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Welcome to this year's third issue of DistroWatch Weekly! A somewhat slow week was concluded with a long-awaited new release of FreeBSD 6.2; we'll take a quick look at the new version and add a few more interesting bits and pieces from the BSD world. Besides covering the most popular BSD operating system, we also continue reviewing some of the promising new releases of 2006; this week it's the turn of Pardus Linux - an independently developed distribution with a superb package management infrastructure. In the news section, gNewSense starts work on a new release, a developer announces a Debian-based live CD for the Sony PlayStation 3, and Sun Microsystems offers a free DVD with Solaris 10 to all who are interested in checking out the venerable UNIX operating system. Finally, a quick reminder about a DistroWatch editorial policy. Happy reading!

This week, on The Linux Action Show! A new space combat game is coming to Linux, an EU report has all the right findings, CodeWeavers release a new version of CrossOver Office. Fedora Core 6 is rockin the install base, and a new OFFICIAL Ubuntu Package is going enable all your codecs. And more..

When he was a 16-year-old student, Jeff Kiiza would never have imagined that 10 years later he’d be writing code in Perl, PHP/MySQL and AJAX for companies in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Spain — and that he’d be doing it from his home in Cordoba, Argentina. “Back then, it would have been a dream or science fiction,” he says. “But the availability of greater free-flowing bandwidth and companies turning to the Internet have allowed it.”

The Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) has launched five new open source products, including a directory of open source projects, a network security tool, and a supply chain management solution for SMBs, the center said in a release on Thursday.

Red Hat is going to sink about $1.7 million in a new open source R&D center in Brno in the Czech Republic, where Sun, Microsoft and Skype also have R&D centers. Apparently it will benefit from the favorable treatment the country now accords R&D-related expenses. The center, located near the second-largest Czech university's Faculty of Informatics, should be fully operational early this year and employ 200 Linux developers.

Need to connect an alphanumeric LCD display panel to your PC-based robot? Till Harbaum has created LCD2USB for just that purpose. It's a combination of Open Hardware and Free Software that allows you to cotrol HD44780 type LCD displays from the USB port of any Linux-based motherboard.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: NEPOMUK integration, and a new "browser" interface added to Akonadi.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: NEPOMUK integration, and a new "browser" interface added to Akonadi.

Preparation continues for Linux Expo next month.

SCALE has announced the schedule for theOpen Source Health Care Summit. Speakers will include Fred Trotter (GPL Medicine), Scott Shreeve, Eishay Smith (IBM), and Gerald Bortis (Mirth Project). The Open Source Health Care Summit will be held on Feb 9, 2007 as part of SCALE 5x.

LXer Feature: 14-Jan-2007

An Interview with Kenneth Hensley, the creator of the "Unofficial PuppyLinux Guide".

Do you know how to select the best XML Parser for your project? Even developers who are very knowledgeable on advanced XML matters can lack a firm understanding of the fundamentals. To ensure a solid foundation, this article covers the most basic XML service: parsing. It introduces the various approaches to parsing and highlights their pros and cons.

The search abilities of Web sites like Google and Wikipedia have given ordinary citizens intelligence-gathering capabilities that in some ways rival those of clandestine government agencies. The power of wikis and search engines lie in the massively collaborative effort that the technologies enable.

Mozilla Firefox has a Herculean following; I am sure, no would differ. Once you get your hands on something like that it's only human to feel wanting for more. No wonder, everyone is all game to accessorize their firefox. In the last feature, we glanced at some of the extensions for the same. Today's yet another mix-bag of extensions combining your feedback, suggestions, and our research.

Serbian government has announced that it will sign a letter of intent with one of the top open source software companies.

This guide describes how you can automatically scan files uploaded by users through a web form on your server using PHP and ClamAV. That way you can make sure that your upload form will not be abused to distribute malware. To glue PHP and ClamAV, we install the package php5-clamavlib/php4-clamavlib which is rather undocumented at this time. That package is available for Debian Etch and Sid and also for Ubuntu Dapper Drake and Edgy Eft.

Rapid growth of COSS reflects the expansion of open source based business. In two years COSS has evolved into an international network of 100 organisations. In terms of active involvement of companies COSS is the leading European open source centre. COSS has attracted main Finnish and international OSS players and smaller innovative companies to join forces in order to improve the business ecosystem. The COSS members include major international companies such as Nokia, Novell, IBM, HP as well as Finnish open source companies such as Plenware, Nomovok, Movial, and Flander.

Whenever a Linux system CPU is occupied by a process, it is unavailable for processing other requests. Pending requests must wait till CPU is free. This becomes a bottleneck in the system. Following command will help you to identify CPU utilization, so that you can troubleshoot CPU related performance problems.

..Through the certified ethical hacker certification, it arms the system administrator with the critical information to identify, counter and defend the corporate network against harmful agents or intrusion.