News Linux News for Mar 01, 2005:

Groklaw: Reports of My Destruction Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
(2005-03-01 00:15:07)
Humor: "Nah, I must be getting mixed up--it's Longhorn that will destroy Linux... If I don't die of old age before it's released..."

Bangkok Post/LinuxInsider: Why the Patent System Inhibits Innovation Today
(2005-03-01 01:00:05)
"A friend of mine gave me a truly fresh view of open source the other day when he told me that human beings are the epitome of open-source bio-engineering..."

internetnews.com: Marten Mickos, CEO, MySQL AB
(2005-03-01 01:45:55)
"In an interview with internetnews.com, conducted before LinuxWorld, Mickos talked about the open and closed source competition, his thoughts on Larry Ellison and what's wrong with patents..."

IT Manager's Journal: The 15 Most Annoying IT-speak clichés Buzzwords Ever Used
(2005-03-01 02:30:56)
"Any journalist on the job for more than 24 hours knows that wherever company officials walk, well-worn clichés are sure to follow..."

Free Software Magazine: A Law for Free Software
(2005-03-01 03:15:29)
"Free software, also known as open source, libre software, FOSS, FLOSS and even LOSS, relies on traditional software legal protection, with a twist..."

Linux Magazine: Stairway to Geek Heaven
(2005-03-01 04:00:30)
"Most recently, Linux Magazine has reviewed a number of AMD Opteron rigs, and that’s no coincidence, because the AMD64 chip currently provides the best bang-for-your-buck for high-performance Linux servers and workstations..."

Advisories: Feburary 28, 2005
(2005-03-01 04:45:24)
Today's security advisories: bsmtpd (Debian GNU/Linux); gaim (Fedora Core); kernel (Fedora Legacy); cmd5checkpw (Gentoo Linux); emacs, xemacs, postgresql, mailman, mysql, enscript, unarj, zip, iptables, and imap (LBA-Linux); and gaim (Ubuntu Linux).

Linux.com: CLI Magic: Netcat
(2005-03-01 05:30:42)
"This week I'm going to tell you about a top-secret tool. It can be real handy at times, under the right conditions. But I don't want you to use it. It's too dangerous..."

FedoraNews: How to build Clam AntiVirus RPM package for Fedora Core
(2005-03-01 06:15:51)
"Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX/Linux, designed for e-mail scanning on mail gateways..."

KernelTrap: Improving Multiprocessor CPU Scheduling
(2005-03-01 07:00:20)
"Nick Piggin uploaded a series of patches for the 2.6 Linux kernel CPU scheduler aimed at improving multiprocessor support..."

developerWorks: Basic Tasks for New Linux Developers
(2005-03-01 07:45:26)
"If you are new to Linux, this article will guide you through these tasks and more..."

iTNews: Open-Source Kick-Starts 2005
(2005-03-01 08:30:59)
"Product support and open standards were just two of the topics that sparked heated debate on open-source and software development among panellists during ITJourno’s Kickstart 2005 event over the weekend..." [Link repaired. -ed.]

NewsForge: Open Source XML Editors Examined
(2005-03-01 09:15:22)
"The eXtensible Markup Language (XML) provides a flexible and efficient way to store, transmit, and express data..."

NetworkWorldFusion: Storage Options for Linux
(2005-03-01 10:00:05)
"Storage management vendors were scattered all about the show floor..."

ZDNet: Scalix Potentially a Serious Contender to Exchange
(2005-03-01 10:45:19)
"After reading David Berlind’s blog and listening to his podcast about a potential contender to Microsoft Exchange server, Scalix sounded almost too good to be true..."

NewsForge: Open Source Getting APLAWs in the UK
(2005-03-01 11:30:25)
"In the process, APLAWs, a huge open source content management project, has sprung up, and for UK local authorities, it appears to have risen head and shoulders above its proprietary competition..."

eWeek: UFT Gives Lesson in Open Source
(2005-03-01 12:15:24)
"For the 150,000 members of the United Federation of Teachers, paper forms, phone calls and hours spent standing in line are no longer current events; instead, they are consigned to the history books..."

Slashdot: The State of the Open Source Union, 2004
(2005-03-01 13:00:35)
"Mark Stone writes with a thoughtful look back at the year 2004 in open source, pointing out both major gains and inevitable uncertainties..."

Andrew Morton: Linux 2.6.11-rc5-mm1
(2005-03-01 13:45:18)
Changelog, links within.

ZDNet UK: Google Keeping the Wolf from Firefox' Door
(2005-03-01 14:30:56)
"The Mozilla Foundation's partnership with Google has kept it afloat for the past few months, and is now allowing it to hire more staff..."

LinuxPlanet: A First Look at OpenOffice.org 2.0
(2005-03-01 15:15:24)
A lot can change in a software release, and OpenOffice.org 2.0 is no exception. LinuxPlanet takes a first look at OpenOffice 2.0 Beta, with screenshots of the latest addition to the popular office application, Base, as well as some of the other new features this open source productivity suite has to offer.

NewsForge: New FSF Europe Fellowship Program Announced
(2005-03-01 16:00:37)
"The Free Software Foundation Europe has announced a new Fellowship program to defend freedom in the digital age..."

Groklaw: Removing a Rung From SCO's Methods and Concepts Ladder
(2005-03-01 16:45:31)
"Both judges in the SCO v. IBM case have highlighted that issue, the contract issue, of whether AT&T retained control over modifications and derivative code, based on methods and concepts as opposed to straight copyright infringement..."

Linux Magazine: The Emperor Penguin
(2005-03-01 17:30:04)
"Linux Magazine Editor-in-Chief Martin Streicher rcently caught up with Linus to talk about the state of the kernel and where it's headed..."

LinuxGazette.com: LinuxWorld's Best Desktop/Productivity/Business Application
(2005-03-01 18:15:26)
"I can't tell you how many times I walked past this booth during the show, my mind set on checking out something in the DotOrg pavilion. When I did have time to stop, the booth was packed..."

BBC News: Kenyan School Turns to Handhelds
(2005-03-01 19:00:37)
"At the Mbita Point primary school in western Kenya students click away at a handheld computer with a stylus..."

Enterprise Networking Planet: Resurgent Novell: Building Linux for Grownups?
(2005-03-01 19:45:12)
"My heart's desire, as a gnarly old Linux/Windows sysadmin, has long been for better management utilities: directory services, user and resource management, system monitoring, and single sign-on that work across a mixed environment..."

OSNews: Gnome 2.12 to Include the ClearLooks Theme as Default?
(2005-03-01 20:30:38)
"Red Hat engineers announced today that the very popular ClearLooks theme engine will probably be the default theme for the Gnome 2.12..."

GUILinux: Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog; The Linux Desktop IS Ready
(2005-03-01 21:15:36)
"I have dabbled with Linux for the last several years, with varying measures of success..."

Computerworld: The Business Case for Linux
(2005-03-01 22:00:47)
"As open-source goes mainstream, Linux needs to clear the same hurdles as other operating systems..."

OSNews: Review of Xandros 3.0.1 OCE
(2005-03-01 22:45:42)
"Credit goes to Xandros for having a professional website that's easy to negotiate and for offering instructions to help new users of all platforms perform this task..."

ZDNet : Could Recent Microsoft Clamp-Downs, Missteps Accelerate Linux Adoption?
(2005-03-01 23:30:07)
"Is it me, or has there been a recent wave of headlines from Redmond that add up to a Microsoft clamp-down of the sort that could easily drive people away from destkop Windows...?"

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