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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Kate Size: 687.43 MB Status: 6 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2006-09-04 20:04:29

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: VideoLinux Size: 129.19 MB Status: 2 seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-09-04 16:32:51

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: GoboLinux Size: 662.56 MB Status: 2 seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-09-04 15:55:52

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: UbuntuCE Size: 694.34 MB Status: 1 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2006-09-04 09:56:53

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: ZenWalk Size: 439.29 MB Status: 1 seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-09-04 05:13:33

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Slackware Size: 1.38 GB Status: 5 seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2006-09-04 04:02:55

Source: netbsd

Geert Hendrickx has announced the availability of a second release candidate of NetBSD 3.1: "on behalf of the NetBSD Release Engineering Team, it is my pleasure to announce that the second release candidate for NetBSD 3.1 has been released. Improvements over the first release candidate include: fixed the .

Source: kate

A live CD edition of Kate OS 3.0 has been released: "Kate OS 3.0 LIVE is the newest version of our distribution which boots directly from the CD. It is a great demonstration of our system's possibilities. It can also come very handy when trying to rescue another .

Source: weekly

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: News: Linspire frees Click 'N Run, Ubuntu updates, NetBSD troubles, Tinkerbell Linux Released last week: Gentoo Linux 2006.1, Debian GNU/Linux 3.1r3 Upcoming releases: openSUSE 10.2, Vine Linux 4.0 Site news: DistroWatch one of "Top 101 web sites" Donations: Puppy Linux receives US$350 Page .

Source: Linux Today

Because it's implemented in software, it is extremely versatile, easy to customize, and easy to extend

Source: Linux Today

Until now, security-conscious email users could employ encryption with traditional email clients, but were out of luck with webmail services

Source: Linux Today

2006 may be remembered as the year that the Free Software Foundation (FSF) reached out to the community

Source: Linux Today

In the last week or so I made a move from Kubuntu over to Ubuntu. I did this because I was going to give XGL/Compiz a try

Source: Linux Today

I came across this opinion piece by Paul Barton, an attorney at Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP today. I wish he would have attended the Open Source Business Conference before writing his piece

Source: Slashdot: Linux

polar_bear writes, "The fourth annual Ohio LinuxFest is just around the corner, and this year's LinuxFest is set to be the best one yet. The lineup will feature Jeff Waugh of Ubuntu and GNOME, Linux International's Jon 'maddog' Hall, Jorge Castro, MySQL's Jay Pipes, Michael Johnson, a panel on virtualization, and many more excellent speakers. The OhioLinuxFest will take place on Saturday, September 30 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio. Registration is free."

Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "Debian's cdrecord maintainers announced that they have had enough of Joerg Schilling and kicked his program suite cdrtools out of Debian, introducing a free fork of his no longer free cdrtools." I've put the message below, along with some other links.