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Linux and Open Source News for 19th July 2007

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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: IPCop Size: 46.10 MB Status: 3 seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2007-07-19 04:48:04


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Source: ubuntu

Sarah Hobbs announced the third alpha release (also known as "Tribe 3") of Ubuntu 7.10: "Tribe 3 is the third in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Gutsy development cycle. The Tribe images are known to be reasonably free of show-stopper CD .


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Source: suse

After the distribution project manager change and the launching of the new news website, the sixth alpha release of openSUSE 10.3 was out: "Important Changes Since Alpha5: Linux 2.6.22; libzypp 3.11.8; gcc 4.2; Continued splitting of packages to reduce size; Introduction of x86_64 CDs for both KDE and .


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Source: slackintosh

The Slackintosh-team has announced the release of Slackintosh 12.0, an unofficial port of Slackware Linux to Apple's PowerPC computers: "We are proud to announce that Slackintosh 12.0 has been released! Slackintosh 12.0 includes Linux 2.6.21.5, glibc 2.5 (with tls + epoll!), KDE 3.5.7 and much more Checkout 12.0/README.TXT .



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KernelTrap: "A recently merged KVM patchset included support for guest SMP, various performance improvements, and suspend/resume fixes "


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HowtoForge: "This document describes how to set up OpenLDAP on Fedora 7 "


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developerWorks: "Monitoring and analyzing masses of information--Is the CPU overloaded? Is the network interface saturated?--across several hosts is a daunting task "


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Source: Linux Today

Puppy Linux is a light weight Linux distribution built from scratch and born in mid 2002. Its creator, Barry Kauler, originally created Puppy Linux as a fun project to do in his spare time


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Supergamer is a unique Linux distribution whose primary focus is on fun--specifically, gaming. Supergamer VL, now based on VectorLinux, is all new, with additional games, new code base, and new look and feel. Let the games begin "


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Source: Linux Today

TrustedReviews: "To read most of the digital press, you'd think InDesign was the only big-league desktop publishing (DTP) application anyone took seriously "


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Source: Linux Today

Intelligent Enterprise: "I received Gartner e-mail this week marketing their up-coming open-source summit. The message contains gems that illuminate Gartner's perspective on open source and the larger IT world "


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Source: Linux Today

Venture Cake: "Popular Linux desktop application Avant Window Navigator received a large amount of flak for using the same depth effect as Apple's upcoming release of OS X "


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CNET News: "Luis Villa commented on an earlier post wherein I had asked, 'Why doesn't Oracle just buy Red Hat ?'"


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Hoosier Penguin: "Anyway, Zenoss: if you haven't played with this app, I suggest you give it a spin. There are a lot of monitoring tools out there, but this is one that I think rises to the top "


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Source: Linux Today

Benanzo: "I was recently perusing through some old podcasts and came across an IT Conversations episode from November of 2003 "


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Computer Business Review: "Eight months, several further patent deals, and a new version of the GNU General Public License later, and the promise of simplification for customers is a hollow one "


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Source: Linux Today

Funtoo: "It appears that the Gentoo Foundation may be disappearing in a matter of time. Apparently, no one has time to actually do the work required to run the Foundation "


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Source: Linux Today

Legal Technology Blog: "I wanted to wrap up the general thread of the last three posts I wrote regarding Linux in the law office, as from some of the comments posted, I believe some of the points I had made were unclear "


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Intranet Journal: "In this article, we'll examine ten of these applications, with the understanding that both browser and email clients will not be in this list "


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Datamation: "Linux has a number of really strong points that go beyond the price but the operating system falls short when it comes to legally supporting file formats such as MP3, WMA/WMV and DVDs "


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Ubuntu: "Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 3 is the third alpha release of Ubuntu 7.10, and with this new alpha release comes a whole host of excellent new features "


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Tectonic: "Microsoft's plans of having its OOXML document format accepted as a [South African] national standard were thwarted by a conclusive vote against the move in a meeting yesterday "


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Softpedia: "I have recently heard of an ambitious project, called Menhir, which targets the noble idea of bringing Linux closer to its users and providing more information on each of its aspects "


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derStandard.at: "During his opening speech at the GNOME Developers conference GUADEC Jono Bacon, community manager for the Ubuntu distribution, called for a common vision inside the project "


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Linux.com: "Attendance is down, LUG presidents say, and some groups have stopped meeting. Does this mean we don't need LUGs anymore ?"


