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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: TrixBox Size: 535.46 MB Status: 7 seeders and 6 leechers Added: 2006-10-19 16:42:47

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Category: TrixBox Size: 62.79 MB Status: 2 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2006-10-19 16:42:20

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: TrixBox Size: 527.04 MB Status: 1 seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2006-10-19 16:41:12

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Category: Tilix Size: 690.58 MB Status: 4 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2006-10-19 00:03:34

Source: b2d

The developers of Taiwan's B2D Linux have released a new "pre-stable" build of their Debian-based distribution. This will be followed by a longer testing period before the final release of a stable B2D Linux 2006. Some of the more important changes include the following: renamed xserver to xserver-xorg, .

Source: kubuntu

Jonathan Riddell has announced the availability of the release candidate for Kubuntu 6.10: "The release candidate for Kubuntu 6.10 is now available for testing. Edgy, all about cutting edge, perhaps bleeding edge, will consist of brand new code and infrastructure. The time has come to introduce some seriously .

Source: ubuntu

Tollef Fog Heen has announced that the release candidate for the upcoming Ubuntu 6.10 is now ready for testing: "The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release candidate for version 6.10 of Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu - codenamed 'Edgy Eft'. The release candidate includes installable live desktop .

Source: pcbsd

The first development build of PC-BSD 1.3 has been released: "The PC-BSD Team is pleased to announce the availability of PC-BSD 1.3 BETA1. This release gives users and testers the opportunity to test-drive the new PC-BSD install wizard, along with the updated base system, running KDE 3.5.4." From .

Source: Linux Today

Early on, I made a conscious decision that I would not review this upcoming version of Ubuntu until it had been released in a non-beta format

Source: Linux Today

The issue has stressed some of the key fracture lines in the free software and free culture communities

Source: Linux Today

This was the 'Remastered' edition, which the openSUSE team released in response to several bug fixes, not the least of which was a reportedly very buggy Software Update tool

Source: Linux Today

Last week was maintenance week here in the labs, and one of the top items on my to-do list was upgrading Samba to the latest release

Source: Linux Today

They may not be trying to take over the world, but robotic science is coming right along. Given its flexibility and low to no license fees, Linux is more and more the operating system of choice

Source: Linux Today

Songbird 0.2 is a preview release to let developers and early birds who can't wait for 1.0 explore Songbird's potential

Source: Linux Today

The Release Candidate includes installable live Desktop CDs, server images, alternate text-mode installation CDs and an upgrade wizard for users of the current stable release

Source: Linux Today

IT chief who took part in a key battle between Microsoft and open source software is now getting ready to tackle the Olympics

Source: Linux Today

A new version of its overarching licence has opened a split between free and open source software

Source: Linux Today

With the final release of Ubuntu 6.10 approaching, and apparently set to be spot on schedule October 26th, we're starting to look beyond it to Ubuntu 7.04, scheduled for release on 19 April 2007

Source: Linux Today

Let's say you own a small to midsize business, and you want to use Linux, but you're not crazy about the idea of mixing and matching software and servers

Source: Linux Today

Lots of modules have great plans for 2.18 and if you're willing to help, there's a lot of areas where you'll be heartily welcomed

Source: Linux Today

Now we get to find out precisely why and how, and from none other than the victim himself, Robert Marsh, the CEO of EV1

Source: Linux Today

Mozilla is still hoping that it can come to an agreement with Debian but at this point it seems likely that Debian users will see IceWeasel (for Firefox) and IceDove (for Thunderbird)

Source: Linux Today

No, it's not directly about open source. But this article is a typical example of today's Internet Explorer 7 write-ups: they all compare it to Firefox, and many of those comparisons are unfavorable to IE.

Source: Linux Today

[T]his beta includes 2 gzip'd tarball packages: one is for the Mozilla plugin and the other is for a GTK-based Standalone Flash Player

Source: Linux Today

Everybody uses word processors, but very few people use them in the right way. Maybe it's time you learned to use your word processor with style!

Source: Linux Today

Local poultry producer Bartter Enterprises is evaluating the future of around 70 Microsoft Windows servers, in the context of a recent migration of other systems to Red Hat Linux

Source: Linux Today

The Lenovo ThinkPad T60p is the first ThinkPad to officially support GNU/Linux

Source: Linux Today

In this article, we'll discuss how to properly evaluate a potential migration from Unix to Linux. We'll see when a migration is or is not a good idea

Source: Linux Today

This article shows how to run a file-, print-, HTTP proxy- DHCP-, and time server for small and medium enterprises (SME) on one single Debian Sarge system

Source: Linux Today

Somebody's finally come up with a decent use for the Nokia 770--the PDA/tablet who major claim to fame so far is that it runs Linux

Source: Linux Today

Linux had always lacked a Open Source virtualisation technology in the same league as Solaris containers or commercial product like Vmware

Source: Linux Today

The data center has evolved much over the past 20 years. Dinosaurs once ruled in the form of mainframes. Mini-computers starting replacing them, and then came open systems in the form of Unix

Source: Linux Today

Here's a roundup of some recent worthy happenings in the fun worlds of iptables and VoIP

Source: Linux Today

In an astoundingly short period of time--a span of less than two decades--the personal computer has become a fixture of personal and professional life

Source: Linux Today

Today's security advisories: CAPI4Hylafax, Mozilla Network Security Service, and Python (Gentoo Linux); libksba, clamav, and php (Mandriva Linux); kdelibs (Red Hat Linux); and kernel (rPath Linux).

