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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: INSERT Size: 59.59 MB Status: 2 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-03-14 21:45:44

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Mepis Size: 675.39 MB Status: 211 seeders and 89 leechers Added: 2007-03-14 19:12:39

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: RIP Size: 74.51 MB Status: 7 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-03-14 16:42:03

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Vector Size: 700.15 MB Status: 3 seeders and 6 leechers Added: 2007-03-14 06:42:48

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Ubuntu Size: 700.51 MB Status: 1 seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2007-03-14 05:12:22

Source: mepis

Warren Woodford has announced the second release candidate for SimplyMEPIS 6.5: "SimplyMEPIS 6.5 RC2 is available for download and testing. RC2 contains an upgrade to the latest version of NdisWrapper which we have tested with new drivers. Current users of 6.x who need this upgrade can get it .

Source: redhat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 has been released: "Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is the cornerstone of the company's open source architecture. Initially launched in 2002, Red Hat Enterprise .

Source: Linux Today

The GNU Manifesto, the internet, and the Open Source movement represent a landmark, joining the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century

Source: Linux Today

The June 12, 2006, edition of SD Times News on Monday, an e-mail newsletter, carried a 'Zeichick's Take' column entitled 'It's Time for Darl to Go '

Source: Linux Today

[P]articular circumstances and events are aligning that will not only impact Linux as a whole but all Linux distributions and projects that reside among us

Source: Linux Today

Here is a familiar list for readers: vanilla kernel, custom kernel, debs, rpms, Tgzs, source files, Apt-get,Emerge, Yum, Urpmi, Synaptic, Kpackage, Adept, Kyum, Yumex, Smart, Klik and Autopackage. I could go on but you get the idea

Source: Linux Today

Despite years of success, Dell has fallen on hard times. The company that practically reinvented the way people buy computers has been under-performing, and investors are worried

Source: Linux Today

The HP company might start the production of PCs with preinstalled Linux system. However, the vendor's global initiative is not yet relevant in Russia

Source: Linux Today

The Haiku operating system has now got its first distribution, but the distribution is not coming from the Haiku development team, it's coming from Poland

Source: Linux Today

NetXen, a maker of hardware-accelerated 10GbE (10-Gigabit Ethernet) LAN cards, has just introduced a set of software drivers for Linux systems

Source: Linux Today

Gains in flexibility, availability of coding tools and the principles of collaborative development are among the many benefits of using open source tools and solutions

Source: Linux Today

The good news, according to an HP executive, is that the company sees 'the Linux desktop nearing critical mass.' The bad news, for would be off-the-shelf Linux desktop buyers, is that it's still not there yet

Source: Linux Today

Red Hat Inc. has announced a major expansion of its global partner programs, including new channel programs to help increase collaboration between Red Hat and its partners around the world

Source: Linux Today

I was surprised in an email exchange with Linus Torvalds at the depth of his criticism of the next version of the General Public License

Source: Linux Today

The company acquired RedMojo for $9.72 million, though chose not to make an official announcement at the time

Source: Linux Today

Novell on Tuesday announced that it has completed testing its Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 with SAP's NetWeaver and MySAP business suite applications

Source: Linux Today

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced on his blog that he has accepted a seat on the board of directors of the Linux Foundation

Source: Linux Today

Online-security provider Sourcefire priced its IPO last week at $15, topping its $12-$14 expected range. But investors apparently couldn't get enough, driving the stock price to $18

Source: Linux Today

Retail bank HSBC Plc has become the latest customer to sign up to Microsoft Corp and Novell Inc's interoperability deal

Source: Linux Today

We featured Red Hat in a recent article, where we argued that Red Hat's business model was under attack

Source: Linux Today

Mozilla Corp. plans to release public beta of Version 3 of its Firefox browser in late spring, with added features to include standardized support for running Web apps like mail and office suites when disconnected from the Internet

Source: Linux Today

Gentoo prides itself on being a community driven distribution and everything we do we do with the best interest of the community at heart

Source: Linux Today

Red Hat faces a lengthening list of rivals, but the company hopes to cement its lead in the Linux market Wednesday with its latest version of the open-source operating system

Source: Linux Today

The Linux operating system, having made inroads into corporations' backroom server computers, is showing hints of inching into a much broader market: employees' personal computers

Source: Linux Today

This week we'll take a brief look at some of the many features that are making their way into Amarok 2, which is the development branch for Amarok in KDE 4

Source: Linux Today

OpenID is an open decentralized digital identity system that has been gaining traction in recent months

Source: Linux Today

In this tutorial I'll not only show you how to give your users control over the playback of your tastefully embedded audio messages, but introduce a great open source solution for recording your MP3 files

Source: Linux Today

First, blogs moved from personal platforms to corporate tools. Now, wouldn't it be great to put social networking to work in your organization ?