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InformationWeek: "Sun Microsystems has published a test of the PostgreSQL system running on its UltraSparc Niagara hardware, producing one of the few high-end server benchmarks available on the open source PostgreSQL database "


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Linux-Watch: "Then along came SCO with its lawsuit against IBM and its challenges to the legality of Linux, and everything changed "


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Source: Linux Today

DesktopLinux: "'The plan [is] to have all three out by the end of the month,' said Carmony "


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CNET News: "I spent an hour with Matthew Szulik this morning, wanting to get his input on the Open Source CEO Series "


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Groklaw: "I feel safe in saying that you will never hear the phrase 'fast tracking' again, without remembering what you are about to read "


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Redmond Channel Partner Online: "As such, Bottomley's obviously got some insight into Microsoft's continued patent deals with Linux distributors "


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Linux-Watch: "The companies claim that this extended Xandros-NoMachine alliance provides enhanced capabilities for secure and rapid access to graphical applications, running on any operating system across any network connection "


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DesktopLinux: "Deep Freeze system consistency software, popular in Windows and Mac settings, is now available for Linux desktops "


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Linux Journal: "In October 2006, Terra Soft announced its plan to build the world's first supercomputing cluster using the Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3), which utilizes the IBM Cell Broadband Engine and the Linux operating system "


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LinuxDevices: "Well-known Linux luminary Jon 'maddog' Hall is CTO and 'ambassador' of a startup selling Linux-based thin clients and network appliances "


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Linux.com: "If you still visit Usenet or occasionally participate in its discussions and newsgroups, you can get by with Linux newsgroup readers that are integrated into browsers or email clients such as Thunderbird, Evolution, and the Opera Web browser "


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Source: Linux Today

DesktopLinux: "BlueWhite64 Linux v12.0, featuring a 2.6.21.5 Linux kernel with IA32-emulation, has been released on live CD and DVD ISOs "


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KernelTrap: "Updating the pluggable scheduler patches for the 2.6.22 kernel, Peter Williams noted, 'probably the last one now that CFS is in the main line '"


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iTWire: "Gadget geeks worldwide are collaborating to make the ubiquitous TomTom GO portable satellite navigation system more useful "



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

jammag writes "In this article, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes points out why he keeps giving money to Microsoft and Apple despite the clear advantages of Linux: the scary legalese dialogs you have to click through to install codecs for common multimedia formats. Quoting: 'Despite strong points that go far beyond price, Linux falls short when it comes to legally supporting file formats such as MP3, WMA/WMV and DVDs.' He talks about using Ubuntu and booting up Totem Movie Player, only to be confronted with a burst of legalese about what a hardened criminal he'll be if he uses Totem without a license. This problem is 'a deal breaker' for him."Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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Source: Slashdot: Linux

AlexGr writes "Remember the 1980s worries about how the "forking" of Unix could hurt that operating system's chances for adoption? That was nothing compared to the mess we've got today with Linux, where upwards of 300 distributions vie for the attention of computer users seeking an alternative to Windows."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: eWEEK Linux

Opinion: Linux may be coming to a desktop near you.



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Next week is OSCON, so there will be plenty of wonderful programmers in Portland. We’re taking advantage of this to host a Beautiful Code discussion panel at Powell’s Technical Books, just across the river from the conference.

The panel will consist of the Beautiful Code contributors Karl Fogel, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Simon Peyton-Jones, and Andy Oram. Ward Cunningham will moderate, and I’ll chip in where I can.

I have my copy of the book already and I’m trying to figure out what to say that isn’t already in there… I’m really looking forward to hearing what Ward and the other panelists have to say.

Even if you’re not an OSCON or Ubuntu Live attendee, you’re welcome at the panel. I hope to see you there.


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In the second of three parts, Adam Turoff continues his introduction to Haskell, a language that can take some getting used to. In this installment, he looks at Pure Functions, which is to say functions with no side effects.


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Flex is Adobe's next-generation platform of deploying browser-based applications. Jack Herrington provides us with an introduction to Flex, by showing us how to integrate it with a PHP-based backend.


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For anyone that plans to be in the Atlanta, GA area on Aug. 9th, I hope you can attend the PyAtl meeting. We have Juan Pablo who is a Django instructor for the Big Nerd Ranch, traveling in for a special Django presentation. This should be very exciting as he is a true pro. I also invited our local Atlanta Ruby group to attend as well. I think it would be great to have more Python/Ruby crosstalk as the languages have so much in common.
For our second meeting, we have up and coming author, TurboGears committer, and Elixir co-creator, Jonathan LaCour. He will be giving a presentation on SQLAlchemy + Elixir.
I was a bit bummed out when I moved from Los Angeles about a year and half ago, but it turns out that Atlanta, GA is one of the Python powerhouses cities in the United States. At this point, we have the largest meetup group, although I realize not every group uses meetup. I know quite a few of us are working on books, open source projects, and commercial projects in Python. If you live around Atlanta, GA area, program in Python and haven’t yet attended, your missing out!
If your city is a Python powerhouse, let me know!



Updated: Fri Jul 20 23:55:01 2007


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