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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Flash Size: 1.12 GB Status: no seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-07-05 14:10:26


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Mepis Size: 1.02 GB Status: no seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2007-07-05 13:31:28


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Ultimate Boot CD Size: 115.08 MB Status: 2 seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2007-07-05 05:10:48


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Source: elive

Samuel Baggen has announced the release of Elive 1.0, a Debian-based distribution featuring the Enlightenment desktop: "After a long wait, the first official stable version of Elive, 1.0, has finally been released. This version is ready for the end users and not just hard core testers. It is .



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Source: Linux Today

PolishLinux: "To put things short, Gconf is a system built in GNOME 2 which stores applications' preferable configuration data as well as graphical environment variables in its own files "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "I run a small but fairly active Web site from a home server, as was commonly done back in the early days of the World Wide Web.


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Source: Linux Today

Linux-Watch: "In fact, Red Hat made a point of spitting on the Microsoft/Novell deal That was then. This is now "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "Now that the final version of the GNU General Public Licence version 3 has been released, the in-depth analysis of its implications can begin "


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Source: Linux Today

iTWire: "Did this mean that releases of Joomla! uptil that point had been violating the GPL? Would users face problems as a result ?"


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Source: Linux Today

Computer Business Review: "How predictable was Massachusetts' about-turn on Office Open XML ?"


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Source: Linux Today

CNET News: "Instead of kicking back for the July 4 holiday, Steve Ballmer should be going crazy right now "


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Source: Linux Today

/home/liquidat: "The discussion afterwards was mainly dominated by his suggestion to switch KDE's development cycle to a 6 month release cycle "


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Source: Linux Today

atomic: "Linux gives you a world of choices, from the applications you run to the desktop environment you use, and you start making those choices before you even install it, by selecting a distribution to install "


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Source: Linux Today

Daily Kos: "Since my first Linux experience was with OpenSuse 10.1 way back nearly ten months ago, I was eager to see what the latest 10.3 Alpha release (5) had to offer from Novell "


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Source: Linux Today

Technetra: "Public forums. Open processes. Rapid innovation. Meritocracy and transparency "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Patrick Stakem wants everyone to know that the newest iteration of FlightLinux is not just for NASA rocket scientists "


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Source: Linux Today

The Open Road: "I've been talking the last few days with Oracle, Novell, and SAIC about how open source figures into their product plans and, in SAIC's case, how open source affects the company's services strategy "


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Source: Linux Today

Technetra: We have tried to build a technical leadership in Fedora that can be owned and run by the community.


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Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "The sixth and final alpha development release of the next generation Mozilla Firefox 3 browser is now out. But don't trust the release notes to tell you everything that's new in the Alpha 6 release "


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Source: Linux Today

Reg Hardware: "Neuros Technology has rolled out pre-release firmware for its Linux-based OSD networkable set-top box that allows the gadget to suck down and show YouTube content "


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Source: Linux Today

Tectonic: "The Foundation for Free Information Infrastructure has offered a prize for the best campaign against Microsoft's attempt to gain international standardisation for its Office format "


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "It's going on a year later and it's now time for this year's address as far as what I have seen from the driver in the past year and where I hope and believe the driver is going in the near future "


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Source: Linux Today

BBC: "The growing problem of accessing old digital file formats is a 'ticking time bomb,' the chief executive of the UK National Archives has warned "


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DesktopLinux: "And, now, with its SP1 for SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop), Novell has given an already excellent business desktop a real kick in the pants "


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxWorld: "Denmark's government agencies will be required to handle two competing document format standards, the Open Document Format and Microsoft Corp.'s Open XML, during a one-year test period that will begin next year "


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Source: Linux Today

Tech.Blorge: "Dell has cut $50 off the price of PCs with Ubuntu Linux preinstalled rather than Windows Vista "


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Source: Linux Today

dot.KDE: "The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the second alpha release of the K Desktop Environment "


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Source: Linux Today

GNOME.org: "This is our fourth development release on our road towards GNOME 2.20.0, which will be released in September 2007 "


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LinuxDevices: "A Phillipines-based video capture card vendor has soft-launched a line of Linux-based surveillance DVRs.."


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Source: Linux Today

ThemBid: "Now that I have truly upgraded to Ubuntu, I want to be able to access my machine remotely "



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Source: eWEEK Linux

Microsoft claims the latest Free Software Forum release has no effect on any of its Linux distribution deals.


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Source: eWEEK Linux

Opinion: The FSF may be losing the support of part of its user base.



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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Need a system or two to validate a new architecture? When combined with Linux, VMware Server provides a sophisticated and highly adaptable infrastructure that allows you to test complex customer client-server software configurations on a single machine.


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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

With common graphics hardware and some bleeding-edge software, Linux can exceed both Mac OS X and Vista with its gee-whiz desktop special effects. Here’s how to impress your friends, wow your neighbors, and influence the public with Beryl.


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Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Quanta is a Web page editor that doesn’t suck



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Source: ONLamp.com

OpenGuides is a Wiki that allows the contributors to build what are essentially open source guides to cities. Kake Pugh has been involved with the project and offers us a peek under the hood complete with source code in Perl. She looks specifically at how OpenGuides rejects spam postings and how its geographically oriented architecture makes it a better choice than other Wiki frameworks for this type of application.



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Source: Linux DevCenter

For many seasoned Linux developers, device drivers still remain a bit of a mysterious black art practiced by a select few. While no single article could possibly attempt to covered everything there is to know about writing drivers, Valerie Henson gives us a brief taste of what's involved, by implementing a device to return "Hello World" using all the major driver frameworks.



Updated: Fri Jul 6 23:55:04 2007


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