Linux News for Mar 30, 2006

• SearchOpenSource: HP Lets User Take Linux for a Virtual Spin (Mar 30, 2006, 23:30)
  "Philip Gust, the CEO and founder of Nouveau Systems Inc., found himself in a position familiar to many executives with a data center full of expensive, power-hungry legacy infrastructure and applications..."


• Palm Infocenter: Is Palm Building Their Own OS? (Mar 30, 2006, 22:45)
  "Speculation is in the air again that Palm Inc is working on their own operating system for future mobile devices..."


• CNET News: Is Virtualization the Installation Miracle Cure? (Mar 30, 2006, 22:00)
  "Most talk about virtualization these days centers on using server hardware more efficiently. But the technology also has the potential to ease another headache: software installation woes..."


• Computer Business Review: Open Source Tactics (Mar 30, 2006, 21:15)
  "The debate over the viability of Open Source Software has not disappeared--there are views that consider its sustenance to not only be questionable in the long term, but also from a moral high-ground perspective to be questionable..."


• LinuxPlanet: Generation LinuX, Part 2--Web Research (Mar 30, 2006, 20:30)
  LinuxPlanet "steps parents, guardians, and 'geekparents' through the basic steps of exploring the vast Internet using open source tools..."


• Computerworld Australia: ACS Sees Open Source as a Way to Boost Jobs (Mar 30, 2006, 19:45)
  "The Australian Computer Society has emphatically come out in support of open source software, claiming Australia should embrace it on the grounds it fosters innovation and can boost ICT employment..."


• CRN Australia: LinuxWorld: Government Open to Open Source (Mar 30, 2006, 19:00)
  "Speaking at LinuxWorld in Sydney, Department of Finance and Administration's Patrick Callioni said the OSS community could no longer blame government for its slow adoption of offerings like Linux..."


• ZDNet UK: Bristol Council Says It Can Save £1m with Open Source (Mar 30, 2006, 18:15)
  "The local authority claims its biggest challenge was encouraging its staff to accept alternatives to Microsoft Office, with staff assuming that 'if it's cheap it must be nasty...'"


• BusinessWeek: Red Hat Falls on Outlook (Mar 30, 2006, 17:30)
  "Red Hat Inc. shares fell before Wednesday's opening bell after the software maker reported solid quarterly results but projected a profit that fell short of Wall Street's target..."


• Groklaw: The End to the Trademark Tale (Mar 30, 2006, 16:45)
  "You will remember SCO's attempt to trademark UNIX SYSTEM LABORATORIES..."


• Michael's Minute: 502,174 Documents Can't Be Wrong. Next Up ajaxSketch (Mar 30, 2006, 16:00)
  "As promised we're announcing a new product on Wednesday of each week at ajaxLaunch.com... This week we're unveiling ajaxSketch..."


• Washington Post: IBM Makes A Play for Microsoft's Customers (Mar 30, 2006, 15:15)
  "International Business Machines Corp. said it will roll out an aggressive strategy today to lure business customers away from rival Microsoft Corp..."


• ZDNet Australia: HP: Too Many Open Source Licences (Mar 30, 2006, 14:30)
  "Martin Fink, Hewlett Packard's Linux vice-president, yesterday slammed the open source community's complex licensing schemes, suggesting that there are too many open source licences for developers to manage properly..."


• Linux-Watch: Need Open-Source Funding? Talk to the OSDL (Mar 30, 2006, 13:45)
  "This Fund will provide financial support to software developers working on Linux and open-source community projects that don't have access to financial resources or support..."


• SearchOpenSource: Golden's Rules: Why New Chips + Xen = Dream Machiness (Mar 30, 2006, 13:00)
  "I'm changing my ways, and all because of multi-core virtualization..."


• UnixReview: Marcel's Linux App of the Month: kdissert (Mar 30, 2006, 12:15)
  "Even after writing a half dozen books and several hundred articles, I still find it difficult to know where to start when I'm looking at a new project..."


• SearchOpenSource: PostgreSQL Experts: Why Are You Still Using a Big Bucks Database (Mar 30, 2006, 11:30)
  "Your company doesn't have to pay big bucks for a big database..."


• NewsForge: My Desktop OS: VectorLinux SOHO (Mar 30, 2006, 10:45)
  "Mandrake proved impossibly slow to use on these machines, but VectorLinux impressed me with its speed, ease of install, well-chosen lightweight applications, and stability..."


• Linux Journal: Conference Report: FOSS Means Business, Belfast (Mar 30, 2006, 10:00)
  "The conference was held to host talks by two of the free software world's patron saints, Bruce Perens and Richard Stallman..."


• Linux.com: Get Thoggen, and Leave Your DVDs at Home (Mar 30, 2006, 09:15)
  "Thoggen is a new DVD ripper/backup-tool for Linux that encodes video into the free Ogg Theora format..."


• Cluster Monkey: Blue Collar Computing: HPC for the Rest of Us (Mar 30, 2006, 08:30)
  "From an industrial perspective, HPC seems to be a 'look, but don't touch' technology..."


• Linux.com: Graphite: Smart Font Technology Comes to FOSS (Mar 30, 2006, 07:45)
  "Smart font technology, which automatically inserts advanced typographical features in the right context, has existed for a decade, but it is still only partly implemented in most operating systems and programs..."


• KernelTrap: SCSI ID's (Mar 30, 2006, 07:00)
  "An interesting thread on the lkml began with a patch to try and move an IOCTL call used to obtain the SCSI ID of a SCSI device from the block layer into the SCSI subsystem..."


• BobCares: Deploying Ruby on Rails (Mar 30, 2006, 06:15)
  "This article is an introduction to the installation and deployment of Ruby on Rails..."


• HowtoForge: Windows Linux DualBoot Tutorial (Mar 30, 2006, 05:30)
  "This tutorial was written to help set up a dual boot on a SATA drive but it will also work for PATA so continue forward and I will let you know if you need to skip something..."


• Advisories, March 29, 2006 (Mar 30, 2006, 04:45)
  Today's Gentoo Linux security advisory: bsd-games.


• Network Times: So Linux Turns Out to be a Yawn (Mar 30, 2006, 04:00)
  "...From the facts I have been seeing, Linux is definitely not taking over the world..."


• OSWeekly: Is Open Source and Free Software the Same? (Mar 30, 2006, 03:15)
  "Have you ever used the term open source and free software interchangeably? If yes, you are making a mistake..."


• Computer Zen: Is Open Source a Crap Idea? (Mar 30, 2006, 02:30)
  "'The contributors are typically motivated less by altruism than by self-interest...'"


• BusinessWeek: Keeping Free Software Free (Mar 30, 2006, 01:45)
  "Next-generation computers are designed to restrict how you use them even before you buy them. What can the free software community do...?"


• Linux.org: With Microsoft in Chaos, Our Moment Has Arrived (Mar 30, 2006, 01:00)
  "What is surprising, however, is that according to reports, some Microsoft developers are now in open rebellion..."


• The Register: Linux Conquered, Tuttle Man Takes on London (Mar 30, 2006, 00:15)
  And the Tuttle saga continues... "The much-admired Tuttle, Oklahoma can-do spirit has survived this week's thrashing at the hands of Linux fanboys everywhere..."