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Linux and Open Source News for 20th February 2007

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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Linux Software Size: 11.04 MB Status: 4 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-02-20 18:16:25


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Category: Debian Size: 1.70 GB Status: 22 seeders and 48 leechers Added: 2007-02-20 14:56:37


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Category: Debian Size: 4.11 GB Status: 18 seeders and 80 leechers Added: 2007-02-20 14:54:14


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Category: Debian Size: 4.36 GB Status: 20 seeders and 98 leechers Added: 2007-02-20 14:48:37


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Category: STX Size: 605.86 MB Status: 5 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-02-20 10:30:15



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*Well, as in 'free software.' Bringing the open source movement to brewing


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Open source is more than just Linux. It's more than just infrastructure and it can save you money


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Red Hat Inc., in collaboration with IBM Corp., opened a support and research facility in Vrsac, Serbia, to serve customers in South Eastern Europe


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Since last month's general availability of Microsoft Windows Vista, NVIDIA has introduced the Forceware 100.XX series


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Source: Linux Today

There's an old saying that pops up in a number of cultures that begins something like this: 'When the elephants dance '


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Source: Linux Today

I thought it would be useful at this point in the SCO litigation to lay out what is facing SCO


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Source: Linux Today

The National Open Centre (NOC) holds its official launch at the Houses of Parliament on 26 February


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Source: Linux Today

Is Red Hat doing enough to reassure its customers that it remains focused on what it does and can stay ahead of its growing number of competitors ?


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Organisations such as the newly formed Open Solutions Alliance face considerable challenges in their efforts to promote the improved integration of open source business systems, experts have warned


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Source: Linux Today

Despite the longer name, it was such a cute little conference that I kept wanting to pat it on its head


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Source: Linux Today

[S]ome of these countries have worries that the laptops could end up in the hands of people other than those whom they're intended for


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Microsoft Corp chief executive Steve Ballmer risked fanning the flames of controversy again last week, when he frankly told analysts that the company's relationship with Novell Inc was more about intellectual property than it was about revenue


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Source: Linux Today

When the the third draft of the General Public License comes out, look for language that addresses the recent Microsoft-Novell patent deal


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Interoperability poses problems for most IT managers during migrations to or from Linux


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Red Hat Inc's CEO has said the company is encouraging customers to adopt Microsoft Corp's offer of support vouchers for Novell's Inc's rival Linux operating system in order to get the issue over with


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Wind River, one of the world's top embedded software providers, has acquired a real-time Linux distribution and patented hard-real-time technology from FSMLabs Inc


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Just a few days ago, Dell launched a site to solicit feedback from customers regarding what they most want to see coming from newer systems


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IBM says there are too many Linux servers running in enterprise data centers


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One of the big Features of Fedora 7 is a merged core and extras. In order to accomplish this, we need some improvements to the build system currently used by Fedora Extras


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Source: Linux Today

How much money can a large enterprise save by migrating to open source from proprietary? In Novell's case, it's millions of dollars


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Source: Linux Today

So, do you go with a proprietary or open source PBX? It's question being asked all the time as companies that need to replace aging phone systems weigh the alternatives in their move to IP telephony and VoIP


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As I expressed in a previous post, the current Open Source desktop groupware solutions are unsatisfactory


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In light of the recently announced Linspire/Ubuntu collaboration, DesktopLinux.com asked Woodford to clarify the MEPIS/Ubuntu relationship


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The last time Phoronix had taken a thorough look at Intel's Linux display drivers was last October when we had shared our initial performance figures for the GMA 3000 integrated graphics processor found on the Q965 Express


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Source: Linux Today

One problem I often find with switchers (both in beryl and in other window managers) is that they either only give an icon (for conventional switchers) or three thumbnails


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Source: Linux Today

Last June I wrote about suspending and hibernating laptops under Linux. Since then a few things have changed--thankfully, for the better--so it's time to revisit the subject


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Metisse is a window manager developed by the In Situ project. It is available under the GPL Licence. Mandriva Linux is using Metisse in its latatest Live-CD


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One of the best ways of growing a strong community now a days is to start a forum


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Zero Install is an offshoot of the ROX Desktop project. Leonard says users were reluctant to try ROX unless it was packaged for their distro, but packaging took time away from development


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System administrators often have to copy data around. Copying and converting ordinary data is easily accomplished with the Linux command called cp


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This holiday weekend's security advisories: BIND, Sun JDK/JRE, and AMD64 x86 emulation Sun's J2SE Development Kit (Gentoo Linux); clamav (Mandriva Linux); php and mysql (Red Hat Linux); and glibc-zoneinfo (Slackware Linux).


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Lemote is one of many emerging Chinese OEMs that are beginning to produce original concepts in hardware design and architecture


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The Cuban government is to migrate thousands of its computers to open-source software, in a move that distances the communist nation from US-based Microsoft


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vnunet has a story about a potential alliance between Microsoft and Red Hat. Problem is, according to a ZDNet piece, Red Hat's in denial. Both stories within.


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Some bad blood between Linus Torvalds and GNOME developers is flaring up again


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On Tuesday, SWsoft will fortify current efforts to challenge virtualization software leader VMware by announcing free 24-by-7 support from Microsoft for Windows applications running on SWsoft's Virtuozzo software


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Ingo Molnar posted a set of 11 patches introducing 'the first release of the 'Syslet' kernel feature and kernel subsystem, which provides generic asynchrous system call support '


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But among IT managers and developers who braved icy winds and snow to trek to the two-day show in New York City, talk was in the air over whether software emerging from the open source tradition is really any better than other software


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Colonizing a new world is not a trivial task, even when you're doing it in a clone of a famous game. FreeCol is a free-as-in-free-software Java-based clone of Sid Meier's Colonization that's currently at the 0.5.3 release


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Incremental changelog, links within.


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"The Debian project has updated the stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename `sarge') " Announcement within.


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A key enhancement in OpenDocument 1.1 is support for users who have low or no vision, or who suffer from cognitive impairments


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Network Bonding, otherwise known as port trunking allows you to combine multiple network ports into a single group, effectively aggregating the bandwidth of multiple interfaces into a single connection


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Use Perl, Ghosd, and some network programming to display on-screen overlays of text and graphics based on messages from your local system and remote computers


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It's not the be-all end-all, but open source can still save money


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A growing number of mid-market CIOs say yes. In the wake of recent ERP vendor consolidation, open source promises flexibility for the future. Plus it fits the need to customize--affordably


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This week, another layer was peeled back on the agreement, and more details, some of which pertain to virtualization, were revealed



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dhart writes "Within only a few days of Dell opening a new customer feedback website, they discovered that the feature most requested (by an almost 2-to-1 margin!) is an option on all new Dell PCs: pre-installed Linux. (And the number 3 request is pre-installed Open Office.) I believe they'll have a harder time now with the tired old mantra 'There's no customer demand for Linux.'"



Updated: Wed Feb 21 23:55:03 2007


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