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Source: wolvix

Kenneth Granerud has announced the second release candidate of Wolvix 1.1.0 Cub and Hunter: "This release should be pretty stable and solid, but I want to give it one more round of testing before I call it final. All reported bugs from RC1 have been addressed, such as .

Source: belenix

A bugfix release of the OpenSolaris Live CD BeleniX is available: "This is primarily a bugfix release fixing some of the bigger bugs in 0.6 though there remains some more to fix in 0.6.2. Here is a list of the changes that have gone in: Upgraded to OpenSolaris .

Source: bluewhite64

Bluewhite64 Linux, a complete pure 64-bit GNU/Linux distribution that can be deployed on a single or multi core 64-bit AMD64 Athlon, Opteron, Sempron, Turion and Intel EM64T based servers and desktop computers, now reaches version 12.0: "Bluewhite64 Linux 12.0 includes the Linux 2.6.21.5 kernel with the IA32-emulation enabled, .

Source: Linux Today

ThemBid: "The following tutorial will get you started fast using the Digg API in your Ruby on Rails (RoR) application "

Source: Linux Today

Translate.org.za Development Blog: "At the Pan African Localisation workshop and Blitz held in Morocco in February 2007, various Africans gathered to discuss localisation "

Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "Since January of this year we have been telling you that AMD has been silently working on R600 (Radeon HD 2000) support for their proprietary Linux 'fglrx' driver "

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "I've spoken with these gentleman over the years as the company searched for a business model that worked. They're now using a pure-play open source model "

Source: Linux Today

CNET News: "Last year (almost to the day), I wrote a post that detailed how JBoss went from $0 to a $350 million acquisition by Red Hat and scored a range of paying customers along the way "

Source: Linux Today

Think Thick: "So why are medium and small businesses, the backbone of the US economy, not switching over to Linux ?"

Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Open Source: "Science fiction writer Robert Heinlein, in the 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land, coined the term 'grok '"

Source: Linux Today

O'Reilly Radar: "Linux Magazine's article The GPL Has No (Networked) Future recognizes a point that I've been making for years: that free software license requirements to release source code are all triggered by the act of distribution "

Source: Linux Today

Datamation: "I'm in the midst of what is a regular reality check with the large OEMs this month, both for me and for them, and four pieces of information stand out "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "If you want an adaptable window manager that doesn't drain your resources, try Openbox. Its latest version, 3.4.2, released this month, has several visual improvements and dozens of new usable features "

Source: Linux Today

Packt: "Unless you're an old Linux user, you've only probably used the KDE, GNOME or Xfce desktop environments "

Source: Linux Today

Raiden's Realm: "Having become a fan of PcLinuxOS after a recent review of their 2007 version, I've followed its development with interest to see where it goes as it grows and develops "

Source: Linux Today

Seopher: "My heart sank a little bit as I sat through 2-3 minutes of what can only be described as 'error messages' while this early release of Gutsy Gibbon booted on my virtual machine "

Source: Linux Today

Ars Technica: "Not only was there an updated version of the Linux-based Internet Tablet OS and significantly-improved hardware, but Nokia also promised us a fully-functional Skype client for the N800 "

Source: Linux Today

Thelins: "As KDE 4 alpha 2 was released I tested the live CD. For the interested reader I took some screenshots that can be of interest "

Source: Linux Today

InformationWeek: "Unfortunately, none of the Ubuntu stories--no Linux reviews, for that matter--talk about the inevitable problems many people run into during the installation process "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxInsider: "Information security firm OpenLogic on Wednesday began letting users download its Discovery application, a free software tool that scans Windows, Linux and Solaris machines for all installed open source software "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "'I'm a bit of a rebel,' Benjamin Mako Hill says, 'with rather too many causes '"

Source: Linux Today

Softpedia: "The information displayed by Google is at least interesting because the Mountain View giant is
described as a company that owns 3500 computers equipped with Linux platforms "

Source: Linux Today

Treviño's Blog: "After the French Parliament's migration to Linux, the Italian Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei Deputati) chose to let 'The Penguin' enter into the heart of the Italian Democracy "

Source: Linux Today

An Antic Disposition: "It has been a boast for around around 6 months now. Microsoft's OOXML fully defines spreadsheet formulas, and ODF doesn't. The Microsoft boosters have been parroting the party line for quite some time "

