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BitRock LAPPStack 1.0 is an easy to install distribution of Apache, PHP, PostgreSQL, Python, and supporting libraries. LAPPStack allows users to have a complete web development environment up and running in just minutes.

A new Linux-based phone is shipping to subscribers of China Mobile's "Go-Tone" GSM/GPRS service. The Samsung SGH-i858 features a large, 2.4-inch QVGA (240 x 320) color touchscreen, along with a slide-out hardware keypad. It runs version 2.5 of Mizi's "Prizm" Linux phone stack.

South Africa-developed document management application includes new workflow plugins, additional language support and a less restrictive open source licence.

LXer Feature: 3-Aug-2006

One LXer reader's quest to find and list vendors selling computers with GNU/Linux pre-installed leads to the development of a GNU/Linux vendor database.

Everyone is scared of Google and rightly so, says Gartner analyst Nick Jones. "Internetisation" is going to prompt as big a shift in the wireless market over the coming couple of years as will high speed technologies like MiMo and Zigbee over the coming decade, he predicts.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a new open-source middleware package that can be used to develop biometric applications.

The open-source research model continues to spread, now to biomedical research. An article by Sarah Everts in Chemical & Engineering News explores Open-Source Science, referencing a paper by Matthew Todd titled Open-Source Research—The Power of Us.

Actel announced SoftConsole, a free software program development environment for Actel’s CoreMP7, a soft 32-bit ARM7 microprocessor core for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).

"Wow, that's impressive!" was one of many comments made by visitors to the KDE stand at LUG Radio Live 06. Five of the KDE-GB crew attended the two day event in Wolverhampton demonstrating the latest Kubuntu distribution, Dapper Drake, and the finest KDE applications, including Digikam, to over 400 attendees.

August 2006 (#129):

• 2-cent Tips
• Mailbag
• Talkback
• Making XMMS Effect plugins, by Kumar Appaiah
• Away Mission -- SEMTECH - The Semantic Web Technology Conference, by Howard Dyckoff
• The Geekword Puzzle, by Ben Okopnik
• Low-Fat Linux - Now with Less Cruft!, by Ben Okopnik
• A Prisoner of Windows, by Lew Pitcher
• Issues In Concurrent Server Design on Linux Systems - Part I, by Amit Saha
• Ecol, by Javier Malonda

There's no mistaking the practical purpose behind a bootable live-demonstration Linux distribution for on-the-go technicians. As avid consumers of modern technology, many of us enjoy exercising our electronic toys as much as our minds. However, we sometimes lack the software tools necessary to troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve problems as they arise. This article provides a gentle introduction to how a simple Knoppix configuration can become an indispensable item in a mobile technical toolkit.

Recently releasing the 2.4.33-rc3 kernel, Marcelo Tosatti [interview] also announced a new 2.4 Linux kernel maintainer, "Willy Tarreau has stepped up to maintain the mainline v2.4 tree, and will do so starting from v2.4.34. He has devoted great effort to help maintenance for the past few years. His -hotfix tree is quite popular amongst v2.4 users, for instance. I feel very confident in his competence for the job, knowing his good common sense and great technical/communication skills." Willy began maintaining his -hf patchset against the stable 2.4 Linux kernel in February of 2005 [story].

In response to Marcelo's announcement, Willy replied, "hmmm... Like I once told you, I felt like you were trying to sell me your car, but you seem to have maintained it in very good state so I am confident it will not break after a few miles. I still hope that if I have any problem with it, you will come with your breakdown truck to rescue me :-) I hope I will get criticisms if I do things wrong. It's frustrating to work without feedback (either positive or negative)."

LinuxGenius, LLC, the makers of the popular LinuxCBT Open Source training series, is proud to release: UnixCBT featuring Solaris 10 Edition.

Source code addicts are getting their fixes better than ever. Google has launched a code repository, prompting grand-daddy Sourceforge.net to zoot up its offering, while new search engine Krugle offers a new way to find code.

Thousands of users are deploying open source storage software in an effort to avoid pricey proprietary products such as array clustering and disk eraser applications and to get some long-term protection through the availability of source code.

Myths and legends laid to rest The net is full of Apache knowledge. Tips and tricks, discussion fora, experts of all kinds, and innumerable "how-tos" and tutorials on a range of subjects. Some of these are worth reading; others may be otherwise.

[Don't be fooled by the word "zombie". It's about .htaccess, AddType, Limit and case-sensitivity in URLs. Dumb headline. -- grouch]

[Nate Angell] is an active member of open source communities including Sakai, Open Source Portfolio, and the web content management platform Drupal. Angell and members of Portland State’s team regularly help other campuses and institutions implement enterprise open source technologies. Here, Angell offers a number of intelligent ways to help open source implementations succeed.

According to the editor's letter in last week's inaugural edition of Sage, a magazine produced by anti-malware vendor McAfee, "Open source is not to blame for current security trends." Maybe not, but apparently it's still expected to take the fall.

Twice a year, the supercomputer market and the IT industry at large, gets a sense of the massive amount of performance in supercomputers thanks to the Top 500 rankings. This ranking of supers, which are based on the Linpack Fortran benchmark test, are interesting, and it is only a slight exaggeration to say that companies and careers are affected dramatically (if not made or broken) by how many systems with a particular brand and using certain components are on the list.

Mercury Computer is sampling a PCI-Express add-in card powered by a Cell processor running Yellow Dog Linux. The Cell Accelerator Board (CAB) targets rendering, ray tracing, video/image processing, and signal processing applications, and is said to deliver 180 GFLOPS (billion floating-point operations per second).