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Source: gnewsense

Brian Brazil has announced the final release of gNewSense 2.0 "DeltaH", a 100% "libre" distribution based on the recently released Ubuntu 8.04: "I've just released the live CD for gNewSense 2.0, the first full release of 'DeltaH'. This is less than a week after 'Hardy Heron' was released ..

Source: easys

The easys development team has announced the release of easys GNU/Linux 4.1, a Slackware-based distribution featuring a graphical installer and an advanced package manager: "We are pleased to announce the release of easys GNU/Linux 4.1. This release is a milestone in the development of the easys distribution. For .

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "After several years of development, SymphonyOS this month released SymphonyOne 2008.1, the first stable version of its distribution "

Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "This document describes how to upgrade your desktop from Mandriva One 2008.0 to Mandriva One 2008.1 via online upgrade "

Source: Linux Today

Once More Unto the Breach: "I have recently had several long discussions about the motivations and machinations that surround the development of technology interoperability standards "

Source: Linux Today

Raiden's Realm: "I'd like to start by asking you a series of seemingly unrelated questions. Have you watched Shrek or Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone ?"

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aseigo: "The other day, Vincent Untz requested a git repo to house all freedesktop.org specs. I liked the idea a lot "

Source: Linux Today

The Tao of Open Source Community Business: "So my question is simple: Who is the open source big dog ?"

Source: Linux Today

iTWire: "The fact that the General Public Licence, better known as the GPL, is oft misunderstood, even by those who could be expected to know better, came home to me with a vengeance yesterday "

Source: Linux Today

openSUSE Spotlight: "Novell is working with Microsoft to help Microsoft cooperate and contribute to open source projects under open source licenses, and sticking with the existing standards to do so "

Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "Does it matter who pays the salaries of Linux kernel developers? If so, how much, and in what ways ?"

Source: Linux Today

InformationWeek: "And as it turns out, that's precisely what's happening: according to folks on the ReiserFS team, work on ReiserFS will continue "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxPlanet: "Users of GRUB legacy, which is version 0.97, are getting bitten by an e2fsprogs incompatibility that renders their systems unbootable "

Source: Linux Today

The Linux Distillery: "Microsoft's PR department are insulting their audience. They are lacking in integrity. It's time for the site to be pulled down. Here's why "

Source: Linux Today

Enterprise Unix Roundup: "Two trials have captured the attention of the IT community this week: the California court drama of the Hans Reiser murder trial and the quieter but equally dramatic SCO vs. Novell case, which finally went to trial on Tuesday "

Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "From the 'when sessions go bad and people shout and walk out' files "

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451 CAOS Theory: "Fresh off joining the Linux Foundation and extending its support for Flash Player and AIR runtime software to Linux, Adobe is heading up a new collaborative project to ease development and design of rich applications on a variety of devices from PCs and TVs to mobile devices and other consumer electronics "

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iBanjo: "I have to say, after using Mercurial for a bit, I think distributed version control is pretty neat stuff "

Source: Linux Today

[gNewSense-Users]: "I've just released the LiveCD for gNewSense 2.0, the first full release of DeltaH "

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Tectonic: "The OpenBSD team traditionally makes available a new song with each new release of its software "

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Wired: "Inside the Cellblock 9 visiting room here at Santa Rita Jail, inmate number BFPS63 looked like a man with a big hangover "

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Australian PC World: "Customers can configure their own Dell machines in selected OfficeWorks stores--but Ubuntu Linux is not on offer yet "

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Groklaw: "Darl took the stand today, called by Novell "

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internetnews.com: "Linux-based hardware appliance aims to optimize virtualization for datacenter deployment "

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Flipping the Linux Switch: "In the beginning, we talked a bit about the holy war that wages onward between KDE and GNOME. Some of you aptly pointed out that there is a third desktop environment out there "

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Linux.com: "Twitter is a popular social networking utility that's gaining popularity as a micro-blogging tool "

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dria.org: "One thing that has always irritated me about looking at pictures on the web is that browsers don't seem to display photographs properly. And by 'photographs' I really mean 'colors '"

Source: Slashdot: Linux

UnknowingFool writes "Everyone's favorite CEO Darl McBride took the stand on Wednesday April 30 in Novell v. SCO. Chris Brown has posted his account on Groklaw of the 2nd day of trial. The first day's account can be found here. To refresh your memory in this ongoing case, Judge Kimball has already ruled that Novell owns the copyrights to Unix and has practically dismissed all of SCO's claims. This portion of the trial is about Novell's counterclaims that SCO never paid them the money from the Sun and MS deals. What is to be determined in this trial is how much of the money from the deals were for Unix licensing (SVRx) and how much were for SCO's server technology (Unixware)." (Read on for the rest, below.)Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "gNewSense DeltaH (2.0), a second major release of a GNU/Linux distribution with focus on freedom, has just been released. It is based on Ubuntu 8.04 which was released less than week ago. gNewSense is one of the few GNU/Linux distributions listed as free by the GNU Project."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Crobain writes "The first alpha release for KDE 4.1 is out, and bugs aside, it looks promising. The KDE Plasma desktop shell now has preliminary support for Mac OS X dashboard widgets and SuperKaramba, and panels can be added and removed via contextual menu items. 'This alpha release marks the start of the 4.1 feature freeze, so virtually all of the remaining developer effort between now and the official 4.1 release in July will focus on bug-fixing, polish, and stability. Despite the current breakage, the actual feature set that has been stubbed out for this release is pretty darn good. If the developers can deliver on all of this functionality and make it stable and robust, version 4.1 will offer a much better overall user experience than 4.0, and Plasma will come close to achieving functional parity with the KDE 3.5.x panel system.' The KDE Techbase wiki has a full list of the features planned for the 4.1 release."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: ONLamp.com

I was just reading Michael Mimoso’s account of a new MS-SQL injection attack that is making the rounds. Sigh. The funny thing is that I was just talking to one of our consultants here at Puryear IT about.. SQL injection attacks. He

Source: Linux DevCenter

10 days ago the Linux Loop blog had a post titled "Linux Eee PC Far Faster Than Windows Version". I'm sure many Linux users nodded and had assumed as much. The author compared the times of three tasks: boot up,

Source: Linux DevCenter

There are some "interesting" issues being raised due to an incompatibility between e2fsprogs and GRUB legacy that results in non-booting systems. Newer versions of e2fsprogs default to creating new Ext3 filesystems with 256-byte sized inodes, instead of the old default

Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Apache Synapse is a simple, lightweight, high-performance enterprise service
bus (ESB) released under the Apache License, Version 2.0 from the Apache Software
Foundation. Using Apache Synapse, you can filter, transform, route, manipulate, and
monitor SOAP, binary, XML, and plain text messages that pass through your
large-scale enterprise systems by HTTP, HTTPS, Java Message Service (JMS), Simple
Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Post Office Protocol Version 3 (POP3), FTP, file
systems, and many other transport mediums. But for an individual developer, what's
the use of an ESB product in your day-to-day life? The simplicity of the
configuration, out-of-the-box feature set, extensible architecture, and the minimal
footprint makes it a versatile and powerful tool that you can use for a variety of
tasks. This article examines how you can use Apache Synapse to create mock Web
services.

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

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