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Category: TrixBox Size: 547.49 MB Status: 11 seeders and 6 leechers Added: 2007-05-04 19:17:03

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Category: Slax Size: 198.59 MB Status: 4 seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2007-05-04 18:44:04

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Category: Slax Size: 198.18 MB Status: 4 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-05-04 18:43:03

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Category: Mepis Size: 15.35 MB Status: 1 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-05-04 18:20:35

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Category: Mepis Size: 14.70 MB Status: 1 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-05-04 18:17:23

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Category: ParallelKnoppix Size: 634.02 MB Status: 5 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-05-04 12:27:03

Source: slax

Tomá Mat jí ek has announced the third released candidate of SLAX 6.0.0, a live CD based on Slackware Linux: "A third release candidate of SLAX 6 is available for testing. Changes: added Linux kernel 2.6.21.1; full NTFS write support including persistent changes on NTFS; added newer Aufs version with .

Source: 64studio

Daniel James has announced the availability of a new development release of 64 Studio, version 1.3.0: "64 Studio is a GNU/Linux distribution tailor-made for digital content creation, including audio, video, graphics and publishing tools. Our latest development release (1.3.0) is the very first to be based on a .

Source: parsix

The first development build of Parsix GNU/Linux 0.90 has been released for testing: "After two months of development, the first testing release of Parsix GNU/Linux 0.90, codename 'Barry', is available. This version comes with the latest Debian testing branch packages. Highlights: a brand new version of the Parsix .

Source: Linux Today

Technoblogical: "The optimist in me cheers. The optimist in me believes, its tiny voice raised to the heavens, like a mouse on LSD. Sorry, but it is a very very small optimist "

Source: Linux Today

KernelTrap: "Following up to feedback on his merge plans, Andrew Morton posted an updated summary of what he is pushing upstream for inclusion in the upcoming 2.6.22 kernel.."

Source: Linux Today

Ubuntu Linux Tips & Tricks: "Holy c**p, I think they did "

Source: Linux Today

Open ePolicy: "When people come together to discuss open source software, it does not take long for the discussion to sharpen into a debate, especially when governments face off with vendors like Microsoft and Sun "

Source: Linux Today

/home/liquidat: "The newest Netcraft Web server survey shows again a shrinking of Apaches market share. It is now at 56%, followed by Microsoft with more then 30% "

Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "A voice PBX system is typically thought of as being all work and no play. How much fun can you have with a system that is designed to provide voicemail and call extensions, right ?"

Source: Linux Today

CNET News: "Spurred by customer demand, Zimbra has completed a version of its open-source calendar and e-mail server software for Canonical's Ubuntu version of Linux "

Source: Linux Today

ars technica: "Pidgin 2.0, the latest version of the popular open source instant messaging client formerly known as Gaim, is now available for download "

Source: Linux Today

The Register: "A Tory strategy to make more use of open source software in the public sector is likely to tackle the culture of secrecy in government procurement "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxWorld: "The Berlin city government, at a hearing Thursday, rejected demands by the Green Party to migrate computers in the German capital to free open-source software "

Source: Linux Today

USA Today: "Not all of its machines, obviously--the company wants to stay in business--but Linux will be an option on at least two desktops and one laptop models "

Source: Linux Today

Wired: "A former lover of the missing wife of Linux programmer and accused spouse killer Hans Reiser has confessed to killing eight people unrelated to the case, prosecutors informed the defense last week "

Source: Linux Today

After several years of decline, the demand for certification and training in GNU/Linux and other free software areas is stronger than ever

Source: Linux Today

Blog of Helios: "In our quiet moments, most of us may ask ourselves from time to time: 'How did I get here?' That is, what sequence of events and quirks of fate or ambition-driven goals put me where I am right now ?"

Source: Linux Today

LinuxDevices: "Unicon Systems has started shipping its Linux-powered development kit based on 'chip-on-film' technology similar to that used in Motorola's ultra-thin 'Razr' phones "

Source: Linux Today

PolishLinux: "Have you ever wondered what would have happened if all the important data have been stolen from your mobile PC ?"

