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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Xubuntu Size: 570.15 MB Status: 28 seeders and 136 leechers Added: 2007-12-12 21:19:50

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Category: Linux Live CDs Size: 652.19 MB Status: 5 seeders and 30 leechers Added: 2007-12-12 20:32:23

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Category: Mepis Size: 495.22 MB Status: 2 seeders and 13 leechers Added: 2007-12-12 09:53:20

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: GobLinX Size: 99.43 MB Status: 3 seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2007-12-12 01:17:27

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Damn Small Size: 48.39 MB Status: 5 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-12-12 01:06:42

Source: frenzy

Sergei Mozhaisky has announced the third beta release of Frenzy 1.1, a portable toolkit for system and network administrators based on FreeBSD 6.2: "At last, a new beta version of Frenzy is released. Here are most important changes since 1.0: base system is FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE, X.Org updated to .

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Paldo Linux is a cross between a source-based and binary distribution. It installs as a binary system to provide a quick and easy desktop "

Source: Linux Today

Raiden's Realm: "Welcome to the last part of our Linux media player roundup "

Source: Linux Today

Vladimir Vukicevic: "A while ago, I put together a presentation about the graphics architecture in Mozilla, and what we were working towards with Thebes and Cairo "

Source: Linux Today

Red Hat Magazine: "In the last eight months, the islands of Andaman and Nicobar have witnessed tremendous development in the IT sector, especially in the case of open source and Linux "

Source: Linux Today

ServerWatch: "As thoughts turn to mistletoe and champagne, the virtualization infrastructure vendors delivered holiday cheer in the form of new product releases on Tuesday "

Source: Linux Today

TechIQ: "Name three things that Elvis and OS/2 have in common. Don't rush your answer. Think about it for a minute or two. OK, ready? Here's the answer

Source: Linux Today

451 CAOS Theory: "A few weeks ago, we released our fifth 451 Commercial Adoption of Open Source (CAOS) Research Report entitled 'The SMB Market Opportunity--How big are SMBs for open source?' "

Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: "Give an IT buyer the option of getting something for nothing, and she will, nine times out of 10 "

Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "The year is winding down and while we have a lot to look forward to next year, what were the greatest Linux innovations of this year "

Source: Linux Today

TechIQ: "Red Hat yet again has delayed a major Linux desktop release. Sure, Red Hat intends to ship the PC software in January "

Source: Linux Today

Roundup: DesktopLinux posted an article theorizing the success of Linux on the low-end desktop, leading other pundits to respond.

Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "Ruby on Rails 2.0 is the first major release of the popular dynamic language framework in 18 months "

Source: Linux Today

BetaNews: "Open source vendor OpenLogic is today kicking off a new industry initiative meant to help both users and software companies find out precisely what kinds of open source software is being used--and who is using it "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxWorld: "After years spent on the corporate proving ground, open source and Linux are looking at a 2008 that could likely show how hard labor pays off "

Source: Linux Today

Computerworld UK: "More and more open-source developers these days are employees of companies, paid to work on open-source projects, rather than independent programmers doing it for fun "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevices: "Access has announced a potentially enormous win in Japan for its Linux-based software stack for phones and other mobile devices "

Source: Linux Today

MovableType.org: "As of today, and forever forward, Movable Type is open source "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxWorld: "At the end of November, LWN posted a pointer to Novell's announcement for its SUSE Linux Enterprise Realtime offering. The resulting comments were surprisingly negative "

Source: Linux Today

451 CAOS Theory: "'If the idea is truly innovative, would it not find its way to to the development tree without the promise of financial reward ?'"

Source: Linux Today

bramschoenmakers.nl: "With KDE4 looming in about a month from now, it's a good moment to catch up "

Source: Linux Today

Computerworld UK: "The Open Solutions Alliance, a non-profit group backed by a number of commercial open-source suppliers has found that found interoperability is a foremost concern among open-source-software customers "

Source: Linux Today

GNOME.org: "Please note that these results are automatically calculated and are thus not the official results "

Source: Linux Today

Groklaw: "However, if you look closely, you will see that it is pretending that MSOOXML has already been approved as an open standard, equivalent to ODF "

Source: Linux Today

KDE.org: "The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the second release candidate for KDE 4.0. This release candidate marks the last mile on the road to KDE 4.0 "

Source: Linux Today

Computerworld: "In 2004, health care software vendor McKesson Provider Technologies began focusing on ways to cut IT costs for customers, including hospitals and medical offices "

Source: Linux Today

Gazette.net: "Students in the technology club at Gov. Thomas Johnson Middle School opened their Christmas workshop a few weeks ago. Instead of toys and games, they stocked up on donated computers "

Source: Linux Today

OSWeekly: "I just finished taking the latest version of Puppy Linux for a spin and was planning on doing a review. However, considering this was on my notebook, that meant connecting to the Internet, preferably via wireless "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

jcatcw writes "Health care software vendor McKesson Provider Technologies is focusing on ways to cut IT costs for customers, including hospitals and medical offices. The cure is moving many of McKesson's medical software applications to Linux, which can then be used on less expensive commodity hardware instead of expensive mainframes. A deal with Red Hat allows McKesson to offer its software in a top-to-bottom package for mission-critical hospital IT systems."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Linux Magazine's Jeremy Garcia shows you how to take command of MySQL using MySQL Proxy, a lightweight application that sits between MySQL server and client applications. Using MySQL Proxy, you can set up load balancing, dynamic fail over, query analysis, query filtering, query modification, and more.

