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Linux and Open Source News for 8th January 2007

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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Damn Small Size: 57.72 MB Status: 12 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-01-08 18:47:21


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: CentOS Size: 286.05 MB Status: 1 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-01-08 15:45:00


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: CentOS Size: 282.17 MB Status: 1 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-01-08 11:51:30


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Source: damnsmall

The third release candidate of Damn Small Linux 3.2 is out. From the changelog: "Updated Broadcomm 10/100 module b44.o; new allow boot option desktop=xxx to override backup; new alsa.unc and automated ALSA sound card detection; fixed Stats missing processes; fixed Emelfm superuser from menu; dropped Synaptic and Enable .


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Source: vector

The VectorLinux development team has announced a beta release of a live CD edition of VectorLinux 5.8: "The Vector development team is proud to announce the release of Vector Linux 5.8 Standard Live CD beta1. This release has everything that is making 5.8 Standard famous, like browser plugins, .


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Source: sabayon

A new version of SabayonLinux, with a number of bug fixes and feature updates, has been released. Some of the main changes include: "Linux kernel 2.6.19 with sata_promise driver now supports PATA connectors too; NdisWrapper updated to 1.34rc2; KVM now is detected and works out of the box .


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Source: weekly

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: TrueBSD and gNewSense - two promising projects of 2006 News: Mandriva Cooker updates, Arch Linux interview, Xubuntu "growth", return of Netwosix, PC-BSD 1.3 bugs, elpicx Released last week: KNOPPIX 5.1.1, Zenwalk Linux 4.2 Upcoming releases: SimplyMEPIS 6.0-4, FreeBSD 6.2 New distributions: BOSS .



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Source: Linux Today

CES Day Two: James Turner's continuing journey to CES leads him to travel to see the Gates of Redmond himself for a glimpse at the Opposition.


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Source: Linux Today

Well, thanks to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's recent transparency on his beliefs about Linux and Windows, we have a similar unintended educational consequence in the works


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Source: Linux Today

I'm not so much concerned with people attacking SJVN so much as I am with the editor's (it's an editor's note) second item that he's bugged by


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Source: Linux Today

And what does the survival and growth of Linux come down to ?


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If most commercial software isn't any good, why not use a more communal approach ?


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Joseph Black and his team of graphics enthusiasts have been working for quite some time on a pretty encouraging project--an open-spec graphics card


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Source: Linux Today

If you buy a computer, you often pay for Microsoft Windows even if you didn't ask for it and aren't going to use it


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Source: Linux Today

"That places it, in SCO's timeline in its Memorandum in Opposition to IBM's Motion for Summary Judgment on SCO's Interference Claims, as post-IBM's early contributions to Linux in 2000 "


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Source: Linux Today

The company will immediately release open source versions of its client software for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux


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Source: Linux Today

Acquiring open source database would take away some business from IBM, says analyst; or IBM could beat Oracle to the punch


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Source: Linux Today

The European Union has blamed a translation mistake for its claim that it cannot legally support Linux


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Source: Linux Today

CES Day One: Linux Today editor James Turner hits the road to bring you the latest sightings of Linux at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show.


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Officially, Nokia Inc. is still mum about its new Linux-based N800 Internet Tablet, the successor to its N770 Internet Tablet, but it's already on sale in some U.S. stores


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Now, it's true that the package management interfaces on other systems are nice. But let me install about my twenty-fifth package and do my second upgrade, and the whole system is hosed up


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Stefano Zingarini has borrowed this concept for KXDocker, a KDE variation of OS X's Dock (which is also usable with GNOME and other desktop environments)


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Source: Linux Today

Jeff Garzik noted that the hardware documentation for the Promise SX4 chipset is being opened up and therefore the sata_sx4 driver is a good candidate for improvements


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Source: Linux Today

Streamtuner is a point-and-click GUI browser for the thousands of Internet radio streams available today


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Normally Linux systems can only read from Windows NTFS partitions, but not write to them which can be very annoying if you have to work with Linux and Windows systems


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Source: Linux Today

This weekend's security advisories: proftpd (Debian GNU/Linux); avahi (Fedora Core); firefox-themes-ubuntu, mozilla-thunderbird, dbus, and avahi (Ubuntu).


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Source: Linux Today

There's absolutely nothing interesting here, unless you want to play with KVM, or happened to be bitten by the bug with really old versions of the linker that made parts of entry.S just go away


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Source: Linux Today

It has since been determined that the bug was introduced much more recently



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes to mention WebExpose is running a quick guide to get Internet Explorer 7.0 running on Linux. From the article: "Microsoft conditional comments do work, unlike the standalone version of IE on Windows, so you will be able to develop and test webpages across almost all major browsers (IE 5-7, Firefox, Opera) on one Linux box! Also note that we will avoid Microsoft's Genuine Advantage download validation checks, so pure-Linux users will be able to finish the process without having to find a genuine Windows machine to download the IE7 setup file (the check is avoided legitimately, by the way)."



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Source: ONLamp.com

Lars Wirzenius posted a short reminder that the single point in common for all free software developers is that we write free software. Please keep that in mind before you assume that all or most other free software developers share specific hobbies, values, or beliefs.



Updated: Tue Jan 9 23:55:01 2007


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