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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: RIP Size: 72.64 MB Status: 4 seeders and 8 leechers Added: 2007-12-14 20:39:47

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: RIP Size: 72.64 MB Status: 1 seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2007-12-14 20:38:55

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: RIP Size: 37.75 MB Status: 2 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-12-14 20:38:25

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: RIP Size: 71.15 MB Status: 1 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-12-14 20:37:47

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Slax Size: 606.17 MB Status: no seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-12-14 00:39:38

Source: mandriva

Adam Williamson has announced the availability of the first alpha release of Mandriva Linux 2008.1: "Kicking off the 2008.1 development cycle in earnest, the first alpha is here. This alpha features X.Org 7.3, KDE 3.5.8, KDE 4.0 RC2 (in /contrib), GNOME 2.21, kernel 2.6.24, OpenOffice.org 2.3, new NVIDIA .

Source: litrix

A new stable version of Litrix Linux, a Brazilian desktop distribution based on Gentoo Linux, has been released. According to the brief release announcement (in Portuguese) on the distribution's web site, Litrix 7.12 uses Linux kernel 2.6.22 and includes KDE 3.5.8 desktop, OpenOffice.org 2.3.0 office suite (called BrOffice .

Source: parsix

Alan Baghumian has announced that the first beta release of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.0r0 is available for testing: "The first testing release of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.0r0, code name 'Ramon', has been released. This version brings lots of improvements and new features integrated with the latest open source technologies. The .

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet Education: "At first blush, it seems to be another ringing endorsement of Linux. Free, open source, and with the power to save the earth, besides? I should be jumping up and down, right ?"

Source: Linux Today

polar bears and penguins: "Is GNU/Linux Red Hat Linux? Is it Ubuntu Linux? Mandriva ?"

Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Linux Log: "What are Red Hat, Novell, and Canonical going to have to do in the next 52 weeks to in order to dominate the desktop and server Linux market ?"

Source: Linux Today

Roughly Drafted: "Somewhat ironically, one of the most financially successful capitalist companies of the 90s has positioned itself as a modern counterpart to the old communist Soviet Union "

Source: Linux Today

Editor's Note: Red Hat, stalwart commercial vendor of Linux in the enterprise, is showing signs of disarray. A momentary lapse of reason, or a sign of the times to come?

Source: Linux Today

Softpedia: "When it comes down to identity management, the Windows and Linux operating systems fail to play by the same tune "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxInsider: "During this past year, Zemlin has observed some significant changes in the Linux OS and the open source market "

Source: Linux Today

Mandriva Club: "Kicking off the 2008 Spring development cycle in earnest, the first alpha is here "

Source: Linux Today

Max Spevack's Blog: "After two years and four releases of Fedora, I would like to be able to do some other things related to Fedora and/or Red Hat while allowing someone else to assume the 'Fedora Project Leader' responsibilities "

Source: Linux Today

Ars Technica: "For my tests, I used the KDE 4 RC 2 Live CD image proved by the KDE community. The Live CD is based on OpenSUSE and provides easy access to a complete KDE 4 environment "

Source: Linux Today

The Beer Files: "Mozilla Foundation, the organization behind the Firefox web browser, has defended itself against claims from sections of the Linux community that it has ignored Linux in the development of Firefox 3 "

Source: Linux Today

ComputerWeekly: "Leicester City Council is the first public sector organisation to sign-up for the joint Microsoft/Novell support contract to support its Windows and open source infrastructure "

Source: Linux Today

Computerworld: "The New York Stock Exchange is investing heavily in x86-based Linux systems and blade servers as it builds out the NYSE Hybrid Market trading system that it launched last year "

Source: Linux Today

C21 Media: "The next generation of the BBC's iPlayer is now live on the internet, offering not only downloading services but also live streaming, and is now available on Apple and Linux systems as well as to Microsoft users "

Source: Linux Today

Shared Software, Shared Processes: "No doubt, Opera's antitrust complaint filed against Microsoft today to the European Commission is causing huge headaches in Redmond "

Source: Linux Today

Hoosier Penguin: "Of course, after today, another meaning will be attached to this beguiling word, thanks to the auspices of Mark Shuttleworth and his band of coders over at Canonical "

Source: Linux Today

Seeking Alpha: "Red Hat shares are lower Thursday after Bank of America analyst Kirk Materne cut his rating on the stock to Neutral from Buy "

Source: Linux Today

The Inquirer: "Even armed with better eye candy, the new KDE 4 interface claims to use 40 percent less memory than its earlier versions "

Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Networking Planet: "We started our first Zenoss article with the full intention of completely replacing Nagios for host and service monitoring. We are happy to report Zenoss is, in fact, fully up to the task "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "While end users might be starting to wonder, those most involved in the building of the free Java community describe a thriving community that, after one year, is still working hard to reinvent itself "

Source: Linux Today

Database Journal: "In our previous article, we looked at the open source revolution that Oracle started when it announced its hypervisor. In this article, we will install the Oracle VM Manager on our Workstation skeleton "

Source: Linux Today

Raiden's Realm: "It's biggest claim to fame is that it can play any file at any time anywhere. You could even, in theory, take it to school with you and watch videos in class "

