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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: White Box Size: 2.66 GB Status: 11 seeders and 45 leechers Added: 2007-06-21 18:50:39

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Slax Size: 198.11 MB Status: 6 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-06-21 05:29:07

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Slax Size: 197.70 MB Status: 2 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-06-21 05:28:14

Source: mandriva

Mandriva has announced the release of Mandriva Corporate Desktop 4.0: "Mandriva is proud to announce the release of Corporate Desktop 4.0, the brand new version of its enterprise-dedicated work station." Some of the product's key features include: "Directory administration and integration: a new tool to set KDE user .

Source: whitebox

John Morris has announced the release of White Box Enterprise Linux 4 Respin 2, a distribution built from the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4: "White Box Enterprise Linux 4 Respin 2 is now available for download. This covers Update 5 from upstream plus a few .

Source: Linux Today

Debian Admin: "bzip2 and bunzip2 are file compression and decompression utilities "

Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "Subversion is a free/open-source version control system. That is, Subversion manages files and directories over time. A tree of files is placed into a central repository "

Source: Linux Today

Shift-Backspace: "Interestingly enough, I have been using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 since the release candidate was released, yet have not reviewed it !"

Source: Linux Today

tuxmachines.org: "Alpha 5 in the OpenSUSE 10.3 developmental cycle was released several days ago and with it came a few surprises. As opposed to big changes in the installed system itself, the big news this release was the 1 CD install offerings "

Source: Linux Today

iTWire: "Today we pick up where we left off and check out the hottest five apps on SourceForge today "

Source: Linux Today

WE Technology, Strategy & Business: "Gubuntu, Glinux or Ginux could all be worthy names if Google were to seriously consider entering the platform battle "

Source: Linux Today

Technology Director's Desk: "I believe it's important to emphasize to all education technology people (or anyone else, for that matter) that they should not view open source simply as a cheap replacement for something else "

Source: Linux Today

eWeek: "When I first saw the list for the eWEEK slide show, Ten Reasons Not to Buy Open Source, I couldn't believe what I was reading "

Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Unix Roundup: "Torvalds has yet to be really impressed with the GPL 3 license. And that's a step up from his initial feelings about it "

Source: Linux Today

APC Magazine: "Now I may just be showing my geek side a bit here, but file systems are awesome "

Source: Linux Today

University of Southampton: "This paper presents several case studies to demonstrate how open source software can achieve long-term sustainability by adopting the relevant business models "

Source: Linux Today

Chicago Sun-Times: "I really want you folks to try the free (free free free) Linux OS at some point in your life "

Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: "In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Bill Hilf takes a familiar (if a bit worn and tired) swipe at Linux in the enterprise "

Source: Linux Today

Computer Business Review: "Today the Labour Party did its bit by releasing the code behind its new carbon footprint calculator under the general public license "

Source: Linux Today

Groklaw: "I wrote once that I wanted to be a tech analyst when I grew up, because no one seems to expect them to get their facts right. That, I reasoned, would make it an easy gig "

Source: Linux Today

CyberOrg: "A new merged community around Compiz project would be known as Compiz-Fusion, details of the announcement here on Compiz Mailing List "

Source: Linux Today

Computerworld UK: "A Microsoft executive has claimed that Windows users faced fewer days of security risks on average last year than users of rival operating systems from Apple, Novell, Red Hat and Sun "

Source: Linux Today

Computer Business News: "Novell has announced that it will release an update to its SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time, SLERT, extensions in July, based on the recently launched SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Service Pack 1 "

Source: Linux Today

eSchool News: "Nation's eighth-largest district turns to open-source software to extend computers to every student "

Source: Linux Today

Groklaw: "SCO has filed a Memorandum in Opposition to Novell's Evidentiary Objections with exhibits. It's all under seal, but it will help us understand a couple of things "

Source: Linux Today

Silicon.com: "Linux-based websites perform better than those hosted on Windows servers, according to new research "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevices: "Linux device software stack vendor Trolltech has acquired Fonav, a vendor of unified messaging software "

