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Linux and Open Source News for 15th August 2007

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Category: Pardus Size: 695.72 MB Status: 1 seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2007-08-15 23:49:46


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: PCLinuxOS Size: 678.72 MB Status: no seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-08-15 21:16:49


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Category: sidux Size: 698.47 MB Status: 1 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-08-15 20:12:20


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Category: sidux Size: 439.53 MB Status: 1 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-08-15 20:08:04


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Category: Linux Kernels Size: 43.03 MB Status: 5 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-08-15 17:37:07


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Category: Ark Size: 125.66 MB Status: 2 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-08-15 11:36:10


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Category: Ark Size: 641.88 MB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-08-15 11:33:23


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Category: Ark Size: 619.56 MB Status: 3 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-08-15 11:30:38


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Category: Ark Size: 559.06 MB Status: 3 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-08-15 11:27:41


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Category: Ark Size: 255.03 MB Status: 3 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-08-15 11:25:23


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Category: Ark Size: 345.53 MB Status: 3 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-08-15 11:22:25


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Category: Ark Size: 698.63 MB Status: 1 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-08-15 11:18:31


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Category: sidux Size: 431.10 MB Status: 2 seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2007-08-15 05:24:12



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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "This document describes how to integrate DSPAM with embedded ClamAV into a mail server based on Postfix featuring virtual users and domains "


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Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "Every few months, a pundit asks, 'Is Linux ready for the desktop?' The implication, of course, is that it hasn't been--at least, not until very recently "


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Source: Linux Today

Mad Penguin: "Right away, as the hype and hot air came oozing off this distro, I could not believe my eyes. On a machine that I have run no less than 13 distributions on, for the first time, I'm looking at what appears to be 640x400 resolution "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "The Sabayon Linux live DVD distribution, based on the unstable branch of Gentoo Linux, has been in development for several years and caters to a wide variety of users "


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Source: Linux Today

Starry Hope: "Unfortunately, Dell and Ubuntu's parent company Canonical have not worked together closely enough to make this a first-rate offering "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.org: "Everyone is focusing on the death sentence that was handed to SCO last Friday. But that was really a mere formality. SCO has been dead for quite some time. Such is the fate of those who live by litigation and not by making good products "


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Source: Linux Today

CNET News: "Tim believes that open source, at least as defined by open-source licensing, has a short shelf-life that will be consumed by Web 2.0 "


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Source: Linux Today

here be dragons: "It's too early to say for certain, but there are very encouraging signs that the world's standards bodies will vote in favour of a single unified ISO "


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Source: Linux Today

The Register: "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) mounted its protests against 'corruption' of the BBC by Microsoft in London and Manchester this morning "


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Source: Linux Today

ComputerWeekly: "Ignore the myths. Open source security technology is an affordable and robust option for small and medium-sized businesses "


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Source: Linux Today

InformationWeek: "A new Web site has appeared from Access touting its next-generation mobile Linux operating system "


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Source: Linux Today

Softpedia: "In this context, Microsoft and Xandros will focus on growing the interoperability bridge between their respective email servers with the help of the Redmond company's email protocols "


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevices: "Several device-oriented products familiar to LinuxDevices readers came away from last week's LinuxWorld Expo with product excellence awards "


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxWorld: "The nonprofit Linux Foundation has unveiled the Linux Weather Forecast, a Web site aimed at giving people a better sense of the status of specific Linux kernel projects "


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Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "The virtualization market got another shot in the arm one day after the blockbuster VMware IPO, with the $500 million dollar acquisition of virtualization vendor XenSource by Citrix "


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IT Pro: "Following a court ruling that Novell owns key Unix copyrights rather than embattled SCO, we look at the colourful and litigious relationship SCO has had with the world of Unix and Linux "


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Source: Linux Today

Computer Business Review: "Microsoft has submitted two of its share source licenses to the Open Source Initiative licensing committee for approval as compliant with the Open Source Definition "


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Source: Linux Today

Groklaw: "We get the clearest hint yet of what SCO may be thinking for the future, and as I expected, there is no white flag flying yet "


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Source: Linux Today

SearchEnterpriseLinux: "Is Oracle Corp.'s decision to release 11g first on Linux a sign of the operating system's growing popularity in mission-critical environments, or is it a strategic play by the world's leading database provider to stymie the increased demand for Microsoft SQL Server ?"


