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Linux and Open Source News for 30th August 2007

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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Ubuntu Size: 2.56 GB Status: 2 seeders and 14 leechers Added: 2007-08-30 21:07:46


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Ubuntu Size: 3.68 GB Status: 6 seeders and 62 leechers Added: 2007-08-30 20:56:32


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Category: Linux Live CDs Size: 372.98 MB Status: 1 seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2007-08-30 13:12:34


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Category: Debian Size: 4.12 GB Status: 75 seeders and 150 leechers Added: 2007-08-30 03:53:56


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Debian Size: 4.37 GB Status: 82 seeders and 185 leechers Added: 2007-08-30 03:52:10


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Debian Size: 4.37 GB Status: 112 seeders and 235 leechers Added: 2007-08-30 03:43:29


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Source: zenwalk

Jean-Philippe Guillemin has announced the availability of a beta release of Zenwalk Linux 4.8: "The Zenwalk Team is happy to announce the Zenwalk 4.8 beta release. The up-to-date kernel is now at 2.6.22.5, with its new wireless stack, tickless clock and 1000 Hz scheduler for better reactivity while .



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Source: Linux Today

Blue-GNU: "Need a virtual office? You can try phpGroupware, which is an official GNU Project "


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Source: Linux Today

SearchEnterpriseLinux: "'Our motto is 'Bug for bug, feature for feature, we are completely compatible with Microsoft Windows,'' he said "


Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "The LCD panel was fitted to a PC running Windows Vista with the default desktop while the CRT was on a system running Ubuntu, again with the default desktop "


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Source: Linux Today

VelocityWebDev: "There is an interesting reality that is not captured by financial analysts, Gartner, or Microsoft "


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Source: Linux Today

aseigo: "it's interesting to see people picking up the 'kde4: hype-or-revolution' story in the media, including some even mainstream-ish sources "


Source: Linux Today

OS/2 World: "The Swedish Standards Institute has tonight issued a press release where they declared this weeks earlier vote regarding OOXML as invalid and by that Sweden don't have any official position regarding OOXML any more "


Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "In a bid to boost its stock price, Sun Microsystems changed its ticker symbol Monday to JAVA. The market's reaction? That's fine, kid, here's a quarter "


Source: Linux Today

ServerWatch: "Now, it seems, the days of the nifty purple chassis will be soon forgotten. Sun Microsystems took steps earlier this month toward becoming a pure software company "


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451 CAOS Theory: "As Redmond alters its course and plots its co-existence and next wave of competition with open source, it is running into everything from pushback to open arms to, more recently, a challenge by the Free Software Foundation "


Source: Linux Today

/home/liquidat: "The last Desktop Linux Survey was interesting, but hardly surprising. But most important is that this was no real statistic: the sample was not representative by any means "


Source: Linux Today

[TriLUG]: "This is my tale of purchasing a computer from Dell, with Ubuntu 7.04
preloaded on it "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux-Watch: "By drawing so much attention to Linux, and failing so spectacularly to find any legal flaw in it, SCO has actually helped Linux's business acceptance "


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Source: Linux Today

DesktopLinux: "Thanks to a note from its creator, DesktopLinux.com learned about a new 'release candidate' of Custom NimbleX 2 this week "


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Source: Linux Today

Mandriva: "Mandriva Benelux NV (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg) was launched on August 16th 2007 as the sole Benelux partner for Mandriva S.A, offering Mandriva Linux operating systems "


Source: Linux Today

LinuxInsider: "Targeting small and medium-sized businesses, Zmanda on Wednesday introduced an advanced enterprise-class release of its open source backup software called 'Amanda '"


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Red Hat News: "The tour consists of half-day interactive seminars where IT decision makers can learn how to transform their enterprise with an open source-based approach to virtualization and service-oriented architecture "


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#open.ended: "Ubuntu Xorg maintainer Bryce Harrington recently demonstrated the BulletProof-X feature that is planned for inclusion in Ubuntu 7.10 "


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Computerworld: "The preliminary agenda has been posted, as has the list of attendees. So it is possible to look forward and get a sense for what is likely to be discussed "


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KernelTrap: "In a recent series of patches posted to the Linux Kernel mailing list, it was proposed that some imported Atheros wireless device drivers be re-licensed, some from a dual-BSD/GPL license, others from a modified BSD license, all to a pure GPLv2 license "


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Linux.com: "Be on guard against alleged representatives of Linux Corporation offering to buy your photos--it's a scam "


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The Register: "Novell narrowed losses in the third quarter, bolstered by the SUSE Linux business beginning to pull more weight "


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Source: Linux Today

As the Sunday voting deadline approaches, mainstream media coverage and community opinion regarding the ISO approval process of the Open XML format continues to grow. Articles from The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and OOXML within, as well as an opinion piece from Linux Journal and a defense from Microsoft's Jason Matusow on his company's missteps in Sweden.


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APC Magazine: "Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest PC manufacturer, has announced it will start selling Linux-based PCs from $AU600 in Australia "


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InformationWeek: "McBride says he was caught off guard by the judge's decision because SCO's position was backed by nine witnesses "


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Baseline: "An open-source planning setup allowed the company to shift its operations--and save money "


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eWeek: "A best-of-breed philosophy is leading LeapFrog Enterprises increasingly toward open-source options "


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Blue-GNU: "On the surface, it is fairly simple to use. And yet, it is also a fairly complex and flexible system. The question is, just how useful is it ?"


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Business Communications Review: "Not for a number of universities, where such systems are in use today in production environments "



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Source: eWEEK Linux

Opinion: LeapFrog's Eugene Ciurana has spent his free time testing the OLPC's XO laptop and says it hits the mark.



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

USB flash drives may be the sneakernet of the 21st Century, but with a little open source software, you can carry a veritable arsenal of tools in your pocket.


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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Take a tour of the Linux filesystem. Drive down /bin Street, cruise over to /usr Lane, and buy some souvenirs over in /dev Drive.



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Source: ONLamp.com

We've all gotten familiar with the concept of developing an MVC (Model-View-Controller) application using a server, with the browser merely the client for the view. But TrimPath Junctions brings the entire MVC pattern to a browser-only JavaScript world. Interested? Then read on!



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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Are you curious about how you can maximize the XMLTABLE function in SQL/XML? Do
you want to learn how to retrieve XML data in a relational format? This article
describes the XMLTABLE function in detail and presents a series of examples showing
how to use this function in DB2 9 for Linux, Unix, Windows and DB2 9 for zOS.


Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

In this series of two articles, David discusses the non-obvious features and
misfeatures that have been added to the last several Python versions, with the goal
of helping part-time Python programmers uncover the gems while avoiding the
pitfalls. This installment adds attributes and methods, descriptors, and properties
to the discussion.



Updated: Fri Aug 31 23:55:03 2007


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