Source: Linux Today

PC World: "The newest database will ship in August, but Oracle offers no details on Windows or other versions "

Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "Ever lose an e-mail? It might be frustrating on a personal level, but on an enterprise compliance level, it might well be illegal "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Garcia and Hsu were firmly in the Microsoft development camp, but recently they noticed what they call the increasing maturity of open source software "

Source: Linux Today

OSWeekly: "Not too long ago, I subscribed to a Linux magazine for beginners called Tux. Fantastic magazine, but the last I heard they were 'headed out,' so to speak "

Source: Linux Today

Tectonic: "Open Source software was at the heart of multimedia coverage of this year's National Arts Festival in Grahamstown "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxWorld: "Len Brown can only be a glutton for punishment; he is, after all, the maintainer of the Linux ACPI subsystem "

Source: Linux Today

simplyjat: "The last time I played with DreamLinux was around 8 months back and was really disappointed as it failed even to boot on my machine "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

dmarti writes "The software that enables Linux to act as a Windows file and print server is adopting the Free Software Foundation's new license. What will be the impact on users, distributors, and appliance vendors? Samba maintainer Jeremy Allison answers, in a podcast interview."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: eWEEK Linux

Future releases of Linux may provide more responsive desktop performance thanks to a new "completely fair scheduler" being incorporated into the mainline Linux kernel.

Source: eWEEK Linux

The company addresses an "oversight" that led to Ubuntu systems actually costing more than comparable Vista laptops. (DesktopLinux.com)

Source: eWEEK Linux

The community-built, ultralight derivative of MEPIS Linux is aimed at old 32-bit PC hardware.

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Here is your challenge. You have a need for speed, your current computing power is insufficient for the task at hand. You have some large number of calculations to perform, and very little time to achieve this goal. Can you solve this problem? Cost effectively? Quickly?

Source: ONLamp.com

Google Gears is a framework for development browser-based applications that can be used offline. In the second part of Jack Herrington's introduction to Gears, you'll see how to use Gears for data entry and batching, and learn more about how to leverage SQLite.

Source: ONLamp.com

With JavaScript toolkits like YUI and Dojo becoming the de facto method of adding interactivity to web pages, it's still worth knowing how to implement this kind of functionality yourself, if for no other reason than to have a better understanding of what the toolkits do. Howard Feldman shows how to do a few commonly requested features using nothing but bare JavaScript.

Source: Linux DevCenter

Thanks to everyone who commented on my last post, about Jabber servers. Quite a few of them seem to play nicely with LDAP; the trouble with the setup here is that we have LDAP + Kerberos, and it’s the Kerberos part that seems problematic. There is of course the “roll your own” option but I am currently preferring to steer clear of that in favour of accepting that users will have to create themselves a separate Jabber account rather than having everything tie together neatly. It’s not terribly difficult to do, after all!

A couple of things to bring to your attention: firstly, the usefulness of cron-apt (for apt-using systems) is probably well known already, but since I only encountered it about a year ago, I commend it to anyone else who hasn’t done so yet. It runs a daily cron-job to check for package updates for you. I recommend setting it to download only, not to automatic install, and also to only email if there’s an update waiting. To actually run the upgrades once you’ve checked the email to ensure it’s not done anything foolish, you can then use either ClusterSSH to run apt-get upgrade, or some form of roll-your-own solution, such as this:

#!/bin/sh
# Script to automate apt-get run across machines
# Usage: deb_aptget.sh "machine1 machine2 machine3"

case $@ in
"") echo "Usage: `basename $0` \"machine1 machine2 machine3 \""
exit 1
;;
esac

# Authenticate root passphrase
ssh-add .ssh/root_key

# Run command on each of listed machines
for arg
do
echo $arg
ssh root@$arg -i .ssh/root_key apt-get -y dist-upgrade
done

# Deauthenticate root
ssh-add -d .ssh/root_key

Customary warnings apply, in particular the fact that I am not responsible if you use this & do something dramatically awful to your system(s).

Secondly, you may be interested in this article about OpenGuides, a Perl-based wiki that allows people to build open-source guides to cities. I confess to being biased, since I’ve been a contributor (on the content, rather than the code, side) to a couple of OpenGuides wikis (& know the author of the article!), but it is a very interesting project and well worth a look.