Newsbeuter 1.0: RSS Feed Reader for Text Terminals and Podcasts
Aug 21, 2008On August 20, developer Andreas Krennmair announced the official release of Newsbeuter, the “mutt of RSS feed readers.”
more »Open Source Software Works Around China's "Great Firewall"
Aug 04, 2008Journalists at the Olympic Games 2008 in Peking report that they do not have unrestricted Internet access. The GPL'd OpenVPN software can easily work around censorship of this kind.
more »First Maintenance Update for Firefox 3
Jul 17, 2008Mozilla has just released version 3.0.1 of the Firefox browser; the first maintenance update removes a couple of vulnerabilities and fixes a some minor bugs.
more »Simile Semantic web tools of the Simile project
Jul 02, 2008The Simile project jump starts the semantic web with a collection of tools for extending semantic information to existing websites.
more »A web service filesystem Building a web service filesystem with SOAP and Fuse
Jul 02, 2008The Fuse kernel module lets developers implement even the most idiosyncratic of filesystems. We’ll show you how to build a filesystem that relies on SOAP to publish data over web services.
more »aMSN in Linux Reaching MSN networks from Linux with aMSN
Jul 01, 2008aMSN lets Linux users communicate with associates on Microsoft instant messaging networks. In this article, we'll show you how to reach out to your friends in the empire.
more »Yahoo Chat Tools Video Chat with Yahoo
Jul 01, 2008Kopete and Gyachi bring Yahoo videochat services to Linux.
more »ASK KLAUS!
Jul 01, 2008Klaus Knopper is the creator of Knoppix and co-founder of the LinuxTag expo. He currently works as a teacher, programmer, and consultant. If you have a configuration problem, or if you just want to learn more about how Linux works, send your questions to: klaus@linux-magazine. com
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CachyOS Gets an Update
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The Linux Kernel Dev Staging Area Now Rejects AI-Generated Patches
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AI Helped Develop a Linux Exploit
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Yet Another Linux Kernel Vulnerability Discovered
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Ubuntu 26.10 to Include Ubuntu Certified Hardware Check
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Substantial Update to IPFire Now Available
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