News Linux News for Apr 04, 2006:

Groklaw: The Open Source Legal Landscape
(2006-04-04 00:00:19)
"Brendan Scott, who heads up Open Source Law, just gave an interesting talk, 'The Open Source Legal Landscape,' at LinuxWorld in Sydney on Wednesday..."

Henry the Adequate: Henry's Operating System FAQ
(2006-04-04 00:45:56)
"It has come to my attention that some moron is spreading lies and deceitful stuff about operating systems..."

KDE Developer Journals: Frustrations with Kubuntu Dapper Flight 6 and How it Handles CUPS 1.2svn
(2006-04-04 01:30:53)
"Regarding an impending CUPS-1.2 release, prospects have become much brighter in the meanwhile. During March, Mike Sweet released 2 Betas and the first Release Candidate. So a final 1.2.0 release seems pretty close now..."

Linux Forums: Blag Review
(2006-04-04 03:00:03)
"Blag Linux and Gnu (BLAG) is a Fedora Core 3 based distribution of the Linux kernel and Gnu utilities which runs on the x86 processor..."

Lateral Opinion: Fighting Spam with Qmail (Part III)
(2006-04-04 04:30:18)
"This installment will be about using RBL effectively to decrease your spam-related server load, and the spam your users get..."

All About Linux: Enabling and Disabling Services During Start Up in GNU/Linux
(2006-04-04 06:00:53)
"For example, my machine does not have any pcmcia cards so I can safely disable it. Same is the case with postfix which is also not used..."

HowtoForge: The Perfect Xen 3.0 Setup For Debian
(2006-04-04 07:30:51)
"This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 3.0.1) on a Debian Sarge (3.1) system..."

DebianHelp: PostgreSQL Database Server Configuration in Debian
(2006-04-04 09:00:28)
"PostgreSQL is a fully featured object-relational database management system..."

informIT: The Need for Virtualization and Xen
(2006-04-04 10:30:25)
"'Computers are never fast enough.' That used to be the mantra of computer users everywhere..."

Linux.com: Gregarius Aggregator Succeeds with Feeds
(2006-04-04 12:00:13)
"Gregarius is written mainly in PHP, and available under the GNU General Public License (GPL)..."

ZDNet: Linux Lab Looks to Bridge Dueling Interfaces
(2006-04-04 13:30:03)
"The Open Source Developer Labs is previewing work that attempts to make life easier for software companies by bridging GNOME and KDE, the two competing graphical interfaces most widely used with Linux..."

ZDNet UK: JBoss Plans for IPO
(2006-04-04 14:15:16)
"Another round of venture capital funding could be on the cards as the open source firm looks towards going public..."

vnunet: High Migration Costs Holding Back Linux
(2006-04-04 15:00:15)
"Novell's newly developed SuSE Linux client operating system has an improved user interface and features, but the high cost of migrating from Windows remains a major barrier to uptake, according to Gartner..."

Editor's Notes From the Road: Laptop for World's Children: Priceless
(2006-04-04 15:45:55)
Blogging from LinuxWorld, your editor ponders the $100 laptop.

NewsForge: Software Freedom Law Center has a Legal Umbrella for FOSS Projects
(2006-04-04 16:30:28)
"Why a Conservancy? Dan Ravicher, legal director of the SFLC, says that one of the first things that the law center recommends for projects is to form a corporate entity..."

ConsortiumInfo: Case Study II: A National Archive Moves to ODF
(2006-04-04 18:00:27)
"Today, I'll describe another case study in process: the decision by the National Archives of Austalia (NAA) to move its digital archives program to software that supports ODF..."

CIO Today: IBM Partners with 3Com on VoIP
(2006-04-04 19:30:49)
"IBM and 3Com intend to deliver the first IP telephony suite that can run in a single Linux-on-Power partition on the System i..."

DesktopLinux: Mono 1.2 Beta Aims to Enable Cross-Platform Desktop Linux Apps
(2006-04-04 21:00:20)
"Novell opened the LinuxWorld Conference Monday with the introduction of the beta program for Mono 1.2, the open-source implementation of the Microsoft .NET framework..."

EE Times: Interest in Embedded Linux Remains Low, Survey Finds
(2006-04-04 22:30:56)
"Only 17 percent of embedded systems designers are currently using embedded Linux, and 66 percent say they are either not interested in using it or do not expect to be using it anytime soon..."

CNET News: Unisys' Linux Booth Too Hot to Handle
(2006-04-04 23:15:41)
"The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo has been a hot show in the computing industry, but not usually hot enough to trip fire alarms..."

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