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This guide will show how to download ISO images (CDs, DVDs or Blu-Ray) using jigdo, a specific protocol intended to be the main way to download Debian disc images. jigdo (or Jigsaw Download) downloads individually all the files located on a specific CD/DVD, and then it assembles them into an ISO image. jigdo is known to be a faster alternative to download large image files.

Kristian Høgsberg, the Red Hat developer largely responsible for DRI2 and various other X.Org innovations, had started the Wayland display server project last year to leverage new technologies like kernel mode-setting and the Graphics Execution Manager. While there is not much to report on with Wayland since our last update, one of the components used by Wayland is Eagle, another Kristian Høgsberg project.

It's the announcement we've all be waiting for, one that Google at one point in the past said it wouldn't make. But it did: Google will release its own PC operating system, Chrome OS, to leverage the company's Web-based Google Apps and bypass Microsoft's Windows operating system entirely on not just netbooks but every PC platform from the smallest ARM ultraportable to a full Intel-based desktop.

GNOME developer Thomas Thurman describes the future of the Metacity 2 window manager in a project blog. Apparently a new GNOME component named Mutter will be taking over its functions.

A few weeks ago, Microsoft announced that Windows 7 would not ship with Internet Explorer 8 within the European Union. This is to comply with EU demands following the anti-trust case some time back. On the immediate face of this seem like good news for users of other browsers — but is it? Read the full article at Free Software Magazine.

You've heard everyone's news flash about Google Chrome but if you want to know one possibility as to why Google is doing this, read this.

The buzz says Google plans to ship an operating system — called Chrome Operating System — for netbooks. But the Chrome OS strategy raises as many questions as it answers. To wit, here are five key questions Google needs to answer to ensure success in the operating system market.

LinuxCertified, Inc. announced a two day, hands-on course that provides attendees with experience in creating Linux kernel source code within various subsystems of the Linux kernel. This course teaches attendees to acquaints developers with the fundamental subsystems, data structures, and API of the Linux Kernel. This class is scheduled for July 18th - July 19th, 2009.

No one will be happier than Microsoft about Google's vanity venture to market computers with a Google-brand OS. It gives us the illusion of competition without seriously troubling either business, although both will obligingly huff and puff about how serious they are about this new, phoney OS war. Since both of these giants are permanently in trouble with antitrust regulators - they're at different stages of IBM-style thirty years legal epics - that's just the ticket for them both.

A posting on the Web Hosting Talk forum is feeding speculation about a critical security vulnerability in the OpenSSH server in CentOS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). According to the posting, the vulnerability is present in the OpenSSL version 4.3 used in this distribution. Although the version number is already several years old, the Red Hat development team tend to backport patches for older versions, with the result that the software may well still be up-to-date.

I’m not pressing the panic button. I think millions of people remain committed to Ubuntu Linux. But recent events — involving Google Chrome OS, Google Android and Moblin — make me wonder if Ubuntu faces far more competition than Canonical anticipated.

Google announced an open source operating system aimed at netbooks that combines the Linux kernel with its Chrome browser. Google expects to release open source code for the Google Chrome Operating System later this year, and will ship a final version in the second half of 2010, says the company.

Microsoft stated Tuesday that it will not pursue legal action against open source software developers using C# and CLI programming languages. This will likely make some developers much more confident in using the technologies. However, the promise does not include the non-ECMA parts of Mono. Devs for that project may have to choose between what's safe and what's powerful.

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Since late 2007, the BBC has been using a JavaScript library called Glow on bbc.co.uk web sites, intending to release it as open source. Today, in an announcement by Stephen Elphson, Lead Product Manager for Glow at BBC Vision, the corporation is making good on that intention by releasing the JavaScript library under version 2.0 of the Apache Licence.

This week, we're going to take an excruciatingly close look at one of the fundamental features of loadable kernel modules--the "init" and "exit" routines

It's officially summer and there's a lot happening behind the scenes at Health 2.0 as we prepare for our biggest event yet! Our annual San Francisco Fall Conference will be held on October 6th and 7th at the Concourse Exhibition Center. Just two years after its first conference, Health 2.0 has become the must-see showcase for consumers and providers' use of new web and mobile tools in health care, and the venue where new products are launched, new concepts are developed and new movements are built.

With Linux Distros taking sides, this week’s announcement that Microsoft promises not to make Necessary Claims against anyone using their patented specifications adds to the confusion.

I recently installed KnowledgeTree for a small office that needed a piece of document management software. Document management is one of those things: you don’t think you need one until you actually see one. I noticed that it’s free software, financed by private extensions. I got curious and managed to talk to Daniel Chalef, the CEO of KnowledgeTree. Read the full interview at Free Software Magazine.

This tutorial explains how you can install preload on Ubuntu 9.04. preload is an adaptive readahead daemon. It monitors applications that users run, and by analyzing this data, predicts what applications users might run, and fetches those binaries and their dependencies into memory for faster startup times.