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Category: SUSE Size: 3.68 GB Status: 22 seeders and 41 leechers Added: 2007-03-16 11:14:54

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Category: SUSE Size: 3.66 GB Status: 47 seeders and 111 leechers Added: 2007-03-16 11:08:53

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Category: SUSE Size: 3.20 GB Status: 11 seeders and 6 leechers Added: 2007-03-16 11:02:51

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Category: Ubuntu Size: 1.86 GB Status: 30 seeders and 89 leechers Added: 2007-03-16 08:31:38

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The Pardus development team has announced the release of Pardus Linux 2007.1 "The first maintenance release of Pardus Linux 2007 is out. What's new in 'Felis chaus'? It is possible to install Pardus in Brazilian Portuguese, as well as Turkish, English, Spanish, German or Dutch; users will enjoy .

Source: sabayon

SabayonLinux 3.3 has been released. Here is a brief excerpt from the list of new features: "SabayonLinux kernel sources based on 2.6.20 featuring Unionfs, Squashfs 3.0, Afatech 9005 support, MacTel enhanced support; completely recompiled with new LDFLAGS that give an extra performance boost; complete artwork redesign; faster boot .

Source: Linux Today

"A number of other manufacturers have already been observed offering pre-installed Linux, and now Dell Brasil follows suit, with a fair amount of fanfare

Source: Linux Today

With the release of Linux-based Xandros Server 2.0 Standard Edition, well-known Linux desktop vendor Xandros Inc. offers compatibility and other services that may give Microsoft SharePoint Server some competition

Source: Linux Today

Regular readers may recall that it was concern over this funding that led in part to the resignation of State CIO Peter Quinn in late December of 2005--and to the subsequent resignation in protest of his successor, Louis Gutierrez in November of last year

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If open source by definition means that code is open, then why is Mozilla having some of its code discussions behind closed doors ?

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Cameron Sinclair's Open Architecture Network aims to connect architects around the globe to struggling communities

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Avery Bowron, a computer-savvy 19-year-old, readily acknowledges that he learned something valuable about technology from senior citizens: Good software can be obtained at no cost

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The November 2006 agreement between Microsoft and Novell is delaying the release of the final draft of the third version of the GNU General Public License

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Though Red Hat has just released a massive upgrade to its Enterprise Linux, there are plenty of more announcements in the works including greater interoperability and a possible appliance model

Source: Linux Today

DirectAudit helps automate regulatory compliance by monitoring and logging user activity within Unix and Linux environments

Source: Linux Today

Grazr offers free feed 'Grazrs'--little JavaScript widgets you can configure to pick up any feed you like, without subscribing

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There's a new kid on the (meta)search block. LibraryFind, an open source project funded by the State Library of Oregon, is currently live at Oregon State University (OSU), Corvallis

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The Web 2.0 mantra suggests that you forget desktop applications and embrace AJAXified browser-based apps that you can run from any OS, anywhere, as long as you have a speedy connection to the Internet

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This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server on a Fedora Core 6 desktop system

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PDFedit is not the first tool for editing PDF files on the GNU/Linux desktop, but it does have a strong claim to being the first truly practical one

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In November 2006, PHP V5.2 was released with many new features and bug fixes

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I'm still on my quest to stop dual-booting between Edubuntu and Windows XP

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Sometimes you don't want the hassle of the big upgrade. For example, there is no good reason to 'upgrade' Windows to Vista

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With all the hype regarding Open Source Software (OSS), we sometimes forget logic in the excitement of trying to get on board with this latest trend

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When Dell says 'let's have a conversation' the company really means exactly what Hillary Clinton does

Source: Slashdot: Linux

ZDOne writes "A piece up on ZDNet looks at the issue of naked PCs. ZDNet UK phoned around all the major PC vendors and not one of them would sell a machine without Windows on it. IT professionals are being forced to adopt Microsoft's operating systems — even if they tell their PC supplier they want a system free of Microsoft software. On the other hand, even if it's almost impossible to buy a PC without an operating system installed, companies like Dell and HP are now committed to supporting Linux as well. 'Murray believes there is a market for Linux in the UK but is also aware of the issues facing any large supplier who wants to make Linux boxes available. "It means diverting production lines and that is a lot of money and so we have to prove the business case," he said. However, he made it clear that he is enthusiastic about the idea and wants to make it work. "We just have to show it is worthwhile," he said.'"

