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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: PC-BSD Size: 687.57 MB Status: 14 seeders and 20 leechers Added: 2007-09-01 20:00:52

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: PC-BSD Size: 697.97 MB Status: 78 seeders and 34 leechers Added: 2007-09-01 19:58:22

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Linux Kernels Size: 43.05 MB Status: 4 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-09-01 10:14:41

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Absolute Linux Size: 669.52 MB Status: 1 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-09-01 03:21:44

Source: vyatta

An updated version of Vyatta, a Debian-based firewall distribution, has been released: "Vyatta is pleased to announce that Vyatta Community Edition 2.2 (code name Camarillo) has been released to the main repository. This release adds the following enhancements: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) enhancements - Per-peer BGP routing policies .

Source: mepis

Warren Woodford has announced the third beta release of SimplyMEPIS 7.0: "MEPIS has released Beta3 of SimplyMEPIS 7.0. The kernel in Beta3 is version 2.6.22.5 which contains minor patches from the Kernel Development Team. The ipw3945 driver was updated. The MEPIS System Assistant was repaired to fix a .

Source: Linux Today

EncoreOpus: "Coté is discussing open source versus closed source support "

Source: Linux Today

Groklaw: "It's official. Denmark will vote no with comments on OOXML "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Astaro makes and markets a network appliance built on Linux and a complement of open source tools to help prevent spam, viruses, and other potential Internet intrusions "

Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "Here in the free software and open source (FOSS) worlds, we're used to making, and employing, building materials that are products of human mentation "

Source: Linux Today

KernelTrap: "During the many threads discussing Ingo Molnar's recently merged Completely Fair Scheduler, Roman Zippel has repeatedly questioned the complexity of the new process scheduler "

Source: Linux Today

Lifehacker: "Founder of Ubuntu Linux Mark Shuttleworth took time out of his busy schedule to talk with us about email, productivity, travel, web applications, Ubuntu, free software and much more "

Source: Linux Today

InformationWeek: "Full text search and other features will become available for free download in beta code after Labor Day; with the final release to follow by 8-10 weeks "

Source: Linux Today

ConsortiumInfo: "I've had several questions from journalists today who want to know how the votes will be counted on the OOXML vote "

Source: Linux Today

Africa News: "Microsoft Corporation has welcomed the current debate on the proposed global standardization of the Ecma Office Open Extensible Markup Language "

Source: Linux Today

Seeking Alpha: "Wind River reported revenue for its fiscal second quarter ended July 31 of $84.6 million, with pro forma EPS of 12 cents; that beat the Street at $78.87 million and 4 cents "

Source: Linux Today

Profy: "The topic around which the most discussion encircled was open source, and boy were there divergent views among the week's ensemble "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

ianare sends us to Ars Technica for news of the Ubuntu Xorg BulletProof-X feature, coming soon to a 7.10 (Gutsy) build near you. "It provides a failsafe mode that will ensure that users never have to manually configure their graphics hardware settings from the command line. If Xorg fails to start,the failsafe mode will initiate with minimalistic settings, low resolution, and a limited number of colors. The failsafe mode also automatically runs Ubuntu's new GTK-based display configuration utility so that users can easily test various display settings and choose a configuration that will work properly with their hardware."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

derrida writes "During the many threads discussing Ingo Molnar's recently merged Completely Fair Scheduler, Roman Zippel has repeatedly questioned the complexity of the new process scheduler. In a recent posting to the Linux Kernel mailing list he offered a simpler scheduler named the 'Really Fair Scheduler' saying, 'As I already tried to explain previously CFS has a considerable algorithmic and computational complexity. This patch should now make it clearer, why I could so easily skip over Ingo's long explanation of all the tricks CFS uses to keep the computational overhead low — I simply don't need them.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

bsdphx writes "While Theo may have a reputation of being "difficult" in some circles, this response to the recent relicensing controversy is thoughtful and well penned. Through this whole process I've learned some new things about both GPL and BSD licensing, and especially about combining the two."Read more of this story at Slashdot.