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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Slackware Size: 344.68 MB Status: 3 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2008-01-17 03:13:02


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Mandriva Size: 694.09 MB Status: 3 seeders and 10 leechers Added: 2008-01-17 01:58:48


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Source: trinity

Tom Kerremans has released a new development build of Trinity Rescue Kit, a Mandriva-based distribution designed to facilitate data rescue tasks from Linux and Windows: "This release should fix the hottest problems reported on the forum: WinPass and new Intel Ethernet cards that weren't supported." From the changelog: .



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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "Are you using SSH in the best way possible? Have you configured it to be as limited and secure as possible ?"


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Source: Linux Today

CMS Report: "A few weeks ago, I seriously thought about buying either Apple's latest MacBook or a Windows laptop where I could dual boot between the laptops native operating systems and Linux. In the end, I chose to install Linux on a three year old laptop "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Alas, after trying it on my Ubuntu system, I think it needs work "


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Source: Linux Today

Computerworld UK: "One area of open source that I struggle with is that of mobile Linux: there are so many competing and intersecting initiatives that it is hard to tell who is doing what "


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Enterprise Networking Planet: "These days we can assume that most large enterprises have some sort of open source software presence in the data center "


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Source: Linux Today

IT Pro: "Linux vendor Red Hat is experiencing success and turmoil all at once, as the company, and perhaps the wider open source software industry experiences a period of profound change "


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Source: Linux Today

DeviceGuru: "In order to maximize brand awareness, I recommend that you brand all forms of Ubuntu (i.e. Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, etc.) as various editions of Ubuntu "


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RedMonk: "Some thirty seconds after my presence status went from Away to Online this morning, I was lit up with half a dozen different pings either alerting me to the news or asking my opinion on it "


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Source: Linux Today

The VAR Guy: "Okay, the headline is a bit dramatic. But the Sun-MySQL business combo makes The VAR Guy wonder: Will Novell wake up and start buying open source application providers or is Novell doomed to repeat the exact same mistakes it made in the 1990s ?"


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Source: Linux Today

Hoosier Penguin: "But in all of the hooplah about Sun buying MySQL--and hey, did you hear, that Sun bought MySQL? Because I don't think there's quite enough reporting about it, do you?--I noticed one really weird thing "


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LinuxWorld: "But a key tool for enabling those speedups so far has no equivalent on Linux and remains a Solaris competitive advantage "


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The Social: "In one of the most significant moves yet in the growing push toward service interoperability on the Web, tech giant Yahoo announced Thursday that it is supporting the OpenID 2.0 standard for a universal Internet log-in "


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ZDNet UK: "OpenOffice.org has dismissed an analyst report from Burton Group which claims that Microsoft's Office Open XML document format is preferable to the OpenDocument Format "


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ITWorld Canada: "Canadian IT professionals sounded dubious about the future of open source database firm MySQL following its surprise US$1-billion acquisition Wednesday by Sun Microsystems "


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Source: Linux Today

The Wall Street Journal: "Opportunism and a disregard for the facts are both on display in Walter Bender's letter about our rift with his One Laptop Per Child Association "


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Underexposed: "Namesys, the company run by murder suspect Hans Reiser, has fallen off the face of the Internet, but the file-system software it was commercializing is still under development by volunteers "


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Computerworld Australia: "So what's the upside or downside for the MySQL community itself ?"


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Computerworld UK: "Secunia has found that the number of security bugs in the open source Red Hat Linux operating system and Firefox browsers far outstripped comparable products from Microsoft last year "


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Guardian: "With just weeks to go before South Korea's presidential election at the end of last year, Seoul's newspapers were full of stories about historic North-South cooperation "


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Source: Linux Today

I4U: "Linspire, Inc. announces that Sears is selling a $199 Linux PC, after $100 mail-in rebate in their online store running Linspire's Freespire 2.0 Ubuntu Linux based OS "


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Groklaw: "The Open Document Format Alliance has released a paper refuting the recent Burton Group's Report on ODF and MSOOXML "


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LinuxDevices: "A team of engineering students at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich. is designing a digital stethoscope based on uClinux "


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Really Linux:"This article is written for beginners who are having difficulty with their broadband connectivity "


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Phoronix: "For years ASRock has been regarded as very much a budget motherboard manufacturer, while over time they've begun to introduce motherboards with more enthusiast-level features and even products that are more overclocker-friendly "



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Whether or not the graphics subsystem is part of the operating system's kernel or not is highly controversial, and popular opinion seems to change over time. For example, a certain other major OS has had graphics in, and then out of, the kernel several times now.


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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Using the root account for day-to-day work is a bad idea. It's better to use sudo to act like root when you need to do a little system administration. Ken Hess shows you how.


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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

What can we learn from the ants and bees? Perhaps something we can take something from the ants that may be helpful for clustering. If nodes were cheap and plentiful, then who cares? It would be kind of like stepping on ants: there always seem to be more.



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Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

DB2 9 introduces pureXML
support, which means that XML data is stored and queried in its inherent hierarchical format.
To query XML data, DB2 offers two languages, SQL/XML and XQuery. Additionally,
DB2 9 has sophisticated XML indexing capabilities and support for XML Schema
validation. While most existing performance guidelines for DB2 also apply to
XML data, this article provides additional XML-specific performance tips.



Updated: Fri Jan 18 23:55:02 2008


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