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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: CentOS Size: 2.38 GB Status: 21 seeders and 100 leechers Added: 2006-08-30 20:59:55


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Category: CentOS Size: 2.39 GB Status: 10 seeders and 13 leechers Added: 2006-08-30 20:55:57


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Category: CentOS Size: 2.16 GB Status: 146 seeders and 186 leechers Added: 2006-08-30 20:54:51


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Category: CentOS Size: 2.16 GB Status: 41 seeders and 54 leechers Added: 2006-08-30 20:53:55


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Category: CentOS Size: 688.52 MB Status: 5 seeders and 10 leechers Added: 2006-08-30 20:48:58


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Category: Kalango Size: 539.36 MB Status: 2 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2006-08-30 17:13:38


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Category: Gibraltar Size: 169.12 MB Status: 4 seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2006-08-30 15:46:23


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Category: Gibraltar Size: 235.01 MB Status: 6 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2006-08-30 15:46:00


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Category: Fedora Size: 3.10 GB Status: 67 seeders and 90 leechers Added: 2006-08-30 14:34:33


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Category: Xubuntu Size: 471.04 MB Status: 23 seeders and 21 leechers Added: 2006-08-30 07:03:45


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Category: VLOS Size: 1.41 GB Status: 2 seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-08-30 02:47:44


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Category: VLOS Size: 1.42 GB Status: 3 seeders and no leecher Added: 2006-08-30 02:31:00


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Source: gentoo

Gentoo Linux 2006.1 has been released: "The Gentoo Release Engineering team proudly announces the release of Gentoo Linux 2006.1, the second release of the year. The 2006.1 release features many highlights that improve upon 2006.0. The AMD64, HPPA, x86, 32- and 64-bit PowerPC releases are built with and .


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Source: fedora

Robert Jensen has announced the availability of a new set of Fedora Core live CDs and DVDs. Called "Live-Spins" and created with a tool called Kadischi, the new Fedora live CD/DVD images allow users to test the distribution without having to install it to their hard disks. Fedora .


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Source: centos

Johnny Hughes has announced the availability of a fourth update to CentOS 4 series, a Linux distribution built from source RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4: "The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the release of CentOS 4.4 for i386 and x86_64. This release corresponds .


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Source: gibraltar

A new stable version of the Debian-based Gibraltar Firewall has been released: "The new version v2.4 from Gibraltar is available. Gibraltar v2.4 comes with many new features and now also available pre-installed on several reliable hardware platforms. The new Gibraltar Security Gateways are offered with different performance data .



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Source: Linux Today

Microsoft and Apple aren't sending Linux away, just underground to do the job it was made for


Source: Linux Today

Now, I can take a joke like the next person--really, I can. But I sometimes wonder if corporations should focus less on trying to be funny and more on trying to be successful


Source: Linux Today

The Open-Source movement has not been ignored by data warehouse and business intelligence vendors


Source: Linux Today

Feedback from the community has been both positive and negative. In the beginning there was a bit of misinterpretation and negative feedback about my blog and the Linux Flash Player project


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Source: Linux Today

The Gentoo Release Engineering team proudly announces the release of Gentoo Linux 2006.1


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When the Interop trade show unfolds in New York next month, its underlying network infrastructure will be managed and monitored by GroundWork Monitor 7


Source: Linux Today

This column considers why open source is growing so fast, and what it means to human resources professionals


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Elan Home Systems has switched from a Linux-based platform to one built on Microsoft Windows XPE (embedded) operating system backed by a more powerful processor


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A shift to Linux-based grid computing at the National Australia Bank has opened the gate to a more agile IT infrastructure and dramatically reduced maintenance costs


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Though such an effort is not forthcoming from Redmond, the ReactOS open source project has been trying to come up with an open source 'clone' of Windows for 10 years


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Guy Martin is a distinguished member of technical staff within Motorola's Mobile Devices business. He helped establish opensource.motorola.com, and works with groups inside of Motorola to better interface with the Open Source community


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Source: Linux Today

The unconventional company hopes to gain market share and outfox the competition with a new version of its Firefox browser


Source: Linux Today

The refresh is hardly as dramatic as the change between Microsoft's in-development Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 6.x, but it is something the Firefox faithful will notice


Source: Linux Today

Starting tomorrow, the CNR service is going to be free. That's right, no charge at all for the basic CNR


Source: Linux Today

Only two years later however, Bergen Council decided to do a one-eighty and put the Linux migration on ice


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Source: Linux Today

Business software concern Novell reported on Tuesday its preliminary third-quarter profit increased more than fivefold, saying revenue from its Linux Platform Products category grew 30 percent year-over-year


