News Linux News for Jan 10, 2005:

NewsForge: My Workstation OS: SUSE Professional
(2005-01-10 01:00:11)
"I was looking for a single distribution I could rely on as both a server and a desktop OS, and one that I could install and support remotely for clients and use at home for work and play. What I found was the powerful SUSE Professional..."

Release Digest: Distributions, January 9, 2005
(2005-01-10 05:00:00)
This weekend's distributions: YES Linux 2.0.13, Always Current Lineox Enterprise Linux 3.055, Games Knoppix 3.7-0.2, Turkix 3.0, and Buffalo Linux 1.6.1.1.

Release Digest: GNOME, January 9, 2005
(2005-01-10 05:00:20)
This weekend's GNOME apps: Cornfed SIP User Agent 0.5.0, GAIMnOSD 0.5.1, Goobox 0.7.0, bookmark-applet 0.9 Zwetschgndatschi, DrPython 3.8.4, Ghost In The Mail 0.3, Imendio Blam 1.6.1, Jumpnbumpmenu 1.0.17, DiaCanvas# 0.5.1, Hardware Lister (lshw) B.02.01, Guifications 2.8, wxDesigner 2.11, vqcc-gtk 0.5, Yarssr 0.2.0, Muine 0.8.0, and gDesklets 0.33.1.

Release Digest: KDE, January 9, 2005
(2005-01-10 05:00:40)
This weekend's KDE apps: Psi 0.9.3-test2, Misfit Model 3D 1.1.3, Kallery 1.0.6, KRename 3.0.3rc2, Klear 0.1-alpha3, KWlanInfo 0.9.3, QComicBook 0.1.0, Simple Beagle-UI 0.2, kconfigedit 1.0, gwenview 1.0.1 - 1.1.8, amaroK 1.2-beta3, KAlarm 1.2.4, and Scribus 1.2.1.

ONLamp: Keeping Your Life in Subversion
(2005-01-10 05:30:18)
"I keep my life in a Subversion repository. For the past five years, I've checked every file I've created and worked on, every email I've sent or received, and every config file I've tweaked into revision control..."

Linux Magazine: Using APT on RPM-Based Systems
(2005-01-10 07:00:01)
"Managing packages can be a tricky undertaking, even with package tools like the RPM Package Manager (RPM), the package management tool used by Conectiva, Fedora, Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE, Yellow Dog, and many other distributions..."

FedoraNews: How to Sign Your Custom RPM Package with GPG Key
(2005-01-10 08:30:34)
"After building your custom RPM package, it's a good idea to sign the package with your own GPG Key to make sure the package is authentic..."

ONLamp: Quick Tip for Linux Users Having Trouble with Emacs (or Xemacs) Copy/Paste
(2005-01-10 10:00:37)
"Why these settings aren't the default on Linux completely bewilders me..."

Linux Magazine: Peeking In, At Linux
(2005-01-10 11:30:35)
"Last month's 'Tech Support' showed how to monitor resource utilization with Cacti. This month, let's use vmstat to track down any bottlenecks that Cacti might have found..."

LinuxDevices: Linux Thin Clients Gain Bandwidth-Sparing Technology
(2005-01-10 13:00:52)
"A company selling Linux thin clients since 1994 has added a new X compression technology to its latest firmware revision..."

LWN: grsecurity 2.1.0 and Kernel Vulnerabilities
(2005-01-10 13:45:24)
"Private notification of vulnerabilities is a privilege, and when that privilege is abused by not responding promptly, it deserves to be revoked..."

Heise Online: EU Commission Called Upon to Start Legislation from Scratch
(2005-01-10 14:30:10)
"61 EU members of parliament from 13 countries led by the Polish ex-prime minister Jerzy Buzek are demanding that the legislative process on the controversial directive on the patentability of 'computer-implemented inventions' begin again from scratch..."

CNET News: Open Source Reshaping Services Market
(2005-01-10 15:15:18)
"The open-source movement has already rewritten the rules for how software is licensed and used. Now the computer services market is changing to keep up..."

The Boston Globe: Group Aims to Capitalize on Firefox Success
(2005-01-10 16:00:36)
"Following up on the success of the Firefox open source Web browser, released by the Mozilla Foundation last fall, open source software developers are readying some new products..."

PR: Study Predicts Significant Linux Desktop, Server Growth for SMBs
(2005-01-10 16:45:12)
"On a worldwide basis the number of Linux-owning SMBs is projected to rise from 1.2 million to 2.7 million businesses--a compounded annual growth rate of 18%," according to a press release from Access Markets International Partners. Release within.

Federal Computer Weekly: The Year Ahead... In Technology
(2005-01-10 17:30:13)
"Support for open-source projects by major companies such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard, along with government officials' growing use of Linux, could help spur real solutions this year..."

Linux Journal: Linux in Government: How Security Exploits Threaten Government Infrastructures
(2005-01-10 18:15:22)
"Showing government offices and agencies how Linux and open-source software provide better security..."

CNET News: Zend Buffs Up Corporate Open-Source Effort
(2005-01-10 19:00:47)
"Zend Technologies on Monday released a tool set intended to ease the administration of applications written with the open-source development language PHP, part of Zend's bid to appeal to corporate customers..."

NewsForge: Must-Have Applications for the Linux Desktop
(2005-01-10 19:45:28)
"It's time to install the short list of must-have applications that don't come with your distribution..."

Linux Business Week: Cherokee Indians To Encircle Open Source?
(2005-01-10 20:30:34)
"Jeff Merkey... is convinced open source misappropriates other people's IP but thinks he's figured out a way to make it a commercially viable capitalist tool... by letting the Cherokee Nation run it..."

DesktopLinux: ProMEPIS Adds New Kernel to Latest Beta... But at a Price
(2005-01-10 21:00:52)
"'MEPIS was slow to introduce a newer kernel due to instabilities caused by restrictive policy and code changes introduced by the kernel team after 2.6.7,' Woodford says..."

LinuxInsider: Penguin Looks To Conquer HPC Clustering
(2005-01-10 21:30:47)
"The term 'cluster-in-a-box'--used by Penguin to describe its new BladeRunner server--is intended to be taken literally..."

LinuxPlanet: Linux Live with Knoppix Version 3.7
(2005-01-10 22:00:10)
There are cases when for evaluation, demonstration, recovery or otherwise you don't want to install a new operating system onto a hard drive..."

SearchEnterpriseLinux: Bulusu's Map to Porting Apps to Linux
(2005-01-10 22:45:19)
"Fear not, for porting existing apps to Linux doesn't have to be a head-banging activity, says application development expert Gopi Kumar Bulusu..."

Humorix: Windows 2003 Outperforms Red Hat
(2005-01-10 23:30:45)
Humor: "According to a 'massive' study conducted by the impartial Microsoft Marketing Department, Windows 2003 servers outperform Red Hat Linux in every possible configuration..."

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