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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Mepis Size: 689.42 MB Status: 10 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-03-15 18:34:33

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Mepis Size: 689.42 MB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-03-15 16:35:46

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Sabayon Linux Size: 3.12 GB Status: 169 seeders and 916 leechers Added: 2007-03-15 13:46:52

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Sabayon Linux Size: 3.40 GB Status: 73 seeders and 291 leechers Added: 2007-03-15 13:46:43

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Mepis Size: 26.04 MB Status: 2 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-03-15 11:07:05

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Ubuntu Size: 2.49 GB Status: 3 seeders and 26 leechers Added: 2007-03-15 00:26:41

Source: kwort

Kwort Linux is a Slackware-based distribution featuring the latest Xfce desktop and a custom package manager called "kpkg". The project has announced a new release, version 2.2: "I'm proud to announce that Kwort 2.2 final version has been released. The system is very stable and usable. The core .

Source: mandriva

Adam Williamson has announced the availability of the first release candidate of Mandriva Linux 2007.1, code name "Xianyang": "Mandriva is pleased to announce the release of the first release candidate for Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring. Spring features a raft of improvements and enhancements over its predecessors, including the .

Source: suse

Andreas Jaeger has announced the second alpha release of openSUSE 10.3: "I'm glad to announce the second public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3. Call for testing: We're using the libata stack now also for IDE controllers. Please do test that an update works and all files are changed .

Source: foresight

Foresight Linux is the first distribution to present the brand new GNOME 2.18 desktop - in the form of installable CD and DVD images: "Experience the greatness of the latest version 2.18 of the GNOME desktop by using Foresight as your desktop distribution! The Foresight team is proud .

Source: ubuntuce

Jereme Hancock has announced a new stable release of Ubuntu Christian Edition: "We are very happy to announce the release of Ubuntu CE v2.2! This will be the final Edgy release of Ubuntu CE. Our focus will soon shift to the development of Ubuntu CE v3.0 (Feisty). We .

Source: Linux Today

Still, Novell's shrinkage problem isn't universal. The company's SuSE Linux business is growing--really fast

Source: Linux Today

Why, then, is it so difficult to buy a PC in the US or Europe that has Linux (and ideally Linux alone) on the hard drive ?

Source: Linux Today

Which begs the question: Where was Mandriva, a commercial Linux distribution company based in France, during all this? Not, it seems, being installed in the halls of French legislature or Peugeot

Source: Linux Today

Though each CrossOver Linux (formerly known as CrossOver Office) release offers substantial improvements, version 6.01 is the most revolutionary release I have seen since I started reviewing this product circa version 3.0

Source: Linux Today

Two reviews on the multimedia friendly dyne:bolic distribution, from TriedIT and Open Addict, are linked within.

Source: Linux Today

If Mandriva Corporate Server 4.0 is a fine product which I warmly recommend to anyone--I actually liked it from the beginning--things are different with Mandriva Corporate Desktop 4.0 BETA

Source: Linux Today

With its announcements this week around virtualization and Red Hat Linux, Symantec is moving beyond a past strategy of providing tools for multiple OS to a new vision of managing multiple virtualization environments

Source: Linux Today

In 2002 the Mozilla Foundation released Mozilla 1.0, finally delivering on the promise of an open-source browser descended from the original Netscape Navigator browser code

Source: Linux Today

Of course, Linux Format was ready and waiting for this announcement, and we were lucky enough to be granted access to RHEL 5 before its official release

Source: Linux Today

Yesterday GNOME 2.18.0 was released, and while it will be included with Fedora 7 Test 3 later this month

Source: Linux Today

In spite of a deal with the U.S.-based software giant Microsoft, the government pledged Wednesday that it would continue promoting the use of open-source software

Source: Linux Today

The OLPC was presented today to Romanian officials in the Education Ministry by Nicholas Negroponte

Source: Linux Today

SimplyMEPIS 6.5 RC2 is available for downloading and testing. This release improves hard disk reformatting and Broadcom wireless support

Source: Linux Today

IBM and Red Hat, two of the world's biggest Linux developers, have revealed details of a joint effort to integrate new technologies into the Linux kernel

Source: Linux Today

SWsoft, seller of the Virtuozzo virtualization software, has begun a partnership to bundle its product with Novell's Suse Linux operating system, the companies plan to announce Thursday

Source: Linux Today

You might not remember who the release team is, but we still want to inform you about the final leg of the etch release cycle

