News Linux News for May 06, 2005:

Ars Technica: A History of the GUI
(2005-05-06 01:00:39)
"Why did computers come to adopt the GUI as their primary mode of interaction, and how did the GUI evolve to be the way it is today...?"

ZDNet Australia: Open Source Community Needs Unity
(2005-05-06 02:30:52)
"This week, I asked Linux Australia (LA) vice-president Pia Waugh to elaborate on her recent remarks to linux.conf.au about code and culture in the open source community..."

Groklaw: The Daemon, the GNU, and the Penguin - Ch. 7
(2005-05-06 03:15:33)
"Professor Robert Fabry was on the program at the SOSP where Ken and Dennis delivered the first paper on Unix..."

ZDNet: The Little Red Hen Business Model
(2005-05-06 04:00:12)
"One reason closed-source developers may continue to feel smug is they have a working business model..."

OSNews: One Day at Ubuntu Down Under
(2005-05-06 05:30:05)
"Ubuntu Down Under (UBU) was the third Ubuntu conference and was held in Sydney, Australia..."

NewsForge: Creating a Project Dashboard with RSS and rawdog
(2005-05-06 07:00:56)
"One of the challenges of managing a development project is keeping all parties abreast of key events or milestones..."

Linux Magazine: The Watcher Knows
(2005-05-06 08:30:24)
"Crashes, faults, and worms: it’s the stuff system administrator’s nightmares are made of. But open source has a cure for your insomnia: the ZABBIX network monitoring system. Sweet dreams are made of this..."

SearchEnterpriseLinux: FYI: Smooth Sailing with Kerio MailServer
(2005-05-06 10:00:45)
"In this e-mail conversation, Wu, systems engineer at Kerio Technologies Inc., talks about his company's product and how it stacks up against the competition..."

NewsForge: First look: NVU RC 1.0
(2005-05-06 11:30:57)
"NVU is the open source community's first WYSIWYG HTML editor, slated to be released shortly. After testing the release candidate software, I like what I see..."

Free Software Magazine: Promoting Free Software on Non-Free Platforms
(2005-05-06 13:00:40)
"Why developing free software for proprietary platforms benefits the free software community..."

Groklaw: IBM Complies To the Max--Turns Over Code
(2005-05-06 13:45:41)
"Here's the Todd Shaughnessy affidavit from IBM that Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells requested they file when they turned over all the code and paperwork to SCO, which we now find out happened on schedule on March 18..."

ZDNet Australia: OpenSolaris Developers Defend Their Baby
(2005-05-06 14:30:25)
"Sun Microsystems' developers have responded furiously to claims the company's decision to open-source Solaris was a mere public relations stunt..."

AP/Boston Herald: OpenOffice a Strong Competitor
(2005-05-06 16:00:42)
An Associated Press review of OpenOffice.org is burning the wires this morning: "The latest version of the free OpenOffice suite promises to be a strong competitor to Microsoft Office..."

LinuxElectrons: Red Hat Chief Stirs Debate On Open-Source Software
(2005-05-06 17:30:00)
"Szulik... told a workshop audience at the LES Spring Meeting on Thursday that there is a critical need for a worldwide debate about the future of intellectual property in the digital domain..."

BusinessWeek: No Renegade Group Behind Linux
(2005-05-06 19:00:19)
"That's a myth. The reality is a developers' group of mostly tech pros working like they would on corporate projects -- with some differences..."

Fortune: Execs Tell Software Makers: 'Some of You Are Doomed'
(2005-05-06 20:30:10)
"Corporate technology leaders vented their frustrations with expensive, poor-performing software at an industry conference last week, and said that they're devising their own solutions..."

Enterprise Storage Forum: Linux's Growing Role in Storage
(2005-05-06 22:00:36)
"SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel or iSCSI, it all sits on an operating system. Sometimes that OS is UNIX, other times it's Windows, and in a growing number of cases it's now Linux as well..."

Editor's Note: Olive Branch In One Hand, What's In The Other?
(2005-05-06 23:30:06)
Microsoft wants to make nice with the open source community. But does that include the Linux community?

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