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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: RUNT Size: 78.66 MB Status: 7 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-02-02 20:25:36


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Category: Ubuntu Size: 465.53 MB Status: 6 seeders and 8 leechers Added: 2007-02-02 17:30:18


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Category: Ubuntu Size: 472.67 MB Status: 3 seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2007-02-02 17:30:18


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Category: Ubuntu Size: 670.83 MB Status: 3 seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2007-02-02 17:29:08


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Category: Ubuntu Size: 692.54 MB Status: 80 seeders and 39 leechers Added: 2007-02-02 17:29:08


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Category: Ubuntu Size: 504.89 MB Status: 2 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-02-02 17:28:04


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Category: Ubuntu Size: 419.98 MB Status: 2 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-02-02 17:28:04


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Category: Ubuntu Size: 697.57 MB Status: 17 seeders and 7 leechers Added: 2007-02-02 17:27:29


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Category: Ubuntu Size: 699.80 MB Status: 2 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-02-02 17:27:27


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Category: Ubuntu Size: 672.14 MB Status: 26 seeders and 20 leechers Added: 2007-02-02 17:22:27


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Category: Ubuntu Size: 696.50 MB Status: 5 seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2007-02-02 17:22:26


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Category: Ubuntu Size: 698.20 MB Status: 1 seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2007-02-02 05:57:57


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Category: ZenWalk Size: 303.30 MB Status: 3 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-02-02 02:41:05


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Category: ERPOSS Size: 693.29 MB Status: 14 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-02-02 00:08:04


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Source: ubuntu

Tollef Fog Heen has announced the third alpha release of Ubuntu 7.04, also known as "Herd CD" - now with painless multimedia codecs, new GNOME Control Centre, updated versions of most GNOME applications, and Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM): "Ubuntu 'Feisty Fawn' 7.04 has two and a half more .


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Source: runt

RUNT is a Slackware-based distribution designed to run from 256 MB bootable USB pen drives and containing a fairly complete (text mode only) Linux system for hardware and network testing. A new version 5.0 was announced earlier today: "RUNT 5.0 is built from Slackware 11.0 and has updated .



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IT services provider Unisys Corp is expecting rapid growth from its recently launched open source services businesses as it looks to improve innovation with open source software, rather than simply cutting costs


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Mozilla.org, which makes the open-source Firefox browser, is opening a China office to do battle in the world's second-largest Web market


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After years in the making--and after some people had given up on ever seeing it--the distribution-neutral Linux Professional Institute (LPI) and its affiliate, LPI-Japan, have finally jointly launched the LPIC-3 certification program


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Developers have no guarantees when they open source an application. In many cases, they don't know who will use it, nor do they know how things will progress


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Blackboard, whose software can be used to manage university courses, has taken a significant step to mollify open-source rivals who perceive a patent threat from the company


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Feisty Fawn Herd 3, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.04


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LinuxLookup has the announcement, and Phoronix has the early preview of the LiveCD. Links within.


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Kevin Johnson worried adding Microsoft's moniker to IDC analysis for its 'Get the Facts' publicity campaign would only fuel the fire from Linux supporters


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Wizpy contains a bootable version of Linux that enables users to access their files on any PC


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Source: Linux Today

Humor: "How to become a l33t person, a status that will bring you friends, glory, money and most importantly the funding to buy lots and lots of boxen and give you access to what you want whenever you want "


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Source: Linux Today

Before we go anywhere, I wanted to say that I hard a hard time writing this article. The reason I say this is because CentOS and RHEL are essentially the same thing


Source: Linux Today

When you read source code, often you need to look for definitions of functions, classes, or other objects. Editors such as Emacs and Vim help you browse the code by supporting the concept of tags. You can think of tags as labels that can be jumped to


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Project maintainer Ken VanDine on Jan. 28 announced the release of Foresight Linux 1.0, the first stable release of the rPath-based desktop Linux distribution after nearly two years of development


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Thanks to Fluendo, Linux and Solaris users on a variety of processor architectures can now purchase playback support for patent-encumbered audio and video formats


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These educational tools have received a lot of work for KDE 4. In particular, Kalzium and KmPlot developments are happening at an amazing rate


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This tutorial describes how to set up and run an UnrealIRCD server on OpenSuSE 10.2 and Fedora Core 6


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Source: Linux Today

PyDEV is a plugin that enables developers to use Eclipse for Python and Jython development, making Eclipse a first-class Python IDE


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It's maddening. For someone who is trying make a daily use of what is to be considered a beginner friendly distribution for the first time, most options leave a lot to be desired for the uninitiated


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At the time it simply seemed like a good idea. Allow the software code to be readily available on the internet for other colleagues and software engineers to review and improve. ..


