The Linux /proc Filesystem as a Programmers’ Tool, from Linux Journal.

“What Is /proc? Before we begin to talk about the proc filesystem as a programming facility, we need need to establish what it actually is. The proc filesystem is a pseudo-filesystem rooted at /proc that contains user-accessible objects that pertain to the runtime state of the kernel and, by extension, the executing processes that run on top of it. “Pseudo” is used because the proc filesystem exists only as a reflection of the in-memory kernel data structures it displays. This is why most files and directories within /proc are 0 bytes in size.”

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Gentoo Founder Joins Microsoft, from OSNews.

Daniel Robbins, the creator of Gentoo, has taken up a job at Microsoft.

如果我沒記錯, Daniel 應該是 Portage (ebuild) 的作者之一, 也 Gentoo Linux 的發起人之一. 連 Gentoo Linux 的老大都去了 Microsoft, 那那些自詡為自由軟體的基本教義派的人, 不知道會作何感想 :)

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Fedora Core 4 has been released, from OSNews.

Fedora Core 4 Release Notes includes a number of new features:

• Xen
• GFS
• GCC 4.0
• Enhancements in SELinux
• support for the PPC architecture
• Free Java stack (using GCJ) including Eclipse and Apache Jakarta among others

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ATI Linux Drivers Add Graphical Installer, from OSNews.

ATI released new drivers for Linux. This release includes a new graphical install utility. That’s a great news.

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Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 CD/DVD images updated (r0a), from LWN.

This is an update to the CD and DVD images of Debian 3.1 r0 due to a configuration mistake which will not get security updates by default.

If you install Debian GNU/Linux from floppy disks or network servers, they were not affected.

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Debian AMD64 Sarge released, from LWN.

You could try it later at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/sarge-amd64/ and see documents at http://amd64.debian.net/docs/.

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Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0 (Sarge) official announce at www.debian.org. The full download is available on 14 CDs or 2 DVDs.

• K Desktop Environment 3.3 (KDE)
• GNOME desktop environment 2.8
• GNUstep desktop
• XFree86 4.3.0
• Mozilla 1.7.8, Firefox 1.0.4, Thunderbird 1.0.2
• PostgreSQL 7.4.7, MySQL 4.0.24 and 4.1.11a
• GNU Compiler Collection 3.3.5 (GCC)
• Linux kernel versions 2.4.27 and 2.6.8
• Apache 1.3.33 and 2.0.54
• Samba 3.0.14
• Python 2.3.5 and 2.4.1
• Perl 5.8.4

This release includes a *large* number of up-to-date large software packages. It is the closest to unstable in my feeling.

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