Monday, November 08, 2004

Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat
Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat:"Fedora Core 3 is now available from Red Hat and at distinguished mirror sites near you, and is also available in the torrent. Fedora Core has expanded in this release to four binary ISO images and four source ISO images, and is available for both x86-64 and i386. Please file bugs via Bugzilla, Product Fedora Core, Version 3, so that they are noticed and appropriately classified. Discuss this release on fedora-list"
12:27:32 PM    comment []  trackback []  
Novell Releases Novell Linux Desktop

Well, this is breaking large today with lots of press.  Novell has released its Linux Desktop 9 powered by Novell SUSE Linux.  It is aimed at the corporate market and it's only $50 per seat plus support, etc.  It is only available through Novell resellers, not directly to consumers.

For the official Novell particulars see:

For lots of press coverage, reviews, etc, see:

All this follows the recent release of SUSE Professional 9.2 and the apparent sacking of Chris Stone.  Lots of goings on in Novell penguin land.


12:15:06 PM    comment []  trackback []  
NewsForge | Create a data dashboard with PHP and a browser

NewsForge | Create a data dashboard with PHP and a browser - "How many times have you needed a quick and dirty method of displaying data, in a "dashboard" format, that everybody could easily view? Everybody has a Web browser, so why not use that for your dashboard? PHP and Apache make it easy. Here's how you can take a text file, evaluate the content using PHP, then display results on a browser dashboard. "

A bit of a tickler to help me remeber that I need to do a CALI dashboard:) 


10:58:48 AM    comment []  trackback []  
freshmeat.net: Project details for Ultimate Boot CD
freshmeat.net: Project details for Ultimate Boot CD - "The full version contains a customized version of INSERT (Inside Security Rescue Toolkit), a mini Linux distribution adapted especially for the UBCD. The FreeDOS boot disk has also undergone a major revamp and also detects and mounts USB devices automatically."
10:31:10 AM    comment []  trackback []  
Convert audio between MP3, FLAC, WAV - including hi-fi and lo-fi and short clips
Convert audio between MP3, FLAC, WAV - including hi-fi and lo-fi and short clips - "Using Sox, LAME, FLAC, and madplay - I put together this "dictionary" of shell commands that can be run to convert audio from one format to other, including dialup-modem-streamable lofi mono MP3 files, and including shorter clips of music."
10:30:03 AM    comment []  trackback []  
Yahoo! News - Novell OKs $536 Mln Microsoft Settlement
Yahoo! News - Novell OKs $536 Mln Microsoft Settlement - Novell Inc. (Nasdaq:NOVL - news) on Monday said it had reached a settlement with software maker Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) over antitrust issues in which Microsoft will pay it $536 million in cash, sending Novell shares 11 percent higher in pre-market trading.

Related Quotes
MSFT
NOVL
DJIA
NASDAQ
S&P 500
29.21
7.58
10374.79
N/A
0
-0.10
+0.72
-12.75
N/A
0

delayed 20 mins - disclaimer
Quote Data provided by Reuters
 

In addition, Novell said it planned to file a new antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft tied to decade-old competitive practices involving Novell's WordPerfect word processing software.


10:18:21 AM    comment []  trackback []