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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Linux Distributions Size: 1.34 GB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-09-28 05:22:00

Source: nimblex

Bogdan Radulescu has announced the first stable release of NimbleX sub100, a Slackware-based live CD that takes less than 100 MB on the CD, but still manages to fit in the KDE desktop. The highlights: "USB installer (slightly better than the one in 2007v2); added K3b so you .

Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Open Source Magazine: "While this ideal may apply to some open source projects, for the vast majority of open source companies, it is not a case of 'build it and they will come '"

Source: Linux Today

Managing L'unix: "At the more general level the arguments for 'Linux as innovative' come in three distinct forms "

Source: Linux Today

CNET News: "With a host of issues that are inexcusable and features that are taken from the Mac OS X and Linux playbook, Microsoft has once again lost sight of what we really want "

Source: Linux Today

OSI: "We see with concern however that funding agencies don't seem to have a defined standard on what 'Open Source' means, and as a consequence they and the public not always receive what they are expecting in return for the investment of public funds "

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "In spite of a recent slowdown in venture investment, open source remains high on the list of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners "

Source: Linux Today

Groklaw: "If one were to believe Microsoft, antitrust law is for sore losers who are too lazy to innovate, and the decision of the European Court of Justice against Microsoft was to the detriment of consumers around the world "

Source: Linux Today

OpenLogic: " [I]t turns out that most open source software used by enterprises are not licensed under the GPL companies are using primarily Apache licensed software !"

Source: Linux Today

iTWire: "Recently I've been devoting some space to a discussion of Dell's efforts to sell Linux on certain PCs and laptops among its range of models "

Source: Linux Today

ConsortiumInfo: "On any given day you can find thousands of words of reporting, advocacy and debate over the role of patents in technology "

Source: Linux Today

Digital Citizen: "The philosophy of the younger open source movement is really not an adequate response to the older free software movement "

Source: Linux Today

IT Pro: "Considering that it only launched its web browser officially back in November 2004, the Mozilla Foundation has every reason to pat itself on the back over the news that Firefox has now been downloaded for the 400 millionth time "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevices: "A privately held German company with offices in the U.K., U.S., Cyprus, and Malta is touting its Linux-based thin-client technology as a climate change remediant "

Source: Linux Today

KernelTrap: "' [W]e are introducing a new tag for use with patches which deal with files licensed under permissive licenses (BSD, ISC) on Linux wireless in our larger GPL project, the Linux kernel '"

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet Asia: "Better security protection tops the list of buying criteria for open source software, reveals a new study conducted on Australia, China, India and Korea "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevices: "The as-yet unnamed model or models in Nokia's Linux-powered 'N-series' Internet Tablet line will use Intel 'Baxter Peak' WiMAX chips and will support Sprint's 'Xohm' WiMAX service, the top phone-maker has revealed "

Source: Linux Today

DesktopLinux: "Linspire, the troubled Linux distribution vendor, has recently lost a top executive and a lead developer to the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution "

Source: Linux Today

Computerworld Australia: "Clad in his pajamas, Red Hat co-founder Marc Ewing arrived at work at 11 a.m. one day in 1998, unlocked the office for a new employee, and promptly left to go back to sleep "

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet UK: "Michael Meeks has a tough job. Anyone who's struggled with making documents not created in Word interface with Microsoft Office should be able to sympathise "

Source: Linux Today

linux kernel monkey log: "Way back in January, I announced a program to write Linux drivers for companies for free. When I did that, I never expected the response to be as large as it was "

Source: Linux Today

Chris Gray's Weblog: "As of today I'm stepping down from TheOpenCD development, of which for the last eighteen months I've been the sole developer and general caretaker for the project "

Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "In the battle for database supremacy, it's not just a struggle between commercial and open source interests. The open source interests go head-to-head, too "

Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "It is going on two years since support for Scalable Link Interface (SLI) was introduced into NVIDIA's Linux binary display driver "

Source: Linux Today

Blue-GNU: "People interested in offering and seeking jobs specifically related to Free Software might find the GNU Herds project interesting "

Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "Debian-Installer Loader is a Debian Etch installer for Windows which adds an entry to the boot menu that allows you to start the Debian installation "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevCenter: "I am working on finding a way to enable developers working in a wide variety of languages to directly access computationally-intensive libraries written in C++, C, and Fortran "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "I like to back up the data on my laptop computer as often as possible, just in case I have trouble with it "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

ByeByeWintel writes "James Reinders is Intel's Chief Evangelist for Intel's Software Development Products. In a recent interview on Devx.com he stated: 'If I could get ONE wish fulfilled would be for OS scheduling to focus on processes, and not threads, for scheduling. And demand that processes manage their scheduling of threads There is a lot of opportunity for operating systems to offer these types of control in the 'running of applications' interfaces. I'd like an OS to let me specify the 'world' my application runs in (which processors, how many, etc.) These interfaces are available in Windows at run time (the task manager will let you adjust where a running task can go).'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

