Linus Torvalds, on 1st August, announced the release of new Linux kernel 2.6.35. It includes support for new Intel Cougarpoint chipset and improvements to AMD support among other new features.
For complete review and feature list for 2.6.25 please visit:
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_35

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Annual system administrator appreciation day: last Friday of July.

http://www.sysadminday.com/

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Google Trends new search Results
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--> google New avatar
--> Real time search for effective results
--> Get personalised Search Results
--> Forget online news, Read google Live Stories
--> Tracking History via Google
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Mark Shuttleworth has announced the new Ubuntu 10.10 code named Maverick Meerkat scheduled for release in October 2010.
For more information visit

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-10-10-a-k-a-Maverick-Meerkat-139104.shtml

and

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/336

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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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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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