News Linux News for Feb 06, 2006:

CIO Today: Open-Source Hardware Challenges Licensing Models
(2006-02-06 01:00:09)
"IBM was among the first to do so in October 2004 when it announced the opening of the IBM eServer BladeCenter specification under the Berkley Software Design (BSD) license..."

SearchOpenSource: Fortifying Linux Against Common Malware
(2006-02-06 07:00:29)
"Securing enterprise Linux desktops against hostile code has gotten easier, thanks to Ingo Molnar's work on the NX enabler patch in Linux kernel 2.6.8 and processor-based, page protection mechanisms..."

LinuxDevices: The Genesis of KnoppMyth
(2006-02-06 08:30:58)
"I wanted control of my TV. I thought about getting a Tivo, but I wanted more control..."

Tectonic: New Programme from Novell to Promote Migration
(2006-02-06 10:00:59)
"...[A] new initiative to help ISVs and partners in Europe, The Middle East and Africa (EMEA) take their slice of the rapidly growing Linux market..."

LinuxElectrons: Andrew Tridgell Completes OSDL Fellowship
(2006-02-06 11:30:53)
"The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has said that Samba creator Andrew Tridgell has finished his work on Samba 4 at the Labs and will return to his position at IBM..."

SearchOpenSource: Open Ajax Initiative Gives Open Source Boost to Popular Web Technology
(2006-02-06 13:00:38)
"IBM led the parade Wednesday when it was announced that a consortium of technology vendors had formed a new initiative based on asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax)..."

CNET News: Virtualization Companies Vie for Advantage
(2006-02-06 13:45:49)
"Three companies selling software to let servers run software more efficiently will try to advance their respective fortunes Monday with new software, a new partnership and a new promotion..."

ConsortiumInfo: The Other Side of the ODF Coin: Interview with Mass. Super. of Records Alan Cote
(2006-02-06 14:30:28)
"Early last week, I received an email from closer to home, with a 'subject' line that read, 'Maybe it's time we talk...' I was happy to get the email, because the sender was none other than Alan Cote, the Massachusetts Supervisor of Records..."

BusinessWeek: Open Source's New Frontiers
(2006-02-06 15:15:14)
"How free-software startups are competing against database giants such as Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft..." A five-part special report from BusinessWeek.

Groklaw: What SCO Asked Oracle to Produce and.. um... Where
(2006-02-06 16:00:32)
"To my eyes, it looks more like it could be SCO just left the place on the form blank in haste, which is perhaps why Oracle called the subpoena 'slapdash...'"

ZDNet Australia: Linux Australia Addresses Burnout Syndrome
(2006-02-06 16:45:56)
"The nation's peak Linux body will informally separate some of its governance and executive functions in a move to relieve some of the pressure on its voluntary leadership..."

iTWire: Microsoft has a Problem Says maddog
(2006-02-06 17:30:40)
"Needless to say, that problem is Linux and Open Source..."

NewsForge: Africa Source II
(2006-02-06 18:15:06)
"The focus of the conference, held on one of the most beautiful islands of Lake Victoria, was on how free and open source software (FOSS) could be integrated into the projects of [non-governmental organizations]..."

InformationWeek: Linux's Life Beyond Servers
(2006-02-06 19:00:49)
"Lack of interoperability with Windows software holds back desktop deployment..."

SDAAsia: The Rise of Real-time Linux
(2006-02-06 19:45:50)
"New real-time Linux enhancements open a whole new world of possibilities for Linux, ranging across the latest 3G technologies and as near as the mobile handset in your pocket..."

Computing Canada/LinuxInsider: Canada Open-Source Group Tackles Policy Issues
(2006-02-06 20:30:31)
"Canada's national Linux industry association is broadening its mandate and creating programs to tackle the policy issues surrounding open-source technologies, members of its leadership team said..."

Desplesda.com: Lazuli Mockups
(2006-02-06 21:15:47)
"The images below is the preliminary work on a concept I'm calling 'Lazuli,' a possible future incarnation of GNOME..."

Linux Journal: Fon Time
(2006-02-06 22:00:26)
"Fon has been around for awhile. Which is to say, three months. The Spain-based brainchild of Martin Varsavsky, it's a global community of people who share WiFi connections..."

The Korea Times: Linux, Hwang Woo-suk and Lies
(2006-02-06 23:30:14)
"Linux, the open-source software, seems to have nothing to do with South Korea's disgraced cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk, at least at a glance..." An interesting analogy of open source methodology, albeit somewhat contrived.

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