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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Berry Size: 524.76 MB Status: 4 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2006-12-30 15:18:09

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Mandriva Size: 666.31 MB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-12-30 12:24:55

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Mandriva Size: 699.61 MB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-12-30 11:11:08

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Mandriva Size: 698.76 MB Status: 1 seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-12-30 10:58:27

Source: mandriva

Returning to a biannual release cycle, the developers of Mandriva released a few days ago an initial alpha build of what will eventually become Mandriva Linux 2007.1: "Mandriva Linux 2007 Alpha1 (Hangzhou). This alpha version is available via two means. Firstly via the public FTP and HTTP sites .

Source: pioneer

The second beta of Pioneer MigrationSERVER has been released for testing: "Technalign, Inc. has released its Beta 2 of MigrationSERVER. Beta 2 includes many more requested applications, such as SSH, Fetchmail, DHCP Server, Shorewall firewall, and the Squid proxy server. Beta 2 of MigrationSERVER is reaching the final .

Source: knoppix

Klaus Knopper has announced the release of KNOPPIX 5.1.0 live CD and DVD: "Finally, it's done. Just in the past couple of months, there has been quite a lot of new and exciting development in the GNU/Linux world, which of course should also be present in the current .

Source: Linux Today

Let's dig up my predictions for 2006 and see how I did first.

Source: Linux Today

It’s important to understand that FLOSS does not mean “non-commercial”

Source: Linux Today

When you factor in the cost of hardware and the cost of support, Red Hat was more attractive from a cost-benefit perspective," says Nickolett. "Given this company's limited budget, open source was very appealing — especially over the course of several years.

Source: Linux Today

Linux isn't cheaper, it takes more time to run, isn't capable of reliably running on big iron, and it's a lot of guesswork. There are advantages to running Linux for some purposes in the datacenter, but the disadvantages tilt the scale so much that it flips over.

Source: Linux Today

A Trust relationship can be established for users on multiple servers running OpenSSH to allow a password free ssh session. This is sometime important when you want to run scripts or commands remotely.

Source: Linux Today

Just like several other true appliances makers, we still rely on 2.4 because its stability allows our customers to focus on their job instead of firmware updates.

Source: Linux Today

Linux can dominate only when there are a lot of people using it. So, in order to make migration easier – we need Windows alike desktops customization.

Source: Linux Today

IEs4Linux is the simpler way to have Microsoft Internet Explorer running on Linux (or any OS running Wine).

Source: Linux Today

This tutorial is about wardriving using GPS. It explains how to install Garmin Etrex on Ubuntu and how to configure it. It also shows how to use Garmin with GPSDrive and how to convert the data to an xml file which can be imported by Google Earth.

Source: Linux Today

the Linux world has plenty to keep it busy in 2007 without worrying (too much) about Vista.

Source: Linux Today

The upcoming 2.6.20 Linux kernel is bringing a nice virtualization framework for all virtualization fans out there. It's called KVM, short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine. Not only is it user-friendly, but also of high performance and very stable, even though it's not yet officialy released.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

chris1646 asks: "Currently we are a small organization that is entirely a Windows shop. Next year much of the server and desktop hardware we run will need replacing. I am looking for creative ways to introduce Linux as my desktop and server OS of choice, however a couple of our core applications run exclusively on Windows. Has anyone had any success hosting Windows applications via terminal server while using Linux as the client OS? Has anyone handled a AD to open source LDAP migration?"