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Linux and Open Source News for 11th June 2008

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Source: turbolinux

Turbolinux has announced the release of Turbolinux 12 Client edition (marketing name: Turbolinux 2008 Client), a desktop Linux distribution targeted at Japanese-speaking users. This is the first time a Turbolinux release comes in the form of an installable live CD, with the major components being Linux kernel 2.6.24.4 .


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Source: startcom

Eddy Nigg has announced the release of StartCom Enterprise Linux 5.0.2, an updated version of the distribution built from the source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2: "StartCom is pleased to announce the availability of StartCom Enterprise Linux AS 5.0.2. This update release provides various enhancements for .


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Source: nexenta

Erast Benson has announced the release of NexentaCore Platform 1.0.1, a base operating system combining the OpenSolaris kernel with Debian utilities and Ubuntu software packages: "This is to announce availability of NexentaCore 1.0.1 - Debian Native OpenSolaris environment and platform. Release highlights: based on OpenSolaris b85+ (x86 32-bit .


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Source: milax

MilaX, formerly known as Damn Small Solaris, is a desktop and server mini-distribution based on OpenSolaris. Its creator, Alexander R. Eremin, released the latest version yesterday: "MilaX 0.3.1 released. Changes: Based on OpenSolaris Nevada 89; for systems with more than 512 MB of RAM the live image is .



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Source: Linux Today

developerWorks: "You can define journaling file systems in many ways, but let's get right to the point. Journaling file systems are for people who tire of watching the boot-time fsck, or file system consistency check process "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "With the recent release of Puppy Linux 4.00, developer Barry Kauler and his team have provided a lightweight but functional Linux operating system "


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Source: Linux Today

451 CAOS Theory: "Continuing the ongoing discussion about open source software business models, Rich Sharples of Red Hat's JBoss division weighs in on an issue I have with Savio Rodrigues's categorization of open source users "


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Source: Linux Today

jonobacon@home: " GNOME has become the software equivalent of my dad's comfortable trousers--predictable and reliable, but has ceased to be exciting and innovative in new, innovative, visual, inspirational ways "


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Source: Linux Today

Hoosier Penguin: "Even though I consider myself a fairly advanced Linux user, there are some things in Linux I haven't gotten around to yet "


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Source: Linux Today

LKML.org: "Oh great, not yet-another-kernel-tree, just what the world needs "


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Source: Linux Today

Mandriva Club: "Mandriva today announces the launch of the Mandriva Flash 2008 Spring, the new product in the popular Mandriva Flash family. Take your entire desktop with you wherever you go "


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Source: Linux Today

The VAR Guy: "Imagine if the Los Angeles Lakers held a fan rally in Boston, right in the Celtics' back yard. That's the situation facing the open source industry, where the Red Hat Summit starts June 18 right in Boston--roughly 15 miles from Novell's corporate headquarters "


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Source: Linux Today

cyberorg's blog" "Our friends Dennis Kasprzyk and Guillaume Seguin announced the release of Compiz and Compiz Fusion 0.7.6 respectively "


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Source: Linux Today

The VAR Guy: "When Red Hat kicks off its big customer summit June 18 in Boston, the open source giant will bring along a rather large--and surprising--date: Cisco Systems Inc "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "Oracle and now IBM seem to have strange ideas about creating a business around open source software for the enterprise "


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Open Sources: "'Seventy percent of decision-makers responded that they don't have interest or have no plans to adopt open source software "


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Source: Linux Today

Phoronix: "Today--just 212 days after the planned November launch date--X Server 1.4.1 is finally released !"


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Source: Linux Today

Practical Technology: "It used to be that companies could get away with stealing GPLed open-source code into their own software and no one would be the wiser. Those days are done "


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Source: Linux Today

Netstat -vat: "In March of this year Red Hat expanded its legal firepower by hiring lawyers Rob Tiller and Richard Fontana. Three months later it's evident that these two have been busy as today Red Hat announced that it has settled two of three outstanding patent lawsuits "


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Source: Linux Today

Heise Online: "Procedure requires that they be dealt with by the end of June, when the ISO and IEC have to hand over their comments on the complaints to two management committees for a final decision "


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The New York Times: "The European Union's competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, delivered an unusually blunt rebuke to Microsoft on Tuesday by recommending that businesses and governments use software based on open standards "


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Source: Linux Today

Royal HeHe2-Ness: "When we say the system is slow we mean that it isn't responding to our input in a reasonable time, or taking too long to complete a task "


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Source: Linux Today

OStatic: "Open Source Asterisk PBX maker Digium released it's widely anticipated mid-range appliance today called the AA300 "


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Source: Linux Today

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "If you use any of the 'major player' Linux flavours out there, you've probably noticed (over the last year or so) that standard installs show all your disks listed out in df "


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Source: Linux Today

Linux.com: "The Filesystem in Userspace project allows you install new filesystems without touching your Linux kernel "


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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "This guide explains how to set up mod_geoip with Apache2 on a Fedora 9 system "



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix has up an article looking at the release of X Server 1.4.1. This maintenance release for X.Org, which the open-source operating systems depend upon for living in a graphically rich world, comes more than 200 days late and it doesn't even clear the BugZilla release blocker bug. A further indication of problems is that the next major release of X.Org was scheduled to be released in February then May and now it's missing with no sign of when a release will occur. There are still more than three dozen outstanding bugs. Also, the forthcoming release (X.Org 7.4) will ship with a slimmer set of features than what was initially planned."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: ONLamp.com

I thought I would officially announce that Mike Orr and I are writting a book for Manning on Google App Engine. It is a bit strange to be working on a new book, when the first book I wrote isn't even released


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Source: ONLamp.com

Okay, okay, so Microsoft makes forays into open source now and then, including both Codeplex and even some sponsored projects that are hosted on Sourceforge. It looks like they made a bit of a more high-profile push, in marketing terms, by becoming


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Source: ONLamp.com

Microsoft has a PDF paper describing the history of the IronPython project at IronPython: Engaging the Python Community in Its Own Language (5 page PDF) The paper describes the germ IronPython in 2003 when Jim Hugunin began wondering if Python could run



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