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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: AliXe Size: 329.39 MB Status: 3 seeders and 18 leechers Added: 2007-10-04 23:06:07

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Category: SystemRescue Size: 155.54 MB Status: 17 seeders and 58 leechers Added: 2007-10-04 21:57:20

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Category: Fedora Size: 697.88 MB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-10-04 16:08:34

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Category: Fedora Size: 695.26 MB Status: 1 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-10-04 15:39:08

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Category: Fedora Size: 3.40 GB Status: no seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-10-04 15:36:11

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Category: Fedora Size: 2.89 GB Status: no seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2007-10-04 15:30:14

Source: parsix

Alan Baghumian has announced the availability of the second revision of Parsix GNU/Linux 0.90: "An updated version of Parsix GNU/Linux 0.90, code,name Barry, has been released. Barry r2 merges all published updates from Parsix and Debian testing repositories as of Oct 3, 2007. Several bugs have been solved, .

Source: clarkconnect

The first release candidate of ClarkConnect Server/Gateway 4.2 is ready for testing: "ClarkConnect Community 4.2 Release Candidate 1 is available. The release candidate should be mostly bug free. We always find a few outstanding issues as we approach the deadline, but no show-stoppers. The WPAD automatic proxy detection .

Source: fedora

Jeremy Katz has announced the third test release of Fedora 8: "Fedora 8 Test 3 is here! This is the last test release before the development freeze and a great time to test all those packages that you know and love. Changes from Fedora 8 Test 2: Online .

Source: suse

Novell has announced the release of openSUSE 10.3: "Novell today announced the availability of openSUSE 10.3, the newest version of the award-winning community Linux distribution. Enhancements to openSUSE 10.3 include the newest versions of the GNOME and KDE desktop environments, including a KDE 4 preview. OpenOffice.org 2.3 makes .

Source: netbsd

Pavel Cahyna has announced the availability of the second release candidate of NetBSD 4.0: "On behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering team, I am happy to announce the availability of NetBSD 4.0 Release Candidate 2. There have been many fixes since the previous release candidate, RC1. The most .

Source: Linux Today

Linux-Watch: "How do you do that, though? The usual answer on SOHO networks is to have each PC call in over the Internet to a NTP server "

Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "This article explains how to improve/optimize/speed up package installation with Yum, install packages with 'Yum Extender '"

Source: Linux Today

Raiden's Realm: "It's a question that most people wouldn't give a second thought to. And why should they ?"

Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "'Hi!,' the guy said. 'I see you're wearing a Linux shirt '"

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet Education: "Certainly a nice project machine for my computer club or an introductory computing class (or a college student, or a high school kid, or well, you get the idea) "

Source: Linux Today

Jim Laurent's Weblog: "Recently Scott McNealy spoke to the Sun OS Ambassadors at our semi-annual conference in Menlo Park CA "

Source: Linux Today

Hoosier Penguin: "Until then, let me tell you about the discussion that ensued from some of the speakers about how the OpenDocument Format may not be the great unifier of documents after all "

Source: Linux Today

Community: "Being so impressed with this new, fast, and super easy to use Linux distribution, has made me not only an advocate but an evangelist "

Source: Linux Today

TechRepublic: "The obvious implication is that there are far more compromised Linux systems in phishing botnets than Microsoft Windows systems "

Source: Linux Today

DaniWeb: "Some devices set the world on fire, just ask Apple for details. Others, do not. The UMPC seems to be falling into the luke warm gadget category at the moment "

Source: Linux Today

AskApache: "My original impetus for writing PING for 4.2a BSD UNIX came from an offhand remark in July 1983 by Dr. Dave Mills while we were attending a DARPA meeting in Norway "

Source: Linux Today

KernelTrap: "'I'm a bit behind after investigating the TCP performance issues that turned out to be HW specific problems '"

Source: Linux Today

LinuxPlanet: "So what does Linux offer for the ace digital photographer who doesn't want to splurge on a Mac? Carla Schroder offers a look at one great tool, Digikam "

Source: Linux Today

ConsortiumInfo: "As you may recall, Corel announced last November that the next release of its flagship WordPerfect Office productivity suite would support both the ODF as well as the OOXML document formats "

Source: Linux Today

Techworld: "A very small Linux operating system, known as Puppy Linux, has had a 'major upgrade' after version 3.0 hit the streets this week "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxWorld Australia: "Three local government shires in Western Australia have adopted the open source Xen virtualization technology to Windows servers on Linux hosts and reduce its need for physical machines "

Source: Linux Today

The New York Times: "In November, you'll be able to buy a new laptop that's spillproof, rainproof, dustproof and drop-proof. It's fanless, it's silent and it weighs 3.2 pounds "

Source: Linux Today

Lots o' blogosphere chatter about yesterday's announcement from Redmond to release some of .NET's code under the not-really-open-source Microsoft Reference License. Articles within.

