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Category: Arch Size: 19.28 MB Status: 1 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-02-01 23:24:20

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Category: Arch Size: 145.37 MB Status: no seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-02-01 23:08:52

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Category: Fedora Size: 2.25 GB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-02-01 22:51:41

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Category: Fedora Size: 2.06 GB Status: 12 seeders and 6 leechers Added: 2007-02-01 21:17:43

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Category: Fedora Size: 2.08 GB Status: 46 seeders and 47 leechers Added: 2007-02-01 21:14:59

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Category: Fedora Size: 1.90 GB Status: 130 seeders and 71 leechers Added: 2007-02-01 20:46:47

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Category: Trinity Rescue Kit Size: 104.49 MB Status: 5 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-02-01 11:10:42

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Category: Kubuntu Size: 760.51 MB Status: no seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-02-01 02:02:28

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Category: FAMELIX Size: 682.48 MB Status: no seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2007-02-01 02:01:22

Source: dreamlinux

Jo o Batista Esteves has released a beta build of a new Dreamlinux 2.2 edition, Multimedia GL, now with support for 3D affects with AIGLX and Beryl: "We are announcing one more edition of Dreamlinux, the '2.2 Multimedia GL Edition BETA 2'. This edition preserves the aspects and functions .

Source: fedora

Jesse Keating has announced the availability of Fedora Desktop 7 Test 1, a 3-CD, GNOME-only variant of the first development build of Fedora 7: "Fedora 7 Test 1 has been released today. For this particular release, we only did a Desktop spin of the package collection. We are .

Source: mint

Clement Lefebvre has announced the beta release of Linux Mint 2.2, code name "Bianca": "The beta version of Bianca was released and is available for download. Bianca comes with two brand new themes: Bianca-Blue and Bianca-Green which give the distribution a whole new 'minty' look. Only one panel .

Source: Linux Today

SWsoft is a software company that is dedicated to creating virtualization software, as well as virtualization management tools for a variety of markets. That's the five-second PR marketing firm synopsis

Source: Linux Today

For the next ten years, I would go off and on back to this thought: I wanted to support the Open Source community, and to use Linux, but every time, the reality was that Linux just was not ready

Source: Linux Today

Now, came the interesting part: seeing how each operating system would work, or not, with the hardware on my HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7360n PC

Source: Linux Today

As bad an idea as 'Unbreakable Linux' might be, it is at least a product complement to Oracle's own product

Source: Linux Today

Todd Osagawara of O'Reilly's Port 25 offers an intriguing possibility this morning. Is Windows Vista the frontier for open source ?

Source: Linux Today

And while such an attempt tends to rub my sense of fair play the wrong way, the truth is that Oracle may be starting a trend that will ultimately be good for the enterprise even if the company is doing it for purely selfish reasons

Source: Linux Today

Allow me to use some metaphors to explain how open source software is different than commercial software

Source: Linux Today

Microsoft is labouring under a delusion. While the rest of the world thinks of it as a software company, it prefers to consider itself a government department

Source: Linux Today

Although Linux might be making big inroads in some vertical markets, Microsoft Windows keeps enjoying virtually complete domination of the legal software space, with the small exception of some embedded appliances

Source: Linux Today

With KDE porting their applications to Mac and Windows the potential number of people using free software is unlimited. Imagine millions of people using Open Source Software for the first time and getting hooked on it

Source: Linux Today

The new N800 rectifies many of these problems, using a faster processor and more internal memory. It can also take several different external memory cards, including MultiMediaCard and SD cards

Source: Linux Today

Digium looks to be gearing up for run at enterprise VoIP and PBX systems

Source: Linux Today

Novell has developed a new training course to help systems administrators migrate from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 from Novell

Source: Linux Today

The Samba Team released a technology preview of Samba 4.0 (TP4) this week that showcases a number of changes including clustering support and Web management

Source: Linux Today

Microsoft has won the first point in this match as national bodies around the world wrestle with this question. But first, some context on what's going on, and why it matters

Source: Linux Today

Red Hat intends to grow open service practices in the IT marketplace with the launch of its new Red Hat Certified Service Provider Program

Source: Linux Today

This is the final release in a series of point releases for the 2.16 branch

Source: Linux Today

Yes, I know I said I would only do -rc6 and then the final 2.6.20, but the thing is, the known regressions list didn't get whittled down as quickly as I hoped, and as a result we now have a -rc7

Source: Linux Today

The CSIR's Meraka Institute is expected to become the new South African Linux Professional Institute (LPI) affiliate now that the Shuttleworth Foundation has ended its relationship with the LPI

Source: Linux Today

The domain name system (DNS) maps human-understandable Web site addresses into numeric IP addresses

Source: Linux Today

Have you ever embarked on what you thought was a fairly well-defined project, only to see it expand far beyond its original scope ?

Source: Linux Today

Wouldn't it be nice if you could access your Writer documents from any computer connected to the Internet and work with them as if they were on your local machine ?

Source: Linux Today

When deploying new Linux servers, moving existing servers or using Linux for routers and firewalls, there are often issues with network integration with existing infrastructure

Source: Linux Today

You can migrate users from old Linux server to new Linux sever with standard commands such as tar, awk, scp and others

Source: Linux Today

In this article I will explain how to resize images. This is a way for me to celebrate 10 years since I started studying digital image processing !

