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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: MoLinux Size: 19.19 MB Status: 1 seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2008-01-01 22:48:08

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Category: Kanotix Size: 700.83 MB Status: 3 seeders and 24 leechers Added: 2008-01-01 22:24:59

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Category: PCLinuxOS Size: 3.59 GB Status: 1 seeders and 90 leechers Added: 2008-01-01 22:19:34

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Category: GoboLinux Size: 667.47 MB Status: 17 seeders and 756 leechers Added: 2008-01-01 18:11:27

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Category: Damn Small Size: 48.22 MB Status: 38 seeders and 59 leechers Added: 2008-01-01 15:13:37

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Category: dyne:bolic Size: 682.76 MB Status: 31 seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2008-01-01 12:31:09

Source: kanotix

J rg Schirottke has announced the availability of the seventh release candidate of KANOTIX 2007, a Debian-based live CD: "KANOTIX 2007 'Thorhammer' RC7 released." Some of the features include: "Kernel 2.6.24 (Ubuntu kernel with modifications and some patches); ACPI and DMA enabled by default; i586 optimization; Acritox installer - .

Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "It's that time of the month again where we get to share with you all of the details on the latest ATI/AMD Linux driver release "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Thanks to to the efforts of the Barry and OpenSync projects, I just finished syncing my BlackBerry 8800 with my Evolution contacts on my Ubuntu 7.10 desktop "

Source: Linux Today

The Beez' Speaks : "It is the dilemma of every single FOSS developer. Sure, you want as many people as possible to use your software but you also want to acquaint them with the advantages of FOSS as well "

Source: Linux Today

linuX-gamers.net: "There have been many free software first-person shooters projects over the years, from modded Doom and Quake engines to enhance the existing games (ezQuake, EGL, ZDoom), to free art packs such as OpenQuartz or OpenArena "

Source: Linux Today

Polish Linux: "Thousands of Polish high school students now have a chance to learn about GNU/Linux and the benefits of using free software "

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Phoronix: "While Ubuntu Linux continues to grow--in both popularity and new advancements for the Linux ecosystem--and dance in the limelight, it isn't the choice for everybody "

Source: Linux Today

ConsortiumInfo: "In those early days, not many bloggers were covering the ODF story, and email began to come my way from people that I had never met before, from as far away as Australia, and as near as the State House in Boston "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Whether you refer to online maps occasionally or on a daily basis, you can add several extensions to your Firefox browser to make Web-based mapping services even more useful "

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LispCast: "I consider myself a beginning Lisper. I've been developing my software in Emacs for 8 months now. At first, I was clumsy at it. Emacs can be difficult and daunting "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

christian.einfeldt writes "Computer scientist and media maven Roy Schestowitz takes a look at platforms where GNU Linux gained the most ground in 2007. In a thorough review which is the first of a two-part series, Schestowitz looks at trends in supercomputers, mobile phones, desktops, low-end laptops and tablets, consoles, media players and set-top boxes. Schestowitz finds that GNU Linux solidified its dominant grip on supercomputers; made huge gains in low-end laptops and tablets; won major OEM and retail support on the desktop; gained new entries into game consoles; and also spawned new businesses in set-top boxes while holding its ground in pre-existing product lines. He sums it all up by saying that '2007 will be remembered as the year when GNU/Linux became not only available, but also properly preinstalled on desktops and laptops by the world's largest companies.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

crush writes "The Linux Game Tome notes that the final team to produce a fully Open Source 3D game using the CrystalSpace engine and Blender has been chosen. The project (known as Apricot) aims to produce a cross-platform, 3D game with completely Free (CCA) graphics, music and code. An important side-effect of the project is to improve open source tools for the professional game development industry." I look forward to more 3D games on my desktop, even if this one won't be the first. (And where is the open-source bus-driving counterpart to the under-rated FlightGear?)Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Glyn Moody writes "Google always plays down suggestions that there's any looming clash of the titans between itself and Microsoft. Meanwhile, the search giant is pushing open source in every way it can. They're contributing directly by contributing code to projects and employing top hackers like Andrew Morton, Jeremy Allison and Guido van Rossum, and indirectly through the $60 million fees it pays Mozilla, its Summer of Code scheme and various open source summits held at its offices. Google+OSS: could this be the killer combination that finally breaks Microsoft?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Anonymous writes "At the end of this piece at Channelweb.com, it's reported that Microsoft paid Novell $355.6 million last year as part of their 'interoperability' deal. It's no small wonder, then, that Novell executives are saying the deal has been a huge success so far."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Are you a sysadmin and know Bash?
If you know Bash, and I mean even as little as being able to throw a few lines together into a script, you can learn Python. I put some example Bash/Python scripts in svn up at Google Code. There are five scripts in total, two are the exact same program written in Bash and Python, and the last script is an example of a complex Unix command line tool that embeds Bash into Python.
http://python4bash.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
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