J_Omega writes "According to an article from last week at the Russian IT site CNews, Linux is slated to be installed in every Russian school by 2009. The article makes it appear that it will be going by the (unimaginative) name 'Russian OS.' As stated in the article: 'The main aim of the given work is to reduce dependence on foreign commercial software and provide education institutions with the possibility to choose whether to pay for commercial items or to use the software, provided by the government.' Initial testing installations are supposed to begin next year in select districts. Is 2008/09 the year of Linux on the (Russian) desktop?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "For the first time in the U.S., a company is being taken to court for a GPL violation. The Software Freedom Law Center has sued Monsoon Multimedia over alleged GPL violations in the Hava, a place- and time-shifting TV recorder similar to the SlingBox. Interestingly, Monsoon Multimedia is run by a highly experienced international lawyer named Graham Radstone. According to his corporate biography, Radstone has an MA in Law from the University of Cambridge, England, and held the top legal spot at an unnamed "$1 billion private multinational company." He also reportedly held top management positions with Philip Morris, Pfizer, and DHL. Sounds like the makings of a good old legal Donnybrook ahead."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

apokryphos writes "Novell have relaunched the Linux Driver Project by dedicating well-known kernel developer Greg KH to work on the project full-time. Greg KH writes: 'My employer, Novell, has modified my position to now allow me to work full time on this project. Namely getting more new Linux kernel drivers written, for free, for any company that so desires. And to help manage all of the developers and project managers who want to help out They really care about helping make Linux support as many devices as possible, with fully open-source drivers.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: ONLamp.com

Another article of the series “Yet Another Perl 6 Operator”
As expected, Perl 6 supports the usual comparison operators. This includes the numeric comparison operators:

== != =

(where '!=' is a short for '!==', the negated version of '=='). These operators convert their terms into numbers before comparison.
The string comparisons operators are here as well.
eq ne lt le gt ge

And, just like in Perl 5, they coerce to strings their operands before comparison. 'ne' is short for '!eq'.

With numeric and string comparison operators in Perl 5, people would easily point that one must artificially choose one of these sets (or both) to overload if some generic comparison semantics was needed for certain objects. Perl 6 introduces two new operators for doing these generic comparisons:

$o1 after $o2
$o1 before $o2

These force no coercion, being suitable to express user-defined ordering of objects.

A nice feature of the comparison operators is that they all may be chained. Thus, Perl 6
supports a natural extension for comparison expressions with multiple operands:


if 1
A chain of comparisons short-circuits: meaning that if a comparison fails, the remaining comparisons to the left never evaluate.

1 2 die("this is never reached");

Each argument in the chain will evaluate at most once:

1 $x++ 2 # $x increments exactly once


Wait for corrections and updates, as there was no time to submit this article for review. Some examples were copied verbatim from Synopsis 03.
Next article will be due Monday (October 1, 2007).

LINKS

Synopsis S03, the official source

The introduction of this series

Official Perl 6 Documentation

Perl 6 in your browser

Source: Linux DevCenter

My friend Dave just built a machine to run
CentOS. Last night he lamented that he didn’t like the video player. I
cringed, “Is it well-known free software video player? I’ve not had
much luck dealing with the developers and I recommend another well-known
free software video player.”

Another friend, Jim, snickered. “This is what I hate about Linux. There’s just too much choice.”

I rolled my eyes. Today I realized why that’s a silly argument (sorry,
Jim–but you don’t use Notepad.exe for text editing).

Today my co-worker Allison repeated
something I said a couple of years ago. “I bet these people paralyzed by
choice starve to death trying to buy breakfast cereal.”

Of course, if you choose the wrong cereal you’re out $4 and some milk. If
you choose the wrong piece of free software, you’re out… probably less than
$4, but that’s not the point.

Unless you’ve never put any thought into the computer you’re using, you’ve
already performed the necessary analysis to find something that meets
your needs. Do you prefer LCD to CRT? Do you need a DVD burner? Is memory an
issue? Which version of MS Windows do you want pre-installed, if you’re that
sort of person? Do you need a fingerprint reader, or TV-out, or an SD reader,
or low power consumption? Even people who don’t care about features may care
about price.

Unless you buy the most expensive Apple laptop with all of the upgrades
religiously every January, you’ve already invested critical analysis of your
perceived needs and preferences into your computing. Unless you’ve never
installed any additional software and always used exactly the defaults as
pre-installed, you’ve already applied that analysis process to choosing which
software to use.

Why is that so difficult to do with free software?

I can accept that it’s unfamiliar, or that you don’t know where to
start, or that it’s different from the way you might normally work, or
that these differences seem confusing, but I can’t accept that you’ve
suddenly drawn a line in the sand where the existence of multiple options is
just too daunting.

What makes software different from brands of toothpaste, types of cereal,
potential significant others, places to live, brands of socks, or anything else
with multiple sources?

Is there anything to this argument at all?

Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

The Business Intelligence Reporting Tool (BIRT), an open source tool for
report generation, is very useful to DB2 Data Warehouse Edition users because of its
ability to generate reports based on relational data and provide interactivity between them. This series of tutorials demonstrates the best practices for installing BIRT, using it to create reports on relational data, and then deploying those reports in a Web server to view them. During the course of this tutorial, you will learn the best practices of using BIRT in Design Studio.

Source: developerWorks : Linux : Technical library

The IBM Installation Toolkit for Linux on POWER simplifies the installation of Linux on
virtualized and non-virtualized Power machines, gives you a bootable rescue DVD, and
provides the software needed to fully exploit the Power platform. Learn to use the
toolkit to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on
IBM System p and System
i5 machines.