Turns out a new version of one of the most popular free versions of UNIX. Appeared stable version of FreeBSD 7.2 Beta 1. Systems with the BSD family to an interesting alternative to Linux, especially in applications and network servers.

The system appeared to block a new client NFS Lock Manager (NLM). Support for the Camellia encryption. Introduced the possibility of starting the system directly from a USB drive and based on GPT.

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New version of the server for sharing files on Windows under Linux. Changes to previous version, you can see here. The Samba 3.3.3 is a server software for Linux (and other Unix-based systems) that allows you to manage and share network resources with Windows computers. It is thus possible to use Linux as a file server, print server, among others, as if the network uses Windows servers (NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003). This article gives an introduction to Samba shows its main characteristics and some of its history.

A Short History of Samba
Samba 3.3.3 is a creation of Andrew Tridgell. According to information provided on the official website of the software, Tridgell needed to mount a disk space on your computer to a Unix server. The computer running the DOS operating system, was initially used by the file system NFS (Network File System) for access. However, an application needed to support the NetBIOS protocol (not supported by the NFS). The solution found for Tridgell was: wrote a sniffer (a small program to capture data traffic on the network) to analyze the data traffic generated by the NetBIOS protocol, made from reverse engineering the protocol SMB (Server Message Block) and as implemented in Unix. That made the Unix server appear as a file server on your Windows PC with DOS.

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K3b 1.90.0 RC1 is the most convenient and easy software for recording CD / DVD under Linux. k3b provides a convenient user interface similar to Nero to perform most tasks associated with recording the CD / DVD, and the creation of AudioCD from audio files or copying a CD.

If you're a little cold from the command line and you miss the visual comfort and ease of use of the graphical interfaces provided by CD recorders under Windows and / or Mac OS X, K3b prescribe you every time you decide to record an audio CD on the fly, create VCD and SVCD and DVD ripping.

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Open Source Watershed is a new project with an interesting idea: take 9 of the best known distributions and compare the versions of software packages that include the most recent available at this time. This allows you to order these distributions according to the "rate of obsolescence," or how far the package is newer each.

From the data collected so far, apparently updated every 24 hours., That are the latest Arch Linux, Fedora and Ubuntu (in the first, second and third, respectively). At the opposite extreme, the more "obsolete" are Slackware, Debian and OpenSUSE.

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