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Linux and Open Source News for 9th June 2008

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Source: pardus

Ekin Mero lu has announced the availability of the first release candidate for Pardus Linux 2008, an independent desktop Linux distribution with custom package management and system administration tools: "We are happy to announce Pardus Linux 2008 RC1, the first release candidate for upcoming Pardus Linux 2008. This release .


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Source: debian

Many readers have asked us to publish release announcements of the Debian installers for Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 "Lenny", especially since these releases come as full sets of installation CD and DVD images. So here you go: the second Debian Installer beta for "Lenny" is out: "The Debian Installer .


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Source: parsix

Alan Baghumian has announced the availability of the third test release of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5, a desktop distribution based on Debian's testing branch: "The third testing version of the brand new release of Parsix GNU/Linux 1.5 (codename 'Viola') is available now. This version is synchronized with Parsix and .


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Source: weekly

This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Report: Computex 2008 - Linux ultra-portables galore News: Debian "Lenny" freeze, Mandriva Cooker news, Ubuntu Netbook Remix, FreeBSD EoL notice, openSUSE package repositories, CentOS search resources, Gentoo release delays, interview with Red Hat CEO Released last week: Damn Small Linux 4.4, Linux Mint .



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Source: Linux Today

developerWorks: "Then, you wake up one morning, and all that's left of your site is a full-page banner ad for a site you'd rather not be associated with "


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Source: Linux Today

Blog of Helios: "Hey, I wasn't doing anything a million other websurfers weren't doing all I wanted was a link to a live webcam somewhere in Felton California "


Source: Linux Today

451 CAOS Theory: "The country is of course famous for its neutrality but has shown itself to be less than neutral when it comes to open source with the federal government having adopted an open source software strategy as long ago as February 2004 "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux Loop: "Unfortunately, it is very hard to know for sure how many people are using any particular operating system, since there is no way to measure OS usage "


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Source: Linux Today

Socialized Software: "I love Twitter but when I use my Linux laptop (Ubuntu running Hardy Heron) I don't have many native options for Twitter clients. The preferred native client appears to be Twitux "


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Source: Linux Today

wingolog: "The problem, as I see it, is that GNOME is in a state of decadence--we largely achieved what we set out to achieve, insofar as it was possible "


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Source: Linux Today

BBspot: "At a hastily convened press conference Bill Gates announced that he personally thinks that 'Linux is the best OS ever '" (Humor)


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Source: Linux Today

Netstat -vat: "I spent the better part of today at Mozilla's offices in Toronto--the workspace that my friend Nicholas Carlson at Valleywag labeled as 'the worst in tech '"


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Source: Linux Today

Amanda McPherson's Linux Foundation Blog: "Just last year I would have leaped out of my chair (spilling my drink) and shouted to uninterested cafe neighbors, 'Hey, look! The New York Times is writing about Linux on the desktop !'"


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Source: Linux Today

kloeri: "The last couple of days I've seen a bunch of links to 'Never Heard of Exherbo? Never Will, Either '"


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Source: Linux Today

451 CAOS Theory: "No one can be sure what form factor (or name) would best carry Linux to a significant portion of the mainstream PC market, but I agree whole-heartedly with Otellini's view that the driver here is cost "


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Source: Linux Today

Open Source Initiative: "I just read the story of Helmer, a Fedora 8 linux cluster in an IKEA Helmer cabinet "


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Source: Linux Today

O'Reilly: "Slackware is still Slackware. It's designed for the very knowledgeable, experienced Linux user who wants the ultimate in control over their system "


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Source: Linux Today

LinuxPlanet: "While you probably won't run Vista as a virtual machine on your cell phone, there are many viable use cases of virtualization for embedded applications. The most simplest, cheapest, feature rich is using Linux and KVM "


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Practical Technology: "Their Linux of choice for their forthcoming 512MB to 1GB of RAM mini-computers is Linpus Linux. 'Linpus who,' you ask ?"


