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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Asianux Size: 4.12 GB Status: no seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-05-08 14:31:29

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Category: Gentoo Size: 698.05 MB Status: 56 seeders and 9 leechers Added: 2007-05-08 13:49:46

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Category: Gentoo Size: 700.29 MB Status: 106 seeders and 34 leechers Added: 2007-05-08 13:48:12

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Category: Gentoo Size: 3.65 GB Status: 101 seeders and 102 leechers Added: 2007-05-08 13:44:10

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Gentoo Size: 3.74 GB Status: 246 seeders and 322 leechers Added: 2007-05-08 13:40:20

Source: engarde

EnGarde Secure Linux has been updated to version 3.0.14: "Guardian Digital is happy to announce the release of EnGarde Secure Community 3.0.14. What's New? Major feature enhancements to Network Intrusion Detection System. The Attack Monitor now shows much greater detail on each attack (including links to packet dumps .

Source: mint

Clement Lefebvre has announced the first beta release of Linux Mint 3.0, code name "Cassandra": "This is the first beta release of Cassandra. The system is stable but some work is ongoing in 'mintinstall', 'mintmenu' and in the artwork. For this reason this is not considered a release .

Source: Linux Today

Seopher: "People noted 2006 as being a lost year and I strongly disagreed and my thoughts have been further confirmed with the confident rise Linux has had throughout the start of 2007 "

Source: Linux Today

QuestionCopyright.org: "The piece's most obvious problem is its conflation of copyright with 'creditright '"

Source: Linux Today

eWeek: " [I]t seems certain that the days of Microsoft's desktop monopoly are numbered "

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: " [M]any in the open source community are under the mistaken impression that the war is over and they won "

Source: Linux Today

Tux Deluxe: "One of these is Michael Meeks, a Cambridge graduate who began his Linux career at GNOME desktop start-up Ximian, and now works as part of Novell's OpenOffice.org team "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Open source advocate David Skoll launched Roaring Penguin Software in 1999 because he was restless in his job as R&D; project leader at Chipworks, Inc "

Source: Linux Today

SeekingAlpha: "When Red Hat kicks off its annual customer conference today in San Diego, I will be watching closely "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxLookup: "Xandros today launched Xandros Server Standard Edition 2, a complete, enterprise-grade SMB Linux server package including Xen virtualization and more than 30 other services "

Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "Simon Phipps defends the open-source roots of Sun and the GPL-ization of Java "

Source: Linux Today

Application Development Trends: "For instance, participants noted a growing similarity in methods between open-source and proprietary software development. They predicted some kind of convergence, where the best of both approaches gets adopted in each camp "

Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "Red Hat Exchange was a part of the hoopla surrounding Red Hat's release of its next-generation Linux platform "

Source: Linux Today

DesktopLinux: "On May 4, Robert Love resigned as chief architect of Novell's Linux desktop efforts. He has since announced that he has accepted a position at Google "

Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "Sun Microsystems today will announce it's released a fully buildable Java Development Kit for Java Platform Standard Edition under the GNU General Public License version 2 "

Source: Linux Today

Gentoo.org: "After several delays, the Gentoo Release Engineering team is proud to announce the release of Gentoo Linux 2007.0, code named 'Secret Sauce '"

Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "Managing tens of thousands of servers is no trivial task and it's not something you want to leave to just any software vendor "

Source: Linux Today

KernelTrap: "Avi Kivity announced significant performance improvements and support for running 32-bit Windows Vista as a guest within the latest release of KVM "

Source: Linux Today

PolishLinux: "ArchLinux or Arch for short is one of the uprising new distributions. Well, at least compared to old folks like Debian or Slackware it;s still fresh and shining "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxRonin: "CentOS 5 was released a few weeks ago to little or no fanfare on the Internet. I find this surprising, since CentOS is a good, stable operating system traditionally "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Most Firefox users are familiar with the Greasemonkey extension, a powerful tool that lets you enhance your browsing experience by rewriting HTML pages and JavaScript on the client side "

Source: Linux Today

Seopher: "Sam Linux 2007 is another one of those distros that clearly has a lot going for it because numerous people have told me to look in it's direction "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "EchoDitto helps its clients create online communities. It believes in open source software and relies heavily on the Drupal content management system both internally and for its customers "

Source: Linux Today

Mandriva Club: "Have you ever wished you had another computer handy? Maybe you want to try a new operating system out "

Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "This document describes how to install a PureFTPd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users "

Source: Linux Today

ConsumerAffairs.com: "It not only makes a tiny dent in Microsoft's armor but also is one of the few times consumers can actually get something for nothing "

Source: Linux Today

Once More Unto the Breach: "Geoffrey Moore wrote Crossing the Chasm in 1991. He might joke in his presentations that he's been milking the idea for 15 years, but it remains a classic "

Source: Linux Today

The NeoSmart Files: " [D]o people actually believe that open source exists only because we [the developers, the contributors, the testers, the documenters, and just about everyone else involved in the process] are too bored and have nothing better to be doing ?!"