Source: Linux Today

KernelTrap: "'Another difference is that when it comes to schedulers, I feel like I actually can make an informed decision '"

Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "Until now, however, the definition of what actually constitutes bad code has not been an exact science with a proper formula or analytics "

Source: Linux Today

EarthTimes: "Novell today announced the availability of openSUSE 10.3, the newest version of the award-winning community Linux distribution "

Source: Linux Today

#open.ended: "In a blog entry posted yesterday, developer Kohei Yoshida expresses his frustration with Sun's excessively bureaucratic specification process and unwillingness to compromise and communicate with members of the community "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevices: "Trolltech has announced that on Nov. 1, company co-founder and co-CEO of 13 years Eirik Chambe-Eng will reduce his involvement due to eyesight difficulties "

Source: Linux Today

OSWeekly: "It seems like only a short time ago when the idea of running Microsoft's Media Center Edition of Windows struck me as the best idea in the world "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "A combination of Linux utilities can help you determine who on your network is using which of your shared filesystems at any given time, allowing you to ask those users to log off while you update the system "

Source: Linux Today

Linux In Novell's East Region: "I have a bunch of single-use Gmail accounts for the usual things, like account registrations, site administration, newsletter subscriptions and the like "

Source: Linux Today

PC Mechanic: "I was very happy with my new Fedora server and it ran perfectly until last Tuesday "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Shizawana writes "The latest version of openSUSE was released this week. The site has a sneak peak of all the new features and additions, including highly anticipated changes to the YaST package management. The official announcement of the release offers a few highlights as well: 'The openSUSE team is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 10.3. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, the openSUSE project provides free, easy access to the world's most usable Linux distribution, openSUSE. openSUSE is released regularly, is stable, secure, contains the latest free and open source software, and comes with several new technologies. openSUSE 10.3 will be supported with security and other serious updates for a period of 2 years. This version contains new beautiful green artwork, KDE 3.5.7 and parts of KDE 4, SUSE-polished GNOME 2.20, a GTK version of YaST, a new 1-click-install technology, MP3 support out-of-the-box, new and redesigned YaST modules, compiz and compiz fusion advances, virtualisation improvements, OpenOffice.org 2.3, Xfce 4.4.1, and much more! Read on for details of what is new and available in openSUSE 10.3, and for all the necessary download links.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Nrbelex writes "The New York Times is taking a look at the state of Linux. "Linux has always had a reputation of being difficult to install and daunting to use. Most of the popular Windows and Macintosh programs cannot be used on it, and hand-holding — not that you get that much of it with Windows — is rare. But those reasons for rejecting Linux are disappearing." The article discusses major PC makers' newest offers and compares them to their Windows counterparts."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Linux DevCenter

The Free Software Foundation has defined Four Freedoms related
to software. These freedoms apply to users of software, not
necessarily developers. In the view of the FSF, these freedoms are
ethical in nature, so much so that they argue that software which violates
these freedoms is unethical.

Like many other rights, the four freedoms are specific expressions of
abstract freedoms in the context of software. They represent concrete
examples of underlying notions of freedom. You can see this principle if
you ask “Why should I be able to run my own printing press or weblog?”

I’ve argued before that I don’t care about Google’s source code, for example,
but if those underlying principles exist, then it should be possible to
identify them. It should also be possible to extrapolate concrete
expressions of those principles in new contexts… such as software run by
vendors to provide a service to users.

The Freedom to Use

Freedom zero is The freedom to run the program, for any purpose
(freedom 0).

This is the fundamental enabling freedom for the other three. The right
of unrestricted use allows you to use the software as you see fit, even if
the creator or copyright holder does not support that use. The underlying
principle seems to be that, once you have taken possession of a work in a
legal fashion, the creator of that work has no moral right to govern how
you use that work.

In the case of a service, you don’t take possession of the
work. You may possess the information used as input to that service (your
personal information, for example), but there are likely licensing
arrangements regarding your access to the service, and the
output.

Apart from contractual arrangements guaranteeing access, the party
providing access to the service may choose to deny your use of the service
for various reasons. The service may be for paying customers only, for
example, or for users known to the operators. The operators may in fact
cancel your use of the service at their leisure, as well–again, according
to any specific contractual terms.