Source: Linux Today

Release notes for the first release candidate of Mandriva Linux 2007.1 (Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring)

Source: Linux Today

It's an optimistic schedule that aims to release in late October, based on 3 Beta's and 2 release candidates

Source: Linux Today

Red Hat, planning a new expansion beyond its core Linux operating system business, will launch a service later this year called the Red Hat Exchange to sell partners' open-source software

Source: Linux Today

[T]he fact Novell is associated with a statement that claims Linux has a higher total cost of ownership than Windows will surprise and anger many in the open-source community

Source: Linux Today

One of the best ways you can participate in the free and open source software revolution is by helping to test software and reporting bugs and issues to project developers to help them improve their code

Source: Linux Today

This how to is going to describe the steps to get the mod_dav_svn module to work on an Apache web server

Source: Linux Today

Simple file encryption is useful, but sometimes it's more useful to encrypt a complete filesystem or disk, such as when you need to protect a large set of files

Source: Linux Today

All hail the lazy, for they will find the most efficient way to work a computer in general, and a word processor in particular

Source: Linux Today

Media player is a term typically used to describe computer software for playing back multimedia files

Source: Linux Today

SkinnyCorp.com has built a group of community-based sites on a traditional LAMP stack--Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP

Source: Linux Today

Imagine my surprise, then, when the idea hit me to use my old friend PHP, which has always been so reliable on Web pages, as a command-line tool

Source: Linux Today

In this bash ninja article, we'll look at some more advanced commands, and how these can be used in day to day tasks on your linux box

Source: Linux Today

Take advantage of the added protection that firewalls, anti-virus and anti-spyware programs offer, says James Turnbull

Source: Linux Today

As long as a page doesn't change, the cached version of the page suffices as proxy. When a page is revised, the cached version is invalidated and replaced

Source: Linux Today

If there is one thing that seems to be standard in the open source world, it would seem to be the abundance of overlapping projects that might be better suited to work together rather than completing software visions on their own

Source: Linux Today

Judging from the feedback, a lot of people misunderstood the point of my past diatribe

Source: Linux Today

Sure you have been hearing about Sakai, the open source collaboration and learning environment, but you've probably also heard that campuses that have implemented Sakai have huge IT budget and lots of staff

Source: Linux Today

GNOME 2.18 is the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment, providing all the tools a user needs for everyday work, and a platform for developers to write new software

Source: Linux Today

"Red Hat released the latest version of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 flagship product today with a flurry of new features, upgrades and improvements "

Source: Linux Today

Apple has given Windows and OS X users the joy of watching the kind of programming, with music and video, that has left many of us in the Linux world drooling with envy

Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat has a new release out for Enterprise Linux, reports Ars Technica. Along with several anticipated new features, Enterprise Linux 5 marks the rollout of the RedHat Exchange (RHX), which will be a source for commercial third-party software applications. 'RHX will allow consumers to buy software support services for third-party open-source technologies like MySQL database software and SugarCRM customer management systems directly from Red Hat Linux vendor Novell, which recently partnered with Microsoft to provide stronger Windows interoperability, is already carving out a growing portion of the enterprise Linux market. Red Hat also has to contend with proprietary database vendor Oracle, who now offers commercial Linux support for Red Hat users.'"

Source: Slashdot: Linux

dyous87 points out a ZDNet article reporting that Novell has endorsed a customer's comment claiming that the total cost of ownership of Linux is higher then that of Windows. Novell and Microsoft jointly issued a press release quoting an IT guy for a UK-based bank, HSBC: "Some will be surprised to learn that our Windows environment has a lower total cost of ownership than our current Linux environment." The context of the comment makes it clear that HSBC's Linux environment has a mix of distros, and that a move to centralize around one distro — Novell's — will save money. Nevertheless, Novell's connection to this assertion is not likely to improve their reputation in the open source community.

Source: ONLamp.com

The monthly Parrot Bug Day is this Saturday, 17 March. Will “Coke” Coleda has a list of open issues in Parrot for the 0.4.10 release that he’d like to address.

There are plenty of tasks for novices to Parrot, Perl, and C, as well as a few tasks for people with experience but who need some guidance to get started. I’d also love to find someone with hard-won experience compiling software on Windows (specifically creating a shared library that links against another shared library dynamically).

Parrot continues to make progress; this will be the best release yet. Come join us in #parrotcode on irc.perl.org all day, regardless of your timezone.

