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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Arch Size: 497.80 MB Status: 1 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-08-05 22:07:01

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Arch Size: 146.87 MB Status: 1 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-08-05 21:41:45

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Arch Size: 29.62 MB Status: 1 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-08-05 21:35:56

Source: sidux

The third pre-release of sidux 2007-03, a KDE live CD based on Debian's unstable branch, is ready for testing: "Leading towards the final release of sidux 2007-03 'gaia' and despite some vacancies during the holiday season, some pretty far-reaching transitions could be completed to remove hard dependencies on .

Source: arch

Tobias Powalowski has announced the release of Arch Linux 2007.08: "It's done, final 2007.08 'Don't Panic ISOs' for i686 and x86_64 are ready. It's mostly a 2.6.22.x ISO with some fixes to last Linuxtag ISOs. Changelog to last Duke-Linuxtag2007 installation ISO: kernel 2.6.22.1 usage; update mkinitcpio for new .

Source: Linux Today

ThemBid: "Web graphics designers running GNU/Linux seem to use the Gimp, Inkscape or Photoshop in a virtual environment "

Source: Linux Today

PolishLinux: "I don't know a person that hasn't collected anything in their life (particularly in childhood) "

Source: Linux Today

ReviLinux: "Speed, performance, stability--these are attributes that set VectorLinux apart in the crowded field of Linux distributions "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "*nix-style is a GNOME graphical interface for configuration options in your system or current user account "

Source: Linux Today

All About Linux: "Two weeks back, this blog had run a poll which asked which was your favourite editor "

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LinuxDevCenter: "Linux has come a long way in the last 10 years. At that time, if you were looking through the main audio and music applications on other operating systems, you would have struggled to find comparable, fully developed, apps on Linux "

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "The Open Solutions Alliance has launched a series of Customer Forums on behalf of open source around the country "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "I'm the Senior Developer at a fairly large agency, we're currently a 100% LAMP shop, but I've heard a reliable report through the grapevine that the management a few levels above our office wants to standardize our region on MS .NET. As I'm sure most of you can appreciate, to do such a thing would be counterproductive, and I could really do with a hand conveying this to a manager whose only real knowledge of Linux is "if it's so good, why would you give it away for free"?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

madgreek writes "Here is a short story about my switch to Ubuntu from XP at work. I have been Microsoft-free for 3 months now at a Microsoft heavy shop. Few people know I am using Open Office and Linux. I create countless documents that people open using Word, Excel, PPT and nobody can tell that they were created using Open Office. From the article: 'When I first started my experiment I was trying to keep it a secret out of fear of attacks from angry Microsoft worshipers (especially from the admins and desktop support). What I am finding out is that most of the folks that I was hiding from are sick and tired of supporting Windows and are proponents of Linux. Several of them are using Linux at home. One of the guys I talked to has Vista and XP installed on his laptop. He swaps out the hard drive when switching between OS's.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: ONLamp.com

I spent some time the past couple of days wrestling with HTTP authentication for a WSGI atom store implementation. It’s well known to be a tricky topic, and I went through a lot of bother, especially trying to figure out a Python WSGI library for HTTP auth that was clean, well-documented, and sported a flexible API that worked well across framework choices. I ended up using httplib2 for the client and decided on AuthKit on the WSGI server. I generally like to test my WSGI Web components with CherryPy, Pylons and raw Paste. In this case I didn’t get around to Pylons, I was able to get raw paste working well with code along the lines of the bundled example http://authkit.org/trac/browser/AuthKit/trunk/examples/authorize.py. I was never able to get things working with CherryPy, and I’m not sure why. I ran out of time to debug further. It seems CherryPy doesn’t like the HTTP status line sent by httplib2 with a www-authenticate response to a 401 using Digest authentication. I think this might have nothing to do with Authkit.
One problem I found with AuthKit is that I had to manually place ez_setup.py in the PYTHONPATH before the install would work. I might be doing something wrong, but this is not a problem I’ve had with other packages.
What Python tools do you use for your HTTP auth needs?