Though this freedom does not apply specifically to software as a
service, it is useful to consider when demarcating the ownership of data
related to the service.

The Freedom to Modify

The second freedom is The freedom to study how the program works,
and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a
precondition for this.

This freedom is somewhat specific to software. The fact that software as
a service includes software is mostly immaterial to the function of the
service. The difference between a human-edited directory of hyperlinks and
an algorithmically-generated directory–apart from issues of quality of
service–is irrelevant to users of the service. They make a request for
information and receive information in return.

Further, even if users had access to the source code of the service
under terms which allowed use and modification, there’s no reason the
operators of the service must allow deployment of such modified software on
their own systems. The four freedoms seem to apply most directly to systems
under the direct control of the user.

However, none of this precludes a fundamental freedom: the freedom to
study how a work operates. In the absence of legally-enforceable
contractual conditions which govern trade secrets or other information,
studying the operation of a service from the point of view of a user is an
important freedom. Building on the idea of demarcation introduced in the
discussion of freedom zero, users of a service should be able to access the
service through his or her preferred means, not only the single blessed
client provided by the operators of the service.

The freedom to study a service does not remove the right of the
operators of that service to deny access to the service, if they believe
that users are accessing it inappropriately. It’s difficult to generalize
one single rule in this case; game server operators probably should be able
to ban misbehaving client software, whereas web site operators should not
ban clients which do not display their pages perfectly. Both groups of
operators do have that right, however.

The Freedom to Copy

The third freedom is The freedom to redistribute copies so you can
help your neighbor (freedom 2).

The underlying principle again relies on the idea of unrestricted use.
With regard to a service, this is again contrary to the idea of using
someone else’s physical resources without permission. Where the cost of
duplicating software is nearly zero, the cost of duplicating a service is
much higher.

Even still, you should have the freedom to create a competing service.
As there is no requirement for you to receive any source code employed to
produce the service or other resources used to deliver the service, this
freedom may be less practical than in redistributing software. However,
there is a parallel in that the freedom to redistribute software
does not require that you distribute hardware with which to run the
software.

Allowing other users to access the service without the knowledge or
consent of its operators is probably not ethical even under this freedom.
(The principle that the owner and operator of a piece of hardware has the
responsibility for the use of that hardware and the right to govern its
uses holds true. Note that the same property right is often a solid
argument against the use of DRM on behalf of copyright holders and
distributors.)

Perhaps the best reframing of this right in the context of software as a
service is the right to reimplement the service.

The Freedom to Redistribute Changes

The fourth freedom is The freedom to improve the program, and
release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community
benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for
this.

This principle builds fully upon the three previous freedoms. On its
surface, it may seem the least applicable to software as a service,
especially with its explicit mention of source code. In practice, it may be
the most important.

If the line I’ve drawn in analyzing these freedoms is correct, then so
is the idea of a strict interface between the users of a service and its
implementation. In the absence of specific contractual terms governing the
uses of the service, the interface is a promise to provide service for any
client accessing the service through the interface on behalf of a valid
user.

Combined with freedom one, this freedom allows the use of custom
clients, provided they meet the contractual obligations of the service.
(Prohibiting denial of service attacks, cheating in multi-user situations,
and other malicious use is acceptable on the part of operators.) This is
even more applicable for purposes of interoperability, data retention,
migration, and compatibility.

There is a fuzzy line in ethics here, however. A free service supported
only by advertising may be within its rights to block clients which refuse
to display the advertising, for example. Even so, the right to access your
own data is more important than the right to make an attractive profit by
limiting access to someone else’s data.

Analyzing the Freedoms

I’ve defined here the user of the sofware as the operator of the
service, which uses the software on the behalf of the users of the service.
This degree of separation is important.

One of the major difficulties in applying the four freedoms of software
to software used primarily as a service is that the only distribution is of
data, not software. This is well outside the realm of what a conservative
view of copyright might cover. Even so, the unstated principle behind both
sets of freedoms is that the user of a piece of software should retain
ultimate control over the behavior of that software.

None of these four freedoms completely address the most interesting
questions of software as a service. Those questions relate to access to
your own data, whether directly (for the purpose of backups or migration to
other services) or on your behalf (as in privacy concerns). As such, it’s
definitely within the interest of freedom to enumerate and explain specific
freedoms directly targeted at the use of data, not code.

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

The domain model is a familiar concept to most OOP (Object Oriented Programming) developers and architects, and has been used successfully in a variety of systems and projects. But how does this principle apply to SOA-based solutions? (IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal)