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10th May 2007
9th May 2007
8th May 2007

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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Linux Software Size: 57.36 MB Status: no seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-05-09 13:53:03


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Linux Distributions Size: 699.62 MB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-05-09 13:50:04


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Ultimate Boot CD Size: 87.13 MB Status: 21 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-05-09 13:43:08


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Linux Distributions Size: 699.62 MB Status: 1 seeders and 12 leechers Added: 2007-05-09 09:04:46



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Source: Linux Today

Hoosier Penguin: "Capitalizing on a pre-existing channel in developing nations, Red Hat instead announced their new Global Desktop program, geared to deploy on Intel's Classmate, Affordable, Community, and Low-Cost PC product line "


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Linux.com: "Fluendo's Elisa is a free software media center application that can play your DVDs, video files, music, and pictures. Since it is designed for extensibility, Elisa has the potential to do much more. It does not handle television or video recording functions, but it is a slick and promising project."


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Source: Linux Today

Tweako: "This is a full how to on how to configure your Nokia internet tablet and create you own package foir it. This will allow you large scale deployment of standard configuration and to create a package that will contain your settings as you want them so that you can restore and apply each time you upgrade the firmware with a single click!"


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Source: Linux Today

Hoosier Penguin: "You have to wonder what the heck Red Hat is thinking when CTO and VP of Engineering Brian Stevens says to the keynote attendees 'we believe the desktop paradigm is dead '"


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vnunet: "Red Hat has started development of a new 'Online Desktop' project that attempts to build an online desktop that will integrate online services into a client desktop platform "


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Blog of Helios: "It appears that the folks at Tux500 finally got some mainstream support and it may be just in time."


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TalkBMC: "Say at the stroke of midnight, all open source software magically vanished. What would still work tomorrow?"


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Internetnews.com: "The first Gentoo Linux release of the year is now available, featuring an improved installer and updated packages."


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Enterprise Networking Planet: "let's explore how far the networking industry has gone to embrace the IPv6 technology, and see how some of the key networking vendors include support for IPv6 in their products."


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Debian Administration:"When you're dealing with multiple drives, both fixed and removable, it can get hard to remember which is which. Remembering to mount /dev/sda1 in one place and /dev/sdc5 in another. The solution to this problem is to use labels instead of partition names when referring to them, and here we'll show how that can be done."


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SearchEnterpriseLinux.com: "Dell Inc. has entered into an agreement with Microsoft and Waltham, Mass.-based commercial Linux distributor Novell Inc. to purchase SUSE Linux Enterprise Server certificates from Microsoft."


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Tectonic: "Document specialist Xerox has switched its electronic resource planning (ERP) systems to Oracle on Red Hat Linux running on Dell Power Edge servers."


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Advogato: "In this month's exciting episode of GNU and FSF News, we learn that Eben Moglen has resigned from the FSF, the FSFE starts a list of Free Software legal experts in Europe, Vista has it in for GCC, GNOME will soon fit in the palm of your hand, RMS visits Sweden, and the GPLv3 still can't get along with the Apache 2.0 license."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Mandriva recently released its first distro of the year, dubbed Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring. Like previous releases, Spring is available in five editions, two of which can be freely downloaded. I installed and worked with the $76 Powerpack edition, which includes support and several gigabytes of packages. Not only does Powerpack score over other multiple CD/DVD free-of-cost distros, it also makes competing non-free distros eat dust."


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Keyboard: "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 "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Remember the paperless office? By now we were supposed to be handling all of our documents digitally, and saving trees by using computers to handle everything electronically "


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Ubuntu Geek: "NFS was developed at a time when we weren't able to share our drives like we are able to today--in the Windows environment "


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Debian Admin: "Automatix is a graphical interface for automating the installation of the most commonly requested applications in Debian based Linux operating systems "


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HowtoForge: "With the release of Microsoft's new Windows operating system (Vista), more and more people are looking for alternatives to Windows for various reasons "


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Linux.com: "While a properly set up SSH service can give you secure remote access to a server, you might not like the idea of having an SSH server always running on your machine "


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nixCraft: "The box full of index cards has served its purpose; it's time to move on to storing information about your CDs and DVDs in a database "


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Linux.com: "One of the great features of the current version of OpenOffice.org is the support for extensions, which allow you to add to the office suite's functionality "


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Smith: I was primarily looking for a new laptop because I wanted to update to state-of-art operating systems. I wanted a Linux friendly laptop, as that is my primary operating system "


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Free Software Magazine: "When considering moving a Small to Mid-size Business client over to GNU/Linux or talking to someone who is considering the same, there frequently is a 'but' somewhere during the process "


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Source: Linux Today

DaniWeb: "This week, developers for the Ubuntu operating system are meeting in Seville, Spain to begin work on a new version of the distribution, Mobile Ubuntu "



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

pete314 writes "Red Hat announced this week at their San Diego Red Hat Summit that they are planning to compete with Microsoft on the desktop by building an 'online desktop' that will integrate local data with online services. Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens argued that: 'To user the desktop metaphor is dead. We don't believe that recreating a Windows paradigm in an open source model will do anything to advance the productivity in the life of users.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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Source: Slashdot: Linux

AlexGr writes to recommend an account of a meeting a couple of months back of representatives from more than 100 software companies discussing the state of open source software. The outcome is outlined in a 16-page report, 2007 Open Source Think Tank: The Future of Commercial Open Source (PDF). Among the surprising conclusions: 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.Read more of this story at Slashdot.



Updated: Thu May 10 23:55:04 2007


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