News Linux News for Dec 02, 2004:

Sydney Morning Herald: US Threat to Free Software
(2004-12-02 00:15:02)
"Fading perhaps faster than all others is the Australia-US free trade agreement: most notably the infamous 'Chapter 17' covering the harmonisation of intellectual property (IP) laws between the two countries..." [Free registration may be required.]

ZDNet: Is Linux Like a Wine That Gets Better With Time?
(2004-12-02 01:00:43)
"Gourmet Geek publisher Scott Rubin asserts that a Linux installation, by way of its tweakability, can be like a fine wine that gets better with time..."

Tuxme: Review: Xandros 2.01 OCE
(2004-12-02 01:45:10)
"Since I am always looking for Linux distributions that are suitable as Windows replacements, I decided to give Xandros a try..."

CNET News: The Looming Threat to U.S. High Tech's Future
(2004-12-02 02:30:02)
"A system that supports a critical element of our nation's economic competitiveness--the patent system--is at risk..."

Update: Groklaw: O'Gara Wishes to Prove SCO's Case, Or Something
(2004-12-02 03:15:00)
"Leapin' Lizards, Batman, the heroine action figure who wishes to Take the Open Source Movement Down singlehandedly is none other than Maureen O'Gara, who is asking the Utah court to unseal all the sealed records..." The actual filing is now available.

ZDNet Australia: Time For the Real Facts
(2004-12-02 04:00:17)
"Microsoft is banking on the power of peer reviews by parading a string of customers who dumped Linux for Windows but there's something amiss..."

Release Digest: GNOME, December 1, 2004
(2004-12-02 04:45:00)
Today's GNOME apps: DrPython 3.7.1, gscore 0.0.7, Gtk+ MySQL Command Center (GMySQLCC) 0.2.2a, Liferea 0.6.4b, and gdvrecv 1.1.

Release Digest: KDE, December 1, 2004
(2004-12-02 04:45:30)
Today's KDE apps: gambas 1.0 RC4, KPoGre 1.2.7, Kommander Project Tools 0.5rc1, and knoda 0.7.2.

Security Digest, December 1, 2004
(2004-12-02 04:45:59)
Today's security advisories: openssl (Debian GNU/Linux) and kernel (SUSE Linux).

Linux.com: SysAdmin to SysAdmin: Make for System Administrators
(2004-12-02 05:30:01)
"By using a single control file, you can perform a number of tasks, including downloading, building, and installing needed programs; uninstalling the same programs; and backing up the program's configuration files..."

NewsForge: Setting Up a Home Directory
(2004-12-02 07:00:15)
"Your home directory is the place where you keep your own files. Good organizational skills and some foresight will help keep your 'home' in order..."

MacDevCenter: Why Install Linux on Your Mac?
(2004-12-02 08:30:10)
"Yeah, why? Your typical modern Mac comes with all the Unixy goodness you could ever need, right? But there are a bunch of Linux PPC distributions that you can, if you feel the need, install on your Apple hardware..."

Newspapers and Technology: Firefox: The Revolution Begins Here
(2004-12-02 10:00:55)
"This sort of 'viral marketing' is what companies pray for, since it expands outward through the culture at logarithmic rates, and it’s essentially free. And it's also only going to expand..."

ENT News: Opteron is to Linux as EM64T is to Windows?
(2004-12-02 11:30:50)
"It may not be time to retire the term 'Wintel' yet..."

NewsForge: Managing Hardware Inventory and Software Licensing with Open Source Products
(2004-12-02 13:00:19)
"In small offices and large corporate networks, IT administrators have to manage hardware and software inventory... Here are six open source products that can help you manage the task..."

CNET News: Mozilla Previews E-mail Program
(2004-12-02 13:45:57)
"Weeks after the successful launch of its Firefox browser, Mozilla released an e-mail application in another salvo on Microsoft's home turf..."

internetnews.com: IBM, NYSE Set for Major Software Pact
(2004-12-02 14:30:09)
"In an example of how high-tech vendors are shoring up deals in the financial services industry, IBM will announce a major technology pact with the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) next Thursday, internetnews.com has learned..." While details are not forthcoming yet, there is some speculation in the article that this could involve Linux.

ComputerWeekly: Unix Lawsuit Agreement Raises Questions for SCO
(2004-12-02 15:15:41)
An analysis of what the BSD settlement agreement between the University of California and Unix Systems Laboratories might mean for SCO's legal rights regarding Unix.

IT Observer: CIOs and IT Managers Prefer Linux for E-mail
(2004-12-02 16:00:34)
"A study, undertaken by Osterman Research in October 2004, reveals that 55 percents of CIOs and IT Managers would consider switching to Linux e-mail over the next two years..."

BNAmericas/LinuxInsider: Brazil Court Adopts Open-Source Software
(2004-12-02 16:45:51)
"TJDFT's migration is aligned with the current government's policy of stimulating the adoption of open-source technology..."

ZDNet UK: The Manx Turn from Unix to Windows
(2004-12-02 17:30:04)
"The Isle of Man is ditching Unix and shunning Linux as it moves its infrastructure from a heterogenous environment to Windows..."

SearchEnterpriseLinux: Building an Affordable SAN on Linux
(2004-12-02 18:15:56)
"A Linux solution would allow us to minimize the cost impact to the client and place a pilot solution that was about one-tenth of the cost..."

Yahoo!/TechWeb: Red Hat, Novell To Package Xen Open-Source Alternative To Vmware
(2004-12-02 19:00:03)
"Watch out VMware and Microsoft. Here comes Xen..."

Groklaw: Lots of Activity in SCO v. IBM Land--SCO Says It Did Not Repudiate GPL
(2004-12-02 19:30:01)
"Lots of filings in the SCO v. IBM case are up on Pacer this morning. The overview: SCO says to the court: slow down..."

NewsForge: Firebird Targets the Enterprise Database
(2004-12-02 20:00:46)
"Last fall Allan Grant was very upset following a meeting with his database vendor. Grant is the CIO of a large trading group with over $1 billion in sales..."

LinuxPlanet: Veritas Storage Foundation Eases Pain of Data Migration
(2004-12-02 20:30:24)
"'Vendor X Ports Enterprise Widget App 5.0 to Linux! Nations Rejoice!', the headline might read. But in all this glorious talk about applications moving to Linux, what about all that data you have? How does that get over to Linux...?"

internetnews.com: Debate Swirls Around Browser Market Share
(2004-12-02 21:00:35)
"When Dutch Web analytics firm OneStat.com released figures last month showing Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser had fallen to 88.9 percent market share, the alternative browser crowd had new reason to cheer..."

Linux.com: Linux Needs Better Network File Systems
(2004-12-02 21:30:25)
"While the choices are many, we'll see that Linux still faces significant innovation challenges; yesterday's network paradigm isn't necessarily the best approach to the network of tomorrow..."

OSDir: Preview of KDE 3.4
(2004-12-02 22:00:47)
"KDE 4 will make use of the Qt 4 library which promises to be quite a revolution for KDE and all Qt applications, but will break binary compatibility with previous releases..."

LinuxWorld Australia: Why NetWare Client for Linux Isn't Shipping with Novell Linux Desktop
(2004-12-02 22:45:35)
"Recently I mentioned that the full-service NetWare client for Linux that would be available when Open Enterprise Server ships early next year..."

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