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Infrastructure Linux News for Aug 27, 2007
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On Valuing Freedom More than Cushy Jail Cells (Aug 27, 2007, 23:15)
Linux Journal: "That's why I believe that the
final success of Linux, and of free and open source software, will
be an economy that values freedom and choice as much as it values
scarcity..."
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Linux Documentation: Often Ignored For Poor Community Advice (Aug 27, 2007, 22:30)
Mad Penguin: "It has long since been my own
personal experience that Linux documentation is largely ignored by
Linux beginners in exchange for the interactivity of Linux
forums..."
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Why Sabayon Isn’t Gentoo (Aug 27, 2007, 20:15)
The Open Source Activist:
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Can Open Source Be Giving Comfort to the Enemy? (Aug 27, 2007, 19:30)
The Long Tail: "I'm posting this because I feel
honestly conflicted about something that's come up..."
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Rob Myers Critique of Open Source (Aug 27, 2007, 19:00)
P2P Foundation: "Yochai Benkler describes Open
Source as a methodology of commons based peer production. This
means work made collaboratively and shared publicly by a community
of equals..."
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More Irregularities in the OOXML ISO Process Surface (Aug 27, 2007, 17:00)
Groklaw: "Rob Weir is reporting some very
disturbing news about shenanigans in the OOXML ISO process..."
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African Civil Society Warns Microsoft (Aug 27, 2007, 16:30)
Africa News: "African Civil Society
Organisations may be spoiling for war with the global software
giant, Microsoft Corporation, over its bid to have its DIS 29500
'Office Open Extensible Markup Language' endorsed by the
International Standard Organisation..."
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Just How Many Linux Machines Will Dell Really Sell? (Aug 27, 2007, 14:30)
blogbeebe: "I've been reading lately about how
Dell is slated to sell just 20,000 PCs with Linux loaded on
them..."
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This Just In: China Votes "No with Comments" on OOXML (Aug 27, 2007, 13:30)
ConsortiumInfo: "As I had noted in an earlier
blog entry, China had been signalling some displeasure with
Microsoft and OOXML in recent weeks, via Xinhua, the official
government news agency, so this is not totally a surprise..."
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Is That Light at the End of the Tunnel? (Aug 27, 2007, 12:45)
Mandriva Blog: "So it will soon be time to
cheer you up with some good news. We have been kind of quiet
recently, which does not mean we have not been active..."
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Intellectual Property Cold War Rages On (Aug 27, 2007, 12:00)
OSWeekly: "I have pointed this out time and
again. Like it or not, the patent war is already here..."
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Midnight Commander in Action (Aug 27, 2007, 09:00)
PolishLinux: "There are a lot of free file
managers. There is Nautilus in GNOME environment (with GTK
libraries), KDE users have Konqueror and Krusader..."
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MainConcept: Release MainActor Into Open Source! (Aug 27, 2007, 07:30)
Mad Penguin: "But correct me if I'm wrong, is
MainActor not the perfect vehicle for moving the MPEG
encoder...?"
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How To Use NTFS Write Support (ntfs-3g) On Fedora 7 (Aug 27, 2007, 06:00)
HowtoForge: "Normally Linux systems can only
read from Windows NTFS partitions, but not write to them which can
be very annoying if you have to work with Linux and Windows
systems..."
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Managing and Keeping Tabs of Network Traffic on Linux (Aug 27, 2007, 05:30)
Rudd-O: "Is your Net connection slow? Ever
wonder what the hell's going down the wire? Here are five free and
effective tools to diagnose network traffic issues..."
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Frillions of Ways (Aug 27, 2007, 00:00)
Open at Adobe: "It still amazes me how many
people on both sides of the open source fence end up back in the
same place..."
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