Source: Linux Today

vnunet: "Red Hat is to adopt Mobicents technology as part of its bid to expand in the telecoms market "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: Empain has spent the last several decades, as he puts it, 'mixing biology and the nascent informatics world '"

Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "During the construction of my 64-bit box I collected enough spare parts to build another machine, one destined for a 32-bit Linux system "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevices: "Weeks away from the full release of version 5.0 of its flagship embedded Linux distribution, MontaVista is touting support for an Intel hardware reference design aimed at multi-service residential gateway equipment "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Hewlett-Packard released version 4 of its Linux Common Operating Environment software this month "

Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "This is a detailed description about how to set up a Fedora 7 server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters "

Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "Last week the first open-source ATI R500 (Radeon X1000 series) driver had entered the world "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Kurtz'sKompund writes "French Linux vendor Mandriva said no to dealing with Microsoft on open source patents. They're the third Linux vendor in a week to do so, joining Red Hat and Ubuntu in the 'against' column. TechWorld reports that Mandriva's CEO echoed statements from other open source leaders, saying essentially 'we don't need to pay protection money to do our job.' From the article: 'Jonathan Eunice, an analyst at Illuminata, said Microsoft's deals with Xandros and Linspire don't have the same impact as they would if they had been made with a major Linux vendor such as Red Hat. "I think Microsoft is going to second-tier players, and they're cutting deals with them because they are softer targets," Eunice said.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: eWEEK Linux

Source: eWEEK Linux

In this Tech Rising podcast, eWEEK Chief Technology Analyst Jim Rapoza talks to SpikeSource CEO Kim Polese about her company's efforts to make open-source solutions ready for business.

Source: eWEEK Linux

Opinion: Some good ideas are too good for this world. Is this one of them?

Source: eWEEK Linux

For the immediate future, stablizing new features is the order of the day, but after that, power management takes center stage.

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Just like there are "Urban Legends" that never seem to die, so it seems there are "Cluster Urban Legends" that persist even today. We have all seen or heard them. As a service to those entering the cluster HPC (High Performance Computing) community, we dispel some of the more popular tales. (Read: misconceptions.)

Source: ONLamp.com

I’m registering for OSCON, and Suzanne Axtell asked me to say some kind words about the conference. I always have trouble deciding which tutorials to take.


This year, my candidates are:



Pthreads Programming: A Hands-on Introduction.

For as little as I believe that shared-state multithreading is the best way for concurrent programming, it exists and works in plenty of applications and languages and libraries today. Adrien has never quite convinced me that pthreads are the right approach, but I’m willing to learn.

Hardware / Software Hacking: Joining the Real and the Virtual

Second Life never quite captured my imagination, but I’ve spent enough time programming virtual things that the idea of programming actual things holds a lot of appeal. Ward Cunningham was a minor hit at Foo Camp a couple of years ago with a very simple flag-waving microcontroller he and his son built. Paying attention to Ward always pays off.

A Taste of Haskell

I know just enough Haskell to be dangerous (and to push for Real World Haskell). While waiting for the book, I can’t resist an introduction from Simon Peyton-Jones.

New Parallel Programming Tools for a Multicore World

Even if I remain dubious about pthreads, I can’t deny that my current laptop isn’t an order of magnitude faster than my previous laptop, but it does have more cores. I won’t be writing a Fast Fourier Transform any time soon, but I’d like to take advantage of parallelization wherever possible.

Simple Ways To Be a Better Programmer

Plenty of failures of software development are process problems. Plenty of good developers would like to write better software, but run into trouble with co-workers and managers and company policies. Schwern’s been asking some of the best programmers he knows for advice, and I’m curious to see what advice he has for people who can’t throw out everything and start afresh. (My suggestions: “Learn to recognize and appreciate simplicity. Develop an aesthetic for good code.”)



Of course, WSGI interests me, and I’m curious about Django. It’s also always worthwhile to see MJD speak….

Source: ONLamp.com

With all the elaborate 3D graphics packages out there today, it's easy to forget that sometimes all you want to do is draw a nice 2D diagram. Philipp Janert takes us on a stroll down memory lane with pic, a command-line based tool that can prove very useful.