Source: Linux Today

Developer.com: "Ruby is an interpreted scripting language, whereas Java is a compiled programming language. Ruby is similar to Java in that both are object-oriented languages and are strongly typed "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

blitzkrieg3 writes "The New York Times is reporting on how the NYSE group now feels that Linux is 'mature enough' for the New York Stock Exchange. They are using commodity x86 based Hewlett-Packard hardware and Linux in place of their traditional UNIX machines. From NYSE Euronext CIO Steve Rubinow: 'We don't want to be closely aligned with proprietary Unix. No offense to HP-UX, but we feel the same way about [IBM's] AIX, and we feel the same way to some extent about Solaris. Other reasons cited for the switch were increased flexibility and lower cost.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

christian.einfeldt writes "The Dutch government has set a target date of April 2008 for its agencies to start preferentially using open standards-based software. Organizations in the government will still be able to use proprietary software and formats but will have to justify it. A Microsoft Netherlands spokesman claims that Microsoft's Office productivity suite will still be used widely in the Dutch government until April, and that Microsoft Office will comply with the new Dutch rules once Microsoft's so-called "Open Office XML" standard is approved as an international ISO standard in February."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: ONLamp.com

First off, the “I” in the title does not refer to me; it refers to my coworker Jenny Walsh. Jenny was recently setting up a new Macbook Pro with Leopard on it and ran into a snag with PIL. Running setup.py for PIL for the first time said that she had no jpeg support. So, she installed libjpeg and tried again. This time, it said that she had jpeg support, but then it threw this error:

ld: in /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/usr/local/lib/libJPEG.dylib, file is not of required architecture for architecture ppc

She tried compiling libjpeg and followed suggestions she had found from across the interweb including compiling as a “fat binary” (intel and ppc), but she still had the same level of unsuccess as before. Finally, in a fit of hacking frenzy, she removed all “-arch ppc ” from
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/config/Makefile,
re-ran setup.py for PIL, and all was right with her world again.
In trying to diagnose and help her with her problem, I stumbled across
this
blog post. They didn’t seem to have any trouble getting PIL and libjpeg installed on leopard. The compiled libjpeg as follows:

wget http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
tar zxvf jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz
cd jpeg-6b/
./configure
make
sudo make install-lib

I tried the same thing on my laptop (which runs Tiger and not Leopard, btw), and it worked for me. But this just took my PIL installation from saying that it did not have jpeg support to saying that it did. Jenny was having a different problem. So, if you are having a problem with PIL blowing up when trying to set it up, you may want to give Jenny’s solution a spin. But make sure to make a backup copy of the Makefile.

Source: ONLamp.com

I’ve been wondering that lately. I’ve been using Subversion for … well … what seems to be a lot of years now. Looking back at the dates for Subversion’s history and coinciding them with events that were happening in my life, I’m guessing that I started using Subversion no later than the end of 2003. (So, maybe that’s not “a lot of years now”…) And I was using CVS from about 2001 until I started with Subversion. During the majority of that time, I have been either the sole commiter of the code base that I was working on, or one of very few people working on the same code.
Recently, I started a job where I’ll likely be working more mingled in with other developers on the same code at the same time. Everything is set up using Subversion. Before starting this new job, though, I began looking into distributed source control, which is the cool new kid on the block. I’ve created some personal projects using Bazaar and have glanced at Darcs, Mercurial, and Git. I like Bazaar a lot. It can be a little sluggish at times (like pushing, pulling, and merging), but not unbearably so - and I expect that it’ll get better. I keep running through my mind how moving to a distributed model would impact the work flow with my co-workers and I’m not totally convinced that distributed is always the way to go.
I just finished reading this piece of a conversation with Linus Torvalds regarding Git, and I remain unconvinced that going distributed would be the best thing for us. And I’m guessing that maybe most small teams of “closed” development probably don’t need a distributed source control system, either. It seems that the problems that have spawned this new model of source control is more of a problem for open source development, particularly of larger projects, and less of a problem for smaller proprietary development. For example, it’s really important for Linus that Linux kernel developers (or anyone, really) be able at any moment to create a new branch. It’s important for Linux that people be able to experiment with new kooky ideas and maybe come up with a cool new feature to go into the kernel. It’s also important to Linus that people be able to do so in anonymity. I can see how this would be important for a project that has potentially tens of thousands of developers interested in experimenting with the code and are doing so on their own free time. I think this is less important when a small team is being paid to work on a code base. Typically, you don’t have the leisure time to perform experiments. If you do need to work on an experimental feature set, it’s not a problem for a repository admin at work to create a branch for you. And anonymity isn’t typically necessary at work. At least, not anywhere I’ve ever worked.
I can see how having an “off-line” repository could be helpful. But from what I’ve heard, svk should address a lot of those issues. And most of these distributed systems are reputed to handle merging between branches better, which would be nice. I love Bazaar and would love to use it at work, but I’m just not convinced that it buys us enough benefits to switch from Subversion. Does anyone have convincing reasons that a small, closed source development team should consider switching to a distributed tool?

Source: Linux DevCenter

After two replacement chassis in quick succession (timekeeping problems, followed by blown power supply), one of my machines was showing its two ethernet ports as eth4 and eth5. This probably isn’t an issue in and of itself*, but if I ever have to do stuff manually with the ethernet ports I don’t want to have to remember that they’re nonstandard.

A little digging (specifically, grep -R eth /etc/*) revealed that this gets set in /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules, so I edited it to take out the old eth* MAC addresses and relabel the new ones. Unfortunately, restarting udev didn’t make the change happen, so I had to reboot.

* I thought it was, because I couldn’t get either port to come up, hence discovering the above. However, after fixing that it still wouldn’t work — turned out that the cable was out at the other end. Always check the obvious stuff first! At least I learnt something.