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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Arch Size: 497.80 MB Status: 3 seeders and 10 leechers Added: 2007-08-06 20:13:19


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Bluewhite64 Size: 1.22 GB Status: 14 seeders and 15 leechers Added: 2007-08-06 20:07:07


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Arch Size: 146.87 MB Status: 3 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-08-06 19:54:16


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Arch Size: 29.62 MB Status: 3 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-08-06 19:51:25


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Arch Size: 517.41 MB Status: 25 seeders and 27 leechers Added: 2007-08-06 19:05:39


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Arch Size: 140.54 MB Status: 11 seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2007-08-06 19:01:51


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Category: Arch Size: 28.38 MB Status: 5 seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2007-08-06 18:56:46


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Sabayon Linux Size: 4.16 GB Status: 31 seeders and 188 leechers Added: 2007-08-06 08:05:53


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Sabayon Linux Size: 4.37 GB Status: 28 seeders and 96 leechers Added: 2007-08-06 07:51:20


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Source: bluewhite64

A live DVD edition of Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0, a 64-bit variant of Slackware Linux, has been released: "Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0 Live DVD runs entirely from DVD and includes all packages from Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0 (except the Y and KDEi software series) and the updated packages from the patches .


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Source: absolute

Paul Sherman has announced the availability of Absolute Linux 12.0.1, a light-weight modification of Slackware Linux with IceWM: "Absolute Linux 12.0.1 released." From the changelog: "Kernel recompiled to support i586 CPUs (Pentium-1 and K6-2); K3b 1.0.3 updated for bug fixes, including one device error that could prevent application .


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Source: dragonflybsd

Matthew Dillon has announced the release of DragonFly BSD 1.10: "DragonFly 1.10 has been released!" From the release notes: "1.10 is our sixth major DragonFly release. Several big-ticket items are present in this release. Our default ATA driver has been switched to NATA (ported from FreeBSD). NATAs big .


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Source: weekly

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Reviews: GParted LiveCD vs Parted Magic Statistics: DistroWatch in Latin America and the Caribbean News: MEPIS returns to Debian roots, Ubuntu dismisses Automatix, Carmony leaves Linspire, Medison Celebrity offers low-cost notebook with Fedora, Murdock explains future of Solaris Released last week: Arch Linux .



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Source: Linux Today

Ubuntu Geek: "This tutorial will explain how to upgrade you to kernel version 2.6.22-9-generic "


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Source: Linux Today

KernelTrap: "Nick Piggin used 'git bisect' to track a lmbench regression to the main CFS commit, leading to an interesting discussion between Nick and Ingo Molnar "


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Source: Linux Today

Join the Revolution: "This report was compiled from hundreds of comments, ideas and suggestions made to various web blogs, wikis and mailing lists, due to the recent Email call to action by Mitchell Baker "


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Source: Linux Today

Really Linux: "In this newest 'letter' from Granny, she shares how easy installing and using Linux really can be. She also has many grateful words to share with the team at KDE and PCLinuxOS "


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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "If you're under 30 you may barely know what I'm talking about. But back in the last century Comdex was the computing industry's Woodstock "


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Source: Linux Today

ITtoolbox: "I have now been Microsoft-Free at work for about 7 weeks. I have also found solutions for almost all of the initial hurdles I encountered in the first week "


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Source: Linux Today

Blue GNU: "According to CESC Ltd chief information officer Subroto Das, 'There is nothing called free software.' I beg to differ "


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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "I can't possibly profess to know what the pros and cons are of pushing hardware device drivers into the hypervisors that support virtualization technologies like those from XEN and VMware " (With follow-up analysis.)


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Source: Linux Today

The Open Source Advocate: "But what do we mean when we say 'Ubuntu'? Don't we really mean *buntu, a collection of all Ubuntu versions ?"


