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Category: Kanotix Size: 238.11 MB Status: 3 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2006-03-07 16:32:09

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Category: Arch Size: 368.75 MB Status: 2 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2006-03-07 12:26:49

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Category: Arch Size: 368.75 MB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-03-07 11:37:01

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An updated release of Helix 1.7, a KNOPPIX-based live CD dedicated to incident response and forensics is available: "A new version of Helix has been released to the mirrors for your testing and use." From the changelog: "Updated 2.6.14 kernel; updated Firefox to 1.5.0.1, dcfldd to 1.3.4, md5deep .

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A new update is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Here the announcement:

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A new update is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Here the announcement:

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Seahorse 0.9 (unstable) has been released

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Beagle 0.2.2 has been released

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Straw 0.26 has been released

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Seahorse 0.8.1 has been released

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Gnome-utils 2.13.94 - "Escape Velocity" - is out.

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A new update is available for Fedora Core - Fedora Core 4 Update: ncurses-5.4-19.fc4. Here the announcement:

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A new update is available for Fedora Core - Fedora Core 4 Update: mc-4.6.1a-5.fc4. Here the announcement:

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A new update is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Here the announcement:

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A new update is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Here the announcement:

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A new update is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Here the announcement:

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A new update is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Here the announcement:

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A new update is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Here the announcement:

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The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:

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A new flex vulnerability update is available for Ubuntu Linux. Here the announcement:

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A new security update has been released for Gentoo Linux - zoo: Stack-based buffer overflow. Here the announcement:

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A press release from SWsoft:

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A new security update has been released for Gentoo Linux - IMAP Proxy: Format string vulnerabilities. Here the announcement:

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Really Linux has posted a new article: Linux Works Even for Total Newbies

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Issue number 36 of Fedora Weekly News is online

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A new update is available for Fedora Core - Fedora Core 4 Update: squirrelmail-1.4.6-3.fc4. Here the announcement:

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A new update is available for Fedora Core - Fedora Core 4 Update: shadow-utils-4.0.12-7.FC4. Here the announcement:

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Version 0.6.1 of Libcroco, the GNOME Cascading Style Sheet parsing and manipulation C library, is out.

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Gnome OSD 0.10 has been released

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Phoronix examine the state of the XGI Linux display drivers

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The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:

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The Debian Security Team published a new security update for Debian GNU/Linux. Here the announcement:

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Wine 0.9.9 has been released:

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gnome-terminal 2.13.93 has been released

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A new security update has been released for Gentoo Linux - MPlayer: Multiple integer overflows. Here the announcement:

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A new security update has been released for Gentoo Linux - teTeX, pTeX, CSTeX: Multiple overflows in included XPdf code. Here the announcement:

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A new security update has been released for Gentoo Linux - WordPress: SQL injection vulnerability. Here the announcement:

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Phoronix has posted screenshots of Accelerated Knoppix v1.0

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Mandriva Linux One 2006 beta 2 is now available

Source: Linux Today

It's been a while since I last reviewed Gentoo Linux because there haven't been too many significant changes in the past few releases

Source: Linux Today

That is to say, Microsoft seems to think OpenOffice.org is only good for single-desktop users. And, that's a problem because ?

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The best discoveries emerge from obscurity. My favorite discovery of last year was GRML Linux

Source: Linux Today

"Stonebridge Bank is a small, relatively young company with seven years under its belt and a staff of 60 employees. But that didn't stop the number of servers at this West Chester, Penn.-based bank from spiraling out of control.

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Today sees the launch of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo), a not-for-profit initiative to support and promote the development of open geospatial, or location-aware, technologies

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The government agency has been accused of excluding open source software from its educational software databases, despite highlighting the money that could be saved

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Ben Chelf, CTO of Coverity Inc., offered access to the bugs discovered by the Coverity tool, previously known as the Stanford Checker, to a select few interested developers

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Trying to convince schools that open source software won't be a management headache is proving an uphill struggle

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"'Recent discussions regarding the GPL and SOX have been wrought with false information and have prompted the SFLC to issue its position on the topic,' said Eben Moglen, chair of the Software Freedom Law Center "

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Now that Sun Microsystems has successfully emerged from the Internet bubble, Caris & Company research analyst Mark Stahlman suspects that chief executive Scott McNealy will soon move on from the company

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The next version of the Carrier Grade Linux specification is out. Now, it's up to the vendors to get registered and prove themselves compliant

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IBM switching to Linux destops in Germany according to a Linux Forum 2006 presentation by their head of open source and Linux sales in Germany

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Now, in an effort to drive ODF product development, the standards body has created the ODF Adoption committee, which is tailored to boost the number of products based on ODF

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Incremental changelog, links within.

