The Ubuntu project has published a release candidate, or final testing version, for the upcoming 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope version of its popular Linux distribution.
“We consider this release candidate to be complete, stable and suitable for testing by any user,” said Ubuntu developer Steve Langasek in an email.
If release candidates prove stable, they sometimes end [...]

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Having recently completed the second issue of Hackett and Bankwell, I have been taking inventory of my accomplishments and lessons learned.
Two years ago, I was working two jobs, writing Web software by day and configuring Linux servers by night. One job was a corporate situation where a lot of the work had been automated, leaving [...]

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The Linux Foundation (LF) has inked a deal that fosters collaboration with SourceForge and acquires ownership of Linux.com.
The move is intended to create a long-lasting community destination for Linux users and developers, officials from the organizations said.
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit outfit dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux. SourceForge is a publicly owned [...]

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It’s been a decade since Linux proponents first argued their OS was ready for mainstream adoption. Yet for all intents and purposes, Linux remains nonexistent on “regular” people’s desks. Sure, developers and other tech experts use Linux, but that’s about it.
So when my colleague Neil McAllister, author of InfoWorld’s Fatal Exception blog, made the case [...]

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