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Dennis Ritchie, who is credited with creating the C language, has passed away.

Ritchie was one of the pioneers of computer science, and a well-deserved Turing winner for his many contributions, notably the creation of C — by far the most influential programming language in history, and still going strong today.

Source(s) : Rob Pike, via Herbsutter

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Ubuntu 11.10, code-named "Oneiric Ocelot" has been released. This latest version of Ubuntu improves on the previous release which marked the introduction of a whole new Desktop concept in Unity. In this version of Ubuntu – 11.10, the Desktop shell Unity has been updated to make it even better.

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KDE Releases Plasma Active One

Oct-12-2011 By admin

KDE team has released Plasma Active One.

Plasma Active One is a user interface framework intended for tablets, mobile phones, desktops, laptops, set top boxes, smart TVs, and any other touch enabled devices.

Currently, you can test drive Plasma Active One on a Meego or a SuSE Balsam distribution.

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Intel and Samsung have come together to develop Tizen – a brand new Linux OS geared to be used in mobile devices. Both these companies are working under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation and the LiMo foundation.

LiMo Foundation is an industry consortium dedicated to creating the first truly open, hardware-independent, Linux-based operating system for mobile devices.
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Vim is an enhanced version of the ever popular command line text editor vi. If you master the use of Vim text editor, it can be a very powerful tool in your hands, and allow you to do amazing text editing feats with just a few taps on your keyboard.

In 2007, this site had conducted a poll, and over 50% of the respondents said their favorite text editor is Vi.

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Learn Linux Commands The Easy Way

Sep-24-2011 By admin

There are hundreds of command line tools in Linux. For a person who has just started using Linux, learning the various commands could at times, be a chore. But not any more, if you see what this website has achieved.

Playterm is a site which hosts videos of commands / tasks executed in the Linux terminal.

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9 Cool SSH Tricks You May Not Know

Sep-19-2011 By admin

If you are running a website, even if it is a blog, chances are, you might have used SSH at least once. SSH stands for Secure SHell. When you use SSH, the communication and data transfer between the local machine and the remote machine occurs in a secure encrypted tunnel. So no one will be able to snoop on your data.
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Linus Torvalds has moved the entire Linux kernel to Github. This comes in the wake of Kernel.org site (The original home of Linux kernel) getting hacked.
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Aaron J.Seigo – Project leader and developer at KDE, in an interview with Andreas Proschofsky of der Standard says, the next big thing for KDE users and developers is the KDE Frameworks 5.0. Aaron was speaking on the sidelines of the Desktop Summit.
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I like cheat sheets. They give a birds eye view of the whole picture. Cheat sheets are also massive time savers in that, you don't have to pour over reams of content to find what you want.
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