News Linux News for Nov 01, 2005:

Sci-Tech Today: Open Source Nessus Security Tool Goes Commercial
(2005-11-01 00:10:00)
"Tenable Network Security will introduce Nessus, its widely used open source vulnerability-scanning tool, as a commercial product in a major upgrade slated for next month..."

CNET News: SCO Describes Alleged IBM Unix Misuse to Court
(2005-11-01 13:00:34)
"It took more than two and a half years, but the SCO Group finally has disclosed a list of areas it believes IBM violated its Unix contract, allegedly by moving proprietary Unix technology into open-source Linux...

PR: Linux Standard Base Achieves ISO Status
(2005-11-01 13:45:45)
Open Source Business Conference: "...[T]he Free Standards Group and the Linux Standard Base (LSB) workgroup announced that the LSB has achieved unanimous official approval as an ISO standard..." Press release within.

Network World: Oracle Prepares Free Database
(2005-11-01 14:30:15)
"Oracle plans to release a free version of its database by year-end in a move to compete more effectively at the low end of the market..."

ConsortiumInfo: Summary of Massachusetts ODF Hearing and Live Blogcast Text in Detail
(2005-11-01 15:15:50)
"Senator Pacheco doesn't understand the difference between open source and open standards (and certainly doesn't understand the difference between OpenDocument and OpenOffice)..."

SearchOpenSource: Plenty of News Heading into Open Source Business Conference
(2005-11-01 16:00:45)
Open Source Business Conference: "The days leading up to this week's Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) bore witness to an influx of announcements from open source companies..."

internetnews.com: HP Proposes Open Storage Management
(2005-11-01 16:45:08)
"HP is sticking to its storage management guns in the face of the Aperi open source consortium IBM launched last week..."

Network World: Sierra Club Grows Open Source Application
(2005-11-01 17:30:32)
"Best known for its grassroots environmental protection activities, the Sierra Club also helps thousands of members get outdoors each year with trips that span the globe..."

The Boston Globe: Novell Trips Over its Linux Strategy
(2005-11-01 18:15:54)
"Two years after the rebirth of onetime computer networking titan Novell Inc., the Waltham company is still having trouble learning to walk..."

LinuxPlanet: The Yin and Yang of Open Source Commerce, Part 1
(2005-11-01 19:00:33)
LinuxPlanet begins a special four-part series from author John Terpstra that examines the path of commercial Linux and explores its successes and failures.

Linux.com: openSUSE Inspires Derivative Distros
(2005-11-01 19:45:10)
"In the short time since openSUSE was unveiled, developers have begun work on several new and interesting SUSE derivatives..."

Financial Times: N Korea Puts Its Future in 'Boy Geniuses'
(2005-11-01 20:30:39)
"Next door with the 14-year-olds, Kim Il-gu is working on a Microsoft Powerpoint presentation and in the top class, the 16-year-olds are writing algorithms in Linux..."

Lobby4Linux: Is THIS The Golden Age Of Linux?
(2005-11-01 21:15:58)
"Anything that evolves seems to have 'spurts' during said evolution. The evolution of our own planet has a mystery of its own. A crucial gap remains between the time when nothing was alive and the arrival of the first living creature..."

Linux-Watch: Get Over It--Red Hat Will Never be Microsoft
(2005-11-01 22:00:51)
"I have to say that I get as sick and tired of these arguments as I did of eating macaroni and cheese when I was kid..."

Computerworld: OpenSolaris Has a Leg Up on Linux
(2005-11-01 23:30:04)
"If there's one aspect of Linux that has led to its popularity, it's the ability of suitably enthused individuals to produce their own distribution..."

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