News Linux News for Jul 11, 2006:

OSVids: The (Not So) Terrible State of Linux Screen Capture
(2006-07-11 00:15:22)
"A while ago I blogged (lost in migration, reposted) about my complete disappointment in the currently available programs for screen capture in Linux..."

Linux-Watch: Open Source as Software Obsolescence Insurance
(2006-07-11 01:00:46)
"One of his favorite applications is the Macromedia vector-based drawing tool, Freehand. Those of you who pay close attention to software as a business already know where this tale is going..."

Linux and Unix Training: The Death of VMWare
(2006-07-11 01:45:00)
"Something that isn't popular at all with VMWare engineers, salespeople or anyone else who's bought heavily into VMWare technology is my theory that VMWare is headed quickly to relative obscurity within about 2 years..."

OSWeekly: Why is Firefox So Darn Popular?
(2006-07-11 02:30:40)
"Recently, I have been pondering why is Firefox so darn popular...?"

Really Linux: Tech Writing in the Age of Open Source
(2006-07-11 04:00:14)
"There are four core ways to use open source techniques and technologies to dramatically increase the effectiveness of any organization's tech writing..."

Free Software Magazine: Pay a Little Now, Pay a Lot Later
(2006-07-11 04:00:45)
"Choosing freedom or bondage isn't very important for a typical home computer user..."

Advisories, July 10, 2006
(2006-07-11 04:45:48)
Today's security advisories: ppp, gnupg, and mutt (Debian GNU/Linux); and gimp (Ubuntu Linux).

DebianHelp: Lighttpd Webserver Installation in Debian
(2006-07-11 05:30:50)
"Security, speed, compliance, and flexibility--all of these describe LightTPD which is rapidly redefining efficiency of a webserver; as it is designed and optimized for high performance environments..."

HowtoForge: Intrusion Detection With BASE and Snort
(2006-07-11 07:00:21)
"This tutorial shows how to install and configure BASE (Basic Analysis and Security Engine) and the Snort intrusion detection system (IDS) on a Debian Sarge system..."

Linux.com: Roaming Ethernet Configuration with Guessnet
(2006-07-11 07:00:54)
"If you use your laptop in many different locations, you must be tired of having to configure your network manually every time..."

Phoronix: Tyan Tiger i7520SD S5365
(2006-07-11 08:30:06)
"Last month we had reported on the Tyan Tempest i5000XL motherboard as well as the Tyan Tiger i7520SD, both of which had their own unique characteristics to the table..."

Linux.com: CLI Magic: Searching with find
(2006-07-11 08:30:50)
"The find command is one of the darkest and least understood areas of Linux, but it is also one of the most powerful..."

NewsForge: Some Friendly Suggestions for iCommons and Free Culture
(2006-07-11 10:00:32)
"The second iCommons summit, held at the end of June in Rio de Janeiro, proved many things about the free culture movement..."

SearchOpenSource: Virtual Operating Systems, Virtual Machines
(2006-07-11 11:30:27)
"Sit tight, Linux Users. User Mode Linux will soon have the same capabilities as Xen in the virtualization arena--like live migration, says Jeff Dike..."

The Four Hundred: Open Source RPG Apps: The 'Bright Future' That Didn't Happen
(2006-07-11 11:30:35)
"Flashback to 2002. Open source software is hot. It's the future. It's what everyone is writing and talking about. Projects and their related Web sites are popping up all over..."

All About Linux: Opera Ver 9.0--A Trailblazer in the Web Browsing Arena
(2006-07-11 13:00:22)
"I have always been fascinated by the web browser called Opera that is developed by a Norwegian firm going by the same name..."

ZDNet Australia: End to Win98 Support May Boost Desktop Linux
(2006-07-11 13:45:48)
"From today, Microsoft will no longer issue security updates or provide support for Windows 98 and Windows ME, which could lead users to trying alternative operating systems such as Linux..."

CNET News: Open Source Casts New Mold for Type Design
(2006-07-11 14:30:58)
"The open-source approach, born in the field of programming, is catching on in a new area: type design..."

KernelTrap: ext4 Filesystem
(2006-07-11 15:15:44)
"Theodore Ts'o offered an insightful summary of issues affecting future development on the ext3 filesystem, 'it is clear that many people feel they have a stake in the future development plans of the ext2/ext3 filesystem..."

Silicon.com: SMEs and Open Source--A Perfect Marriage?
(2006-07-11 16:00:07)
"The ability to tinker with the source code in an open source application means companies can adapt it to suit their own ends and draw on input from a wide community of developers to help them..."

LinuxInsider: Novell's Roger Levy Sees Desktop Future for Linux
(2006-07-11 16:45:10)
"Novell is evangelizing its Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, but the company is not looking for an all-out war with software giant Microsoft..."

Manila Standard Today: A Challenge for Linux Developers
(2006-07-11 17:30:27)
"Windows XP is still there, sitting on a separate partition of my hard disk, but I hardly fire it up these days because I like Ubuntu and want to learn more about how it works..."

APC Magazine: Ultimate Desktop Search: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and Beagle
(2006-07-11 18:15:57)
"Desktop searching has always been a little confusing to me. That's because I have a lizard brain--so much of my time is spent coding that I can't stand to see things in disarray..."

DesktopLinux: World of Warcraft on Linux?
(2006-07-11 19:00:10)
"It's always been possible to run most Windows games on Linux. You just have to pay a monthly subscription fee to TransGaming Technologies for Cedega..."

Firefox 2 Beta Not Quite Out Yet
(2006-07-11 19:30:06)
Lots of reports out there that Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 is out. Don't believe them yet.

dot.KDE: KDE and Distributions: Red Flag Interview
(2006-07-11 20:00:02)
"It has more than an 80% desktop share in the Chinese linux market, and over one million copies are shipped each year with KDE as its only desktop environment..."

LinuxPlanet: Linux Vendors Try To Beat Microsoft To Widespread Virtualization
(2006-07-11 20:30:20)
"With Microsoft trying to ramp up its Windows Virtual Server for release next year, Red Hat, Novell, Xandros, and other Linux vendors are pulling out the stops toward virtualization..."

SearchOpenSource: Assess the Mess: Porting Apps from Unix to Linux
(2006-07-11 21:15:37)
"If you are planning to port your Unix apps to Linux, be sure to consider the technical, business and project management perspectives..."

Linux User & Developer: "Trusted" Computing
(2006-07-11 22:00:14)
"Humour me a moment, while I take a little diversion back to 1982. The largest non-nuclear explosion ever recorded by satellite took place in Russia in 1982, and was an explosion in the Siberian gas pipeline..."

Once More Unto the Breach: Patents, Red Hat, and Hibernate
(2006-07-11 22:45:56)
"News is breaking on claims by Firestar Software that JBoss (now Red Hat) infringed a particular patent in the Hibernate 3.0 software release..."

Dargo: With Friends Like These...
(2006-07-11 23:30:36)
"But then, just this morning, I read an article where Larry Ellison was continuing his attack on Red Hat..."

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