News Linux News for Dec 12, 2005:

Always On: Open-Source RX
(2005-12-12 01:00:24)
"Can open source repair the broken software business model...?"

Advisories, December 11, 2005
(2005-12-12 04:45:59)
This weekend's security advisories: osh (Debian GNU/Linux); openvpn (Mandriva Linux); kernel and perl (Trustix Secure Linux); and courier (Ubuntu Linux).

Developer.com: Open Source-Based Portal-Lite
(2005-12-12 05:30:08)
"If a picture is worth a thousand words, a live demo is worth a million..."

Enterprise Networking Planet: DIY Telephony With Asterisk, Part 3
(2005-12-12 07:00:02)
"Today we'll dig into setting up custom hold music, conferencing, and skim lightly over faxing and incorporating telephony into your home automation system..."

informIT: The Cost of Free Software
(2005-12-12 08:30:32)
"To an outsider, the free software movement and the open source movement may resemble the 'Judean Peoples' Front' and the 'Peoples' Front of Judea...'"

ONLamp: Open Source and IT Certifications
(2005-12-12 10:00:27)
"As some of you may already know, a fair chunk of my time is being spent as the acting chair of BSD Certification Group Inc..."

DesktopLinux: Portable USB Drive Boots PCs into Mandriva
(2005-12-12 11:30:42)
"Hard drive vendor LaCie has teamed up with Mandriva on a bus-powered USB 2.0 harddrive preloaded with desktop Linux..."

Linux Journal: Syndication and the Live Web Economy
(2005-12-12 13:00:06)
"What new economy does syndication suggest? And does Linux point the way...?"

Reuters/MSNBC: Intel Blasts '$100 Laptop' as Mere 'Gadget'
(2005-12-12 13:45:17)
"Potential computer users in the developing world will not want a basic $100 hand-cranked laptop that is due to be rolled out to millions..."

LinuxElectrons: Linux Makes It to the NASDAQ-100 Index with Red Hat
(2005-12-12 14:30:35)
"The Nasdaq Stock Market has said that the annual re-ranking of the NASDAQ-100 Index, will be effective with the market open on Monday, December 19, 2005. The new listing includes Red Hat and Google..."

Groklaw: Someone Suggests 2 MS licenses Get OSI Approval
(2005-12-12 15:15:47)
"'Microsoft is adding new licenses to its Shared Source Initiative which I believe qualify as open-source licenses...'"

ConsortiumInfo: Linda Hamel's Challenge to a Transfer of IT Power in Massachusetts
(2005-12-12 16:00:23)
"On November 16, General Counsel to the Commonwealth's Information Technology Division Linda Hamel released a legal brief substantiating State CIO Peter Quinn and the ITD's legal authority to adopt ODF..."

PR: Preliminary GNOME Election Results
(2005-12-12 16:45:07)
"The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to announce the preliminary results for the Board of Directors..."

XYZ Computing: Thunderbird: 1.5 and Beyond
(2005-12-12 17:30:46)
"With the recent release of Firefox 1.5, many people are eagerly awaiting the new version of its email client counterpart, Thunderbird..."

InfoWorld: Will Linux Take the Lead in Server Virtualization?
(2005-12-12 18:15:59)
"You might assume, then, that virtualization is a bad thing for server vendors..."

Valentinos: Berlin is About to Switch to Linux, Too
(2005-12-12 19:00:14)
"According to a report on Heise Online, the city of Berlin, capital of Germany, is very likely to switch to Linux as currently does Munich..."

dot.KDE: Kaun Banega KDE Hacker: KDE India Founded
(2005-12-12 19:45:03)
"KDE.in will provide Indian KDE developers and users with a community hub to coordinate with and support each other..."

LinuxPlanet: Preventing Buffer Overflow Exploits Using the Linux Distributed Security Module, Pt. 1
(2005-12-12 20:30:49)
"Internet servers (such as Web, email, and ftp servers) have been the target for different kinds of attacks aiming to disable them from providing services to their respective users. One particular exploit, which has become almost ubiquitous in the last several years, is the buffer overflow exploit..."

Free Software Magazine: Interview with Kay Ramme of the OpenOffice.org UNO project
(2005-12-12 22:00:28)
"Universal Network Objects (UNO) is an interface-based component model that is part of OpenOffice.org..."

The Register: The Sophist and the Open Source Baking Farce
(2005-12-12 23:30:58)
"Worse, the two gentlemen have opened a huge front for proprietary software advocates to rally around the cry that open source is just a trendy fad. And they did all this simply by baking a cookie..."

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