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Source: elive

The Elive development team has released an updated unstable version of Elive, a Debian-based distribution featuring the latest Enlightenment 17 window manager: "The Elive Team is proud to announce the release of a much improved development version of Elive. This version includes a new installer with better and .

Source: monowall

Manuel Kasper has announced the release of m0n0wall 1.234, a minimalist firewall distribution based on FreeBSD: "I've decided to create one more release in the 1.2x stable branch to add source port randomization (for both NAT and the DNS forwarder). This is a recommended upgrade for all 1.2x .

Source: Linux Today

The VAR Guy: "Based in Spain, Openbravo is backed by $12 million in new funding, a growing partner program and a new Ubuntu Linux Server effort. Translation: Openbravo seems to be on quite a roll."

Source: Linux Today

OStatic: "Where is Rodney Dangerfield when we need him? There are some heated messages flying around in the Ubuntu forums because NBC has announced that it will offer its online video coverage of the Beijing Olympics to Internet Explorer and Firefox users on the Mac and Windows, but not to Linux browser users."

Source: Linux Today

Internet News: "China is employing an unprecedented level of state-of-the-art digital technology to suppress media freedom. For the sake of humanity, let's hope Beijing's Orwellian IT experiment fails."

Source: Linux Today

IBM Developerworks: "Databases are often out of sync with the applications they support, and getting the database and data into a known state is a significant challenge to manage. In this installment of Automation for the people, automation expert Paul Duvall demonstrates how the open source LiquiBase database-migration tool can reduce the pain of managing the constant of change with databases and applications."

Source: Linux Today

Groklaw: "
I put this article from Law.com's Legal Technology page, "Commentary: The Penguin Doesn't Fly, Avoid Linux" in News Picks because I found it hilarious, in the Rob Enderle kind of way. But then I thought I'd look up the author on Google, and lo and behold, I find he said something that appears to be not exactly true. I'm not talking about the FUD stuff. I'm talking about his assertion that he couldn't get any answers to a request for help from Mandriva Forum:"

Source: Linux Today

Linux Today Blog: "As powerful as all this cool technology is, it's also fragile, as I learned yet again today. A storm blew in and it was a doozy- high winds, machine-gun rain, lightning, and thunder that felt like it was RIGHT HERE. What can the mighty Linux and FOSS machine do in the face of Mother Nature pitching a little fit? Not a darned thing. They're not even relevant."

Source: Linux Today

wolfgang.lonien.de: "As some of you might know, I opened the European ZaReason store this year. ZaReason is a company which is well known in the free software world, at least in the US, because it builds machines and sells them pre-installed with Ubuntu Linux."

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Eric Van Hensbergen writes "In accordance with the ideals of the issue's open source topic, the ACM has agreed to make the July issue of Operating Systems Review: Research and Developments in the Linux Kernel available for download free of charge. It contains a number of interesting papers written by LKML members like Rusty Russell, Paul McKenna, and Eric Biederman as well as academic OS researchers who've made contributions to mainline on topics ranging from RCL, VirtIO, Checkpoint & Resume, to CUBIC TCP, etc. A primary motivation behind this special-topics OSR issue was to help bridge a gap that currently exists between the kernel community and the academic OS research community, by encouraging kernel developers to publish recent additions to the Linux kernel as well as to provide a forum for experience papers which describe the introduction and integration of research into the mainstream Linux kernel. We think it is important for the research community and the kernel community to cross pollinate more and hope this issue will be the first of many venues where the will be able to do so."Read more of this story at Slashdot.