News Linux News for Oct 11, 2005:

Linux.com: Why the DCC Alliance Needs to Love Synaptic
(2005-10-11 00:15:24)
"And finally, in late 2004, Synaptic became so lovable that I would no longer want to have a desktop computer without it..."

BetaDot: Read Between The Lines: Microsoft Is Terrified
(2005-10-11 01:00:15)
"Ole' Gatesy has realized he has no chance of pushing Windows to the business market anymore. They have realized it's only a matter of time before they lose the position to the Windows alternatives..."

InfoWorld: Why InnoDB Matters So Much to MySQL (Really)
(2005-10-11 01:45:08)
"I don't think the open source industry fully appreciates the importance of Oracle's purchase last week of Innobase and what that means for MySQL..."

NewsForge: OSS in the Enterprise? Show Me the Money
(2005-10-11 02:30:00)
"Raymond's answer raises a multitude of questions regarding the use of open source software (OSS) in the enterprise..."

Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.14-rc4
(2005-10-11 03:15:16)
"Here's the final -rc before a 2.6.14 release..."

InfoWorld: Should Linux Vendors Think Differently?
(2005-10-11 04:00:30)
"No matter how many strides Linux makes toward desktop acceptance, we're still a long way from the day when we'll see the free OS become a true drop-in replacement for the commercial systems we use now..."

Advisories: October 10, 2005
(2005-10-11 04:45:55)
Today's security advisories: cpio, dia, masqmail, shorewall, tcpdump (2), openvpn, up-imapproxy, ethereal, weex, py2play, graphviz, xloadimage, and xli (Debian GNU/Linux); w3c-libwww and xloadimage (Fedora Core); RealPlayer, Helix Player, xine-lib, and Weex (Gentoo Linux); hylafax (Mandriva Linux); xine-lib (Slackware Linux); and ruby1.8, xine-lib, shorewall, cfengine, linux-source-2.6.10, and linux-source-2.6.8.1 (Ubuntu Linux).

Linux.com: CLI Magic: CheckInstall
(2005-10-11 05:30:53)
"Think that just removing the executable does the trick? Think again, oh rodent lover. Now you're ready to learn about CheckInstall..."

Developer.com: Developing Portlets with Apache Pluto
(2005-10-11 07:00:02)
"This article provides a basic introduction to the Pluto Portal Driver..."

NewsForge: An Introduction to OpenOffice.org Basic
(2005-10-11 08:30:09)
"One of the features some users overlook in OpenOffice.org is its built-in programming language, OpenOffice.org Basic.

HowtoForge: Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL
(2005-10-11 10:00:02)
"This document describes how to install a mail server based on Postfix that is based on virtual users and domains..."

LinuxDevices: Palm Linux Mobile Phones Coming this Year
(2005-10-11 11:30:38)
"Palm will ship Linux-powered mobile phones this year, say sources claiming to be close to the company. The devices will be powered by Wind River Linux..."

KernelTrap: State Tracing, Visualizing Fragmentation
(2005-10-11 13:00:57)
"Yumiko Sugita announced the 2.3.1 release of LKST, the Linux Kernel State Tracer..."

internetnews.com: Novell Promotes Better Linux Desktops
(2005-10-11 13:45:07)
"A new initiative from Novell seeks to unlock a better Linux desktop experience by helping developers better understand how the desktop is used..."

LinuxDevices: Linux Well-Represented at DARPA Robot Vehicle Challenge
(2005-10-11 14:30:51)
"Four of 23 vehicles completed the course, including several that used Linux..."

Builder UK: JBoss Defends Trademark Policy
(2005-10-11 15:15:03)
"'We're not talking about open brand here, this is open source,' according to Mark Fleury..."

Mad Penguin: Forget Sun and Google--Say Hello to Open Document Fellowship
(2005-10-11 16:00:34)
"...[A] group of open source community members have formed an organization to promote the functionality that has the potential to make a standard of the Open Document file format upon which OpenOffice.org is based..."

internetnews.com: Microsoft, RealNetworks Settle Up?
(2005-10-11 16:30:27)
"One of the most bitter legal battles in the technology industry may end today..."

Tuxmachines.org: About SUSE Linux 10.0
(2005-10-11 17:00:14)
"The whole world was excited as I by Novell's decision to provide a free very close sibling to their enterprise product under the gpl and organizing a team to develop it..."

Intellectural Property Watch: Open Source Agreed In UN Information Society Summit Preparations
(2005-10-11 17:30:24)
"Encouragement for the use of free and open source software... has quietly worked its way into the draft texts being prepared for the November second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society..."

Linux.com: Review: Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger
(2005-10-11 18:15:06)
"The Ubuntu 5.10 release, also known as Breezy Badger, is not drastically different from the previous Ubuntu release, 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog..."

Linux.co.za: An SA Linux Case Study--Benefit Recovery Services
(2005-10-11 19:00:15)
"There is an estimated R8-billion in unclaimed monies currently being held by financial services institutions of South Africa..."

SearchWebServices: Open Source ESBs Race to Define Themselves
(2005-10-11 19:45:48)
"Even though the dust hasn't settled around an exact definition of an enterprise service bus (ESB), there are several open source efforts forging ahead..."

ComputerWorld New Zealand: Open Source Steps into ECM Shoes
(2005-10-11 20:30:11)
"Forget web content management--open source can work at enterprise level as well..."

Koffice.org: Koffice 1.4.2 Announcement
(2005-10-11 21:15:46)
"Support for the OpenDocument format, recently adopted by Massachusetts state in the USA, has been greatly improved, especially in KWord, KSpread and KPresenter..."

Computer Business Review: JBoss Adds Open Source Business Rules to the Mix
(2005-10-11 22:00:24)
"JBoss Inc is announcing the addition of business rules and BPEL orchestration to its open source product mix, at its European user conference in Barcelona this week..."

IT Manager's Journal: Open Source for the Enterprise
(2005-10-11 22:45:44)
"One of the first things that is asked of any new project in a modern IT department is that a cost benefit analysis be created to determine if the investment of time and resources makes sense..."

Tectonic: OpenLab4 Released Into Growing African Linux Market
(2005-10-11 23:30:13)
"OpenLab International has announced the international release of its Linux distribution OpenLab4..."

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