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Another Linux Distro for Asus' Eee PC Laptops: eeebuntu

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Our sister blog jkOnTheRun has a good story about eeebuntu, a new Ubuntu Linux distribution that is specifically customized for Asus' popular Eee PC laptops. You can go with the snazzy Compiz Fusion enabled GNOME version or go plain-vanilla with the Ubuntu Netbook Remix packages. You can get the distro here, and you can quickly return to the Eee PC's normal Xandros Linux if you want. Quite a bit of open source software comes with eeebuntu, including Working WiFi, OpenOffice, Pidgin, Skype, Firefox 3.0.1, and the VLC media player. Those little Eee PCs are a steal at around $350, by the way. I have one. Check out jkOnTheRun's thoughts, with video.


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OStatic's Firefox Superguide

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Mozilla's Firefox browser is among the most popular of all open source applications, and one of the reasons is that it is so extensible and customizable. You probably have lots of favorite Firefox extensions and have picked up some tips, but continuing to add to your arsenal makes lots of sense. Since the inception of OStatic, we've tried to do lots of tutorials and tips posts on Firefox, and recently a reader wrote in and said it would be useful to have them all compiled in one superguide. So here you go--our superguide to working more efficiently with Firefox.


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OStatic Buffer Overflow.....

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Mozilla is out with the first Alpha of version 3.1 of Firefox, code-named Shiretoko. We covered what's under the hood here.....

ZDNet on whether India and China are taking over open source.....

Open source is increasingly contributing to cloud computing, SaaS.....

 



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Sleipnir Browser Straddles Firefox & IE Rendering

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After reading an interesting writeup on it on Download Squad, I've been working with an alternative browser that you may very well have never heard of: Sleipnir. It's a very popular browser in Japan, from a company called Fenrir. The reason it got my attention is it's an extremely customizable browser, and it allows you to choose whether you want to use Firefox's Gecko rendering engine or Internet Explorer's. If you, as I do, primarily work in Firefox but keep Internet Explorer on hand when you run into trouble such as rendering problems, this browser presents an interesting solution.


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Winners of the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards Announced

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Google and O'Reilly have announced the winners of the 2008 Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards. Hat tip to Matt Asay for calling this out. I was very pleased to see one of the people behind Moodle named one of the winners. We've written widely about it. These awards, by the way, recognize special people in the open source community, not just projects. Here, below the fold, are the winners.


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TechCrunch Wants a Tablet

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A recent blog entry by Michael Arrington has stirred up some discussion around the web. Basically, it's a plea that someone design and build a $200 open-source web tablet: minimal specs, Linux, booting right into Firefox, that you can just pick up and use to browse the web with.


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Firebug Matures, Gets Developers and Hosting from Mozilla

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If you're a Web developer, it's a pretty good bet that one of your most important tools is Firebug, an open-source debugger for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Ajax that works inside of the open-source Firefox Web browser. Since it was first unveiled several years ago, Firebug has taken the Web-development world by storm, revolutionizing developers' ability to modify, test, and debug Web applications. In the last month, Firebug has received hosting and development assistance from Mozilla, a change that will almost certainly benefit both the software and the community.



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Are You Ready for Firefox 3.1?

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It may seem as if the Firefox 3 release cycle went on forever, especially if you hopped on board with the earliest betas. Many of us are still catching our breath after the version 3 release, waiting for add-ons to be updated and tweaking our preferences. But don't rest too long: Firefox 3.1 is right around the corner.


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Using iMacros for Firefox: A Visual, Step-By-Step Tour

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One of the best pieces of news related to the recent release of version 3 of Mozilla?s Firefox browser is that most popular extensions now work with it. In this post, I?ll present an extensive guided tour to my favorite, free Firefox extension of all: iMacros. If you spend a lot of time in Firefox, and especially if you perform a lot of repetitive tasks each day, iMacros can save you tons of time and hassle. It sits in your Firefox toolbar, and lets you record tasks?whether they are oft-performed web development tasks, or simple tasks such as opening a series of tabs you use each day.



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Mozilla Fixes Firefox Flaw, But Needs New Security Practices

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As we reported on WebWorkerDaily yesterday, Mozilla has issued critical security advisories that affect several of its products, including versions of Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey. Late yesterday, Mozilla released a new version 3.0.1 of Firefox that patches security flaws, and you can download it now. You can also get the new version, if you have Firefox 3 running, by clicking on the Check for Updates option on the browser's Help menu. What's still due from Mozilla, in terms of fixes, and what's missing from the security practices the company followed here?


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