News Linux News for Jan 12, 2005:

Emergic: Linux and PalmSource
(2005-01-12 00:15:25)
"Following this announcement, some people commented that they saw PalmSource's move to Linux as a final 'desperate' attempt to rescue the company's fledging fortunes. For my part, I view it as a very smart and exciting strategic move..."

ONLamp: Open Source Globalization
(2005-01-12 01:00:08)
"After doing some research, I was impressed with what I found and I now believe that the biggest adoption rates of open source will be in China, India, Africa, Eastern Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the former Soviet Republic..."

The GNOME Journal: Experimental Culture
(2005-01-12 02:30:50)
"In this opinion piece, Seth Nickell discusses the culture surrounding GNOME, where the culture has been, where it is now, and where he thinks it should be heading towards..."

eWeek: Rotten Grapes, IBM and Patents
(2005-01-12 03:15:56)
"IBM tries to have it both ways with supporting both patents and open source. And you know what, there's nothing wrong with that..."

ComputerWeekly: Clarity, Not Speed, Makes Python an Ideal Language for Beginners
(2005-01-12 04:00:02)
"Hot skills: Fourteen years after its release, Python moves to version 2.4..."

Release Digest: Distributions, January 11, 2005
(2005-01-12 04:45:00)
Today's distributions: Tao Linux 1.0 Update 4 and Lormalinux 5 LTSP Server.

Release Digest: GNOME, January 11, 2005
(2005-01-12 04:45:20)
Today's GNOME apps: Amaya 9.0, GLosung 2.1.1, CDCollect 0.4.1, GNOME Lunar Clock Applet 0.32.2, Ghost In The Mail 0.4, Goobox 0.7.1, and GAMGI 0.10.8.

Release Digest: KDE, January 11, 2005
(2005-01-12 04:45:40)
Today's KDE apps: Kate Symbol Viewer Plugin 1.4, LinCVS 1.4.0-rc2, KLinPopup 0.1.5, kdissert 0.3.3, eSvn 0.6.8-1, and Smb4K 0.5.0.

Security Digest: January 11, 2005
(2005-01-12 04:45:59)
Today's security advisories: hylafax and bmv (Debian GNU/Linux); and KDE FTP KIOslave, Konqueror, KPdf, and KOffice (Gentoo Linux).

KernelTrap: Filesystem In Userspace
(2005-01-12 05:30:09)
"Miklos Szeredi provided patches against the 2.6.10 Linux kernel for FUSE, 'Filesystem In Userspace...'"

Linux Magazine: Now and Xen
(2005-01-12 07:00:55)
"Xen, a new, high-performance x86 virtualization system, saves money, boosts usage..."

LinuxDevices: Linux Smartphone Debuts in UK
(2005-01-12 07:45:19)
"A company claiming to be the largest 'specialist retailer' of wireless technology in Europe and North America has begun selling one of the world's first Linux-based smartphones..."

The GNOME Journal: CD/DVD Creation with Nautilus
(2005-01-12 08:30:46)
"...Ken Vandine covers everything you need to know about burning data CDs or DVDs using Nautilus. If you’re looking for audio CD burning in GNOME, fear not, for we plan to cover this topic in a future GNOME Journal release..."

Netcraft: Firefox Makes Gains as RSS Reader
(2005-01-12 09:15:11)
"But Firefox is also grabbing market share as an RSS reader, according to new data from RSS service provider Feedburner..."

ONLamp: Flood Detection and Notification Using Perl
(2005-01-12 10:00:19)
"Rather than fret, put your hacking skills to work and whip up a tool that will notify you when water is detected, so you can rest comfortably or worry about more trivial matters

Brazzil Magazine: Another Push Far from Microsoft, in Brazil
(2005-01-12 10:45:40)
"Since Sunday, Brazilian government's Radiobrás Internet services, are using free source software..."

Open: Mission-Critical for the Super-Pragmatic
(2005-01-12 11:30:22)
"As business demand for always-on systems to process and transact volumes of data around the clock grows, even the most technology-challenged can at least translate terms like high availability to mean hits-without-hiccups..."

Tectonic: Free Software in Africa--2005 a Year for Real Growth
(2005-01-12 12:15:45)
"With the start of a brand new year Tectonic spoke to Bildad Kagai, co-ordinator of the Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa, and asked him what the coming year holds for FOSS in Africa..."

Linux.com: Publishing with Ooo Writer and DokuWiki
(2005-01-12 13:00:38)
"You can, of course, use OOo Web to convert existing files into HTML, but you might want a more powerful and flexible tool to maintain the published documents online--a wiki, for example, and specifically DokuWiki..."

Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.11-rc1
(2005-01-12 13:45:26)
"Ok, the big merges after 2.6.10 are hopefully over, and 2.6.11-rc1 is out there..."

CNET News: Vulnerability Found in Open-Source Audio Player
(2005-01-12 14:30:45)
"A vulnerability found in open-source MPEG audio player mpg123 received a 'highly critical' rating Tuesday from security information provider Secunia..."

LinuxInsider: IBM's Patent Pledge Leaves Unresolved Issues, Say Analysts
(2005-01-12 15:15:33)
"IBM's pledged patents cover operating systems, databases, methods for testing programming interfaces and cursive text recognition..." Plus, more reaction on the patent move.

BusinessWeek: Mozilla Is Gaining on Godzilla
(2005-01-12 16:00:52)
"With the open-source community on its side and many lessons learned, the browser upstart keeps taking market-share from Microsoft..."

Techworld: Pervasive Posts Rival to MySQL
(2005-01-12 17:30:42)
"Pervasive Software, best known for embedded databases aimed at medium-sized businesses, is making the leap into the enterprise with a customised version of the open-source PostgreSQL database..."

LinuxInsider: Analysts Call '04 and '05 Banner Years for Open Source
(2005-01-12 19:00:46)
"As the new year begins, the experts agreed that the big story for 2004 in the open-source world--and one of the biggest in the larger realm of IT--has been the growth of Linux..."

SearchEnterpriseLinux: Rise of the Superplatform: Overkill or Just What the User Ordered?
(2005-01-12 20:30:28)
"Long gone are the days when an application platform was a relatively small environment that consisted of just a complier, an operating system and a few rudimentary frameworks..."

Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.29-rc2
(2005-01-12 22:00:00)
Incremental changelog, link within.

LinuxDevices: DVR Reference Design Runs Linux, Open Source MythTV
(2005-01-12 22:45:13)
"The Royal Linux Media Center was among a handful of digital entertainment center prototypes shown by Transmeta at the Consumer Electronics Show last week..."

Fox News: You Can't Take the IP Out of iPod
(2005-01-12 23:30:44)
"Last week in Las Vegas, over 120,000 people attended the annual Consumer Electronics Show, and if Abraham Lincoln was still alive, he would have been there too..."

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