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Infrastructure Linux News for Apr 30, 2008
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Microsoft Trojan Horse Part Duex... (Apr 30, 2008, 22:30)
ONLamp: "After reading a recent press release
about System Center Operations Manager 2007 being able to 'manage
Unix/Linux,' the first thought that goes through my head is WTF?
Who in their right mind would touch that product...?"
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The Open Life of Second Life (Apr 30, 2008, 18:00)
LinuxWorld: "On January 2007, the source code
of the client viewer for the online virtual world community Second
Life was released as Open Source..."
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Has the BBC Duped Us over iPlayer? (Apr 30, 2008, 16:30)
Open...: "The story then was: trust us, we'll
get round to GNU/Linux support as soon as we can. And you know
what? Silly old me believed them..."
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FAST: Bring on The Microsoft Linux/Unix Ties (Apr 30, 2008, 15:45)
internetnews.com: "Microsoft's FAST purchase,
which closed Friday, gives it one of the premier enterprise search
players, and a search platform that, in addition to Windows,
supports rival operating systems Linux and Unix..."
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KDE Project Ships First Alpha of KDE 4.1 (Apr 30, 2008, 14:15)
KDE.org: "With the soft feature freeze in
effect, KDE 4.1 provides a first preview of what can be expected
from KDE 4.1, due in late July this year..."
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First Word from Day 1 of the Novell v. SCO Trial (Apr 30, 2008, 13:30)
Groklaw: "Michael Jacobs made the opening
comments for Novell stating that they seek the recovery of
$19,979,561 from SCO based on its licenses to Microsoft, Sun, and
others..."
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Microsoft Rides In to Cross-Platform Systems Management (Apr 30, 2008, 12:45)
451 CAOS Theory: "Specifically, Microsoft will
enable the management of Linux and Unix servers from within its own
systems management software..."
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Hardy Heron Moves Into the Black Tower (Apr 30, 2008, 12:00)
Device Guru: "Last time I wrote about the
'Black Tower,' I had just installed Vista and Kubuntu 7.10 in a
dual-boot setup. When version 8.04 of Kubuntu ('Hardy Heron') hit
the Web last week, I wasted no time upgrading to it.
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Three Utilities for Automatically Converting Audio for Portable Music Players (Apr 30, 2008, 07:30)
Linux.com: "While large cheap hard disks allow
you to keep your audio collection in a lossless format such as FLAC
on your home network, when you are on the move you probably want to
squeeze the most out of every gigabyte by using a compressed
format.."
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MySQL Engines: MyISAM vs. InnoDB (Apr 30, 2008, 06:00)
Tag1 Consulting: "InnoDB is commonly viewed as
anything but performant, especially when compared to MyISAM. Many
actually call it slow. This view is mostly supported by old facts
and mis-information..."
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The Perfect Desktop--Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) (Apr 30, 2008, 04:30)
HowtoForge: "This document describes step by
step how to set up a Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) desktop. The
result is a fast, secure and extendable system that provides all
you need for daily work and entertainment..."
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Microsoft Arguments Against Linux are Bollocks (Apr 30, 2008, 03:00)
The Linux Distillery: "Microsoft PR threw down
the gauntlet; 'see how Windows Server 2008 stacks up versus Linux,'
they say..."
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Kickfire is the MySQL Data Box for the Rest of Us (Apr 30, 2008, 01:30)
Between The Lines: "Given all the various
technology news in the last two weeks, it would have been
relatively easy to overlook a press release from a small startup
called Kickfire, which produces an appliance to run MySQL
applications..."
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