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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: NST Size: 364.87 MB Status: 14 seeders and 14 leechers Added: 2007-02-13 21:26:49

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Category: NST Size: 365.45 MB Status: 1 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-02-13 21:26:36

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Category: NST Size: 16.95 MB Status: 1 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-02-13 21:25:56

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Category: Knoppel Size: 692.14 MB Status: 2 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-02-13 16:16:26

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Category: STX Size: 605.43 MB Status: 2 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-02-13 11:13:42

Source: sidux

A new development build of sidux, a distribution launched recently by several ex-KANOTIX developers, is ready for download and testing: "We are a little late in our release schedule for sidux 2007-01 since Kernel 2.6.20 entered the stage, most of our efforts have gone into adapting sidux for .

Source: mepis

Warren Woodford has announced the 5th beta of the upcoming release of SimplyMEPIS, version 6.5: "I thought we were almost done when everything lined up, all at once, for us to make this leap forward. The changes are so profound that I've revised the version number to 6.5 ..

Source: nst

Network Security Toolkit (NST) 1.5.0 has been released: "We are pleased to announce the latest NST release: v1.5.0. This release is based on Fedora Core 5 using the Linux kernel 2.6.18. Here are some of the highlights for this release: the NST Web User Interface (WUI), has been .

Source: saxenos

Michael Stibane has announced the first beta release of SaxenOS 2.0: "So I'm going to skip the 1.1 final release and move on to 2.0. I'm trying to upload a first beta tonight. It's the English 1.1rc2 ISO with a graphical installer. I've been ogling the GParted Live .

Source: Linux Today

Given that there has been a fair amount of information, disinformation, and supposition flying around, I thought that I should share some additional details that I've learned relating to the contradictions received by JTC 1 regarding Ecma 376

Source: Linux Today

For now, I wonder why more people haven't heard of a sexy little Finnish operating system called Linux, a free, highly compatible, highly functional system for which there exist only 40 known viruses

Source: Linux Today

Even though I believe that the deal with Microsoft regarding patents was little more than corporate covering, the fact remains that Novell did what they felt was needed to keep itself from being litigated into oblivion

Source: Linux Today

Groove is a software initially developed by Groove Networks and now owned and developed by Microsoft as a component of the Office 2007 Enterprise suite

Source: Linux Today

Moments ago hitting the ubuntu-announce-list is word that the upcoming 7.04 'Feisty Fawn' release will not include the closed-source ATI and NVIDIA display drivers by default

Source: Linux Today

Fourteen months ago, the Autopackage project was small and active, and members sounded optimistic about its success

Source: Linux Today

Lack of a business-grade accounting system tailored for Australia's onerous taxation system has long kept even the most die-hard Linux fans tied to Windows, but all that is set to change with the open source SYMBOL Accounting

Source: Linux Today

They suggest that rather than wait for a half-baked new Windows operating system, consumer and enterprise users would have far better security with Linux

Source: Linux Today

This week FSF Europe announced the release of its Fiduciary License Agreement, a form of copyright assignment in which a free software project can place its collective copyright under the control of a single organization or trustee

Source: Linux Today

Due to all of the responses I've gotten for the Linux driver announcement I have gotten a lot of questions asked to me about this. Here is a list of some of the most common ones, and their answers

Source: Linux Today

The Linux appliance market for the most part has been more about building appliances than managing them. Today, rPath is taking care of both

Source: Linux Today

From Brazil to Pakistan, some of the world's poorest children will peer across the digital divide this month--reading electronic books, shooting digital video, creating music and chatting with classmates online

Source: Linux Today

Canonical Ltd., Ubuntu Linux's commercial sponsor, and SpikeSource Inc., a provider of open-source solutions, announced today that SpikeSource will certify its business-ready open source applications for Ubuntu

Source: Linux Today

The Free Software Foundation is no longer committing to the planned March deadline for a new version of the General Public License, but a third draft of the seminal open-source license is due soon

Source: Linux Today

A lot of people have bemoaned the lack of women participating in open source communities, but Sulamita Garcia is one of the few who have stepped up to do something about it

Source: Linux Today

James Ketrenos announced a new 80211 based driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG network connection adapter, 'this new driver uses the new d80211 subsystem previously only available as part of the wireless-dev tree '

Source: Linux Today

Absa and Engen will spend R600 000 to provide ten Northern Cape schools with Linux-based school laboratories

Source: Linux Today

It's a mixed bag this week from Studio Dave. I'll skip the preliminaries and just invite you to dive in and check out some of the latest news from the ever-expanding world of Linux sound and music software

Source: Linux Today

Nikto is a very popular open source web application security scanner

Source: Linux Today

Transferring files from one computer to another on a network isn't always a straightforward task

Source: Linux Today

Beryl has a couple of great plugins for organising applications that have a proliferation of little windows like the gimp or kopete,..

