News Linux News for Dec 01, 2005:

InfoWorld: Just What Constitutes an Open Source Company?
(2005-12-01 01:00:25)
"Is RightNow any less an open source company than Red Hat, which layers a 'proprietary' certification/service offering on Linux...?"

eWeek: Bill Gates Is Not the Next Linus Torvalds
(2005-12-01 01:45:53)
"When determining how to open its formats and share code, Microsoft is responsible to its customers and their real needs, not to open-source believers who want to see the company torn apart..."

Datamation: Top 10 Technology Gifts for the Holidays
(2005-12-01 02:30:14)
"I'd like to give the open source crowd some tranquilizers; they need to relax a little..."

LXer: The RIAA-Hollywood-DRM-Linux Suicide Pact
(2005-12-01 04:00:08)
"Actually, I had already come to the conclusion that the fine folks behind the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Digital Rights Management, and the Business Software Alliance are either nuts, corrupt, or both..."

Advisories: November 30, 2005
(2005-12-01 04:45:48)
Today's security advisories: centericq (Debian GNU/Linux); and netpbm and kernel (Mandriva Linux).

Linux Journal: Build a Home Terabyte Backup System Using Linux
(2005-12-01 05:30:36)
"Build a low-cost, terabyte-sized backup server using Linux and back up your digital audio files, digital images and digital movie recordings..."

Always On: Solipsis--The Arrival of Something New
(2005-12-01 07:00:40)
"It is Solipsis, an open source project designed to enable an infinitely scalable global network. It does not use DNS, It does not use servers..."

The Korea Times: Internet Banking Possible for Linux
(2005-12-01 08:30:23)
"Two public financial institutions will start the first Linux-based Internet banking services this month as the government tries to end Microsoft Windows' long-running monopoly in online banking systems..."

WHIR: Camber Picks Red Hat Enterprise Linux
(2005-12-01 10:00:53)
"Red Hat said on Tuesday that defense technology developer Camber Corporation had deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux for its computing and Web-based warfare training..."

SearchOpenSource: Open Source Desktop Basics: Risk-Free Ways to Get Started [Part 1 and 2]
(2005-12-01 11:30:24)
"What I have wanted to hear about are ways to introduce open source software (OSS) into my corporate IT services without risking any problems at all..."

NewsForge: Zope and Plone Blaze Open Source Path at Epson
(2005-12-01 13:00:44)
"But by 1999, exorbitant licensing and maintenance costs, coupled with the company's need to create a dynamic site, led EEA... to begin a migration to a site built with open source tools running on a Linux server..."

Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.15-rc4
(2005-12-01 13:45:08)
"Ok, so -rc3 wasn't so good.
"[ Everybody chorus now: "Nooo?" ]..."

ZDNet UK: Email 'Crucial' to Desktop Linux's Future
(2005-12-01 14:30:30)
"Research from the Open Source Development Labs has found that the take-up of open source on the desktop could falter unless email applications improve..."

GNOME.org: GNOME 2.12.2 Released
(2005-12-01 15:15:15)
"We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of The GNOME Desktop and Developers platform version 2.12.2..."

Fedora: Announcing Fedora Directory Server 1.0
(2005-12-01 16:00:54)
"This release marks a significant milestone for the open source community, who now have access to the code for the console and administration engine as well as the previously open sourced LDAP engine..."

Computer Business Review: JBoss Chief Terms Sun Open Source Move a Hit at IBM
(2005-12-01 16:45:29)
"Saying he is 'ecstatic' about Sun's move to open source its software stack, JBoss CEO Marc Fleury characterized the move as a strike against IBM, not JBoss..."

LinuxPlanet: To Serve Small Business
(2005-12-01 17:30:58)
"IT service companies have been telling small businesses 'trust us' for a long time. With nowhere else to turn, our customers trusted us to deliver reliable and economical IT solutions. Was their trust misplaced...?"

All About Linux: Damn! This is One Small Linux Distribution
(2005-12-01 19:00:03)
"DSL was created by John Andrews whose main motive was to restrict the size of the resulting distribution but at the same time give a complete GUI environment..."

Tectonic: Linux to Save Medscheme R10 Million a Year
(2005-12-01 20:30:17)
"Southern Africa's largest independent medical aid scheme administrator, Medscheme, has adopted an Oracle, Unisys and Suse Linux solution that is expected to save the company around R10 million in its first year alone..."

Linux.yyz.us: Serial ATA (SATA) Linux Software Status Report
(2005-12-01 22:00:47)
"The 'ATA host state machine,' the core of the entire driver, is considered production-stable..."

Linux Journal: Linux in Italian Schools, Part 6: GPL e-Learning in Turin
(2005-12-01 23:30:15)
"One of the most extensive uses of free software in the Italian educational system uses Zope, Plone and Fle3 to run its e-learning portal..."

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