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To ensure that details of your secret love affair, bank account passwords, and daily porn site visits cannot be recovered, use shred

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This tutorial shows how to build a multi-head, multi-user Linux box using a recent distribution of Linux and standard USB keyboards and mice

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On Thursday March 16th, experts on the use of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in business will converge on Spires Conference Centre, Belfast for an all-island event

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This tutorial explains how I was able to setup a web server in order to support Java Server Pages (JSP) and Servlets using virtually hosted websites

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The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a reliable transport protocol that provides stable, ordered delivery of data between two endpoints (much like TCP) and also preserves data message boundaries (like UDP)

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mon is a general-purpose scheduler and alert management tool used for monitoring service availability and triggering alerts upon failure detection

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I've tried many image browsers over the years, including IrfanView and ACDSee, but after using XnView, I can almost forget about the rest

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Today's security advisories: libtasn1-2 and gnutls11 (Debian GNU/Linux); and IMAP Proxy and zoo (Gentoo Linux).

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In the age of easy to install, easier to use GNU/Linux distributions, the shell is the world's best kept secret for beginners

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Still hesitant to try Linux? I'd like to share a revelation with you

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I've been running the retail version on SUSE Linux 10.0 as my production desktop machine since early November

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Open-source, as I've pointed out recently, has become widely accepted as the best way to write software

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So, what's changed, what's new, and should you bother looking Fedora again ?

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Anonymous Coward writes "eWeek is reporting that The Software Freedom Law Center has published a white paper that dismisses recent publications from embedded systems seller Wasabi Systems. Wasabi recently released statements focusing on alleged GNU General Public License violations in relation to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The white paper, titled "Sarbanes-Oxley and the GPL: No Special Risk," essentially counsels users of the free software license that they have no need to worry."

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Kevin Young wrote to mention a ZDNet article which goes into some detail on new results from a Department of Homeland security initiative. It's called the 'Open Source Hardening Project', and (funded to the tune of $1.24 Million) the goals of the initiative are to use a commercial tool for source code analysis to buck up the security base of many OSS projects. LAMP (the conglomeration of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python) was a 'winner' in the eyes of the project. From the article: "In the analysis, more than 17.5 million lines of code from 32 open-source projects were scanned. On average, 0.434 bugs per 1,000 lines of code were found, Coverity said. The LAMP stack, however, 'showed significantly better software quality," with an average of 0.29 defects per 1,000 lines of code, the technology company said.'"

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Caydel writes "In a recent message to the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), Ben Chelf, CTO of Coverity, Inc. announced an internal framework to continually scan open source projects for source defects and provide the results of their analysis back to the developers of those projects. The linux kernel is one of 32 open source projects monitored by Coverity. Coverity is looking for a few group-nominated maintainers to access the reports, in order to patch the bugs found before they are announced to the general public. For those not familiar with Coverity, they are a small company out of Stanford who monitor source code correctness through automatic static source code analysis."

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greengrass writes "In a recent interview with IT Wire, general manager of business strategy for the Information Worker Group at Microsoft, Alan Yates expressed the opinion that Open Office is at the same level that MS office was around 10 years ago. Supposedly only suitable for the single desktop, isolated user. After all, it doesn't even have an e-mail client!"

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5-0 writes to tell us that IBM DeveloperWorks has an interesting look at the key features of SCTP in the Linux 2.6 kernel and the ability to deliver multi-streaming. "SCTP is a reliable, general-purpose transport layer protocol for use on IP networks. While the protocol was originally designed for telephony signaling, SCTP provided an added bonus -- it solved some of the limitations of TCP while borrowing beneficial features of UDP. SCTP provides features for high availability, increased reliability, and improved security for socket initiation."

