Infrastructure Linux News for May 08, 2006:

All About Linux: strace - A Very Powerful Troubleshooting Tool for All Linux Users
(2006-05-08 08:30:19)
"Many times I have come across seemingly hopeless situations where a program when compiled and installed in GNU/Linux just fails to run..."

DebianHelp: Firebird Database Configuration in Debian
(2006-05-08 10:00:06)
"Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-99 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms..."

Linux Forums: RPM for Newbies
(2006-05-08 11:30:40)
"I was in doubt about writing this article. There are several tutorials covering this topic but I want to try to write a simple article that shows the basis of rpm usage..."

NewsForge: Torbutton Firefox Plugin
(2006-05-08 13:00:39)
"At a Wi-Fi hotspot, you may need the security and anonymity of Tor, but on a secure network, the higher bandwidth of a direct connection becomes more important..."

ZDNet Australia: New SUSE Linux to Debut this Week
(2006-05-08 13:45:15)
"Software vendor Novell plans to make the latest 10.1 version of its SUSE Linux operating system available late this week..."

Linux-Watch: Coming Soon: ODF for MS Office
(2006-05-08 16:00:58)
"Just because Microsoft refuses to support ODF (Open Document Format) never meant that someone wouldn't write a plug-in to enable Microsoft Office users to read and write ODF documents. Well, it's happened..."

Heise Online: LinuxTag: Ubuntu Offers Three Desktops
(2006-05-08 16:45:43)
"Shuttleworth said he was confident that the three certificates for the corporate use of VMware, IBM DB2, and MySQL will soon follow..."

Coulier.org: Mandriva Linux 2006 for Home Users
(2006-05-08 17:30:59)
"What can a Linux distribution such as Mandriva Linux 2006 mean to a Windows user? Is it a valuable alternative, or do you have to be a real computer nerd to risk the move...?"

Mad Penguin: The Pepper Pad: Open Alternative to Microsoft's Origami
(2006-05-08 18:00:40)
"The Pepper Pad, like Origami, is a mid-point form factor PC that is bigger and more powerful than a PDA, but smaller and less optimized for traditional desktop PC tasks than a notebook computer or a desktop PC..."

vimannounce: Announcing: Vim (Vi IMproved) Version 7.0
(2006-05-08 18:30:46)
"Vim 7 is ready! After years of development this feature packed editor is waiting for you..."

Phoronix: ATI: Open v. Closed Drivers
(2006-05-08 19:00:03)
"Our first article on this topic, which will likely be the start of a series of examinations, is looking at the differences between the X.Org open-source ATI Radeon driver and that of ATI's official but proprietary fglrx display driver..."

NewsForge: A 100% Free Software-Based Italian Publisher
(2006-05-08 19:45:12)
"In practice, adopting free software was a bold choice in autumn 2001..."

LinuxPlanet: New Mono-Based Applications for GNOME in Fedora Core 5--Part 2
(2006-05-08 20:30:58)
"While you will not find pixel-by-pixel editing functionality in F-Spot (at least just yet) you will find the ability to many of the common photo manipulation tasks you might have in mind..."

XYZ Computing: Future for Vista Looks Bleak, But Where's Linux?
(2006-05-08 21:15:57)
"So what do the problems of Vista have to do with desktop Linux? In short, a lot..."

The Guardian: A Problem Too Jumbo-Sized for Bill Gates to Solve?
(2006-05-08 22:45:12)
"The really interesting comparison is with Linux, a product of comparable complexity developed by an independent, dispersed community of programmers who communicate mainly over the net..." With a linked response from Con Zymaris.

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