Archive for: August 7, 2006

Tectonic - The Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Sea Fisheries (MARDSF), has signed a deal with Liberty Tech to migrate all its servers to Mandriva Linux . The move makes it one of the first Moroccan government departments …

Softpedia - The Ubuntu team released today the first milestones of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu towards Ubuntu 6.10, Edgy Eft. The kernel has been upgraded to 2.6.17 for all versions, and the GNOME desktop has been updated to 2.15.4 …

Mozilla’s Firefox browser continues to post gains in market share, according to Web analytics firm OneStat.com, while usage of Internet Explorer has fallen more than 2 percent since May. Opera, meanwhile, has surpassed 1 percent market share worldwide.
Source: www.betanews.com

NewsForge, CA - Aug 4, 2006Anthony Rousseau writes "We are happy to announce you that the pre-alpha version of Sectoo Linux has been released today ! We want …
Source: mobile.newsforge.com

SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 Products Get Over 165.000 Downloads
Computing News, Russia - Jul 31, …

Network World Fusion - Many vendors in the application front-end market, such as Citrix’s Netscaler product and Juniper’s RedLine device, use a mix of open source software (FreeBSD in Netscaler’s case) and commodity, albeit very high-end, Intel
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asia.internet.com - In percentage terms, Debian was closely followed by Germany’s SuSE Linux with 23 percent growth to 296,217 installations in the six month period, followed by Gentoo’s 19.5 percent growth to 24,229 installations. Each distributor, however
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Help Net Security, Croatia - Jul 12, 2006===== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-313-1 July 11, 2006 openoffice.org-amd64, openoffice.org vulnerabilities …
Source: www.net-security.org

Review: Ubuntu 6.06 Is Current Desktop-Linux Champ
FOX News - Jul 20, 2006Canonical's Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is an excellent Linux-based operating system …

… download and test in the mepis ‘testing’ subdirectory at the MEPIS Subscriber’s Site …
Source: www.prweb.com

Help Net Security, Croatia - Jul 19, 2006—–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] Samba 2.0.23 repackaged (SSA:2006-200-01) New Samba packages are available for Slackware 10.0 …
Source: www.net-security.org

Slackware Security Advisory - Apache httpd (SSA:2006-209-01))
Help Net Security, Croatia - Jul 29, 2006—–BEGIN PGP SIGNED …

BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. — It was a good day for Major League Soccer.
Source: sportsillustrated.cnn.com

Swimmer, 93, can take the heat 
Wed, August 2, 2006 Swimmer, 93, can take the heat By EARL MCRAE Bryan Rickard is 93 years old and he steps nimbly …