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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Mandriva Size: 4.08 GB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-12-31 19:07:25

Source: gobo

Happy New Year! Hisham Muhammad has announced the release of GoboLinux 014, an independent distribution whose main claim to fame is a radically redesigned file system layout: "We are pleased to introduce GoboLinux 014, the new major release of GoboLinux, the Linux distribution with an alternative directory structure ..

Source: endian

Raphael Vallazza has announced the second beta release of Endian Firewall 2.2, a RHEL-based firewall with anti-virus/spam tools, content filters, SSL/TLS VPN, IDS, and other features: "The Endian Team is glad to announce a new release of the Endian Firewall Community version 2.2 Beta 2. Endian Firewall Community .

Source: musix

Marcos Guglielmetti has announced the availability of the fourth test release of Musix GNU+Linux 1.0r3, a Debian-based distribution containing a large collection of free multimedia applications: "We released Musix GNU+Linux 1.0r3 Test 4, a testing version produced on the basis of the stable version 1.0r2. This release solves .

Source: freebsd

Ken Smith has announced the second release candidate for FreeBSD 6.3: "Sorry for the delay with this phase of the 6.3 release. A few glitches were found during testing of the 6.3-RC2 ISOs that included pre-built packages. The 6.3-RC2 builds for amd64 and i386 should now be available .

Source: Linux Today

Debian Admin: "FreeNX is a system that allows you to access your desktop from another machine over the internet "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "There are literally dozens of window managers that you can use with your favorite desktop environment to get a beautiful and appealing desktop "

Source: Linux Today

Editor's Note: Which stories got the most attention in 2007? Take a look inside

Source: Linux Today

Blog of Helios: "If there was ever a good time to put away petty, hell, even major differences; that time would be now "

Source: Linux Today

The Linux Distillery: "Sure, it's been said before, but this time it's true: 2007 was undoubtedly the year which saw Linux go mainstream "

Source: Linux Today

Shared Software, Shared Processes: "Here's an easy prediction to make. In 2008 the media will gin up a 'war' between Red Hat and Ubuntu for 'control' of Linux "

Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "AMD is on the heels of releasing the next set of GPU programming documentation to aide in the development of the open-source R500/600 drivers "

Source: Linux Today

Mad Penguin: "After looking into what Fedora has done, I think it is clear which distribution is really working hard to attract new users "

Source: Linux Today

Groklaw: "Finally I get to play with the OLPC laptop. It was a gift, and it was given to me in a restaurant, where it created a stir, so there's a story to tell you "

Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "When I began using Linux it solved several problems I faced. Linux provided a way for me to learn UNIX without having to pay $20,000 for the so-called privilege of owning a Solaris OS "

Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "The Top 500 list of supercomputers rarely contains real shockers, but in November, readers might have been surprised to find that No. 3 was a 126-teraflop computer at the New Mexico Computing Applications Center "

Source: Linux Today

IT World: "The One Laptop Per Child project suffered a blow this week, with Chief Technology Officer Mary Lou Jepsen quitting the nonprofit to start a for-profit company to commercialize technology she invented with OLPC "

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "Developers are puzzling over recent clues blogged by a few Microsoft employees regarding a new 'Emacs.Net' tool the company is building "

Source: Linux Today

Discover: "It wasn't official, of course, but the big idea kept popping up: Science as a whole should consider adopting the ideals of 'Web 2.0,' becoming more like the community process behind Wikipedia or the open-source operating system Linux "

Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "As promised, the second part of this series presents still more commercially available music and sound software for Linux. Come see (and hear) what your money will buy "

Source: Linux Today

Adventures in Linux and Open Source: "Linux has a reputation, well earned, that it will run on much more marginal hardware than most other OSes "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Nathan Ramella writes "The ARCwelder project has released a technique dubbed 'Go Fighting Tabby!' which exploits an unquoted system() call through the Archos UI, providing the ability to execute arbitrary code with root access on the Archos 605 WiFi. In doing so, opening the platform up for further hacking. The Archos 605 WiFi runs embedded Linux on an ARM processor, but employs a variety of anti-hack techniques to keep users from modifying its firmware and operating system. Included is a cross-compiled sshd with configuration files to allow for passwordless ssh access to the Archos when it is connected to a WiFi connection. Bricks ahoy!"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

eldavojohn writes to mention that LinuxPlanet has a brief discussion on what 2008 may hold for FOSS. The list includes thoughts on KDE 4, OOXML, DRM, and 3-D desktops. What boons for FOSS are you looking forward to in 2008?Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

davidmwilliams writes "ASUS have released a cheap subnotebook. It is far from state-of-the-art tech-wise, with 512Mb RAM and a Celeron processor. It has a 4Gb hard drive and no optical drive. Its screen is 7" and runs at the odd resolution of 800x480 and the operating system looks like something Fisher Price might have designed. Why would you buy it? What on earth can you do with this?" I've been wondering this myself given the huge coverage in the media of this thing.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: ONLamp.com

I’m glad to see that TPF’s public relations group has spread the Perl 5.10 press release far and wide, and it’s getting some coverage. However, some of that coverage reminds me why I don’t watch television news and why I treat the newspaper as entertainment and not information. Consider eWeek’s First Release of Perl in Five Years Arrives:

Perl is a dynamic scripting language widely used in everything from Linux system utilities to Web servers to full-blown graphical enterprise applications.

What’s a “dynamic scripting language”? Is there such thing as a non-dynamic scripting language? (No one seems to know what a scripting language is anyway.) Minor nit.

During its 20-year history, it gained massive popularity by assimilating the syntax from many predecessors, making it really easy to use for anyone already versed in sed, awk, grep, csh, C/C++, Lisp, and so on.

Syntax, maybe (but Lisp? Really?). Features, sure. Easy to use? That’s debatable. Easy to start to learn, yes. I don’t know that anyone will suggest that Perl is easy to master, though I’m happy to argue that its learning curve is gentle if long.

… languages like python with rigid syntax structure have arguably gained ground in recent times over perl, for applications that are developed collaboratively.

“Arguably” is a weasel word, so you can throw out this whole sentence. I’m not aware of any statistics that show that Python is more popular than Perl. (Arguably, the Maginot Line gained a lot of ground in the southward direction. There. Now Python fans and the French can berate me in the comments.)

Additionally, scripting languages specially-made for use on the Web, like PHP and Ruby, have eroded some of perl’s once formidable share of the dynamic Web server scripting scene.

There’s that “dynamic scripting” mess again. What does that mean? What’s static Web server scripting anyway, and why would you need a programming language for that?

My favorite part however isn’t about Perl at all. Did you catch that? Apparently Matz was really busy in 1993 writing Ruby not as a general purpose language but specifically to use on the nascent Web. How prescient.

If a journalist can rephrase a press release and make this many errors in five paragraphs in a subject I know something about, how many errors are there in subjects I don’t know as well?

Oh, and the title comes from the last television news promo I ever watched, during the X-Files finale. The local Fox affiliate played a blurb for the evening news where the newsbimbo said, and I am not making this up, “Now that the X-Files is ending, let’s see what the series taught us about real aliens. Stay tuned at 10.”

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Join Elliotte Rusty Harold for a look back at the most significant XML news from 2007.