IT Management Linux News for Mar 21, 2007

• ComputerWorld: Living (and dying) with Linux in the workplace (Mar 21, 2007, 23:55)
  "A Windows power user gives Linux a fair trial as her primary operating system at work. Does the open-source OS have what it takes to make her switch for good?"


• DesktopLinux: KDE publishes v4.0 roll-out schedule (Mar 21, 2007, 22:45)
  "The new KDE will have many changes ranging from the minor, such as art improvements, to the major, such as KOffice 2.0. If you could sum them up in one word, though, that word would be "consistency."


• InternetNews: Microsoft Not a Cathedral; Open Source Not a Bazaar (Mar 21, 2007, 22:00)
  "During a morning keynote, Abrams declared that Microsoft is not the cathedral and that open source isn't really a bazaar when it comes to AJAX, a claim that undermines one of the core underpinnings of the open source movement."


• DesktopLinux.com: OLPC comes up with stable Linux build (Mar 21, 2007, 21:15)
  " The One Laptop Per Child program reported today that after 303 builds, it finally has a satisfactory version of its Red Hat Linux-based Sugar operating system that is considered stable, according to OLPC president for software and content Walter Bender."


• Tummy.com: PyCon Wireless Network (Mar 21, 2007, 20:30)
  "How do you make 600 Python geeks happy? Well, wireless network access is a good start..."


• Nouveau Wiki: Nouveau wants Google Summer of Code developer (Mar 21, 2007, 19:45)
  "You do not have to have experience in driver programming. Solid experience in programming will do just fine, you will pick up with driver writing fairly fast."
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• Martin Michlmayr: Quality Improvement in Free Software: Release Management (Mar 21, 2007, 18:30)
  "The main question of my research is how and why time based release management works for large free software projects."


• LWN.net: GNOME Foundation Retains Software Freedom Law Center (Mar 21, 2007, 17:00)
  "The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), provider of pro-bono legal services to protect and advance Free and Open Source Software, today announced the addition of a new client, the GNOME Foundation."


• InfoWorld: Oracle CEO: Linux support program working (Mar 21, 2007, 16:15)
  "Article Tools sponsored by HP Oracle has gotten off to a "very strong start" with its support program for users of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux, according to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison."


• LinuxPlanet: Novell's New Server Products To Integrate NetWare, GroupWise (Mar 21, 2007, 15:30)
  "Novell's rollout this week of a SUSE Linux thin client surely doesn't mean that the richer and only slightly older SUSE Enterprise Desktop will be going away..."


• LinuxWorldAu: Firefox Hit By Fewer Flaws Than IE In 2006 (Mar 21, 2007, 14:45)
  "Mozilla's Firefox suffered from 26 percent fewer vulnerabilities in the second half of 2006 than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, a security company's research said Monday."


• SupportPRO.com: LVM Howto (Mar 21, 2007, 14:40)
  "This is an attempt to collect everything needed to know to get LVM up and running. The entire process of getting, compiling, installing, and setting up LVM will be covered. Pointers to LVM configurations that have been tested will also be included."
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• Yahoo News: Privacy for Internet names moves forward (Mar 21, 2007, 14:00)
  "Many owners of Internet addresses face this quandary: Provide your real contact information when you register a domain name and subject yourself to junk or harassment. Or enter fake data and risk losing it outright."


• Groklaw: 2 Groklaw Reports from the Perens Press Conference (Mar 21, 2007, 13:15)
  "The conclusion of the meeting? Nothing good is coming from this deal between Microsoft and Novell. If it were just a technical partnership, everything would be okay, but it’s not. Bruce kept saying “is this really a Novell exit strategy?” I can’t help but wonder if it is."


• EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: Public Wi-Fi: Share, but Wisely (Mar 21, 2007, 12:30)
  "Odessa Office Equipment is my favorite WISP (Wireless ISP) success story, because its founder and owner, Marlon Schafer beat Paul Allen at turning a profit selling wireless Internet."


• Linux.com: How to create video titles and graphics with Kino (Mar 21, 2007, 11:45)
  "Kino is one of the better free software video editors for Linux, but it isn't always intuitive. Consider such common tasks as adding titles and graphics to a clip. The best approach isn't obvious. After a little exploring, I figured out good ways to add titles and graphics."


• Beryl Blog: Beryl fixes licensing issues, can now be used in Ubuntu and debian (Mar 21, 2007, 09:30)
  "Hello there folks. Today, we have released beryl 0.2.1. There’s nothing NEW in the release. However all of the licenses have been fixed so that it can go into debian and ubuntu"


• LinuxPlanet: Novell Eyes Competition With Microsoft (Mar 21, 2007, 09:00)
  "Carlos Monero-Luque, Novell's VP of product management for open source software, dubbed Novell's SUSE Linux Client, rolled out this week, 'the $50 desktop with the $500 attitude...'"


• LinuxLookup: Wine 0.9.33 Released (Mar 21, 2007, 08:30)
  "This is release 0.9.33 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix."


• qBangsolutions: Travel Back Vim Time (Mar 21, 2007, 07:00)
  "...this is one of the two features I was waiting for in Vim 7.0 (the other is tabs): go back in time."


• developerWorks: Command-Line PHP? Yes, You CAN! (Mar 21, 2007, 05:30)
  "Give PHP a chance on the command-line interface, and you may find that it has become your new favorite shell-scripting tool."


• OSWeekly: Mixing Politics and Linux: So Uncool (Mar 21, 2007, 04:00)
  "It wasn’t for everyone, and the technical competence that was required to even accomplish the most basic tasks proved to be too much for anyone that had a life away from the computer. Because of this, the OS drew a crowd composed of the geekiest geeks around, hackers, and other curious individuals who weren’t afraid of feeling like idiots."


• MadPenguin: Reason Why Schools Should Adopt Linux (Mar 21, 2007, 02:30)
  "Where does someone who wishes to migrate to Linux go from here?"


• ZDNet: Novell introduces Linux thin client (Mar 21, 2007, 01:00)
  "Roger Levy, Novell's vice president and general manager of Open Platform Solutions, said this will offer "a new low-cost, flexible solution for ... end-user computing requirements."