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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Open Source Software Size: 643.90 MB Status: 2 seeders and 6 leechers Added: 2008-01-02 22:15:28


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Linux Live CDs Size: 631.73 MB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2008-01-02 17:32:54


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: SME Server Size: 529.10 MB Status: 8 seeders and 37 leechers Added: 2008-01-02 12:27:33


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Source: mepis

MEPIS antiX 7.01, a lightweight derivative of SimplyMEPIS 7.0, was released as an update to antiX 7.0: "antiX is built and maintained by MEPIS community member anticapitalista, as a free version of MEPIS for very old 32 bit PC hardware and is designed to work on computers with .


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Source: smeserver

Ian Wells has announced the release of SME Server 7.3, a server-oriented Linux distribution based on CentOS: "The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of SME Server 7.3. This release is based on CentOS 4.6 and all packages have been updated to the latest .



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Source: Linux Today

Worker's Edge: "This is the year I kiss Windows good-bye. Well, maybe not entirely, but the writing is on the wall for Microsoft's flagship operating system, and all other desktop bloatware: The future of PC software is open source "


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "Back in November AMD had launched their 'Spider platform,' which is made up of AMD's first quad-core processor, ATI Radeon HD 3800 series graphics, and the AMD 7-Series chipsets "


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Source: Linux Today

Humorix: "It seemed like a simple experiment. Put a million monkeys in front of a million Linux boxes and see how long it would take for them to generate a Shakesperian play or a useful Perl script "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "The beginning of the year is traditionally a time to look back, and, for the brave of heart, to make a few predictions looking forward "


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Source: Linux Today

Blog of Helios: "If 2007 is ANY indication of the momentum we've achieved, then 08 ought to be a smokin' Hell-Raiser for this thing we call Linux. So here's what I need to get started "


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Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Networking Planet: "This once I wish I could attach an audio clip to the headline, so that you could hear William Shatner singing 'It Was a Very Good Year,' just to get into the proper mood "


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Source: Linux Today

DaniWeb: "Things are not looking good for KDE, following the news that KDE will not be getting long term support (LTS) whereas GNOME will according to Canonical "


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Source: Linux Today

The Linux Distillery: "Loved by sysadmins and webmasters worldwide--being a major scripting language as well as the basis for PHP--Perl has today seen its first major update in five years. Let's walk through the main new features and why they're big news "


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Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "It is sometimes forgotten that GNU/Linux is more than just a desktop operating system "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Loop: "A few days ago, I asked readers to give their wishes for Linux in 2008 "


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Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: "Marten Mickos sent me an update on MySQL's exceptional 2007. It makes interesting points about open source, generally, while relaying important information about MySQL "


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Source: Linux Today

InfoWorld: "Java, the oldest new programming language around, is falling out of favor with developers "


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Source: Linux Today

GMANE: "I'm going to describe the collaboration toolkit on another project where I happen to be a senior dev, called Battle For Wesnoth "


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Source: Linux Today

InformationWeek: "The past year was the most tumultuous in recent memory for the field of open-source software. Instead of mere sniping, such as the 'Truth About Linux' campaign, open source has come under more direct assault "


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Source: Linux Today

Computerworld UK: "It seems appropriate that on the last day of the year I should be writing about the end of an era "


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Source: Linux Today

PC Pro: "Asus will unveil a new version of its popular Eee PC with support for both Windows and Wimax, according to industry rumours "


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Source: Linux Today

Redmond Magazine: "What is the greatest threat to Microsoft's dominance: Google Inc. or open source? The answer is both, especially when they're working together "


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Source: Linux Today

Groklaw: "Guess what the Nigerian keyboard makers want from the One Laptop Per Child charitable organization trying to make the world a better place ?"


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Source: Linux Today

PC Pro: "The extent of Microsoft's generosity to its open-source patent partners has been revealed in Novell's latest financial statement "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "While many extensions are homes runs, here are a few that just don't make it out of the ballpark "


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Source: Linux Today

Random Technology: "I've been doing some investigation on what it would take to move my main work environment back to Linux (Ubuntu specifically) "



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "This OLPC (One-Laptop-Per-Child) tutorial teaches you how to develop Python activities for the XO laptop. It covers the ins and outs of Sugar (the XO user interface, or UI) and the details behind activity development. You will also learn about Python programming, Sugar application program interfaces (APIs) for Python, and platform emulation with QEMU. Learn OLPC application development and help the worlds children."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Compiled programming languages and scripting languages each have unique advantages, but what if you could use both to create rich applications? Lua is an embeddable scripting language that is small, fast, and very powerful. Before you create yet another configuration file or resource format (and yet another parser to accompany it), try Lua.



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Source: ONLamp.com

Just minutes ago they announced that Tutorials and Talks are finalized for PyCon 2008!
Here are the list of Talks:
My talk, on “Using Optparse, Subprocess, and Doctest To Make Agile Unix Utilities” was accepted, so I am pretty excited. One of the reasons I started the Google Code project on python4bash, was to get some better ideas on explaining Python to Bash programmers. If you have some ideas, please join the project, or send me an email.
Here are the list of Tutorials:
It is going to be really tough to decide what Tutorials to attend, but the Tutorial I am most excited about attending is “Practical Applications of Agile (Web) Testing Tools (C. Titus Brown and Grig Gheorghiu)”. I have a few web applications I am developing, and Titus and Grig are doing letting attendees bring in their code so it can be “agified”, if that is a word :) I am also excited about the “Eggs and Buildout Deployment in Python (Jeff Rush)”. At next month’s PyAtl meeting we are going to have three people give back to back presentations on buildout/eggs/virtualenv, so it is very much on my radar.
Here is the signup for Sprints:
I will be attending at least a couple days of Sprints this year, but I haven’t picked which Sprint I want to attend yet.
Summary:
It looks like this year’s PyCon is going to be awesome. If you have ever thought about attending, do it. Last year’s PyCon was one of the most enjoyable times I had in 2007, hope to see you there in 2008! PyAtl will be talking about PeachWSGI at PyCon, an annual WSGI Web Development Sprint we are holding at the end of May or early June….more on that later.
Links:
python4bash
Noah Gift Blog
osxautomation



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Source: developerWorks : Linux : Technical library

The proliferation of high-performance scalable servers has added a new level
of complexity to networking and system performance. In this article, learn how to
optimize your multi-node, high-performance Linux system as it uses system board
gigabit Ethernet adapters from 1 to 4 nodes. Take a look at problematic networking
scalability situations and get tips on how to avoid the pitfalls.


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Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Pattern matching is such a common chore for software that a special shorthand --
regular expressions -- has evolved to make light work of the task. Learn how to use
this shorthand in your code.



Updated: Thu Jan 3 23:55:02 2008


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