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+The Debian Project recently [announced the official release][2] of its new distribution, codenamed Etch. The new release brings the popular Linux distro to version 4.0 and adds a fully integrated installation process with a graphical front-end and an improved package management system.
+
+Debian is a GNU/Linux system supporting eleven different processor architectures and includes the KDE, Gnome and Xfce desktop environments. 
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+The new graphical installer should help open up what was once possibly the most difficult distro to install to a wider range of users. With the popularity of Ubuntu Linux largely attributable to its easy of installation (Mark Pilgrim [once quipped ][1]that Ubuntu is "an ancient African word meaning "can’t install Debian'"), other distros, like Debian, are clearly making an effort to ease to complexity of installation.
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+Etch also includes a much improved update mechanism with numerous security enhancements. Etch includes Secure APT, which allows users to easily verify the integrity of packages, to ensure they haven't been corrupted or tampered with, before downloading and installing them.
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+As part of its improved security, Etch also ships with out-of-the-box support for encrypted partitions.
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+Notable software in the new Debian release includes updated packages like KDE 3.5.5a, GNOME 2.14, OpenOffice.org 2, GIMP 2.2.13, Iceweasel (an unbranded version of Firefox 2) and Icedove (an unbranded version of Thunderbird 1.5). 
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+Etch can be downloaded via bittorrent (the recommended way), jigdo or HTTP. See the Debian website for more [detailed upgrade/installation instructions][3]. 
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+[1]: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/26/essentials-2006 "Essentials, 2006 edition"
+[2]: http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070408 "Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 released"
+[3]: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ "Debian Etch Release Information"
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+<img alt="Dolphin" title="Dolphin" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/10/dolphin.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />KDE 4, the next release of the popular Linux Desktop environment will, among other changes, no longer use the longtime file manager Konqueror by default, opting instead for the improved usability and enhanced browsing features of the [Dolphin file manager][2].
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+Before long time Konqueror power users freak out, keep in mind that Konqueror is not going anywhere, it will still be part of the KDE package, but by default Dolphin will be the file manager that gets launched from panel buttons and by apps requesting to open a file manager window.
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+Naturally you will be able to customize KDE 4 to change that behavior. Aaron Seigo one of the Dolphin developers [writes on his blog][1]:
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+>Konqueror is a power user's application that can not be fully replaced by something like dolphin (and vice versa). They have different use cases and different target audiences. Both are valid concepts and both will be sharing the vast majority of their code, sort of like how kwrite is little more than a shell around katepart.
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+That said, even longtime Konqueror users might want to investigate Dolphin since it looks to have some very nice enhancements not found in Konqueror. 
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+Although a number of further improvements are planned for the KDE 4 version of Dolphin, the current KDE 3 version includes a very slick, Windows Vista-like navigation bar that allows for quickly jumping around in the path (each part of the URL path is clickable) as well as allowing for directly typing file paths in the url bar.
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+Other noteworthy features in Dolphin include split pane windows (also a feature in Konqueror) and sidebars which can be hidden, tiled and moved to any position.
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+Both Dolphin and KDE 4 have a ways to go before they're ready for the general public, but as kind of preview the Dolphin team released the screenshot below showing some of the new features slated for the next release.
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+[1]: http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2007/02/konqueror-not-vanishing-news-at-11.html "konqueror not vanishing. news at 11."
+[2]: http://enzosworld.gmxhome.de/index.html "Dolphin File manager"
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+The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has posted a video from the recent ETech conference in which [Marc Cuban][1] debates the EFF's [Fred von Lohmann][2] about YouTube and the future of copyright (video after the jump -- via YouTube of course). 
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+The debate over YouTube and copyright infringement continues with lawsuits rolling in from Viacom and others and Cuban contends that Google is willfully infringing on copyright by failing to filter YouTube. 
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+The crux of Cuban's argument revolves around the fact that because YouTube does more than just host the videos (i.e. it converts them from a variety of formats into the Flash videos on the site) it does not qualify for the DMCA's safe harbor protections. 
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+While the exact interpretations of the DMCA's safe harbor provisions are something that the courts are still debating, Cuban does make a compelling argument from a strictly legal point of view. 
