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Linux News for Apr 25, 2006
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ZDNet: Desktop Linux Opportunity is Thick in the BRICK (Apr 25, 2006, 23:30)
"Brazil, Russia, India, China, Korea. BRICK..."
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Apple Matters: Death of a Salesman: What Would Happen to Apple or Microsoft if Bill or Steve Die? (Apr 25, 2006, 22:45)
"'He's looking old,' was her next sentence. Her comment
triggered, again, something that I have been thinking about for a
long time..."
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Linux-Watch: Thank You, Mr. McNealy (Apr 25, 2006, 22:00)
"Never forget that while he was unable to right Sun in recent
years, McNealy wasn't just an industry giant. He changed the IT
world forever..."
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Groklaw: Freespire: A Linux Distro For When You Couldn't Care Less About Freedom (Apr 25, 2006, 21:15)
"They hope you'll help them compromise by contributing to
Freespire, which the article describes as a 'community-driven
distro' that includes proprietary software..."
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Forbes: Don't Blame Scott (Apr 25, 2006, 20:30)
"Scott McNealy, the now-departed chief executive at Sun
Microsystems, is an easy guy to dislike..."
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NewsForge: Perl's Artistic License Undergoing Update (Apr 25, 2006, 19:45)
"The GPL isn't the only license being revised this year. The
Perl Foundation has published its drafts of the Artistic License
2.0 and Contributor License Agreement for public comment..."
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Network Times: Home Affairs Taps Novell Linux (Apr 25, 2006, 19:00)
"The South African Department of Home Affairs has inked a deal
with Novell that will see the governmental organisation
implementing a worldwide collaboration system based on
Linux..."
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CRN: New Sun CEO Schwartz Talks Tactics (Apr 25, 2006, 18:15)
"In the next 90 days, Schwartz and Sun will be 'embarking on a
comprehensive review of all growth opportunities...'"
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Phoronix: ArmyOps Linux/Mac Clients Fall (Apr 25, 2006, 17:30)
"It seems as though the Macintosh and Linux client ports for
America's Army (the popular free FPS game based upon the Unreal
engine and is supported by the US Army) is a drowning
matter..."
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Linux-Watch: LSB 3.1 Unifies Linux Desktop Standards (Apr 25, 2006, 16:45)
"The first LSB 3.1 certified desktop distribution is expected to
come from Xandros, on May 1st..."
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internetnews.com: Exit McNealy: New Era For Sun? (Apr 25, 2006, 16:00)
"Late last Friday, Sun Microsystems CEO and co-founder Scott
McNealy called up the board of directors and announced his plans to
step down from the top spot of the company co-founded 23 years
ago..."
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Byte and Switch: Users Ponder Linux Tradeoffs (Apr 25, 2006, 15:15)
"Think you're going to save gobs of money by opting for Linux
over other operating systems...?"
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eWeek: Red Hat: Born on Wall Street and Here to Stay (Apr 25, 2006, 14:30)
"Red Hat said that the success of Linux on Wall Street is no
fluke and that use of the open-source operating system and other
components will only continue to grow as more users realize the
benefits..."
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-stable: Linux 2.6.16.11 (Apr 25, 2006, 13:45)
"We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the
2.6.16.11 kernel (because just one -stable kernel a day is
obviously not enough...)"
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The Mercury News: Scott McNealy Steps Down as Sun CEO (Apr 25, 2006, 13:00)
"Sun Microsystems announced Monday that its longtime chief
executive Scott McNealy is stepping down from the helm and will be
succeeded by the struggling computer and software company's No. 2
executive, Jonathan Scwhartz..."
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All About Linux: The Varied Flights of Ubuntu Dapper Drake (Apr 25, 2006, 12:15)
And when Canonical released the beta version of the next major
Ubuntu release called Dapper Drake, I decided to download and
install it on one of the free partitions on my machine..."
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Linux Forums: Linux Performance Tuning (Apr 25, 2006, 11:30)
"This is probably the first thing you want to know. When a
distribution is packaged and delivered to clients, it is designed
to be fully compatible with most of the computers available in the
market..."
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Free Software Magazine: phpBB: Creating Online Communities (Apr 25, 2006, 10:00)
"One of the focuses of modern websites is the creation of a
community--giving users the feeling that they are part of a larger
group of like minded individuals who can share information and
experiences..."
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Linux.com: CLI Magic: Porting DVDs with HandBrake (Apr 25, 2006, 08:30)
The multimedia capabilities of the handheld electronic devices
we carry has increased over the last few years..."
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HowtoForge: How To Set Up A Load-Balanced MySQL Cluster (Apr 25, 2006, 07:00)
"This tutorial shows how to configure a MySQL 5 cluster with
three nodes: two storage nodes and one management node..."
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Linux Forums: Where To Use Regular Expressions (Apr 25, 2006, 05:30)
"This article describes some applications that support regular
expressions and some simple ways of usage..."
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Advisories, April 24, 2006 (Apr 25, 2006, 04:45)
Today's security advisories: blender and gdm (Debian GNU/Linux);
Mozilla Firefox, fbida, and Dia (Gentoo Linux); cyrus-sasl and php
(Mandriva Linux); mozilla security/EOL (Slackware Linux); and
cyrus-sasl2 and ruby1.8 (Ubuntu Linux).
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Linux Journal: Linux System Administration: First Tasks (Apr 25, 2006, 04:00)
"You might know how to write code or build applications, but do
you know what is required of a good Linux sysadmin...?"
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Application Development Trends: Where Ubuntu LiveCD Both Succeeds and Fails (Apr 25, 2006, 02:30)
"First, the good news: Ubuntu LiveCD is a technological marvel,
a fabulous achievement..."
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Free Software Magazine: Towards a Free Matter Economy (Part 5) (Apr 25, 2006, 01:00)
"Libraries have been around for a lot longer than software, and
librarians long ago learned many of the data management lessons
that have only now begun to surface in the world of software and
databases..."
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