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IT Management Linux News for Jan 23, 2008
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Review: DesktopBSD 1.6 (Jan 23, 2008, 23:30)
Raiden's Realm: "DesktopBSD, a derivative of
Freebsd designed for desktop use, has come a long way since its
early inception back in late 2005. Originally created as a way to
bring the power of Freebsd as a desktop OS to new users, it has now
blossomed into a desktop experience even the most hardened geek, or
greenest novice can love."
Link fixed
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Can Sun make MySQL pay? (Jan 23, 2008, 22:45)
Interop News: "How can an open source software
company with $70 million or so in revenue and no profits to speak
of be worth $1 billion? That's the question Sun CEO Jonathan
Schwartz has been trying to answer since he bought MySQL last
week."
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Pushing Gentoo Forward (Jan 23, 2008, 22:00)
The tech and other cents: "I just read Brian
Proffit's support call for Daniel Robbins' offer to step as the
leader of Gentoo's legal affairs again. I am gladly joining the
call, because I think Gentoo is in position where it needs
leadership."
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Linux For The Masses...? Bet On This Winner (Jan 23, 2008, 21:15)
LXer.com: "With Linux on the desktop going from
a slow crawl to verging on an explosion, many have toiled with the
question: How do we make this happen faster? A well-known
Austin-based Linux Advocate thinks he has the answer."
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Net/FSE: free network forensic search engine (Jan 23, 2008, 20:30)
Help Net Security: "Net/FSE requires little or
no administration and can be quickly installed by the customer on
commodity servers running a Linux operating system. Deployed as a
browser-based solution, analysts can search through terabytes of
data from anywhere on the network."
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StartSSL OpenID Provider (Jan 23, 2008, 19:15)
StartCom: "A new year and already a new
service: StartSSL is going to be an OpenID provider for digital
identities...!"
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Linux, Open Source Dominate Lotusphere (Jan 23, 2008, 18:30)
The VAR Guy: "It's time for The VAR Guy to eat
a little more crow. Last week, he suggested nobody really cared
about Lotusphere anymore. Boy was he wrong. Turns out IBM and the
Lotus team unveiled some major partnerships at the event. Here are
the top six highlights from Lotusphere, and the potential benefits
for VARs."
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OpenSuSE 11.0 Installer Gets A Face-Lift (Jan 23, 2008, 17:15)
Phoronix: "Last week OpenSuSE 11.0 Alpha 1 was
released, and in addition to including KDE 4.0, PulseAudio
integration, and various package updates, Alpha 1 features
improvements to the OpenSuSE installer. This installer uses Qt4 and
is much improved, which warranted us taking a closer look."
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The Point of So Many Distros (Jan 23, 2008, 15:15)
Linux Loop: "He also discussed how there seem
to be a few distros that have polished software and are generally
very good and others that, in his view, are bad. On this point, I
disagree."
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GNU/Solaris - When the fun begins (Jan 23, 2008, 14:30)
IT Pro: "Sun Microsystems has purchased MySQL
and released Java under the GPL. Chief executive Jonathan Schwartz
has also speculated that there could be a future release of Solaris
under the GPL, but what would be the implications of such a
move?"
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