Source: Linux Today

One of the world's most widely used open source content management systems, Joomla, has undergone its first major upgrade

Source: Linux Today

I am one of those frequent users, and I recently discovered that the latest update to one of the core auction tools locks out Linux users

Source: Linux Today

Who could be against choice? Certainly not the Initiative for Software Choice, except that it has a slightly different view of what choice implies

Source: Linux Today

Slackware Linux 11 was released at the beginning of this month, which marks 13 years of continued development

Source: Slashdot: Linux

DemiKnute writes "According to the official Penguin.SWF blog, the a beta release of the long-awaited Flash 9 for Linux is available for download, a mere year after the release for Windows." From the blog: "While we are still working out exactly how to distribute the final Player version to be as easy as possible for the typical end user, this beta includes 2 gzip'd tarball packages: one is for the Mozilla plugin and the other is for a GTK-based Standalone Flash Player. Either will need to be downloaded manually via the Adobe Labs website and unpacked. The standalone Player (gflashplayer) can be run in place (after you set its executable permission). The plugin is dropped into your local plugin directory (for a local user) or the system-wide plugin directory." Report bugs here.

Source: Linux Magazine Online

IBM Novell partner on new middleware bundle and highlight the real value of integrated stacks: support.

Source: Linux Magazine Online

Here’s the first in a series about how vim (“ vi improved”) is improved.

Source: Linux Magazine Online

Fix the Vista Beta blues with open source software for Windows.

Source: Linux Magazine Online

Fast! Cheap! Easy! Store files online with Jungle Disk.

Source: ONLamp.com

The MySQL distribution provides several tools for database developers and administrators, but they don't always work everywhere. Fortunately, the worldwide MySQL community has produced plenty of useful tools. Baron Schwartz surveys the possibilities and offers suggestions for what you should use.

Source: ONLamp.com

Many agile development techniques apply to plenty of development models. One interesting approach for distributed development projects is the sprint--a short, directed programming effort with programmers all in the same room. Steve Holden, who organized the recent Python Need for Speed sprint, explains how they work.

Source: ONLamp.com

Fedora Core 6 will be released on Tuesday. It is the latest and greatest distribution from the Fedora project, hardened out-of-the-box with SELinux and including Xen 3, the latest KDE and Gnome desktops, AIGLX eye candy (for the few cards that support it so far), a handful of new or rewritten management tools, and a much faster version of the Yum package-management system.
Another Fedora-related download is available today: my book, Fedora Linux: A Complete Guide to Red Hat’s Community Distribution is available in PDF form from the O’Reilly web store. This provides a convenient way to access the content while on-the-go (and at a 50% discount from the book’s list price). For those who prefer paper, the print edition will be out before the end of the month.
It’s exciting to see my first book reach fruition. I wrote it as a hands-on guide to the complete Fedora system using the same lab-based approach as Chris Brown’s SUSE Linux, and made it the type of book that I wished I had when I was coming up to speed on Linux. I hope it will prove valuable to a wide range of Fedora users.

Source: Linux DevCenter

Adobe released a prerelease version of the Flash 9 Player, supposedly for “Linux”. I run Linux, but it doesn’t work for me. Hm.

$ tar xvfz FP9_plugin_beta_101806.tar.gz
flash-player-plugin-9.0.21.55/
flash-player-plugin-9.0.21.55/libflashplayer.so
flash-player-plugin-9.0.21.55/readme.txt
$ cd flash-player-plugin-9.0.21.55/
$ less libflashplayer.so

ELF Header:
Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Class: ELF32
Data: 2's complement, little endian
Version: 1 (current)
OS/ABI: UNIX - System V
ABI Version: 0
Type: DYN (Shared object file)
Machine: Intel 80386
Version: 0x1
Entry point address: 0x220c0
Start of program headers: 52 (bytes into file)
Start of section headers: 6752832 (bytes into file)
Flags: 0x0
Size of this header: 52 (bytes)
Size of program headers: 32 (bytes)
Number of program headers: 6
Size of section headers: 40 (bytes)
Number of section headers: 27
Section header string table index: 26

Uh oh, it’s a 32-bit x86 shared library. That rules out 64-bit platforms and non-x86 platforms, where real Linux runs quite successfully. (I write this entry on such a platform.)

Now Adobe can do exactly as it wishes with its source code. It can support only x86 Linux or PPC Linux or Sparc or ARM Linux, or it could release Flash 10 for the old Acorn computer, if it really wants. It’s fine for Adobe to say “We only support 32-bit x86 Linux”. In my mind, however, it’s not okay to claim to support “Linux” without explaining that Adobe’s conception of “Linux” is actually far more limited than the reality. I don’t see a note to that effect either on the download page or in the readme.txt file at all. That’s lazy at best, and quite possibly a lie.

Imagine, if you will, that the world in general now thinks that it’s okay to require Flash 9 for certain websites (or technical screencasts — there’s the one that bites me), because “Of course there’s a Flash player for Linux now!”.

There isn’t.

There’s a Flash player for 32-bit x86 Linux. That’s a lot of people, yes, but it’s certainly not everyone. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that it is.

It’s not as if Adobe somehow failed to produce PPC and x86 versions of the player for Mac OS X, for example.