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SAN DIEGO, May 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Linspire, Inc., developer of CNR.com, an easy-to-use, one-click digital software delivery service for desktop Linux software, and TransGaming, Inc. (TSX-V: TNG - News), a leading developer of portability and graphics technologies for the electronic entertainment industry, today announced the immediate availability of Cedega 6.0 for Freespire 2.0, Linspire 6.0, Linux Mint 4.0, Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10 and 8.04 (32 bit) desktop Linux users. Available at an introductory price of $44.95 and for download and installation with one-click through CNR.com, Cedega brings the thrill of blockbuster video games to Linux users around the world (http://www.cnr.com/product/transgamingcedega).

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FIRST TIER Taiwanese motherboard vendor Asus confirmed Wednesday that it will extend inclusion of Splashtop Linux from just a few of its most expensive models to more products and eventually throughout its entire product range.

"In response to great user feedback, our plan is to proliferate Express Gate across our entire motherboard product portfolio, starting with over one million motherboards per month," said Joe Hsieh, Asus general manager of its motherboard division.

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Verizon Wireless is throwing its support behind mobile Linux, becoming the first U.S. operator to join the LiMo Foundation, a group developing mobile Linux technology.

In addition to Verizon, the LiMo Foundation plans to announce on Wednesday that Mozilla, SK Telecom, Infineon Technologies, Red Bend Software, Sagem Mobiles, SFR and Kvaleberg AS are also joining the group. Verizon will hold a board seat.

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The New York Stock Exchange and its European subsidiary exchanges are running their trading systems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat announced Wednesday, as it unveiled a new marquee customer.

Linux has been known to be in use at several New York financial services firms, but few have stepped up to the podium to testify on the value of their implementations. As a result of mergers and acquisitions, the New York Stock Exchange has migrated over the last few years from HP-UX to IBM AIX to Sun Solaris to Linux. NYSE Group CIO Steve Rubinow said the conversion to Linux followed the acquisition of the Euronext exchange in 2007. Unlike some trading companies that suggest Linux is running their secondary systems, Rubinow emphasized that Linux is running the NYSE's mission-critical trading systems.

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Hello all,
I gladly inform you that, our first beta version of BioPuppy Linux is out now. The motivation of this project is, to provide a dedicated user friendly Linux for bioinformatics people. BioPuppy is a community project for educational and learning purpose.

Download

BioPuppy main page and download page is here, http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/wiki/BioPuppy

About BioPuppy

BioPuppy OS is an electronic workbench for bio-informatics and computational biology. It has been designed to meet the needs of beginners. BioPuppy is available as a live CD cum installation CD [and in USB Pen drive] and containing all the required software to boot the computer with ready to use bio-informatics tools. BioPuppy is based of the Puppy Linux. The another objective of this BioPuppy is small in size. Our estimated size of BioPuppy is ~150MB.
BioPuppy derived from Puppy-3.01-seamonkey Linux.

Biology softwares included

Sequence Analysis Tools : Sim-4, Tigr-Glimmer 2, Genewise, Muscle, Sigma,

With a winner selected in the Ubuntu Live contest, it's time to move on to OSCON 2008, which is happening July 21-25 in Portland, Oregon. For those of you who've never attended this fantastic conference, this is your chance to get a 100% gratis pass (valued at $1445.00). To be eligible, simply post in this thread explaining how you work with Open Source or how you contribute to the Open Source community, along with why you want to attend OSCON. We'll randomly select a winner from the eligible entries. We only have a single pass to give away, so please make sure you are able to attend the event before entering. Thanks, and good luck. Keep in mind that you are responsible for all travel, lodging and any other related costs. We'll select the winner on May 31st. Good luck.

--jeremy

It seems that Asus' Eee PC masterstroke took more than rival laptop manufacturers by surprise. Microsoft has been caught off guard by the sudden popularity of the cheap, diminutive devices and doesn't like the fact that OpenSource Linux Operating Systems are benefiting the most from it.

However, IDG News Service reports that Microsoft has a few teeny tiny concessions it wants manufacturers to make in return for its enormous generosity: the machine specs have to be kept very low. The screen must be 10.2" or less, it is allowed no more than 1GB of RAM and a single-core processor of 1GHz or less, 80GB is the maximum hard disc space and absolutely no touch screens either. Wouldn't want these eating into that huge Origami market now - HAHAHAHAHA.

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After a long period of testing, Pandora FMS (Free Monitoring System)team has finished development for this stable version that introduces several improvements for stability, performance increase and usability issues and a lot of bugfixes from 1.3 version.

