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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Commentary: Testing, one two three News: DPL election results, CentOS vs Ubuntu, gOS Space, Eee PC SDK, Darkstar's Disk Manager, interviews with Jeremy Katz and Bill Reynolds Released last week: Mandriva Linux 2008.1, sidux 2008-01 Upcoming releases: openSUSE 11.0 Beta 1, Ubuntu 8.04 .

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Linux.com: "If you like to customize your applications' appearance, then Firefox themes probably haven't impressed you "

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Far Beyond the Edge of Reason: "You will all no doubt be aware that a few months back I reviewed the original gOS, and I was enthusiastic about it "

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Raiden's Realm: "When it comes to desktop publishing, a lot of people might think of big organizations producing newsletters, or your local boy scouts producing a fund raising flier "

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Flipping the Linux Switch: "But I wanted to try openSUSE as my RPM based distro, again, because there are some nifty little apps on the horizon that seem, for now, to work best/easiest with openSUSE and/or RPM distros "

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Roundup: "Mandriva started life in July 1998 (formally known as Linux-Mandrake) as a KDE distro based on Red Hat. That was nearly 10 years ago "

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ChannelWeb: "The Fedora Project attracts a lot of interest from the Linux faithful. While there are perhaps more newbie-friendly, corporate-friendly, or special-interest-focused distributions, Fedora continues to wear the innovation hat "

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ZDNet Education: "My oldest son is a fairly typical 15 year-old end user. He's on the computer all the time, has a decent idea how to get things done, and is largely not interested in the inner workings of hardware or operating system "

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internetnews.com: "The Debian GNU / Linux distribution has announced the eighth and final update to the Debian 3.1 Sarge release. Time sure does fly "

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ArticleOnRamp: "If we look at the future, Linux seems to be doomed to a slow death in a dozen years: DRM, proprietary hardware, technologic innovations and political choices are behind this forecast "

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Roundup: "I mean, it's hard not to support the group that pays Linus Torvalds to spend his time continuing to lead the poster-boy project for free and open source software. But at the same time, those golden chains are my biggest concern about the Linux Foundation "

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Planète Béranger: "I'll have to start by invoking the Evil before trying to prove that nowadays there is a severe lack of direction in whatever concerns the open-source desktop "

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Microsoft Watch: "I concur that Windows is broken, but I don't agree that it's fixable "

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Kevin Carmony's Blog: "Not only has Linspire not held a shareholders meeting, but to this day, they have not even responded to my inquiries with so much as a 'we'll get back to you on that '"

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Practical Technology: " I should at been at the Gartner Conference in Las Vegas where two Gartner analysts declared, 'Windows Is Collapsing.' It is ?"

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PC World: "Scott Spoonauer of LaptopMag seems to be spending quite a bit of time trying to insinuate that Linux has missed its opportunity for widespread adoption "

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Socialized Software: "Last year open source analyst Michael Coté of Redmonk coined the term Little Four to describe four up-and-coming open source management vendors and as a foil to the Big Four of systems management "

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LinuxPlanet: "Xfce isn't for everyone, but for servers or minimal desktop systems, it's just what the doctor ordered "

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Phoronix: "It's been a long time in the making, but the xf86-video-radeonhd 1.2 driver has just been pushed out the door "

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Computerworld: "I'll admit that I'm not a Marvel Comics fan (color me Vertigo), but this one's got me genuinely stumped: Iron Man is fighting the dark forces of Linux "

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KernelTrap: "Open Graphics Project founder Timothy Miller recently noted on the project's mailing list that they are set to announce that their first hardware, the OGD1, is ready for pre-order "

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ZDNet UK: "The International Organization for Standardization has called for 'personal attacks' to cease in the debate surrounding Microsoft's Office Open XML standard "

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Research Central: "What's the secret of success for open-source software projects? The same as other teams: trust, cooperation and a broad network of external contacts "

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InformationWeek: "BitRock's goal is to help drive the widespread use of OSS products by reducing barriers for both customers and OSS ISVs "

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LinuxWorld: "Linux enthusiasts like to point out just how scalable the system is; Linux runs on everything from pocket-size devices to supercomputers with several thousand processors "

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Linux.com: "What sort of impact can you expect from switching a machine from the Gigabit Ethernet NIC that come on its motherboard to a higher-end Intel desktop NIC ?"

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Linux.com's Joe Barr has an interesting commentary about the recent Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit and the astounding lack of attention for desktop Linux. Now, a great deal of the monetary support driving Linux these days comes from companies with a vested interest in "big iron" but hopefully this wont completely eclipse the rest of the community. "Before I learned that the press was not welcome in any of the working-meetings at the summit on days 2 and 3, I saw and heard rumblings of discontent from more than one ordinary Linux desktop user. One example: a top-ten list of inhibitors to Linux adoption, created by a committee of foundation members, contained nothing at all relating to desktop usage. Nothing. Everything on the list was about back-room usage. Servers. Big iron."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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andremachado writes "Two academic management researchers, Siobhán O'Mahony and Fabrizion Ferraro, performed a detailed scientific study about Debian Project governance and social organization from the management perspective. How a big non-commercial non-paying community evolved and actually produces some of the most respectable Operating Systems and applications packages available? Organizations without a consensual basis of authority lack an important condition necessary for their survival. Those with directly democratic forms of participation do not tend to scale well and are noted for their difficulty managing complexity and decision-making — all of which can hasten their demise. The Debian Project community designed and evolved a solid governance system since 1993 able to stablish shared conceptions of formal authority, leadership and meritocracy, limited by defined democratic adaptive mechanisms."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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desmondhaynes writes "The GIMP team announced today the first release from the 2.5 development series. It is true that this version is unstable, but a little bird told me to give it a try and see what's it capable of. First of all, let me tell you that its interface is quite redesigned and I think that some users will have problems adjusting with it, but that's just my two cents. On the other hand, version 2.5.0 of The GIMP includes some hot new features, like the integration of GEGL (Generic Graphics Library) which will finally get support for higher color depths, more colorspaces and eventually non-destructive editing."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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I'm attending the Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) Global Summit in Seattle this week. IronRuby was not on the Open Spaces meeting agenda this afternoon, so John Lam staged an impromptu meetup for people interested in talking about IronRuby. John is

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I often refer to blog entries over on the Microsoft Port 25 site. if you are interested in Open Source interoperability with Microsoft products, you definitely need to follow some of their product teams as much as you follow Open Source product

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If you look at the CPAN test reports for Parrot, you'll see that the pernicious and persistent problems relate to odd bits of not-quite-always-cross-platform math, specifically floating point numbers and not-a-numbers. It's reasonably easy to find and read the C89 and POSIX

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Part 1 and Part 2 of this series covered the basic concepts necessary to
develop services-based integration patterns. This article, the third in the series,
and the upcoming Part 4 further develop these ideas so the services-based
integration patterns become full-blown services-based patterns. This article in
particular deals with the components that are together commonly referred to as Web
services, which were originally designed for services that can be accessed over the
Internet. You'll also see that many of the Web services components can be used with
services that don't use the Internet and that only require a network connection.