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TechieMoe: "Absolute Linux, according to its website, is an attempt to take Slackware and make it more convenient with a few well-placed scripts "


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Source: Linux Today

Free Software Magazine: "Ubuntu Remix is a bit of an odd project. It's very new, and things are likely to change very quickly--especially when we start seeing devices that use it natively "


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Source: Linux Today

Open Sauce Software: "After our coverage of London's Oyster card, which uses Linux for its online payment system, we had a response from Richard Stallman, head of the Free Software Foundation "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Anybody who spends time trying new free software applications and distributions will soon notice that version numbering and labeling is next to meaningless "


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Source: Linux Today

Jim Zemlin's Blog: "Cell phones are the next device that will move to open standards. Whether the big providers like it or not "


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Source: Linux Today

The VAR Guy: "In our 'winner take all' society, The VAR Guy is starting to wonder: Can open source companies like Concursive, Compiere and EnterpriseDB ever escape from the shadows of their larger and more successful rivals (SugarCRM and MySQL) ?"


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Source: Linux Today

here be dragons: "The Canonical OEM team has been approached by a number of OEM's who want to sell netbooks (small, low-cost laptops with an emphasis on the web) based on Ubuntu "


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Source: Linux Today

Time: "In the computer industry, IBM dominated the first commercial platform with its expensive mainframes and operating systems, aimed at corporate users "


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Groklaw: "There is an announcement just posted about OASIS opening a new discussion list for members and nonmembers to discuss a proposal to form a new technical committee to help out with 'ODF Implementation, Interoperability and Conformance '"


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Source: Linux Today

Network World: "Ensuring your servers stamp as small a carbon footprint as possible on the earth and in your data center can encompass everything from making sure they are shipped in recyclable packaging to hiring an analyst who can predict the total life-cycle environmental impact "


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The Economist: "Consumer devices: Revealing the underlying technical details of electronic gadgets can have many benefits, for both users and manufacturers "


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Source: Linux Today

adamw's very own blog: "In these 10 years, the company has introduced several innovations in the world of free software and its distribution is one of the world's most popular "


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Source: Linux Today

All About Microsoft: "After outcry from various constituencies over the past couple of days, Microsoft has pulled from its CodePlex site its Sandcastle project for failure to comply with the terms and conditions required in order to be qualify as bona-fide open source "


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Source: Linux Today

Threat Level: "Hans Reiser, the Linux programmer facing a mandatory 25-to life term for killing his wife, might disclose the location of Nina Reiser's body in exchange for a reduced term, Alameda County District Attorney Thomas Orloff told Threat Level on Friday "


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Source: Linux Today

Works With U: "It's far too early to press the panic button. But anecdotal evidence is mounting that Canonical's server push hasn't gained much momentum "


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Source: Linux Today

For many years people have been looking for a simple and efficient way to take the internet with them. First there was laptops, but those were too big


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "Late last month AMD had announced the release of the Stream SDK for Linux. This Stream SDK brings support for the CAL and Brook+ libraries on Linux "


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Linux.com: "When the need arises to send email from the command line, many folks first think of the mail(1) command "



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

Anon writes "Mark Shuttleworth provides much more detail today about development of the Ubuntu netbook platform, and says OEMs are calling Canonical when they want to start building netbooks. Channelweb notes: 'It's actually a big deal. For example, Dell CEO Michael Dell has been carrying around an early version of a Dell mini-notebook, and referring to it as the device for the next billion Internet users [ ] Asus has become an industry rock star by using GNU Linux to power its Eee PC. HP's niche Mini note runs SLED 10 Linux. The iPhone, of course, doesn't run Microsoft software. Is anyone paying attention in Redmond?'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: ONLamp.com

Microsoft recently posted a 5 page PDF (3 pages of content) titled PHP on Windows: Community Involvement Improves Performance (5 page PDF download) The paper focuses on the background of two projects that enhanced the use of PHP on Windows Servers. The



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