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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Parsix Size: 694.94 MB Status: 3 seeders and 5 leechers Added: 2007-06-18 18:59:04


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Bluewhite64 Size: 1.61 GB Status: 4 seeders and 14 leechers Added: 2007-06-18 11:11:51


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Linux Distributions Size: 1.94 GB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-06-18 06:13:50


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Ubuntu Size: 937.85 MB Status: 2 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-06-18 00:59:04


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Source: molinux

Following a short beta test, MoLinux 3.0 has been released. MoLinux is an Ubuntu-based Spanish Linux distribution developed by the government of Castilla la Mancha and designed for deployment in government offices and educational institutions around the region. The main features of the release are: based on Ubuntu .


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Source: bluewhite64

This is the first release candidate of Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0, an unofficial port of Slackware to 64-bit processors: "I am pleased to announce the first release candidate for Bluewhite64 12.0. Since the latest release, Bluewhite64 11.1-test1, among the fixes and updates, you will find the latest stable SMP .


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Source: weekly

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Interview: Adam Williamson, Mandriva Linux News: Torvalds vs Sun, Slackware 12.0, interview with Fedora's Max Spevack, Debian "Lenny" release schedule; Linspire's "better Linux" Released last week: Yellow Dog Linux 5.0.2, Yoper Linux 3.0 Upcoming releases: Skolelinux 3.0 Site news: The annual package database .



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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "Getmail is a program for retrieving emails from remote servers; it is very similar to fetchmail, but more flexible "


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Source: Linux Today

Computer Business Review: "In the physical world, a number of difference forces are at play, and each in turn displays supremacy, or at least relevance, at subatomic, atomic, molecular, and wider levels "


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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "I had a chance to speak with Douglas Johnson, Director of Marketing for the Hosting market for SWsoft about the company's approach to partitioned operating systems "


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Source: Linux Today

MadPenguin: "In the past, I have always found it comical when companies have found themselves buying into the need to protect their content with DRM because of the pressure from the music and movie industries "


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Source: Linux Today

John's Blog: "Every so often though, as inspired as [Steve Jobs] is, he says something that betrays at best a blurry view of the real world, at worst an explicit intent to bring more of the world under directed control from Cupertino "


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Source: Linux Today

Computer Business Review: "Last week Microsoft announced that a study carried out on its behalf by Wipro Technologies found that European schools prefer Microsoft software to open source alternatives "


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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "As most people know Linus Torvalds tore a rather uninformed rant out of Sun last week "


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Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "Some question whether a new version of the GPL, the license for an estimated 75% of free software projects, is needed at all "


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Source: Linux Today

Daniweb: "A member of Skype staff posting in the Linux support forum there seems to have taken a course in customer relations from "


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Source: Linux Today

The Eternal Universe: "For a long time now I have been convinced that open source is the future. In the past, through things like FUD, Microsoft has actively tried to prevent this from being the case "


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Source: Linux Today

Free Software Foundation: "Version 3 of the GNU General Public License will soon be finished, enabling free software packages to upgrade from GPL version 2. This article explains why upgrading the license is important "


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Source: Linux Today

The Toronto Star: "Singleton was deeply involved with the OpenOffice.org community, which offers users a free alternative to Microsoft Office, and also served as webmaster for Clue, a Canadian association in support of open source technology "


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Source: Linux Today

tuxmachines: "GoblinX is a live Linux distribution based on Slackware 11, written by a Brazilian developer who goes by the pseudonym Grobsch "


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Source: Linux Today

ShiftBackspace: "The most recent release from the MEPIS crew is SimplyMEPIS 6.5, which was released on April 4th, 2007 "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "I've been using OpenWrt on my Linksys router for a year or so. I take it for granted--I ignore it because it just works "


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Source: Linux Today

Popular Science: "With antiquated components flooding the surplus-parts market and free operating systems only a click away, building a fully functional computer has never been such a bargain "


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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "More than 20,000 people have signed a petition calling on Dell to offer Linux-based PCs outside of the US "


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Source: Linux Today

This release is also a milestone for us, as it is the natural successor to Linux 1.3 and is the first time we've created packages for 1.4


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Source: Linux Today

LWN: "With todays release of the CUPS bugfix/security fix update we have released the last security update for SUSE Linux 9.3 "


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Source: Linux Today

WineHQ: "This is release 0.9.39 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix "


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Source: Linux Today

Yoper: "The Yoper team, together with lead-developer Tobias Gerschner, are proud to announce the long awaited stable release of Yoper GNU/Linux 3.0, codename 'Titanium '"


