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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Debian Size: 4.37 GB Status: 5 seeders and 20 leechers Added: 2006-12-11 19:41:01


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Category: Debian Size: 4.38 GB Status: 5 seeders and 5 leechers Added: 2006-12-11 19:40:54


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Category: Debian Size: 3.90 GB Status: 5 seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2006-12-11 19:40:51


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Category: Debian Size: 4.37 GB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-12-11 19:35:12


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Category: Debian Size: 3.46 GB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-12-11 19:35:09


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Category: Debian Size: 4.36 GB Status: 88 seeders and 171 leechers Added: 2006-12-11 19:32:31


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Category: Debian Size: 4.36 GB Status: 123 seeders and 181 leechers Added: 2006-12-11 19:32:27


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Category: Debian Size: 112.17 MB Status: 31 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2006-12-11 19:30:56


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Category: Debian Size: 37.47 MB Status: 22 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2006-12-11 19:30:54


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Category: SUSE Size: 136.17 MB Status: 9 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2006-12-11 14:47:48


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Category: SUSE Size: 31.44 MB Status: 3 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2006-12-11 14:47:48


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Category: SUSE Size: 15.17 MB Status: 18 seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-12-11 14:47:25


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: SUSE Size: 457.96 MB Status: 225 seeders and 47 leechers Added: 2006-12-11 14:45:21


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: PCLinuxOS Size: 664.01 MB Status: 3 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2006-12-11 13:04:46


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Category: Sabayon Linux Size: 698.46 MB Status: 12 seeders and 19 leechers Added: 2006-12-11 08:37:07


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Category: Sabayon Linux Size: 696.59 MB Status: 14 seeders and 21 leechers Added: 2006-12-11 08:33:53


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Source: sabayon

A new version of the single-CD edition of SabayonLinux has been released. From the changelog: "Linux kernel 2.6.18.4 with Intel Pro wireless 3945 out-of-the-box support; improved and production-ready GPU automatic detection; OpenGL sub-system wrong auto-detection and user error detector (will greatly improve the number of NVIDIA and ATI .


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Source: engarde

EnGarde Secure Linux has been updated to version 3.0.11: "Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.11. This release includes several bug fixes and feature enhancements to the SELinux policy and several updated packages. The following reported bugs from bugs.engardelinux.org are fixed in .


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Source: pcbsd

The first release candidate of PC-BSD 1.3 is ready for testing: "Version 1.3RC1 of PC-BSD has been uploaded to the mirrors, and is now available on our Beta download page. Many bugs have been squashed for this release in preparation for 1.3 final." What's new? "Fixed icon size .


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Source: weekly

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: News: openSUSE 10.2 resources, Debian Etch delays, Ulteo Sirius, Mandriva and PC-BSD updates, fun with Firefox Released last week: openSUSE 10.2, grml 0.9 Upcoming releases: SabayonLinux 3.2 "miniEdition" New additions: Pioneer Linux New distributions: deepOfix Messaging Server, Karoshi, Sidux Reader comments Read more .



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Source: Linux Today

Google has joined the Eclipse Foundation as an add-in provider member along with the likes of Cape Clear, CollabNet, MySQL, Novell, Progress Software and Oracle. There are more than 100 such partners


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Source: Linux Today

U.S.-based Technalign Inc. today announced the inaugural release of Pioneer Linux, a Ubuntu-based, desktop-oriented distribution for home and business users


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Source: Linux Today

Java SE 6 is the first iteration of the platform built under the new open source regime at Sun


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Source: Linux Today

We just edited the generic freeze file, so that all packages now need to be hand-approved in order to go to testing


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Source: Linux Today

Red Hat Inc's executive vice president of worldwide sales, Alex Pinchev, has dismissed the impact that Oracle Corp's entry into the Linux support business could have on Red Hat, insisting Oracle does not really know what it is doing


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Source: Linux Today

Hewlett-Packard is eyeing additional markets for a new Linux-enabled remote blade workstation solution, already in use at Lloyds TSB and several other big financial trading firms


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Source: Linux Today

As a dyed-in-the-wool SUSE user since S.u.S.E Linux 4.2 first appeared in 1996, I decided to immediately give this version a try


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Source: Linux Today

Do-it-yourself integration and support for open source will cost you plenty. So will consultants. But a new, less expensive approach has emerged


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Source: Linux Today

Incremental changelog, links within.


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Source: Linux Today

Kristian Høgsberg announced that he is working on a new firewire stack to replace the stack currently in the Linux kernel


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Source: Linux Today

It's been nearly a year since the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the 'vulnerability discovery and remediation open source hardening project '


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Source: Linux Today

Just when the Mono Project was beginning to gain traction, along comes Sun Microsystems to take the wind from its sails. I can't help but feel it's a mixed blessing


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Source: Linux Today

Novell's Danaergeschenk to the world is the recent announcement to implement OpenXML support in OpenOffice.org


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Source: Linux Today

After being dismissed last March from Mandriva, Duval plans to make his mark a second time with Ulteo, a new distribution designed to simplify computing by taking administration out of users' hands


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Source: Linux Today

Mozilla has hit an early milestone on the road to the next version of its open-source browser, but the final product is still a year away, developers say


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Source: Linux Today

Novell's OpenSUSE project has released the latest version of its namesake Linux distribution, OpenSUSE 10.2. But you wouldn't know it if you were waiting for an official announcement from Novell


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Source: Linux Today

A lot of time and effort, at least for major distros, is spent on making the distribution secure and getting updates out in a timely fashion


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Source: Linux Today

Gentoo Linux's project team has published information--contained in its weekly online newsletter--on how to load and use its popular distro on the new Sony Playstation 3, which is all the rage among gamers at the moment


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Source: Linux Today

Directory services play a vital part in today's networks by helping administrators manage network users and resources


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Source: Linux Today

In Linux, the crontab command is used to schedule execution of commands at certain time intervals whether it be hourly, daily, monthly or every x amount of minutes


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Source: Linux Today

In this tutorial I will show you how to change the edges on the picture using a GIMP feature called QuickMask


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Source: Linux Today

This weekend's security advisories: l2tpns, gnupg, clamav, and kernel-source-2.6.8 (Debian GNU/Linux); xine-lib (Gentoo Linux); gnupg and proftpd (Trustix Secure Linux); and gnupg2 and ruby1.8 (Ubuntu).


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Source: Linux Today

You see it sprinkled liberally in mailing lists and forum discussions: IANAL. 'I am not a lawyer.' Of course, legal analysis often follows



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

Rob writes "Red Hat Inc's executive vice president of worldwide sales, Alex Pinchev, has dismissed the impact that Oracle Corp's entry into the Linux support business could have on Red Hat, insisting Oracle does not really know what it is doing. Pinchev also described Microsoft's recent interoperability and patent peace deal with Novell Inc as a "non-event" and dismissed the suggestion that Linux users are at risk of a patent infringement lawsuit from Redmond."



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Source: Linux Magazine Online

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