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Terra Soft has announced the release of Yellow Dog Linux 6.0, a CentOS and Fedora-based specialist distribution designed for the Power architecture: "Terra Soft today released Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) 6.0 for Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3), Apple G4/G5, and IBM System p. YDL 6.0 delivers the professional quality .

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Jesse Keating has announced the availability of Fedora 9 Alpha, the first development release of Fedora 9: "A funny thing happened on the way into the office today, an Alpha release of Fedora 9 happened!" The new release features Linux kernel 2.6.24, support for resizing ext2, ext3 and .

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Attila Cr ciun has announced the availability of the first maintenance release of Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0, an unofficial port of Slackware Linux to the 64-bit processor architecture: "I am pleased to announce Bluewhite64 12.0-Live-DVD-r1, a maintenance release of the Bluewhite64 12.0 stable live DVD edition. Many packages have been .

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Developer.com: "Graphically oriented MySQL administration tools abound, but for true speed and no-frills management perhaps nothing is more effective than the command-line driven MySQL client "

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Linux.com: "The atool package is a collection of Perl scripts that allows you to handle many different archive formats and compression schemes using a single command-line interface "

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The Tech and Other Cents: "For anyone who tries to be a blogger or create some sort of information resource, the most important issue is always with high quality of the blog or site "

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opensville: "To start things off I asked 1300 people on twitter what 'open source' meant to them "

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spyderous: "For anyone who hasn't heard, I took over as lead of Gentoo's public relations efforts a little over two weeks ago "

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PolishLinux: "Let me get this straight--this idea seems a little bit odd at the first glance. Everybody knows that KDE is a graphical environment just like GNOME, Aqua or Aero are "

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Datamation: "Articles about Microsoft's bid have probably tired you to death by now, but this article discusses one particular aspect of the potential takeover, namely its effect on GNU/Linux and BSD users "

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The Open Road: "Normally IT gets walloped in a recession, with new projects put on hold until the economy thaws "{

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Hoosier Penguin: "So it was with great relief when I heard that one of us was getting out, freeing himself to enter the much saner world of commercial-community Linux relations. Because we know nothing controversial ever happens in a job like that "

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The Guardian: "The two great pillars of Open Source are the GNU project and Linux. I shan't burden you with too much detail, I'll just make the outrageous claim that your computer will be running some descendant of those two within the next five years and that your life will be better and happier as a result "

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LinuxDevices: "A Canadian firm will soon announce a phone whose plaid case spells 'Debian' in Morse Code "

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Linux-Watch: "Linux and mainframes go together like ham and eggs. Linux virtual machines were reviving the mainframe market before most IT administrators knew anything about virtualization "

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Underexposed: "Programmers behind the PostgreSQL project released the new version 8.3 of the open-source database software Monday, saying they've boosted improved performance 5 percent to 30 percent and added several useful features "

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Kommersant: "Alexander Ponosov, director of the school in the village of Sepych, Perm Territory, who has found guilty of installing pirated Windows software in 12 school computers, has changed jobs "

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Terra Soft: "Terra Soft today released Yellow Dog Linux v6.0 for Sony PS3, Apple G4/G5, and IBM System p "

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Fedora: "A funny thing happened on the way into the office today, an Alpha release of Fedora 9 happened !"

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Mobile Open Source: "The last chapter is that AGPL v3 (the GPL version that fixes the ASP loophole) was finalized in November, and we switched the Funambol project to it "

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Linux Tech Daily: "Project governance is an important aspect for Free Software projects, and KDE has managed to make itself more sustainable and stable from this point of view "

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Tombuntu: "The original plan was to have a fresh theme for every long-term-support release, starting with Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. Now it has been decided to put off the redesign until Ubuntu 8.10 "

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DefenseNews: "What happens when the U.S. Army, whose Blue-Force Tracking system runs on Microsoft software, starts introducing the Future Combat Systems (FCS) vehicles that use the Linux operating system ?"

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internetnews.com: "Zimbra is out today with the first major release of its open source based Zimbra Collaboration solution since being acquired by Yahoo last year "

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Ars Technica: "IBM isn't taking the accusations sitting down, however, telling Ars that Microsoft is leading a fight against truly open standards "

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Sydney Morning Herald: "Apple's much-touted new operating system, OS X Leopard, is in some ways worse than Windows Vista, says the founder of the Linux open source project, Linus Torvalds "

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The Open Source Report: "The One Laptop Per Child initiative, a charity which is attempting to create and distribute educational laptops to disadvantaged children, is on its way to Australia "

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LinuxDevices: "At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, researchers are testing a Linux-based automotive telematics system intended to reduce traffic congestion "

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LinuxPlanet: "Do you wish you had access to your home file server without leaving your firewall wide open to attacks? Well today's your lucky day! While you can implement this on any OS its easiest to do this on Linux "

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KernelTrap: "'I re-ran some statistics the other day on our kernel development rate, and changed my formula after Andrew accused me of severely undercounting the rate of change,' noted Greg KH during a discussion about the stability of the Linux kernel "

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Linux.com: "Last year, Dell began offering Ubuntu on non-corporate desktops and laptops, opening the door for other large computer companies to follow suit "

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Click: "We all know that Linux is a kernel, an operating system, maybe even a socio-political movement (it depends on whom you ask), but in a sense, Linux is about people--those who create, use and promote it "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

dacarr writes "SCO has filed their 10K with the SEC — and according to this, their own assessment of the company's outlook is pretty grim. As usual, PJ of Groklaw has a good synopsis of the filing highlights. In short, it boils down to one thing: unless there's a miracle, even SCO doesn't think they're going to come out of this. 'As a result of the Chapter 11 filings, realization of assets and liquidation of liabilities are subject to uncertainty. While operating as debtors-in-possession under the protection of Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, the Debtors may sell or otherwise dispose of assets and liquidate or settle liabilities for amounts other than those reflected in the consolidated financial statements, in the ordinary course of business, or, if outside the ordinary course of business, subject to Bankruptcy Court approval. In addition, under the priority scheme established by the Bankruptcy Code, unless creditors agree otherwise, post-petition liabilities and prepetition liabilities must be satisfied in full before stockholders are entitled to receive any distribution or retain any property under a plan of reorganization.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

For many in the IT profession, January 30, 2007 was a day that will live in infamy. If you've blocked it from your memory, that's the day that Windows Vista was launched and available for purchase in stores and in new PC systems. And there was much rejoicing. Not!