Source: Linux Today

Large development projects can be difficult to manage. With multiple developers committing source code to one source tree, there are going to be times when code breaks and will not work

Source: Linux Today

A growing number of problems demand parallel computing capabilities these days, and the processing power of high performance technical computing servers have kept pace with this demand

Source: Linux Today

In the previous bash ninja article, I looked at getting around the bash shell fast. This article looks at very basic everyday useful commands on the command line

Source: Linux Today

One of the biggest complaints about Linux, particularly from developers, is the speed with which Linux boots

Source: Linux Today

Over the years I've worked with Linux, I've noticed a particular phenomena--which I'm going to dub Application Madness for the remainder of this article

Source: Linux Today

During the time when so many Linux distributions throw everything and the kitchen sink into a DVD, it's nice to use a product like Damn Small Linux where the focus is on keeping the system compact

Source: Linux Today

Recently we managed to fund the purchase of 16 new computers in my wife's primary school

Source: Linux Today

I firmly believe that, all else being equal, the differences between the Windows desktop, the Macintosh desktop, and the Linux desktop are negligible

Source: Linux Today

Draft 3 of GPLv3 should be out Real Soon Now, so I'd like to review some of the topics

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Susie D writes "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was released today, and Linux Format has an in-depth first look (with screenshots aplenty). With RHEL 5, Red Hat aims to become even more 'open', by using a shorter and clearer SLA, improving community involvement through its Knowledge Base, and providing the new Red Hat Exchange. But what you really want to know is, yes, it does include XGL for fancy 3D desktop effects."

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Anonymous writes "Mark Shuttleworth says Linux users may need to stop being so fussy when putting demands on OEMs for pre-installed Linux PCs. CRN finds a response to Shuttleworth that seems to be both amusing and telling at the same time."

Source: ONLamp.com

James Bennett summarized the XML/JSON debate late last year, but in passing he referred to a more interesting point that deserves more attention.

The first section of I can’t believe it’s not XML! shows a graph of complexity in web sites. The left represents static, HTML only pages. The right indicates the world’s largest and busiest sites–billions of hits per day with plenty of database traffic.

Most of the web is in the middle. (Most of the web is to the left of the middle.)

While it may interest some people to debate endlessly the tactics of scaling to Top 200 Internet Sites traffic with huge clusters of high-powered database servers, it’s far, far more interesting to me to discuss what the millions of sites the rest of us run can do to meet the needs of our visitors efficiently or effectively.

Put another way, I don’t particularly care about the issues that concern only the largest 1% of all potential readers. I prefer to reach the 80% in the big belly.

Source: ONLamp.com

In a sign that Microsoft finally feels the faintest stirrings of an open source business model, Jeff Raikes has gone on the record as asking people to steal from Microsoft if they’re going to pirate/steal from anyone. Now, in the open source world we don’t call using software for free stealing. We call it seeding the market. Microsoft is starting to understand:
“If they’re going to pirate somebody, we want it to be us rather than somebody else,” Raikes said….
Raikes, speaking last week at the Morgan Stanley Technology conference in San Francisco, said a certain amount of software piracy actually helps Microsoft because it can lead to purchases by individuals who otherwise might never have been exposed to the company’s products.
“We understand that in the long run the fundamental asset is the installed base of people who are using our products,” Raikes said. “What you hope to do over time is convert them to licensing the software.”
You can almost see the lights coming on in Raikes’ mind. Now if he could just grasp that letting everyone on the planet have it for free, and finding other ways to charge them, is an excellent way to achieve World Domination Part II. I know at my company, nearly all of our customer leads come through free downloads of our product. They then return to pay us for additional services, certified binaries, etc.
It works. Even for Microsoft.

