News Linux News for Dec 05, 2005:

CIO: Is Open Source Really Just as Good?, Part II
(2005-12-05 01:00:44)
"...[W]hen companies like IBM, HP, Novell, Dell and even Sun are driving the adoption, deployment and support of various parts of the LAMP stack in the enterprise, it's safe to say that the ecosystem for many open source projects is thriving..."

developerWorks: Implement and Deploy Web Services in an Apache Geronimo Application
(2005-12-05 07:00:22)
"Follow along and find out how to implement and deploy Web services into a Geronimo application using the example, which uses an emulated banking scenario..."

Linux DevCenter: Using the Root Account on Debian
(2005-12-05 09:15:59)
"There is one user account on your Debian system that has the power to change anything: the root account. By power, I mean absolute power..."

ServerWatch: Understanding LAMP
(2005-12-05 11:30:14)
"If you're at all familiar with open source software, chances are you've heard the phrase 'LAMP stack' at some point. You may even know what it stands for. But do you know what LAMP actually is...?"

Linux.com: Tango Project Aims to Clean Up the Desktop
(2005-12-05 13:00:15)
"One obstacle for Linux to overcome on the desktop is the lack of a consistent visual interface..."

MSNBC/Newsweek: The Big Blue Yonder
(2005-12-05 13:45:34)
"By giving away hundreds of its patents, IBM has turned a philosophical movement into a tangible business strategy. The company with the most to lose is Microsoft..."

FSF France: French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software
(2005-12-05 14:30:31)
"It appears that publishing Free Software giving access to culture is about to become a counterfeiting criminal offence..."

Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.15-rc5
(2005-12-05 15:15:06)
"There's a rc5 out there now, largely because I'm going to be out of email contact for the next week, and while I wish people were religiously testing all the nightly snapshots, the fact is, you guys don't..."

ZDNet: IBM to Support OpenDocument Early Next Year
(2005-12-05 16:00:51)
"IBM plans to support early next year the OpenDocument standard in its desktop software, a product the company intends to market aggressively in developing countries..."

DesktopLinux: Gentoo GCC 3.4 for x86 Marked "Stable"
(2005-12-05 16:30:20)
"The Gentoo Linux project reported Friday that Gentoo GCC 3.4 has been marked stable on x86 machines..."

AP/SiliconValley: Microsoft's Bill Gates to Visit India
(2005-12-05 17:00:58)
"When Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates begins a four-day visit to India on Tuesday, he'll see a country moving increasingly toward open source operating systems..."

Groklaw: The Complete Story of the Vienna Conclusions
(2005-12-05 17:30:43)
"After I first wrote about the removal of Free Software from the Vienna Conclusions and their replacement by a statement in favor of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM)..."

internetnews.com: JBoss Buys Arjuna Transaction Suite
(2005-12-05 18:00:12)
"Professional open source vendor JBoss continues its climb up the middlware stack with the purchase of a distributed transaction manager critical for mission-critical Web services environments..."

PC Pro: Rhapsody Tunes up for Mac and Linux Users
(2005-12-05 18:30:42)
"However unlike Windows users of the services, Mac and Linux subscribers will not be able to buy songs or transfer music to a portable player..."

Denver Business Journal: Small Businesses Using More Open Source
(2005-12-05 19:00:00)
"When Gary Mauldin, CEO of La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries, died from complications from an accident on Sept. 19, 2002, Kevin Mauldin inherited his brother's job--as well as an outdated computer network..."

TuxJournal: A Very Long Chat with Debian's Branden Robinson
(2005-12-05 19:30:55)
"Everybody know that you're the actual Debian GNU/Linux maintainer, one of most famous and used secure operating system nowaday. What's its philosophy...?"

The GNOME Journal: Macedonia Deploys 5,000 GNOME in Public Schools
(2005-12-05 20:00:03)
"When the Republic of Macedonia decided to deploy Linux in 468 schools and 182 computer labs nationwide, they chose GNOME on an Ubuntu distribution..."

LinuxPlanet: Verano--Improving Industrial Network Security
(2005-12-05 20:30:13)
"Verano is on a mission to safeguard industrial control networks... like manufacturing plants, waterworks, or electrical grids..."

The National Business Review: Government Adopts Plone OSS Content Management System
(2005-12-05 21:00:57)
"The State Services Commission is championing an open source solution for content management needs in state agencies..."

Computer Business Review: Red Hat and Fujitsu Expand Linux Itanium Porting Services
(2005-12-05 21:30:27)
"Red Hat Inc and Fujitsu Ltd are expanding the relationship to bring applications running on Red Hat's Enterprise Linux and Fujitsu's PrimeQuest servers to the global market..."

Joystiq: Linux Gaming Made Easy
(2005-12-05 22:00:53)
"Several commercial games have been ported to Linux, including Quake 4, and there are many open-source games that ship with various distributions or can be downloaded..."

eWeek: Open Source Enters VM Space
(2005-12-05 22:30:09)
"Open-source technology is ready to take a major step forward into the competitive virtual machine space, a move that could help drive down costs for users..."

internetnews.com: MontaVista Takes TI's DaVinci
(2005-12-05 23:00:00)
"Texas Instruments (TI) has teamed up Linux with two new highly-integrated system-on-chip (SoC) processors..."

The Inquirer: Ballmer Foils Linux Plan
(2005-12-05 23:30:20)
"Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer managed to foil a plan by some Linux demonstrators to upset one of his speeches at the University of Massachusetts by showing up on time..."

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