Infrastructure Linux News for Jul 02, 2008:

Three Reasons Why GNU/Linux is Better for Web Servers than OS X
(2008-07-02 00:00:58)
Linux.com: "Apple's OS X, which has been an official certified Unix system for some time now, is often installed onto Internet-exposed or intranet-only Web servers for serving up dynamic content..."

Confirmed: Xandros Acquires Linspire
(2008-07-02 00:45:00)
Socialized Software: "Today Linux desktop manufacturer Xandros acquired Linspire for an undisclosed amount..."

Mandriva Linux--Wonderful and Maddening
(2008-07-02 02:15:39)
ZDNet UK: "The next candidate is Mandriva Linux, currently on what they term their 'Spring 2008' distribution..."

A Symphony For Viola: Parsix 1.5r0 Review
(2008-07-02 03:00:20)
Red Devil's Tech Blog: "Regular readers of this blog will know I'm a huge fan of Parsix, the Debian-based Linux distribution created by a small team in Iran..."

Migrate Device Control Applications from Windows to Linux
(2008-07-02 04:30:57)
developerWorks: "Ease the pain of migrating device control applications from Microsoft Windows to Linux by understanding how device control works in both operating systems..."

Ndiswrapper in Slackware
(2008-07-02 06:00:19)
PolishLinux: "The following article is about using a HP-530 laptop with Slackware-12.1 and Lantech wireless router with WEP encryption..."

Beating Sandvine on Linux with iptables
(2008-07-02 09:00:14)
Tux Training: "Multiple sites reported a while ago that Comcast was using Sandvine to do tcp packet resets to throttle BitTorrent connections of their users..."

Networking with Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows Part 2
(2008-07-02 10:30:43)
LinuxPlanet: "Part 2 will give you a tour of the networking interfaces in Ubuntu; which are surprisingly somewhat similar to Windows XP. You'll soon be connecting, checking connection details, and browsing network computers in the Linux world..."

One Live DVD, One Ton of Linux Games
(2008-07-02 19:30:57)
Linux.com: "LinuX-Gamers Live is a live DVD from Germany based on Arch Linux that includes nothing but games..."

The Critics are Wrong: KDE 4 Doesn't Need a Fork
(2008-07-02 20:15:56)
ars technica: "After the recent release KDE 4.1 beta 2 and openSUSE 11 with KDE 4.0.4, some critics have been especially vocal in expressing their displeasure with the KDE 4 user interface paradigms..."

Don't Confuse Bad Linux Support for Bad Linux
(2008-07-02 21:00:03)
The Linux Distillery: "Anti-Linux evangelists try to level many claims against the free open source operating system Linux..."

Linux's Dirty Little Secret
(2008-07-02 22:30:01)
Hardware 2.0: "That said, there are a few aspects of Linux that do annoy/frustrate/anger me/make me hulk out* (delete as overall mood dictates), and one of these aspects is so core to an OS that I’m surprised that it hasn't been addressed already..."

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