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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Slax Size: 199.26 MB Status: 5 seeders and 1 leechers Added: 2007-07-26 05:23:52

Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: gParted Size: 35.58 MB Status: 12 seeders and 4 leechers Added: 2007-07-26 04:44:21

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Since May, ingimp, a modified version of the GIMP, has collected daily logs on what users do with the program in the hope of improving its usability "

Source: Linux Today

Linux In Novell's East Region: "One of the coolest things about Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) are its new 'Desktop Effects.' Desktop Effects are really a combination of two opensource components written by Novell's David Reveman, Compiz and Xgl..'""

Source: Linux Today

CNET News: " Ubuntu is making serious headway, not because it's the same as Microsoft, SUSE, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but rather because it's different from these "

Source: Linux Today

Computer Business Review: "The big news for today is definitely open source licensing, with SugarCRM going GPLv3, the OSI approving SocialText's Common Public Attribution License, BMC selecting the BSD license for its open source projects, and the newly re-named xTuple introducing yet another license "

Source: Linux Today

dot unplanned: "It wants its headline back "

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet Asia: "According to CCID Consulting, which specializes in China research, Linux sales posted a 30.9 percent year-on-year growth to reach 31 million yuan (US$4 million) "

Source: Linux Today

Computer Business Review: "Red Hat's chief technology officer has maintained that an intellectual property agreement with Microsoft is not necessary for the company to enable interoperability between Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Yesterday the OpenBSD Foundation debuted as a Canadian nonprofit organization intended to serve as 'a single point of contact for persons and organizations requiring a legal entity to deal with when they wish to support OpenBSD in any way '"

Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "Microsoft wants more open source software to run on Windows. Microsoft also wants its own Open Source Initiative approved license. Perhaps they really can get along "

Source: Linux Today

ZDNet UK: "The efforts of Microsoft to pressure the Linux community over alleged and unspecified patents is akin to 'patent terrorism,' according to an executive for Sun "

Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is all about securing American interests. Since January 2006, helping to secure open source software has been one such interest "

Source: Linux Today

Port 25: "Today, Microsoft took another step in its relationship with the open source software community "

Source: Linux Today

Polish Linux: "E17 as a desktop is still useless. The only thing that works is the window manager and even this requires a right stable source code from CVS. Impressive visual effects will attract many users (especially the mentioned junior high girls) but it has to be released in a stable version to come true."

Source: Linux Today

Linux Lookup: "A group of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology organizations today announced their support for the open-source development of EPCglobal-compliant Low-Level Reader Protocol (LLRP) software libraries, which enable EPCglobal UHF Gen 2 communications via the LLRP universal reader-to-network interface."

Source: Linux Today

SearchEnterpriseLinux: "One of my favorite examples of bad marketing was an in-store GQ PC sold at Fry’s with Linspire pre-installed. Here we had a computer for under $250 that not only came with an OS, but it had games, an office suite, and many other things. Was that featured? No, but there was a handwritten sign that told me that this was not a Windows PC, it was not compatible with Windows software, and ISP’s did not support it."

Source: Linux Today

ITWire: "nternet telephony provider Skype has been convicted of violating the open source GPL (General Public License) in a German court. However, the Luxemburg based company was pinged for one of the products it sells on its website rather than its popular peer-to-peer VoIP and IM service."

Source: Linux Today

Larry the Open Source Guy: "While this disinformation deserves our eternal vigilance, our constant attention and our continuing “correction,” its purveyors also deserve recognition — outing, if you will — with a dubious award of their own.
With this in mind, below are the initial nominees for The Elmers "

Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "And Ubuntu has now held its first Ubuntu Live conference, which was a decent first effort but nowhere near as polished as Red Hat's annual get-togethers.
The 2007 Red Hat Summit -- the third one they've held -- drew about 1,400 people. Ubuntu Live v1 had fewer than 700 registered attendees."

Source: Linux Today

Nuxified.org: "Linux kernel developers are on the payroll of companies who, in the first place, care for their server related businesses. This makes it much less likely for the kernel development to focus on needs related to the desktop, a most demanding of the market segments.
Developers are also developing on machines which are too powerful compared to the machines that ordinary desktop users are using, making performance issues that desktop users may experience, practically invisible to these developers."

Source: Linux Today

Melville Theater: "When I got my new widescreen monitor I discovered that it wouldn't actually work with my computer at any resolution higher than 1280x1024, and the picture was not very crisp.
After much head-scratching I found out how to make it work properly with my computer's Intel 915G video chipset."

Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "There is currently a lot of spam where the spam "information" is attached as .pdf or .xls files, sometime also hidden inside a .zip file. While these spam mails are not easy to catch with e.g. SpamAssassin or a Bayes filter, the ClamAV virus scanner can catch them easily when it is fed with the correct signatures as ClamAV is built to scan mail attachments."