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

So, now that the dust is starting to settle from the news that Sun is buying MySQL for a staggering $1 billion pricetag, let's take a look at the larger picture-- how is consolidation going to affect the open source ecosystem? MySQL was the first project in 2008 to be absorbed this way, but it certainly won't be the last.

Source: ONLamp.com

Virtualization is one approach that you can take to implementing clusters. But you still have to arrange to handle failures in a high-availability environment. Here's one solution, using Xen.

Source: Linux DevCenter

I live in a small town on the sparse side of Oregon. Sparse of people, anyway; there are lots of mountains, high desert, cows, deer, elk, foxes, ground squirrels, badgers, raptors of all kinds, and so on. But hardly any

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Ruby users, take note. You can now do everything that Groovy and PHP users can do when creating Project Zero applications! In a previous article, we showed how to augment Project Zero to provide support for the Ruby scripting language. The code that we wrote enabled Ruby users to transfer their scripting skills to the Zero platform and take advantage of its unique programming model. Of course, scripting isn't the only way that Ruby is used to create applications - programmmers who use the Ruby on Rails framework also mix Ruby in HTML templates similar to JSP and PHP. These templates, called RHTML files, are very useful for creating dynamic user interfaces, and this article will show you how to extend our Ruby support to include them. Find out how Ruby users can now do everything that Groovy and PHP users can do when creating Zero applications!

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

RSS (Rich Site Summary, RDF Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication) has
been around since the mid-1990s. Over the years, several variants of the RSS format
have popped up and several claims have been made about its ownership. Despite these
differences, RSS never ceased to serve its usefulness in distributing Web content
from one Web site to many others. The popularity of RSS gave way to the growth of a
new class of Web software called the feed reader, also known as the feed aggregator.
Although there are several commercially available feed aggregators, it's easy to
develop your own feed aggregator, which you can integrate with your Web
applications. You'll appreciate this article's fully functional PHP code snippets,
demonstrating the use of PHP-based server-side functions to develop a customizable
RSS feed aggregator. In addition, you'll reap instant benefits from using the fully
functional RSS feed aggregator code, which you can download from this article.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

When you create browser-based applications that display XML data feeds, you
often need to code the data-retrieval mechanism and the user interface. Mozilla
Firefox provides an infrastructure that frees you from these tasks, so you can concentrate on your application's functionality. Learn how to use Asynchronous JavaScript + XML (Ajax) to download XML data from a Web server, and discover how you can use Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) to transform it dynamically into Firefox user-interface elements expressed in XML User Interface Language (XUL). You can apply these techniques to any application that uses XML data sources.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Learn about, try, and contribute to a new open source tool -- jpa2web -- which generates J2EE Ajax-based Web applications from JPA-annotated beans. Using the ZK framework, the applications generated by this tool allow your users to add, delete, search, modify, and interconnect instances of database-synchronized objects in a friendly, Ajax-based Web user interface.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

JavaFX Script, which made its debut last spring, is a scripting
language that runs on top of Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (Java SE) and makes it easy to code sophisticated
user interfaces. Learn the essentials of the JavaFX scripting language and gain an
understanding of some basic UI components with the help of the sample application
detailed within.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Back end processing -- server-side scripts and programs -- can't always be tossed into an Ajax application and behave well. Instead, careful planning to ensure data is sent in an appropriate and efficient form ensures your entire application is cohesive, rather than needlessly complex. Brett McLaughlin explains how a good server-side script complements Ajax behavior.

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

XQuery makes it much easier to merge and filter information from XML documents
when you embed the filtering instructions right into the document that you use to
generate the output format. You can use that functionality to aggregate information
from RSS and Atom feeds into the format you need. In this article, look at the
structure of the RSS and Atom formats and how XQuery can simplify the display of that information.

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Elliotte Rusty Harold prognosticates what he thinks is in store for XML.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Access control-based security of application resources is one of the core features of Project Zero. With the goal of radical simplification in mind, the developers of Project Zero Security have made an effort to simplify the enablement of security and make it quick and easy. This article, Part 2 of the three-part series, delves into Project Zero Security and how to create a user registry, define security rules for the application, and leverage an LDAP user registry.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Learn about Linking Open Data (LOD), a community initiative
for moving the Web from the idea of separated documents to a wide
information space of data. The key principles of LOD are that
it is simple, readily adaptable by Web developers, and complements many
other popular Web trends. Learn how to make your data more widely used by making its
components easier to discover, more valuable, and easier for people to
reuse--in ways you might not anticipate.

Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

PHP classes can sometimes still be a black box, a big unknown to many new and
some old-school PHP developers. But it doesn't have to be that way. Classes help
modularize code and remove extraneous copies of code scattered throughout the code base
by placing the code into functions within classes. This helps make maintaining
your code much easier. That's what the PHP Class Generator plug-in for Eclipse helps
PHP developers do: generate PHP classes to help manage database tables, so you don't
have to, which helps speed up the learning curve.