News Linux News for Oct 03, 2005:

AC/OS: Analyst: If I Were a Betting Man... (Linux vs. Windows Server Shipments)
(2005-10-03 01:00:12)
"IDC expects Linux to continue biting at the heels of Windows market share and increase from 24 percent to 33 percent within two years..."

developerWorks: Take Charge of Processor Affinity
(2005-10-03 05:30:43)
"Simply stated, CPU affinity is the tendency for a process to run on a given CPU as long as possible without being moved to some other processor..."

LinuxDevCenter: Installing Debian
(2005-10-03 07:00:55)
"Instead, you'll find an outline of the major points of the installation process, and plenty of information about where to go and what to do when things don't work as expected..."

SearchOpenSpurce: Learning the SUSE Linux Shortcuts
(2005-10-03 08:30:06)
"[SearchOpenSource] caught up with Featherly to talk about his new book and to get his thoughts on where Linux and the open source applications market is heading..."

O'Reilly: RT Essentials
(2005-10-03 10:00:23)
"When I see or hear people knocking Linux for not having applications, I think of Jesse Vincent's Request Tracker (RT)..."

Linux Journal: Radio's Next Generation: Radii
(2005-10-03 11:30:51)
"A phrase we heard many times when we sought venture capital to develop the Internet appliance we call Radii was 'If this were 1999, you would already have your money...'

Can Sun, or Anyone, Make DRM Better with Open Source?
(2005-10-03 13:00:04)
"Sun Microsystems must have figured digital rights management (DRM) never sounded so good when it recently announced a call for partners in its quest to use open source DRM..."

KernelTrap: Linus On Specifications
(2005-10-03 13:45:41)
Linux creator Linus Torvalds began the discussion saying, 'a 'spec' is close to useless. I have _never_ seen a spec that was both big enough to be useful _and_ accurate...'"

BusinessWeek: Open Source: The Next Generation
(2005-10-03 14:30:28)
A four-article special report on Open Source features an interview with Linus Torvalds and examines at how venture capitalists are looking hard at Linux and open source technology. Links within.

BlueOregon: Open Source Software, Open Source Politics
(2005-10-03 15:15:35)
"They say that politics makes strange bedfellows and this weekend was certainly no exception..."

eWeek: Open Source Spreads Its Wings in Enterprise
(2005-10-03 16:00:26)
"Charles Brenner entered the open-source realm several years ago the way most others do: rolling out Linux in an effort to save a few dollars..."

The Register: Opera Tunes Up to Overtake Firefox
(2005-10-03 16:45:24)
"Opera is looking to mobilise its existing community of users in order to overtake Firefox as the number two browser on the desktop..."

Silicon.com: Open Source Security is Cool for Schools
(2005-10-03 17:30:22)
"Schools should implement an open source authentication system to give parents and pupils secure access to online content, says a government organisation..."

EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: Asterisk PBX: Open Source VoIP Branches Out
(2005-10-03 18:15:47)
"Telephony is generally regarded as a mission critical business service, and any downtime can be costly in terms of lost productivity and lost business: Most companies want their phones to be a dial-tone service..."

The New Straits Times/LinuxInsider: Red Hat Aims to Simplify Linux
(2005-10-03 19:00:22)
"It could have been just another Thursday, in an average up-market hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where two men in a business-class suite were discussing an unusual topic about a hat..."

SearchOpenSource: Like Rock n' Roll, Open Source Here to Stay
(2005-10-03 19:45:03)
"Open source software isn't a craze and won't be a short-lived fad in the corporate IT environment. More importantly, OSS isn't being put on the back burner by the corporate world..."

LinuxPlanet: Gaming Open Source
(2005-10-03 20:30:05)
"The enterprise is about open source. Open source is about the enterprise. Its business value is unrivaled. Okay, okay, we get that. But when you strip away all the efficiency models, the market-speak, and the TCO reports, what's fun about open source...?"

Phoronix: Ageia PhysX To Support Linux
(2005-10-03 21:15:37)
"Since Ageia's public announcement in early 2005, Ageia has been attempting to revolutionize gaming by increasing the realism of physics processing for gamers..."

LXer: Foxnews: You may have lost Linux users as an audience
(2005-10-03 22:00:38)
"When you published your article, 'Massachusetts Should Close Down OpenDocument,' you made an error..."

NewsForge: Is Microsoft Capable of Honesty?
(2005-10-03 22:45:53)
"The duplicitous droogs, the denizens of deep-doodoo, I'm talking about Bill Gates' Microsoft: caught in a bald-faced lie about HD DVD-ROM discs..."

Linux-Watch: Second Opinion: Dell Thinks There Are Too Darned Many Linuxes, Too
(2005-10-03 23:30:03)
"I'm not sure exactly what he meant by alienated. But, I am sure that it's not good..."

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