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According to Patrick Volkerding on Slackware.com, Slackware 12.0 has been officially released.

Have you ever wished you had access to your Linux distribution's online package repositories when you didn't have access to the Internet, or when your access was slow and unreliable? The recently released APTonCD utility allows users of Debian-based distributions to create backup CDs and DVDs of as many Debian packages as they can download. Used in conjunction with the apt-mirror utility, APTonCD can back up an entire package repository, spanning several CDs or DVDs.

Plans to switch the company's ageing Garnet operating system to a new Linux core taking longer than expected, according to Palm.

Songbird is a media player built on Mozilla and often described as the Firefox of media players. Installing it on Ubuntu is a breeze using a hand little script available on the Internet.

Last month, Nero released version 3.0 of Nero Linux. Since we tested version 2.1 last year, the software has come a long way. Nero Linux 3 supports not just CD and DVD burning but claims to be the first Linux application to support Blue-Ray and HD DVD recorders as well.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds released the 2.6.22-rc7 kernel saying, "it's hopefully (almost certainly) the last -rc before the final 2.6.22 release, and we should be in pretty good shape. The flow of patches has really slowed down and the regression list has shrunk a lot." Hhe briefly summarized the changes in this latest release candidate, "the patches are mostly trivial fixes, a few new device ID's, and the appended shortlog really does pretty much explain it," adding, "final testing always appreciated, of course".

This tutorial shows how you can install and use Beryl or Compiz Fusion on a Fedora 7 desktop (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card). With both Beryl and Compiz Fusion, you can make your desktop use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube.

Linspire has confirmed that all future versions of Linspire will include Open XML bi-directional translators between ODF and Open XML.

Linspire announced today that it will join development efforts to increase the interoperability between the Open Document Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Open XML, thus improving the ability of OpenOffice.org users to work with the Office Open XML format.

While developing ThemBid.com using Symfony, our developers used XAMPP to standardize development environments and have something easy to install.

Contributed by Forrest Taylor In Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 4, tar could not handle the extra information stored in ext2 and ext3 file systems called Extended Attributes (EAs or xattrs). This is a potential problem for backups, because SELinux and ACLs use these Extended Attributes to store the security contexts and access control lists respectively. [...]

On Saturday, aKademy 2007 kicked off with a keynote by Lars Knoll of Trolltech, with two further keynotes throughout the day by Mark Shuttleworth ('13 Lessons for the Free Desktop') and Aaron Seigo ('Beautiful Features'). After Lars' talk, two separate tracks started.

Out of all of the Ubuntu derivative distributions, the one that's received the least amount of attention really has been Edubuntu. With a slogan of "Linux for Young Human Beings", Edubuntu is a Linux distribution designed for students and use in school environments. It includes several applications for students and the younger ones that cater towards education and is not included in Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or Xubuntu. Coinciding with last week's release of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon Tribe 2 was also the second alpha build for Edubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon, which is featured today at Phoronix.

The art of “selling” or generating revenue from open source is a topic of growing importance as open source takes a larger piece of the software business. In the past, open source revenue has largely been associated with services marketed by many top tier Linux companies: Support, middleware solutions, etc.

aKademy 2007 has kicked off! The first weekend hosted our user conference, which brought many talks about various topics, ranging from very technical to more practically oriented, which were spread over two tracks. The tracks were interweaved with keynote talks.

The Scientific Linux project last week announced the release of Scientific Linux 4.5, an install-only distribution rebuilt from source code for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. It features a 2.6.18 kernel, GNOME default desktop, multilingual support, and Xen paravirtual guest capabilities.

This third article from the DB2 and Ruby on Rails series shows you how testing works in a DB2 on Rails environment, and how easy it is to write tests within the Ruby on Rails framework. In Part 1, we introduce the IBM_DB Ruby driver, Rails migration, and a Team Room application. In Part 2, you can learn how to build on the existing Team Room application to take advantage of DB2 pureXML support in a Rails application.

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• DB2 Express-C 9 (no-charge database)
• DB2 Enterprise 9

The fourth and final day of the ninth annual Ottawa Linux Symposium wrapped up on Saturday with a few more session and a keynote address by Linux kernel SCSI maintainer James Bottomley.

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 94 for the week of June 24th through June 30th 2007. The latest issue can always be found here and RSS Feed can be found here.

"Reporting software piracy is the right thing to do and BSA is pleased to reward individuals who come forward with credible information," said Jenny Blank, Director of Enforcement for BSA.

[Are these people for real? --TC]