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Source: Linux Today

LWN: "It has been almost two years since LWN covered the swap prefetch patch "


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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "I'm fairly ambivalent on the license announcement. Does the world really need two more vanity licenses? (No) Isn't Microsoft sort of late to the party? (Yes) "


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxLookup: "Axion Racing was the first team to autonomously drive up to the top of Colorado's Pike Peak and now leads the way by finding cutting edge uses for the beleaguered Sony PS3 "


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Source: Linux Today

Shift+Backspace: "These articles will not contain much useful information regarding the release, but will give a brief overview of how the system looks "


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Source: Linux Today

Garrett: "A while ago, the Ubuntu Technical Board were asked to take a look at Automatix. I've finally got around to doing so, and here are my initial conclusions "


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Source: Linux Today

DesktopLinux: "In an unusual move, Dell is asking its users what they want Dell CTO Kevin Kettler to talk about at next week's LinuxWorld trade show at San Francisco's Moscone Center "


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Source: Linux Today

KernelTrap: "A recent patch posted to the lkml aimed to make it possible to use both kdb and kdump at the same time, and instead led to an interesting discussion about RAS tools "


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Source: Linux Today

Libervis: "In a letter that recently came with Free Software Foundation's Bulletin Peter Brown poses an invitation to 'help us build Libre planet '"


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Source: Linux Today

Ars Technica: "Ghostscript releases are not normally newsworthy since they are frequent and incremental, but this release is special "


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxWorld Australia: "Providing location information to thousands of mobile phone users is all in a day's work for Ubuntu Linux "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "The Open Business Foundation operates on two premises: that the open source development community makes good business sense "


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DaniWeb: "Although Google itself refuses to budge from the official company line of confirming or denying nothing, it looks increasingly likely that a Googlephone is in the offing "


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Source: Linux Today

BetaNews: "Following in the footsteps of Dell, Lenovo said Monday that it plans to give both consumers and businesses the option to have Linux installed as the default operating system over Windows on select models "


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Source: Linux Today

LWN: "We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.21.7 kernel "


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Source: Linux Today

ConsortiumInfo: "Those on both sides of the ODF vs. OOXML competition are always accusing each other of spinning and misrepresenting each other's actions and statements "


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Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "Instead of having nothing but Linux, the keynote lineup will also have a few speakers who are apparently going to be talking about more than just Linux. That is if they talk about Linux at all "


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Source: Linux Today

Linus kicks out 2.6.23-rc2 on Friday, then Phoronix spends the weekend putting together a performance review today. Interesting ideas about relaxation time. Articles within.


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Source: Linux Today

Linux-Watch: "In an interview today with Linux-Watch, controversial Linux leader Kevin Carmony confirmed rumors that he had resigned as CEO of desktop Linux vendor Linspire on July 31 "


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Source: Linux Today

DesktopLinux: "Sources close to Red Hat said obtaining some of these codecs was dependent on Red Hat coming to an agreement with Microsoft "


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Source: Linux Today

CIO: "Sometimes, the only thing more damaging than a terrible car accident on a major expressway is the thousands of cars whose passengers slow down to take in the misfortunes of their fellow motorists "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "There is nothing wrong with Flickr uploaders, but if you are a heavy Flickr user, you need to do more than just upload pictures "


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Source: Linux Today

iTWire: "It's inevitable: if your computer is Internet-connected you will have people coming a-knockin' "


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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on a CentOS 5.0 server "



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

FuriousCurio writes "Linux kernel hackers appear to be an endlessly creative group of individuals. In response to previous documentation attempts not having been read by many people, KernelTrap is reporting about how the lguest documentation was prepared to be something of an adventure story. Self-proclaimed to turn you into an lguest expert, lguest being one of the new solutions for running a virtual instance of the Linux operating system as a user process within a real instance of the Linux operating system, the documentation mixes humor and wit into puzzles, poetry, and of course source code and a low-level understanding of virtualization. But the questions remains, will making documentation more entertaining actually work to get people to read it?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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Source: Slashdot: Linux

Pengo writes "Lenovo has announced that they will begin selling T-series ThinkPads with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 pre-installed beginning sometime during the fourth quarter. In addition to supplying the hardware support, Lenovo will also handle OS support for ThinkPad customers, with Novell providing software updates. 'Unlike Dell, which has targeted its Linux offering primarily at the enthusiast community, Lenovo's SLED laptops are targeted at the enterprise. Whether they are running Ubuntu, SLED, or some other distribution, the availability of Linux pre-installation from mainstream vendors increases the visibility of the operating system and gives component makers an incentive to provide better Linux drivers and hardware support. If Lenovo is willing to collaborate with the Linux development community to improve the Linux laptop user experience, it will be a big win for all Linux users, not just the ones who buy laptops from Lenovo.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Microsoft's patent indemnity agreements with several Linux vendors are unsettling the marketplace, Ubuntu leader says.



