News Linux News for Mar 03, 2005:

Xinhua: 1st China Open Source Software Week held to boost Linux industry
(2005-03-03 00:15:26)
"The China Open Source Software (OSS) Week 2005, the first such event of the Asian Open Source organization, opened in Beijing Monday and will last through March 4..."

CRM Daily: Is Open Source the Next Stage in Contact Center Evolution?
(2005-03-03 01:00:18)
"Aspect Communications recently announced the successful completion of tests running its contact center management suite application, Uniphi, on Asterisk, an open source IP-PBX..."

Linux.com: "Which Distro Do You Recommend?"
(2005-03-03 01:45:36)
"I think my stock answer is maybe slightly unusual only because, unlike most of the rest of the Linux-using world, I hate every distro I've ever tried..."

Once More Into the Breach: Corwin's Razor and the OASIS IPR Policy
(2005-03-03 02:30:50)
"The Chair of the IEEE Real-time working group observed, 'If they're not willing to put their money where their mouth is, they're not a customer.' We grabbed it and Corwin's Razor was born...'

CoolTechZone: Current Problems with Linux
(2005-03-03 03:15:09)
"Why do this article? Well, in the interest of being fair. Yes, it is easy to dismiss Windows users as whiners, and people who can't be bothered to learn about their machines, but life is not that simple, is it...?"

SRA America: Diary of a PostgreSQL Booster
(2005-03-03 04:00:46)
"...[O]h sure, the ancestor of PostgreSQL (the Berkeley postgres project) was around from almost the dawn of the modern database management system..."

Advisories, March 2, 2005
(2005-03-03 04:45:35)
Today's advisory: mod_python (Conectiva Linux).

Free Software Magazine: Filtering Spam with Postfix
(2005-03-03 05:30:54)
"This article will show you how to configure a Postfix mail-server in order to reject the wide majority of unwanted incoming 'junk email,' whether they contain unsolicited commercial email (UCE), viruses, or worms..."

Linux Journal: File Synchronization with Unison
(2005-03-03 07:00:15)
"Those of you who've used IBM Lotus Notes or Intellisync Mobile Suite probably have an idea of what synchronization is good for, as compared to one-way mirroring options such as rsync..."

NewsForge: Podcasting from Linux
(2005-03-03 08:30:20)
"Properly configured, the average Linux distribution can podcast with the best of them. Here's how..."

Wi-Fi Planet: 802.11 on a Linux Stack
(2005-03-03 09:15:37)
"Vendors looking to make Wi-Fi products running under Linux don't have to fully develop all the wireless underpinnings for that OS. Devicescape (formerly Instant802) has it ready to sell..."

EcontentMag: Fedora 2.0 Open-Source DAM Solution Released
(2005-03-03 10:00:57)
"The Fedora Project has announced the release of version 2.0 of its Fedora open-source digital repository software..." [Not to be confused with that little-known Fedora Core distribution... ed.]

Web Hosting Industry Review: The Planet Offers Red Hat Linux 4
(2005-03-03 10:45:42)
"Web hosting provider The Planet Internet Services said on Monday that it is the first Web host to offer Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4..."

AllLinuxDevices: TimeSys Delivers 2.6-based Linux Development Kits for Intel XScale I/O Processors
(2005-03-03 11:30:04)
"TimeSys Corporation has announced the availability of 2.6-based TimeStorm Linux Development Kits (LDKs) for the Intel IOP321, IOP331, IOP332 and 80219 XScale I/O processors..."

The Linux Blog: Optimizing Gentoo
(2005-03-03 12:15:32)
"Lately, I have been busy hacking away at the Gentoo forums, looking for ways to best optimize my system, other than the normal CFlags optimizations and ones covered in the manual..."

internetnews.com: Rising Asian Support For Debian Linux
(2005-03-03 13:00:53)
"The alliance will jointly develop a universal Debian GNU/Linux infrastructure and actively promote the adoption of Debian-based systems in both Japan and China..."

