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Linux and Open Source News for 14th September 2008

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Source: sidux

The first preview release of sidux 2008-03, a distribution and live CD based on Debian's unstable branch, is available for testing: "Later than planned (due to a hard-to-find bug in VirtualBox), sidux 2008-03 'Ourea' is now ready to enter the preview season for amd64 and i686 systems. As .


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Source: greenie

Stano Hoferek has announced the release of Greenie Linux 3.1H, an Ubuntu-based distribution optimised for Slovak and Czech users, but also supporting English and Esperanto. The new version comes with a greatly modified list of Bash aliases, a Greenport service (online script gallery), a special menu with graphic .



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Source: Linux Today

Groklaw: "Since the headlines about this story, such as this one in the Washington Post, Virginia AntiSpam Law Overturned, Spammer Walks, naturally point out that a notorious spammer has avoided jail time as a result, I wanted to make sure you understood the why of it."


Source: Linux Today

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "As promised (I think ;), we're back today with some code (not the entire script that encompasses the last 2 weeks worth of posts, of course) to grind out the final concept in this string of surprisingly wide-ranging topics all centered around the concepts of number pools and guaranteed matches."


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Linux Weekly: "Using the MPlayer engine, SMPlayer is a powerful video player built in Qt4, with support for playing DVDs, DVD ISO images, a configurable interface, icon themes, the very useful feature of remembering settings and time left from a video after closing it."


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Source: Linux Today

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today, I found a little RFC for you that isn't just funny (and an "official" April Fool's Day joke), but is actually real and can be found on the official IETF RFC Page."


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Source: Linux Today

SUSE & openSUSE: "Songbird is a free opensource customizable media player and web browse powered by Mozilla. Songbird runs on Mozilla’s XULRunner platform, thus capable of running on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Solaris and Linux."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "Well, that's the best pun I could come up with but EasyGUI looks like the missing link that makes Python my first choice where I tended to use Bash."


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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "mod_spamhaus is an Apache module that uses DNSBL in order to block spam relay via web forms, preventing URL injection, block http DDoS attacks from bots and generally protecting your web service denying access to a known bad IP address."


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "He has been a researcher, a columnist, a reporter, a war correspondent in Baghdad (in 2003) and more--and achieved notoriety in 2005 when Microsoft deleted his blog."


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Source: Linux Today

Zemlin's blog: "The Linux Foundation, in concert with several well-known industry names (hint: they start with letters like I and G), has hired a key contributor to the Linux kernel development community, the system administrator for kernel.org."



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

TRS-80 writes "Users of the upcoming Ubuntu release, Intrepid Ibex, are being confronted with an EULA the first time they launch Firefox. Mark Shuttleworth says 'Mozilla Corp asked that this be added in order for us to continue to call the browser Firefox I would not consider an EULA as a best practice. It's unfortunate that Mozilla feels this is absolutely necessary' and notes there's an unbranded 'abrowser' package available. Many of the comments say Ubuntu should ditch Firefox as this makes it clear it's not Free Software, hence unsuitable for Ubuntu main, and just ship Iceweasel or Epiphany, the GNOME browser." A few comments take Canonical to task for agreeing to Mozilla's demand to display an EULA without consulting the community.Read more of this story at Slashdot.



Updated: Mon Sep 15 23:55:01 2008


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