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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Ubuntu Size: 2.69 GB Status: 1 seeders and 10 leechers Added: 2007-05-07 21:08:03


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Category: Absolute Linux Size: 686.62 MB Status: 1 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-05-07 18:50:38


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Category: MCNLive Size: 376.44 MB Status: 3 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-05-07 15:06:02


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Category: RIP Size: 71.53 MB Status: 7 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-05-07 07:47:47


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Category: RIP Size: 37.01 MB Status: 2 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-05-07 07:47:23


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Category: RIP Size: 70.09 MB Status: 3 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-05-07 07:46:42


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Source: gentoo

Gentoo Linux 2007.0 has been released: "After several delays, the Gentoo Release Engineering team is proud to announce the release of Gentoo Linux 2007.0, code named 'Secret Sauce'. This release includes a completely rewritten version of the Gentoo Linux Installer on the AMD64 and x86 live CD and .


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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Opinion: Learning Linux News: Dell chooses Ubuntu, Fedora merges core and extras, Progeny closes shop, NimbleX offers web-based generation of live CDs, OpenBSD and 64 Studio interviews Released last week: OpenBSD 4.1, Scientific Linux 5.0 Donations: LyX receives 260 New distributions: cl33n, Knoppix-NSM, .



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Tech.Blorge.com: "Dell has seen fit to equip some of its laptop and desktop offerings with one of the most popular versions (also called distros) of Linux being Ubuntu "


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Mad Penguin: "Is there really the level of competition in the open source world that we see in the closed source world ?"


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internetnews.com: "One might be tempted to think that no hardware vendor has ever offered Linux before "


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LinuxDevices: "Make no mistake about it. This is an alpha release. Over on Windows, Skype is now up to version 3.1; and the newest Mac OS edition is a 2.6 beta "


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Linux Format: Daniel James is the project directory of the audio distro 64 Studio James also runs a Linux-based recording studio near his home on the Isle of Wight "


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APC Magazine: "According to Mozilla Foundation CEO Mitchell Baker, Firefox is just at the beginning of its life cycle "


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Phoronix: "Since late last year the open-source Linux community has been ecstatic about the growing progress made by the Nouveau developers "


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KernelTrap: "Con Kolivas continues to maintain the performance oriented -ck patchset that he started in early 2004 "


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Ubuntu.com: "Three years on, it is clear that new types of device--small, handheld,
graphical tablets which are Internet-enabled are going to change the way we
communicate and collaborate "


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CrimeBlog.US: "I had to wonder--are others just not noticing, or do investigators suspect that Sturgeon is lying, to fill some kind of sick need for attention ?"


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ConsortumInfo: "One of the news items I should have commented on earlier was the Linux Foundation's announcement last week that it has established a travel fund for open source developers "


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Linux.com: "At first glance, the story of the Tux500 project doesn't look too unusual. A couple of devoted Linux advocates were looking for a cool way to promote the operating system they love "


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Technetra: "The latest thinking about how technology-based economies prosper suggests that the success of great technology can only be achieved when packaged with the right delivery mechanisms "


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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet UK: "Speaking to ZDNet UK he suggested that the greatest volume of responses to its Linux survey had come from the US, but he also pointed to wider considerations "


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InformationWeek: "Word on the street (thanks to Jonathan Schwartz's latest blog) is that Ian Murdock will help make an announcement next week that will help dispel anymore competition between the two operating systems "


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LinuxWorld Australia: "Some twelve months have passed since Sun Microsystems promised to open source the venerable Java programming language, but the industry is yet to see the code, which should now be available within a few weeks "


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internetnews.com: "Open source messaging is about to take a huge step forward with the integration of the Zimbra Collaboration Suite into a national offering from Comcast "


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Computerworld: "Dell Inc. is backing the Windows-Linux partnership set up by Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc "


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Linux.com: "Metasploit LLC released version 3.0 of the Metasploit Framework (MSF), the popular penetration testing project, late last month "


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KernelTrap: "Ingo Molnar reviewed Con Kolivas's swap-prefetching patches suggesting that they were ready for inclusion in the mainline kernel "


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Linux.com: "Now that we have open source beer, open source cars, and open source photography, a social networking service run by Red Hat and based around open source software comes as no surprise "


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Builder AU: "It has a lot going for it: word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. It also can connect you to any kind of database that you like, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and others "


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O'Reilly Sys Admin: "Out of the plethora of chores that we do each day, which ones make up the top seven activities of forgetful system administrators ?"


