News Linux News for May 04, 2006:

ZDNet: Will Open Source Stay Non-Political?
(2006-05-04 00:15:00)
"The failure of the SCO suit, more important the quick defense of open source software by major corporations, has protected this growing business from the dreaded stain of politics..."

The Register: Linux Hater/Traitor Turns to Windows
(2006-05-04 01:00:20)
"Internet satirist Shelley the Republican has embraced Microsoft Windows, barely 10 days since publishing a tongue-in-cheek diatribe that painted the open source community as a bunch of communist hackers..."

SearchOpenSource: Preaching the Virtues of Linux
(2006-05-04 01:45:03)
"His message can be persuasive--the Linux evangelist boasts that he even coaxed his 80-year-old father away from a lifelong relationship with Windows..."

NewsForge: My Desktop OS: Kubuntu Breezy
(2006-05-04 02:30:39)
"I need a stable Linux that allows me to easily install the latest versions of software and that has good support for power management on a laptop..."

ServerWatch: Open Source Backup, From A to Z
(2006-05-04 03:15:58)
"A new start-up called Zmanda has released an enterprise edition of Amanda in addition to a network-based approach for subscription and support..."

Free Software Magazine: Simple Package Management with Synaptic
(2006-05-04 04:00:21)
"Synaptic is a graphical user interface (GUI) for managing software packages on Debian-based distributions..."

Advisories, May 3, 2006
(2006-05-04 04:45:52)
Today's security advisories: clamav (Debian GNU/Linux); xorg-x11 and libtiff (Mandriva Linux); dia, squirrelmail, and ethereal (Red Hat Linux); xorg (Slackware Linux); xorg-x11-server (SUSE Linux); and mozilla-thunderbird, tiff, gdm, and libnasl (Ubuntu Linux).

developerWorks: Embeddable Scripting with Lua
(2006-05-04 05:30:37)
"Compiled programming languages and scripting languages each have unique advantages, but what if you could use both to create rich applications...?"

LinuxDevices: Versatile Set-Top Box Runs Linux
(2006-05-04 07:00:21)
"The Media Systems iSetBox-Home is powered by a Pixelworks processor, and lets users watch TV and DVD movies, listen to music, record CDs/DVDs, and access the Internet..."

OSWeekly: Kernel Panic: Defining System Inconsistencies
(2006-05-04 08:30:24)
"Kernel panic, in this article, however, will refer to a message displayed by an operating system after detecting a system inconsistency from which it cannot recover completely..."

Linux.com: Bibble 4.7: RAW Power for Penguins
(2006-05-04 10:00:49)
"Bibble Labs has released Bibble 4.7, a commercial program for processing and conversion of RAW digital photography files to publishable formats such as JPG, PNG, and TIFF..."

NewsForge: Three Rules for Safer Wi-Fi Away from Home
(2006-05-04 11:30:40)
"Almost everyone has heard about wardriving, the geek sport in which you drive around and see what wireless access points (WAP) you can find and access..."

Linux Cult: Taking Irssi for a Spin
(2006-05-04 12:15:31)
"Among the various free IRC clients available for GNU/Linux, few provide the power and flexibility that Irssi does..."

ServerWatch: Tip of the Trade: Tiny Unixes
(2006-05-04 13:00:08)
"General-purpose free operating systems like Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD are extremely customizable. You can slim them down or fatten them up as needed. However, they're much harder to slim down than they used to be, and far easier to fatten..."

ZDNet UK: Don't Pirate MS-Office: Use Ours, Says OpenOffice.org
(2006-05-04 13:45:04)
"'Get legal -- Get OpenOffice.org' is the tagline of a new campaign taking advantage of the recent clampdown against unlicensed software by Microsoft and the BSA..."

Groklaw: OpenDocument Foundation to MA: We Have a Plugin
(2006-05-04 14:30:56)
"I have just heard from the OpenDocument Foundation's Gary Edwards, with news about a plugin the Foundation is offering the Commonwealth of Massachusetts..."

The Register: Trolltech Sees a Billion Linux Phones
(2006-05-04 15:15:41)
"If Linux is to grab a significant chunk of the mobile phones business in the coming years, as supporters hope, then much of its fate is in the hands of Trolltech..."

E-Mail Battles: "Critical" Firefox Update Hits Mark... Almost
(2006-05-04 16:00:28)
"If you have Javascript enabled and designMode turned on, a remote black hat can force a call to a deleted controller context, which, at best, crashes the browser, and at worst, lets the attacker run evil code..."

Sys-Con: Open-Sourcing Java: The Great Debate Begins Again
(2006-05-04 16:45:05)
"'The fact that there is so much discussion going on is of interest,' wrote Sun's John Clingan in his blog yesterday..."

NewsForge: Opera 9.0 Beta is Playing My Song
(2006-05-04 17:30:20)
"With Opera 9.0, now in beta, Opera continues its record of innovation, adding features no other popular browser can match..."

internetnews.com: How To Survive The 'Perfect Storm'
(2006-05-04 19:00:50)
"The keys to surviving? Users and user choice, he said during a keynote address at the Interop conference here..."

LinuxPlanet: It Takes a Project to Raze a Forest
(2006-05-04 20:30:16)
One of the basic premises of evolution is that traits that are advantageous to the species are perpetuated and adverse ones winnowed. So why isn't this happening in software design?

Sys-Con India: Italian Bank Deploys Red Hat Enterprise Linux Across Desktops and Servers
(2006-05-04 22:00:15)
"The bank is migrating all of its 8,000 UNIX workstation clients to Red Hat Desktop..."

DesktopLinux: Freespire: Great Idea? Awful Idea?
(2006-05-04 23:30:20)
"The problem, of course, is that by combining proprietary software with Linux, you're also legitimatizing the use of proprietary programs with open-source..."

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