Source: Linux Today

Ubuntu Geek: "Bind listens on port 53 UDP and TCP. TCP is normally only used during zone transfers so it would appear that you could filter it if you have no slaves "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Rootsh is a shell that logs everything a root user sees on his terminal "

Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "It was back in February that we originally looked at the AB9 motherboard from Abit; however, this P965 motherboard had a few problems that had prevented this motherboard from functioning well with Linux "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Moneydance isn't free, but it does run on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Unix, and Solaris, due to it being coded in Java "

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TriedIT: "Released on April 30, GoblinX 2.0 is a live CD Linux distribution based on Slackware from Brazil "

Source: Linux Today

Personal Computer World: "The latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 5) sees the usual clutch of open source performance, functionality and security updates "

Source: Linux Today

Free Software Magazine: "However, I'm not getting excited until a few questions are answered "

Source: Linux Today

The Register: "Where Dell 1.0 had Red Hat, Dell 2.0 sports Ubuntu. Can you really tell the difference ?"

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Abhikhurana writes "I work for a company which designs a variety of video surveillance devices (such as MPEG4 video servers). Traditionally, these products have been based on proprietary OSs such as Nucleus and VxWorks. Now, we are redesigning a few of our products and I am trying to convince my company to go down the Linux route. Understandably, our management is quite skeptical about that and so I was asked by our CTO to recommend a few RTOSs which have mature networking stacks and which work well on ARM platform. I know that there are many embedded Linux based distributions out there. There are commercial ones such as Montavista, LynuxWorks, free ones such as uclinux, muLinux and some Linux like distros such as Ecos. What is the most stable and best community supported embedded Linux distribution out there?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Linux DevCenter

From Christopher Blizzard on one laptop per child and open source:

For once Microsoft is getting the reverse Linux laptop experience: little support and little documentation for the hardware. The result will be a platform that doesn’t include any of the really novel features that we’re building in, bad power management, no systems management via the firmware and apps that will randomly crash because they can’t fix the virtual memory problem in the same way we’re approaching it. A second class citizen, to be sure.

Source: Linux DevCenter

“Why port Microsoft’s new own-the-web Silverlight to Linux”
Miguel de Icaza replied to the question,”Why port Microsoft’s new own-the-web Silverlight to Linux”:


I believe that [Silverlight] will become an important component in future applications… if there is no Silverlight for Linux, we will be prevented from getting access to content and applications that will be available.

So we got a couple of strategies dealing with this:

(a) the ostrich strategy also known as the “i-cant-hear-you” strategy: pretend that Silverlight does not exist and hope that by ignoring it, it will go away and vanish.

(b) Hope that nobody adopts it. I seriously doubt that Silverlight will not be adopted, in particular the CLR version shows a lot of promise.

(c) Be proactive and implement it ourselves: we got most of the hard bits of the technology already (a CLR, a JIT, the GC, the core class libraries, even up to some parts of LINQ).

I understand this argument as “This technology may be successful, and I don’t want to get locked out of useful information because my preferred platform (Linux) is unsupported.”

Maybe Miguel does have the right approach. Maybe history will prove me wrong. (It’s difficult for me to ignore the past 25 years of computing, though.)

I’m sympathetic to that point of view (try running Adobe’s so-called “Flash Player for Linux” on anything more exotic than 32-bit x86 Linux, for example), but I see the third option as somewhat impractical.

Doesn’t making any technology more widely available increase its viability? Adobe, for example, certainly beats the Big Drum of So-Called Linux Compatibility when promoting Flash over other proprietary technologies. Microsoft seems pretty pleased with itself that it’s figured out that cross-platform means something slightly more than “runs on multiple flavors of Windows Vista”. I take that as evidence that a certain degree of platform independence is strategically important at least as marketing copy.

I’m not sure that making the life of the marketing department of a convicted monopolist which just loves to embrace, extend, and extinguish competition is the best way to spread freedom through software. Imagine if Netscape had decided that the best way to stay relevant in 2000 was to create a clone of IE 4 instead of restarting and creating Mozilla.

Imagine building a Free word processor that read .doc files and not ODF.