News Linux News for Jan 03, 2006:

eWeek: To Every Operating System...
(2006-01-03 00:15:42)
"...There was a season. The Linux, Mac and Windows operating systems of 2005 are characterized by diversity, openness and innovation..."

Gatchev: The One Desktop To Rule Them All
(2006-01-03 01:00:40)
"'KDE rules!' 'No, GNOME does!' 'Our desktop is the most customizable!' 'Ours is the most ergonomic...!'"

XYZ Computing: Linux's Difficulty with Names
(2006-01-03 01:45:25)
"Though I am certainly an advocate of desktop Linux, I am not so impressed with its progress that I cannot recognize faults or acknowledge them shown to me..."

NewsForge: What Ever Happened to Linux Media Center PCs?
(2006-01-03 02:30:45)
"A year ago, Linux seemed poised to take on the living room, in the form of home media center PCs and systems. But last year's product announcements have not materialized into this year's Linux-based consumer systems..."

Free Software Magazine: Thoughts on the "One Laptop Per Child" Project
(2006-01-03 04:00:56)
"One of the biggest obstacles preventing computers (and through them, the internet) becoming the 'great levellers' of society is that not everybody has one..."

Linux Journal: Embedding Python in Your C Programs
(2006-01-03 05:30:20)
"C, meet Python. Python, this is C. With surprisingly little effort, the Python interpreter can be integrated into your program to add features quickly that could take months if written entirely in C..."

Adminspotting: Getting Things Done in the New Year
(2006-01-03 07:00:30)
"Anyways, there's this really cool Rails application called Tracks that will give you a web-based management interface for organization..."

Linux.com: Presentations with Pylize
(2006-01-03 07:45:58)
"Pylize, a Python-based command-line tool, lets you use familiar HTML coding techniques to get the job done..."

Pistono: Linux-Based Alarm Clock [Tutorial]
(2006-01-03 08:30:07)
"Why should you spend money for an alarm clock or a software that does an equivalent job, when you can just use you Linux box...?"

Like That Idea: Providing a Home for Drupal
(2006-01-03 09:15:59)
"We've decided to use Drupal for our content management system (CMS). An important question for newbies remains, how do we get Drupal onto a real Internet Website...?"

AllYourTech: Add Windows Media Support to your Linux Box
(2006-01-03 10:00:22)
"Having trouble getting .WMV, .WMA, and .ASF files--the Windows-based media formats--to open on your Linux box...?"

Linux-Watch: The Great Drupal Web Blogging Project, Part 1
(2006-01-03 10:45:25)
"I may be good at some things, but I'm lousy at making Web sites..."

Libervis: A Year of Libervis
(2006-01-03 11:30:09)
"Libervis is a community for those who are interested in free culture. We believe in freedom, cooperation and sharing. In this article we will review what happened in our community in 2005 and unfold our plans for 2006..."

Gentoo-Wiki: HOWTO Install GoogleEarth with Wine
(2006-01-03 12:15:59)
"Installation of GoogleEarth on Gentoo is quite easy when you know exactly what to do..."

Mad Penguin: Sandals and All: A Review of "Point & Click OpenOffice.org"
(2006-01-03 13:00:00)
"Robin Miller is after your granny. Again..."

Linux Edge: XGL Development Opens Up
(2006-01-03 13:45:40)
"David Reveman has made the latest XGL source code available to download..."

The Register: Google to 'Launch Own PC'
(2006-01-03 14:30:27)
"Google is planning to provide an own-brand Windows-less PC and sell the low-cost system through a partnership with retail giant Wal-Mart..."

Ars Technica: KDE 4 to Get Dashboard Widget Support
(2006-01-03 16:00:35)
"Bloggers around the world have been talking about the latest Firefox extension, even though it isn't yet available..."

Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.15
(2006-01-03 16:45:50)
"Ok, very small/few changes in the last week, it seems everybody is off on vacation. All the better..."

Heise Online: Debian Etch for Eight Architectures
(2006-01-03 17:30:01)
"At the end of December the Debian release team published the first details that indicate out of which architectures the next version of the free Linux distribution will be composed..."

The Inquirer: Seamonkey Beta Improves on Mozilla Legacy
(2006-01-03 19:00:17)
"SeaMonkey, unless you've been living in a glass jar, is the successor of the Mozilla Suite..."

Norway Commune Plans SUSE Deployment
(2006-01-03 19:45:38)
The Barum commune has asked the Norwegian government for 1.15 million Norwegian kroners to implement a Linux solution for 15,000 students, 40 schools, and 1,200 teachers.

Ars Technica: Microsoft Employees Ponder the Fate of Internet Explorer
(2006-01-03 20:30:09)
"The saga of Internet Explorer, the piece of software that once brought the Department of Justice to the brink of breaking up Microsoft, continues to eat away at the company..."

SearchOpenSource: Open Source's Speed, Firefox's Security Wows Fidelity
(2006-01-03 21:15:33)
"Open source software got an enterprise shot in the arm recently when Fidelity Investments Inc. created a policy and governance structure that gives open source and proprietary products equal consideration in buying decisions..."

PR: Open-Xchange Offers Free "Live-CD" for Open-Xchange Server
(2006-01-03 22:00:37)
"Open-Xchange, Inc. today announced the availability of a free, fully-functional 'Live-CD' of Open-Xchange Server 5..." Press release within.

SearchOpenSource: What's Ahead for Linux, Open Source, If...
(2006-01-03 22:45:42)
"It's prediction time for Bess, and he opines on the future of Linux and open source in this interview. He also lists the hot new technologies that will shake up the IT world in 2006..."

LinuxWorld Magazine: Linux Netwosix Creator Discusses 2.0 Vision, Future
(2006-01-03 23:30:19)
"The recent announcement of the 2.x branch of Linux Netwosix may prompt LinuxWorld readers to ask why there were two releases--1.3 and 2.0-rc1--of this software within a week..."

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