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Category: Ubuntu Size: 696.06 MB Status: 7 seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2007-08-09 17:23:40

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Category: Puppy Size: 95.37 MB Status: 4 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-08-09 07:30:22

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Category: Freespire Size: 683.42 MB Status: 1 seeders and 23 leechers Added: 2007-08-09 02:22:27

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Stephan Kulow has announced the first beta release of openSUSE 10.3: "The openSUSE team is proud to announce the first beta release of openSUSE 10.3. There are many exciting enhancements and features in the new release. Among these are a whole new and greatly improved package management stack .

Source: ubuntu

Martin Pitt has announced the fourth alpha release (or "Tribe 4 CD"), of Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon": "The Ubuntu developers are hurrying to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source Community has to offer. Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 4 is the fourth alpha release of .

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "When Fedora 7 was released, one of its standout features was Smolt, an opt-in program for collecting data about users' hardware "

Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "Last month we looked at the ALiveNF7G-HDReady from ASRock, which was a great budget motherboard that had integrated NVIDIA GeForce 7050 graphics that made it suitable for an HTPC or multimedia setup and it came topped with Gigabit LAN support and IEEE-1394 Firewire "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxLinks: "We'll delve into what's new in 7 as well as review Fedora from a desktop standpoint "

Source: Linux Today

ONLamp: "Yesterday I heard of a government agency where the manager required employees to post their account names and passwords on a bulletin board, so they could get into each other's systems in case one of them was out for a day "

Source: Linux Today

whurley: "It's time for the systems management community to start acting like one "

Source: Linux Today

OSWeekly: "And while so many people pointed to the fact that we already have apt-get, YaST, among other application installation solutions, no one seems to have an answer to the legality of using restricted codecs and fonts here in the States "

Source: Linux Today

Blue GNU: "You know what led me to Free Software to begin with? It wasn't that I was deeply concerned about my Constitutional rights, my Civil rights, or even my Miranda rights "

Source: Linux Today

InformationWeek: "But Palm is showing it off this week at LinuxWorld in San Francisco, and the better you understand it, the harder it is to make fun of it "

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "The two biggest names in the Linux industry--Linus Torvalds and Red Hat--skipped out on LinuxWorld again "

Source: Linux Today

ITBusiness.ca: "I'm actually beginning to picture a day when users start to ask their IT departments why they can't run Ubuntu Linux at work, the way they do at home "

Source: Linux Today

Tux Deluxe: "The amazing thing is how many large corporations actually did take part in the drafting process for the GPLv3 "

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "For open source backers who love to bash Microsoft (and other proprietary software companies), this LinuxWorld was not for you "

Source: Linux Today

CNET News: "Sun is rising, and open source is the driver behind its rebirth "

Source: Linux Today

KernelTrap: "Following a recent merge request, Linus Torvalds stressed that he was serious about not wanting to merge any big changes after the merge window closes "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "The alpha version of Mozilla's community-driven Firefox support site offers how-to and troubleshooting documents directed toward new users--a crucial audience if the browser is to capture and maintain additional market share "

Source: Linux Today

iTWire: "Linux vendor Red Hat's first Linux desktop product aimed at small businesses will be available to system builders in Australia at the beginning of 2008 "

Source: Linux Today

CNET News: "Sun Microsystems is making it easier for open-source programmers to ensure their Java versions meet the company's compatibility requirements, but the deal extends only to those involved in Sun's own open-source Java project "

Source: Linux Today

Maximum PC: "Microsoft's Sam Ramji slammed the door on virtualizing Microsoft's newest desktop operating systems (XP and Vista) on Linux yesterday "

Source: Linux Today

PC World: "What they are looking for depends on where their companies are in the ongoing convergence of corporate IT and open-source software "

Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "Make no mistake about it. Red Hat is a key part of the Linux world, even though you won't find the company on the exhibition floor at LinuxWorld. Not officially at least "

Source: Linux Today

InfoWorld: "Linux Foundation director sees Linux entering second stage of growth and a computing world dominated by two platforms "

Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "The Open Source Initiative has been the body that determines what is or isn't Open Source and it's a group that fell under harsh criticism by panel member John Roberts CEO of SugarCRM "

Source: Linux Today

Slyck: "BitTorrent 6.0, the official mainline client based on uTorrent, was released on July 28, 2006. Unlike previous official releases, there was no corresponding source code "

Source: Linux Today

Ubuntu: "Welcome to Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 4, which will in time become Ubuntu 7.10 "

Source: Linux Today

Computerworld: "Mozilla Corp.'s next update to Firefox will sport several new safer surfing features, the company's chief of security said today, but users won't see the most important changes "

Source: Linux Today

InfoWorld: "Red Hat's Michael Evans, vice president of corporate development at the company, said afterward that liked the idea. But he expressed doubts about the effort since Hovsepian was involved "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "MySQL quietly let slip that it would no longer be distributing the MySQL Enterprise Server source as a tarball, not quite a year after the company announced a split between its paid and free versions " With follow-up from MySQL's Kaj Arnö.

