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Category: PCLinuxOS Size: 682.08 MB Status: 4 seeders and 5 leechers Added: 2007-12-13 12:19:37

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LliureX is an Edubuntu-based live DVD developed by the Council of Culture, Education and Sport at the Municipality of Valencia in Spain, designed for deployment in schools throughout the region. A new version, based on Edubuntu 7.04 "Feisty Fawn", was announced yesterday. New features include: full support for .

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Packt: "There are a couple of LDAP libraries available for Python, but the most popular is the Python-LDAP module "

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LinuxDevCenter: "As of this last Friday, December 7th Fedora Core 6 is no more. With it goes the last release the Fedora Project had seen the split between 'Community' (Extras) and Red Hat sponsored (Core) "

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AP/Google: "The Dutch government has set a soft deadline of April 2008 for its agencies to start using open-source software "

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Socialized Software: "SWsoft announced that in 2008 it will adopt 'Parallels' as its new corporate name. They also announced a new unified computing vision "

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The Open Road: "There are positives and negatives to take away from Novell's earnings call "

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ecommerce-guide: "Today there are four major players in the osCommerce industry: the original osCommerce, Zen Cart, CRE Loaded and osC-MAX "

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Yet Another Linux Blog: "With distributions today we now have an informal, large group of collaborators some of which may not even be aware of the main goal of the distro "

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Cigan's Random Thoughts: "Over the past several months however I have seen a lot of users, many of them long term FOSS users, try to apply the proprietary paradigm to open projects. This is most obvious with KDE 4.0 "

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ZDNet Australia: "The New Zealand Ministry for Justice believes that open source software is a more stable, supportable, and cost-effective choice compared to proprietary solutions "

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LinuxWorld: "Centric CRM said Wednesday it has changed its name to Concursive Corp., a move that coincides with the 5.0 release of its product "

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LinuxPlanet: "Today we're going to learn some great shortcut for navigating long documents, some simple tricks for managing photo printing, and how to turn on KWord's text-to-speech engine and make it read to you "

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Roundup: The ISO meeting to vote on the standardization of OOXML is coming soon; ConsortiumInfo and Groklaw examine some of the finer points of what's ahead.

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Popular Mechanics: "The 'brains' of the Ares I rocket that will send four astronauts back to the moon sometime in the next 12 years will be built by Boeing, NASA announced today--but the specifications will be open-source and non-proprietary, so that other companies can bid on future contracts ."

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#open.ended: "GNOME theme engine designer Andrea Cimitan has implemented support for transparent widgets in the Murrine GTK theme engine, bringing Vista-like translucent glass effects to the GNOME desktop "

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Linux-Watch: "In its latest significant victory, Novell announced that Office Depot has elected to consolidate its server infrastructure on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1 "

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CRN: "But the world of desktop Linux has become increasingly competitive, increasingly important to the IT industry, and increasingly available for anyone to try "

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BBC: "Enter Rufus Cellan-Jones. He is nine, has far more experience of games consoles than computers, and has strong views on most matters "

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DesktopLinux: "Do you really like OpenOffice.org as your office suite? Would you like to be able to use it on any computer with an Internet connection ?"

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internetnews.com: "Adobe Systems today announced it will release the remoting and messaging technologies used in Flex, Flash and other Adobe products as open source projects "

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Xiph.Org: "Ogg provides a baseline of fully unencumbered, fully open, fully documented, fully royalty-free codecs that are lighter-weight than the contemporary encumbered solutions while offering comparable or superior performance "

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KernelTrap: "'It's been a week, and I promised to be a good boy and try to follow my release rules, so here is the next -rc,' Linus Torvalds said, announcing the 2.6.24-rc5 kernel "

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eWeek: "SWsoft, a virtualization company that has labored in the shadow of VMware and other vendors for years, is changing its corporate name and plans to make a bigger push into this fast-growing market in 2008 "

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Linux.com: "Although China's Linux market as a whole doubled from 2003 to 2006 to $20 million per year, sales of Linux desktop software grew more slowly "

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LinuxWorld: "More recently, John Gilmore, an advisor to the One Laptop Per Child initiative, suggested the idea to Hopkins of bringing the game to the OLPC's XO laptop "

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LinuxPR: "The TuxMobil project covers all aspects concerning Linux on laptops and notebooks "

