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Linux and Open Source News for 31st January 2007

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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: STX Size: 613.90 MB Status: 2 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-01-31 08:47:40


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Foresight Size: 1.16 GB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-01-31 03:14:56


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Category: Foresight Size: 650.66 MB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-01-31 03:13:56


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Category: Foresight Size: 534.97 MB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-01-31 03:12:51


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: DragonFly Size: 96.26 MB Status: 3 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-01-31 03:08:02


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Source: famelix

Famelix is a Brazilian desktop Linux distribution which mimics the look and feel of Windows XP. The project has released version 1.3 earlier this week with the following characteristics: many updates and bug fixes in order to facilitate the migration of users from Windows XP to Linux; Linux .


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Source: pioneer

Dianne Ursini has announced the availability of the first release candidate of Pioneer Linux 2.0 "Basic" edition: "Technalign, Inc. has announced they have released Pioneer RC1 of Pioneer Basic Release 2. Release Candidate 1 includes the latest release of Automatix2, created by the Automatix Team, which is a .


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Source: saxenos

Michael Stibane has announced the availability of the second release candidate of SaxenOS 1.1, a light-weight, Zenwalk-based distribution designed for older computers: "RC2 in English just uploaded. It's now completely based on Zenwalk 4.2 with kernel 2.6.18.6. As each time I include some commercial software, I really like, .



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If the thought of Microsoft Vista's DRM restrictions, restrictive EULA, version confusion and user lock-in has you scared then you definitely do not want to know what the lads from Redmond have in store for the next version


Source: Linux Today

Elive is a live CD Linux distribution based on Debian that uses the Enlightenment window manager


Source: Linux Today

A well-illustrated technical paper comparing RTLinux, RTAI, and VRTXsa has been published by two Italian computer science students


Source: Linux Today

"A call for participation was announced this week for 'Ubuntu Live,' billed by organizers as the first 'official' conference dedicated to Ubuntu Linux "


Source: Linux Today

Centeris Corp., a Bellevue, Wash.-based startup, is the latest vendor to make news in the Linux ID management space, with the announcement of Likewise Identity 3.0 last week


Source: Linux Today

What sort of responses do you get about the 'Truth Happens' campaign? Considering it's not really a regular ad campaign, what kind of a feedback did you expect and what do you really get ?


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Source: Linux Today

The intent of these articles will be to provide users with a better understanding for some of the prominent changes and to see how the performance is affected in some of our commonly used benchmarks


Source: Linux Today

[S]everal of the applications we really got used to in KDE 3 will be left behind because they will be replaced in one way or the other


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The patent is not interesting for its technical content--all the building blocks of the described system have been used for some time now--but for the glimpse it offers into the business model envisaged by the applicant


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IBM is working on an open-source project called Jazz to promote programming tools for globally distributed teams


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Dan Goodin at The Register carefully checked the transcript, and reported he couldn't find 'a single sentence that addressed the claim that SCO's own missteps made bankruptcy imminent '


Source: Linux Today

Linux on IBM mainframes is getting a vote of confidence from Oracle and research firm IDC


Source: Linux Today

European car manufacturing giant PSA Peugeot Citroën has agreed to one of the Continent's largest-ever deployments of open-source Linux software on desktop computers


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Source: Linux Today

In this interview, Jens talks about how he got interested in Linux, how he became the maintainer of the block layer and other block devices, and what's involved in being a maintainer


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Source: Linux Today

It's been five years since Drupal, the popular GPLed Web development framework, has had a major version release


Source: Linux Today

Web application fuzzing is a method of detecting a web application's vulnerabilities prior to deploying the application on a production system


Source: Linux Today

CodeWeavers this month announced version 6.0 of its flagship Windows compatibility product. Now called CrossOver Linux, the new version is the first with official support for games


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Source: Linux Today

"This article will document how to configure your Linux machine to use a Sprint PCS Merlin S620 EVDO PCMCIA card.


