News Linux News for May 13, 2005:

Silicon.com: Leader: Open Source News Not as Good as it Sounds
(2005-05-13 01:00:48)
"Setting aside for a moment the debate going on in enterprises over whether to use Microsoft or open source alternatives, this week has seen much noise over two other battlegrounds: schools and local government..."

SitePoint: A Fresh Look at Open Source
(2005-05-13 01:45:19)
"Sometimes all it takes is a step back from a technology sector to have a fresh (or refreshed) perspective..."

OSDir: To Evil! May '05 Edition
(2005-05-13 02:30:48)
"What makes version control systems (VCS) so great is this: lots of people can take your code, make little branches, and fiddle around with it in a distributed fashion...."

OSGalaxy: GNOME Language Debates
(2005-05-13 03:15:38)
In two articles on OSGalaxy, Havoc Pennington and Miguel de Icaza debate what will be the future development language for GNOME: Java 5 or Mono.

Groklaw: The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin, Ch. 8
(2005-05-13 04:00:02)
"Richard M. Stallman, though a freshman at Harvard, began working for Russ Noftsker at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971..."

Advisories: May 12, 2005
(2005-05-13 04:45:52)
Today's security advisories: Gaim (Gentoo Linux); gnutls, kdelibs, gaim, and tcpdump (Mandriva Linux); and mozilla-firefox, mozilla, and gaim (Ubuntu Linux).

developerWorks: Create, Deploy, and Debug Apache Geronimo Applications
(2005-05-13 05:30:53)
"Get a head start in using the new Eclipse plug-in to develop and deploy Web applications to the Apache Geromimo server..."

NewsForge: Making Plans with GanttProject
(2005-05-13 07:00:19)
"Think that project management software belongs only in the realm of big corporations with huge budgets? In reality, anyone can benefit from using a project management tool..."

Free Software Magazine: A Laptop, A Coffee, and Disaster Recovery
(2005-05-13 08:30:49)
"Last week, my laptop died a sudden spectacular death-by-drowning, as a full cup of coffee poured into its keyboard. It emitted a pop sound, and the screen and the power shut off..."

ExtremeTech: Build Your Own Linux Home Theater PC
(2005-05-13 10:00:57)
"A highly configurable OS that can both scale up to big enterprise iron and down to handheld devices, Linux can do almost anything. It even powers the most well-known PVR on the planet, TiVo..."

Pilgrim: Dive Into Greasemonkey
(2005-05-13 10:45:19)
"Dive Into Greasemonkey is a book about programming with Greasemonkey, a Firefox extension for customizing web pages..."

NewsForge: UNC Healthcare Finds Plone Easy to Swallow
(2005-05-13 11:30:09)
"At the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and affiliated hospitals, intranet and Web site users felt like they were 'visiting a foreign land' each time they landed on a different department..."

KernelTrap: Cleaning Up Per The Kernel Coding Style
(2005-05-13 12:15:19)
"Jesper Juhl submitted a small patch to bring the kernel/module.c source file closer in line with the kernel's CodingStyle document..."

LinuxWorld Australia: What is Cisco Doing with Linux?
(2005-05-13 13:00:34)
"Cisco has long used open source and Linux internally as a tool for supporting its own network..."

ZDNet Australia: Firefox Lead Engineer Scolds KDE Project
(2005-05-13 14:30:51)
"Debate between Apple and the open source KDE project over a rendering engine replacement intensified yesterday as Firefox lead engineer Ben Goodger backed the vendor..."

CNET News: Major Solaris Features Slip to 2006
(2005-05-13 15:15:57)
"Sun Microsystems has delayed the release of two major features the company has trumpeted as reasons to try its latest version of the Solaris operating system..."

eWeek: OpenOffice, Free-Software Supporters Make Peace over Java
(2005-05-13 16:00:08)
"A conflict between free-software supporters and OpenOffice.org over the use of Sun's proprietary implementation of Java in the forthcoming OpenOffice.org 2.0 is on its way to being resolved..."

Channel Register: MS Unfazed By OSS Schools Report
(2005-05-13 16:45:58)
"Overall, the report is very cautious, and is a long way from championing open source as the best possible option for education..."

Silicon.com: IBM: 'Firefox Is In Da House'
(2005-05-13 17:30:49)
"IBM is encouraging its employees to use Firefox, aiding the open source web browser's quest to chip away at Microsoft's Internet Explorer..."

AP/BusinessWeek: Microsoft's Share of Browser Market Slips
(2005-05-13 18:15:06)
"Microsoft Corp.'s share of the U.S. browser market has slipped below 90 percent as the Firefox browser continues to grow in popularity, according to independent tracking by WebSideStory..."

Builder UK: Wine Development Stifled by Software Patent
(2005-05-13 19:00:57)
"Developers on the Windows compatibility project Wine have been forced to abandon an important feature due to the existence of a Borland patent..."

LinuxWorld Magazine: A Letter To Our Readers
(2005-05-13 19:45:51)
"The editorial staff of LinuxWorld Magazine would like to set the record straight on our efforts and intentions with regards to what we publish on LinuxWorld.com and LinuxWorld Magazine..."

MIT Technology Review: How Linux Could Overthrow Microsoft
(2005-05-13 20:30:00)
"But 'Lintel,' or the Linux operating system and Intel, is now encroaching on this empire, and behind it is the entire open-source software movement, which threatens to overthrow the Windows industry..."

NewsForge: KDE Developers, Usability Experts Complement Each Other
(2005-05-13 21:15:50)
"Usability has always been a controversial aspect of free software development, but one that is becoming increasingly important along with the uptake of GNU/Linux distributions in businesses and homes..."

Computer Business Review: City of Munich Adopts Novell OES
(2005-05-13 22:00:11)
"Novell might have missed out on the contract to supply the Linux operating system for the City of Munich's high-profile desktop migration to Linux, but it has sold the German city on its Open Enterprise Server product..."

Editor's Note: Interesting Week, Interesting Future
(2005-05-13 23:30:47)
A quick analysis of the week's news, and your editor's take on what may have been discussed over Ballmer's and Szulik's seafood dinner. Hint: Red Hat wasn't on the menu, but maybe a certain Clip was.

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