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- Ubuntu's First Ten Paper Cuts Spotted - <b>Phoronix:</b> "The first ten of the one hundred paper cuts for Ubuntu 9.10 have now been determined ...

- Palm Delays SDK Release, Dismisses Homebrew Developers and Hackers - <b>PhoneNews:</b> ""As on any popular platform, we recognize that some developers will experiment in [...] offerings &#8211; will provide the best experience for the vast majority of webOS developers and users.&#8221;"

- A Python Client/Server Tutorial - <b>WDVL:</b> "There can be many reasons why you might need a client/server application. For a simple [...] application in the stores would then need to post inventory transactions to the central server in real-time."

- How to Remove The Annoying Update manager Pop-up in Ubuntu Jaunty - <b>MakeTechEasier:</b> "For those who are using Ubuntu Jaunty, you will notice that there is a change [...] you to upgrade software. In the past, an icon will appear on the system tray whenever there is new update available."

- How much do desktops matter? - <b>ZDNet:</b> "Do desktops matter? Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation insists they ...

- Editor's Note: No More Computers For Me! - I'm heading out on vacation for a week, so I'm counting on you fine readers to behave yourselves and not make my [...] old grouches who don't care, so you're in good hands. I intend to spend the entire week nowhere near a computer.

- openSUSE Factory is Now Open - <b>LWN.net:</b> "openSUSE development is now even _more_ open than before. Factory development is ...

- Using Ubuntu as your sole operating system in academia - <b>EdTechDev:</b> "I've been using Ubuntu Linux as my sole operating system for two years now, ever [...] Eclipse, JEdit, Inkscape, Gimp, etc.). I wrote about making the switch to Linux gradually over 6 years ago..."

- More about Moblin on the Nettop (Part 3) - <b>Jamie's Random Musings:</b> "The first thing to say about Moblin this time is that the automatic [...] that there were 344 updates available for my system, and it is now happily chugging along installing them. Quite Nice."

- Fedora 11 Provides Glimpse of Future for Red Hat Enterprise Linux - <b>DBTA:</b> "The project fulfills several purposes and "one of them is to give Red Hat a place to [...] to millions and millions of users," Paul Frields, Fedora project leader at Red Hat, tells Linux Executive Report."

- Teaching Math with the KDE Interactive Geometry Program - <b>Linux Journal:</b> "I'm writing about using the KDE Interactive Geometry (Kig) program to teach [...] With Kig, you can draw points, lines, line segments, half lines, vectors, circles and various other conic sections."

- How To Install Qmailtoaster (CentOS 5.3) - <b>Howtoforge:</b> "Qmailtoaster (www.qmailtoaster.com) is a project that aims to make the installation [...] for your particular distro and architecture is as easy as running a script or a simple command for each package."

- 10 reasons why open source makes sense on smart phones - <b>10 Things:</b> "Open source brings a host of benefits to the mobile market, starting with cost [...] go much further - from better security to more customization options to more prolific application development."

- How old does your hardware go? - <b>Cyber Cynic:</b> "This led me to the question: "What's the oldest PC that you're still ...

- Amazon code release irrelevant, Kindle is still closed - <b>ars Technica:</b> "Amazon recently released the source code of some of the components that are used [...] its ebook reader. The code release is purely for GPL compliance while the Kindle's ebook features remain proprietary."

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