News Linux News for May 11, 2005:

Free Software Magazine: Free as in "Free Speech" or Free as in "Free Labour"?
(2005-05-11 00:15:06)
"Free software sustains and enables the internet. Across the world, people continue to freely contribute ideas and expertise to an important and growing movement..."

CNET News: A Microsoft-Red Hat Warming Trend?
(2005-05-11 00:15:59)
"The chief executives of Microsoft and Red Hat held a private meeting in New York, CNET News.com has learned, an indication that relations between the rivals might be warming..."

cnews: Linux: Are We There Yet?
(2005-05-11 01:00:51)
"Now if you are running a flavor of Linux and it encounters a problem that results in a crash, how many of us actually curse Linux...?"

CIO Update: Can You Really Get Sued for Using Open Source?
(2005-05-11 01:45:26)
"Not so long ago Microsoft's Steve Ballmer alleged that Linux was infringing on some 228 patents. But open-source software is, from a legal standpoint, no more risky to deploy than proprietary products..."

Free Software Magazine: Guerrilla Marketing Part Two
(2005-05-11 02:30:18)
"Following on from my general introduction to guerilla marketing in the first issue of this magazine, I will now discuss some specifics of getting good press coverage..."

Linux Voodoo: It's the People, Stupid
(2005-05-11 03:15:44)
"My reasons for not trusting Microsoft are quite simple. Those reasons don't have to do with the products they make and they aren't established by a philosophical difference..."

ManicGeeks: Slackware 10.1 Review
(2005-05-11 04:00:33)
"As the old saying in the Linux community goes, 'If you learn Red Hat, you learn Red Hat. If you learn SuSE, you learn SuSE. But if you learn Slackware, you learn Linux...'"

Advisories: May 10, 2005
(2005-05-11 04:45:40)
Today's security advisories: gzip, TCPDump, libTIFF, and HT Editor (Gentoo Linux); and squid (Trustix Secure Linux).

developerWorks: Secure Programming with the OpenSSL API, Part 2: Secure Handshake
(2005-05-11 05:30:41)
"Securing the handshake during a Secure Sockets Layer session (SSL) is vital, since almost all of the security involving the connection is set up inside the handshake..."

LinuxWorld Australia: Python [Review]
(2005-05-11 07:00:13)
"Perl and PHP are popular languages, however, Python today is emerging as a powerful alternative to the more traditional choices..."

NewsForge: The Third Commandment of System Administration
(2005-05-11 08:30:04)
"Nothing will make your team look worse than getting a call from an angry boss wondering why he couldn't get into the company email server all weekend..."

informIT: Kernel Overview
(2005-05-11 10:00:29)
"Now that you've made important decisions about how to install Linux on your system, you need to learn more about the Linux kernel to make important tuning decisions..."

FedoraNews: Linuxfest Northwest 2005--A Review
(2005-05-11 10:00:33)
"Essentially it was a non-commercial one-day conference and exhibition of open source technology with emphasis on Linux..."

NewsForge: Review: Kate OS 2.0
(2005-05-11 11:30:17)
"Kate is a lightweight, free GNU/Linux distribution from Poland released with the goal of allowing people to play games, watch movies, listen to music, and surf the Web..."

Linux Journal: Ooo Off the Wall: Tabling the Notion, Part 1
(2005-05-11 13:00:38)
"In modern writing, tables are used to present long lists of highly structured information..."

NewsForge: Free Software Law Center Adds Wine to Client List
(2005-05-11 13:45:10)
"The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), announced today that it is now providing free legal services to the Wine Project..."

CNET News: India Eyes Own Open-Source License
(2005-05-11 14:30:24)
"Deepak Phatak of the Indian Institute of Technology has kicked off an effort to create the Knowledge Public License, or KPL..."

ZDNet UK: Linux Brings Hope to Spain's Poorest Region
(2005-05-11 15:15:44)
"The rural Spanish region of Extremadura has seized on the potential of open source software to improve the lot its citizens and kick-start the local economy..."

LinuxWorld Australia: NT Govt Eyes Linux in $35M Desktop Overhaul
(2005-05-11 16:00:45)
"The document was released on May 10 and states that the existing contract with CSC will cease in June 2006 so DCIS can refocus the desktop contracts to 'substantially lower the overall cost to government...'"

CNET News: Intel Forms Internal Open-Source Group
(2005-05-11 16:45:49)
"Intel has created a group to focus on Linux and other open-source software issues, the newest move to bring the open-source operating system closer to parity with competing products from Microsoft..."

DrunkenBlog: Deconstructing Maui X-Stream
(2005-05-11 17:30:53)
"This isn't a Mac, Linux or Windows thing. This is an OSS thing, along with a liberal sprinkling of 'what the hell were they thinking...'"

eWeek: New Members to 'Enrich' ObjectWeb
(2005-05-11 18:15:31)
"ObjectWeb, the French open-source software consortium, showed Monday why it is truly an international entity, announcing new members and agreements from members in countries in Europe and Asia..."

NewsFactor: Head to Head: Linux vs. Windows on 64-Bit Chips
(2005-05-11 19:00:41)
"For the first time in history, there are more Linux software choices than Windows choices--in the 64-bit arena--but it is likely that the situation will not remain that way for long..."

FootNotes: AbiWord-2.3.0 Released
(2005-05-11 19:45:16)
"This snapshot allows interested developers, testers and users a sneak preview into the future of AbiWord..."

Really Linux: 25 Years After DOS: Lessons Learned for Linux
(2005-05-11 20:30:44)
"But what can the Linux world learn from Microsoft's past 25 years of unique experiences and domination? I think we can uncover a lot simply going back to that first fateful year when Microsoft released PC-DOS for IBM PCs..."

NewsForge: Review: CentOS 4
(2005-05-11 21:15:40)
"I tested the new CentOS 4, and found it to be a worthy upgrade that brings all the goodness of RHEL to the open source community..."

Stuff: Ubuntu Linux Encourages Sharing and Copying
(2005-05-11 22:00:46)
"Ask software billionaire Mark Shuttleworth why he has dedicated so much of his time and money to open-source projects since selling his business in 1999, and he is likely to tell you he wants to make the world a better place..."

Tonight on The Linux Link Tech Show
(2005-05-11 22:45:03)
"Ian Murdock, founder of the Debian project, chairman and chief strategist of Progeny will be our guest..."

Awtrey: Debian is Different
(2005-05-11 23:30:41)
"Debian may have started out as a typical Linux distribution, but it is more than that now..."

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