News Linux News for Nov 10, 2005:

LXer: A Year Without (MS) Windows: Completing the Conversion of a Windows User
(2005-11-10 01:00:42)
"Many people aspire to run a pure GNU/Linux environment, but often complain that some device or program is stopping them..."

ZDNet: Was OpenSolaris a Mistake?
(2005-11-10 03:15:38)
"...I suggested that Sun's management could reasonably do an employee buyout by leaving Sun's consulting services in the company and taking everything else private..."

Linux Journal: Building Image Galleries with Konqueror
(2005-11-10 05:30:05)
"Did you know Konqueror has a handy little program to create photo galleries in a few quick steps? Here's how to use it..."

Mad Penguin: Newbie Heaven: A Review of Rickford Grant's "Linux Made Easy"
(2005-11-10 07:00:13)
"Fairy-tales currently told about open source software say that once upon a time, long, long ago, life for Linux newbies was nasty, brutish, and short..."

Computer Business Review: Open Source CRM: The Facts
(2005-11-10 08:30:58)
"CRM is a mature market with high barriers to entry. Even Siebel is unable to maintain its independence, and market share is increasingly going to application giants SAP and prospective Siebel-owner Oracle..."

Wi-Fi Planet: The Open Source WRT54G Story
(2005-11-10 10:00:28)
"The story of the Linksys Wireless-G Router (model WRT54G) and how you can turn a $60 router into a $600 router is a little bit CSI and a little bit Freaks & Geeks..."

DesktopLinux: LinuxWorld Expanding to Spain, Poland in 2006
(2005-11-10 13:00:05)
"IDG World Expo and analyst firm IDC will launch LinuxWorld Summits in Poland and Spain in 2006, bringing the total number of LinuxWorld events to 22 per year, in 19 countries..."

internetnews.com: Happy Birthday, Firefox 1.0
(2005-11-10 14:00:18)
"Like a set of proud parents on its baby's first birthday, the Mozilla Foundation is grinning from ear to ear today. Its precocious Web browser, Firefox 1.0, is one year old..."

eWeek: Executive Musical Chairs Continues at Novell
(2005-11-10 14:00:59)
"SuSE Linux founder Hubert Mantel reportedly announced his resignation Tuesday via e-mail to friends and business associates on one of the many SUSE mailing lists..."

internetnews.com: New Company Launched to Spread Linux
(2005-11-10 14:30:38)
"Five major Linux supporters are backing a new company whose goal is to acquire patents and offer them royalty-free in order to extend open source operating systems worldwide..."

eWeek: Pols Battle Over Future of Open Document
(2005-11-10 15:15:18)
"The State Senate last month passed a bill that, among other economic initiatives, required a study of the open document question..."

NewsForge: GNOME Foundation Slashes Board Size
(2005-11-10 16:00:14)
"In September, GNOME Foundation member David Neary put forward a proposal to reduce the number of GNOME Foundation Board members from 11 to seven..."

vnunet: SAP Dismisses Open Source Innovation
(2005-11-10 16:45:28)
"'IP socialism is the worst that can happen,' argues SAP president Shai Agassi.."

SearchOpenSource: Eclipse Foundation Director: Open Up, Microsoft
(2005-11-10 17:30:18)
"...Milinkovich addresses the growing pains of Eclipse; how a PHP/Java competition within Eclipse is good for the group as a whole, and why Microsoft should put its money where its mouth is and open up a few of its popular licenses..."

Evansville Courier and Press: Linux Growing in Popularity
(2005-11-10 18:15:03)
"Dennis Walters likes to compare a computer to a car. It needs a steering wheel, doors, brakes, seats. Most important, it needs an engine to make it go..."

Linux-Watch: I'm Not Dead Yet! KDE vs. GNOME
(2005-11-10 19:00:11)
"Even after I pointed out that Novell wasn't axing its desktops, it was just committing to GNOME, the howls continued..."

LinuxPlanet: Communicate with CommuniGate Pro 5.0
(2005-11-10 19:45:06)
"Do you need an Internet communications server solution that handles email, instant messaging, calendaring, and VoIP? Want it to run on Linux? CommuniGate Pro 5.0 could be the ticket..."

BusinessWeek: Waving the Open Source Banner Isn't Enough
(2005-11-10 20:30:39)
"More interesting were his comments about the need for multiple vendors providing specifically open source versions of business software. Really? Is the market there yet...?"

Free Software Magazine: Patents Kill
(2005-11-10 22:00:51)
"The cost of such a machine is insane (I have no other word for it); at the hospital, they are already thinking about upgrading it because only three years after the purchase, it’s already obsolete..."

ZDNet: SuSE and Novell: Personality Friction or Culture War?
(2005-11-10 22:45:45)
"The departure of two high-level SuSE contributors from Novell begs the question of whether this latest twist in the Novellization of SuSE is yet another personality clash, or an outright schism..."

InfoWorld: The Open Source Market Opportunity
(2005-11-10 23:30:38)
"The right metric isn't proprietary vs. open, but open vs. open where Microsoft either joins in or gets left behind..."

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