News Linux News for Nov 02, 2004:

InfoWorld: Get the Facts on Microsoft Benchmarks
(2004-11-02 01:00:07)
"Now that Steve Ballmer and company have given you all the facts you need to compare Windows and Linux, allow me to add just one little tidbit..."

NetworkWorldFusion: Revisiting Novell's Linux Desktop Interface
(2004-11-02 02:30:31)
"A few of you wrote in to say that you'd heard Novell was creating a new GUI for its Novell Linux Desktop package which would be a blend, a mélange, a combination of these two. So I looked into it..."

LinuxInsider: Software Battle Pits Microsoft Against the Open Sourcers
(2004-11-02 04:30:35)
"Today we are caught in the middle of a war between those who believe in freedom and those who believe in control..."

DistroWatch: Distributions, November 1, 2004
(2004-11-02 04:45:00)
Today's distributions: Arch Linux 0.7 Beta 2, Lycoris Desktop/LX 1.4, and Skolelinux 1.0r1.

Release Digest: GNOME, November 1, 2004
(2004-11-02 04:45:20)
Today's GNOME apps: Audio Tag Tool 0.11.1, Multiplication Puzzle 3.0, DrPython 3.6.8, GRAMPS 1.0.8, Mail Notification 0.8.0, GAIMnOSD 0.4, gentoo 0.11.52, SwingWT 0.84, Animal Shelter Manager 1.36, Previews Reader 0.3.0, gtk-send-pr 0.3.5, DrQueue 0.53.3, Quod Libet 0.3, and Teatime 2.4.1.

Release Digest: KDE, November 1, 2004
(2004-11-02 04:45:40)
Today's KDE apps: KMPlayer 0.8.4-rc1, Krusader 1.50, Kommander 1.1development1, and KMLDonkey 0.10.

KernelTrap: In Kernel GUI
(2004-11-02 05:30:23)
"Zack Smith announced that he has been working on an in-kernel 2D GUI for the 2.6 Linux kernel called FBUI..."

LinuxDevices: MontaVista and NEC Ally on Linux Platforms
(2004-11-02 07:00:27)
"MontaVista has agreed to provide Linux 'platforms' to NEC for its hardware reference designs for mobile phones, digital consumer devices, and car navigation systems..."

Oracle.com: Installing Oracle Database 10g on Linux x86
(2004-11-02 08:30:05)
"The ultimate goal of this series is to walk through installing and configuring all of the components of a 10g Grid..."

Linux Journal: The Need for Speed and Automation
(2004-11-02 10:00:45)
"Kernel development is getting faster, and testing has to keep up. This early warning tool gives developers insight into changes that could hurt performance..."

KernelTrap: Pluggable CPU Schedulers
(2004-11-02 11:30:09)
"Con Kolivas posted a set of patches to the lkml offering a pluggable cpu scheduler framework..."

The Inquirer: Sun, IBM Adopt Jesuitical Approach to Linux
(2004-11-02 13:00:00)
"A report said that top Linux multinational promoters, IBM and Sun, have started to promote the operating system at primary and secondary schools in Japan..."

A Day to Forget for SCO
(2004-11-02 13:45:48)
InfoWorld and The Salt Lake Tribune detail what a bad day yesterday was for The SCO Group, what with no anti-Groklaw site ready and falling stock prices. Articles within.

NewsForge: A Little Good News About Electronic Voting
(2004-11-02 14:30:53)
"However, after all of the frozen voting terminals, lost software loads, mysteriously found machines, and vendors' efforts to keep it all hushed, there is some good news on e-voting. No, it's not that it will all be over after today...

CXOtoday: SuSE Or Red Hat? Choose Carefully, Advises Gartner
(2004-11-02 15:15:47)
"Enterprises with strong Linux/Unix skill sets should consider both Red Hat and Novell’s SuSE Linux, very carefully advises, research firm Gartner..."

SD Times: Open Bar Open for Discussion
(2004-11-02 16:00:06)
"Instead, the organizers of Open-bar.org, would prefer to be thought of as an open source for sober views and discussions on the legal issues involving open-source software licensing..."

