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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Ubuntu Size: 308.58 MB Status: 2 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-03-13 07:33:39

Source: vector

Robert Lange has announced the second beta release of VectorLinux 5.8, SOHO edition: "The VectorLinux development team proudly announces the second public beta release of VectorLinux 5.8 SOHO. Built on the rock solid base of VL 5.8 standard, the latest SOHO includes a custom 2.6.20 SMP Kernel, compiled .

Source: centos

Johnny Hughes has announced the availability of the first beta release of CentOS 5, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 2: "The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the release of CentOS 5 (Beta) for i386 and x86_64. This is a beta frozen release. Which .

Source: Linux Today

Pleasantly, there was almost no Microsoft-bashing, and only a little discussion of using open source because it's socially the right thing to do

Source: Linux Today

Every open source project runs into people who are selfish, uncooperative, and disrespectful

Source: Linux Today

The Yankee Group send us a rebuttal to a recent column by Steven J. Vaughan Nichols entitled, 'Weather alert: new Microsoft FUD storm expected '

Source: Linux Today

Two operating systems run more than 95 percent of the world's computers, but dozens of systems are behind the 2.5 billion mobile phones in circulation

Source: Linux Today

Do these numbers make sense to you--$2,500 versus $100,000? This is the price difference felt between migrating over to Linux or instead, upgrading to the next version of Windows

Source: Linux Today

Once again, the Debian project is gearing up to elect a new project leader, with voting set to begin late this month

Source: Linux Today

The use of open source software is increasing in Latin America and US Linux operating systems integrator Red Hat has reacted by opening offices in three countries in less than a year

Source: Linux Today

Dell might not be offering Linux pre-installed on its PCs yet, but that doesn't mean you can't get Dell hardware for running a Linux router

Source: Linux Today

In a new setback to Microsoft's public sector business, the influential National Institute of Standards and Technology has banned the software maker's Windows Vista operating system from its internal computing networks

Source: Linux Today

Microsoft and Novell Monday announced more details about their joint development of products in the virtualization, directory and identity management and document format areas

Source: Linux Today

'Last week, the Gentoo project entered the lowest point of its 7-year old existence '

Source: Linux Today

Can you tell us how the internal Linux rollout at IBM is going ?

Source: Linux Today

Hewlett-Packard has really had the lead in that market since IDC began to look at server numbers. It's been about nine consecutive years now, with today showing about $7.8 billion in revenue worldwide

Source: Linux Today

We can't offer everything (all systems, all distributions, all support options), so we've crafted a survey to let you help us prioritize what we should deliver for you "

Source: Linux Today

Open source isn't always synonymous with collaborative community development, even when it comes to open source collaboration applications

Source: Linux Today

SUSE Security announces that SUSE Linux 9.3 will be discontinued soon

Source: Linux Today

The first item that broke over the weekend was the not wholly unanticipated news that ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 (JTC1) has approved ECMA 376 (a/k/a the format formerly known as Microsoft OOXML) to progress into the five month second phase of the Fast Track process

Source: Linux Today

In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure MyDNS and MyDNSConfig. MyDNS is a DNS server that uses a MySQL database as backend instead of configuration files like, for example, Bind or djbdns

Source: Linux Today

Organizers of OpenOffice.org's annual conference, 'OOoCon,' have voted to stage this year's event in Barcelona, Spain, in September

Source: Linux Today

Preditor is an enterprise content management solution specifically for publishers built on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, mySQL & PHP) stack

Source: Linux Today

The basics for any network based on *nix hosts is the Transport Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) combination of three protocols

Source: Linux Today

NFS was developed at a time when we weren't able to share our drives like we are able to today--in the Windows environment

Source: Linux Today

A console (terminal, terminal emulation) and a shell are equivalent to what is commonly known in Windows as the 'command line '

Source: Linux Today

Although OpenOffice.org has an HTML/XHTML export feature, it is not up to the snuff when it comes to turning Writer documents into clean HTML files

Source: Linux Today

When using the terminal, there are a lot of tricks and shortcuts that can make using the terminal much more efficient and pleasurable. I'll list here some of the key ones that I use

Source: Linux Today

I have used BigBrother and Nagios for a long time to troubleshoot network problems, and I was happy with them--until Zabbix came along

Source: Linux Today

You've finally made the move to a Windows-free computer, you're enjoying your brand new Linux OS, no trojans/viruses, no slowdown, everything's perfect

Source: Linux Today

One of free software's premier applications, KDE's CD and DVD burning suite K3b, is about to hit the big 1-0

Source: Linux Today

Bill Gates went before the U.S. Senate yesterday and said something startling

Source: Linux Today

A DVD that comes with lots of great examples of Free Culture which plays in your DVD player, with even more examples when you put it in your computer--including a GNU/Linux Live CD

Source: Linux Today

The judge could rule on those today or later or this week, but the outcome is less interesting than the documents themselves because here, for the first time, both SCO and IBM state their cases clearly and relatively simply

Source: Linux Today

Do you remember that old game that you used to play all the time? Do you still play it? It probably isn't free software. Do you wish it was ?

