Trillian Beta Released for Android, Is Already the Best IM Client Out There [Downloads]

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August 20, 2010

Android: The desktop version of Trillian Astra won (however fudgingly) our Hive Five for best desktop IM client, and now you can get the same polished, account-syncing, tabbed-messaging IM client on your Android phone.

Clojure 1.2: A combination of scripts and functional programming

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August 20, 2010

Version 1.2 of Clojure, a Lisp dialect which was developed for the Java Virtual Machine that aims at combining the advantages of script languages with those of multi-threaded programs, has now been released.

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Javascript server Node.js moves to 0.2.0

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August 20, 2010

The up-and-coming JavaScript-running network server gets a first minor bump to its version number as it and its community show rapid development

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Linux Users Receive Some Love from Google [Linux]

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Gizmodo

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August 20, 2010

From today, Ubuntu and other Debian flavors of Linux can audio and video-chat using Gmail’s webmail, iGoogle and Orkut chat.

Support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux extended by 3 years

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The H

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August 20, 2010

As part of its “Extended Life Cycle Support” package, Red Hat will update selected components of RHEL for a further 3 years

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Google adds Linux support to voice and video chat

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The H

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August 20, 2010

Google has announced that it has now officially added Linux support to its voice and video chat service, which was originally introduced in November of 2008

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Notes from the LSF summit storage track

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LWN

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August 19, 2010

LWN readers will have seen our reporting from the Linux Storage and Filesystem Summit (day 1, day 2), held on August 8 and 9 in Boston. Your editor was unable to attend the storage-specific sessions, though, so they were not covered in those articles. Fortunately, James Bottomley took detailed notes, which he has now made available to us. Many thanks to James for all of what follows.

Bazaar: A Powerful, next-generation source control system

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August 19, 2010

Bazaar is used to produce the Ubuntu Linux distribution, which is an enormous software project with thousands of components. If you’re using a UNIX or Linux system, chances are that your distribution offers a pre-built Bazaar package. Bazaar is flexible enough to accommodate Subversion – a centralized system and Git – a decentralized system. This article introduces you to Bazaar’s many appealing features.

Installing And Using OpenVZ On Ubuntu 10.04

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Falko Timme

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August 19, 2010

In this HowTo I will describe how to prepare an Ubuntu 10.04 server for OpenVZ. With OpenVZ you can create multiple Virtual Private Servers (VPS) on the same hardware, similar to Xen and the Linux Vserver project. OpenVZ is the open-source branch of Virtuozzo, a commercial virtualization solution used by many providers that offer virtual servers. The OpenVZ kernel patch is licensed under the GPL license, and the user-level tools are under the QPL license.

Adobe AIR to arrive on Android later this year

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The H

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August 19, 2010

Adobe has confirmed that it will deliver its cross-platform AIR runtime environment for Google’s open source Android mobile operating system by the end of this year

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