News Linux News for Mar 08, 2006:

XYZ Computing: Why Ubuntu Needs CNR
(2006-03-08 00:15:37)
"Kevin Carmony and Mark Shuttleworth, the respective heads of Linspire and Canonical Ltd., have reportedly been talking about porting Linspire's Click-N-Run (CNR) to Ubuntu..."

vnunet: Speed Limits Do Not Apply to Bill Gates
(2006-03-08 01:00:58)
"Imagine you were as rich as Bill Gates. What would be the first thing you'd do? If you're male you'd probably buy that slick car you've admired so many times..."

Enterprise Networking Planet: Windows Won't Eat Where Linux Has Walked?
(2006-03-08 01:45:58)
"The more things change, the more they stay the same. Just a few years ago I was looking forward to a happier Linux future; one where as Linux uptake increased, so did supported hardware..."

LinuxCult: Open Source Voting Systems Lack Vendors to Provide Them
(2006-03-08 02:30:25)
"Instead of painful long queues of filling in ballot forms and putting them in ballot boxes, Americans were ready to use open source systems for voting..."

Linux.com: Review: MythTV 0.19
(2006-03-08 04:00:27)
"I've been a MythTV user since version 0.16, so I was happy to find out that version 0.19 is now available. MythTV 0.19 brings a number of improvements, new features, and added stability and usability..."

Advisories, March 7, 2006
(2006-03-08 04:45:24)
Today's security advisories: tar (Debian GNU/Linux); freeciv (Mandriva Linux); initscripts, openssh, squid, spamassassin, Red Hat Application Server Release 2 Update 1, mailman (Red Hat Linux); and flex (Ubuntu Linux).

developerWorks: Put Yourself on the Map with Google Maps API, DB2/Informix, and PHP on Linux
(2006-03-08 05:30:36)
"Google Maps API along with DB2 or Informix, PHP, JavaScript, and XML let you create an easy-to-use map with your data on it..."

DebianHelp: ntop (Bandwidth Monitor) Configuration in Debian
(2006-03-08 07:00:12)
"ntop is a network traffic probe that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular top Unix command does..."

Linux Forums: Using diff and patch
(2006-03-08 08:30:57)
"The diff and patch utilites can be intimidating to the newcomer, but they are not all that difficult to use, even for the non-programmer..."

Email Battles: Cheap Laptop Upgrades Fix Firefox Bloat
(2006-03-08 10:00:11)
"The problem isn't Firefox, so much as its enticing array of easily-added extensions. The recent Grand Prize winner of the Extend Firefox competition, Reveal, is a case in point..."

Linux Journal: OOo Off the Wall: That's Your Version--Document Control in OOo Writer
(2006-03-08 11:30:39)
"Learn how to use Writer's version control tools to keep track of who made which changes and when, without diving into big CMS applications..."

FirebirdNews: Get to Know Firebird in 2 Minutes
(2006-03-08 12:15:45)
"If you are reading this paper, this is probably your first encounter with the Firebird RDBMS..."

SearchOpenSource: Finding Hidden Treasures in OpenOffice 2.0's Charting Wizard
(2006-03-08 13:00:21)
"Nancy [Drew] would have been great at doing charts in OpenOffice 2.0..."

CRN: Mozilla Confirms Firefox Taking In Millions Of Google Dollars
(2006-03-08 13:45:09)
"Mozilla Corp. on Tuesday confirmed that it is taking in millions of dollars from the Firefox browser, but declined to give an exact figure..."

KernelTrap: Status of Suspend2
(2006-03-08 14:30:56)
"Nigel Cunningham, the creator of the Suspend2 software suspend system for Linux announced his retirement from the project in a mail sent to the Linux Kernel Mailing List..."

DesktopLinux: Mr. Dell Opens Up About Desktop Linux
(2006-03-08 15:15:15)
"Michael Dell, chairman of Dell Inc. believes in offering Linux on the desktop, server, and workstation. What he doesn't believe in, for now, is giving Linux full support on the desktop..."

Reuters/ZDNet: Rivals: Microsoft Offer is a 'Poisoned Honeypot'
(2006-03-08 16:00:00)
"Microsoft has set out a 'poisoned honeypot' in its antitrust case by offering to open its source code, a rival said in a confidential filing to the European Commission on Tuesday..."

LinuxWorld Australia: Jon Maddog Hall on Linux, Saving Money and Ruling the World
(2006-03-08 16:45:11)
"At the age of four Jon Maddog Hall stuck the wires from a rabbit-ear television antenna into an electric socket which sent him flying across the room..."

ConsortiumInfo: Office Formats, Accessibility and Politics
(2006-03-08 17:30:39)
"Today, interested Massachusetts legislators are being offered a pre-release demonstration of the accessibility features of Microsoft's Office 2007..."

iTWire: Novell Stitches Up Linux Deal with NSW Government
(2006-03-08 18:15:44)
"In what is believed to be the first open source government contract in Australia of its kind, Novell has signed a deal with the NSW Department of Commerce to become an approved supplier of Open Source software..."

ZDNet Asia: MapQuest Offers Open-Source API
(2006-03-08 19:00:25)
"MapQuest announced Tuesday that it plans to offer Web developers an open-source beta version of its mapping and routing technology..."

Linux.com: First look: KOffice 1.5, Part 1: The Major Applications
(2006-03-08 19:45:56)
"KOffice often gets overlooked in favor of rival office suite OpenOffice.org (OOo), which has a wider set of features, corporate backing, and cross-platform compatibility..."

Tectonic: For Oxfam Volunteer-Driven Free Software Makes Sense
(2006-03-08 20:30:51)
"...[T]he British charity Oxfam switched three thousand users from using its proprietary collaboration platform to one which is closer to their mission: volunteer-created Free/Libre and Open Source Software..."

ZDNet UK: Ubuntu Voted 'Linux Distribution of the Year'
(2006-03-08 22:00:13)
"The Debian-based distribution has won its latest accolade from a Linux community site..."

Tonight on The Linux Link Tech Show
(2006-03-08 23:30:14)
"We talk to KDE/Plasma team member Jessica Hall..."

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