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I have always been intrigued by the idea that attitudes toward open source in the developing world are different from those of Americans


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As news first started coming in about Novell opening up their openSuse Build Service, I remained somewhat skeptical. I mean, why now? What are they really up to ?


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Suppose you wanted to build your own super computer--one capable of running realistic problems using standard 'codes' in areas like bio-computing, climatology, or geophysics--what would it take ?


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And for all the reasons that FOSS is being chosen to satisfy businesses and individuals IT needs, so too is it being chosen by the world's militaries to design, simulate, test and control their future weapons


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Source: Linux Today

In a quote from Forbes, McVoy had mentioned that he would be 'thrilled' to see Microsoft blend the Linux kernel with their existing tools and libraries. No, this isn't a joke. McVoy, CEO of BitMover, actually said this


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Source: Linux Today

At last count there are only thirteen people that agree with my hypothesis that Apple will buyout Parallels virtualization software and start bundling Vista with new Macs


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I know you don't believe me, as we've had this conversation before. But there will come a time in your life when you will grow tired of fixing your tools



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

xtracto writes "I just returned from buying certain Linux magazine. While looking at the 'Computing' stand in the library, and right after I grabbed a copy of the Linux magazine, a guy asked me if I used Linux. After that, the man told me he had tried to use Linux, but he had found it difficult. I told him the first things that came to my mind: that it depended on the distribution (he tried Kubuntu). I recommended him to look for a Linux User Group near his hometown (he told me he didn't live near a city). What would you tell these kinds of people? Not so long ago, and to my surprise, a relative who is completely computer illiterate started talking about Linux, but the general thought is that 'it is harder than Windows'. How do you advocate Linux to people who are more comfortable using Windows?"


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Source: Slashdot: Linux

narramissic writes "The first phase of a Microsoft-funded project to create software that can convert Microsoft Word documents between Open XML and Open Document Format (ODF) has been completed. As a result, the Open XML Translator is now available for download in version 1.0 from SourceForge.net. A ComputerWorld article details the history of the project, discussing the work of companies like CleverAge and AztecSoft, as well as community efforts to bring this project to realization."



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Running a basic, truly minimal window manager can save significant CPU cycles and memory. This becomes important if you’re running old, limited hardware or when designing a desktop environment for an embedded Linux device. Even the oldest, most primitive window managers (think TWM or MWM) can support a pretty desktop background image. The ability is almost as old as X itself.
The tool you need is a very old, very small utility called xli. It’s included as part of X.org in many distributions. If your favorite distro doesn’t include it the source code can be found here. You can load the image of your choice either from the command line or when your window manager starts. The command you’d use to add a background to an X session that’s already running is:
xli -onroot
If you want have this image load when your window manager starts there are two approaches you might use. Some very lightweight but recent window managers have some sort of configuration file which allows for commands to be executed at startup. For example JWM (Joe’s Window Manager) has am xml configuration file which, in a default installation, can be found at
/usr/etc/system.jwmrc
This file uses xli to load a background image, albeit one that probably doesn’t exist on your system, as part of it’s default configuration. In the case of JWM you simply change the default image file. For other window managers you would likely have to specify the command above as one of your startup commands.
Even If your window manager of choice doesn’t have it’s own configuration file it is almost certainly started from a file called .xinitrc. You can have an .xinitrc file for an individual user in their home directory or you can modify the system default file located in /etc/X11 in most current distributions.
TWM, a part of X.org, is the “failsafe” window manager for many distributions. The command to start it in your system .xinitrc looks something like this:
/usr/X11R6/bin/twm &
/usr/X11R6/bin/xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login
That launches twm with an xterm window and a clock. Adding another & and the xli command above will cause TWM to launch with a background of your choice. This method should work with almost any minimalist window manager.
Compiling xli from source
If your distro doesn’t include xli you’ll be compiling from source. Since xli is a really, truly ancient utility compiling it is a bit quirky. When you download xli to your home directory create a working directory below that. Move the gzipped tarball into the newly created directory before you unzip and untar. If you don’t do that the source files (lots of them) will go directly into your home directory.
Next you need to edit rlelib.c. Near the top you’ll find this line:
#include
varargs.h is no longer supported by gcc. You’ll need to change that line to:
#include
Once that’s done you can create your makefile with the command:
xmkmf
The rest (run as root) is what you’d expect:
make
make install
That’s all there is to it. Now even the most primitive window manager can look pretty on your system.



Updated: Sat Feb 3 23:55:03 2007


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