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Linux and Open Source News for 15th February 2007

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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Mepis Size: 675.04 MB Status: 8 seeders and 6 leechers Added: 2007-02-15 23:35:37


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: PCLinuxOS Size: 694.92 MB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-02-15 23:09:19


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Linux Distributions Size: 622.99 MB Status: 2 seeders and 5 leechers Added: 2007-02-15 21:20:41


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Pentoo Size: 656.28 MB Status: 2 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-02-15 16:05:13


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: BackTrack Size: 690.15 MB Status: 6 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-02-15 14:20:01


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Ubuntu Size: 619.67 MB Status: 1 seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2007-02-15 14:01:58


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Mepis Size: 671.86 MB Status: 5 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-02-15 05:23:40


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Source: elive

An updated development build of Elive has been released for testing. What's new? "aMSN - version 0.96 with fonts anti-aliased; generating X.Org, bug fixed; NTFS - after the lot of problems we have had with NTFS, including freezing at boot, Elive has changed to the ntfs-3g driver; VFAT/FAT32 .


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Source: lfs

A new stable version of Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS), a book with instructions on how to extend a Linux From Scratch installation, has been released: "Version 6.2.0 of BLFS has been released. Version 6.2.0 is the complement to the LFS 6.2 book. More time has elapsed between .


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Source: suse

The development of openSUSE 10.3 is now officially underway with the release of the first alpha: "I'm glad to announce the first public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3. Since the openSUSE 10.2 final release, the most significant changes are: GNOME is moved to /usr; KDE updated to KDE .


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Source: frugalware

The Frugalware Developer Team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.6rc1, the first release candidate of the upcoming 0.6 stable release. A short and incomplete list of changes since 0.6pre2: "Improvements: brand new GDM theme, which has many improvements over previous themes; many packages recompiled .


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Source: sam

SAM Linux Desktop is a PCLinuxOS-based distribution featuring the Xfce desktop. A new development version, now based on the just announced PCLinuxOS 2007 Test 2, has been released for testing: "In sync with today's announced PCLinuxOS 2007test2 release I am happy to give you the second test of .



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Source: Linux Today

Vertica Systems, a stealthy start-up building a fast new database management system that runs on Linux-based hardware, has started to break its silence


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Source: Linux Today

More than 225 developers attended the second Vancouver PHP Conference at the University of British Columbia's Downtown Campus in Vancouver Canada this week


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Source: Linux Today

After lots of blood and sweat from the Open Source team, 1.4 has finally been approved by NASA for release


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit: "Adobe has made great strides in making Flash available on Linux lately, but it still has some work to do "


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Source: Linux Today

Let me address this directly. Yes, Pamela Jones is a real person. I've met her several times, and I've often 'talked' with her on email and IM. I consider her a friend


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit: Following his session on user authentication and Samba 3.0 at the LWOSS, Jerry Carter answered a few questions on Samba's future and its role with Microsoft "


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit: "IBM plans a big drive among outside application developers to write desktop and mobile applications for Open Client Solution "


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Source: Linux Today

"Novell will continue its march against Microsoft and any uptake of Vista despite a recent alliance with the software giant " [Flash video interview included in article. -ed.]


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit: "A major problem with IT security, he said, is that even as new software patches and other fixes are posted, not every company or home user installs them "


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Source: Linux Today

SCO believes that Jones doesn't exist and is actually a composite character invented by IBM's legal department, according to an insider at SCO


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The BBC Trust is demanding the BBC eventually offer its content to end users regardless of computer platform, though no time-frame has been agreed for this


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Source: Linux Today

KVM, a new virtualization technology that lets Linux computers run multiple operating systems simultaneously, has won a significant endorsement from Red Hat


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Source: Linux Today

Quanta Computer Inc., the world's largest contract laptop PC manufacturer, already has confirmed orders for one million notebook PCs for the One Laptop Per Child project, a company representative said Thursday


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit: "For 2006, Al Gillen, research vice president of system software at IDC, told an early morning audience that the research firm has pegged the Linux ecosystem that includes servers and software to be worth $18 billion. By 2010, Gillen said, the market will be worth $40 billion "


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Source: Linux Today

Asian countries have started switching from proprietary software such as Microsoft's to open source, it was reported Tuesday at the eighth annual Asia Open Source Software Symposium (AOSSS) in Denpasar, Indonesia


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Source: Linux Today

A tiny, Linux-based gateway has won an award for hardware innovation at the 2007 Embedded World conference in Nuremberg this week


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Source: Linux Today

I am probably not the only one who is using this fruitful combination for my remote file management and editing jobs, but for those of you who still haven't discovered the benefits of using it here is what the buzz is all about


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Source: Linux Today

Klik is unique among software installation systems for Linux, in that each package installed through klik is self-contained, isolated from the rest of the operating system


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Source: Linux Today

When building a development plan for your desktop Linux application, you might reasonably ponder which desktop environment (DE) to target. Gnome or KDE? Certainly. Something else? Maybe


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Source: Linux Today

Like many companies, Light Crafts releases its flagship application--the RAW photo converter LightZone--for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux


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Source: Linux Today

Today's oh-so-romantic security advisories: fetchmail and imagemagick (Debian GNU/Linux); kernel (Fedora Core); and RAR and UnRAR (Gentoo Linux).


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Source: Linux Today

Focusing again on applications this week, specifically I'll look at two of the promising document viewers for KDE 4, Okular and Ligature


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Source: Linux Today

I am a first-year high school English teacher, and I was looking to get computers in my room so I could have a writing lab


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Source: Linux Today

So, what do I have to say about Windows today? It's not working with my new monitor, while Linux does


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Source: Linux Today

Red Hat plans to squeeze VMware on pricing as it bundles virtualization technology with its operating system



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

PetManimal writes "Open-source software development once had a reputation as a grassroots movement, but it is increasingly a mainstream IT profit center, and according to Computerworld, some in the industry are asking whether 'open source' has become a cloak used by IT vendors large and small to disguise ruthless and self-serving behavior. Citing an online opinion piece by Gordon Haff, an analyst at Illuminata Inc., the article notes that HP and IBM have not only profited from open-source at the expense of competitors, but have also boosted their images in the open-source community. The Computerworld article also mentions the efforts by the Microsoft/Windows camp to promote open-source credentials: '[InfoWorld columnist Dave] Rosenberg is more disturbed by the bandwagon jumpers: the companies, mostly startups, belatedly going open-source in order to ride a trend, while paying only lip service to the community and its values. Take Aras Corp., a provider of Windows-based product lifecycle management (PLM) software that in January decided to go open-source. Rosenberg depicted the firm in his blog as an opportunistic Johnny-Come-Lately. "I'm not impressed when a company whose software is totally built on Microsoft technologies goes open-source," said Rosenberg, who even suspects that the company is being promoted by Microsoft as a shill to burnish Redmond's image in open-source circles."'"



Updated: Fri Feb 16 23:55:03 2007


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