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Category: SUSE Size: 3.28 GB Status: 3 seeders and 43 leechers Added: 2006-05-13 11:51:51

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Category: SUSE Size: 3.22 GB Status: 14 seeders and 59 leechers Added: 2006-05-13 11:41:15

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Category: CentOS Size: 684.48 MB Status: 3 seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2006-05-13 08:54:58

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Category: Linux Live CDs Size: 500.60 MB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-05-13 05:46:30

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Category: SUSE Size: 3.40 GB Status: 8 seeders and 68 leechers Added: 2006-05-13 04:39:04

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Category: SUSE Size: 3.50 GB Status: 16 seeders and 284 leechers Added: 2006-05-13 03:08:29

Source: mepis

The third beta release of SimplyMEPIS 6.0 is out: "MEPIS has released beta3 of SimplyMEPIS 6.0. New in this release, CPU speed management is enabled automatically. Suspend-to-RAM is known to work out-of-the-box with some HP and Lenovo laptops -- more testing is required. A Bluetooth mouse can be .

Source: Linux Today

Perhaps the most interesting eye-candy introduced to a mainstream Linux distribution is that of the Xgl 3D desktop environment

Source: Linux Today

This article shows you how to convert a non-SELinux system by hand in order to expose details about how SELinux is integrated into a system

Source: Linux Today

Pia Waugh finds kung fu fight tactics a handy tool in the business world

Source: Linux Today

A review of SUSE 10.1, giving an overview of the installation, and how it works in both desktop environments, Gnome and KDE

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Unix almost dominates the area of real-time account handling. However, rivaled by Linux and Windows, Unix still felt a lot of pressure in 2005

Source: Linux Today

The goal of myself and the GStreamer community in such a scenario is of course to advocate the use of GStreamer as the response free software can offer to advanced media frameworks on other platforms

Source: Linux Today

Nicholas Negroponte and Bill Gates have publicly dueled for months about how best to supply inexpensive computing to the world's masses

Source: Linux Today

We'll chalk it up to being tired of every year being described as The Year of the Desktop, with limited follow-through from both the ISV and user communities

Source: Slashdot: Linux

prostoalex writes "The next version of Nokia 770 Linux-based Internet tablet with WiFi support will feature Google Talk with VOIP in its next release, MSNBC reports. The device is priced to sell at $390, and both Google and Nokia agree that right now it might appeal only to niche markets. In related news, however, it means Google's GTalk client will be ported to Linux, even if it's Nokia 770-specific software architecture."

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AlanS2002 writes "FreeBSD developer Scott Long is being reported as saying that FreeBSD is quickly approaching feature parity with Linux. Apparently this is being achieved through efforts to more tightly integrate GNOME with FreeBSD, with one of the priorities being to 'GNOME's hardware abstraction layer--which handles hardware-specific code--working with FreeBSD'."

Source: ONLamp.com

I don’t know how I missed this until now, but Noel Llopis and Sean Houghton have a length weblog posting containing their GDC 2006 paper Making Better Games with Test-Driven Development.

There are several good ideas: parts stick out for me. First, the quote:

TDD is a development methodology, not a testing one.

We are hoping that as TDD becomes more common in the games industry, middleware providers will make their APIs more TDD friendly and even ship with their unit tests.

Imagine then how useful TDD can be on a full engine developed with TDD from the start.

We have found that counting the number of unit tests is a really good measure of progress.

There’s also a good discussion of three ways to test graphics code.

(Next year I have to go to GDC.)