Source: ONLamp.com

I’m a couple of months late for mandatory ISBN-13 support, but I’ve uploaded Business::ISBN-2.00_01 so people who depend on the module can look at the new interface and make comments on it. It supports ISBN-13 seamlessy. Most of the internals are completely new: this was my second-ever module, and I did a lot of dumb things back then.
Interface changes (all open for discussion and improvement):

I’ve renamed methods that used “ean” to use “isbn13″.
Things using the term “country” now say the more correct “group”.
The exportable functions are gone. They might come back, but as a separate module, like File::Spec::Functions.
I got rid of the odd handling on constants at the user level. is_valid() is now just true or false. You can still get the specific parsing error with the new error().

This isn’t ready for production. It’s pretty good, but don’t blindly replace what you have now. Give it a try, and if you run into a problem let me know.

Source: ONLamp.com

MainSoft has an interesting approach with their…
Visual MainWin for J2EE Version 2.0 Technology Preview 2 (released March 1)
…that lets you port a Microsoft .NET application to Linux using a plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio. It does this by transforming the .NET CLI bits into J2EE JVM bytecodes and then using Mono-based class libraries.
You can learn more about the Microsoft .NET and the Open Source Mono Project by viewing the Port 25 interview with Mono Project leader Miguel de Icaza at…
Talking Mono with Miguel de Icaza

Source: Linux DevCenter

In my last article I cited the Vector Linux developers as an excellent example of the way Open Source developers respond to the user community. All of us who benefit from Linux and/or the myriad of Open Source applications out there are part of that community.
At times I’ve given back to the developers I appreciate financially, generally by buying a copy of a Linux distribution I was using heavily. With the advent of widespread broadband connectivity shrink wrapped copies of Linux have mostly disappeared from store shelves but you can still buy online. Most Linux distributors try to give you some extra value for doing this, either in terms of additional packages, priority downloads, or some level of professional support. Recently, though, my main means of giving back has been in the form of trying to make things I use better.
In my review of Vector Linux 5.8 I mentioned that I’ve used the distro for over six years. Vector, like every other Linux distribution out there, doesn’t package every piece of software I want or need. Indeed, Vector’s Extra repository of applications still doesn’t compare to Fedora Extras or the Ubuntu Universe so there’s always a bit more to add after installing a new version. In the past I’d either hunt down a Slackware package if I knew the required dependencies or else I’d just compile from source.
Somewhere along the way I realized that if I can compile and install a piece of software I can build a package for it as well. In most cases it takes just a few minutes of additional work. So far I’ve built about 40 packages for Vector Linux 5.8 Standard and I’ve contributed maybe two thirds of them which I feel I’ve adequately tested. They range from the extra lightweight JWM window manager I like to use on my Libretto SS1010 to Dia which I use for creating flowcharts and diagrams. I’ve also contributed fonts, dictionaries, and applications for the three languages other than English which I use since Vector is somewhat lacking in the area of internationalization. All of this was stuff I needed to install on my system anyway.
Many of the packages I’ve built are now in the VL Extra repository while others are still in the testing repository. They are availabaone of the volunteer packager I’ve made Vector a better distro by making more software easy to find and install.
My contribution to Vector Linux is quite small even when compared to some of the other volunteer packagers. It’s minuscule compared to the core developers. The point is that the strength of the Open Source community is that lots of people give back and contribute what they can. Lots of little contributions make a huge impact.
Most everyone has a skill they can contribute to an Open Source project. Maybe you have artistic talent and your favorite application could use better graphics. If you’re from Iceland and something you use hasn’t been translated to Islenska you’re help is definitely needed. I think we’ve all seen software that desperately needs better documentation. You definitely don’t need programming skills to volunteer and make a truly valuable contribution.
While a few Open Source projects have large corporate backing many, if not most, do not. If you really appreciate one and use it regularly I’d like to urge you to think how you can give back in a meaningful way. I realize the v word is scary to people. Most of us have busy lives. All I did was take something I had to do anyway, add just a little time, and I had a way to give something back to Vector Linux. I’d bet lots of you can add a whole lot of value to some project out there that you’re using anyway without making a tremendous effort. Please give it some thought.