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conq writes "BusinessWeek has a piece looking at the possible future of open source. The article's conclusion is that it might be grim. From the piece: 'Software giant Oracle Corp. has acquired two small open-source companies and is in negotiations to buy at least one more. Many experts believe this is the beginning of a broader trend in which established tech companies scoop up promising open-source startups. While the validation is thrilling it's also unsettling. Many young idealists who set out to create an alternative to the tech Establishment now find themselves becoming part of it.'"

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Rob writes "Oracle Corp's CEO, Larry Ellison, has maintained that open source projects are only successful when major technology corporations get involved and doubted that open source will have a major impact on the software areas in which the company operates. Speaking at Oracle OpenWorld Tokyo Ellison also confirmed that the company had inquired about acquiring open source database vendor MySQL AB and denied that Oracle's recent open source acquisitions were designed to harm its rival."

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bored2k writes "Kevin Carmony, President and CEO of Linspire, Inc., is using the Ubuntu Forums to ask for input and explain why he thinks a popular and heavily focused on usability distribution like Ubuntu needs Linspire's $20 per-year CNR service. From what he says, both him and Mark Shuttleworth (Canonical/Ubuntu's founder) like the idea. Would CNR honestly help Ubuntu grow, or is it just a scheme to cash in on it's success?"

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cel4145 writes "Inside Higher Ed reports that the Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness has released a new study, The State of Open Source Software. Is it true that open source is 'not quite ready for prime time' in education? Or, as I suspect, is the study just another proprietary software vendor funded report for discouraging the adoption of open source software?" From the article: "Lack of vendor support is one of the largest hurdles limiting the adoption of open source in higher education, Abel said. 'The biggest thing is it takes more physical labor to implement open source because it isn't pre-packaged,' Abel said. "You have to have software developers that can make this stuff work.'" Are the staffing issues associated with OSS enough to outweigh the benefits?

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Jon Dowland writes "Zack Brown's once-weekly Kernel Traffic summary of happenings on the linux kernel mailing list, is now on indefinite hiatus. From the announcement: 'Kernel Traffic has become more and more difficult over the years. From an average of 5 megs of email per week in 1999, the Linux kernel mailing list has gradually increased its traffic to 13 megs per week in 2005. Condensing that into 50 or 100 K of summaries each week has started to take more time than I have to give.' Fear not, because we still have kerneltrap and Linux Weekly News, amongst others. Zack still writes a regularly Kernel column for Linux Magazine and occasionally in others such as the UK Linux Format."

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Isam Bayazidi is about as far from the current U.S. media stereotype of an Arab as you can get. He's worked on the Arabeyes (Unix/Linux in Arabic) project, helped start the Arabic Wikipedia, co-founded the Jordan LUG, is a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), works as a senior software developer for Maktoob, an online community that boasts more than four million members, and created Jordan Planet, a blogging community whose members have many different religious and political viewpoints. Isam is also a long-time Slashdot reader, so he's the perfect person to ask what's going on in the Arab (cyber)world today. One question per post please. Isam will answer 12 of the highest-moderated questions. We'll run his answers verbatim as soon as he gets them back to us.

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Brian McCoy writes "In this article, Steven Vaughn-Nichols proclaims "Last Thursday, when I wrote about Dell's new Linux desktop, was one of the most frustrating days of my professional life. My eWEEK colleague John Spooner and I tried our best to get Dell to confess that they really had released an honest-to-God Linux desktop.""

Source: Linux Magazine Online

Would you call Linux on a Mini a "Lini"?

Source: Linux Magazine Online

Backing up data isn't exactly exciting, but like washing laundry, everyone needs to do it. On Linux, you can back up your files using an almost-bewildering array of choices, from self-composed shell scripts, to expensive software packages. But how about a simple, open source, easy-to-use, set-up-and-fuggedaboutit tool?

Source: Linux Magazine Online

Your screen is ringing, playing with an iPod, and the mother of all hardware hacks.