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The Occasional Thoughts of Yaba: "The first step of my potential Kubuntu migration is an installation on a VMware to fiddle a little bit around with Kubuntu before passing the point of hard return, which is deleting my openSUSE installation "

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Linux.com: "Mandriva is the only Linux maker that offers a version of its distribution packaged with and designed to run off a USB stick "

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Open Review: "Frugalware is a general-purpose Linux distribution, designed for intermediate users, who are familiar with command-line operations "

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An anonymous reader writes "Pro-Linux reports that KDE 4, scheduled to be released in January 2008, consumes almost 40% less memory than KDE 3.5, despite the fact that version 4 of the Free and Open Source desktop system includes a composited window manager and a revamped menu and applet interface. KDE developer Will Stephenson showcased KDE 4's 3D eye-candy on a 256Mb laptop with 1Ghz CPU and run-of-the-mill integrated graphics, pointing out that mini-optimizations haven't even yet been started."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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walterbyrd writes "Linux magazine has up a decent article comparing Gutsy Gibbon to Leopard. 'The stereotype for each OS is well known: Mac OS X is elegant, easy-to-use, and intuitive, while Ubuntu is stable, secure, and getting better all the time. Both have come a long way in a short time, and both make excellent desktops. So we have two great desktop operating systems out at roughly the same time. Let's see how they stack up against each other.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Scott Granneman referees a technological cage match between Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) and Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).

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This week we spent some time talking to Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon, and External Projects Developer Liaison Jorge Castro, about the Ubuntu community, Personal Package Archives, and where Linux is headed in 2008.

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PIR is Parrot's native programming language. In this conclusion of his series, chromatic presents a variety of techniques to program and validate subroutines. Learn how to create libraries and test your code in this hands-on primer.

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Perl 5.10 will be out soon — within a week — and pumpking Rafael Garcia-Suarez will likely release a final release candidate for final testing and polishing. If you have Perl code you care about, it’s worth downloading RC3 to see how well things run with the new version.

If you have a platform more exotic than GNU/Linux or FreeBSD on x86, getting pass or fail results would be wonderful too.

Here’s how.



Download the most recent Perl 5.10 RC from Rafael Garcia-Suarez’s CPAN directory.

Unpack the tarball to a temporary directory where you can build software.

Configure Perl for building. I used the instructions in the README file and supplied an installation prefix. This is useful for testing, as it installs Perl and its core libraries beneath a single, specific directory:

./Configure -des -Dprefix=/home/chromatic/dev/perl-5.10.0-RC2

Build Perl. You need a make utility, but I assume that most people reading this either are familiar enough with building their software on their own platforms that I don’t have to mention it, or are my parents (Hi, Mom and Dad!) and just like to see what I do during the week:

make
make test # wait a few minutes here
make install

Optionally report success or failure with make ok or make nok. Success is most useful on slightly exotic platforms, but failures are interesting on any platform.



Now you have a nice shiny new Perl 5.10 built for your platform (or you’re waiting anxiously for a patch to come out to fix your test failures, but I can’t help you there here). It’s time to test your code with this new version of Perl.

I’ve received a couple of failure reports for Perl 5.10-tobe on my highly experimental P5NCI distribution, so I decided to test it.

First, I added the bin/ directory of my new Perl to my PATH:

export PATH=/home/chromatic/dev/perl-5.10.0-RC2/bin:$PATH

Then I ran the normal build process:

perl Build.PL

P5NCI requires one non-core module, Test::Exception, in a couple of tests. That wasn’t available in a fresh Perl, so I decided to install it by running cpan.

If you’re a well-experienced Perl hacker, you might have already configured your own user configuration for the CPAN module, in which case you’ll see what I saw. Otherwise, the module will prompt you for some configuration before allowing you to install modules. Proceed as normal.

(If you’re like me, your new Perl will probably pick up a local configuration, in which case CPAN will not prompt you for configuration. This is probably fine and unremarkable if you have anything resembling a recent version of the CPAN module installed.)

After installing the module, I re-ran Build.PL and tested my code as normal:

perl Build.PL
./Build
./Build test

If you run into problems, check the RT queue available from the CPAN page of the distribution you’re trying to install. Most authors expect to receive bugs reported through that interface (though do check the documentation; some authors prefer standard e-mail).

All tests passed for my code. I hope you’re as fortunate.