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"Believe it or not, OpenStack, the extremely popular open-source software cloud stack is just over six-months old. Someone new to cloud-computing might find that hard to believe since today, February 3rd, Cisco, the 800-pound gorilla of networking, and Canonical, parent of Ubuntu Linux, have both joined forces with OpenStack.

"Historically, Canonical has been allied with the other popular open-source cloud stack, Eucalyptus since it began working in clouds. Indeed, Canonical, in partnership with Dell, has just launched a private cloud server package using the Eucalyptus cloud platform.

"Be that as it may, Canonical?s Cloud Solutions Lead, Nick Barcet, announced that Canonical was including the latest OpenStack software release, Bexar ?in the repositories for Ubuntu 11.04 as well as officially joining the community."

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MyNotex A free note-taking and notes manager software for Linux
Feb 7, 2011, 17 :32 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (563 reads)

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"MyNotex is a free software for Linux useful to take and to manage textual notes, also a large number of them. Notes are gathered under different subjects and are made by a title, a date, a tags (keywords) list and a free-length text. From the 1.1 version of MyNotex, this may be formatted: it is possible to change the font name, size and color of a selected text and also to set it in bold, italic, underline and strike-through. The software can manage bullets and numbered lists, although without automatic indentation; it is not possible to set paragraph alignment (left, center, right, justified) . A single file of MyNotex contains various subjects and notes.

The main features of the software are:

* various attachments (files of every kind) for each note, zipped and stored in a directory with the same name and path of the MyNotex file in use and automatically managed by the software; the number of attachments is limited only by the available disk space;
* encryption of the text of the selected notes with AES algorithm;
* search for subjects, notes (also in the text), attachments names and tags (keywords);
* search for more than one tag at a time (in OR condition);
* list of tags used in the current file, to insert them in a new note or in the search fields with double click;
* moving a note with possible related attachments from a subject to another;
* importation and exportation of single subjects with the related notes and attachments from and to another file of MyNotex;
* direct importation an OpenOffice Writer or LibreOffice Writer file;"

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Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" released in Linux, FreeBSD flavors
Feb 7, 2011, 13 :02 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (1065 reads)
(Other stories by Brian Proffitt)

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"Here's some good news for all you Debian fans: Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) has now been released.

"And it's not just Linux users who should take note. For the first time, alongside Debian GNU/Linux (that's right, that's Debian's official name, and they get the "GNU"), Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is introduced as a "technology preview."

"Debian GNU/kFreeBSD will port both a 32- and 64-bit PC version of the FreeBSD kernel into the Debian userspace, making them the first Debian release without a Linux kernel. The Debian Project is serious about the technology preview label, though: these FreeBSD-based versions will have limited advanced desktop features.

"Whether it's Linux or FreeBSD inside, Debian 6.0 will include the usual range of desktop environments: KDE Plasma, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments will all be on board."

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