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Posted on September 3, 2010 by krizzna

Linux Mint 9 offers new software manager, backup tool
The Linux Mint team has released the final version of Linux Mint 9 (“Isadora”), based on Ubuntu 10.04. Linux Mint 9 features a new software manager with 30,000 packages, a new backup tool, and menu and interface improvements, says the team.
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Vale Java? Scala Vala palava – and Go too
Dave Megginson (who drove the development of the SAX API that will be familiar to many XML developers who use Java) recently wrote Java is dead. Java stood out as a programming language (though not as a platform) in that…
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Installing development tools with fink
Developers should take note of Fink, a collection of open source programs built for OS X. Vincent Danen explains the basics of working with Fink.
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