Source: Linux Today

Ruby is the programming language on the tip of everyone's tongue these days. The power and ease of software development with Ruby has helped make an upstart web framework called Ruby on Rails the hottest web framework around

Source: Linux Today

Part of the early received wisdom about open-source was that it couldn't last: why would people donate their time and expertise to creating something for no return ?

Source: Linux Today

'Linux has arrived' that may sound funny to those who have been using Gnu/Linux for a number of years

Source: Linux Today

I recently re-read David Brin's essay, 'Why Johnny Can't Code.' He posits an interesting idea, one I've had for a while--we are raising a generation of techno-illiterates

Source: Linux Today

There are a series of articles in the Russian IT media covering the case against a principal of a public school in a small village somewhere in the middle of Russia

Source: Linux Today

Can you improve your IQ? Can you improve it by a factor of thousands? That might seem like the pipe dream of some overzealous geneticist. But in truth, it's the promise--and perhaps the power--of the open source movement

Source: Slashdot: Linux

boyko.at.netqos writes "Jim Sampson at Network Performance Daily writes about his attempts over a decade to get Linux working in a business/enterprise environment, but each time, he says, something critical just didn't work, and eventually, he just gave up. The article caps with his attempts to use Ubuntu Edgy Eft — only to find a bug that still prevented him from doing work." Quoting: "For the next ten years, I would go off and on back to this thought: I wanted to support the Open Source community, and to use Linux, but every time, the reality was that Linux just was not ready Over the last six years, I've tried periodically to get Linux working in the enterprise, thinking, logically, that things must have improved. But every time, something — sometimes something very basic — prevented me from doing what I needed to do in Linux."

Source: Slashdot: Linux

wellingj writes "Microsoft has applied for a patent that sounds on the face of it like it ought to improve OS stability and reliability: the patent proposes to modularize device drivers much like Linux does. But, going further, Microsoft would apply DRM to these modules — as Groklaw puts it, 'using modularity plus DRM to restrict and contain and enforce.' The net result is that you might have to pay extra for OS hardware support. Things like USB keys, DVD-ROMS, Raid drives, and video cards might not be supported out of the box. LXer indulges in some dystopian speculation."

Source: ONLamp.com

Dave Cross just posted a short analysis of Perl Programmers in London and the job situation there. This matches what I’ve heard, and what I noticed when I was in Europe last summer.

There’s plenty of work available for people who want to work in finance with Perl and related technologies in Europe, and there aren’t enough people to go around.

Maybe the secret weapons of the high finance industry can’t remain secret any longer, if they want to continue to attract skilled technologists.

Source: ONLamp.com

Apache httpd's standard text logfiles are well understood and useful, but they don't always give you enough information to troubleshoot problems. Apache 2.x provides several new modules that produce more logfile information--the number of bytes transferred, the rewrite rule matching, which requests complete and why, and the complete output of all headers. Rich Bowen explores these options.

Source: Linux DevCenter

Bash is one of those Unix things that I am fully aware has a lot more potential and power than I know how to use. Every so often I go looking for another handful of useful things to learn about it: this is a selection of recent ones.

Firstly: the Debian bash package includes a file /etc/bash_completion which extends bash - for example, enabling zsh-style tab completion of hostnames. Source this file in your own .bashrc to get this functionality. It also makes it easy to extend/program bash yourself, via the directory /etc/bash_completion.d/, which is automatically sourced by /etc/bash_completion. For example, suppose you have a script foo.sh which takes hostnames as arguments (e.g. one which applies a particular command across a set of hostnames). You can get hostname tab-completion on foo.sh by creating a file /etc/bash_completion.d/foo which contains the line

complete -F _known_hosts foo.sh

You can also, of course, can get a lot more complicated - this article talks about getting tab-completion for any other arguments to foo.sh.

Secondly: $CDPATH is to cd what $PATH is to executables. Set $CDPATH in your .bashrc as follows:

export CDPATH=.:~:/usr/local/:/opt/my/long/dir/path

Then if you wish to change to /opt/my/long/dir/path/subdir, just type subdir at the prompt and you’re there. Note that you do need to include . in there or you won’t be able to change directories within your current directory.

Thirdly, some small useful .bashrc things:

shopt -s cdspell will attempt to correct misspellings of directories.
shopt -s dotglob allows files beginning with a dot to be returned in filename expansions.
export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth stops the bash history from including either duplicate lines, or lines beginning with a space, which makes it rather quicker to navigate.

and some small useful command-line shortcuts:

Ctrl-r searches backwards in your bash history. I love this one very much.
Alt-. (that’s a full stop there) inserts at the cursor the last argument to the previous command.
Alt-Ctrl-y inserts at the cursor the first argument to the previous command. Further: if you hit Alt-3 then Alt-Ctrl-y, you’ll get the 3rd argument to the previous command.



Finally: a little snippet for your .bashrc that will change the title of your xterm or xterm-alike to show username@hostname:/current/directory. It updates as you change directory or ssh to another host. This is useful if you spend a lot of time opening lots of xterms on various hosts and in various directories; and it’s another visual clue as to (e.g.) whether you’re currently logged in as root. Myself, I also set my root prompts to be in a different colour to my own prompts. You can’t have too many reminders of your identity…

case $TERM in
xterm*)
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}:${PWD}\007"'
;;
*)
;;
esac



Comments with other useful bash bits and pieces welcome!