Source: Linux Today

The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) is the print spooler used on many Linux and UNIX systems today

Source: Linux Today

This document provides complete steps to install and configure a virtual private server (including both host and guest) using the openvz kernel

Source: Linux Today

Caching-Nameserver is a type of nameserver that will resolve a web addresses (domain names) from its next or master DNS, and will keep those entries in cache

Source: Linux Today

Part 2 begins an in-depth discussion of the Cell BE chip's SPEs

Source: Linux Today

Today's security advisories: gd, wireshark, and samba (Fedora Core); postgresql and ImageMagick (Mandriva Linux); java-1.5.0-ibm (Red Hat Linux); dbus, dbus-glib, dbus-qt, dbus-x11, gd, ImageMagick, and kernel (rPath Linux); and postgresql-8.1, moin, and moin1.3 (Ubuntu).

Source: Linux Today

The idea of Rhapsody offering a Linux music service is fantastic, except for the fact that they have opted not to allow the full functionality offer to those in the Windows world

Source: Linux Today

I can tell you one thing, and that is you're certainly not the stupidest person seeing as for the past three years you have been a generation ahead of Microsoft Windows users

Source: Linux Today

Still, it's been too long, so I thought I'd drop a note to let you know what's new in the Linux part of my life

Source: Linux Today

Mark Shuttleworth has developed an exceptional Linux distribution, Ubuntu. Mark spends much of his time, however, deriding Red Hat, his biggest Linux competitor, for waxing proprietary

Source: Linux Today

STUX is a Slackware/Knoppix-powered live CD with the Morphix-like ability to build a custom ISO. While the combination has high potential, this implementation leaves something to be desired

Source: Slashdot: Linux

markdavis asks: "For Linux to really succeed in business, it must first have support by vendors for the core financial applications: General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, and Payroll/HR. I am the IT Director for a long-term-care medical facility (400 employees) and found out a few weeks ago that the vendor that supplies our GL, AP, HR, and Payroll software is dropping support for Linux, in November (after using them for four years). They code in Progress and have decided to convert to a proprietary web GUI (IIS + IE6 + ActiveX) rather than use Progress + Apache + any browser. This means we either abandon Linux, or we are in the market for new accounting software modules (I bet you know which is my preferred choice). Does anyone use Linux server AND client (or web browser under Linux) software for financials in a medium or smaller/medium sized organization? If so, what do you use? Do you like it? What problems did you have in using it? What other advice can you give to someone trying to use Linux in this manner?"

Source: Slashdot: Linux

schwaang writes "The recent announcement by Linux Kernel Developer Greg Kroah-Hartman that 'the Linux kernel community is offering all companies free Linux driver development' seems to have stirred up some interest as well as some questions — see the Slashdot discussion about the announcement. Greg K-H addresses some of the questions raised here, and raises a few more, in a new Free Linux Driver Development FAQ on his blog. An excerpt: 'Q: Are companies really going to do this? A: Yes, already we have received a number of serious queries from companies about producing Linux drivers for their devices. More information will be available later when details are firmed up."

Source: Linux DevCenter

Getting dual-head monitors going with an nvidia card on Debian is largely a pleasingly straightforward business.

Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list to include the contrib and non-free repositories, and run apt-get update. Install the driver as follows:
apt-get install nvidia-kernel-common module-assistant
m-a -i prepare
m-a a-i -i -t -f nvidia-kernel
depmod -a
apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-glx-dev

Use lsmod to check that the nvidia module is loaded.

The final task is to edit your xserver config, which is the bit where I encountered a slight gotcha this time around; hence this post.

If both monitors can handle the same resolution, editing the Device section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (sarge) or /etc/X11/xorg.conf (etch) as follows should work:

Section "Device"
Identifier "NVIDIA Corporation NV44 [Quadro NVS 285]"
Driver "nvidia"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "TwinView" "true"
#Option "ConnectedMonitor" "FPD,FPD"
Option "MetaModes" "1600x1200,1600x1200; 1280x1024,1280x1024"
Option "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "31-80"
Option "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "56-76"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
EndSection

Make sure you use appropriate sync and refresh values (these work for HP 1702 flat panel & a standard Transtec 19″ flat panel), and that the BusID is correct (lspci output - look for the line corresponding to your card. 01:00.0 translates to PCI:1:0:0 as above; 05:09.0 or 0000:05:09.0 to PCI:5:9:0, etc).

However, if your monitors don’t support the same resolution, you’ll need to change this line:

Option "MetaModes" "1024x768,1280x1024"

(you may also need to try swapping the two entries around - e.g. 1280x1024,1024x768 - depending on which one is being seen first). If you don’t get this right, you’ll have one screen coming up OK, and the other one coming up blank. I spent some time battling with this before the solution occurred to me; I hope therefore that this information is useful to someone else!

FWIW I’d also note that different resolution monitors is suboptimal for a TwinView setup; sometimes one has to make do with what one has, though.