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Turbolinux Introduces FUJI Desktop Linux Operating System

Turbolinux has announced the release of Turbolinux FUJI Desktop Version 11. "FUJI is the successor to Turbolinux 10 Desktop (10D), a core Turbolinux desktop product released in October 2003, which spent 52 weeks as a top category seller of Linux operating systems. Turbolinux is also the primary distributor of Linux desktop operating systems with a 90% market share, according to the BCN survey. Designed primarily for the Japanese Linux market, the new FUJI system augments the Windows compatibility features first introduced in 10D, and offers a desktop computing environment with optimized applications, as well as outstanding safety and stability."

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Finnix

Finnix is a LiveCD for system administrators. The project has been around for some time, with distribution originally based on Red Hat Linux. The project apparently went underground, the entry was removed from our list early in 2005. Now however, version 86.0 has been released. Finnix is a small Debian-based system with the latest technology for system administrators. The distribution stays small by not including any desktop software.

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OpenVistA VivitA FOIA Gold 20050825 available (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews introduces Release 20050825 of OpenVistA VivitA FOIA Gold, a remastered version of Damn Small Linux with VistA software.

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The Road to Dapper

Mark Shuttleworth talks about (click below for full text) the upcoming Ubuntu release "Dapper Drake" and the UbuntuBelowZero conference which begins next week in Montreal. "As of today the archive for development of the next release of Ubuntu is open. Here are some pointers to information about the goals we have set for Dapper, the roadmap, the process we are following to identify and specify features, and the tools we will be using to coordinate and deliver The Drake."

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Debian Bug Squashing Party next weekend, October 28 - 30

There are still plenty of RC bugs in Etch, so another Bug Squashing Party is planned for this weekend.Coordination will happen over IRC channel #debian-bugs on irc.debian.org as usual.

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Debian Weekly News

The Debian Weekly News for October 25, 2005 is out. This edition covers the rising rate of package rejections, a Debian mini-conf in Osaka, Japan, progress on the Etch release, a graphical frontend for the debian-installer, port assignments during system boot, and several other topics.

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Fedora Weekly News

This week the Fedora Weekly News covers Red Hat Magazine Issue #12, the largest deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in India, FUDCon London 2005: Analysis, FUDCon Boston 2006?, CMC Program Relaunch: Fedora Ambassadors, downloading Fedora on Fedora Project Wiki, and several other topics.

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Gentoo Weekly Newsletter

The Gentoo Weekly Newsletter for the week of October 24, 2005 covers a Gentoo LiveCD for SGI machines, Gentoo Linux/MIPS 2005.1 for Cobalt Qubes and RaQs, OpenOffice.org 2.0 in Portage, and several other topics.

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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 123

The DistroWatch Weekly October 24, 2005 is out. "Several interesting new distribution releases appeared during the past week. LG3D LiveCD deserves a more detailed look due to its unusual desktop and amazing 3D visual effects, while the newly renamed RR4 Linux live DVD is probably the easiest way yet to install Gentoo Linux on a hard disk. Also in this issue: a brief history of Red Hat prompted by the resignation of the company's co-founder Bob Young, a comment about the unusual Internet security guidelines published by a local government in the state of New York, and a few signs that our readers do love and appreciate DistroWatch."

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Fedora updates

Fedora Core 4 updates: java-1.4.2-gcj-compat (add -fjni to gcc arg list), logwatch (update to 7.0), openoffice.org (2.0.0 for FC4), sudo (bug fixes), gawk (bug fixes), dhcdbd (fix bugs and rebuild), bind (bug fixes), mt-st (update to mt-st 0.9b).

Fedora Core 3 updates: abiword (fix busted wordperfect import), gimp-help (version 2-0.9).

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Mandriva Linux update to apcupsd

Mandriva has released updated apcupsd packages providing previously missing configuration files.

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Trustix Secure Linux updates

Trustix Secure Linux has fixed various bugs in kernel, php, sed - freeradius, postgresql, procps and bridge-utils, courier-imap, ebtables, gawk, hotplug, kernel, net-snmp, sysreport, vim.

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What do to when apt-get fails (Linux.com)

Linux.com looks at broken dependencies on Debian systems. "When you install an application package in a Debian-based system, sometimes prerequisite application packages are unavailable. These missing packages are known as broken dependencies. Left unresolved, they can cripple your system's ability to install new packages. They're a disaster that isn't supposed to happen in Debian, thanks to the Advanced Packaging Tool (APT) and the scripts contained in Debian packages. That makes broken dependencies all the more devastating when they happen. Some users have even been known to reinstall the whole operating system, despairing of otherwise having a functioning package management system. However, depending on how the broken dependencies arose, you have several options to try before you consider reinstalling."

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ISP-Server Setup - Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger" (HowtoForge)

HowtoForge walks through a server setup with Ubuntu 5.10. "This is a detailed description about the steps to be taken to setup a Ubuntu based server (Ubuntu 5.10 - Breezy Badger) that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters (web server (SSL-capable), mail server (with SMTP-AUTH and TLS!), DNS server, FTP server, MySQL server, POP3/POP3s/IMAP/IMAPs, Quota, Firewall, etc.)."

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An old hacker slaps up Slackware (Linux.com)

Joe Barr reviews Slackware 10.2 on Linux.com. "Slackware is old-school Linux. Back in the day -- before Red Hat seized the throne -- Pat Volkerding's Linux distribution was the undisputed king of the hill. Many still use it today. By the time I started playing with Linux in 1995, or running my Web server with it in 1996, Slackware's slump in market share had already begun. I've tried a lot of different Linux distributions during the years since then, but until recently I had never tried Slackware. Here's what I've learned about Slackware while installing and using the recently released Slackware 10.2."

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Dine in geek heaven with Dyne:bolicII (Computerworld)

Computerworld looks at dyne:bolic, which recently released a third beta of the upcoming dyne:II. "Aimed at multimedia producers, artists, activists, and content creators, the Dyne:bolic multimedia platform on a bootable CD offers a vast range of software for multimedia production, streaming, 3-D modelling, photo editing, Web browsing and publishing, peer-to-peer file sharing, and networking."

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