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Source: Gizmodo

Dutch powerhouse Phillips is poised to introduce (though only in its home base in the Netherlands for now) the VP-5500, a Wi-Fi-enabled VoIP telephone. What makes it so special? Well, it’s powered by Linux, so it’s automatically awesome. As far as features go, the VP-5500 comes with a built-in VGA camera that rotates up to 240 degrees, letting you check yourself out as you chat with a friend. Not only that, but you can hook it up to a TV and have it output a slideshow of all the photos you’ve taken. To make it future-proof, Phillips designed the phone to be updatable via Wi-Fi, opening up all sorts of neat, Linux-powered possibilities.

Phillips VP-5500 VoIP Videophone [eHomeUpgrade]

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Category: Fedora Size: 920.48 MB Status: no seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2006-01-21 15:54:26


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Category: VLOS Size: 636.02 MB Status: 1 seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2006-01-21 12:48:37


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Category: VLOS Size: 689.46 MB Status: 4 seeders and 7 leechers Added: 2006-01-21 12:42:45


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Category: SUSE Size: 90.11 MB Status: 1 seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-01-21 11:33:12


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Category: SUSE Size: 37.08 MB Status: 3 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2006-01-21 11:32:12


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Category: SUSE Size: 37.34 MB Status: 2 seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-01-21 11:31:16


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Category: PC-BSD Size: 218.68 MB Status: 2 seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-01-21 10:37:13


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Category: Linux Live CDs Size: 344.01 MB Status: 35 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2006-01-21 09:57:19


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Category: PC-BSD Size: 667.72 MB Status: 6 seeders and 5 leechers Added: 2006-01-21 08:49:36


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Category: Arudius Size: 204.64 MB Status: 2 seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-01-21 08:31:53


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Source: geolivre

GEOLivre Linux is a Kurumin and Debian-based Brazilian distribution with a collection of specialist software for geographical work. Version 5.0 was released on Saturday. Among the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software included in the distribution are: UMN MapServer, PostGIS, Open 3D GIS, Generic Mapping Tools (GMT), GRASS (geospatial .



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Source: RootPrompt.org -- Nothing but Unix

The flip-side of filtering spam is persuading mis-configured e-mail relays to accept mail from your innocent little sendmail daemon. The latest article on Linux, Unix, /etc/ shows how to beat the IP Address ban.


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Source: OSNews

"The combination of Mono, Gtk#, C#, Glade, Glade# and Monodevelop will get you knocking out desktop and Web apps like a pro in no time. The best part is that Gtk# is available on both Windows and Linux, so it's pretty easy to make a cross-platform application that uses the .Net framework on Windows, and Mono on Linux." Read more here.


Source: OSNews

The Southern California Linux Expo announced today that Peter Quinn, former CIO of Massachusetts, will keynote at the 2006 Southern California Linux Expo. Quinn's keynote will be the opening presentation at SCALE's Workshop on the OpenDocument Format in Government Organizations.



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Source: Linux Today

Would you believe that Wine, the open-source, program that enables you to run some Windows programs on Linux, is faster than native Windows XP on the same hardware ?


Source: Linux Today

Not often thought of as radio stars, Linux developers are now able to steal the limelight thanks to Dapto couple James and Karin Purser


Source: Linux Today

Next month Linux enthusiasts and newbies will flock to the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) for free CDs, technical talks and even a conference on the OpenDocument format


Source: Linux Today

Dan Kusnetzky spent 11 years as a research analyst for IDC, and is a popular speaker at Linux trade shows and other events


Source: Linux Today

Not surprisingly, there is a lot of depth to MySQL and what you can do with it, and consequently, no small list of commands and combinations that are a part of it



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Source: Freshmeat Daily News

HTTrack is an easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the mirrored Web site in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. WebHTTrack is a Web-based GUI for HTTrack.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release adds major enhancements to the engine, including
transparent handling of dynamic pages, redirects, and URLs with
unexpected MIME types, mms:// streaming support (through Nicolas
Benoit's mmsrip), and a lots of fixes.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Bayonne is the telephony server of the GNU project. Bayonne offers a script driven threaded multiline state event telephony service for building voice response systems and telephony plugins for runtime driver configuration. Bayonne also features "TGI" for making perl applications "telephony aware". Bayonne may be used to build telephony based system administration, home automation, automated attendent, v-commerce, and voice messaging systems.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release adds SIP proxy call authentication support clarification,
support for accepting calls from public proxies by port-forwarded
Bayonne servers behind NATs with automatic SDP rewrite rules, and
apparmor subdomain configuration for the Bayonne daemon.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Kydpdict is a graphical frontend to Collins' English/German-Polish and Polish-English/German dictionaries.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release has been fixed to work on the x64 architecture. Some GUI
fixes have been made for MacOS X. The search function has been improved.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