Source: ONLamp.com

Mike Shaver has a deconstruction of false statements from Adobe about Flex’s openness. In particular:

[Adobe evangelist James Ward] has the nerve to call them “the
community” and indicate that their work is a remedy for Adobe simply not being
willing to remove the field-of-use restrictions on their existing
documentation.

… and:

… they don’t want people to think too hard about the fact that
writing to Flash is committing yourself to proprietary platform…

Maybe Monopolight will
save the free software/free data/free community communities. (Why Monopolight?
There’s a single
vendor for licensed Silverlight codecs, Moonlight
doesn’t provide the Silverlight codecs, and they’re x86 binary blobs only.
Gee. Thanks.)

Source: ONLamp.com

The series “Yet Another Perl 6 Operator” is back with this brand new article
In the article on coercion operators, we got to know the prefix operator '?' which converts values into Bool::True or Bool::False. Like it happens with '~' for strings, '?' is recurrent for boolean operators.

In Perl 6, the usual infix boolean operators are:

?& - and
?| - or
?^ - xor


These operators evaluate their operands in boolean context and apply simple Boole’s algebra on them.


False ?& False # False
'' ?& 'yes' # False
1 ?& False # False
42 ?& 42 # True


"" ?| 0 # False
False ?| True # True
[] ?| 0 # True
True ?| True # True


'' ?^ '' # False
undef ?^ {} # True
{} ?^ undef # True
True ?^ True # False


Each of the three operators always evaluate both sides and return one of the standard values Bool::True or Bool::False. So these boolean AND and OR do not short-circuit as their logical counterparts: '&&' and '||'. Precedence is different too.


Equivalent to precedence


$a ?& $b ?$a * ?$b != 0 multiplicative
$a ?| $b ?$a + ?$b != 0 additive
$a ?^ $b ?$a + ?$b == 1 additive


The boolean negation operator may be written '?^' or '!'.

?^ $a Equivalent to True ?^ $a


Conceptually '?^' coerces to boolean first and then flips the bit. Synopsis 3 recommends the use of '!' instead.


After a too long pause, I am resuming the series to the delight of Perl 6 lovers and haters (though I don’t think they exist… the haters :).


Next article will be due… soon. (Not joking.)


LINKS

Synopsis S03, the official source

The introduction of this series

Official Perl 6 Documentation

Perl 6 in your browser

Source: Linux DevCenter

As of this last Friday, December 7th Fedora Core 6 is no more. With it goes the last release the Fedora Project had seen the split between “Community” (Extras) and Red Hat sponsored (Core). Those not intimately involved in Fedora might be interested to learn that when the merge happened it was the core packages that ended up having to follow the former “Extras” packaging guidelines and not the other way around. Yet another testament to the power of community.
Fedora often takes a bit of flack over not maintaining a longer release / support cycle. I think the main reason for this is simply because it allows Fedora to take bigger risks then any other operating system out there. By releasing often (now every 6 months) we can take any number of large risks. The worst case is having to fix it during the next release in 6 months, the best case is we integrate yet another killer technology before anyone else. Having been involved in Fedora for about 2 years I can say, 6 months is not very long.
At the same time not having to worry about updates for very long (current release + 1 release + 1 month) allows our developers to be more focused on innovation. Other groups and businesses are taking note of this as well as they integrate software into Fedora. It has become the perfect platform for a company to present new software to the world. Our setup allows us to be incredibly dynamic.
I think it’s best not to think of Fedora as a stand alone distribution but rather as part of a family of Red Hat compatible products. I mean that in terms of the technical specifications, not Red Hat the company. When Fedora is combined with RHEL and CentOS that family can fit into just about any market imaginable and I think that’s the key to the success of each of these distributions.
Fedora 9 is on the horizon and the recently announced FUDCon will be even more exciting then the last one. Those interested in helping just check out: http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

This article examines several methods of calculating the Return on Investment (ROI) of adopting enterprise-wide XForms standards. We look at ROI analysis from several different viewpoints including the standards perspective and issues around vendor lock-in avoidance strategies. We discuss three ROI models for an enterprise XForms migration and how to overcome common objections to an XForms initiative.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

When your Web application reaches a certain size, it needs a good database design
behind it. And in fact, this "certain size" is much smaller than almost every small-site developer thinks. Relational Data Base Management Systems
(RDBMSes) need not be
restrictive or over-architected, as their bad reputation sometimes
brings developers to fear. A bit of thought toward what your site
does quickly turns into a sensible schema design, and it is easy to
leave open expandable storage mechanisms like a "configuration"
table within an RDBMS back end.