News Linux News for Dec 02, 2005:

Linux-Watch: Libranet's Lesson: You Can't Keep a Good Open-Source Distro Down
(2005-12-02 00:15:47)
"At the end of last week, Libranet, a well-liked Debian-based distribution, seemed to have reached the end of the road. Or had it...?"

ZDNet Australia: Time for Linux Bigots to Take a Back Seat
(2005-12-02 01:00:11)
"Linux and open source software has always been dogged by a kind of University campus idealism that is brutally incompatible with the harsh realities of the commercial world..."

Lobby4Linux: It's Time For The Offense To Take The Field
(2005-12-02 01:45:55)
"For those who wish to try and further the cause of Linux, you know more than anyone that we are at a disadvantage. Those disadvantages we will acknowledge soon, but for now; we need to agree on a game plan..."

KnowProSE: For People To Use It, Linux Needs Users Helping Users
(2005-12-02 02:30:36)
"When Linux started off, people were pretty busy helping each other out, learning how to use it--or bumbling around with it until they got it right..."

The Register: The Only Thing Worse than Flying is Open Source Code
(2005-12-02 04:00:55)
"The only thing as goat-rendering awful as flying has to be the progression of open source code..."

Advisories: December 1, 2005
(2005-12-02 04:45:13)
Today's security advisories: gdk-pixbuf and horde2 (Debian GNU/Linux); and perl (Fedora Core).

developerWorks: Signals as a Linux Debugging Tool
(2005-12-02 05:30:10)
"By focusing on the analysis of data captured using signal handlers, you can speed up the most time-consuming part of debugging: finding the bug..."

informIT: Installing ZENworks Linux Management
(2005-12-02 07:00:21)
"This chapter provides a walk-through on getting all the components of ZENworks Linux Management working in your environment..."

Linux.com: Autopackage: Toward a Universal Package Manager for the Desktop
(2005-12-02 08:30:45)
"If Mike Hearn, Hongli Lai, and the rest of the Autopackage team realize their goals, the future of package management in GNU/Linux will be greatly different from the present..."

Free Software Magazine: Open Sources 2.0 The Continuing Evolution
(2005-12-02 10:00:09)
"Few people take the time to truly consider just how free software concepts have affected, and continue to affect, the software industry, developers, corporations, organizations and the entire web community..."

OSNews: Open Source Backup and Archiving Project Amanda Grows Up
(2005-12-02 11:30:46)
"Among all this activity and with little fan-fare, the Amanda project launched its new Wiki and Forums..."

SAP Info: How To Minimize Risks when Deploying Linux
(2005-12-02 13:00:36)
"When the 2.6 kernel of Linux was released in late 2004, the opportunity to introduce open source platforms into SAP environments became a reality..."

eWeek: Novell Earnings Report Shows Linux Gains
(2005-12-02 14:30:15)
"Novell's Linux investments are finally showing results as its Linux revenue of $61 million jumped 418 percent from last year's fourth quarter..."

ZDNet Australia: New Apache Aims to Please
(2005-12-02 16:00:48)
"The Apache Software Foundation today released a major new version of its flagship Web server software, claiming improvements in a number of areas such as the ability to handle large files and better support for SQL-type databases..."

Computer Business Review: New Firefox Downloaded 2 Million Times in Two Days
(2005-12-02 17:30:43)
"Since Mozilla Corp released its new Firefox 1.5 late on November 29, 2005, there have been more than 2 million downloads, the company said..."

LinuxDevices: LinkSys Courts Linux Hackers with WRT54G"L"
(2005-12-02 19:00:52)
"Now, LinkSys is shipping a Linux-based WRT54GL model that it says it created specially for Linux hobbyists, hackers, and aficianados..."

adBUMb: Mozilla Turns Users into Marketers for Firefox Campaign
(2005-12-02 19:45:34)
"Though Firefox has already managed to give its competitors a significant run for their money in the short one year of its existence, parent company Mozilla isn't wasting any time patting itself on the back..."

ComputerWeekly: Novell Wins £22m NHS Contract
(2005-12-02 20:30:07)
"The NHS has signed a £22m contract with Novell to roll out a new identity management, application management and Linux-based server infrastructure..."

Telecommunications Industry News: Skype 2.0 for Mac and Linux Users: Coming Soon?
(2005-12-02 22:00:59)
"Although the company hasn’t released any definite word on when the service will be extended to other operating systems, senior executives have hinted that it won’t be too long a wait..."

Editor's Note: What Is Easy and What is Right
(2005-12-02 23:30:15)
Don't like what the community has to say? Resorting to name calling isn't the answer. That's the easy way out. Try again.

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