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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Puppy Size: 27.12 MB Status: 2 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-12-28 02:12:56

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Puppy Size: 128.35 MB Status: 5 seeders and 9 leechers Added: 2007-12-28 00:25:48

Source: parsix

Alan Baghumian has announced the second test release of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.0r0: "The second testing release of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.0r0, code name 'Ramon', has been released. Changes since TEST-1: updated kernel to 2.6.23.9, fixed reported bugs, updated Parsix graphics. Parsix Ramon brings lots of improvements and new features .

Source: Linux Today

The Linux Distillery: "Congratulations to all the new Christmas owners of the year's hottest subnotebook, the ASUS Eee, putting Linux square in the mainstream and right in the hands of the masses "

Source: Linux Today

Join the Revolution!: "And so I was reading that the browser that helped kick-start the commercial web is to cease development because of lack of users "

Source: Linux Today

Roundup: The "There's More to Linux than Ubuntu" article has prompted some interesting responses in the blogosphere.

Source: Linux Today

Editor's Note: On vacation this week, so let's hear from you.

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "My blogging colleague Robin Harris on Storage Bits poses an interesting question 'How should Microsoft respond to very-low-cost Linux systems ?'"

Source: Linux Today

Royal HeHe2-ness: "Warning: You should proceed with caution using this Howto, if you do not know what you are doing you could damage your relationship with Friend 2.0 or totally break it. Also, using this Howto extensively with multiple Friend 2.0's may damage Life 4.5, and end up as a sorrow lonely geek ."

Source: Linux Today

GeekSpeak: "So, in light of that, I decided to right a few wrongs by creating a review of Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (which is arguably the best Microsoft OS to date) as if Linux were the market leader, and Microsoft, the upstart "

Source: Linux Today

SUSE Linux Enterprise in the Americas: "Face it, now that the dam has broken with the OLPC, the EEE PC and now the prospect of Everex's Cloudbook coming out in January at CES, Microsoft is really feeling the heat from Linux in this market "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Thanks to the Samba project, documentation about Windows networking protocols is now available to free software developers who want it "

Source: Linux Today

InfoWorld: "No matter what you call them, open source companies have been steadily integrating parts of the hated commercial software subscription model into their business "

Source: Linux Today

MassLive: "I suspect that if there's a tiny Best Buy in the downtown Kandor strip mall, it probably stocks the ASUS Eee "

Source: Linux Today

VietNamNet: "The Ministry of Information and Communications has recommended state agencies use four open source software products--Open Office, Thunderbird, Firefox and Unikey "

Source: Linux Today

ruminations on the digital realm: "One of the core principles of open source development is 'freedom.' As such, there are few limitations for developers and end users to take the work of others and move it into a direction they deem better "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "When it comes to playing music in Linux, Amarok is one of the best audio players out there. It offers almost everything you need, from a clean, intuitive interface to a range of useful scripts "

Source: Linux Today

nixCraft: "My search ended with PDFedit software, which is free and open source editor for manipulating PDF documents "

Source: Linux Today

Linux Tech Daily: "Depending on what you read, and where you read it, it is either the second coming of the DE Christ, or the first coming of the DE Anti-christ "

Source: Linux Today

Marc Fearby's Home Page: "To demonstrate just how fussy I am, I installed Kubuntu because it uses Konqueror as the file manager which means I can draw selection rectangles when highlighting files in detailed list view "

Source: Linux Today

Fanatic Attack: "In an effort to win quick converts to its bid to have Microsoft Open Office XML (MOOXML) accepted as an ISO standard, Microsoft is deprecating parts of its widely-criticized MOOXML "

Source: Linux Today

Ask Rea Maor: "Somehow, even though people get the idea that specialized fields require some experience in that field before you can say anything intelligent about it, people hear the word 'Linux' for the first time, Google it long enough to see Tux the penguin, and go 'OK, I'm qualified now '"

Source: Linux Today

Raiden's Realm: "One of the things that has been a strong point of Open Source Software (OSS) for years, even if it hasn't been held at the forefront of the battle, is the flexibility that OSS offers "

Source: Linux Today

iTWire: "There are a total of 21,652 packages installed on my home workstation, an AMD64 single core processor box which has been in use since March 2006. It runs the testing stream of Debian. That's a lot of code, all of it free as in beer "

Source: Linux Today

The Tech and Other Cents: "Recently I got to read more and more stories about Linux in general (at least that what it was insinuated by the name of the article) where term 'Linux' is quite replaced by Ubuntu "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "PC Magazine reviews the $200 Linux desktop wonder sold by Wal-Mart. This desktop sold out quickly and has been cited as proof that consumers are tired of the Windows tax and ready for Linux. Not so according to PC Magazine, which gave the gPC a 1.5 star rating." Previous discussions we've had about system reviews were realistic but not quite so harsh; is this just nitpicking or is the 'shiny' starting to wear off of the cheap Linux PC concept?Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: ONLamp.com

Another article of the series “Yet Another Perl 6 Operator”
In a previous article , we introduced the reduction operators (like '[*]' and '[~]') which produced list operators from infix operators (like '*' and '~').

There is a variant of the reduction operator that operates over its list argument producing
all intermediate results along with the final result of the ordinary reduction.

[+] 1..5 # (1, 3, 6, 10, 15)


which is equivalent to

([+] 1),
([+] 1, 2),
([+] 1, 2, 3),
([+] 1, 2, 3, 4),
([+] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)


The above decomposition illustrates that the visual picture of a triangle in the reduce operator (eg, '[\+]') is not accidental.

The triangular reduction lazily generates its resulting list, so that it can be applied to infinite lists.

[*] 1..* # (1, 2, 6, 24, )


As many other Perl 6 operators, this one has a functional flavor which may estimulate some Haskellish solutions to some problems. A (rather contrived) application example is to implement a mkpath function (similar to the one provided by the Perl 5 module File::Path ) with a mkdir builtin.


sub mkpath (Str $path) {

# split 'a/b/c' into ( 'a/', 'b/', 'c' )
my @segments = $path.split( // );

for =[~] @segments {
# path exists as dir or create it
.:d || .mkdir;
}
}


This will create the directories 'a/', 'a/b/', and 'a/b/c' if they do not exist yet.



Next article is due next Thursday (Jan 3, 2008).


LINKS

Reduce Operators - Part I

Synopsis S03, the official source

The introduction of this series

Official Perl 6 Documentation

Perl 6 in your browser