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Category: Linux Live CDs Size: 657.09 MB Status: 3 seeders and 9 leechers Added: 2006-12-15 17:46:26

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Open source desktop adds enterprise information management tools

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IT managers have slammed Microsoft's claims that Linux source code infringes on its intellectual property, and have criticized Novell's deal with the company saying it grants validity to the claims

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The Open Source Development Labs hosted the third Desktop Architecture Meeting in Portland, Ore., last week to continue discussions on how to move the Linux desktop forward

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'On the one hand I've got to commend them for moving up their platform there, but we really don't view what Sony and PlayStation 3 and particularly the Linux solution that they are making available

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Incremental changelog, links within.

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We interrupt our normal kernel hacking in order to bring you this special report on an outbreak of IRQ warfare

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IBM, which has been a big backer of open-source software, is working with seven universities on new computing research projects whose fruits would be widely shared rather than held as intellectual property

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syslog-ng is an alternative system logging tool, a replacement for the standard Unix syslogd system-event logging application. ..

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It's no secret that Linux needs parental controls installed with a distribution by default, and it's been a necessity for a long time now

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The Grameen Foundation has outsourced to Aditi Technologies Pvt. Ltd. the development of open-source software to meet the automation needs of microfinance agencies worldwide

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"Professional video editing software may cost thousands of dollars but one open source project, Jahshaka, is aiming to change the game "

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While a full-fledged image editor may be the best way to repair digital photos, most of the time users need only to make minor touch-ups; it is organizing, sorting, and finding a specific photo that eat up all the time

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You already installed Linux on your networked desktop PC and now you want to work with files stored on some other PCs in your network

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The basics for any network based on *nix hosts is the Transport Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) combination of three protocols

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Today's security advisories: McAfee VirusScan, Links, and GNU Radius (Gentoo Linux); xorg-x11, evince, and clamav (Mandriva Linux); libgsf (rPath Linux); libgsf and flash-player (SUSE Linux); and avahi (Ubuntu).

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So why are some in the mobile industry saying, once again, that Linux is on the brink of becoming a significant platform for advanced mobile devices such as smart phones? And why should anybody but industry insiders and geeks care ?

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Emmett wonders what the Novell-Microsoft deal really gets for Novell, and what might be left for the company if this fails

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I'm sure like many of you out there you have experienced the same frustrations that I have when trying to install Linux or BSD on a laptop. We need a new approach

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Microsoft hates open source, right? If you listen to enough Steve Ballmer speeches (exception noted for the recent Novell love-fest, which lasted about a week), you'd sure think so

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An anonymous reader tipped us off to an article on the Information World site looking at the Novell/Microsoft deal from a new angle. Article author Tom Yager is of the opinion that the deal is Microsoft's punishment for throwing in with SCO. The very public announcement was made, in his opinion, as a stopgap measure against a future lawsuit on Novell's part. From the article: "Novell has exhibited the patience and cunning of a trap door spider. It waited for SCO to taunt from too short a distance. Then Novell would spring, feed a little (saving plenty for later), inject some stupidity serum, and let SCO stride off still cocksure enough to make another run at the nest. That cycle is bleeding SCO, which was the last to notice its own terminal anemia. When it became clear that SCO wouldn't prevail, Microsoft expected only to face close partner IBM. Microsoft did not brace for Novell, an adversary with a decades-long score to settle with Redmond. Through discovery, Microsoft's correspondence with SCO is, or soon will be in, Novell's hands, and it's a safe bet that it will contain more than demand for a license fee and a copy of a certified check."

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-=Moridin=- writes "The Fedora Project has announced plans to revitalize RPM, the package manager used by many Linux distros. According to the announcement, 'Job #1 is to take the current RPM codebase and clean it up, and in doing so work with all the other people and groups who rely on RPM to build a first-rate upstream project.' For more information, see the the RPM web site and the new wiki-based RPM FAQ. The issue of RPM's upstream development has been a thorny issue ever since Jeff Johnson, the original maintainer of RPM, left Red Hat."

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This morning, Guido announced the creation of a refactoring tool for Python. In the link I’ve posted above, Guido mentioned that this could serve as a tool which could facilitate migrating code from Python 2.x to 3.0.
The gist of the tool is that it generates a parse tree of a piece of code. It then starts looking for nodes in the tree which match some pattern. When it finds matching nodes, it applies matching rules to matching nodes and “grafts” the resulting transformed node back into the parse tree.
I have just downloaded the source code for the refactoring tool, so I haven’t gotten my hands dirty with the code just yet, but it looks interesting and promising. Guido’s purpose in announcing the tool was to invite people to try it and give him a hand if you’re so inclined. So, go download it and put it through its paces.

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Wikipedia says that Walt Disney died 40 years ago today, 15 December 1966.

Tell me again how extending the copyright on Steamboat Willie (released in 1928) is going to encourage him to create more artistic works? Walt’s been awfully quiet for a while now….

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SpamAssassin hero Justin Mason has posted a summary of opinions against challenge-response mail systems. I particularly like the pyschopathic challenge-response system user in the comments who defends blowback by arguing that it only affects a few innocent users.

Sorry, folks. CR fails my one question certification test for mail filter authors, and that’s why it’s not just bad and wrong, but profoundly antisocial–just like spam itself.