Source: Slashdot: Linux

The Peanut Gallery writes "After years of litigation to discover what, exactly, SCO was suing about, IBM has finally discovered that SCO's 'mountain of code' is only 326 scattered lines. Worse, most of what is allegedly infringing are comments and simple header files (like errno.h). These probably aren't copyrightable for being unoriginal and dictated by externalities and aren't owned by SCO in any event. Above and beyond that, IBM has at least five separate licenses for these elements, including the GPL, even if SCO actually owned those lines of code. In contrast IBM is able to point out 700,000 lines of code, which they have properly registered copyrights for, which SCO is infringing upon if the Court rules that it repudiated the GPL."

Source: ONLamp.com

I spent the past week attending the semi-regular Microsoft MVP Global Summit in Seattle and Redmond Washington. What’s an MVP? Microsoft describes MVPs like this: Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) are exceptional technical community leaders from around the world who are awarded for voluntarily sharing their high quality, real world expertise in offline and online technical communities. My particular community involvement focuses on the Windows Mobile Smartphone and Pocket PC products. The knowledge and passion of anyone deeply involved with any knowledge area becomes quickly apparent and appreciated during a discussion of the subject. I have often said to my fellow MVPs that the most valuable take-away for me from MVP Summits is speaking with and learning from the other MVPs.
We naturally associate many Open Source projects with passionate and knowledgeable communities. But, there are many other kinds of communities: Some more formalized than others. On Thursday (March 15), I had the opportunity to drop by the Microsoft Open Source Lab and meet some of the people blogging on the Microsoft Port 25 site for the first time: Anandeep, Jamie, and Sam (Ramji - Director of the lab) where there and took a break from their busy schedules to speak with me about Microsoft and their work to interoperate with the Open Source products and the people involved in those projects. I had the chance to have a long conversation with Kishi and Chris (Tavers, an independent consultant and software developer, who wrote the PostgreSQL on Windows how-to paper I blogged about recently) earlier on Monday. I also ran into Sara Ford (Influencing the Microsoft culture one open source presentation at a time) long enough to say hello. A quick peek into one of the Lab’s server rooms and being greeted by the Linux penguin trio was one of the amusing moments. And, no, this is not some gigantic glass walled server room with some unearthly glow. It probably looks like a lot of the small-ish servers rooms many of you have built and installed over the years.
My take away from the series of brief afternoon meetings at the Microsoft Open Source Lab is that these are people who are knowledgeable, engaged, and passionate about their work of somehow bridging the worlds of Microsoft products and Open Source products to create interoperable productive software eco-system. And, of course, I am aware of the whole Microsoft-Novell/SUSE-Linux issue, what CEO Steve Ballmer said, and various other heated and confusing issues. But, quite frankly, I doubt if a little ol’ nobody like me was going to resolve those issues in 90 minutes. However, I was able to have a good old fashioned handshake and conversation to learn more about the Lab group as thinkers and human beings. And, that seemed like a good way to start things off for me. As with my interaction with other MVPs at the MVP Summit this week, I found a lot of value in my first time meetings with the various people at the Microsoft Open Source Lab. As with nearly everything else in the world, it really is all about people.
You can find more detailed information about the Microsoft Open Source Lab in a two part blog written about a year ago found at…
A Look Inside Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab (Part 1)
A Look Inside Microsoft’s Open Source Software Lab (Part 2)

Source: ONLamp.com

Piers Cawley picked up on a rant I had elsewhere in DSLs, Fluent Interfaces, and how to tell the difference. An API that uses Ruby symbols isn’t automatically a DSL, nor did Ruby invent or even popularize the concept (though it seems to have taken the “How to Draw a Horse!” concept right out of matchbook covers)–I credit lex and yacc as ancestors.

Once I simplified and unified almost all of the language-specific test harnesses in Parrot to a single line per language implementation:

use Parrot::Test::Harness language = 'pheme', compiler = 'pheme.pbc';

API or DSL? Does it really matter? Maybe. It can be difficult to talk about closures when Luddites from the Java world claim that they’re the same thing as anonymous inner classes, and I still consider Python’s use of the word lambda as misleading.

Then again, there’s no reason that code has to look anything like valid Perl. It only needs to be a list of strings, and Parrot::Test::Harness could do anything. Consider also P5NCI::Declare which extends the concept:

use P5NCI::Declare library = 'shared_library';

sub perl_function :NCI( c_function = 'vii' );

perl_function( 101, 77 );

Maybe a language with richer syntactic elements–and the possibility to change their behavior–allows greater potential to create a true DSL modeled after the domain.

Either way, the possibilities for API simplification are hard to ignore.