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Linux and Open Source News for 1st August 2007

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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Open Source Software Size: 6.06 MB Status: 3 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-08-01 15:05:46


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Open Source Software Size: 10.58 MB Status: 3 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-08-01 14:25:52


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Open Source Software Size: 11.02 MB Status: 1 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-08-01 08:54:04


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Ubuntu Size: 422.41 MB Status: 8 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-08-01 08:47:55


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Ubuntu Size: 404.31 MB Status: 20 seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2007-08-01 08:41:36


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Slackware Size: 3.63 GB Status: 4 seeders and 6 leechers Added: 2007-08-01 00:41:01


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Source: monowall

The third beta release of m0n0wall 1.3, a FreeBSD-based firewall, is now available for download. From the changelog: "added voucher support to captive portal (mwiget); wireless LAN improvements; allow dashes in alias names; added hidden option to disable auto-generation of PPTP rules on WAN; fixed ATA hard disk .



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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: This article shows how you can install and use POPFile to classify incoming emails on an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn desktop "


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Source: Linux Today

DebianAdmin: "I've read a lot of manuals, how-to's etc. describing the process of setting a Debian webserver containing the great VHCS2 control panel system. I've tried them all, and all were failing for me on several critical points "


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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "Normally, Apple's iTunes software is needed to manage an iPod, but iTunes is not available for Linux. Fortunately, there are Linux alternatives such as Rhythmbox that can handle the task "


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "In our original GtkPerf tests with the open-source Avivo driver we had compared the performance with the ShadowFB option, which had dramatically increased the performance over the fglrx driver. With the ShadowFB option disabled, the Avivo driver was slower than the fglrx driver "


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Source: Linux Today

PolishLinux: "The first question is--'how do we add a new torrents?' The answer is right here: torrents add themselves automatically. 'How is it possible?' You will see in a moment "


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Source: Linux Today

developerWorks: "The GNU tool gperf is a "perfect" hash function that, for a given set of user-provided strings, generates C/C++ code for a hash table, a hash function, and a lookup function. Learn how to use gperf for effective command-line processing in your C/C++ code."


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Source: Linux Today

ONLamp: "At OSCON last week, my favorite tutorial was Simon Peyton-Jones's A Taste of Haskell "


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Source: Linux Today

OSWeekly:"The sheer ignorance regarding casual Linux users astounds me to no end. While I'm not interested in pointing fingers, there is a lot of misinformation about the Linux community, and we will help to dispel some of these myths, once and for all."


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Source: Linux Today

Server Virtualization Blog: "Virtualization is the theme of the LinuxWorld 2007 Conference & Expo this year, and that's as it should be, according to industry veterans I've interviewed recently "


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Source: Linux Today

OSWeekly: "Predictably, it seems that Dell is dropping Ubuntu PC prices which at first pass would seem like fantastic news. But then you have to couple this fact with the realization that they are not exactly promoting their provided Ubuntu PCs "


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Source: Linux Today

TuxDeluxe: "Before 'open source,' before free software, there was software in the public domain. You could say that software in the public domain was truly free "


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Source: Linux Today

Mad Penguin: "Like many of you, I feel confused in regards to the advantage of using Google Desktop on my Linux PC "


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Source: Linux Today

Once More Unto the Breach: "Indeed, Xen comes from a GPL licensed project where Microsoft was a sponsor of the original University of Cambridge work "


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Source: Linux Today

CNET News: "On the other side of this coin, however, is the reality that today's integration is tomorrow's barrier to entry against all other applications. Take Microsoft, for example "


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Source: Linux Today

Computer Business Review: "The shorthand for that could have been ''I want' doesn't mean 'I get''. A similar phrase could be applied in the light of some of the responses to Microsoft's intention to submit its licenses to the OSI "


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Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: "Once upon a time, the term 'open source' was coined to save the free-software world from itself. Or, rather, from the free-software zealots, as you can read on the Open Source Initiative's website "


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Source: Linux Today

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs: "But the best part of the fallout comes from freetards, who first said the story wasn't true and that Linux still rules in China (ahem) "


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Source: Linux Today

CIO: "As part of his ongoing effort to find a secure, stable, user-friendly alternative to the Windows desktop operating system, CareGroup CIO John Halamka got to know Ubuntu "


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Source: Linux Today

InformationWeek: "The switch from Windows XP to Vista has created a world of opportunity--not only for Microsoft, but for supporters of competing operating systems "


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Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "Discerning what's obvious and what isn't when it comes to technology patents became a bit less gray last week when a federal judge in San Francisco reversed himself and abruptly dismissed a case brought against RealNetworks "


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Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Linux Log: "The 451 Group found the open source systems management category is dominated by systems monitoring, configuration, provisioning and patching components. That said, open source systems management offerings lack the full feature set provided by the leading proprietary systems management vendors. Still, these core features represent the primary demands from IT end users."


