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News Linux News for May 08, 2006:
What PC?: How to Use Perl or PHP Scripts on Your Web Site
(2006-05-08 01:00:49)
"There are lots of different ways to tweak PVRs, but you're probably wondering what they have to do with web development..."
Advisories, May 7, 2006
(2006-05-08 05:30:35)
This weekend's security advisories: rsync and Mozilla Firefox (Gentoo Linux); xorg-x11 (Mandriva Linux); and clamav, cyrus-sasl, kernel, libtiff, rsync, and xorg-x11 (Trustix Secure Linux).
NewsForge: Defeat Spam with SpamBayes
(2006-05-08 07:00:29)
"Spam email is the plague of the 21st century; SpamBayes is its cure. This client-side application analyzes all incoming email messages and automatically sorts out those that are unwanted..."
All About Linux: strace - A Very Powerful Troubleshooting Tool for All Linux Users
(2006-05-08 08:30:19)
"Many times I have come across seemingly hopeless situations where a program when compiled and installed in GNU/Linux just fails to run..."
DebianHelp: Firebird Database Configuration in Debian
(2006-05-08 10:00:06)
"Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-99 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms..."
Linux Forums: RPM for Newbies
(2006-05-08 11:30:40)
"I was in doubt about writing this article. There are several tutorials covering this topic but I want to try to write a simple article that shows the basis of rpm usage..."
NewsForge: Torbutton Firefox Plugin
(2006-05-08 13:00:39)
"At a Wi-Fi hotspot, you may need the security and anonymity of Tor, but on a secure network, the higher bandwidth of a direct connection becomes more important..."
ZDNet Australia: New SUSE Linux to Debut this Week
(2006-05-08 13:45:15)
"Software vendor Novell plans to make the latest 10.1 version of its SUSE Linux operating system available late this week..."
ZDNet UK: Linux Kernel 'Getting Buggier'
(2006-05-08 14:30:26)
:Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton may force developers to devote one kernel cycle to fix long-standing bugs in the Linux kernel.."
The Wall Street Journal: Silicon Graphics Files For Chapter 11 Protection
(2006-05-08 15:15:47)
"Silicon Graphics Inc., a long-struggling maker of high-performance computers, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection..."
Linux-Watch: Coming Soon: ODF for MS Office
(2006-05-08 16:00:58)
"Just because Microsoft refuses to support ODF (Open Document Format) never meant that someone wouldn't write a plug-in to enable Microsoft Office users to read and write ODF documents. Well, it's happened..."
Heise Online: LinuxTag: Ubuntu Offers Three Desktops
(2006-05-08 16:45:43)
"Shuttleworth said he was confident that the three certificates for the corporate use of VMware, IBM DB2, and MySQL will soon follow..."
Coulier.org: Mandriva Linux 2006 for Home Users
(2006-05-08 17:30:59)
"What can a Linux distribution such as Mandriva Linux 2006 mean to a Windows user? Is it a valuable alternative, or do you have to be a real computer nerd to risk the move...?"
Mad Penguin: The Pepper Pad: Open Alternative to Microsoft's Origami
(2006-05-08 18:00:40)
"The Pepper Pad, like Origami, is a mid-point form factor PC that is bigger and more powerful than a PDA, but smaller and less optimized for traditional desktop PC tasks than a notebook computer or a desktop PC..."
vimannounce: Announcing: Vim (Vi IMproved) Version 7.0
(2006-05-08 18:30:46)
"Vim 7 is ready! After years of development this feature packed editor is waiting for you..."
Phoronix: ATI: Open v. Closed Drivers
(2006-05-08 19:00:03)
"Our first article on this topic, which will likely be the start of a series of examinations, is looking at the differences between the X.Org open-source ATI Radeon driver and that of ATI's official but proprietary fglrx display driver..."
NewsForge: A 100% Free Software-Based Italian Publisher
(2006-05-08 19:45:12)
"In practice, adopting free software was a bold choice in autumn 2001..."
LinuxPlanet: New Mono-Based Applications for GNOME in Fedora Core 5--Part 2
(2006-05-08 20:30:58)
"While you will not find pixel-by-pixel editing functionality in F-Spot (at least just yet) you will find the ability to many of the common photo manipulation tasks you might have in mind..."
XYZ Computing: Future for Vista Looks Bleak, But Where's Linux?
(2006-05-08 21:15:57)
"So what do the problems of Vista have to do with desktop Linux? In short, a lot..."
NewsForge: What's In a Name?
(2006-05-08 22:00:12)
"Now if we could just get projects to agree on standard usage for naming, I'd be a happy camper..."
The Guardian: A Problem Too Jumbo-Sized for Bill Gates to Solve?
(2006-05-08 22:45:12)
"The really interesting comparison is with Linux, a product of comparable complexity developed by an independent, dispersed community of programmers who communicate mainly over the net..." With a linked response from Con Zymaris.
InformationWeek: Open Source: Who Takes But Doesn't Give Back?
(2006-05-08 23:30:15)
"Do the companies that benefit the most from open-source code give anything back to the projects that create it...?"
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