Source: Linux Today

Linux Devices: "This article describes how to build your own silent, fast, eco-friendly Linux-based PC for use in a digital music listening system. The PC is based on a high-end Via mini-ITX board, passively cooled case with heatpipe technology, Debian Linux, and a little creative embedded elbow grease. "

Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "A few months back we looked at the Gigabyte GeForce 8500GT 256MB graphics card, which was a factory-overclocked $100 graphics card from Gigabyte that came topped with a passively cooled copper heatsink. Today we are back with Gigabyte as we look at their step-up from the 8500GT, which is the 8600GT GV-NX86T256D. The Gigabyte GV-NX86T256D uses Silent-Pipe II technology, which is a dual heat-pipe solution that benefits from the computer's natural convection design to offer maximum performance with minimum noise."

Source: Linux Today

FriedCPU: "The shell I am raving about today is the Z-shell, or zsh. Zsh is an expansion on the Korn shell (ksh), which is an expansion on bash. It is one of the most full-featured shells you can ask for, and I would go as far as to say that everyone has something to gain from using zsh."

Source: Slashdot: Linux

head_dunce writes "According to this article, Mark Shuttleworth from the Ubuntu camp says Dell is seeing a demand for the Linux-based PC and, "There are additional offerings in the pipeline." I'm starting to see flashbacks of the days when Microsoft partnered up with IBM to gain control of the desktop market. Will other Linux flavors find their way to the likes of Lenovo or HP, etc, or will Ubuntu claim the desktop market working with other PC manufacturers?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: Slashdot: Linux

Open Source IT writes "According to a presentation at Ubuntu Live 2007, Dell is working on getting better ATI drivers for Linux for use in its Linux offerings. While it is not known whether the end product will end up as open source, with big businesses like Google and Dell now behind the push for better Linux graphics drivers, hopefully ATI will make the smart business decision and give customers what they want."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Source: eWEEK Linux

Microsoft open-source guru Bill Hilf outlines the company's open-source efforts at OSCON.

Source: eWEEK Linux

Opinion: Here, without further adieu, is my list of five Linux companies that died before their time.

Source: eWEEK Linux

Microsoft has also created a new Web site to provide transparency into its position on open source.

Source: eWEEK Linux

The Common Public Attribution License took nine months to win approval.

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Wanted: An iPhone Killer. Open Source developers, please apply within.

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Gadgets, gizmos, and gear for you and your Penguin.

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

Even a rudimentary repository system is better than none. Learn how to create local and remote filesystem snapshots with rsnapshot.

Source: Linux Magazine: Top Stories

More on GNU diffutils. A look into sdiff, which shows file comparisons side-by-side and lets you merge two files interactively.

Source: ONLamp.com

As Software as a Service becomes more of a trend in the industry, Web Services are gaining in importance. When most people think of Web Services, they think of Java or .NET, but as Deepak Vohra shows in this article, it's simple enough to implement them in PHP.

Source: Linux DevCenter

On July 22nd a new set of kernel packages was released for Vector Linux, my chosen primary and current favorite distribution. This was the second build of the 2.6.21 kernel with Con Kolivas’ CK2 patchset, replacing a test build released on July 8. In the past the only reason I’ve recommended upgrading a kernel is to close security vulnerabilities or to add support for new hardware. Recently, though, there is another very good reason: noticeably improved performance, particularly if you are currently using kernel 2.6.19 or earlier.
For example, users are noticing significantly faster load times for Seamonkey and Firefox. Even if you have a new, snazzy system in today’s multimedia intensive computing world you probably push it to near the limit at times and a newer kernel may really make a difference. For those with older, slower systems this is, of course, absolutely huge. So… if you haven’t done it yet see if your distro has recently issued a new kernel package and consider installing it.
Relatively new Linux users may approach this with trepidation and rightly so. There is always some risk in moving to a new kernel. The key is that you NEVER, EVER upgrade a kernel. You install a new one and keep the old one in place. That way if something does go wrong you can always go back to what was working before.
If you are a newcomer and you successfully install a new kernel but are using proprietary binary drivers for some of your hardware you may be about to learn why so many Linux users consider binary blobs evil. The driver is almost always built for a specific kernel. Some distros will hold up a new kernel until they can get new matching binary drivers. Many won’t, particularly when security patches .are involved. Many hardware vendors are a bit slow to get new drivers out there. Keep all this in mind if it applies to you.
This also points out one of the major differences, both philosophical and practical, between Microsoft and Linux. Microsoft had no qualms whatsoever about releasing Vista, an update to Windows that required the vast majority of their user base to either replace their existing computers or at least significantly upgrade them. Microsoft figures that bigger, ever more resource intensive operating systems and applications are no problem since there is always newer, faster hardware out there. Linux developers, OTOH, know full well that even on the newest hardware there is good reason to have the most efficient, sleekest, fastest code possible so long as functionality is not sacrificed. The more efficient the code the more you can do with the system, period. For companies and individuals on a budget the fact that investments in older hardware can be leveraged for a longer period of time doesn’t hurt either.

Source: Linux DevCenter

At OSCON a few minutes ago, Nat Torkington asked Bill Hilf what will change in the future specifically with regard to Microsoft dealing with F/OSS projects regarding patents.

(The context is that Hilf had just said that Microsoft has made mistakes in certain areas.

Hilf’s response was… priceless. “I get a lot of e-mail.” “People like to subscribe me to crazy newsletters and spam.”

Uh, thanks.