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Source: endian

Raphael Vallazza has announced the first release candidate for Endian Firewall 2.2 "Community" edition, a firewall appliance based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux: "The Endian team is glad to announce a new beta release of the Endian Firewall Community, with many bug fixes and enhancements. Highlights: enhanced management .

Source: frugalware

Miklós Vajna has announced the availability of the first preview release of Frugalware Linux 0.9: "The Frugalware developer team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Frugalware 0.9pre1, the first technical preview of the upcoming 0.9 stable release. Changes since 0.8: the network configuration utility now lists .

Source: fedora

Fedora 9 has been released: "The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 9, the latest version of its open source operating system distribution. Highlights: PackageKit, a cross-distribution package management solution; GNOME 2.22; KDE desktop 4.0.3 featuring upgrades .

Source: Linux Today

Linux Journal: "The first time I played with Zenity, I recognized several potential uses for it. While I'm pretty comfortable with interacting with computers with a command line interface, I know many people are not "

Source: Linux Today

451 CAOS Theory: "When we write about investors on this blog we are normally referring to angel and VC investors and the funding they provide to open source start-ups "

Source: Linux Today

OpenOffice.org Ninja: "Kryder's Law, a variation of Moore's Law, describes the trend 'magnetic disk areal storage density doubles annually '"

Source: Linux Today

Milking the GNU: "In an otherwise great post about the GPL and its goals, Bradley Kuhn writes something that strikes me as a typical example of open-source political correctness that ultimately tarnishes the credibility of the community "

Source: Linux Today

451 CAOS Theory: "I wrote last week about how the conservatism of many senior IT executives is a significant barrier to widespread open source adoption "

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "The point is that while Cisco is a good corporate citizen it is not a friend of open source "

Source: Linux Today

iTWire: "Used in the right context, statistics can often illuminate and point the way. On the other hand, these days, given the degree of spin around, they are more often used to confuse and blur an issue "

Source: Linux Today

Between the Lines: "On August 10, 2007, the United States District Court of Utah ruled that Novell owns the UNIX copyrights "

Source: Linux Today

Practical Technology: "Recently there were some rumors that Wal-Mart was once more selling Everex PCs with gOS Linux. Well, they got it about a third right "

Source: Linux Today

LinuxWorld: "All communities develop rituals over time. One of the enduring linux-kernel rituals is the regular heated discussion on development processes and kernel quality "

Source: Linux Today

Ben Laurie Blathering: "But now Debian have proved me right (again) beyond my wildest expectations. Two years ago, they 'fixed' a 'problem' in OpenSSL reported by valgrind by removing any possibility of adding any entropy to OpenSSL's pool of randomness "

Source: Linux Today

ConsortiumInfo: "That pronouncement has been titled The Hague Declaration by the new international group, called the Digital Standards Organization ('Digistan,' for short), that crafted it "

Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "A UK-based carrier-grade equipment vendor may begin baking the open source IP-PBX into its offerings. Is this the next big step for open source VoIP ?"

Source: Linux Today

RegDeveloper: "Fedora 9 features PackageKit for software management which can tie into a number of back ends regardless of what method you're using--UM, RPG, Apt, etc "

Source: Linux Today

InformationWeek: "Dwight McKay, Purdue's director of systems engineering, said Steele is running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 "

Source: Linux Today

EFYtimes: "Naturally, when OOXML's approval cast a doubt on ODF, we sought reactions of the OOo team, on how they viewed the future of OOo, ODF and OOXML "

Source: Linux Today

LKML.org: "About 45% architecture updates (counting the include files too), about 30% drivers, and about 25% odds-and-ends "

Source: Linux Today

"The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration, today announced the availability of Fedora 9, the latest version of its open source operating system distribution " (Full announcement within.)

Source: Linux Today

Debian Times: "The Brazilian Debian GNU / Linux SuiteTelecentro is a custom solution which is currently being deployed in the Digital Inclusion Program of Banco do Brasil "

Source: Linux Today

Tech Source from Bohol: "Puppy Linux 4.0 has been unleashed recently. It is a major distribution release version of this well-known mini-distro that is why I took some time to check it out "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Do you fancy Web-based word processors but aren't ready to leave OpenOffice.org? You can work with your Zoho Writer and Google Docs files from the convenience of OpenOffice.org Writer, courtesy of the OoGdocsIntegrator extension "

Source: Linux Today

Ubuntu Geek: "Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts "

