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In the nightmare scenario of Luddites everywhere, The Computers have been entrusted with mankind's accumulated knowledge. All is well until that fateful day when the machines band together, creating a mammoth, all-powerful, living network that thinks, grows and takes over the Earth. Think"The Terminator" or"Colossus: The Forbin Project."

3 different ways to download torrents from the terminal.

The Debian project's maintainer, Luk Claes, announced in an email Saturday that he will freeze the "testing" or "Lenny" tree, in preparation for a new stable release of Debian Linux. On Claes's checklist for September 2008: "Release lenny!"

Former Debian project leader Martin Michlmayr is beta-testing a "debian-installer" for devices based on Marvell's Feroceon architecture.

You've probably heard of Journaling Flash File System (JFFS) and Yet Another Flash File System (YAFFS), but do you know what it means to have a file system that assumes an underlying flash device? This article introduces you to flash file systems for Linux®, explores how they care for their underlying consumable devices (flash parts) through wear l

LifeHacker reviews an early version of Amarok 2.

youtube-dl is a small command-line program for downloading videos from YouTube.com.

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License: Public Domain

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Changes:
This release fixes a bug in the Unicode video title treatment, and another one with output templates referencing absolute paths. The main change is the program being able to download videos from metacafe.com and YouTube playlists.

Since version 2 came out in 2005, Google Desktop for Windows has included a sidebar that users can fill with screen gadgets, but the Linux version (version 1, from June 2007) provided only indexing and search functions, with no eye candy whatsoever. This has finally changed. Google recently released Google Gadgets for Linux (GGL), which closes the gap between the operating systems. With GGL, you can run as many gadgets as you wish on your screen -- or at least that's the idea. Some flaws still need to be fixed, and not everything works 100% correctly.

You’ve always wanted to set up LAMP on your Debian/Ubuntu server but never knew how, right? Well, now you can. We’ll walk you through setting up LAMP on your server step by step.

This tutorial explains how to install Django on a Debian Etch server. Django is a web framework that allows to develop Python web applications quickly with as much automation as possible. I will use it with Apache2 and mod_python in this guide.

Computerworld: "Software is Linutop 2's strongest suit. It comes with Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (a.k.a. Hardy Heron), Open Office 2.4 and enough utilities to work well out of the box. In five minutes, I was nosing around the Web, playing YouTube videos, listening to Internet radio and viewing Adobe Acrobat files. Plus, the system can use and save in Microsoft Office .doc, .xls, .ppt and other popular formats."

CentOS has updated the kernel (C4: denial of service), thunderbird (C4: multiple vulnerabilities), rdesktop (C3, C5: integer underflow), and vsftpd (C3: denial of service).

Debian has updated refpolicy (fix for incompatibilities with DNS cache poisoning update).

Red Hat has updated rdesktop (RHEL3, RHEL4, RHEL5: integer underflow), vsftpd (RHEL3, RHEL4: denial of service), the kernel (RHEL4: two vulnerabilities and a ton of new features), nss_ldap (RHEL4: information disclosure), mysql (RHEL4: multiple vulnerabilities), and coreutils (RHEL4: access to locked accounts).

Ubuntu has updated thunderbird (multiple vulnerabilities).

Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, calls on Linux developers to make the presentation layer of desktop Linux applications even more attractive to users than Apple?s Mac OS.

Essentially, all major computer retail stores will carry computers with Ubuntu pre-installed by the end of 2008 or early 2009, predicted a Canonical manager who met with The VAR Guy at OSCON. But this isn't another Linux desktop PC story.

The Open Road: "This is the future of open source. Not code that just happens to be free, but code that just so happens to be better."