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LinuxWorld: "Now that it has scored a major win for Linux in its legal battle with The SCO Group Inc., Novell Inc. has no interest in becoming like the company it's just defeated "


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ZDNet Asia: "Open source software (OSS) adoption is growing steadily in Malaysia, where IT practitioners in the industry are optimistic its development will make greater strides in the coming years "


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Source: Linux Today

Editor's Note: Yesterday afternoon and evening, Linux Today blinked.


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LinuxDevices: "A project aimed at building a Linux distribution for media center PCs has achieved a major new release "


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ONLamp: "Maybe you know how to drive a car. Maybe you can fix the carburetor. You probably don't assume that you know how to design the car "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux In Novell's East Region: "I can't believe I actually used that title, but it accurately describes what I want to describe how to do "


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "Last month marked the introduction of Fedora 7 support with the fglrx 8.39.4 ATI/AMD driver but not much more than that was to be found aside from an undocumented XML file "


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Ubuntu Geek: "Tor is a program that allows one to surf through a local proxy with a routed IP address "



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jmglov writes "Dave Gutteridge has an unusual take on why people are not interested in saving money by using a free-as-in-beer OS like Linux or *BSD: because Windows is free. At least, that is an all-too-common perception, thanks to bundling and piracy. Bundling is a well-known problem to the adoption of open source operating systems, so Dave takes a look at the piracy issue in depth. His title may offend you, but his well-written article will most likely get you thinking hard about the question, 'how much does Windows cost?'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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willdavid sends us to the ZDNet blogs for a provocative opinion piece by John Carroll. He points to Microsoft's evident cross-platform strategy with Silverlight, and wonders whether the company couldn't make money — and win friends — by extending its excellent development ecosystem cross-platorm. "Microsoft, apparently, is helping the folks at Mono to port Silverlight to Linux. This is good news, as the primary fear I've heard from developers is that Silverlight will be locked to Microsoft platforms and products. Microsoft has already committed to supporting Silverlight cross-browser on Windows, and has a version that runs on Mac OS X (which is even available from the Apple web site). The last step is Linux, and Microsoft is working with Novell and Mono to make this happen."Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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E5Rebel writes "Novell has promised not to sue anybody over the Unix copyrights that a US court last week ruled it owned. They said there was no Unix in Linux and now they are sticking by it. Perhaps they had no option, but Novell deserve praise for taking on the fight with SCO ."Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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An anonymous reader noted that "Ubuntu had to shutdown 5 of 8 production servers that are sponsored by Canonical, when they started attacking other systems. Canonical blames the community, saying they were community hosted, and were poorly maintained. However, kernel upgrades couldn't be done because of poor backwards compatibility with the very hardware that Canonical had sponsored! While people point fingers at each other it is pretty clear that both sides are equally to blame, the community administrators for practicing bad security practices, such as using unencrypted FTP transfers with accounts, not properly maintaining the system. However Canonical should have been well aware of what they are hosting. The question remains, if any of the files distributed to users have been compromised. A major blow for Canonical though who are attempting to enter the business market with Ubuntu Server."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: eWEEK Linux

Opinion: Citrix buying XenSource is the best thing that could happen to the company behind the popular open-source virtualization program Xen, and it's the worst thing that could happen to VMware.


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Source: eWEEK Linux

Microsoft licenses Exchange protocols to Linux distributor Xandros for use in Scalix mail server.



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Parrot’s monthly bug day will take place this Saturday, 18 August. Parrot committers and developers will be in #parrot on irc.perl.org all day to prepare for the upcoming release.

This month, our focus is on cleaning up compiler warnings from all of the additional static checking we’ve added in the past two releases. There are also several small coding tasks for Parrot novices. We’re all happy to help you download, configure, and build Parrot and will gladly help you write your first patch for the project.



Updated: Thu Aug 16 23:55:04 2007


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