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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Linux Live CDs Size: 636.21 MB Status: 2 seeders and 8 leechers Added: 2007-08-29 18:53:42


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Source: elive

A new beta release of Elive 0.9 MacBook edition is now available for testing: "A beta release of Elive (9th development release) for MacBooks, based on Gem, has just been uploaded. Features include: the installer is now included and working; wireless - working well with experimental MadWiFi driver, .



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Source: Linux Today

Builder.au: "In this article we'll run through the basics of job control in Linux "


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Linux Journal: "How often have you thrown up your hands in disgust at the poor quality of documentation for an open source project ?"


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HowtoForge: "This document describes how to set up Tesseract OCR on Ubuntu 7.04. OCR means 'Optical Character Recognition '"


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Montana Linux: "I had the opportunity to be part of the OpenVZ booth at the recent LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco where I met the OpenVZ Project Manager, Kir Kolyshkin "


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Phoronix: "Among the new features for X.Org 7.3 include the Xorg server 1.4, an application for adjusting a display's backlight, updated display drivers, and support for font catalog directories "


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Linux In Novell's East Region: "We all know (or are about to find out) that the world of Open Source Software isn't the same world as proprietary developers live in "


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The Open Road: "Here is the world's largest software company taking potshots at open source, which maybe affects 0.001% of its revenues today. If that "


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Source: Linux Today

Gustavo's IT Blog: " [T]hey've made huge steps toward freedom in computing, but they have missed a key point: If the average computer user is not on our side, we'll get nowhere.


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LinuxDevCenter: "The Free Software Foundation has defined Four Freedoms related to software. These freedoms apply to users of software, not necessarily developers "


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Hoosier Penguin: "It was the smell of ozone that warned me "


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SunMink: "In considering the nature of open source communities that gather around various Free software commons, I often find I need to distinguish between the different roles people play "


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InfoWorld: "I was corrected that the FSF wouldn't lead the legal battle, but that the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) would "


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Limulus: "In order to determine when 'the year of the Linux desktop' arrives, we should look back in history and determine when 'the year of the Windows desktop' arrived and under what circumstances "


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LinuxDevices: "Linux will power about 31 percent of all smartphones sold in 2012, and by then will have shipped in 331 million devices, says ABI "


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LinuxPR: "On September 2, the comment and voting period will close on ISO/IEC DIS 29500, the draft specification based upon Microsoft's Office Open XML formats (OOXML) "


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Government Computer News: "When Doug Babb first signed on as chief information technology systems architect at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, the base was running a dizzying mix of operating systems, servers and applications "


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The Independent: "But now, this stranglehold has been broken. Dell, one of the global giants that supplies businesses and homes with PCs, is selling some of its PCs with Linux, a rival operating system, already installed "


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Linux.com: "It seems like just yesterday that the GNOME Project got its start, but actually it was a decade ago that Miguel de Icaza got the ball rolling "


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Computerworld Australia: "The next-generation of the KDE open source project, version 4.0, has been touted as the beginning of a new era in desktop computing, but only two months from the first release some users are wondering if it's just all hype "


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Linux.com: "Continuing its efforts to connect with social activists, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has released an open letter signed by major environmental organizations "


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Zzzoot: Subtitled: "Where 'Restrictive'=GPL and Non-Restrictive=BSD"


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internetnews.com: "Meanwhile, the cut-off date for the final vote tally as to whether it will become a recognized ISO standard looms this coming Sunday, Sept. 2. However, the final results will likely not be decided until early next year "


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Source: Linux Today

OpenBSD Journal: "Unfortunately, they seem to think that they can strip the BSD license right out of it "


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jonobacon@home: "I am delighted to have the pleasure of announcing the Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04), the next version of Ubuntu that will succeed Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10, due for release in October 2007) "


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Groklaw: "IDG in Sweden is reporting the contents of a leaked Microsoft memo sent to Microsoft partners there, telling them to join the Swedish Institute of Standards and vote yes on OOXML "


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Tectonic: "Software Freedom Day, the worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software, will take place on September 15. One of the main South African events will take place at the department of science and technology in Pretoria "


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CNNMoney: "Novell today announced that state universities across the Federal State of North Rhine Westphalia in Germany have selected Novell for their critical IT infrastructure systems "


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Blue-GNU: "After a bit of a stuttering start, the FSFLA is definitely well under way and making strong progress "


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LinuxDevices: "A major European vendor of city-wide traffic management systems is porting its flagship traffic light controller to Linux and real-time Java "


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Linux.com: "My Series 1 TiVo is getting old, so I am planning an escape route based on MythTV, a free software system that turns an old computer into a personal video recorder "


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KernelTrap: "'It's time to sanitize prototypes of bdev -open(), -release() and -ioctl(),' Al Viro began in an RFC posted to the Linux Kernel mailing list "


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ONLamp: "It's easy to get caught up in the dynamic potential of Ajax. But with innumerable possibilities also comes increased risk. If security isn't a major concern, it should be "


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Linux.com: "If Linux is hardly affected by viruses, why do system administrators use anti-virus software on their Linux email servers ?"



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

Jono Bacon, Community Manager for Ubuntu, has announced development on the next version of the popular Linux distribution name "Hardy Heron". "Not only will the Ubuntu community continue to do what it does best, produce an easy-to-use, reliable, free software platform, but this release will proudly wear the badge of Long Term Support (LTS) and be supported with security updates for five years on the server and three years on the desktop. We look forward to releasing the Hardy Heron in April 2008."Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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bsdphx writes "After years of encouragement from the OpenBSD community for others to use Reyk Floeter's free Atheros wireless driver, it seems that the Linux world is finally listening. Unfortunately, they seem to think that they can strip the BSD license right out of it."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

DB2 9 introduces pureXML support, which means that XML data is stored and queried in its inherent hierarchical format. To query XML data, DB2 offers two languages, SQL/XML and XQuery. You can use XQuery and SQL separately, but you can also use XQuery embedded in SQL and vice versa. This gives you a lot of flexibility and options for querying your XML data. Each of these options is useful under certain circumstances. In this article we describe these options, their respective advantages and disadvantages, and guidelines for choosing the right one for your needs.


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Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Testing fever has infected the Ruby programming community, and the infection is spreading. One of the most promising innovations in testing in the past year is the introduction and rapid growth of RSpec, a behavior-driven testing tool. Learn how RSpec can change the way you think about testing.



Updated: Thu Aug 30 23:55:02 2007


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