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HowtoForge: "This how-to provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen on an already working Debian Etch system "


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*Nixed Blog: "I need to tell one thing however: stop worrying. Dell is not the end all, be all for computer vendors "


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DesktopLinux: "A typical Linux desktop user is a guy in his twenties who's computer savvy but may very well not be an IT professional. Those are some of the conclusions you can draw from the just-released openSUSE survey results "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Puppy Linux is a lightweight live Linux distribution that you can boot and run from a CD, USB stick, or DVD. One of its features is the ability to create specialized 'pups '"



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techie writes "MadPenguin.org is highlighting the lack of competition between open and closed source applications. The author writes, 'Is there really the level of competition in the open source world that we see in the closed source world? This is something that has been stuck in my mind lately as I have been told so many times by closed source developers that by opening the code you are creating your own competition. Today, I'm here to explore this theory and hopefully prove why it's false.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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lazyeye writes "Keyboard Magazine has an in-depth article about the state of music production on Linux. While it does introduce Linux to the average musician, the article does get into some of the available music applications and music-oriented Linux distributions out there. From the opening paragraph 'You might think there's no way a free operating system written by volunteers could compete when it comes to music production. But in the past couple of years, all the tools you need to make music have arrived on Linux.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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untouchableForce writes "Dell has announced that it will join forces with Microsoft and Novell to "make it easier for the Windows operating system and the [ ] Linux [operating] system to work together." This is not overly surprising given Dell's good relationship with Microsoft, and since they already sell SUSE Linux on some of their servers, but it is likely to put a stop to the OSS community's celebration of them distributing Ubuntu. The debate over partnership between Microsoft and Novell has been drawn out since the deal was signed and for some this will add additional fuel to the fire but shouldn't the OSS community be reading this as an acceptance of Company's acknowledgment of Linux?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Here’s a quote from p. 586 of one of our books:

Polymorphism is when a subclass “stands in” for its superclass.

10 points to everyone who can tell me what’s right about that statement as well as what’s wrong with it.


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A few days ago, April 24 2007 to be exact, I performed a search on apple.com and out of curiosity, performed another search with HTML characters to see if they would be echoed back into the HTML. In other words, I was trying to see if apple.com’s search feature was susceptible to XSS (Cross Site Scripting). I found one attack vector and immediately alerted product-security@apple.com. A XSS issue on apple.com is of significant risk because it can be exploited by attackers to steal data from users that are signed on to apple.com.
On April 25, 2007, I received a thank-you email from Apple letting me know that they were investigating the issue. The email also stated: “Because of the potentially sensitive nature of security vulnerabilities, we ask that this information remain between you and Apple while we investigate it further” and included a case number.
On April 27, 2007, I received another email from Apple letting me know that the XSS vulnerability had been fixed. They asked me for permission to acknowledge me for alerting them of the issue at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302530.
[NOTE: When I discovered the XSS issue, I noticed there were other components of the design of the Apple website that contained symptoms of bad design (in terms of security), so I won’t be surprised if apple.com is vulnerable to other attack vectors. If I were responsible for security at Apple, I would initiate a source code security analysis of the apple.com web application immediately.]
I want to publicly applaud Apple for handling this in a prompt and courteous way. Having reported vulnerabilities to various companies in the past, I have to say that my personal experience with Apple was quite refreshing.



Updated: Tue May 8 23:55:04 2007


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