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Thomas Petazzoni writes "The fourth edition of Embedded Linux Conference was held from April 15 to 17 in Mountain View, California. With more than fifty talks and tutorials around the use of Linux in embedded devices, this conference covered a wide range of topics: power management, debugging techniques, system size reduction, flash filesystems, embedded distributions, real-time, graphics and video, security, etc. For those who could not attend the conference, Free Electrons has published under a free license videos of nineteen talks and an extensive report of them. You can for example watch Andrew Morton's keynote, Klaas van Gend's talk about the real-time version of the Linux kernel, or Mike Anderson's tutorial on the use of JTAG probes for kernel debugging."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

adrian.henke writes "After four years of development, 115K lines of source code, and 6,434 commits, Jonathan Pobst announces that Mono's WinForms 2.0 implementation is now complete. This announcement has been long awaited by any .NET WinForms developer who has ever tried to get an applications to work on Linux using Mono."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

icknay writes "Here's an interesting rant on the OLPC from someone who worked there, including: 'The core mistake of the present Sugar approach is that it couples phenomenally powerful ideas about learning — that it should be shared, collaborative, peer to peer, and open — with the notion that these ideas must come presented in an entirely new graphical paradigm. We reject this coupling as untenable. Choosing to reinvent the desktop UI paradigm means we are spending our extremely over-constrained resources fighting graphical interfaces, not developing better tools for learning.' I have an OLPC, and the OS itself seems quite unfinished. I buy the argument that it would be better to focus on Sugar as educational software, and let it run on Linux, Windows, whatever."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

BrianGKUAC writes "Fedora 9 has been released as of 10 AM Eastern Time this morning. Release notes can be found here. Some of the more interesting new features include a new package management system, which can be used as an alternative to yum, known as PackageKit. This release also includes GNOME 2.22 and/or KDE 4.0.3, and Firefox 3 beta 5. Overall, there are a lot of improvements worth looking at, and the Bittorrent seeds are already feeding the release fairly effectively."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

SecurityBob writes "Debian package maintainers tend to very often modify the source code of the package they are maintaining so that it better fits into the distribution itself. However, most of the time, their changes are not sent back to upstream for validation, which might cause some tension between upstream developers and Debian packagers. Today, a critical security advisory has been released: a Debian packager modified the source code of OpenSSL back in 2006 so as to remove the seeding of OpenSSL random number generator, which in turns makes cryptographic key material generated on a Debian system guessable. The solution? Upgrade OpenSSL and re-generate all your SSH and SSL keys. This problem not only affects Debian, but also all its derivatives, such as Ubuntu." Reader RichiH also points to Debian's announcement and Ubuntu's announcement.Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Linux DevCenter

Fedora 9 is now available - http://get.fedoraproject.org/ As someone thats been working with it for months already I'm quite pleased with this release

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

XML is becoming a main staple in data exchange both between applications and on the Web. Learn how to improve the performance of your XML applications by using the Xerces-C++ parser properly. You'll learn the best ways to use the parser efficiently, and which features and properties affect its performance.

Source: developerWorks : XML : Technical library

Make your XML work easier with the ten tips in this article -- ultimately you'll be less prone to errors and more productive.

Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Learn how to build Web services in PHP using the PHP Development Tools plug-in
in Eclipse Europa. Become familiar with the PDT project, and learn how to create and
deploy useful PHP projects, learn about the philosophy behind contract-first
development, and understand the basic parts that make up a Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file.

Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

Learn how to fill the gap between the IBM Rational Functional Tester and the
console of Eclipse-based products by supporting the OSGi commands install, ss, start,
stop, headers, active, update, and uninstall. The solution offers an effective approach
for automation test-case support when the manifest of an Eclipse-AutoStart header has
been upgraded to Eclipse-LazyStart. This article presents test scenarios to verify that
the bundle-management mechanisms work well.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

Wasting server resources can impact the performance of Ajax applications, resulting in excessive HTTP requests, high memory consumption, and the need for an unusual amount of polling to make applications work. Regular developerWorks author Judith Myerson suggests some open source tools and Firefox add-ons you can use to improve or solve problems with your Ajax applications.

Source: developerWorks : Web development : Technical library

In the previous installment of this column you learned about Linking Open Data
(LOD), a community initiative for moving the Web from separated documents to a broad
information space of data. That article covered the main ideas of LOD, and in this article you will see how to quickly put these ideas to use. Learn about the Exhibit Web library from the MIT Simile project, which allows you to construct functional and visually attractive user interfaces without much work, once you have good LOD available.

Source: developerWorks : Open source : Technical library

If you're developing Web applications these days, then you're doing Ajax
development. Ajax is no longer something unusual that you add to your applications
in special cases. It has become an integral part of Web development. To some,
enhancing applications with Ajax used to be a tricky proposition. Cross-browser
limitations to deal with, writing a lot of complicated JavaScript, and learning
about magic numeric codes within that JavaScript were just a few of the challenges facing Ajax developers. Thankfully, several open source JavaScript libraries are available now to make things much easier. In this first article in a three-part series, you will create an Ajax application for managing songs using the Prototype JavaScript library and script.aculo.us.