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Linux News for Nov 14, 2005
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Groklaw: SCO Asserts Its Rights to Almost Nothing (Nov 14, 2005, 23:30)
"SCOG's accusations that IBM has made infringing contributions
to the Linux 2.7 codebase make perfect sense to me..."
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Linux-Watch: That GNOME Only Thing? I Was Just Kidding (Nov 14, 2005, 23:00)
"When Novell gave up supporting KDE, I expected something to
happen..."
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Phoronix: ATI PowerPlay [Review] (Nov 14, 2005, 22:30)
"Today we will be sharing a small preview of what has to come
from this ATI technology now supported under Linux. To start with,
below is ATI's official release note regarding PowerPlay in the
v8.19.10 drivers..."
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Linux Magazine: Exclusive: Interview with Monty Widenius (Nov 14, 2005, 22:00)
"With the release of 5.x, does MySQL AB plans to compete more
directly with products like Oracle and DB2, or do you see MySQL 5
as filling a different niche and being a complimentary database
solution...?"
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ZDNet Asia Top Tech 50: Red Hat (Nov 14, 2005, 21:15)
"Almost all Linux companies would have to grapple with the
perennial question of how they can make money through software
subscriptions and services rather than selling packaged
boxes..."
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NewsForge: Open Source Symposium Report (Nov 14, 2005, 20:30)
"Seneca College's fourth annual Open Source Symposium last month
drew high profile developers and thinkers from the open source
community to Toronto..."
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The Inquirer: Apple Briefs Swoop on Open Source Outfit (Nov 14, 2005, 20:00)
"Ipodder Lemon was free software distributed under a GPL licence
to manage podcasts..."
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LinuxPlanet: Getting the Real Facts: How Industry Analyst Reports Can Trick Readers (Nov 14, 2005, 19:30)
"Microsoft's 'Get the Facts' advertising campaign makes the
claim that Windows offers a lower total cost of ownership (TCO)
than Linux, and backs it up with reports from well-known industry
analyst firms... How can you separate the fact from the
fiction...?"
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internetnews.com: Ebay Frees Its Developer API (Nov 14, 2005, 19:00)
"Once upon a time, developers who needed to access eBay's
application programming interfaces in order to connect to the
auction giant's selling platform had to pay..."
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MIT Technology Review: Linus's World (Nov 14, 2005, 18:15)
"How open-source god Linus Torvalds got his groove back after a
mini-insurrection among Linux insiders..."
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SAP: I LOVE Open Source---Really! (Nov 14, 2005, 17:30)
"I am tired of reporters and others distorting my statements
regarding to Open Source..."
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ZDNet UK: SGI Plans Linux Renaissance (Nov 14, 2005, 17:00)
SC05: "A modular blade-based Linux machine
looks to be spearheading SGI's attempts to pick itself up after
being delisted from the NYSE..."
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ConsortiumInfo: ODF Update: What Will Happen Next on Beacon Hill and When (Nov 14, 2005, 16:30)
"That effort manifested first itself when State Senator Pacheco
called a hearing on October 31 at which Quinn was questioned, and
then confronted him with the testimony of a variety of critical
witnesses..."
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internetnews.com: Is Google Calling Gaim's Shots? (Nov 14, 2005, 16:00)
"An open source developer is alleging that Google is driving the
development of Gaim and bypassing the community. Google refutes the
claim..."
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CNET News: Linux Networx Adopts New Cluster Design (Nov 14, 2005, 15:30)
SC05: "Linux Networx, a company that
specializes in supercomputers made from clusters of Linux machines,
plans on Monday to unveil two new systems: the LS-1 and the
LS-X..."
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ZDNet UK: Open source: Developing Markets and Anti-Americanism (Nov 14, 2005, 15:00)
"Outside of the US and Europe, cost is a big motivator for using
open source software--but it's not the only one..."
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-stable: Linux 2.6.14.2 (Nov 14, 2005, 14:30)
"We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the
2.6.14.2 kernel..."
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Debian.org: Debian-Installer Etch Beta 1 (Nov 14, 2005, 14:30)
The Debian Installer team is proud to announce the first beta
release of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Etch.
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vnunet: Giants Develop Linux Phone Specs (Nov 14, 2005, 13:45)
"The new Linux Phone Standards forum aims to create a framework
for mobile application development..."
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LXer: Interview with Marten Mickos CEO of MySQL AB (Nov 14, 2005, 13:00)
"'We are not competing with Oracle, because they are the kings
of existing database applications. But when it comes to new
development and new paradigms, that's where MySQL fits in...'"
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Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.15-rc1 (Nov 14, 2005, 11:30)
"It's hard to go through in any great detail, because even the
shortlog is actually almost five thousand lines and about 200kB in
size..."
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IT Manager's Journal: Sleepycat--A Blue Ribbon Example of Open Source Financial Success (Nov 14, 2005, 11:30)
"In other words, they are afraid that in the process of offering
its source code for free, a company is jeopardizing its ability to
remain a going concern and will not be around to provide support
over a period of years..."
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Linux.com: New Approaches to Linux Package Management (Nov 14, 2005, 09:15)
"Traditional Linux package management systems such as RPM,
Debian's dpkg, and Slackware's pkgtool present several problems for
users..."
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NewsForge: PunBB: A Simple, Speedy Bulletin Board (Nov 14, 2005, 07:00)
"For some time now, I've been looking for a good, open source
bulletin board package to run a discussion board on my Web
site..."
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Advisories: November 13, 2005 (Nov 14, 2005, 04:45)
This weekend's security advisories: acidlab (Debian GNU/Linux)
and lynx (Mandriva Linux).
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LXer: Survival Guide For Women In FOSS: Striking Out On Your Own (Nov 14, 2005, 01:00)
"Most women, when they plan their careers, think in terms of
having jobs. But why limit yourself? The computing world is a haven
for the self-employed, and the FOSS world supplies tools and
opportunities you won't find anywhere else..."
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