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+However, when he drifts off into sweeping generalizations, as Cuban is prone to do, he makes decidedly less sense. For instance, at one point Cuban seems to say YouTube would basically disappear were not for the infringing content it (perhaps) unwittingly hosts, which is I think a dead horse that's been beaten long enough. All one needs to do is check the most viewed videos on the site to realize that simply isn't true -- the vast majority of the most viewed videos are user created.
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+But as with all things involving the outspoken Cuban, the video is at least entertaining.
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+<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hflanQiFSSw"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hflanQiFSSw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
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+[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Cuban "Wikipedia: Marc Cuban"
+[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_von_Lohmann "Fred von Lohmann"
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+Google has unveiled an online mapping initiative aimed at [raising awareness of the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan][1]. Crisis in Darfur, which is in partnership with the [U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum][3], enables Google Earth users visualize and better understand the genocide currently unfolding in Darfur. 
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+Crisis in Darfur is the first project in the Museum's Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative which will over time include information as layers in Google Earth. The goal of the project is to allowing citizens, governments and institutions to access information on atrocities and potential genocide.
+
+The Museum is presumably trying to leverage some aspect of the wisdom of the crowds so that while CNN may be covered with headlines about the latest celebrity death, the blogosphere and growingly influential citizen media projects can use the Google Earth tools to research and draw attention to stories that matter.
+
+Museum Director Sara J. Bloomfield, Director of the Holocaust Museum, said in press conference earlier today that Google Earth can serve as a means to raise awareness about atrocities both past and present.
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+"When it comes to responding to genocide, the world’s record is terrible." Bloomfield said. "We hope this important initiative with Google will make it that much harder for the world to ignore those who need us the most"
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+To access the new content open up Google Earth and fly over to African. The Crisis in Darfur layers are in the Global Awareness directory. 
+
+The joint press release from Google and the Holocaust Museum says that Crisis in Darfur allows user to zoom and see firsthand "1,600 damaged and destroyed villages, providing visual, compelling evidence of the scope of destruction." Also visible are the remnants of more than 100,000 homes, schools, mosques and other structures destroyed by the janjaweed militia and Sudanese forces.
+
+Clicking the various icons will reveal more information including links to download files from the genocide museum as well as a "[how you can help][2]" section.
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+The high resolution images are drawn from sources like the U.S. State Department, non-governmental organizations, the United Nations, individual photographers, and the Museum. The additional content comes from a wide range of sources including the museum and humanitarian groups in the area.
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+The imagery is haunting, it's a very strange and disturbing experience to sit in the comfort of the your living room and zoom in on graphic images of destroyed villages on the other side of the globe. But that the same time that's the goal of this project, to use Google Earth to bring the realities of world directly into your living room.
+
+Once upon a time it was easy for governments to deny atrocities were happening, to hide evidence behind cordoned off, restricted access areas but thanks to projects like the Crisis in Darfur layers for Google Earth it's becoming increasingly difficult for the perpetuators of such crimes to hide their deeds.
+
+[1]: http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/darfur_mapping.html "U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google Join in Online Darfur Mapping Initiative"
+[2]: http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/alert/darfur/what/ "What Can I Do"
+[3]: http://www.ushmm.org/ "U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum"
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+SourceForge, one of the largest open source code hosts on the web, has [partnered with the code search engine Krugle][6] to provide [improved search features for SourceForge.net][1]. The deal will let Krugle index and return results for the roughly 145,000 open source projects hosted at SourceForge.net. 
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+As anyone who's used SourceForge's existing search functionality can tell you, this is a tremendous boon for developers. Krugle's search will integrated into the SourceForge site and make it possible to search within the project code, something not previously possible on SourceForge.
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+Krugle will also the data to its [main search page][5].
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+We've looked at Krugle a [couple of times][3] in the past and come away very impressed. Krugle already powers code searches on Yahoo's Developer Network and by adding SourceForge results, Krugle is well on its way to becoming the [Google of code searching][4].
