Mark Shuttleworth has announced that he will step down as the CEO of Canonical giving way to Jane Silber.
Read the complete story:

http://blogs.computerworld.com/15275/shuttleworth_steps_down_as_ubuntu_ceo

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Hello Lucene users,

On behalf of the Lucene dev community (a growing community far larger than
just the committers) I would like to announce the release of Lucene Java
3.0.0:

The new version is mostly a cleanup release without any new features. All
deprecations targeted to be removed in version 3.0 were removed. If you are
upgrading from version 2.9.1 of Lucene, you have to fix all deprecation
warnings in your code base to be able to recompile against this version.

This is the first Lucene release with Java 5 as a minimum requirement. The

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Canonical has officially released Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, on 29th October 2009. This is their 11th release. The release cycle of Karmic was different this time with only one Beta. There are a lot of improvements over Jaunty.
It uses GNOME 2.28.1 as desktop environment, EXT4 file system, 2.6.31.1 Linux kernel, Xsplash, new art work and more.
New improvements include:

Improved Boot time
EXT4 as the default file system over EXT3
New boot loader. Grub2 is used for EXT4 support
New X based splash screen
New splash theme
New login screen
New wallpapers

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Canonical has officially released Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, on 29th October 2009. This is their 11th release. The release cycle of Karmic was different this time with only one Beta. There are a lot of improvements over Jaunty.
It uses GNOME 2.28.1 as desktop environment, EXT4 file system, 2.6.31.1 Linux kernel, Xsplash, new art work and more.
New improvements include:

Impreoved Boot time
EXT4 as the default file system over EXT3
New boot loader. Grub2 is used for EXT4 support
New X based splash screen
New splash theme
New login screen
New wallpapers

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Hello,

I have got a couple of books on Linux and RHCE that I would want to put on for donation. Anyone who needs them are free to contact me.

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Microsoft, which has been at war with the Linux community over the years, has made a massive u-turn and released 20,000 lines of Linux code to the Linux kernel community.

The code includes three Linux device drivers and will be available to both the Linux community and customers. It will enhance the performance of the Linux operating system when virtualised on Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 virtualisation software, according to Microsoft. Code will be offered under the GNU General Public License 2.

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PHP.JS is an open source library project in which we try to port PHP functions to JavaScript. By including the PHP.JS library in your own projects, you can use your favorite PHP functions client-side.

Using PHP.JS may speed up development for PHP developers who are increasingly confronted with client-side technology. PHP.JS is nothing fancy like jQuery—we’re just offering PHP functions, with all of their original flaws and benefits for whomever needs them.

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Few things can spark more religious fervour amongst programmers than the mention of a goto statement. PHP has stepped into the middle of the firefight by announcing that it will be implementing goto functionality in version 5.3.

There is plenty of discussion surrounding PHP's decision, with PHP founder Rasmus Lerdorf defending the move, stating it is no different than breaking to a label and that it will not be an unlimited goto (it will not let jumps into loops or switches).

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There has been lots of buzz about Booting time in various Linux OS. While Ubuntu is assuring 20 seconds booting time in their latest release. Fedora is also claiming to have 20 Seconds of booting time in just released Fedora Core 11. Person i have not tried any of them - but the trend seems promising.

Read this article where someone achieved 5 seconds complete boot time.
http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/

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Fedora Core 11 - code named Leonidas has been released on 9th June 2009.

Important changes in this version includes

* ext4 as the default file system
* experimental BTRFS activated by IcantbelieveitsnotBTR at bootup
* Faster Bootup aimed at 20 seconds.
* GCC 4.4
* KDE 4.2.2
* Gnome 2.26.1
* 2.6.29-4 Linux kernel
* Netbeans 6.5
* nVidia kernel modesetting through the nouveau open source driver.[54]
* OpenOffice 3.1.0
* Python 2.6
* Xfce to 4.6
* X server 1.6
Read complete list of changes at

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