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Linux and Open Source News for 16th February 2007

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Category: Ubuntu Size: 693.89 MB Status: 129 seeders and 76 leechers Added: 2007-02-16 18:59:56


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Category: SUSE Size: 3.19 GB Status: 6 seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2007-02-16 15:37:37


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Category: INSERT Size: 59.26 MB Status: 6 seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2007-02-16 10:22:00


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Category: INSERT Size: 59.26 MB Status: 2 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-02-16 10:21:38


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Tollef Fog Heen has announced the availability of the fourth alpha release of Ubuntu 7.04, code name "Feisty Fawn": "Welcome to Feisty Fawn Herd 4, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.04. The primary focus during the time from Herd 3 has been a mix of feature development .


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INSERT, the Inside Security Rescue Toolkit distribution, has been updated to version 1.3.9a. From the changelog: "The Linux kernel was updated to 2.6.18.6; ClamAV comes in the new release 0.90 with experimental features activated; ntfs-3g was updated to the first release candidate; the GUI for ClamAV (AVScan) was .



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But he said that he was more worried about being blindsided by a new business model than any one company in particular


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Chief maintainer Andreas Jaeger announced today that development of the next version of openSUSE Linux is officially under way, with the release of the first public alpha


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On February 6, the blog Boycott Novell ran a story suggesting that Novell's Samba development team had resigned en masse to take jobs at rival Red Hat


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It might seem very odd to look to a long-dead Russian anarchist for business advice. But Peter Kropotkin's big idea--that there are important human motivations beyond what he called 'reckless individualism'--is very relevant these days


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Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Herd 4, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.04 was just released


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Nominations for the unpaid position of Debian Project Leader (DPL) opened last week. The successful candidate will take over from current incumbent Anthony Towns in April


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The X.Org community is proud to announce the release of X11R7.2, the third modular release of the X Window System


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Separate reports from The 451 Group and Evans Data this week confirm what seems obvious: open source software is impacting commercial software companies and continues to gain adoption worldwide


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Xandros today introduced a new software suite for IT administrators that enables Windows-to-Linux server and desktop integration and management, and deployment of systems that mix Linux, Unix, and Windows platforms


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This version introduces lots of new interesting features and marks a big step forward in the development of the antivirus engine


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It's built from scratch following the Linux From Scratch procedure and uses custom boot scripts, personalized directory structure, and a simple yet comprehensive source-based dependency-resolving package management system


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EBS Building Society has chosen Linux as part of a major project that will see many of its servers consolidated to run on a mainframe


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Does an open source solution like MythTV stand a chance against the marketing power and research behind the TiVo Series 3 ?


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This tutorial describes how to scan emails for image spam with FuzzyOCR


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One of the joys of dealing with modern programming languages like PHP is the amount of options available


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If you want to encrypt your sensitive files so that no one can access them without your personal password or decryption key, you have several options


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Today's security advisories: spamassassin (Fedora Core); ImageMagick and samba (Red Hat Linux); and AppArmor (SUSE Linux).


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Percy Shelly averred that poets were the unacknowledged legislators of the world. That was a hope rather than a fact


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"When Jimmy Wales recently announced the Search Wikia project, an attempt to build an open-source search engine around the user-driven model that gave birth to Wikipedia, he said his goal was to create 'the search engine that changes everything '"


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KDE will soon be releasing version 4.0 of its desktop environment. But KDE has a deep, dark secret--it engages in slavery. Actually it's not a secret, they tell you straight up


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McBride said that the idea for serving Jones came from the law-firm. 'It's my understanding that she has some material of importance to our slander of title case with Novell. I don't know the exact details '


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Is open-source still a grassroots social movement made up of idealistic underdogs trying to revolutionize an amoral industry? Or has it become a cloak used by IT vendors large and small to disguise ruthless and self-serving behavior ?


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LinuxWorld Open Solutions Summit: "Allow me to channel Denzel Washington from Training Day for a moment: New York City blizzards ain't got nothing on me. Well, at least when it comes to conference coverage "


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For the unwary press corps, it provides a chance to mix and mingle with the enterprise movers and shakers until they drop their notebooks and grab alcoholic beverages in sheer frustration all the while looking for substance



Updated: Sat Feb 17 23:55:01 2007


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