Source: Linux Today

"The time for adoption has never looked better, but unfortunately, we are still sitting on some very serious problems " [Article repaired. -ed]

Source: Linux Today

In my previous column, I touched on the issue of what constitutes an open-source vendor. Ask Andy Astor that question, and his answer is a shrug. 'Honestly,' he says, 'who cares ?'

Source: Slashdot: Linux

narramissic writes "In response to overwhelming user demand for Linux, Dell has posted a survey on a company blog that asks 'PC users to choose between Linux flavors such as Fedora and Ubuntu, and to pick more general choices such as notebooks versus desktops, high-end models versus value models and telephone-based support versus community-based support.' Votes will be collected through March 23, and Dell plans to use the feedback to begin selling Linux-based consumer PCs." The poll is pretty minimal. Wonder how much it will really guide Dell's choices.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

AlexGr sends us to a long piece in Redmond Magazine on Microsoft's changing relationship to open source. The article centers around a profile of Bill Hilf, Microsoft's internal and external evangelist for OSS. It's an even-handed piece that fully reflects the continuing deep skepticism in the community of Microsoft's motives and actions.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

WSJdpatton writes "The much-hyped notion that Linux would be a viable alternative to Windows to run desktop and notebook PCs for corporate users seemed dead on arrival a few years ago. But the idea is showing some new vital signs as companies look for cheaper alternatives to Microsoft products. The Wall Street Journal outlines several firms that are reaping savings and stability on their workplace desktops by rolling out Linux distributions. 'Auto maker PSA Peugeot Citroën last month said it will start using Linux on 20,000 of its workers' PCs. Novell Inc., which sells a version of Linux and is supplying it to Peugeot, says it has recently signed up several large U.S. financial institutions that are installing Linux on some employee PCs. Sales of Linux PCs are showing a really nice uptick at Novell, says Ronald Hovsepian, chief executive of Novell.' Not everyone is a convert, though. 'The State of Illinois recently consolidated its IT systems onto Microsoft software -- and has no interest in using Linux, says Paul Campbell, director of the state's Central Management Services department. "We don't have time for science projects in state government," he says.'"

Source: ONLamp.com

Redmond Magazine has a great article on Microsoft’s changing perspective on open source, featuring Bill HIlf as one of the key drivers of this change. I know and respect Bill, and agree heartily with the article’s conclusions:
When Bill Hilf came from IBM Corp. to join Microsoft three years ago, the company’s stance on open source vacillated wildly. It would swing from outright indifference to overt nastiness. Today, something else is unfolding: Microsoft is striking a surprising balance. It has stopped dismissing open source licensing and community development as dangerous folly or evil foe, and is looking for a way to both compete and co-exist.
Let’s start with Hilf. Under his direction as general manager of platform strategy, Microsoft is crafting a multifaceted plan to approach open source from a number of different levels: Linux as an operating system competitor; interoperability with Linux in mixed environments; partnering with open source ISVs; development of Shared Source Licensing; contributions to and support for community development sites….
Perhaps the biggest challenge that Hilf faces is changing the internal tone at Microsoft. One of the things he’s worked on is convincing developers that they need to play a role in the open source process and take part in projects on CodePlex to join the so-called community. The engineers caught on right away, he said, while the sales and marketing organizations were tougher to persuade.
Yesterday I heard one of the most prominent open source figures in the industry suggest that maybe, just maybe, Microsoft is changing its tune vis-a-vis open source. It has a long way to go, but the work that Bill, Sam Ramji, Jason Matusow, and others have done is truly changing the way Microsoft thinks about its ecosystem.
The big question, however, is how Microsoft views itself: platform company or applications company. To the extent it is the former, it has a big tent to share with the open source world. To the extent that it is the latter, it will try to quash any part of its ecosystem that aggressively competes with it.
But that’s not any different from how it deals with closed-source companies. So maybe it will beat up on open source just as much as it does closed source. Nice.

Source: ONLamp.com

I have a love/hate relationship with GNU Make. Yes, it’s picky about syntax and it’s difficult to write cross-platform Makefiles (though that’s not really GNU Make’s fault), but a make utility of some sort is mostly ubiquitous across the free Unix-like platforms.

When I need to compile a project written in C or C++ (or when I want to automate certain system administration tasks, such as remembering to update my Postfix files when I update them), I use GNU Make. It does a difficult job without much thanks or thought. I suspect that its maintainers, like me, would like to see a cleaner and friendlier replacement sometime in the future, but for now, its ubiquity and its power are definite advantages.

Thanks to everyone who’s contributed to make and GNU Make!

Source: Linux DevCenter

Tuomo Valkonen, who you may know as the author of the Ion window manager has a rant about the brokenness of the megafreeze development model, where a Linux distribution attempts to stabilize the entire system.

As an upstream contributor, I find it highly frustrating to release a new version of my software and have users contact me for about ancient versions I no longer want to support.

Perhaps if every project moved to a monthly stable release cycle then it would be easier to create an entire distribution that’s not all out of date. As it is, trying to wait until the stars and planets and comets and asteroids all align for one blessed week of complete stability… well, even I don’t believe in trying to herd those cats.

Alternately, stabilizing only the base operating system–the kernel and the core utilities necessary to install further software packages and bundles–might be sufficient. Perhaps the real problem behind this big problem is that the problem is just too big. Maybe a monolithic release is just too much to organize all at once.