Source: Linux Magazine Online

Find the files that are hogging your hard drive with with Baobab.

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If you're running Linux, you should be aware that using telnet is a no-no. With the wide availability of network sniffers and automated password grabbing tools, telnet is simply not a secure way to work. Instead, use ssh and keep your passwords in keychain.

Source: Linux Magazine Online

Some of the thorniest concepts in the GNU General Public License (GPL) revolve around the engineering concept of linking. Here’s how and when the GPL applies to combinations of code.

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Take a hands-on tour of MySQL 5’s new stored functions and cursors in MySQL 5.

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You don't need a Mac to edit your digital photos. Linux and some free software can unleash your inner Ansel Adams.

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Relational database management systems aren’t the only game in town. A growing number of Linux and Windows developers are turning to a more synergistic alternative: the object-oriented database. Among other benefits, an object-oriented database stores objects “as-is.” There’s no object-to-relational translation layer.

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The best place to look for open source code depends on what you’re looking for. But rest assured, the source is out there. The trick is finding it. Here’s a guide to what’s online.

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Learn how to manage your iPod with gtkpod and Linux.

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For decades, sort has been extended over and over again to make it more and more useful. Here’s the fifth in an ongoing series about new features in familiar utilities.

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More than the protocols, backbones, and servers that underlie the Internet, open source licenses have
facilitated the exchange of source code and ideas. Here's a look at academic and reciprocal licenses and how to use them.

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Discover how to capture your ideas and thoughts as diagrams with FreeMind

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The February 2006 (http://www.linux-mag.com/2006-02/) issue of Linux Magazine is now online at http://www.linux-mag.com/2006-02/ (http://www.linux-mag.com/2006-02/).

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You’ve used GDB, but are you really getting the most from it? These advanced GDB tips will help you debug to your full potential.

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Learn how to use lsof to see what files are open on your system.

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Some forethought, a clear statement of intent and practice, and a modicum of documentation can make contributors and benefactors more comfortable with donating and using open source code.

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Flock: Firefox with integrated social software

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The Friendly Interactive Shell, or fish, is" friendly" because it’s easier to use, not because it’s" dumbed down."

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Bristol is one of the largest cities in the United Kingdom. Recently, the city council reviewed its software policies and needs and decided to switch to open document formats by using Sun's StarOffice, based on OpenOffice.org. Jono Bacon recently interviewed Gavin Beckett, architect of the strategy, to discover how and why the migration was successful.

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Someone stops you on the street and asks "Hey, do you know what time it is?" You tell him and continue on your way. But what if it was hundreds of thousands of people every day, because they didn't know who else to ask? You might decide to not answer any more. That's the situation that some important Internet time servers are in, and some simple changes in your computer's configuration can help ease the strain.

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Imagine X server technology with compression so tight that GNOME and KDE sessions yield impressive response times when run over modems with SSH encryption. Don't pinch yourself; you're not dreaming! Tom Adelstein explains how FreeNX is the cure-all to many of X11's ills in this excerpt from Running Linux.

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Virtualization is an old idea--running multiple distinct operating systems atop a powerful box has a lot of advantages. Xen is a new virtualization platform. Despite its youth, its Linux support is very good. Kris Buytaert explains the basics of virtualization and shows how to configure and install Xen and to create new virtual machines.

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Fedora's yum/rpm system includes a little-known capability: it can rollback a system to a previously-installed state.

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Are configuring custom Linux kernels still something most any Linux user needs to know how to do, or has it moved upwards to where only the power users and system admins need to know how?

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Fedora Core 5 Test 2 is expected to be released on Monday. Here's what to expect

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The 2006 Novell BrainShare session catalog has been posted, and I'm in it.

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The next major release of KDE will come out in the fall, and the developers are already planning new features and benefits. John Littler recently interviewed Aaron J. Seigo about the team's plans--and controversy surrounding upcoming ports to nonfree platforms.

Source: Linux DevCenter

Last Christmas I finally broke down and treated myself to a nice digital camera. I took a Windows detour for image management, then came to my senses and came home to Linux. But what about Apple?