News Linux News for May 09, 2006:

DesktopLinux: Giving Desktop Linux a Try
(2006-05-09 00:15:33)
"In this interesting guest column, Doug Roberts, a desktop Linux user for about two years, shares his perspective on switching from Windows to Linux, and what to think about when you decide to take the plunge..."

BusinessWeek: Sun's Big Open-Source Bet
(2006-05-09 01:00:43)
"An astonishing thing has happened at Sun Microsystems. A company built on high margins from hardware sales is now turning upside down and going soft..."

dot.KDE: KDE 3: All About the Apps (Part 3)
(2006-05-09 02:30:31)
"Today, we look at the photo-manager digiKam, the plotting application QtiPlot, the LaTeX-dreamteam Kile and KBibTeX and the upcoming KDE 3.5.3 release..."

LinuxCult.com : A Bit More Chat with Bitlbee
(2006-05-09 03:15:31)
"Bitlbee is a chat system gateway that allows you to connect to several other instant messaging services via a regular IRC client..."

Linux Journal: The 2006 LinuxWorld Canada Show
(2006-05-09 04:00:57)
"In planning for this year's show, our group looked at what went well and what could have been done better..."

Advisories, May 8, 2006
(2006-05-09 04:45:48)
Today's security advisories: cgiirc (Debian GNU/Linux); Nagios, PHP, and Mozilla Thunderbird (Gentoo Linux); and nagios, mysql-dfsg-4.1, and mysql-dfsg (Ubuntu Linux).

HowtoForge: Server Monitoring With munin and monit
(2006-05-09 05:30:57)
"In this article I will describe how to monitor your server with munin and monit..."

Cluster Monkey: Life, The Universe, and Your Cluster - A Study in Cluster Optimization
(2006-05-09 07:00:10)
"Cluster computing is great, so they say. Cobble together a few thousand servers and some Ethernet, grab some freely available software and you can now calculate the meaning of Life the Universe and Everything..."

OSWeekly: How-To: Compile a Linux Kernel
(2006-05-09 08:30:05)
"Now that I have written so much about Linux kernel, I realize that many people reading those articles do not even know how to compile them..."

nixCraft: Setting Processor Affinity for a Certain Task or Process
(2006-05-09 10:00:30)
"CPU affinity is nothing but a scheduler property that 'bonds' a process to a given set of CPUs on the SMP system..."

developerWorks: Software Security Analysis with BogoSec
(2006-05-09 10:45:59)
"BogoSec is a source code metric tool that wraps multiple source code scanners, invokes them on its target code, and produces a final score that approximates the security quality of the code..."

Linux.com: CLI Magic: Bash Complete
(2006-05-09 11:30:00)
"The auto complete feature of the Bourne Again SHell makes bash one of the most loved and newbie-friendly Linux shells..."

The Reviewer: Sebastian Trueg @ K3B Interview
(2006-05-09 12:15:32)
"K3b, well here comes the main reason for me not being among the best students... I started working on K3b in 1998, shortly after I arrived in Freiburg..."

NewsForge: Torvalds Comments on Kernel "Overhaul"
(2006-05-09 13:00:57)
NewsForge contacted the number one man on the Linux project, Linus Torvalds, who acknowledged it might be the right time for a 'bug cycle...'"

ZDNet UK: EC Reluctant to Back OpenDocument
(2006-05-09 13:45:43)
"European Commission officials are unhappy that there may soon be two competing ISO document standards, and want industry players to work together..."

Computer Business Review: Open Source Vendors Create Sys Man Consortium
(2006-05-09 14:30:10)
"Six of the leading open source systems management vendors are to announce that they have created a new consortium to further the adoption of open source systems management software and develop open standards..."

Computerworld Australia: Massachusetts OpenDocument Plans Questioned by Disabled
(2006-05-09 15:15:04)
"None of the prominent desktop applications that can create and save documents in OpenDocument currently work well with screen readers, magnifiers and other assistive technologies..."

dot.KDE: KDE to Become Better Supported on the Ubuntu Platform
(2006-05-09 16:00:11)
"At LinuxTag on Saturday, a meeting of Kubuntu and KDE contributors was held in order to improve the collaboration of both projects..."

HostReview: Troubled Times for Mambo Open Source CMS
(2006-05-09 16:45:07)
In a press release authored by, um, himself, Mambo lead developer Martin Brampton announces he is severing all ties with Mambo. And apparently not quietly. Link within.

ZDNet UK: Open Source Specialists Offered Tech Support Bounty
(2006-05-09 17:30:55)
"OpenLogic will pay developers to provide high-level support for scores of open source products, but not everyone is convinced by the idea..."

P2PNet: Linux Trumps OS X
(2006-05-09 18:15:00)
"Linux is found to be much faster than Apple's OS X for statistical computing. And although Linux is 5 to 10 percent faster than Windows XP, both are markedly faster than OS X..."

APDIP: The Code Breakers--A BBC World Documentary on FOSS and Development
(2006-05-09 19:00:09)
"A two-part documentary, 'The Code Breakers,' to be aired on BBC World starting 10 May 2006 examines whether free/open source software (FOSS) might be the bridge...?"

IT Manager's Journal: How Do You Budget for FOSS?
(2006-05-09 19:45:54)
"Businesses seem to be champing at the bit to cut costs by using free and open source software, but many fail to budget for the necessary integration and support costs that go along with any software..."

TechNewsWorld: War Stories From Open Source Pioneers
(2006-05-09 20:30:23)
"The decision to forego proprietary software isn't always easy, but those who rise to the challenge can reap the rewards..."

SearchOpenSource: Switching the Enterprise to OSS: Directory Services (Part One)
(2006-05-09 21:15:22)
"Now it's time for the gory details. How can we replace mission-critical services with OSS alternatives...?"

Debian Project: Debian Participates in Google's Summer of Code
(2006-05-09 22:00:34)
"For these tasks students will be assigned a Debian developer acting as their mentor. The coordinator for Debian's participation is Baruch Even..."

Linux-Watch: Itanium Needs Linux... But Does Linux Need Itanium?
(2006-05-09 22:45:19)
"For years now, I've been hearing about how Intel's Itanium platform was going to be the server-chip to end all other server-chips. It hasn't happened..."

Free Software Magazine: Is Microsoft Bracketed by GNU/Linux?
(2006-05-09 23:30:12)
"An interesting thing is about to happen to home computing--the 'Desktop' that GNU/Linux never seems able to liberate from proprietary Windows may be just about to become irrelevant..."

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