Source: Linux Today

Brain Handles: "The problem with a large part of the anti-copyright crowd is that they don't understand or won't admit what copyright entails as a concept "

Source: Linux Today

ars technica: "I won't repeat Jeff's long rebuttal here, but suffice it to say that I've long seen the Linux community's inability to design, plan, and act in a holistic manner (i.e., 'across layers') as its greatest weakness "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Placid writes "The BBC has up an article detailing the 'Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded' project which was announced by Matt Zimmerman, Ubuntu's CTO, on the Ubuntu developers mailing list. Zimmerman stated that 'These devices place new demands on open-source software and require innovative graphical interfaces, improved power management and better responsiveness.' According to the article, Intel will have their finger in the pie too, as they've recently announced a prototype device running Ubuntu. Part of the project's goal is to maximise the power saving abilities of a planned low-energy chip codenamed Silverthorn. The chip will be just one-seventh the size of normal chips, and consume only 10% of the power of existing processor. What does this mean for projects such as OpenMoko? Healthy competition, or the beginning of the end?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: ONLamp.com

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Source: ONLamp.com

Hong Feng is a software developer and passionate free software advocate of many talents. He’s based in mainland China (although he gets around a lot) and he has a mission to help Chinese programmers make great contributions to free and open source software. I got to know him after he founded O’Reilly’s Beijing office in 1997, although he is now independent.
He’s developed several courses and is working on a 500-page book, aimed at both beginners and graduate students, that is meant to help them develop the discipline to be competent hackers. I can’t read the poem, but he tells me explores not only the major topics in computer science but such intellect-building activities as GO playing and the I-Ching, which presents original thoughts on “how to think about ancient Chinese intelligence in conjunction with modern math and technologies.”
Hong Feng’s approach fascinates me for combining a wide swath of influences with a joy in Chinese culture and pedagogical practices. He’s even written his personal story of development up as a poem, and set it to a melody from the time of the Great Cultural Revolution to his computer teaching. I can’t understand the song because I don’t know Chinese, but it’s available as an MP3 file.
He brings in the I-Ching by explaining that it was effectively a computer–designed very systematically–used to compute survival methods and determine their degree of luck. He has discovered four basic categories of modern physics in the 64 diagrams of the I-Ching: scope (time and space), mass, energy, and information. The I -Ching can be viewed as a theory of relativity concerning transformations among these four categories.
Modern math tools and physics research may help us rediscover the I-Ching’s structure and methodology, and its ancient intelligence can help us to free ourselves from constraints we have (implicitly or explicitly) placed upon ourselves. Some of the research Hong Feng cites include:


Jury Smirnov’s theorem concerning the metrizable measure of the topological space, discovered in the early 1950s, which describes the relationship between metrizable space with static boundaries and topological space with dynamic or floating boundaries


Einstein’s E=mc2 for transformations between mass and energy


Claude Shannon’s mathematical theory of information


But the Chinese from the very beginning treated all these in a unified manner, according to Hong Feng.
His Hackerdom Training Program is summarized online in Chinese and English. The course, and his recommended book list–much of which will be familiar to well-read programmers, but some of which could generate interesting discussion–ranges freely over system and application programming, scripting languages, third-generation languages, assembly language, software engineering texts, and books about the social impacts of open source. Hong Feng has structured it along nine degrees, like the levels of mastery in the GO.

Source: ONLamp.com

I should listen more to Brian Aker. He gave me a tip at least two years ago that I should visit Linuxfest Northwest. He was right.

This free conference expanded to two days this year, with nearly a hundred talks. The latest estimate I’ve seen is that around 900 people attended. That’s impressive!

There are four talk slots per day, so if you go all weekend you can only catch eight full talks. I heard about everything from building a persistent file system on a USB drive for Ubuntu to LiveJournal’s scaling strategy to the open sourcing of Second Life’s code to the history and intent of copyright. Imagine a computer lab full of people from age three to sixty-plus all building their own Linux-capable thumb drives.

I didn’t expect that, and I’m supremely glad I went.

Of course, the Linden Lab and Silicon Mechanics-sponsored party in the American Museum of Radio and Electricity didn’t hurt, either. (A working theremin! A 75 year-old car phone! Free food and drink!)

If you’re in the Pacific Northwest next year (or can be), go to this conference.

Thank you to the founders, volunteers, sponsors, speakers, and attendees. I’ll be back.