News Linux News for Oct 06, 2004:

Community: It's The File Format Stupid!
(2004-10-06 00:15:18)
"It's not about the player. It's not even about the operating system. It's about an open file format for digital media..."

Groklaw: SCO Tells the Red Hat Judge Their Version of SCO v. IBM
(2004-10-06 01:00:04)
"Here is the letter SCO has filed with The Honorable Sue Robinson, the judge presiding over the Red Hat v. SCO lawsuit, their periodic report on how things are going in the SCO v. IBM lawsuit..."

Linux Magazine: Changing Himself
(2004-10-06 01:45:40)
"A perennial innovator for nearly four decades, Todd Rundgren fancies himself a hacker..."

Tectonic: Linux Training--To Certify or Not to Certify?
(2004-10-06 02:30:33)
"...IT departments are beginning to skill up engineers and systems administrators for careers in Linux while at the same time, hiring new staff that have Linux skills..."

Linux Magazine: Back to the Future
(2004-10-06 04:00:27)
"PC CPU paradigm shift? Been there, done that. Don't you remember what happened with the 386? Oh, that's right, most of you are too young to remember..."

DistroWatch: Distributions, October 5, 2004
(2004-10-06 04:45:00)
Today's distribution: KANOTIX 09-2004.

Release Digest: GNOME, October 4, 2004
(2004-10-06 04:45:20)
Today's GNOME apps: gnomevfs-mount 0.0.1 and GnomePython 2.6.0.

Release Digest: KDE, October 5, 2004
(2004-10-06 04:45:40)
Today's KDE apps: Quantum GIS (QGIS) 0.5, abakus 0.60, Password Creator 1.1, SpeedCrunch 0.3, Kard 0.1, Kcomain 0.2, and KMPlayer 0.8.3a.

OpenEnterpriseTrends: Hands-On: Open Source Tools to Speed-up Ant
(2004-10-06 05:30:41)
"Looking for a faster way to compile with Ant? A growing number of Open Source developers say that Javamake or Jikes might just do the trick..."

EgoBurp: Filter Rule TTL
(2004-10-06 07:00:34)
"I just thought of a feature that would be very useful when configuring filters, whether it be Cisco ACL's or Linux iptables or whatever..."

DesktopLinux: Larry Rosen Joins Open Source Intellectual Property Services Company
(2004-10-06 08:30:18)
"Black Duck Software has hired Larry Rosen as senior advisor..."

Mandrakelinux Community Newsletter Issue # 96
(2004-10-06 10:00:15)
The latest news from Mandrakesoft.

News-Medical.Net: Linux System to Reduce Animals Tested in Reseach
(2004-10-06 11:30:50)
Actual headline: "A Website Set Up by Scientists for Scientists Aims to Reduce the Number of Animals Used in Medical Research"

Linux Journal: Programming Tools: Eclipse 3.0.1
(2004-10-06 13:00:39)
"It's not perfect yet, but Eclipse marks a new way of developing applications..."

PR: Live Mandrake is on the Move
(2004-10-06 13:45:57)
The newest iteration of Mandrakemove, now just called "Move," has been announced. Press release within.

vnunet: Novell's SUSE Woos Linux 'Newcomers'
(2004-10-06 14:30:36)
"Novell has claimed that its forthcoming SuSE Linux Professional 9.2 distribution will appeal to 'Linux newcomers' as well as technical enthusiasts..."

ZDNet UK: BBC Launches Open-Source Video Technology
(2004-10-06 15:00:16)
LinuxWorld Expo UK: "The BBC has announced an open-source video compression project which it hopes may one day give Windows Media Player a run for its money..."

CXOtoday: If Microsoft's Cheaper Than Linux, The Earth's Flat
(2004-10-06 15:15:01)
"The research report, contrasting Linux & open source against proprietary Microsoft software, has shown that open source has a lower TCO by up to 30%..." Independent report: 30% lower TCO. Microsoft-funded IDC report: 30% higher TCO. Hmmm...

The Register: Ballmer Calls for Horse-Based Attack on Star Office
(2004-10-06 16:00:14)
"Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer told resellers at the European Partner conference that anyone in danger of losing business to Star Office should email him and he would send in the cavalry..."

The Inquirer: Anti-Virus Program Detects GNU Public Licence
(2004-10-06 16:30:54)
"Popular open source virus scanner Clamav has been hastily updated this morning to remove a 'false positive': the scanner was detecting the GNU Public Licence as a virus..."

Builder AU: MPAA Blames Linux Australia Notice on 'Human Error'
(2004-10-06 17:00:01)
"The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has blamed Linux Australia's wrongful receipt of a copyright infringement notice on a worker's 'bad day...'"

LinuxInsider: Desktop Linux Users Debate Impact of Longhorn Gap
(2004-10-06 17:30:53)
"The open source community is still hoping to see desktop versions of Linux enter the corporate enterprise, but vendors say Microsoft's decision to make major changes to the next version of Windows will do little to help their cause..."

SearchEnterpriseLinux: Mandrakesoft Finds Footing With New Roots
(2004-10-06 18:15:17)
In this exclusive interview, Mandrakesoft co-founder Gaël Duval speaks with SearchEnterpriseLinux.com about successfully emerging from bankruptcy protection, the latest happenings in Linux and the direction he hopes to take the company.

SUSE Linux Advisories: mozilla, samba
(2004-10-06 18:54:56)
Two security advisories from SUSE Linux.

Debian GNU/Linux Advisories: net-acct, libapache-mod-dav
(2004-10-06 18:58:48)
Two security advisories from the Debian Project.

LWN.net: Linux Kernel Management Style
(2004-10-06 19:00:28)
From the keyboard of Linus Torvalds: "This is a short document describing the preferred (or made up, depending on who you ask) management style for the linux kernel..."

The Register: McNealy: Microsoft Needs Sun to Beat IBM and Red Hat
(2004-10-06 19:30:31)
"The extent, however, of Sun's loathing for Red Hat is more profound than many imagine, with Sun's CEO Scott McNealy largely confirming a shared attack with Microsoft against the Linux vendor..."

Computer Times: Open Approach Offers Mindef More Choice
(2004-10-06 20:00:47)
"The [Singapore] Defence Ministry installs Open-Office, an open source productivity suite, in 5,000 new computers as an alternative to proprietary software..."

NewsForge: Jabber Developers Gain More Code as Jive Opens Up Server
(2004-10-06 20:30:47)
"When AOL opened up some of its ICQ instant messaging APIs last April, there was criticism that the open source move was bogus. But the latest IM code contribution from Jive is no jive, according to Jabber open source developers..."

LinuxWorld Australia: British Telecom Flexes Penguin-Power VoIP
(2004-10-06 21:15:51)
"...[T]he shift to open source within the world's dealing rooms is so pronounced that British Telecom (BT) is now shipping only one flavour of a fully converged trading console--Linux..."

Builder AU: IBM: JBoss More of Threat to BEA
(2004-10-06 22:00:06)
"Robert Sutor, IBM's director of WebSphere Foundation Software...[said] that the open-source application server JBoss was more of threat to BEA than to IBM's own application server software WebSphere..."

OSNews: Open Source Software: Customers Define the Field We Play On
(2004-10-06 22:30:32)
"...[T]here are so many myths circulating with respect to both Open Source and CRM that we hope to de-mystify a few of them with data..."

Techworld: Jonathan--It's Time to Stop Ranting
(2004-10-06 23:30:52)
"In the last week, we've seen Schwartz slag off Red Hat, not to mention Linux in general--which Schwartz persists in spelling linux (lower case) on the grounds that there's more than one..."

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