+
+[found via [Mashable][2]]
+
+[1]: http://sourceforge.krugle.com/ "SourceForge Krugle Code Search"
+[2]: http://mashable.com/2007/04/10/sourceforge-krugle/ "SourceForge, Krugle Team Up for Open Source Code Search"
+[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/yahoo_developer.html "Yahoo Developer Network Adds Krugle Code Search"
+[4]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70219-0.html "Here Comes a Google for Coders"
+[5]: http://www.krugle.com/ "Krugle"
+[6]: http://blog.krugle.com/?p=237 "Krugle partnering with SourceForge"
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+Because the Linux news doesn't stop today: Palm [announced this morning][2] that the company plans to deliver a new Linux and open source based mobile platform later this year. Rumors to this effect have been swirling for some time and in fact Palm has previously used parts of the Linux kernel in its OS.
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+Details are few at this point, but Colligan did say during a Palm Analyst Day speech, that the reason for the switch was improving the user experience (better WiFi etc) and adding greater hardware flexibility, an issue that has plagued the Palm OS in recent years.
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+Colligan also said that the new platform has been under construction "in house" for a number of years. Interestingly Palm will not license the new OS to outside hardware companies. Perhaps Palm is trying to take a page from the Apple playbook?
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+Not only is the lack of licensing unusual for a handset OS, but the switch to Linux-based OS resembles in some ways Apple's move to the BSD platform for OS X.
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+But Palm isn't the only mobile OS moving to Linux. Symbian has already announced it plans to support tools that will make it easier to port applications from Unix to the Symbian OS.
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+Tech News World ran a story last week about the [growing use of Linux][1] in the mobile world positing that as handset prices decline, many manufacturers are focusing on the cost of the software elements as a means of raising profit margins.
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+Because Linux-based systems don't have the licensing fees of Windows Mobile and other proprietary solutions, the manufacturers are increasingly turning to Linux. 
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+Tech News World cites a recent ABI report that suggests Linux will make up 14 percent of the mobile OS market by 2012.
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+A full audio recording of Hooligan's talk can be [found on the Palm site][3].
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+[1]: http://www.technewsworld.com/story/wireless/56732.html "The Steady Migration of Smartphones to Linux"
+[2]: http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9351/palm-announces-new-linux-based-mobile-platform/ "Palm Announces New Linux Based Mobile Platform"
+[3]: http://investor.palm.com/eventdetail.cfm?EventID=28423 "Palm Investor Day Speech"
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+Since I seem to have unintentionally started a Linux theme day here on Compiler we'll just keep rolling with it. According to a post I ran across on [Digg][8], the Linux-based Sugar OS which was designed for the [One Laptop Per Child project][6] (OLPC), is now [available as a live CD][1].
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+Bear in mind that the Sugar OS ISO in its current incarnation is alpha, i.e. not guaranteed to work on your machine.
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+I managed to track down some screenshots on [Linux Questions][2] which show the Sugar OS in action. Keep in mind that not only is this distro in the alpha release stage, but the OS is designed to be used by children (screenshots after the jump).
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+According to a blog post I found from [one of the Sugar developers][3] the current ISO image linked above weighs in at only 291Megs, which puts it down in a league similar to Damn Small Linux which we [mentioned last week][7]. Although Damn Small is on 50MB and thus more compact, Sugar is still giving it a run for it's money.
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+If you interested in working with and contributing to the Sugar OS project have a look at some of the [articles][4] that Red Hat Magazine has been running. There are a couple tutorials for those that would like to get started with building apps for Sugar.
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+For more general info on Sugar be sure to [check out the wiki][5] (which as of this writing is down, probably due to the Digg effect).
+
+
+[1]: http://olpc.download.redhat.com/olpc/streams/sdk/build1/livecd/ "Sugar OS LiveCD"
+[2]: http://shots.linuxquestions.org/?linux_distribution_sm=OLPC "Sugar OS screenshots"
+[3]: http://www.j5live.com/?p=349# "Experimental Sugar SDK LiveCD"
+[4]: http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/02/23/building-the-xo-introducing-sugar/ "building the XO: Introducing Sugar"
+[5]: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar "OPLC Wiki Sugar OS"
+[6]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/03/hkons_olpc.html "OLPC video"
+[7]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/04/weve_written_ab.html "Damn Small Linux The Portable Desktop"
+[8]: http://digg.com/linux_unix/OLPC_one_laptop_per_child_Linux_based_OS_ready_for_download "OLPC (one laptop per child) Linux based OS ready for download"
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