Source: ONLamp.com

As chromatic alluded to in his newsletter on Monday, there’s been a changing of the Guard here at ONLamp. After many years of faithful service to the LAMP community, he’s moving on to greener pastures inside the O’Reilly family. I’m honored to have been chosen to take over for him here, and know I have some large shoes to fill.
A few brief words about myself: I’ve been a software engineer for almost 30 years now, and have worked all over the industry, from Artificial Intelligence to desktop publishing to e-Commerce. I’ve worked in huge (Xerox-sized huge) corporations and tiny little startups. In addition, I’ve been an active member of the open source community, including working as a committer on Apache Struts.
About a decade ago, while working as the web site manager of the Christian Science Monitor, I started to write professionally, first for the paper itself and then branching out. I’ve written for WIRED, Processor, Linux Journal, LinuxWorld Magazine (where I was Senior Editor), Linux Today (where I am still a Senior Contributing Editor), CPU, Developer.com, InfoWorld, CMP Tech Pipeline and many others. I’ve reviewed PDAs, and covered the 2000 NH Presidential Primary. I’ve also written two books (for, as they say, another publisher…) on Java Web Development.
When I’m not programming or writing or editing, I’m an avid science fiction fan, a private pilot, a scuba diver, a videographer and a cat herder. I believe in Heinlein’s motto that specialization is for insects.
Anyway, that’s who I am, now a little about what’s upcoming in ONLamp’s future. I intend to continue the tradition of in-depth technical articles that ONLamp and it’s sister sites are known for. But (you knew there was a but coming, didn’t you?) I also intend to bring some more introductory material to the sites. Not dumbed down, just more approachable for someone who wants an overview of a technology rather than a plunge into the deep end. You’ll see that in some of the articles I’ve got out with authors right now, and which should start showing up in April.
We’re also planning some new features for the site. One thing we hope to roll out quickly is the ONLamp Ombudsman. This will be a once-a-month feature where we’ll take a particular user problem or complaint, one that’s languished in the support forums or mailing lists of a given technology, and chase down a solution or explanation. So get your most aggravating problems ready to submit, maybe yours will be the one we go after.
We’re also going to have a little fun on the site. Believe it or not, there’s potentially a comic strip in the works, one that would star characters that O’Reilly readers will be very familiar with. We’re also hoping to improve the layout and user experience, although this will have to wait on the next generation of our content management system to roll out to ONLamp, probably midyear.
I’d also like to hear from you. I’m a big believer in the open source methodology in all things. No one knows what you want to read more than you do. So drop me a line with a suggestion, a constructive criticism, or just a friendly hi. At the end of the day, I work for you as much as I do O’Reilly, so let me know what would make the site better for you. And of course, if you have an itch to write on any of the broad range of subjects that ONLamp and its sisters cover, definitely drop me a line. The beast always needs to be fed.

Source: ONLamp.com

If you think Twisted is the engine of the internet, then place your vote at this site.

Source: ONLamp.com

A few days ago, I wrote about how a single XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) attack vector in any of Google’s services can expose a Google Desktop user’s data. Well folks, in addition to exposing some of your GMail data, here is a new vulnerability that will do just that (via ha.ckers.org).
Google will fix this soon. However, given Google’s recent track record with XSS vulnerabilities, new attack vectors will continue to be found, causing the data of millions of Google’s users to be vulnerable to theft each time. Watch this space.

Source: Linux DevCenter

I have a 1TB RAID array that has to be moved from my one remaining Solaris machine (which will no longer boot) to a Linux machine. I was expecting that - as with the other disk which has undergone the same process - this would appear as a SunOS usr disk and partition, which I could then mount read-only and dump elsewhere before reformatting the disk as ext3 & dumping it back again.

Not So.

fdisk -l gives me:

Disk /dev/sdc: 983.5 GB, 983542530048 bytes
256 heads, 63 sectors/track, 119108 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16128 * 512 = 8257536 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 119109 960490751+ ee EFI GPT


This was a surprise as I had to reformat this disk about a year ago & I do not recall doing anything peculiar to it. EFI, from an initial poke around, seemed to be an Intel PC disk format, which was further surprising since, as you may recall from the first para, this disk came from a Solaris box. However, apparently Solaris 10 uses EFI labels on disks by default, which sounds like a probable/plausible explanation.

The next and more important question: am I going to be able to access this data from the Linux box? Initial answer seems to be no (see the discussion of platforms near the end); there is however a FUSE port - although presently only in beta.