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The hard-disk recorder (HDR) is the central component of the modern digital audio studio


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Philipp H. Poll started the Linux Libertine Open Fonts project in September 2003 because of his dissatisfaction with the fonts shipped with GNU/Linux distributions


Source: Linux Today

It doesn't matter how drag'n'drop GUI based FTP clients are, there comes a time when only the terminal will do


Source: Linux Today

Therefore WebDAV was chosen as the protocol to manage the site with a patched version of the Apache 2 WebDAV module to provide quota


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Source: Linux Today

LixSystems has introduced a low-cost Linux powered home theater PC (HTPC) packaged in a compact, consumer electronics-style enclosure


Source: Linux Today

Git is the open source revision control software that Linus Torvalds developed to help manage Linux kernel development


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Source: Linux Today

Today's security advisories: mozilla and mozilla-firefox (Debian GNU/Linux); Wireshark, Motor, and PHP (Gentoo Linux); and binutils, lesstif, and ImageMagick (Mandriva Linux).


Source: Linux Today

A friend of mine is the IT manager for a medium-sized wholesale distribution business. One afternoon in early August, a hard disk drive in one of his employer's servers started to show signs that it was dying


Source: Linux Today

[W]ould the community be bettered if the two behemoth projects were to come together and merge into one giant linux-standard desktop ?


Source: Linux Today

The results of DesktopLinux.com's 2006 Desktop Linux Market survey are in, and the votes are all tallied


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Source: Linux Today

Ever wanted to run Fedora Core Linux as a Live CD? Well now you can


Source: Linux Today

Okay, I don't really know how many chances I've given GNOME, but I've tried to switch to GNOME as my default desktop many times. I always ended up switching back to KDE



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

lisah writes "Misconceptions about the widely used GNU General Public License (GPL) continue to plague the free software user community and, according to the ITManagersJournal, 'the confusion is frequently based on misreadings, rumors, secondhand accounts, and what is convenient to believe.' In order to clarify some of the more common misunderstandings about the GPL, Bruce Byfield consulted with three experts: attorney Richard Fontana, one of the main drafters of the third version of the license; Harald Welte of the GPL-Violations project; and David Turner who is assisting with revisions of the license. Together, they help clarify the distributor's role in providing source code to customers, whether GPL is viral or unenforceable, and why some misunderstandings are really rooted in varied interpretations of the law." ITMJ and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.


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Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "After five years of charging an annual fee for their CNR (click and run) service, Linspire has dropped the annual fee, making the CNR service free. This combined with their previous announcement of open sourcing the CNR client, and the Freespire project, is all very big news. This means Freespire users can now have a free distro, using a free CNR service."


Source: Slashdot: Linux

eastbayted writes "Tom Yager at InfoWorld predicts: 'At the end of the decade, we'll find that Apple UNIX has overtaken commercial Linux as the second most popular general client and server computing platform behind Windows.' That's not a gloom-and-doom omen for the ever-popular Linux kernel, though, he stresses. While Apple and Microsoft will grapple for dominance of client and server spaces, Linux will be 'the de facto choice for embedded solutions.' And by 'embedded,' Yager means 'specialized.' With a push of a button and a flip of switch, he predicts, you'll be able to create a configured database and a mated J2EE server — all thanks to Linux."


Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "Ryan Stewart of ZDNet has an interview up with Mike Melanson, the lead engineer behind Adobe's upcoming Flash Player 9 for Linux. It covers what the plans are for the player, what kinds of things won't be in the Linux player that are in the other players, and ways to give Adobe input on the Linux player."



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Source: ONLamp.com

YAPC::Europe is now in full swing, with around 250 people here (or expected) over the next 3 days. Congratulations to Barbie and all the other organisers for doing a fantastic job - it’s already been a highly informative and entertaining day, and runs until Friday evening.
If you care about Perl, it’s really worthwhile to be here. With many many people who know far more than you ever wanted to know about many things.
Now, I should shut up and listen to chromatic talk about Perl Hacks Perl Hacks. He’s been talking for about 2 minutes and it’s already been highly useful for stuff I missed from the book.



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Source: Linux DevCenter

My brother in law, a real to life cable-guy (but of course much more than such a small definition), came over to help me out with my new hdtv tv/hdpvr setup.
Once it was all sorted out we were in my “office” & he said.. “You have a mac.. I’m jealous”… or something like that.
What’s funny about this is that TV to HDTV is like Linux’s fonts/display to OSX’s.
I run many a Linux server, but this nails the UI differences for me on the desktop today.



Updated: Thu Aug 31 23:55:04 2006


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