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxPlanet: "These are short and easy things to do which can make your Linux desktop even more convenient than it is currently "


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Computerworld Australia: "Juggling a patchwork of operating systems along with various versions of software on 24 different local area networks made IT at St Luke's Nursing Service an unmanageable and costly affair "


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxInsider: "'Web 2.0' is one of those buzzwords that gets applied to practically every new technology and idea these days, with the inherent suggestion that they represent a new generation, a new way of thinking--a paradigm shift "


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Ruminations on a Digital Realm "It is a speculation, but I think that it would be good to get a clear statement from the management on where Mandriva stands, especially regarding the alleged Microsoft patents "


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InformationWeek: "Most of the components in the current version of Firefox are being touched, said Window Snyder, 'chief security something-or-other' at Mozilla "


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Groklaw: "Good morning, everyone. Are you ready to work? The first patent applications we are invited to try to disqualify by looking for prior art have been posted on the Peer to Patent Project website "


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Source: Linux Today

eWeek: "At its heart, predicting the supply of water is a math problem--an extremely complicated math problem "


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Source: Linux Today

SmartMoney: "Perhaps even more shocking than that is Microsoft's willingness--reluctant as it may be--to share a stage with the Linux community "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "It was just seven months ago, however, that Carmony took Microsoft to task for its agreement with Novell, calling it nothing but 'lip service' and 'scare tactics '"


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "Well, there are some 'significant accomplishments' and other new Google desktop applications coming out this year for the Linux platform "


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BetaNews: "You probably already know the secret to getting a headline broadcast louder through Google News: take the main subject lines and pair them with a verb that denotes violence or tragedy "


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Frederik's Blog: "Today kernel developer Con Kolivas announced that he will stop developing his Linux patch which improves desktop performance "


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internetnews.com: "Government users, it's time to trust Linux vendor Red Hat "


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LWN: "In a stunning turn of events, I've actually been able to make another -rc release despite all the discussion (*cough*flaming*cough*) about other issues, and we now have a brand-spanking-new Linux 2.6.22-rc5 release out there !"


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Computerworld UK: "Microsoft hopes to strike a Linux pact with Red Hat, similar to its deals with Novell, Xandros and Linspire "


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Linux.com: "One of the most famous experiments conducted at the HNL was a double-blind taste test pitting Pepsi against Coca-Cola. Neither the researchers nor the subjects knew beforehand which soda they would taste or in what order "


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Source: Linux Today

Venture Itch: "Here is presentation of Linus Torvalds on git, the source control management system he created in 2005 " Flash video presentation.


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Linux.com: "I run a Postfix-based mail server that services a few hundred users with an average load of a couple of thousand legitimate messages a day--but thanks to spam, the actual load on the server is much higher "


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ONLamp: "An open, XML-based standard for displaying and storing data files (text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations) offers a new and promising approach to data storage and document exchange among office applications "



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

zakeria writes "Red Hat Linux has received a new level of security certification that should make the software more appealing to some government agencies. Earlier this month IBM was able to achieve EAL4 Augmented with ALC_FLR.3 certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, putting it on a par with Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Trusted Solaris operating system, said Dan Frye, vice president of open systems with IBM."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: eWEEK Linux

Novell claims it will become the first vendor to offer a supported solution for Xen virtual machine guests.


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Source: eWEEK Linux

Opinion: Could it be because the move actually makes sense for both the Linux companies and Microsoft?



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Source: ONLamp.com

I actually like fixing bugs and optimizing code. It’s satisfying to simplify a piece of code while making it perform better and use less memory.

I’m a terrible guesser, though. I guess about where bottlenecks are correctly perhaps half of the time, and likely less often than that. To make the most of my available time, I need a good profiler.

I’ve tried to use GNU gprof, but the requirement to recompile all of my software specifically to use gprof was too much. Instead, I use Callgrind.

Callgrind works like Valgrind (and it’s part of the Valgrind tools now). Run your program through Callgrind as normal (valgrind --tool=callgrind program_name opt1 optn); it will collect statistics about the run. Then run callgrind_annotate on the output and see a nice report about where your program spends its time. Though this is only the most basic of Callgrind’s features, it’s often sufficed for me to find and fix true bottlenecks.

If you need more features, I hear that KCachegrind is a useful visualizer of Callgrind’s statistics. I haven’t used it enough to discuss its value.

Because of Callgrind, I spend more time optimizing bottlenecks than I do finding them. Thanks to its developers and all contributors!



Updated: Tue Jun 19 23:55:05 2007


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