Conclusion: first, another go at resurrecting the extant Solaris box; next, dig into FUSE. Other thoughts, experiences of FUSE/ZFS, or options I’ve missed are welcome…

(For anyone out there muttering about backups: yes, this data is in theory backed up. However, restoring it is proving a challenge as Bacula keeps falling over while it’s creating the file tree. I’m not keen to do the wipe-reformat-restore thing unless I’m confident that the restore will work and at present I’m not.)

Source: Linux DevCenter

Qwaq announced a secure virtual workspace product, called Qwaq Forums, yesterday. It runs on recent Linux, Windows and Mac computers. The product signifies an important milestone for the open-source Croquet project and Squeak. Although Squeak is already the foundation for many great applications (Etoys, Etoys on OLPC, Seaside web server, the Sophie multimedia document creator, to name a few), this announcement catapults Croquet quickly into the business realm. 
What is a Qwaq Forum? Unfortunately, I can't give you first hand report on Qwaq Forums. Hopefully, someone will place a video demo online for us to view. I can tell you about Croquet, though. It’s an open source 3D development environment to create distributed multi-user virtual 3D applications. It's quite a freeing feeling walking, talking and collaborating with others and directly with applications floating in air. Anyone can download Croquet and try it out. Please do, you'll have fun.
Back to Qwaq Forums. The site says that Qwaq Forums are "virtual spaces for real work."  I imagine a room where the Forum owner can maintain the security level of the room and of each person entering (or not) - from individual rights all the way to anonymous users. Picture a secure office that can be locked up at night with a security card reader on the door - but you don't have to physically travel to use the room! Being a user of Croquet, I can easily see how the room would work. Besides what I mentioned previously, you can also write code and change your environment in Croquet - it's a totally open platform.
An important feature that Qwaq cites is persistence: "all users can see all previous changes and additions" in the Forums and teams can maintain their work and the progress made. From the datasheet: "Setting up a Qwaq Forum is simple: start by simply dragging and dropping content into a workspace in Qwaq Forums. All otgher users present will see the content immediately and will be able to start working with it right away." I don't know what could be easier.
I won't know more about the Forums until I get my hands on it. If a video becomes available, let me know. In the meantime, check out Croquet and Squeak and see what you can do with it  - your application in this 3D space could literally change the world.  The field, uh.. virtual space, is wide open!

Read the Qwaq Forums press release
InformationWeek on Qwaq
Croquet FAQ
Squeak FAQ
Qwaq Croquet Squeak

 

Source: Linux DevCenter

Qwaq announced a secure virtual workspace product, called Qwaq Forums, yesterday. It runs on recent Linux, Windows and Mac computers. The product signifies an important milestone for the open-source Croquet project and Squeak. Although Squeak is already the foundation for many great applications (Etoys, Etoys on OLPC, Seaside web server, the Sophie multimedia document creator, to name a few), this announcement catapults Croquet quickly into the business realm. 
What is a Qwaq Forum? Unfortunately, I can't give you first hand report on Qwaq Forums. Hopefully, someone will place a video demo online for us to view. I can tell you about Croquet, though. It’s an open source 3D development environment to create distributed multi-user virtual 3D applications. It's quite a freeing feeling walking, talking and collaborating with others and directly with applications floating in air. Anyone can download Croquet and try it out. Please do, you'll have fun.
Back to Qwaq Forums. The site says that Qwaq Forums are "virtual spaces for real work."  I imagine a room where the Forum owner can maintain the security level of the room and of each person entering (or not) - from individual rights all the way to anonymous users. Picture a secure office that can be locked up at night with a security card reader on the door - but you don't have to physically travel to use the room! Being a user of Croquet, I can easily see how the room would work. Besides what I mentioned previously, you can also write code and change your environment in Croquet - it's a totally open platform.
An important feature that Qwaq cites is persistence: "all users can see all previous changes and additions" in the Forums and teams can maintain their work and the progress made. From the datasheet: "Setting up a Qwaq Forum is simple: start by simply dragging and dropping content into a workspace in Qwaq Forums. All otgher users present will see the content immediately and will be able to start working with it right away." I don't know what could be easier.
I won't know more about the Forums until I get my hands on it. If a video becomes available, let me know. In the meantime, check out Croquet and Squeak and see what you can do with it  - your application in this 3D space could literally change the world.  The field, uh.. virtual space, is wide open!

Read the Qwaq Forums press release
InformationWeek on Qwaq
Croquet FAQ
Squeak FAQ
Qwaq Croquet Squeak