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Linux and Open Source News for 23rd July 2007

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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Ultima Size: 670.13 MB Status: 6 seeders and 18 leechers Added: 2007-07-23 23:34:30


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Ultima Size: 699.82 MB Status: 5 seeders and 6 leechers Added: 2007-07-23 23:31:13


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Ubuntu Size: 195.30 MB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-07-23 22:36:13


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Linux Kernels Size: 43.02 MB Status: 3 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-07-23 13:40:16


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: BIG LINUX Size: 1.64 KB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-07-23 07:02:28


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Slackintosh Size: 6.06 GB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-07-23 05:34:11


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Source: smeserver

The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 7.2: "This release is based on CentOS 4.5 and all packages have been updated to the latest releases. This release contains many new features, all released updates for SME Server 7.1 and fixes for .


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Source: weekly

Before Ladislav Bodnar is back from his vacation, we have another issue of DistroWatch Weekly by Susan Linton: Mini-Reviews: Sabayon BE 1.0 and Puppy Linux 2.17 News: Gentoo Foundation, Debian tidbits, openSUSE News & Coolo, Linus Interview, and Too Many Distros? Released last week: Absolute Linux .



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Source: Linux Today

Melville Theatre: "I have been unable to find any other documentation that explicitly describes how to use the Sylpheed email client with your gmail account. Accordingly, this short article will describe the procedure."


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Source: Linux Today

All Linux: " we’ll configure apache to properly utilize PAM authentication to restrict access to a specific directory. "


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Source: Linux Today

The Easter Egg Archive: "Although aptitude, the successor to apt-get does not have Super Cow powers (typing "aptitude --help" brings up a help screen that informs you of this at the end), it does have an easter egg. "


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Source: Linux Today

Hoosier Penguin: "Matt Zimmerman, CTO of Canonical, gave the Ubuntu Live attendees here a look ahead on the Ubuntu Technical Roadmap, letting us see what's coming in Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop and Server "


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Source: Linux Today

Wired Blogs: "During a brief Q&A; session after Mark Shuttleworth's keynote here at Ubuntu Live, an audience member asked the Canonical founder if we'll see more top-tier PC manufacturers offering Ubuntu pre-installed. "Absolutely," Mark said "


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Source: Linux Today

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: "However, before spending any money, you can also try your lack with the open source Sphinx software."


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxInsight: "The dust has yet to settle from the recent announcements that Linux will switch it's process scheduler, but we're already bombarded with interesting news that the upcoming 2.6.23 kernel release will also feature no less than two new virtualization frameworks."


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Source: Linux Today

OS/Zen: "For all general purposes, the Mac has been my platform of choice because I see it as the perfect blend of form and function, beauty and power."


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Source: Linux Today

EWeek: "It's true that if you look only at the posted specifications of the XO, you might come to the conclusion that the laptop is underpowered. (It comes with a midrange AMD processor; 256MB of RAM; and a small, flash-based drive.) However, looking beyond straight specs, I saw a system that is anything but underpowered and incapable. Quite the opposite: The XO is one of the most powerful systems I've seen in years."


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Source: Linux Today

American Internet: "When I first met Travis, our new CEO and Windows System Admin, he was telling me that he really liked Windows and was very good at administration of the Windows OS. My

response, being a hard core Linux user, was "Well, to me a computer without Windows is like a dog without a brick tied to its tail." Thus began a friendly rivalry that continues almost daily. But really which one is better?"


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Source: Linux Today

ITWire: "Lest I be flamed terribly, let me say experience is key. However certifications are a great way to prove experience at a measurable level."


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Source: Linux Today

TechIQ: "Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, is preparing a managed service platform that will allow VARs and solutions providers to remotely manage Ubuntu-based small business servers."


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Source: Linux Today

Mad Penguin: "I certainly enjoyed seeing Ubuntu featured with terms, such as “without limits,” as it sat so close to the Microsoft logo. "


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Source: Linux Today

OSWeekly: "Have you looked at the HCL (Hardware Compatibly List) for your preferred Linux distribution lately? Do you see it? Exactly, it's a mess. Even with a strong community effort working to keep the list updated and as fresh as possible, it's nearly impossible to make the list worth the page it's rendered on."


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Source: Linux Today

Internetnews: "What is the impact on Linux distribution usage of the Novell patent deal with Microsoft? According to open source enterprise content management (ECM) vendor Alfresco, it's driving users to Red Hat."


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Source: Linux Today

SearchEnterpriseLinux: "The “Alfresco open source barometer survey,” conducted April through June 2007 using opt-in data provided by 10,000 of the 15,000 Alfresco community members, showed that Windows is increasingly a popular evaluation platform for open source software but most enterprises use Linux when they go into production."


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Source: Linux Today

Liquidat: "The stable driver API was already announced a year ago by Greg Kroah-Hartman. Now the last patches where uploaded and the API was included in Linus’ tree. The idea of the API is to make life easier for driver developers:"


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxLookup: "Intel's Latin America Linux Strategic Program Manager Sulamita Garcia and Mandriva's KDE developer Helio de Castro were participating at aKademy 2007, KDE's annual meeting of the KDE community, demonstrating the flexibility and the specialized educational interface of Mandriva Linux on the Intel-powered classmate PC in the "Edu and School" presentation sessions."


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Source: Linux Today

BoycottNovell: "Making Linux suicidal for some companies seems to have been one Microsoft strategy, among others such as ‘artificial’ promotion of Microsoft’s Office OpenXML."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "The Nintendo DS is an excellent gaming device, but that's not all you can do with it "


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Source: Linux Today

/home/liquidat: "For Linux it was often mentioned that application-wise network filters are not needed since Linux cannot be infected as easily as Windows "


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: :The Radeon HD 2400 and 2600 series were introduced, but as we have unfortunately come to expect, there was not a supported R600 driver that day or even that month "


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Source: Linux Today

ONLamp: "With all the hype (and money) surrounding buzzword terms like Web 2.0 and Rich Internet Applications, it's easy to wonder, 'How can I integrate that into my PHP application ?'"