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevices: "Microsoft's Windows Embedded team is offering 'the biggest selection of [free] apps outside of Moscone Center,' in connection with next week's LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco. The 'apps,' in this case, are appetizers, plus free beer and wine "


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Source: Linux Today

SearchEntepriseLinux: "LinuxWorld 2007 has added virtualization tracks and keynotes at this year's conference--a welcome and insightful move "


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Source: Linux Today

The Inquirer: "Since last week the coastal city of Rosario, home to about a million Argentinians, is among the growing club of cities with free municipal Wi-Fi access "


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Source: Linux Today

Groklaw: "4Linux in Brazil has a live podcast show and the next theme is 'Microsoft, Open source e Interoperabilidade com OpenXML '"


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Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "Mozilla has patched a pair of security vulnerabilities in its Firefox Web browser just in time for its release of security tools at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas this week "


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Source: Linux Today

Once More Unto the Breach: "And it was in poor enough taste that many of the excellent ideas [Eben Moglen] delivered on the need for a second order debate and tools to deal with conflicts in rights were lost "


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Source: Linux Today

MyTreo: "Independent programmers in the community recently achieved Palm's goal of running Linux on Palm devices "


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Source: Linux Today

Bob Sutor's Open Blog: "Even though the JTC1 ballot closes on September 2 on Microsoft's product description for Microsoft Office, namely OOXML or DIS 29500, this will not become an ISO/IEC standard in 2007 "


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Source: Linux Today

Computerworld: "The head of the open-source group that will decide whether to certify Microsoft Corp.'s "shared source" software licenses as open-source licenses said that more than half of Redmond's licenses appear to automatically fail the group's rules "


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Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "Apparently patents do matter when it comes to open source software adoption "


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Source: Linux Today

Red Hat: "Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the *beta* release of 5.1 (kernel-2.6.18-36.el5) for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 family of products "


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Source: Linux Today

InfoWorld.nl: "Acer Inc. did not install the Ubuntu Linux distribution on a batch of Aspire notebooks for sale in Singapore, but the company is installing a different version of the open-source operating system on some notebooks "


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Source: Linux Today

NetworkWorld: "Talk about eating your own dog food. IBM today will announce it is consolidating nearly 4,000 small computer servers in six locations onto about 30 refrigerator-sized mainframes running Linux saving $250 million in the process "


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Source: Linux Today

Software Freedom Law Center: "Earlier this year, allegations were made that OpenHAL might include material that infringed the copyright of Atheros' proprietary HAL software. The Linux Wireless developers asked the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) to investigate these rumors, and SFLC agreed to help on a pro-bono basis. SFLC subsequently conducted a confidential audit "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Thousands of open source advocates and enthusiasts from around the world are expected to take the message of free and open source software to the streets on September 15 for the fourth annual Software Freedom Day "


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Source: Linux Today

ThemBid.com: "From a static html page to creating a Content Management System from scratch, there are certain tools that increase productivity geometrically. Here I present the tools that have greatly enhanced my own productivity and our team."


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "It has been a while since we last reviewed an ASRock motherboard, but this budget manufacturer has kept churning out new and more innovative products. The ASRock motherboard we have our hands on for this Linux and Solaris review is the ALiveNF7G-HDready, which combines NVIDIA's GeForce 7050 and nForce 630a MCP with a wealth of integrated extras such as IEEE-1394a Firewire to offer a rather good package for its low price. This motherboard is also capable of handling 720p H.264 video playback with low CPU Utilization and HDCP decoding through supported software."


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Source: Linux Today

Help Net Security: "Jeff Moss, the founder of DEFCON and Black Hat, tells the history of the largest hacker conference and how it all got started. (YouTube video)"



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

eldavojohn writes "While there's been a lot of talk of the open document formats in the states, China is facing the same dilemma. A ZDNet blog examines the issue by pointing out they will most likely merge their current standard with either OOXML or ODF. The bulk of their post points out why OOXML shouldn't be ISO certified and is the biggest problem for Microsoft's standard: 'Another Standard, Microsoft does not support, is the specification RFC 3987, which defines UTF-8 capable Internet addresses. Consequently, OOXML does not support, to use Chinese characters within a Web address.' This would be problematic for many languages, not just Chinese."Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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Source: Slashdot: Linux

eldavojohn writes "If you're a Linux user in the UK looking for a Linux box, you're not going to get it from Acer. The computer maker has started releasing Linux installed machines in Singapore but cited 'no demand' as a reason for not releasing the same computer with Linux installed in the UK. From the ZDNet article: 'Before the launch of the Acer Aspire in Singapore, there had been no suggestion that any major manufacturer other than Dell was even considering releasing Ubuntu-based products. However, Acer president Gianfranco Lanci did tell Financial Times Deutschland that "the whole [PC] industry is disappointed with Windows Vista". Lanci claimed that Microsoft's new operating system had not boosted PC sales, due to concerns over its stability and overall maturity.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "An article on InformationWeek pits an Apple user against an Ubuntu Linux user (although he talks about other distros as well) as to which OS makes a better desktop operating system. As might be expected, the conclusion seems to be "different strokes for different folks," but it's interesting to see Microsoft cut (mostly) out of the equation."Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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Source: Slashdot: Linux

Ho Kooshy Fly writes "It seems that at least one software group has seen the use of Red Hat substantially increase over Novell as of late. EWeek theorizes that this may be backlash from the patent deal with Microsoft. From the article: 'The survey's findings can also be extrapolated to the broader open-source software industry and are not limited to those enterprise customers using Alfresco software "because of the wide range of open-source and proprietary software use cases captured and the large sample size of the survey," [Ian Howells, Alfresco's chief marketing officer] said. "We think these findings accurately reflect the broad technology trends across modern stacks in organizations of all sizes." Gallup polls about U.S. presidential candidates typically survey about 1,000 likely voters, while Alfresco surveyed more than 10,000 people, he said.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: eWEEK Linux

Commenters focus on the inclusion of Open XML as an acceptable document format for office use.



Updated: Thu Aug 2 23:55:03 2007


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