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Source: Linux DevCenter

I attended my first OSCON two weeks ago. I learned a lot about leading open source projects — something that has long been important to me, but now is even more important for me, since I’ve just started working full time on Intel’s new Threading Building Blocks open source project. I split my time at OSCON between sessions related to multithreaded programming and open source project management strategies.


It’s easy to think that an open source project’s success depends on the quality of the product and nothing else. But that is surely not the case. An excellent open source project that no one knows about is very likely to eventually disappear.


Yet, open source projects are indeed quite different from corporate products. An open source project succeeds through the interest and effort of its community. It’s not just a matter of how many dollars were spent to promote the product — what matters as much, or more, is the community, the relationships, the dialog among members of the community.


A given is that the open source project must be worthy of attention, the software must address a need and be of high quality. Otherwise, why should anyone pay attention to it?

Why corporations support open source projects

In his recent O’Reilly Radar post “Yahoo!’s bet on Hadoop”, Tim O’Reilly commented:



OK — but why is Yahoo!’s involvement so important? First, it indicates a kind of competitive tipping point in Web 2.0, where a large company that is a strong #2 in a space (search) realizes that open source is a great competitive weapon against their dominant competitor. It’s very much the same reason why IBM got behind Eclipse, as a way of getting competitive advantage against Sun in the Java market. (If you thought they were doing it out of the goodness of their hearts rather than clear-sighted business logic, think again.) If Yahoo! is realizing that open source is an important part of their competitive strategy, you can be sure that other big Web 2.0 companies will follow. In particular, expect support of open source projects that implement software that Google treats as proprietary.



So, corporations support open source in order to make money. Duh! But, let’s think about who benefits: shareholders, employees, the company’s customers, and whoever uses the supported open source software. So, in the case of Yahoo! or IBM, or Sun, or Intel — is there anyone reading this post who isn’t among that group of beneficiaries?

Corporate reticence

To be a good open source citizen, it seems to me that a corporation needs to understand the value of reticence. Corporate reticence implies that the corporation understands where the world is moving, and they want to ensure that they have their boat in that rising water. It’s a statement that they don’t employ the “not-invented-here” syndrome in their decision-making. A statement that they would like to be a member of the community that is creating the future, rather than the dictatorial creator of that future.


This is an enormous step for corporations to take. Open source has played a great role in bringing this situation into being, in my view. The notion that a free community can be more powerful than a corporate spreadsheet is difficult to swallow for most corporate officers. Yet, some come to understand it much more quickly than others.

OSCON and Corporations

Corporations, of course, are the prime funders of conferences such as OSCON. It’s a signal that corporations (some of them, anyway) have recognized that the world is much bigger than their specific product domain. And if they can be good citizens within that larger world, they will reap benefits along with all other participants.


There is definitely a big difference in how well corporations understand the open source process, and how they address “openness” in general. In my view, some — such as IBM, Intel, and probably Sun, “get it.” They simply want to position their boat in the rising water, and to do so they are willing to pull their fair share of the weight. If open source projects have hundreds of salaried IBM, Intel, and Sun developers working on them, isn’t that a great benefit? I’d say so!


I was able to attend OSCON because I’m working with Intel on Threading Building Blocks. It’s a project I’m very pleased to be working on, because much of my software development experience has involved multithreaded software development, on both Unix and Windows systems. I thoroughly enjoyed OSCON. I’m excited to be working on my first open source project, Threading Building Blocks. While Intel invented the software, the intent is indeed that its future will be determined by the community. That’s the kind of corporate participation in open source that I see as beneficial for the entire community.


At OSCON I saw evidence that many other corporations are starting to “get it.” I consider that a very very good sign!


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Source: Linux DevCenter

I just ran across a great tutorial by Miriam Ruiz: Recipe: Internationalizing a C program with gettext. Though it’s only a starting point, it explains everything I failed to get by trawling the appropriate manpages. Now I have almost no excuse not to do it!



Updated: Tue Aug 7 23:55:02 2007


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