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Linux News for May 26, 2006
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Editor's Note: Setting Expectations (May 26, 2006, 23:30)
When an app comes to Linux, what makes it a true port? And, if
it's not native, but runs anyway, will anyone care? Should
they?
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Silicon.com: Should Oracle Fear Open Source? (May 26, 2006, 22:00)
"Oracle continues to dominate the database software market but
challenges lie ahead from open source, analysts say..."
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KernelTrap: Advantages of Netlink (May 26, 2006, 20:30)
"A short thread on the lkml compared using netlink for
transferring information between kernel and user-space processes,
versus using debugfs..."
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Yahoo!: New Benchmark Results Demonstrate Solaris 10 Advantage on OLTP Benchmark (May 26, 2006, 19:00)
"MySQL database runs 60 to 90 percent faster on Solaris 10 than
on Red Hat Linux..."
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internetnews.com: Report: Open Source a Judgment Standard (May 26, 2006, 17:30)
"Open Source is changing the way that Gartner Group measures the
application development market..."
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Google's Picasa Painted to a Linux Canvas (May 26, 2006, 16:00)
"Linux users and Google watchers received a surprise treat
Thursday evening with the announcement that the Mountain View, CA
company was releasing a Linux version of their photo management
tool Picasa..."
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DesktopLinux: What's Next For the Portland Project (May 26, 2006, 14:30)
"After this latest meeting, John Cherry, OSDL's initiative
manager for the Linux desktop, listed action items for the group to
address as it moves forward..."
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ZDNet UK: Mozilla: We'll Pay Developers Where We Can (May 26, 2006, 13:00)
"The not-for-profit organisation says it is looking at how to
share its newfound Mozillions (well, millions) with the volunteers
who work on Firefox and Thunderbird..."
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Linux-Watch: Novell Sells Celerant, Focuses on Linux (May 26, 2006, 11:30)
"Novell announced on May 24th that it has sold its shares in
Celerant Consulting, its management consulting branch, to Caledonia
Investments, a UK-quoted investment trust, for $77 million..."
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International Herald Tribune: The End User: Lonely Quest for Unity (May 26, 2006, 10:00)
"Daniel Harris is waging a brave, lonely quest to make it easy
to consume any kind of digital media on any kind of device through
any kind of Internet provider or portal. Did I mention anywhere in
the world, in any language...?"
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Australian PC Authority: GL to the Power of X (May 26, 2006, 08:30)
"It's always fun when the future sneaks up on you, and in the
last few months that's exactly what's happened in the land of
X..."
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LinuxDevices: Contest Explores Uses for Nokia's 770 Internet Tablet (May 26, 2006, 07:00)
"A weekly social networking event in Helsinki devoted to open
source software is sponsoring a contest to suggest uses for Nokia's
770 Internet tablet..."
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Linux.com: Runit Makes a Speedy Replacement for init (May 26, 2006, 05:30)
"Its key benefits include improved boot speed and ease of use.
In the time that it takes you to read this article, you could move
from init to runit..."
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Advisories, May 25, 2006 (May 26, 2006, 04:45)
Today's security advisories: shadow-utils and php (Mandriva
Linux); and dia (Ubuntu Linux).
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The Economic Times: Why Doesn't Govt Embrace Open Source? (May 26, 2006, 02:30)
"Most of the top-level officials are aware of the benefits of
using a technology-neutral environment, yet without any firm
policies in place..."
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PR: Release Candidate for Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is Available (May 26, 2006, 01:45)
"The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the Release Candidate for
version 6.06 LTS of Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu--codenamed 'Dapper
Drake...'" Announcement within.
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BusinessWeek: Open the Door for Open Source Deals (May 26, 2006, 01:00)
"There will be more consolidation in the community that values
open software development, and that is potentially a very good
thing..."
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Blog of Helios: MS Assaults Customers with First Wave of Attacks (May 26, 2006, 00:15)
"Because Linux Users are involved in the machine and how the
machine evolves. We are the ones that want to know why a command
works with a backwards switch in a certain way..."
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