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This month's Linux Digest brings articles and discussions about the free Opera browser, X screen capturing, more about fallover redundant servers, making movies, Samba, a new vitualization software, boot loading, and embedded programming.

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Screen Capture Utilities
groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/9012731face48918
Questions about capturing part of an X screen. For links about screen capturing see: freshmeat.net/browse/104/

ARM Boards Running Linux
groups.google.com/group/comp.arch.embedded/browse_thread/thread/68b01fe3108fcf6a
Discussion about small boards with ARM processors. For arm Linux information see: www.arm.linux.org.uk/

Load Balancing and Redundancy
groups.google.com/group/linux.gentoo.user/browse_thread/thread/98c1893d94ac128
Questions about building a redundant fallover network for server hardware. For more networking links see: dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Networking/

Debian on SGI Altix
groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.ports.ia64/browse_thread/thread/74ce19d195c8eac9/
Questions about installing GNU/Debian Linux on SGI hardware. For more information about Linux and open source SGI see: oss.sgi.com/

Window Managers
groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread/3505ce046f545c52
Discussion about loading extensions to X. For more window manager information see: xwinman.org/

Opera Web Browser Becomes Free
www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9038947424.html
Opera Software has now permanently dropped the ad banner and licensing fee from its Web browser. For more browser links see: dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Projects/Internet/Web/Browsers/

Making Movies with Linux
www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialVideo.html#VIDEOEDIT
This tutorial covers much of the vast field of software and hardware usable for making movies with Linux. For more multimedia links see: dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Projects/Multimedia/

Panasonic Opening Embedded Linux Incubator
linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/14/0630215
Panasonic has opened an embedded Linux incubator in Silicon Valley, where it hopes to host and collaborate with several Linux startups, in exchange for first right-of-refusal on up to 10 percent of the startup's next institutional funding round. For more embedded links see: dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Embedded/

Linux Podcasts
radio.linuxquestions.org/linux/lq-podcasts/
Hear in-depth information about Linux distributions, licenses, on streaming audio, or podcasts. For more links to Linux news and updates see: dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/News_and_Media/

TiVo Content Protection
slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/14/1440252
The newest version of the TiVo system enables content protection flags that can add restrictions on users. For more information about TiVo and alternative PVRs see: openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=PVR

Linux Based Hurricane Tracking
internet.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/09/08/1527218
The FLHurricane.com hurricane tracking site runs on Linux web servers. The site is seeing around 2,000 simultaneous connections recently, and about two million hits since Katrina first appeared. For more weather-related software see: openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Weather

Linux Boot Loaders
linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/28/1748214
Slashdot article and comments about Grub and Lilo boot loaders. For more boot loader links see: dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Hardware_Support/Booting/

Git File Manager and Cogito SCM
groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/5797dc95377fe026
Cogito is a version control system layered on top of the Git tree history storage system. It aims at seamless user interface and ease of use, providing generally smoother user experience than the raw core Git itself. For more links to file managers see: openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=FileManagers

Samba-3 and Future Samba-4 Features
developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/19/2058244
John H. Terpstra, co-founder of the Samba team, gives an interview about the present and future features of Samba. For more Samba, SMB links see: www.superant.com/cgi-bin/slencyclopedia.pl?SMB

New Virtualization Beta
www.parallels.com/
Parallels is offering a beta of virtual software for development and testing environments on a single machine. For more virtual operating system links see: openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=Virtualized


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