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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: redWall Size: 519.21 MB Status: 5 seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2006-09-28 02:45:51

Source: uhu

The UHU-Linux project has announced the immediate availability of UHU-Linux 2.0, an independently developed Hungarian distribution for home and office use. According to the release announcement (in Hungarian), the project's fourth stable release listens to the code name "Igen", and comes either as a single-CD desktop distribution with .

Source: pud

PUD GNU/Linux, an Ubuntu-based mini-distribution with the XFce desktop and support for traditional Chinese, has been upgraded to version 0.4.6.6: "We are glad to announce the release of PUD v0.4.6.6. New features: Squashfs 3.1 with LZMA algorithm; Ultimate - because you can install PUD on an USB drive, .

Source: kubuntu

Jonathan Riddell has announced the availability of a beta release of Kubuntu 6.10: "The beta release for Kubuntu 6.10 (code named Edgy Eft) is now available for download and testing. Kubuntu 6.10 Beta comes with plenty of new features: the user interface has been redesigned thanks to a .

Source: ubuntu

Matt Zimmerman has announced that a beta release of Ubuntu 6.10 is now available for download and testing: "The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the Beta Release of Ubuntu 6.10 - code named 'Edgy Eft'. Highlights include: GNOME 2.16; OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 RC2; X.Org 7.1; task selection for .

Source: slamd64

Fred Emmott has announced a new release candidate for Slamd64 11.0, an unofficial port of Slackware Linux to the AMD64 processor architecture: "Slamd64-current is now (as of the 20060927 updates) Slamd64 11.0 RC5. Highlights of recent changes: various security fixes; /media added; Konqueror functions properly, rather than complaining .

Source: Linux Today

Nicholas Petreley and Glyn Moody take a look at the recent Debian/Firefox and the Linux/GPLv3 debates. Articles within.

Source: Linux Today

I am writing this article using Writer, part of the slick new OpenOffice.org suite, which by the way is free and now rivals Microsoft Office in terms of features

Source: Linux Today

A growing number of the estimated 5.8 million small and midsize businesses in the United States are buying Linux solutions, mostly from solution providers

Source: Linux Today

There's no shortage of messaging and collaboration suites trying to unseat Microsoft Exchange, but many of the suites are still playing catch-up with Microsoft in terms of features

Source: Linux Today

Lately, I have found myself becoming more and more disenfranchised with the whole concept of flash media

Source: Linux Today

"Bill Clinton told the Labour conference to get into ubuntu. Eh ?" Not exactly Linux-related; an etymologic examination of a word that's becoming popular every where.

Source: Linux Today

The time span between the release of versions 1.1.15 and 1.1.16 is one of the longest in several years and the number of changes included reflects that

Source: Linux Today

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu: one of the fastest-growing Linux distros on the market today, and certainly one of the most respected among experienced Linux users

Source: Linux Today

The KDE Project today announced the immediate release of KOffice 1.6-RC1, the first release candidate for KOffice 1.6, scheduled for release this October

Source: Linux Today

Donald Feinberg, the chief database analyst at Gartner, provided a very thorough analysis of the impact of open source technology in the database market

Source: Linux Today

To make the short story shorter, the PNG file was invented as a reaction to Unisys' move; although it was never wildly successful, PNG did manage to make Unisys's threat very much irrelevant

Source: Linux Today

Incremental changelog, links within.

Source: Linux Today

Was the news really that bad? It doesn't look like it was that awful

Source: Linux Today

The surest way to beat the competition is to start fast and stay ahead

Source: Linux Today

Jaluna has renamed itself as VirtualLogix, and rebranded its OSWare product porfolio as VLX

Source: Linux Today

You're different though, you use Linux. Therefore there's no reason why you should get your TV schedule the way everybody does. And you'll be happy to know that there is an easy way to set up your Linux box to do just that

Source: Linux Today

Many people choose to become certified in open source software in order to increase their professional marketability or simply for their own edification

Source: Linux Today

Linksys makes some fine wireless broadband routers, but one of the best things about these devices is that their firmware is based on Linux and can be replaced with third-party software, allowing anyone to have the functionality of an expensive, professional-grade router

Source: Linux Today

So you want to give the latest Firefox 2 release candidate a spin, but don't want it to mess with your current Firefox install/profile ?

Source: Linux Today

There are numerous audio players designed especially for GNOME. Single GnomeFiles repository lists over 60 of them

Source: Linux Today

If you're responsible for the security of networked systems, you'll want to become familiar with Metasploit Framework, so you can test your client PCs before someone with malicious intent does it for you

Source: Linux Today

The goal of this howto is building a NFS server that works on a SSH tunnel

Source: Linux Today

I have always looked at the DOS operating system with some nostalgia

Source: Linux Today

Today's security advisories: OpenSSH (Gentoo Linux and rPath Linux).

Source: Linux Today

I've blogged about my own less than successful attempts to roll out Linux here at my high school in an effort to save money, avoid licensing hassles, and otherwise circumvent what stinks about the bad boys of Redmond

Source: Linux Today

I would have to applaud this attempt at putting a positive spin on the discussion

Source: Linux Today

One of the most exciting features of true SaaS is that it delivers software freed from all the complexities attached to desktop applications

Source: Linux Today

Has the increasingly common application and development of open source software helped kiss goodbye to a portion of software piracy ?

