Google Releases A Free, Interactive Book On Browsers and The Web

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Google, in its pursuit of bringing awareness about Internet among the masses has executed a unique project in the form of an interactive book on web browsers and the Internet.

CDE - An Innovative Way Of Running Programs On Diverse Linux Machines

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CDE (not to be mistaken for the Common Desktop Environment in UNIX) is a packaging tool which allows you to identically replicate the execution of a program running on one Linux machine, on to another.

It does this by packaging up the Code, Data, and Environment (including all the dependencies - libraries, auxiliary programs etc) together, which can then be transferred and executed flawlessly on a different Linux machine.

Fedora 14 - A Take On Its New Features

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Fedora 14 named after physicist "Robert B. Laughlin" has been released. In my opinion, Fedora is geared more towards developers and system administrators than the ordinary users. However, it is perfectly usable as a Desktop too - baring a few exceptions (See the drawbacks below).