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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Yellow Dog Size: 3.33 GB Status: 2 seeders and 15 leechers Added: 2007-01-02 16:31:15


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Puppy Size: 15.65 MB Status: 2 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-01-02 12:23:07


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Puppy Size: 23.14 MB Status: 2 seeders and no leecher Added: 2007-01-02 12:22:53


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Puppy Size: 84.47 MB Status: 14 seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2007-01-02 12:17:48


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Endian Size: 106.69 MB Status: 8 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-01-02 11:57:05


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: SystemRescue Size: 120.30 MB Status: 14 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-01-02 06:36:04


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Sabayon Linux Size: 3.35 GB Status: 31 seeders and 193 leechers Added: 2007-01-02 01:45:21


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Sabayon Linux Size: 3.01 GB Status: 105 seeders and 469 leechers Added: 2007-01-02 01:06:02


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Source: blag

Jeff Moe has announced the first beta release of BLAG Linux And GNU 60000: "BLAG 60000 (puente) beta released. BLAG 60000 is a new series with a new base (FC6) and many new applications. Since September 3rd over 50 alpha versions of BLAG 60000 have been spun. Today, .


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Source: puppy

Barry Kauler has announced the release of Puppy Linux 2.13: "The final release of version 2.13 has been uploaded. This build has the complete suite of kernel drivers. More compact builds with a subset of the full driver suite and different selections of applications will follow soon." From .



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Source: Linux Today

Humor: "Okay, so I love Linux, but maybe when you think about switching from XP, you should consider Vista. Here are my top four reasons you should move to Vista instead of Linux "


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Source: Linux Today

:I think these projects are great because the developers are enjoying their work and I'm sure that some people use their products, but I don't believe that this is the right way to attract Windows users to desktop Linux "


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Source: Linux Today

I found myself reading an article on Mainframe.gr explaining how 2006 was another lost year for Linux and I couldn't help myself but write this response in disagreement


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Source: Linux Today

The Ubuntu developers are in the process of deciding whether to enable binary-only drivers by default in their installation process, under certain limited circumstances


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Source: Linux Today

OpenVZ, virtualization software that carves a single version of Linux into separate containers for different tasks, now is available for computers using Sun Microsystems' UltraSparc T1 processor


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Source: Linux Today

"On December 29, MEPIS LLC released Beta1 of SimplyMEPIS-64 Version 6.0-4 " Press release within.


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Source: Linux Today

Anyway, one week had passed since the take over and Gameforge finally made its first public statement regarding the matter


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Source: Linux Today

Shares in Red Hat rose by 25 per cent after the company released details of its third-quarter results


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Source: Linux Today

Noticed some tiny disturbance in the force before Christmas as Thom Holwerda of osnews posted an article about what he felt was the sorry state of free desktops


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Source: Linux Today

Tux magazine, billed as 'The first and only magazine for the new Linux user,' has published its last issue


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Source: Linux Today

Having acquitted itself well at the network perimeter, enterprises are now ready to let Linux in on its crown jewels: mission-critical computing, claims report


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Source: Linux Today

Forget windows, folders and boxes that pop up with text. When students in Thailand, Libya and other developing countries get their $150 computers from the One Laptop Per Child project in 2007, their experience will be unlike anything on standard PCs


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Source: Linux Today

Better late than never: Klaus Knopper, the maker of Knoppix, has released version 5.1.0 of his Linux distribution that runs from CD or DVD


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Source: Linux Today

Red Hat plans to ship the next version of its premium Linux product on February 28, debuting major virtualization technology but missing an earlier deadline by about two months


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Source: Linux Today

Novell sees itself a mixed-source company that provides Linux as a "base building block", together with identity and resource management products that manage a hotchpotch of proprietary and open source software within an IT infrastructure.


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Source: Linux Today

Find open source software alternatives to well-known commercial software


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Source: Linux Today

"Debian Desktop is a Debian's subproject created to be a joint effort of
all groups involved or related with the desktop to give our users a
better environment to use and easier to install experience."


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Source: Linux Today

As you might noticed there are no recent MySQL Community versions available for download from MySQL Download Area This applies both to binaries (which is expected with new polices) but also to the source files which were promised to be available.