OFBiz Neogia is an ERP solution based on the OFBiz framework. It covers finance, manufacturing, CRM, sales, sourcing, purchasing, and e-commerce, is based on UML models, and makes extensive use of code generation.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
All major feature requests were closed. Types for price rules and promotions were added along with a new productStore condition in price rules. A sort button is now provided for each column in the list. Inventory views were refactored and entry simplifications and enhancements were made.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Email Security through Procmail (the Procmail Sanitizer) provides methods to sanitize email, removing obvious exploit attempts and disabling the channels through which exploits are delivered. Facilities for detecting and blocking Trojan Horse exploits and worms are also provided.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This release added default poisoning of the application/x-msdownload MIME type in response to a new worm. Full MIME-type poisoning support will be available shortly. This release was accelerated for security reasons.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Sagasu is a GNOME tool to find strings in multiple
files. The user specifies the search directory and
the set of files to be searched. Double-clicking on
a search result launches a user command that can
for example load the file in an editor at the
appropriate line. The search can optionally ignore
CVS directories. Sagasu is a Japanese word that
means "to search."

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This version should be compilable under GNOME 2.12 without modifications to the makefiles.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Conspy allows a (possibly remote) user to see what is displayed on a Linux virtual console, and to send keystrokes to it. It only known to work with Linux. It is rather like VNC, but where VNC takes control of a GUI, conspy takes control of a text-mode virtual console. Unlike VNC, conspy does not require a server to be installed prior to being used.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
The program now works on big-endian machines.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

BuildProcess is a complete J2EE deployment
toolbox. It provides different tools to help the
J2EE administrator in his daily job. The main
project is AutoDeploy, which automaticaly deploys
J2EE applications on different targeted
application servers. It's a complement of
continuous integration tools such as CruiseControl
or AntHill. BuildEraser can delete files on
different filesystems, local or remote (FTP,
WebDAV, CIFS, and SMB).

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This version includes full support for IBM WebSphere Application Server.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Sitellite is an advanced Web-based Content
Management System (CMS) and PHP content publishing
framework.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
This update included various bugfixes, new zero-code input validation using the same technique previously limited to forms, and dates that can be localized using a new localdate() function identical to the date() function, but respecting setlocale(). Unicode characters are now properly handled in page contents again. The translation builder was fixed. A new AJAX-powered page browser replaces the select box for linking between pages, mkaing it easier on sites with many pages. Quick links were added for switching between Easy and Advanced editing modes.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

The scale-invariant feature transform is an
algorithm to identify and locate interesting
points within an image. For all such points, a
descriptive signature is extracted. The signatures
can be stored and matched among multiple images,
allowing for a large number of interesting
applications, such as aligning overlapping images
and identifying objects or motion within image
sequences. libsift is used by the autopano-sift
program to create panorama images.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
A serious bug in the Gaussian sigma computation and a bug in the DoG scale handling were fixed.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Plone is a content management system
that is simple to set up, maintain, and modify. It
is designed to be a corporate-ready content
management system.
It is ideal as an intranet and extranet server, as a document/Web publishing system, and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities.
It aims to be a proper content management and publishing system, sharing the same qualities as Teamsite, Livelink, and Documentum.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Migration should now completely work between the 2.0.x series and 2.1.x series. There were many cleanups and fixes.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

Filesystem in Userspace is a simple interface for
userspace programs to export a virtual filesystem
to the Linux kernel. It also aims to provide a secure
method for non privileged users to create and
mount their own filesystem implementations.

License: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

Changes:
The "template" structure member in fuse_opt.h was renamed to "templ" to avoid a conflict with the C++ keyword. This release supports the upcoming Linux 2.6.16 kernel.


Source: Freshmeat Daily News

LIRC is a package that supports receiving and sending IR signals of the most common IR remote controls. It contains a daemon that decodes and sends IR signals, a mouse daemon that translates IR signals to mouse movements, and a couple of user programs that allow to control your computer with a remote control.

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Changes:
Support for the Actisys Act220L(+) and Linksys NSLU2 devices was added. A new lircrcd program that reads the .lircrc config file and synchronises the mode that the LIRC clients using this config file (irexec, irxevent, etc.) are in was added. Transmitting of IR signals was fixed for some rarely used protocols. LIRC kernel drivers work now with kernel versions up to 2.6.15.



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Source: SourceForge New Releases

Beta version Released


Source: NewsForge

Military, weapons, and national defense are certainly not synonymous with open source software, but developers and companies that provide Linux and other open source software for such applications indicate the ideals of open source communities are not contrary to its use in defense.


Source: SourceForge New Releases

Updated driver in CVS



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Source: The Doc Searls Weblog

Open-Source Radioware is my latest at Linux Journal. Bonus link: Globe King 500 Restoration Project. Found via Phillip Torrone in the Make blog.



Updated: Wed Jun 28 00:10:23 2006


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