DesktopLinux: Red Hat Founder's New Project Helps Fund Open Source Development
(2004-11-02 16:45:42)
"Red Hat co-founder and former chair Bob Young is launching a new software marketplace that allows open source developers to publish software and fund their projects..."

CIO Magazine: French Eye Open Source, e-Government Savings
(2004-11-02 17:30:35)
"The seriously cash-strapped French Government is looking to e-government and open source software for its salvation, under a plan to boost productivity and slash public spending..."

Gentoo Linux Advisories: Cherokee, ppp, Archive::Zip
(2004-11-02 18:15:00)
Three security advisories from the Gentoo Foundation.

Trustix Secure Linux Advisory: libxml2, postgresql
(2004-11-02 18:15:15)
"There is a buffer overflow when parsing a URL with ftp information in it..."

eBCVG: The Fox Cometh
(2004-11-02 18:15:30)
"For the sixth month in a row, the market share of open source browsers Mozilla and FireFox and Apple's Safari browser have grown, slowly eroding Microsoft Internet Explorer's (IE) market share in the process..."

Government Technology: Open-Ended
(2004-11-02 19:00:51)
"The ads are more about perception than product--open source software is important, infinitely malleable, here for the long term and allied with big tech companies..."

Conectiva Linux Advisory: rsync
(2004-11-02 19:30:00)
"rsync before 2.6.1 does not properly sanitize paths when running a read and write daemon without using chroot. This could allow a remote attacker to write files outside of the rsync directory, depending on rsync's daemon privileges..."

Slackware Linux Advisories: libtiff, apache+mod_ssl
(2004-11-02 19:30:15)
Two security advisories from Slackware.

NewsForge: Dutch EU Presidency Holds Open Source in Government Conference
(2004-11-02 19:30:45)
"The conference 'Open Standards and Libre Software in Government' is organised by MERIT in coordination with the Dutch Presidency of the European Union, on November 18, 2004 in The Hague, The Netherlands..."

Financial Times: Give Me Liberty And Give Me Death?
(2004-11-02 20:00:20)
"The price of liberty is death, at least so far as free software is concerned. Or so goes the argument in Richard Epstein's column, 'Why open source is unsustainable.' It is a characteristically provocative title, but I am unconvinced..."

TechCentral: Linux: It Ain’t Cheap, Buddy!
(2004-11-02 20:30:21)
"The four panellists in the Application Development Tools track at the recent ITJourno Asia Forum generally felt that the open-source Linux operating system’s long-term ownership cost was not as cheap as some people would like to believe..."

Debian GNU/Linux Advisories: abiword, mpg123, iptables, libxml, libxml2, xpdf
(2004-11-02 21:15:00)
Five security advisories from the Debian Project.

Ubuntu Advisories: xpdf, groff
(2004-11-02 21:15:15)
Two security advisories from Ubuntu.

pcstuff.dk: Mandrake Move [Review]
(2004-11-02 21:15:49)
"Mandrake Move is the second version of Mandrakesoft's live CD Linux distribution, which is aimed at mobile users and those who want to dip their toes into the Linux world without installing it..."

CRM Daily: Open Source CRM: An Open Question
(2004-11-02 22:00:23)
"Once solely at the mercy of high-cost software vendors, companies are now looking hard at the much cheaper, free-flowing open-source applications. An outright rebellion may be afoot..."

Mandrakelinux Advisories: perl-MIME-tools, netatalk, MySQL...
(2004-11-02 22:45:00)
Other advisories: mpg123, perl-Archive-Zip, gaim, and mod_ssl/apache2-mod_ssl

ZDNet UK: Anti-Patent Campaigner Calls for EU Recount
(2004-11-02 22:45:51)
"A change in the voting weights of EU members means that the EU Council members which supported controversial changes to the EU Software Patents directive no longer have a majority vote, prompting some campaigners to call for a recount..."

eWeek: Mac and Linux Not Immune to Viruses
(2004-11-02 23:30:09)
"Any operating system in the hands of naive users can be as dangerous as a Windows computer..."

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