NoSoftwarePatents: EC Acted in Collusion with Microsoft, Says High-Profile Austrian MEP
(2005-03-03 13:45:52)
"A high-profile MEP has said that the European Commission acted in collusion with Microsoft when earlier this week it declined the European Parliament's request for a restart of the legislative process concerning the software patent directive..."

CNET News: Adobe Releases Open-Source Interface Software
(2005-03-03 14:30:33)
"Graphics software giant Adobe Systems has released some components of its commercial products as open-source software, a move intended to help others ease a tedious but important part of programming..."

KernelTrap: Kernel Release Numbering
(2005-03-03 15:00:39)
"Linux creator Linus Torvalds started a lengthy discussion on the lkml regarding release numbering for the Linux kernel..."

ComputerWeekly: Open-Source Group Opens its Doors to Users
(2005-03-03 15:30:15)
EclipseCon: "The open-source Eclipse Foundation is planning to open its doors to users, instead of relying purely on large suppliers and developers..."

Computer Business Review: CA Confirms Plans for Open Source Patent Pledge
(2005-03-03 16:00:55)
"Systems management vendor Computer Associates International has confirmed that it intends to pledge a number of its patents to the open source community to remove any perceived threat against the Linux operating system..."

ZDNet UK: PHP Developer App to go Open Source
(2005-03-03 16:30:10)
"Maguma says it will make its integrated developer environment available under an open source licence later this month..."

internetnews.com: Peeking Into Google
(2005-03-03 17:00:50)
EclipseCon: "The key to the speed and reliability of Google search is cutting up data into chunks, its top engineer said..."

CNET News: IBM Tests New Ways to Support Open Source
(2005-03-03 17:30:01)
PartnerWorld: "IBM on Wednesday announced new measures designed to promote open-source innovation, including a job candidate database and an e-learning initiative..."

CIO: It's Raining Code! (Hallelujah?)
(2005-03-03 18:00:42)
"As open-source development options proliferate, CIOs are finding ways to make it work for their organizations..."

NewsForge: UNC Makes Profitable Investment in Open Source for Drug Research
(2005-03-03 18:30:10)
"For at least one major university, Linux has played a big part in making that research more efficient and cost-effective..."

BBspot: The SCO Group May Face Legal Action from Itself
(2005-03-03 19:00:50)
Humor: "The SCO Group announced Monday it has been unable to reveal any of the source code it alleges IBM misappropriated, due to a nondisclosure agreement it has with itself..."

ZDNet UK: Analyst Research 'Distorted' Against Open Source
(2005-03-03 19:45:43)
JBoss World: "A top HP executive has said that open source software is being under-represented in market share statistics because analyst firms are using outmoded measurement techniques..."

Australian IT: Windows Breaks NetWare Grip
(2005-03-03 20:30:27)
"A risky undertaking at the best of times, the project, which cost less than $500,000, went against the trend in many businesses and government agencies across Australia. Austereo moved from a Linux environment to Microsoft Windows XP..."

PR: SCO Announces Restatement of Financial Statements to Correct Certain Accounting Errors
(2005-03-03 21:15:59)
"The impact of the anticipated corrections does not impact the Company's previously reported net loss or its earnings per share..." [Press relase within. -ed.]

LinuxPlanet: The Debian Delay: Is Sarge MIA? Or Simply a POW of Process?
(2005-03-03 22:00:41)
"The latest release of Debian Linux, code named 'Sarge' was supposed to report for duty at the end of last year. That didn't happen. Why has Sarge been delayed and ultimately does it matter...?"

KernelTrap: New Features For 2.6.12
(2005-03-03 22:45:52)
"Andrew then referred to several other patches currently in his -mm patchset, discussing their likelihood of being merged into the mainline kernel..."

Technetra: Growing the OSS Ecosystem
(2005-03-03 23:30:24)
"The need for affordable automation drives the entire IT industry toward OSS..."

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