Source: Linux Today

Someone asked Greg K-H about power management at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo, and his answer was, 'we suck '

Source: Linux Today

In my testing, I found Freespire to be the most compelling release yet from Linspire, but I also came away more appreciative of Ubuntu Linux than ever

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Slashback tonight brings some clarifications and updates to previous Slashdot stories, including: iTunes 7.0, Wal-Mart threatens studios over iTunes sales, debate over a proposal to fund Debian, and Googling for ATM master passwords. Read on for details.

Source: Linux Magazine Online

Source: Linux Magazine Online

Wall Street took a pound of flesh from the Linux vendor this week. However, they may have jumped to their conclusions a bit too soon.

Source: Linux Magazine Online

Learn about buffer overflow exploits and how to avoid them.

Source: Linux Magazine Online

m4 is a powerful macro processor that's been around for more than thirty years. Here's the first of two parts, introducing its many magnificent talents.

Source: Linux Magazine Online

If you listen to Ogg Vorbis files, KRename and EasyTAG makes organizing those files a snap.

Source: ONLamp.com

Yogesh Makwana and Syvum Technologies had a problem: their application, hosted on a shared server, used too much CPU time and had grown unresponsive. Moving to a virtual private server and using the appropriate Apache modules and architecture brought their costs and response times and load averages under control. This case study explores their technique.

Source: ONLamp.com

Steve Yegge’s Good Agile, Bad Agile needs a filk song. Maybe it needs some classic Star Trek fanfiction where the main characters are marmots. Either one would make it clear that you should not take it seriously.

If you take Steve’s argument seriously, you’ll learn that the proper way to
do software is to:



Start as a multi-billion dollar company with billions of dollars available
to invest.

Hire as many brilliant people as you can afford. Try to get this number
in the thousands.

Start as many projects as possible, in the hopes that one will become a
wild success and diversify your money-making prospects.

Keep your projects away from customers, budgets, and deadlines as much as
possible.



Well that was easy. Just be Google, a graduate student, or a
startup (with unlimited funding).

The rest of us have slightly different goals, for example, giving customers
what they really want with reasonable budgets and schedules. If you take away
schedule and budget pressure entirely, you don’t need a development process
such as XP; XP is all about managing limited resources and allowing
change.

The point of extreme programming is to make change so cheap and easy that
you can get and react to feedback from every possible point in the development
process.

That’s it.

Sure, the details have more details, but once you understand that, you see
why a development practice that works for Google (”keep really smart people
happy and hope they stumble into the next big thing”) is not just practically
very different from most software teams but also very philosophically
different. (Having real, paying customers changes many things.)

When you understand why XP exists and the problem it attempts to solve, you
can understand why the XP practices are what they are. They all work together
to help you get feedback, help you understand feedback, and make changes as
quickly, effectively, and inexpensively as possible. That’s all.

If you don’t understand that, you might as well not talk about XP at
all, unless your goal is to confuse people.

STAR TREK FANFIC COOKING SHOW

Marmot Spock: Today we shall bake a chocolate cake.

Muskrat Kirk: I hate chocolate cake!

Marmot Spock: Hate is an illogical emotion. Preheat the oven to 350 F.

Muskrat Kirk: Darn your Marmot logic! I shall not!

Marmot Spock: Fascinating. Mix three cups of flour and two eggs in a medium
bowl.

Muskrat Kirk: You are a vegetarian. We shall not use eggs!

Marmot Spock: The recipe allows customization; we may substitute two thirds of
a cup of oil.

Muskrat Kirk: Fattening. Pass.

Marmot Spock: Captain, we need an emulsifier.

Muskrat Kirk: Do not make me order you. What's next?

Marmot Spock: Sugar.

Muskrat Kirk: Pass.

Marmot Spock: Baking soda.

Muskrat Kirk: Pass.

Marmot Spock: Salt.

Muskrat Kirk: Hoo-boy!

Marmot Spock: Cocoa powder.

Muskrat Kirk: Pass.

Marmot Spock: Butter?

Muskrat Kirk: Another emulsifier. Do not try to trick me!

Marmot Spock: Mix vigorously.

Muskrat Kirk: SHAKES THE BOWL TWICE. Good enough.

Marmot Spock: Divide equally between two baking pans. Place in pre-heated
oven (RAISES EYEBROW) for 30 minutes.

Muskrat Kirk: That's a waste of resources! Why waste two pans on one cake?
It can't possibly cook any faster that way! PLACES BOWL IN OVEN

TIME PASSES

Marmot Spock: Captain, the timer has gone off.

Muskrat Kirk: It is cake time!

Marmot Spock: The recipe says to let it cool.

Muskrat Kirk: I order it to be cake time! TAKES A SPOONFUL OF SALTY FLOUR AND
SPITS IT OUT. This is the worst cake ever. Spock, you are
fired.

On second thought, no one would believe that story. Everyone knows that
baking is a chemical process where each step supports the others. Leave out a
step (or its equivalent) and expect very different results.

Hmm… that actually sounds a lot like agile development to me.

Source: Linux DevCenter

Yo bloggers- you can delete the spam comments to your blogs. Just go to the same place you create your blog and visit the ‘Comments’ section. You have mighty delete powers over your own blog comments. Please don’t give spammers free hosting.

Source: Linux DevCenter

IPv6 still seems like one of those “oh, maybe someday” things to do. But I think the sooner it gets rolled out the better. There are more advantages than just having a bigger address pool. So I shamelessly promote my own three-part series on why bother, how to read and understand IPv6 addresses, and finally how to use it IRL (in real life.)
Under the Hood with IPv6
Understand IPv6 Addresses
Getting Around IPv6