News Linux News for Oct 12, 2005:

Sys-Con France: How RIA Technology Can Help Linux Seize the Enterprise Desktop
(2005-10-12 01:00:26)
"In the same way that Visual Basic created a Rapid Application Development environment for Windows, RIA technology can do the same for Linux..."

BetaDot: Microsoft Not Solving Its Linux Woes?
(2005-10-12 02:30:56)
"In a previous article, we wrote about Microsoft being scared of Linux's potential, however, if this is really the truth, are they moving in the right direction...?"

Mad Penguin: Sun Microsystems' Florian Reuter: Will the Real XML Please Stand Up!
(2005-10-12 04:00:50)
"Time to lose your funk. Web 2.0 is on the way, and the Open Document format is the horse that it will be riding in on, and the name of that horse is OpenOffice.org 2.0 stable version..."

Advisories: October 11, 2005
(2005-10-12 04:45:54)
Today's advisories: ruby, uw-imap, and ruby1.8 (Debian GNU/Linux); and binutils, libuser, util-linux, mount, ruby, and openssl (Red Hat Linux).

SpiderTools: Use Gimp to Clear Up Your Digital Images
(2005-10-12 05:30:41)
"One way to prevent 'red eye' is to have the subject look at the photographer's shoulder while the picture is being taken..."

Linux Magazine: Hot-Plugging USB on Linux
(2005-10-12 07:00:38)
"When Linux was created, it supported the common hardware of the day, including ATA hard disks, parallel ports, and RS-232 serial ports..."

Linux Journal: So You Like Color--The Mysterious ^[[ Characters
(2005-10-12 08:30:34)
"Learn how to make the text in your xterm blink magenta against a cyan background--even in your C programs..."

LinuxDevices: Linux Mobile Phones Gain Instant Messaging/Presence Stack
(2005-10-12 10:00:02)
"Indian mobile phone and carrier software vendor Jataayu is porting its Instant Messaging and Presence Service stack to Linux..."

NewsForge: Shopping Cart Comparison: Drupal's E-Commerce vs. Mambo's mambo-phpShop
(2005-10-12 11:30:25)
"Open source Web site content management systems (CMS) don't provide a full solution for the needs of many Web site administrators because they lacked a shopping cart..."

Computerworld New Zealand: NetBeans Open Source Tools Get a Refresh
(2005-10-12 12:15:12)
"Despite the power behind Eclipse, and Microsoft’s interest in the market, NetBeans is a viable alternative..."

SearchOpenSource: Church Volunteer Quells IT Chaos with Linux
(2005-10-12 13:00:46)
"Jeff Squyres had used Linux to quell chaos in a high-performance computing lab, so he had no qualms about wielding that weapon again in his volunteer IT job..."

internetnews.com: IBM, Novell Bet on Linux Blade Subscriptions
(2005-10-12 13:45:37)
"IBM and Novell have conjured a new subscription plan to make it easier and more cost-effective for corporate customers to run and manage Novell's Linux operating system on IBM blade servers..."

Forbes: Unix's Slow Death Still Gives Life To IBM
(2005-10-12 14:30:03)
"It's hard to get attention for something as dull as Unix computers when Web companies snag all the headlines for advancements in digital media..."

CNET News: Zend Brings PHP to Oracle's Database
(2005-10-12 15:15:43)
"But Zend, a company that commercializes PHP, released a version on Tuesday that works with Oracle's database..."

Computer Business Review: IBM Rational to Revitalize RUP Through Open Source
(2005-10-12 16:00:01)
"Striving to reclaim thought leadership in software development processes, IBM Rational is proposing to open source part of the Rational Unified Process..."

vnunet: Grisoft Predicts Linux Virus Plague
(2005-10-12 16:45:29)
"Grisoft, makers of the popular AVG Anti-Virus offering, has warned that it is 'only a matter of time' before Linux becomes widely targeted by virus and malware writers..."

Acts of Volition: Announcing the Tango Project: Making Open-Source Software Beautiful
(2005-10-12 17:30:05)
"The Tango Project is a collaborative effort of a variety of free/open-source software designers and artists to work towards unifying the visual style of the free (mostly Linux) desktop..."

Computer Business Review: Motorola: Still Pursuing Mobile Software Assets
(2005-10-12 18:15:38)
"Motorola has filed a lawsuit against PalmSource and is continuing to pursue mobile software firms..." Such as MontaVista and Trolltech...

ZDNet Australia: Microsoft to Keynote Unix Conference
(2005-10-12 19:00:27)
"Microsoft will use a national gathering of Unix, Linux and open source professionals in Sydney next week to demonstrate interoperability between Unix and Windows systems..."

Groklaw: Groklaw Interviews MySQL AB CEO Marten Mickos
(2005-10-12 19:45:42)
"I had an opportunity to do an email interview with MySQL AB's CEO Marten Mickos this afternoon, and I learned some interesting things..."

internetnews.com: Liberty Floats Deployment Guidelines
(2005-10-12 20:30:20)
"The Liberty Alliance released suggested guidelines for deploying a federated identification (ID) system on the network, officials announced Tuesday..."

Mad Penguin: Gary Edwards: OpenOffice.org 2.0 Leaping Over Legacy Lockdown with Clean XML
(2005-10-12 21:15:45)
"...[I]t is becoming increasingly apparent that OOo 2.0 and it's commercial big brother, StarOffice 8.0, are going shake up the desktop software industry..."

Heise Online: City of Mannheim to Switch to Linux "Quietly"
(2005-10-12 21:15:59)
"Through a 'gentle' Linux migration the city of Mannheim in southern Germany is aiming to become 'fit for the future...'"

NewsForge: CapitolAdvantage Finds Linux Advantage
(2005-10-12 22:00:36)
"CapitolAdvantage.com started out as a paper directory of members of Congress that founder Bob Hansan sold to corporations in the Washington, DC, area in the late '80s..."

ZDNet Australia: Sun Wants Local StarOffice Outsourcer
(2005-10-12 22:45:24)
"All processes around the sale, manufacturing, distribution and basic support of the new version of Sun Microsystems' office suite will be outsourced in Australia to a yet-to-be-appointed local software publisher..."

Tonight on The Linux Tech Show
(2005-10-12 23:30:47)
"We talk to Jeremy Garcia about the recent LWE in London..."

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