News Linux News for Jul 10, 2006:

internetnews.com: IBM Finally Puts Notes on the Linux Desktop
(2006-07-10 11:30:35)
"IBM has been a huge Linux backer since 1998, yet despite its love of the penguin, Big Blue's Lotus Notes product has never had a fully supported bona fide standalone client for the Linux desktop. That is, until now..."

iTWire: New Firefox Beta Due This Week
(2006-07-10 12:15:25)
"While the world awaits the final release of Microsoft's long overdue IE7, the Mozilla Foundation is set to release its own beta Firefox 2.0 and, from all reports, it's a very nice piece of work..."

InformationWeek: Legal Setback Raises Questions Of SCO's Survival
(2006-07-10 13:00:10)
"Unix vendor SCO Group's intellectual property lawsuit against IBM has been widely seen as a go-for-broke strategy. Now it looks more like just a plan to go broke..."

Ubuntu Blog: Introducing the Dapper-Commercial Repository
(2006-07-10 13:45:35)
"It is not the death of freedom in Ubuntu land, but it certainly is the birth of one kind of freedom--freedom of choice..."

Techworld: Updated SUSE Linux Due Out in July
(2006-07-10 14:30:17)
"Novell has confirmed that SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 will be launched later this month, only a few weeks after the company unveiled a free public preview of the software..."

NewsForge: DoD Releases OTD Roadmap
(2006-07-10 15:15:59)
"The Open Source Software Institute (OSSI) has announced the release of a Department of Defense (DoD) report entitled the Open Technology Development Roadmap..."

ITP: Larry Sets Sights on Red Hat's Customers
(2006-07-10 16:00:08)
"A claim that Ellison made repeatedly throughout the briefing was that the software giant is targeting Red Hat support: specifically providing support services for Red Hat Linux users..."

OneStat: Global Usage Share Mozilla Firefox Has Increased...
(2006-07-10 16:45:42)
"OneStat.com... today reported that Mozilla Firefox's browsers have a total global usage share of 12.93 percent..."

BusinessWeek: Open Source Takes on Telecom
(2006-07-10 17:30:13)
"Digium CEO Mark Spencer explains how he's woven freely available software into a low-priced phone system for businesses..."

Linux-Watch: Red Hat Dragged Into Patent Scuffle
(2006-07-10 18:15:24)
"Red Hat Inc., the leading Linux distribution company, is facing a patent infringement from FireStar Software Inc., an object-transaction and business process integration company..."

internetnews.com: Open Docs Faithful Tell Microsoft to Cut The FUD
(2006-07-10 19:00:07)
"Executives with Sun Microsystems and IBM, two of the most vocal opponents of Microsoft's heretofore staunch refusal to back ODF, indicated Microsoft's reluctant olive branch was bittersweet..."

LWN: GnuCash 2.0.0 Released
(2006-07-10 19:30:29)
"Personal and small business accounting in Linux will be easier and better after today's release of GnuCash 2.0.0..."

Linux Box Admin: Linux/Mac/Windows File Name Friction
(2006-07-10 20:00:15)
"Linux was born with long file name support four years before it showed up in Windows. Today, long file names are well supported by all three operating systems though key differences remain..."

Mad Penguin: Desktop Linux Defined: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10
(2006-07-10 20:30:24)
"Let's put it this way... outstanding bugs aside, Novell hit a home run with SUSE Linux 10.1..."

internetnews.com: PostgreSQL: 10 Years And Counting
(2006-07-10 21:00:24)
"This weekend marked the 10th anniversary of PostgreSQL's posting as a public, open source project. To celebrate, the PostgreSQL project held a two-day conference at Ryerson University in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada..."

SearchOracle: Sizing Up Oracle's Open Source Tactics
(2006-07-10 21:30:45)
"Oracle's recent maneuvers in the open source software market are all about the upsell, according to one IT industry analyst..."

Linux.com: Review: Xandros Desktop Linux 4.0
(2006-07-10 22:00:45)
"The newly released Xandros Desktop Linux 4.0 is one of the few remaining for-pay Linux distributions on the consumer market..."

eWeek: eWeek Labs Bakeoff: Linux Versus .Net Stacks
(2006-07-10 22:45:01)
"Linux and .Net zealots can both take away positives from eWeek Labs testing of various application stacks, but a mix-and-match approach wins the day. Bottom line: Linux and .Net better learn to play nice..."

InfoWorld: Valley of Open Source?
(2006-07-10 23:30:46)
Two articles from InfoWorld examine just how Silicon Valley-centric open source should be.

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