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[News] DistroWatch Publishes Linux Cheatsheet; Ubuntu Releases Community Newsletter

  • Subject: [News] DistroWatch Publishes Linux Cheatsheet; Ubuntu Releases Community Newsletter
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:06:22 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.9
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Linux package management cheatsheet

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| Package management is probably the most distinctive feature of any Linux 
| distribution. While the current trend among most of the major projects is to 
| offer some sort of a clickable interface where users can select a package and 
| install it with a mouse click (e.g. Debian's Synaptic or Mandriva's Drakrpm), 
| these types of programs are generally just graphical front-ends to the 
| low-level utilities that manage the tasks associated with installing packages 
| on a Linux system. And even though many desktop Linux users feel much more 
| comfortable installing packages through these intuitive graphical tools, 
| there is no denying that command-line package management offers two excellent 
| features not available in any graphical package management utility: power and 
| speed.          
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http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080922#feature

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 109

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| Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #109 for the week September 
| 14th - September 20th, 2008. In this issue we cover: Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6 
| released, Codecs & DVD playback in Intrepid for all users, Xubuntu News, New 
| Kubuntu Team, MOTU Team News, SFD: Ubuntu-VE, Ubuntu-NI and Ubuntu NO, 
| Ubuntu-ZA leadership change, Launchpad 2.1.9 released, Ubuntu Mozilla Team 
| summary, and much, much more!     
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue109


Recent:

Technology versus ideology

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| Some of the topics that have come up in the DistroWatch Weekly discussion 
| forum recently is the issue of violating the GPL by some distributions and 
| the question of boycotting Novell and its products due to the company's role 
| in legitimising the infamous Linux patent claim by Microsoft. Some readers 
| went as far as asking us to remove certain distributions from the DistroWatch 
| list, while others want us take a more active role in exposing Novell's 
| patent deal and its implications on the future of Linux and open source 
| software. Although all these readers have valid points and we welcome the 
| diversity of opinions in the forum, don't expect DistroWatch to become 
| another Groklaw and to cover these topics extensively here.         
| 
| Why? There are several reasons. Firstly, none of us is a lawyer and none of 
| us intends to become one. While we do agree that a GPL violation is a very 
| serious matter indeed, just because a reader emails us alleging that a 
| project does not comply with its terms and conditions, it doesn't make him 
| right. Until the project is convicted in the court of law, it is innocent. 
| Secondly, there are web sites that are better equipped (in terms of 
| expertise) to deal with GPL violations, patent protection agreements and 
| other lawyer's stuff. Groklaw has been covering these topics for several 
| years, while BoycottNovell.com is another web site that continues to expose 
| the Novell-Microsoft patent protection agreement. For smaller community 
| projects, our friend Béranger will uncover any distribution that does not 
| have a "source" directory on their FTP server. If you feel strongly about 
| licence violations and patent agreements, I suggest you spend more time on 
| the above-mentioned web sites and their forums.             
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http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080519#feature
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