item in the IT hiring market, but on Tuesday the Linux Foundation will publish a brand-new…
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Linux users and big data
From Barb Darrow on GigaOM For anyone thinking the big data trend is a flash in the pan, there’s some new evidence to the contrary. A hefty 75 percent of IT pros and developers responding to a new Linux Foundation survey have their eyes firmly on this big data phenomenon. More than three-quarters of the…
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Unsung Heroes of Linux
From Carla Schroder, here, on Linux.com comes a multi-part series entitled the Unsung Heroes of Linux. What caught my eye was the inclusion of Lady Ada whose products I have purchased starting soon after she started selling them as my son found them, and the Linux Wireless project, which, for those of us with early…
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More Fedora 16 Grub2 Tips and Tricks
I resolved the core.img is unusually large problem by expanding the boot partition. I was reinstalling a server yesterday and I found that Fedora 16 Anaconda will put a 1MB partition first in order to boot, before adding the 500MB (current standard) partition for /boot. Yeah! On the first machine, one of the tasks I…