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Category: Damn Small Size: 49.96 MB Status: 2 seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2007-01-09 08:19:35

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Category: Vector Size: 682.61 MB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-01-09 08:03:31

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Category: Yellow Dog Size: 3.33 GB Status: 1 seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2007-01-09 00:07:46

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The PC-BSD project has announced the availability of a bug-fix release of PC-BSD, version 1.3.01: "Version 1.3.01 of PC-BSD has now been made available on the download page. This update addresses several recent issues with partitioning, as well as fixes issues with certain hardware and HAL support. Users .

Source: Linux Today

But OpenMFG is beginning to put its money where its mouth is: recently the company released one of its modules, OpenRPT, under the GPL

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As both Lomax and Wales point out, it could be years before Wikiasari--Wales' name for his for-profit venture--can compete effectively against Google

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A sneak preview of Matthew Garrett's linux.conf.au power management presentation

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CES Day 3: The OLPC Initiative paid a visit to this year's CES, and LT's man on the spot was there to get an up-close look at the machine that could change the face of the computing world.

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Virtual world vendor Linden Labs is opening up its Second Life doors to the world of open source, but just a bit

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Motorola Inc. announced a new music -enabled mobile phone Monday that syncs its Linux OS with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Media Player on Windows XP, as well as PCs running Vista

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When walking through the shows of prior CES shows, you could get the most amusing looks on people's faces when you asked the question, 'Does it work with Linux ?'

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Red Hat's Fedora Core 6.0 Linux distribution has crossed the million user milestone. Is it enough for the community-driven Linux distribution to claim it's the most popular Linux version ?

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Propelled by the release of its Version 2.0 in October, the free Firefox Web browser saw almost a 50% increase in use during 2006, according to one Web measurement firm

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The 2.5 version of Python offered lots of useful enhancements. In this article, you'll learn about some specific modules, as well as performance improvements, that are likely to bring big smiles to the faces of many Python developers

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Italian headline, English interview with KDE developer Aaron Seigo, with a look at KDE 4.

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Spatial Integrators is a mapping services company in Spokane, Wash., that acts as a consultant for electric companies, public utilities, and other government entities that want to develop custom mapping solutions

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For only being a release candidate the Linux 2.6.20 kernel has already generated quite a bit of attention

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A new feature that will first be availble in the upcoming 2.6.20 kernel is KVM, a Kernel-based Virtual Machine

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I have been an Archlinux user for a while now. This is an attempt at a review, for people who have experience with other distributions, and are searching for something new/different

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Today's security advisories: openoffice.org and libapache-mod-auth-kerb (Debian GNU/Linux), and openoffice.org (rPath Linux).

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While Computex Taipei 2007 is only a few months away, introduced last year at this international technology show was the Intel 965 Express Chipset

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One of my favorite open source applications is Amarok, a music player with an intuitive interface that makes boring tasks such as organizing large music collections less troublesome

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There are thousands of other Linux distributions, some of them are more then 10 years old, but Ubuntu became so popular in a short period of time

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Finally after much speculation, including some by yours truly, Mozilla has come clean and disclosed how much money it makes

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I was thinking about the future of Linux when it occurred to me that one path for its future can seen as a simple consequence of what we mean by 'winning '

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Some people who advocate against free software claim that it's bad for the economy and not sustainable in the long term, because the lack of direct revenue on developing free software makes it harder to make money out of developing such software

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Every year we hear predictions that this year, Linux will make it big

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Ciarán Mooney writes to let us know that the Pledgebank drive to raise $10,000 for Project Nouvaeu is almost complete — at this moment it needs only 196 more people to sign up. Project Nouveau aims to provide open source 3D acceleration for nVidia cards. The drive was started by David Nielsen, whose blog explains what he hopes will happen.

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mattaw writes "From analysis by Groklaw it seems that SCO may owe Novell nearly all the SCOSource licensing fees, and has been hiding the fact for 3 years. Imminent. Inevitable. Bankruptcy. Those are the words from Novell's lawyers. Perhaps the IBM/SCO case could close earlier than planned? Perhaps we can finally be rid of this specter once and for all?"

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Slagged writes "The Register has up an article on Linux-based Dell systems being sold in China. While Microsoft quashed an attempt by Dell to create a market for Linux PCs in the U.S., such restrictions are not the case in Asia. From the article: 'Fifteen months ago our own Ashlee Vance, who broke the news of the first break-up in 2001, proved how hard it is to buy a PC from Dell without Windows. Not pre-loaded with Linux mind you - but simply a bare bones box. But far away from the prying eyes of Steve Ballmer, romance is blossoming. An eagle-eyed reader found the fruits of the union, brazenly on display in a Beijing subway.' The article has pictures of the advertisements, which offer Dell PCs preloaded with 'Red Flag Linux'."

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Kelson writes to tell us about a Fedora Weekly News article reporting that, beginning with Fedora 7, the distinction between Core and Extras will cease to exist. This development comes out of the Fedora summit held in November. From the article: "Starting with Fedora 7, there is no more Core, and no more Extras; there is only Fedora. One single repository, built in the community on open source tools, assembled into whatever spins the Fedora community desires." Kelson adds: "The post goes on to list three 'spins' they plan to introduce at Fedora 7's April release: server, desktop and KDE. Presumably these would be 1-disc installation sets, with further packages downloaded over the network, rather than the 5-CD collection needed to install Fedora 6."

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An open letter to PETA, inspired by Ryan Lortie’s very silly My stance on Ubuntu and the Bad Vista campaign.

Dear PETA,

I realize that you think people should treat animals ethically, but let’s face it — you’re just not that popular. If you want to get people to do what you want, you should really reconsider what you want to be more in line with what people actually do.

I’m talking about vegetarianism. Specifically, you should give it up. It’s just not working.

It’s completely unrealistic to believe that people will stop eating animals. Frankly, meat is everywhere. People have already bought it. It’s in all sorts of restaurants and stores. It’s also delicious.

You don’t have a chance of convincing people to treat animals ethically until you give up some of your ideals. So go on, tell people they can eat meat. That’ll help them see that what you want is really pretty reasonable after all.

Signed,
A Helpful Friend

PS - I’ve sent similar letters to Amnesty International (they’re completely turning off dictators, despots, and torturers with their campaigns) and Habitat for Humanity (some people like living in tents — ever thought of that?). I hope you can all see my point.