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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Mepis Size: 667.53 MB Status: 1 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-08-19 06:54:46

Source: momonga

The Momonga Linux development team has announced the release of Momonga Linux 4, a Japanese community distribution loosely modelled after the Fedora project. Code named "Izumi", the new version is the first Momonga release to introduce DVD spins with either the GNOME or the KDE desktop, as well .

Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevCenter: "I use RT as a request/bug tracker, but until recently hadn't set it up with an email address plugged directly into it "

Source: Linux Today

ONLamp: "In comments on Sci Foo 2007, Tim O'Reilly wondered if giving Larry Wall a research job may have reduced his immediate practical concerns influencing the development of Perl 6 "

Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions about how to create a highly available VMware Server environment on a Debian Etch system "

Source: Linux Today

CNET News: "I used to envy Larry Ellison. But then I had lunch with one of his senior minions, and now I feel a little sympathy. Just a little "

Source: Linux Today

OSNews: "PureMobile sent us in the brand new Motorola handset, second generation RAZR: the Linux-based V8. One of the most sleek and most-wanted phones in the market, and we take it for a serious spin "

Source: Linux Today

The Jem Report: "n preparing to read and review O'Reilly's The Myths of Innovation, I had the chance to interview its author, Scott Berkun "

Source: Linux Today

ComputerWeekly: "New US airline Virgin America has migrated to Red Hat Linux to host its website "

Source: Linux Today

Developer.com: "Type conversion is the process by which type-agnostic data is converted into more complex objects "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

victor77 writes "Linus has repeatedly slammed Subversion and CVS, questioning their basic architecture. Subversion community has responded how valid is Linus's statement?" This and many other subjects are covered in this interview with Linus.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: ONLamp.com

With all the elaborate 3D graphics packages out there today, it's easy to forget that sometimes all you want to do is draw a nice 2D diagram. Philipp Janert takes us on a stroll down memory lane with pic, a command-line based tool that can prove very useful.

Source: ONLamp.com

I have been meaning for the longest time to scratch the personal itch of creating a robust command line tool to analyze duplicates on a file system. There are a few scripts floating around in various languages and the problem is not all that difficult to solve, but I went the whole nine yards and wrote a reasonably cool command line tool that uses md5 checksums to detect duplicates. A report is generated in addition to stdout dup messages in CSV format, so you can manually look through dupes and decide what you want to do with them.
Liten can be downloaded from the cheeseshop: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/Liten/0.1a
GoogleCode: http://code.google.com/p/liten/
I have a rather long list of things to finish, like threading, daemonizing, caching ORM backend, way more unittesting etc. Give it a whirl and let me know what you think…
Oh, and thanks to the following people that I bugged with dumb questions like I usually do :)
Titus Brown, Shannon Behrens, Rick Copeland, Jeremy Jones, Scott Leerssen.

Source: Linux DevCenter

I dropped my subscription to Linux Journal a couple of years ago because I got tired of their stubborn refusal to admit women into their gearhead club. Sure, you’ll find the very occasional women author, but not many. What I did see a lot of was pages of ads that insulted women in every stereotyped way- brainless ornamental boy toys. God forbid we should ever be portrayed as IT professionals and actual humans.
Fast-forward a year or two, and what happens? Does LJ wise up? Why, no! Not at all! Instead they take a huge step backwards and run a full-page ad that insults both women and men:
http://feministing.com/archives/007501.html
Way to go, Linux Journal! When can we expect your sincere, very public apology? When are you going to wise up?
Some more links:
http://www.allbusiness.com/marketing-advertising/4187845-1.html
http://use.perl.org/~brian_d_foy/journal/33953?from=rss
Linux Journal contacts page: http://www.linuxjournal.com/xstatic/staff/index
Part 2 “Dear Linux Journal: News Flash- Women Are People”
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/08/dear_linux_journal_news_flash_1.html
**edit**
I changed the title from “Idiot-Boy’s Club” because it was unfair and mean.