Source: Linux Today

eWeek: "Microsoft will lose market share to open-source desktops, a Dell strategist says at LinuxWorld "

Source: Linux Today

KernelTrap: "In a recent lkml thread, Linus Torvalds was involved in a discussion about mounting filesystems with the noatime option for better performance "

Source: Linux Today

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PolishLinux: "This will be an unusual review, due to the fact that the distribution under review doesn't have an X server, and you don't really need to login on it to work "

Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "This guide describes how you can use the CD/DVD burning application K3b to convert songs from an audio CD into MP3 or Ogg files that you can use on your MP3 player, for example "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "The community-driven Edubuntu project aims to create a version of Ubuntu specially tailored for use in primary and secondary education "

Source: Linux Today

Really Linux: "It may seem a bit ridiculous to some, but on more than one occasion I have been asked to help address a Windows hardware issue by assisting with Linux "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "A group of open source developers have been working behind the scenes to create a new service known as Schedules Direct to provide affordable scheduling data for North American users of MythTV. Today, they've announced an initial pricing plan of $15 for a 3 month block, non-recurring. Details are still fairly light at the moment, but there's a mailing list and a FAQ available on the site — one notable tidbit is that the developers 'expect pricing to drop by the end of the initial term. Our goal is $20/year.' This comes weeks before the planned shutdown of Zap2it Labs' Data Direct service mentioned previously."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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apokryphos writes "AMD has helped sponsor the progress of openSUSE with leading-edge hardware and development expertise. "AMD is helping to ensure that the openSUSE Build Service continues to be an important collaboration and development platform for developers of all distributions," said Terri Hall, AMD vice president of Commercial Systems Marketing. Are these continued announcements of huge support from large OEMs an indication of a new era?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

vboulytchev writes "The folks at MySQL has quietly announced that it will no longer be distributing the MySQL Enterprise Server source as a tarball. It's been about a year since the split between the paid and free versions of the database project. The Enterprise Server code is still under the GNU General Public License (GPL), and as a result MySQL appears to be making it harder for non-customers to access the source code. 'One of the things that many users worry about is whether they're getting an inferior version of MySQL by using the Community version. Urlocker says that MySQL "wants to make sure the Community version is rock solid," but admitted that the company has introduced features into the Community edition of the software that "[weren't] as robust as we thought, and created some instabilities." Because of that, the company is revising its policies about when features go into the Community releases.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: eWEEK Linux

Opinion: Microsoft's deals with China needn't deter open-source backers.

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Here's the start of a series on little-known topics that wizards should know. Knowledge of the Harry Potter series not required.

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Power consumption is a hot topic — from laptop, to datacenter. Recently, the Linux kernel has made huge steps forward in power conservation. This article focuses on the so-called "tickless idle" feature being integrated into the 2.6.21 and 2.6.23 kernel versions.

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

From contracts to code, an intellectual property attorney is essential.

Source: ONLamp.com

Mono has always been a bit of an outsider. Open source folks distrust it because it helps people use Microsoft technologies on non-Microsoft platforms. Microsoft people don't see the need for it. But this social outcast has been making steady progress and can offer a lot if you take the time to check it out. Edd Dumbill gives us an update on the state of Mono.

Source: Linux DevCenter

run-parts is used (on Debian systems, anyway) to run the scripts in /etc/cron.daily (hourly, weekly, etc) on the appropriate schedule. I had trouble this week with a Perl script I’d dropped into /etc/cron.daily failing to run. Ran fine from the command line, of course. Odd.

Eventually it occurred to me, after a little light man page reading, to try run-parts --test /etc/cron.daily (which just prints the names of the scripts that would run). Script failed to show up. Most Odd.

I finally found the answer via Google, although a slightly less light reading of the man page would have helped. Scripts to be run by run-parts must adhere to a particular naming convention - in particular, no .xx endings. So my script.pl script wasn’t being picked up due to that .pl ending. I renamed it to script and all was well.

(I’m not actually sure what the logic of this is; I’m assuming it’s likely to be historical reasons. You can alter it with the --lsbsysinit option, if you prefer that. I know the .xx ending is by no means essential, but I prefer in general to have a quick visual of what language I’ve written a script in.)