Infrastructure Linux News for Mar 08, 2006:

XYZ Computing: Why Ubuntu Needs CNR
(2006-03-08 00:15:37)
"Kevin Carmony and Mark Shuttleworth, the respective heads of Linspire and Canonical Ltd., have reportedly been talking about porting Linspire's Click-N-Run (CNR) to Ubuntu..."

vnunet: Speed Limits Do Not Apply to Bill Gates
(2006-03-08 01:00:58)
"Imagine you were as rich as Bill Gates. What would be the first thing you'd do? If you're male you'd probably buy that slick car you've admired so many times..."

Enterprise Networking Planet: Windows Won't Eat Where Linux Has Walked?
(2006-03-08 01:45:58)
"The more things change, the more they stay the same. Just a few years ago I was looking forward to a happier Linux future; one where as Linux uptake increased, so did supported hardware..."

LinuxCult: Open Source Voting Systems Lack Vendors to Provide Them
(2006-03-08 02:30:25)
"Instead of painful long queues of filling in ballot forms and putting them in ballot boxes, Americans were ready to use open source systems for voting..."

Linux.com: Review: MythTV 0.19
(2006-03-08 04:00:27)
"I've been a MythTV user since version 0.16, so I was happy to find out that version 0.19 is now available. MythTV 0.19 brings a number of improvements, new features, and added stability and usability..."

DebianHelp: ntop (Bandwidth Monitor) Configuration in Debian
(2006-03-08 07:00:12)
"ntop is a network traffic probe that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular top Unix command does..."

Linux Forums: Using diff and patch
(2006-03-08 08:30:57)
"The diff and patch utilites can be intimidating to the newcomer, but they are not all that difficult to use, even for the non-programmer..."

Email Battles: Cheap Laptop Upgrades Fix Firefox Bloat
(2006-03-08 10:00:11)
"The problem isn't Firefox, so much as its enticing array of easily-added extensions. The recent Grand Prize winner of the Extend Firefox competition, Reveal, is a case in point..."

Linux Journal: OOo Off the Wall: That's Your Version--Document Control in OOo Writer
(2006-03-08 11:30:39)
"Learn how to use Writer's version control tools to keep track of who made which changes and when, without diving into big CMS applications..."

FirebirdNews: Get to Know Firebird in 2 Minutes
(2006-03-08 12:15:45)
"If you are reading this paper, this is probably your first encounter with the Firebird RDBMS..."

SearchOpenSource: Finding Hidden Treasures in OpenOffice 2.0's Charting Wizard
(2006-03-08 13:00:21)
"Nancy [Drew] would have been great at doing charts in OpenOffice 2.0..."

LinuxWorld Australia: Jon Maddog Hall on Linux, Saving Money and Ruling the World
(2006-03-08 16:45:11)
"At the age of four Jon Maddog Hall stuck the wires from a rabbit-ear television antenna into an electric socket which sent him flying across the room..."

iTWire: Novell Stitches Up Linux Deal with NSW Government
(2006-03-08 18:15:44)
"In what is believed to be the first open source government contract in Australia of its kind, Novell has signed a deal with the NSW Department of Commerce to become an approved supplier of Open Source software..."

Tectonic: For Oxfam Volunteer-Driven Free Software Makes Sense
(2006-03-08 20:30:51)
"...[T]he British charity Oxfam switched three thousand users from using its proprietary collaboration platform to one which is closer to their mission: volunteer-created Free/Libre and Open Source Software..."

ZDNet UK: Ubuntu Voted 'Linux Distribution of the Year'
(2006-03-08 22:00:13)
"The Debian-based distribution has won its latest accolade from a Linux community site..."

Tonight on The Linux Link Tech Show
(2006-03-08 23:30:14)
"We talk to KDE/Plasma team member Jessica Hall..."

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