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Linux News for Jan 30, 2006
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NewsForge: Notes on the GPLv3 (Jan 30, 2006, 23:30)
"The draft of the new GPL is very important and much is
at stake in the revision process..."
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CIO India: Open Source Lights Up (Jan 30, 2006, 22:45)
"Open source depends upon volunteer developers for success, but
the more niche a product, the smaller the potential pool of
interested contributors..."
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linux kernel monkey log: OSDL and the Linux Kernel Community, The Board Meeting (Jan 30, 2006, 22:00)
"As I've documented here previously, the Linux kernel community
has had a few issues with OSDL in the past, so they got together,
and worked out how they felt they could help resolve the different
issues..."
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Network World: Avocent Acquisition Targets Linux (Jan 30, 2006, 21:15)
"KVM switch and network infrastructure management specialist
Avocent plans to add Linux expertise to its portfolio with the
acquisition of Cyclades..."
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ZDNet Australia: Oxer, Waugh Retain Linux Australia Spots (Jan 30, 2006, 20:30)
"Incumbents Jon Oxer and Pia Waugh have retained their
respective positions as president and vice president of Australia's
peak Linux body for another year..."
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Free Software Magazine: Interview with Orv Beach @ SCALE (Jan 30, 2006, 19:45)
"SCALE (Southern CAlifornia Linux Expo) is an event that
shouldn't be missed by anybody who is serious about Linux..."
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Tectonic: Go Open Source Puts R3m into Building Linux Channel (Jan 30, 2006, 19:00)
"The Go Open Source campaign today annouced a R3 million
[US$488,000/€404,000] investment into skills aimed at creating
a formal channel for Linux and open source software in South
Africa..."
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NewsForge: Secure Shell Standard Moving Forward (Jan 30, 2006, 18:15)
"The Secure Shell protocol is one step closer to becoming an
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard..."
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ConsortiumInfo: State Lobbying in the Age of Abramoff (Jan 30, 2006, 17:30)
"It has been interesting observing how lobbying works at the
state level as the ODF situation has developed here in
Massachusetts..."
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ZDNet UK: Stallman Leads the GPL Off a Cliff (Jan 30, 2006, 16:45)
"I've criticized Stallman numerous times in the past. I've
pointed out that he argues in favor of lowering revenue
expectations among developers..."
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Government Technology: Pennsylvania Adopts Dual Linux Standard (Jan 30, 2006, 16:00)
"Earlier this month the state of Pennsylvania issued a Linux
Server Standards bulletin describing which Linux distributions
should be used, and why..."
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eWeek: E-Trade VP Talks Open-Source (Jan 30, 2006, 15:15)
"E-Trade's Vice President of Architecture Lee Thompson explains
how the company has leveraged open source to save millions of
dollars annually..."
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The New York Times/CNET News: Are Politics Delaying the $100 Laptop? (Jan 30, 2006, 14:30)
"It sounds like a project that just about any technology-minded
executive could get behind: distributing durable, cheap laptop
computers in the developing world to help education..."
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Tectonic: OSS is an Easier Hack: Mitnick (Jan 30, 2006, 13:45)
"'Open source would be easier [to hack],' admits ex-hacker
turned security consultant Mitnick. 'It's less work...'"
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SysAdmin: File Integrity Assessment via SSH (Jan 30, 2006, 13:00)
"The concept is simple: the administrator creates a
configuration file that lists the critical system files and
directories that the FIA tool should monitor..."
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SearchOpenSource: 2006 Phish Tales: Flawed and Fishy Defenses (Jan 30, 2006, 11:30)
"Phishers may not have won the game, but they're definitely
trammeling their opponents' defenses..."
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Free Software Magazine: GRUB Tips and Tricks (Jan 30, 2006, 10:00)
"The GRand Unified Boot loader, or GRUB, has all but replaced
the default boot loader on many GNU/Linux distributions..."
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Systhread: Rewriting a Perl Util in C Part I (Jan 30, 2006, 08:30)
"There is a utility called service that can be used to shortcut
the path of init (or rc) scripts on several platforms. The service
utility is written in Perl..."
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DesktopLinux: Getting Scanners to Work with Linux (Jan 30, 2006, 05:30)
"I recently received a note from a disgruntled Linux user. He
was having an awful time trying to get his unidentified USB Canon
scanner to work with his copy of Xandros Desktop 3..."
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Advisories, January 29, 2006 (Jan 30, 2006, 04:45)
This weekend's security advisories: cupsys, trac,
libapache-auth-ldap, imagemagick, and drupal (Debian GNU/Linux);
perl (Fedora Legacy); Gallery (Gentoo Linux); perl-Convert-UUlib,
perl-Net_SSLeay, ImageMagick, and net-snmp (Mandriva Linux).
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Andrew Morton: Linux 2.6.16-rc1-mm4 (Jan 30, 2006, 02:30)
Incremental changelog, links within.
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LinuxDevCenter: Linux Virtualization with Xen (Jan 30, 2006, 01:00)
"Xen is the new virtualization kid on the block. It's gaining
visibility and importance at a speed only projects such as Linux
and Apache have seen before..."
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