New documentation

It is not really new, but about 60% of current documentation is new stuff and the other 40% has been revised. Added a lot of images and schemes and translation has been revised.

Tentacle

Pandora FMS 1.3.1 most important change is the fact of having Tentacle as a the official transfer method for Pandora FMS Agents. New agent versions are released, but SSH compatibility is maintained, so you don't need to change any agent if don't want to. Tentacle is a new protocol that supports SSL and X509 standard, multiplatform and client-server architecture, is used by Pandora FMS to copy XML data files from agents to Pandora FMS Data Server in a secure way.

New server options

Pandora FMS 1.3.1 comes with several new server options:

* Alert recovery notification.
* TCP/SNMP specific timeout.

For the first time in ages, the sale of new PCs with Windows as a percentage of the PC market is declining sharply. The new winner is the Mac, but, while no one does a good job of tracking the still-new, pre-installed Linux desktop market, it's also clear that Linux is finally making impressive inroads into Windows' once unchallenged market share.

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Fujitsu Computer Systems announced that four of its ultra-light notebooks have passed compatibility tests with Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED). The LifeBook U810, LifeBook T2010, and LifeBook P1620 ultra-mini PCs (UMPCs), and the LifeBook S6510 notebook have been "YES Certified" by Novell, says Fujitsu.

With the Novell SLED certification, Fujitsu is now actively marketing the four previously Windows-only notebooks in Linux configurations. The company announced a distribution agreement with EmperorLinux, a Linux reseller that specializes in notebooks configurations.

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Hello

I want to inform you about the new Linux distribution.
Here is the link for first Armenian linux operation system.
The system name is Hrat GNU/Linux which is based on Debian GNU/Linux.

See more information here: http://hrat.debian.am/en/ and http://www.linuxworld.com/community/?q=node/3935

We tested openSUSE, Ubuntu 8.04, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva Linux One, Fedora, SimplyMEPIS, and CentOS 5.1.

Each of these distributions was installed on five machines:

* Homebrew AMD (NYSE: AMD) Duron 1.1-GHz processor; 1-GB RAM; 80-GB hard disk; Geforce FX5200 128-MB AGP graphics.

* Lenovo Thinkpad T61 notebook computer; Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Core 2 Duo 2.2-GHz processor; 1-GB RAM; 80-GB hard disk; nVidia Quadro NFS 140M graphics.

* Sony VAIO TX series notebook; Intel Pentium R 1.3-GHz processor; 1-GB RAM; 80-GB hard disk; 1366 x 768 widescreen display; Intel 915GM integrated graphics controller.

* Dell (Dell) XPS 420; Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4-GHz processor, 3-GB RAM; 160-GB hard disk; 1680 x 1050 widescreen display; ATI Radeon 2600 HD 256-MB graphics.

* VirtualBox virtual machine with 1-GB RAM and 128-MB video running on Dell XPS 420.

Are you interested in attending the second Ubuntu Live conference taking place July 21-22 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon? I'm happy to announce that LQ is able to give away one full conference pass completely free of charge. The normal price of the pass is $895.00. To be eligible, simply post in this thread explaining how you work with Ubuntu or how you're involved in the Ubuntu community along with why you'd like to attend the event. We'll randomly select a winner from the eligible entries. We only have a single pass to give away, so please make sure you are able to attend the event before entering. Thanks, and good luck.

--jeremy

About Linux Graphics Users.com

Linux Graphics Users.com is a forum created by artists, for artists in the Linux community. It is true, that most of the Linux graphics software listed on our site has their own forums (some more than one).... But, LGU is much more than just about the software, or the distro.... It's about the people. People like you and me who just wanna talk about art & design, and share advice, tips & tricks, tutorials to help others, etc. without having to talk about which distro they use... or this one is better than that one. There are more than enough of those places on the web for that... this is about art, and people who are interested in art, and anything related to it from basic wallpapers.... to designing / creating entire window decorator themes, icons, bootsplashes, photography, printing, etc.
We will also be including discussions on Linux in the world of art & entertainment, as well as in-depth discussions about Linux Graphics Software / Applications

"I think the part that's surprised me the most about their work is that they manage to do most of it without bastardizing the system and making things less flexible," Gerhard Mack, a Montreal-based consultant and Slashdot blogger, told LinuxInsider. "Quite often when Linux distros have gone for ease of configuration, you lose the ability to edit config files by hand. With Ubuntu, they seem to make sure users can hand-edit if they want.

"I've been watching Linux distros leapfrog each other for the past decade, and it's been fascinating how far things have come in that time," Mack added. "Things have gone from needing a very advanced user to get an install to where most distros are on par with Windows -- and some are easier to install."

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