Infrastructure Linux News for May 04, 2006:

ZDNet: Will Open Source Stay Non-Political?
(2006-05-04 00:15:00)
"The failure of the SCO suit, more important the quick defense of open source software by major corporations, has protected this growing business from the dreaded stain of politics..."

The Register: Linux Hater/Traitor Turns to Windows
(2006-05-04 01:00:20)
"Internet satirist Shelley the Republican has embraced Microsoft Windows, barely 10 days since publishing a tongue-in-cheek diatribe that painted the open source community as a bunch of communist hackers..."

SearchOpenSource: Preaching the Virtues of Linux
(2006-05-04 01:45:03)
"His message can be persuasive--the Linux evangelist boasts that he even coaxed his 80-year-old father away from a lifelong relationship with Windows..."

NewsForge: My Desktop OS: Kubuntu Breezy
(2006-05-04 02:30:39)
"I need a stable Linux that allows me to easily install the latest versions of software and that has good support for power management on a laptop..."

Free Software Magazine: Simple Package Management with Synaptic
(2006-05-04 04:00:21)
"Synaptic is a graphical user interface (GUI) for managing software packages on Debian-based distributions..."

LinuxDevices: Versatile Set-Top Box Runs Linux
(2006-05-04 07:00:21)
"The Media Systems iSetBox-Home is powered by a Pixelworks processor, and lets users watch TV and DVD movies, listen to music, record CDs/DVDs, and access the Internet..."

OSWeekly: Kernel Panic: Defining System Inconsistencies
(2006-05-04 08:30:24)
"Kernel panic, in this article, however, will refer to a message displayed by an operating system after detecting a system inconsistency from which it cannot recover completely..."

Linux.com: Bibble 4.7: RAW Power for Penguins
(2006-05-04 10:00:49)
"Bibble Labs has released Bibble 4.7, a commercial program for processing and conversion of RAW digital photography files to publishable formats such as JPG, PNG, and TIFF..."

Linux Cult: Taking Irssi for a Spin
(2006-05-04 12:15:31)
"Among the various free IRC clients available for GNU/Linux, few provide the power and flexibility that Irssi does..."

ServerWatch: Tip of the Trade: Tiny Unixes
(2006-05-04 13:00:08)
"General-purpose free operating systems like Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD are extremely customizable. You can slim them down or fatten them up as needed. However, they're much harder to slim down than they used to be, and far easier to fatten..."

ZDNet UK: Don't Pirate MS-Office: Use Ours, Says OpenOffice.org
(2006-05-04 13:45:04)
"'Get legal -- Get OpenOffice.org' is the tagline of a new campaign taking advantage of the recent clampdown against unlicensed software by Microsoft and the BSA..."

Groklaw: OpenDocument Foundation to MA: We Have a Plugin
(2006-05-04 14:30:56)
"I have just heard from the OpenDocument Foundation's Gary Edwards, with news about a plugin the Foundation is offering the Commonwealth of Massachusetts..."

NewsForge: Opera 9.0 Beta is Playing My Song
(2006-05-04 17:30:20)
"With Opera 9.0, now in beta, Opera continues its record of innovation, adding features no other popular browser can match..."

DesktopLinux: Freespire: Great Idea? Awful Idea?
(2006-05-04 23:30:20)
"The problem, of course, is that by combining proprietary software with Linux, you're also legitimatizing the use of proprietary programs with open-source..."

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