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Crowd-sourcing the E-car more»»
Washington Post: "After the wikipedia, the wikicar. "eCars - Now!" is a Finnish Internet community seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators like the authors of Wikipedia to start converting used petrol-fuelled cars to electric ones, with the first roll-out due this year."
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Lighten up Your Desktop more»»
IT Toolbox: "LXDE is a new project aimed to provide a new desktop environment which is lightweight and fast. It's not designed to be powerful and bloated, but to be usable and slim enough, and keep the resource usage low. Different from other desktop environments, we don't tightly integrate every component. Instead, we tried to make all components independent, and each of them can be used independently with few dependencies."
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The Mess That is Linux Volume Management more»»
LXer: "The GNU/Linux operating system is blessed to have sound partition management tools like GParted which are very easy to use. However, when it comes to the management of 'virtual partitions' known as volumes, things are quite different. There is Linx Volume Management, or LVM in short, however, it can almost only be used from the command line. Also, it doesn't integrate software RAID - except for striping. I was quite optimistic when I started using volume management some four years ago, but not anymore. Let me explain why I'm disappointed."
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MySQL: Back to Its Roots Via Sun more»»
InternetNews: "While MySQL is helping Sun to better understand the broader open source community approach, a side effect is that it is actually been beneficial to MySQL's development as well."
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