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Source: Linux Today

It's among the newest things that's been going on. It's finally cool to switch to linux. Linux has started shedding it's image of being hard to use and without applications or the right support, people are switching over everyday, and they are happy, but a lot of people I knew, including myself had difficulty, and now that I'm completely towards the light side of the force, I'll give a couple of suggestions, more spiritual rather than technical.


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Source: Linux Today

After several days of effort, Linus Torvalds tracked down and posted a patch for a low level data corruption bug. In a series of emails, Linus thoroughly explained the thought process involved in isolating the exact problem.


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Source: Linux Today

"Things are better on the server side but I think that if apache wasn't the dominant web server, Linux would be bottoming here too." Link repaired.


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Source: Linux Today

When it comes to Linux servers, a few months can make a whole lot of difference. Earlier this year, Red Hat, Novell, and most major Linux vendors were doing their best to fend off Windows Virtualized Server by getting their own virtualization offerings out the door first


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Source: Linux Today

From time to time I need to copy many gigabytes of data from one Linux server to another Here's how it can be done.


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Source: Linux Today

A down system is one of the most stressful events for system administrators. This article shows you how to create a real-time monitor for your database so you can be alerted when problems arise, and also provide valuable information to others about the status of the database servers.


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Source: Linux Today

I don't want to give my efforts to a company that is willing to try and trick their way out of their license obligations on my software.


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Source: Linux Today

Instead of predictions about the year ahead today, I am much better prepared to continue what has become a Linux Today tradition: the publishing of the most-read stories of 2006, with some commentary to put the decisions behind posting these stories in context


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Source: Linux Today

Since my first exposure to an Apple ][ in sixth grade, I have interacted with computers primarily through a text-based interface. From my first `PR#6' command to this little journal entry (I tend to use Emacs for writing), I eschew fancy heavy-weight programs in favor of the simplest program possible. (I know, I said I use Emacs. Within that contradiction is the essence of simple complexity. Substitute vi if you wish.)


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Source: Linux Today

At the start of 2006, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was largely inward-looking, focused on the GNU Project and high-level strategic concerns such as licensing. Now, without abandoning these issues, the FSF had transformed into an openly activist organization, reaching out to its supporters and encouraging their participation in civic campaigns often designed to enlist non-hackers in their causes. Yet what happened seems to bemuse even FSF employees.


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Source: Linux Today

The year also bore witness to an increasing trend, of sorts, among Novell, Oracle, and other software companies to justify their actions on the basis of 'customer demand '



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

IndioMan writes to point us to an overview of virtualization — its history, an analysis of the techniques used over the years, and a survey of Linux virtualization projects. From the article: "Virtualization is the new big thing, if 'new' can include something over four decades old. It has been used historically in a number of contexts, but a primary focus now is in the virtualization of servers and operating systems. Much like Linux, virtualization provides many options for performance, portability, and flexibility."



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Source: ONLamp.com

The folks over at The Month of Apple Bugs have kept up to their promise. Just in time for the new year:
MOAB-01-01-2007: Apple Quicktime rtsp URL Handler Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Vulnerability and exploit details.
Actual exploit.
The title of this post, “You’re the PC now, Mac” is from the last line of the advisory:
You’re the PC now, Mac (YTPNM).
This is going to be an interesting January.



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I’m not going to indulge in the shopworn habit of doing a year-end review or making predictions for the new year. Feh. Old mold and who cares. Instead, I am going to share my list of Most Wanted Computer Things.
Number One most wanted thing:
Inexpensive color printing and binding for the home and small business user. Inexpensive color printing is already within our grasp, if printer manufacturers weren’t gouging us on inks. Geez, guys, you give greed a bad name. Home Print-on-Demand is the killer app of the 21st century. Print out newspapers, magazines, even books ours own selves. It’s a natural- why maintain warehouses of inventory and a big shipping network, especially for transient publications?
Number two:
Voice-recognition software that works for both commands and dictation. You know, like on Star Trek. We’re never going to have powerful, useful portable devices until we do away with keyboards.
Number three:
Websites that don’t suck. I know, this is a perennial forlorn wish. Digg.com, for one famous example, since its site re-design is so slow and lardy it redlines a 3.4GHz processor. WTF does a Web page need that many CPU cycles just to scroll the page? Very slowly?
Number four:
And finally, I wish to have enough time and money to indulge in a grand World Tour to meet all my online friends I have yet to meet in person. I figure six leisurely months should be sufficient. Or maybe twelve. :)



Updated: Wed Jan 3 23:55:02 2007


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