There is a new wave sweeping our world, and it has one name - Linux. Everyone, from Eskimos in Greenland to Bedouins in desert, has heard of Linux. As a reader to a publication of this nature, you have most probably already used Linux in some form, or toyed with the idea of setting up a Linux Box. But some questions may have plagued you. For example, when we say "Linux", what exactly do we mean? Do we mean Red Hat? Or SuSe? What is the nature of the beast? In this article, we will attempt to give a broad introduction to the world of Linux. Click here to read the full article.

Just received the information that ATI has released Catalyst 5.1 for your download pleasure. ATI released the set for Windows and for Linux. Some highlights include: Linux Driver: New Features: Drivers for X.org 6.8 are now provided x86_64 drivers now available for XFree86 4.3 and X.org 6.8 Fixes:
Second head in Dual Head system is no longer corrupt during login screen Display corruption is no longer seen when switching between X-Windows and the Linux text console, and back to X-Windows Video playback in Dual Head mode no longer results in an error message being displayed, or the player failing to start PCI-Express systems no longer hang after running 3D Applications for long periods 3D Applications no longer hang on RHEL 3.0 with 1GB or more memory installed XVideo overlay is once again available in Dual Head Mode A "drm.h: No such file or directory" error message no longer occurs when compiling the fglrx kernel module Stopping and restarting the X server no longer results in memory leaks or hangs on PCI-Express systems Read More

KDE 3.4 Beta 1 has been released:
http://www.linuxcompatible.org/story40051.html

SUSE Linux 9.2 has been released. Besides the traditional network install, SUSE is now also providing a complete DVD ISO image containing packages for both i386 and x86_64 architectures.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r4 CD images are now also available over FTP/HTTP and BitTorrent:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r4 CD/DVD Images for Jigdo:

In late December, Opera Software announced the Opera 8.0 Beta for Windows. Now Linux users can rejoice, the 8.0 Beta has been released for Linux, FreeBSD, and Sun Solaris.

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A new version of the russian based ASPLinux has been released. This distribution based on Fedora Core and comes with nVidia 3D drivers and multimedia applications.

An early development snapshot of Mandrakelinux 10.2 is available.

Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official is now available for download:
at linuxcompatible.org

Canonical Ltd. extended their free Ubuntu Linux CDs offer :

linuxcompatible.org

DOOM 3 version 1.1.1286 has been released yesterday by Timothee Besset from id software.

This is the final release of 2004 and is the culmination of the work of each of our developers. The main focus for this release was fixing bugs in previous releases and making the release tools more robust and easier to use. Releasing for 2004.3 are amd64, hppa, ppc, sparc, x86 and also our initial ppc64 release. There is also an experimental alpha release, along with stages for ia64 and s390. The embedded team has also released stages for arm, mips, ppc, and x86, all which can be found under /experimental. You can find out more about 2004.3 by checking out the release page or reading the ChangeLog.

Progeny Debian 2.0 Developers Edition Release Candidate 1 is now available:
"Progeny Debian 2.0 DE aims to provide an unmatched "out of the box" environment for software developers building applications for the Java, Mono/.NET and LAMP platforms. Progeny Debian 2.0 DE also serves as a showcase for Componentized Linux and includes all CL technologies. As such, it is also an excellent development platform for builders of CL-based custom distributions."

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Rage3D put on An interview with ATI about linux drivers. check out the log: read it... its not only just for linux folks, some windows drivers questions were answered i belive (mabe some CCC stuff).

new ati drivers for windows next week. most likly monday or tuesday.

Interested in turning a few extra XBOXes into a modular render farm? Maybe just a $200 PC for surfing the web?

The goal today is to see if we can modify an XBOX successfully to do something useful that we can't do for the cost of the modification (aside from play XBOX). We will look at a media center, a basic PC and finally, a look at the possibility of setting our XBOXes up in some sort of cluster, with detailed steps all along the way.

Another reminder that Canonical Ltd. is giving away free CDs of their Debian based desktop Linux distribution. If you would like to request a CD of Ubuntu 4.10 (the Warty Warthog) you must do so by November 12, 2004.

Red Hat has released the second public beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

ATi released a new set of Linux drivers.

Issues Resolved:

Nvidia has released a new set of Linux nForce 32 and 64 bit Drivers version 1.0-0292!

The chipset Driver includes hardware support for IDE disk control, Ethernet networking, audio support, win modem support, and a USB controller. These packages have support for Ethernet networking and basic ACI audio. USB and IDE hardware will work with standard Linux drivers. There is no win modem support.

Slax is based on slackware distribution of linux. its a small livecd distro which pack quite a punch with such a small iso size. For newbies, its a great way to get introduced to linux without the need to format/install a operating system they dont even know about. and For Hardcore users its a great distro to carry on mini-cd when the needs comes to log into systems where u dont hav time or access to load operating system on it.