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

tinahdee writes "Linux User Groups dying out? LUG leaders report that attendance is down — but mailing list traffic is still good. Do we still need LUGs, given the ease of installation and ubiquitousness of online information about Linux? Lots of people say, yes, we still need LUGs (and some disagree)."Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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Source: Slashdot: Linux

larry bagina writes "GCC 4.2.1 was released 4 days ago. Although this minor update would otherwise be insignificant, it will be the final GPL v2 release; all future releases will be GPL v3. Some key contributors are grumbling over this change and have privately discussed a fork to stay as GPL v2. The last time GCC forked (EGCS), the FSF conceded defeat. How will the FSF/GNU handle the GPL 3 revolt?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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Stephen Samuel writes "Groklaw host PJ has dissected the 'patent peace' agreement between Linspire and Microsoft, and has determined that what Linspire agreed to is next to useless for many users. Essentially, under the agreement Linspire software is almost unusable: 'You can't share the software with others, pass it on with the patent promise, modify your own copy, or even use it for an "unauthorized" purpose, whatever that means in a software context. You must pay Linspire for the software, but then the "covenant" says to use Linux, you must also pay Microsoft. That payment doesn't cover upgrades. Linspire said it was absorbing the initial fees, but I don't know about upgrades. New functionality means you lose your coverage or presumably must pay again.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: eWEEK Linux

HP on July 23 announced plans to acquire Linux thin
client specialist Neoware, in a deal valued at $214 million.


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Source: eWEEK Linux

Landscape provides a key tool for the growing number of businesses that want to take advantage of the ease of use of Ubuntu.


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Source: eWEEK Linux

HP said the acquisition is part of its strategy to expand in growth markets and further its leadership in personal computing.


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Source: eWEEK Linux

Alfresco's survey of 10,000 users found Red Hat adoption tripling, while Novell usage stays stagnant.



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PyAtl is switching to Plone as time is short and we want a CMS that everyone can edit. A few people are are working on getting Plone configured and we are looking at using the gmail authentication plugin and the forum plugin.
All of this has got me thinking? What is the story on Plone and/or Zope? There is all this talk of Django/Turbogears/Pylons, etc., but what about Zope and specifically Zope3 and Plone? In the younger crowd you almost never here anyone talk about anything related to Zope and I wonder why?
So, what is the dope on Zope? Can you turn Plone into the next myspace? How hard is it to learn Zope3?


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Source: ONLamp.com

I’ve seen at least two mock object libraries for Python (here and here). But I wonder, what is the benefit of using a simpler mock object over creating your own dummy class? It seems that if I created my own dummy class (a class which implements the same interface that it is attempting to “mock”), I would have tighter control over the behavior of the thing as well as have a nicer re-use experience. It seems that mock objects are typically defined on the fly and then thrown away. I’m sure you could re-use them, but if they are really intended to be use-once-then-throw-away, it may be a little harder.
I guess what I’d really like to see is something between mock objects and dummy classes, something where you define a dummy class to be used as one of your application classes, but which also contains the convenience methods that the two mock libraries have. Suggestions, anyone?


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Source: ONLamp.com

I’ve been carrying around an interest in text processing for several years now which began with my work with EDI. Even though I don’t work with EDI and my job doesn’t revolve primarily around text processing, I still maintain an interest in text processing in general and processing EDI specifically. I created the project ediplex using Novell forge probably two years ago, around the time I wrote this article for DevX. ediplex back then was specifically an EDI processing engine with hopes of converting EDI to other formats pretty easily.
Over time, ediplex has evolved. A goal that I had for ediplex even from the beginning was the ability to easily define new EDI file formats. In its inception, it only supported X12, which is primarily a North American standard. But I had hopes for supporting EDIFACT and TRADACOM, which are more in use in Europe.
Which leads me to today. The latest incarnation of ediplex doesn’t support EDI. Not yet, anyway. What it does is allows users to create custom document definitions which describe what a document’s header and footer should look like. It also allows users to create custom handlers to allow the engine to feed them with data for a specific document type. The latest rendition is in early alpha, but it looks like a document is being passed all the way from its input to its handler. If you’re interested you can `bzr branch http://bzr.ediplex.org/trunk/` and start poking around. (This requires the Bazaar version control client.)
The architecture for ediplex is layered, but pretty simple. The first layer is the input layer. This layer gets input from somewhere (file, socket, whatever) and passes data to the scanner, which is next. The input layer was designed to allow users to create their own custom types of input receivers as they see fit. The next layer is the scanner. While this layer can certainly be replaced and customized, that shouldn’t be necessary. The scanner receives data from the input receiver and determines which document type the text should be passed off to and passes it off. The next two layers are the document definition and the data handler. I combine there here, because they are combined in the ediplex code. The document definition doesn’t do much except for describe a new document type and tell the scanner if a certain string of text matches its definition. The handler is intended to be extremely customized. When it receives data, it gets to do whatever with it that its little heart (and its coding master) desires.
So, if you’re in the market for a text processing engine, check out ediplex. I don’t have a license statement in the source tree, but will soon. I’m strongly leaning toward the MIT license, but am also considering GPLv2. Questions, comments, flames welcome.


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Source: ONLamp.com

I’ve been listening to The Linux Action Show podcast for a few months now and really enjoy it. I’ve tried other Linux podcasts, but they seem focused on the noob level. Can anyone recommend a good Linux podcast for experienced Linux users?



Updated: Tue Jul 24 23:55:04 2007


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