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This guide shows how to remove a failed hard drive from a Linux RAID1 array (software RAID), and how to add a new hard disk to the RAID1 array without losing data


Source: Linux Today

With each passing month, I have watched Linux distributions avoid anything propitiatory like it was the plague


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Source: Linux Today

There are a number of ways to integrate and utilize the events, but the most advanced and effective event output and integration mechanism is the Nagios Event Broker


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This is the first of multiple articles that cover the installation and setup of a large Linux computer cluster


Source: Linux Today

LDAP can occupy numerous places in an IT infrastructure. For example, you can migrate Network Information Services (NIS) to LDAP and many Legacy UNIX centric organization have done just that


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It's long past time to bother telling anyone how much better than IE Firefox is


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Those that had bothered to explain themselves were mostly disturbed due to the lack of Composite and Beryl/Compiz support. But does this really equate to the driver being evil and ATI/AMD not caring about their customers ?


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Our friend, Michael Cote', mused a couple weeks ago about the idea of the 'little 4' going up against the 'big 4' in systems management


Source: Linux Today

Today, we will be looking closely at Vista, XP, OS X and Linux. It's my opinion that each of these operating systems does have and will always have the potential to be targets in the spyware game


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I recently was contacted by a major Unix reseller. The company had a very simple question: with the writing on the wall for Unix growing bigger and bigger with every quarter, which Linux should they adopt ?



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

BlockHead writes "Kerneltrap.org is running an interview with Jens Axboe, 15 year Linux veteran and the maintainer of the linux kernel block layer, 'the piece of software that sits between the block device drivers (managing your hard drives, cdroms, etc) and the file systems.' The interview examines what's involved in maintaining this complex portion of the Linux kernel, and offers an accessible explanation of how IO schedulers work. Jens details his own CFQ, or Complete Fair Queue scheduler which is the default Linux IO scheduler. Finally, the article examines the current state of Linux kernel development, how it's changed over the years, and what's in store for the future."


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Source: Slashdot: Linux

Michael writes "The Linux 2.6.20 kernel will feature KVM support, Playstation 3 support, and a variety of other improvements. With the Linux 2.6.20-rc6 kernel out the door, Phoronix has written a performance comparison of the Linux 2.6.20-rc6 kernel against the 2.6.19 and 2.6.19.2 kernels in a variety of benchmarks."



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Source: ONLamp.com

Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate and Enterprise Editions have the new BitLocker Drive Encryption feature that using the Trusted Platform Model (TPM) to secure data on your hard drive (I wonder why the Vista Business Edition does not support BitLocker). Port 25 reprints (with permission) a blog item by Microsoft France’s Cyril Voisin that provides detailed step-by-step instructions on how to dual-boot Linux with Windows Vista on a hard disk using BitLocker.
Using Vista’s Boot Manager to Boot Linux and Dual Booting with BitLocker Protection with TPM Support
My personal preference is to use Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to run Linux along side Vista in a virtual machine (see screen cap on the left).
Virtual PC may not be a good solution for everyone though. For example, if you need a high resolution display or use any number of USB devices, you will want to run Linux natively.
You can learn which features are available on the different Windows Vista Editions at…
Windows Vista Editions
You can learn more about BitLocker by reading…
BitLocker Drive Encryption: Technical Overview


Source: ONLamp.com

Microsoft Open Source Software Lab’s Sam Ramji announced a number of job opennings at the newly annonced Joint Interoperability Lab. The announcement (click on the link below to get the details) includes job titles and descriptions for both open Microsoft and Novell positions at this lab.
Seeking A Few Good People…We’re Hiring! (and so is Novell)
The positions all sound pretty interesting…

Microsoft: Software Design Engineer in Test, Linux Interoperability
Novell: Software Design Engineer in Test, Windows Interoperability
Microsoft: Program Manager, Linux Interoperability


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Source: ONLamp.com

As expected (hoped for?), PowerShell 1.0 for Windows Vista was released along with Vista. You can find the x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) versions for download at…
PowerShell 1.0 for Windows Vista x86 (x86)
PowerShell 1.0 for Windows Vista (x64)
You can also find an example of using PowerShell to get information about a Guest Operating System from Microsoft Virtual Server on the Virtual PC Guy’s blog at…
Querying guest operating system information with Powershell
Finally, the Windows PowerShell Team Blog has a blog entry comparing Bash and PowerShell scripts that each perform the task of disconnecting a drive from a running virtual machine.
Virtual Machine Manager’s PowerShell Support
The Bash script was taken from VMware’s own website and is quite a bit longer than the PowerShell version. I wonder how long/complex a Python or Ruby version might be?
And, here’s a link to the Port 25 blog item that led to my own series of PowerShell commentaries…
Watching a Community Grow - PowerShell



Updated: Thu Feb 1 23:55:01 2007


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