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Category: Ubuntu Size: 3.82 GB Status: 7 seeders and 35 leechers Added: 2008-01-15 22:51:02

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Category: PCLinuxOS Size: 590.53 MB Status: no seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2008-01-15 15:24:15

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Category: Linux Kernels Size: 43.36 MB Status: 3 seeders and 14 leechers Added: 2008-01-15 11:27:52

Source: Linux Today

Polish Linux: "I don't like Slackware. No, please! Do not stone me right away! Slackware is a very good operating system. It's just not 'compatible' with my nature "

Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e., users and domains that are in a MySQL database "

Source: Linux Today

The VAR Guy: "This could have been a huge week for the open source industry to cash in on the retail industry. Instead it's a missed opportunity "

Source: Linux Today

mitchell's blog: "OSAF also served as the fiscal sponsor for the Mozilla Foundation between its spinout from AOL/Netscape and when it secured its own tax-exempt non-profit status "

Source: Linux Today

451 CAOS Theory: "News that the Italian Corte dei Conti is adopting Red Hat Enterprise Linux is interesting "

Source: Linux Today

DesktopLinux: "I remember when getting a decent PC would set you back at least a grand. Then it was $500. Now, it's $150!? That's the story that small vendor LinFX wants you to buy along with its PC with pre-installed Linux "

Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: "Reading through Morgan Stanley's January 6, 2008 report entitled 'There Will Be Blood,' it's hard to feel cheery about 2008. That is, unless you're an open-source company "

Source: Linux Today

Hoosier Penguin: "Any day now, we should start seeing four more faces on the backs of milk cartons: those of the apparently vanished members of the former Gentoo Foundation who have apparently resigned from the five-member board "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevices: "Mini-PC manufacturer SD-Omega has announced a Linux-compatible mini-PC that can run two displays simultaneously "

Source: Linux Today

KernelTrap: "Michael Meeuwisse started Project VGA in September of 2007. The project aims to develop a simple, low budget, open source, VGA compatible video card available this year "

Source: Linux Today

iTWire: "When Kim Hawtin, like many other young Australians, went to London in 2000 to work. he never knew that he would be introduced to one of the abiding interests of his life while there "

Source: Linux Today

Computerworld Australia: "Lead artist from Elephants Dream speaks about what it is like to make your own open movie using open source tools and the power of the community "

Source: Linux Today

eWeek: "Likewise Enterprise and its open-source sibling, Likewise Open, enable administrators to manage Linux, Macintosh and Unix machines through Microsoft's Active Directory and Group Policy "

Source: Linux Today

Computerworld: "IBM today opened its Jazz.net open-source community to anyone who wants to provide feedback on the technology, which is intended to help improve collaboration among software development teams "

Source: Linux Today

Roundup: Rob Weir's comprehensive roadmap of the JTC1 process to date leads off this mix of news and opinions about February's standards vote. Next stop: The OOXML Zone.

Source: Linux Today

Computerworld Australia: "Author of and contributor to the Samba file server, Andrew Tridgell, talks to Computerworld about Samba and his upcoming Linux.conf.au talk "

Source: Linux Today

Tuxmachines: "This morning Christina Fullam states that it was decided just before Christmas to cancel the 2007.1 release and roll all the effort into Gentoo 2008.0 since there was little possibility of getting a well-tested 2007.1 release out before 2008 "

Source: Linux Today

ConsortiumInfo: "Regulators in the EU today announced that they are opening two new investigations against Microsoft, this time focusing not on peripheral functionalities like media players, but on the core of Microsoft's business "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Do you have some mundane task that you have to do regularly through a Web browser? Are you a developer who wants to automatically test the interface of your latest Web application ?"

Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "DeviceVM's SplashTop, a product we had named as one of the greatest Linux innovations in 2007, is sharing a booth this week at the Consumer Electronic Show with ASUS "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "The wealth of applications on a modern Linux system is phenomenal, but sifting through screen after screen of menu items is no fun "

Source: Linux Today

PolishLinux: "The problem--although it does not concern all of us--is not taken from outer space. It actually exists even in case of modern laptops, like Thinkpad X61, which lack a CD drive to save on weight "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "Following the success of Elephants Dream, the Blender Foundation is developing a follow-on open movie called Peach, set for completion later this year. Computerworld has up an interesting interview with Matt Ebb, lead artist from Elephants Dream (the interview is split over 5 pages). Ebb talks about the making of the world's first open movie and offers some advice to others wanting to start such a project."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Jon Masters writes "I just wanted to remind everyone that Saturday, January 19th 2008 will mark the beginning of the 30-year countdown to the Y2K38 bug, when Unix time will overflow 32 bits. Some 30-year loan calculation software might start having problems with this over the weekend."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: ONLamp.com

The world of free software is full of amazing and even heroic stories
(the gcc toolkit for its quality and flexibility, Linux and
free desktops for their size and sheer ambition, Samba and Mono for
their tenacity at keeping up with confusing quasi-standards) but one
of my favorite recent stories is the opening of the iPhone.



Apple did a beautiful job creating this device. Millions wanted it the
moment it became known, and thousands wanted to write programs to
explore its ground-breaking interface elements. Apple, however, failed
to release its APIs, much less any toolkit or run-time environment.



So the community built its own.





The process was “not pretty,” according to one of the leaders in this
community, Jonathan A. Zdziarski. They had to break into a
chroot jail, disassemble code, and figure out all the hooks
into the runtime.



They were aided by the relatively unmangled output of the Objective-C
language, as well as tools such as
class-dump
that can reveal the symbols in the code. Basically, Objective-C does a
lot of dynamic, run-time evaluation, so its libraries have to preserve
symbols and other valuable linker information. However, parts of the
interface were in C, which offers fewer hints to code spelunkers.



And as Jonathan points out, learning how to interface with the
iPhone’s framework didn’t mean they had learned how to use it. After
figuring out the iPhone’s many APIs, developers were inundated with
hundreds of less-than-meaningful prototypes. Several months of work
went into what the scientific community refers to as “screwing around”
with the framework to figure out exactly what methods and overrides
produced the desired functionality for each piece of the framework.



They were also helped by Apple’s use of a variant of BSD for the
operating system, and by the similarities many APIs had to published
desktop APIs. Apple knew a good thing when they created Leopard, so
much of its APIs reappear on the iPhone. Still, there are subtle
differences.



The result? Just a few months after the release of this closed
platform, a community of volunteers had a full set of libraries and
tools for developing applications fully as rich and capable as Apple’s
own offerings. It’s all available freely for
download
under a BSD license.



Now for the moment to reveal the shameless promotion behind this blog.
Jonathan Zdziarski has written a book for O’Reilly on this toolkit.
Having edited, I can see that his perspicacity as a hacker is matched
by his clarity of thinking as an author.



Expectations are that Apple will release its own SDK in February. But
it’s not known yet what restrictions may be imposed. The open toolkit
is available now, without restrictions.



Within a week, we should have a RoughCut
(a preliminary online release of an O’Reilly book)
up on the O’Reilly web site. Of course, we’ll cover the Apple toolkit
too, as soon as we can.



But even if the Apple toolkit becomes dominant, the story of the
iPhone open development community will remain a monument to the power
of free software development.

Source: ONLamp.com

Adobe's Flex offers a rich client-side user experience, but how do you use it to create practical applications. In this article, you'll see how to hook Flex up to a PHP backend to do some simple MySQL administration.

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Learn about Open Document Format (ODF) for Office
Applications (OpenDocument), an XML application that allows you to
represent the information and formatting for office suite applications.
It covers word processors, spreadsheets, basic drawings, presentation
formats, and more.