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Canonical has announced the release of Ubuntu 6.06.2 LTS, the second update to its "Long Term Support" release from June 2006: "Canonical, the commercial sponsors of the Ubuntu project, announced today the second maintenance release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS, which continues to be supported with maintenance updates and .

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This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Report: Linux in Vietnam News: Gentoo discusses Foundation issues, Mandriva launches Manbo Labs, openSUSE unveils new installer, Ubuntu delivers desktop course, Geubuntu becomes OpenGEU Released last week: FreeBSD 6.3, Scientific Linux 5.1 Upcoming releases: Mandriva Linux 2008.1 Beta 1, Dreamlinux 3.0 New distributions: .

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BeginLinux: "As a Linux administrator, you may be called upon to set up a control system for file access. You probably already know how to set read, write, and execute permissions on files, and you will need to make extensive use of that knowledge "

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LWN: "For a few years now, I have worked on a replacement for the trusty old way of organising the Debian boot "

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HowtoForge: "If you have a dual-boot Windows/Linux system, you probably know this problem: you can access files from your Windows installation while you are in Linux, but not the other way round "

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KernelTrap: "Chris Mason announced version 0.10 of his new Btrfs filesystem, listing the following new features, 'explicit back references, online resizing "

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Burton Group: "We've had some questions from Burton Group clients and others about the article "

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Linux.com: "Choices abound for reading Usenet messages in Linux. Many email clients can deliver news "

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MarketWatch: "Sun Microsystems Inc. gobbling up MySQL is perhaps the worst single event I have ever witnessed in the history of tech mergers and acquisitions "

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