News Linux News for Aug 02, 2006:

ZDNet: Linux, XP, and My Old PC
(2006-08-02 00:00:01)
"The reaction to that thread was mixed, with a fair number of commenters complaining that the VMWare test bed I chose wasn't typical of what an average PC user would use..."

ZDNet UK: Open Source Needs Sex Education
(2006-08-02 00:45:01)
"If open source is open to all, why does half the world not want to know...?"

The R Zone: Free Software: It Means Business
(2006-08-02 01:30:11)
"I'm a young entrepreneur--I was never the type of person to endure a regular job for more than 6 months. I've always prided myself of being independent. And Free Software has made that happen for me..."

WebProNews: Death Of The Command Line
(2006-08-02 02:15:25)
"Linux of course has its Bash shell, Mac OS X has Terminal (which now defaults to Bash)--everybody knows you need a shell..."

Reverse Direct Marketing: Google's Project Hosting Announcement
(2006-08-02 03:00:58)
"Yet Google's latest 'giving back to the community' offering is more akin to a slap in the face..."

Advisories, August 1, 2006
(2006-08-02 03:45:02)
Today's security advisories: sitebar, apache, apache2, and mantis (Debian GNU/Linux); Apache (Gentoo Linux); freeciv, kdegraphics, and libtiff (Mandriva Linux); libtiff and freetype2 (SUSE Linux); and firefox (Ubuntu Linux).

Linux.com: Cedega and Linux: Let the Windows Games Begin
(2006-08-02 04:30:49)
"If there's one area where Linux distributions fall behind Windows, it's games. Most PC games are built for Windows. Where does that leave Linux users...?"

Lifehacker: Hack Attack: Turn Your $60 Router into a $600 Router
(2006-08-02 06:00:11)
"The router has an interesting history, but all you really need to know is that the special sauce lies in embedding Linux in your router..."

Linux.com: Symphony OS Marches to a Different Drum
(2006-08-02 07:30:48)
"Symphony OS is a GNU/Linux distribution designed to innovate from the ground up..."

Email Battles: Free Census Bureau Data Leads to a Big Idea for Closing the Digital Divide Locally
(2006-08-02 09:00:22)
"Nearly every commenter brought important insight, with the result that you really got me thinking about the digital divide..."

InfoWorld Nederland: Likewise Manages Mixed Windows/Linux Shops
(2006-08-02 10:30:35)
"Centeris CEO Barry Crist can rattle off a litany of reasons for why you should give his company's management software a whirl. But perhaps his most illustrative selling point is this: 'What if your Linux administrator goes on vacation...?'"

iTWeb: Companies Beginning to Look at Linux in New Light
(2006-08-02 12:00:43)
"Corporate South Africa is making more informed decisions around investment in Linux infrastructure..."

Free Software Magazine: Why Red Hat Will Go Bust Because of Ubuntu
(2006-08-02 12:45:50)
"...[W]hen I had to choose what distribution I should use for my server, I chose the one I was most accustomed to: Red Hat Linux..."

The Register: Red Hat's Affair with XenSource is Back On
(2006-08-02 13:30:05)
"Red Hat today scrambled to repair its relationship with XenSource after a report from ZDNet Australia presented a major technological rift between the two companies..."

ConsortiumInfo: Mass. IT Funding Bond Dies; Romney Seeks to Recall Legislature
(2006-08-02 14:00:32)
"The Massachusetts IT funding proposal that Peter Quinn resigned in part to protect died on Monday when the State Senate failed to approve it before the 2005-2006 legislative session ended..."

KDE.org: KDE 3.5.4 Release Announcement
(2006-08-02 14:30:41)
"KDE now supports 65 languages, making it available to more people than most non-free software and can be easily extended to support others..."

internetnews.com: PostgreSQL Gets Less Pervasive
(2006-08-02 15:00:47)
"In an open letter to the PostgreSQL community, Pervasive President John Farr eulogized his company's exit from the PostgreSQL enterprise support market..."

Gnome.org: New Module Decisions for 2.16
(2006-08-02 15:30:29)
"gtk#/mono as a blessed dependency for admin or desktop modules is much like evolution and epiphany/galeon from previous releases--no choice will make everyone happy..."

InfoWorld: Germany Hopes to Establish 'Linux Valley'
(2006-08-02 16:00:25)
"The Franconia region around Nuremberg, Germany, hopes to establish Europe's first 'Linux Valley' with the launch of a new business campus focused on open source innovation..."

The Salt Lake Tribune: Market Slide: SCO Group's Stock Falls to $2.28 Per Share
(2006-08-02 16:30:43)
"In the months after the SCO Group's Linux-related lawsuit against IBM was filed nearly three and a half years ago, the tiny Utah software company saw its stock soar tenfold..."

p2pnet: Firefox Clocks Up 200M
(2006-08-02 17:00:55)
"RealNetworks, Google and Mozilla say Real will push the Google Toolbar and Firefox with RealPlayer..."

Khronos: OpenGL ARB to Pass Control of OpenGL Specification to Khronos Group
(2006-08-02 17:30:16)
"The Khronos Group is pleased to announce that the OpenGL ARB (Architecture Review Board), the governing body for OpenGL, has voted to transfer control of the OpenGL API standard to the Khronos Group..."

Heise Online: SGI Reports Linux-Aided World Record
(2006-08-02 18:00:48)
"As the US computer manufacturer SGI reports, one of its Altix 4700 systems has outpaced the previous STREAM Triad benchmark record by a factor of 4, achieving a sustained memory bandwidth of 4.35 terabytes per second..."

LinuxElectrons: Win4Lin Pro Now Available For Linspire
(2006-08-02 18:30:28)
"Win4Lin has said that the company's Win4Lin Pro product is now compatible with Linspire Five-0 and is available, along with the Win4Lin 9x product, immediately in the Linspire CNR Warehouse..."

InfoWorld: Xen 3.0 Makes Paravirtualization Mainstream
(2006-08-02 19:00:21)
"Before the Xen project popped up on my radar three years ago, I'd never heard of paravirtualization..." Link repaired. -ed.]

NewsForge: Thunderbird 2.0 Preview
(2006-08-02 19:30:11)
"Following on the heels of the Firefox 2.0 beta in mid-July, Mozilla has released the first 2.0 previews of its Thunderbird email client..."

Network World: GEMS Aims to Make Large-Scale Gentoo Linux Management Easier
(2006-08-02 20:15:49)
"Users interested in deploying the increasingly popular Gentoo Linux distribution should also get familiar with an open source project called GEMS--Gentoo Enterprise Management System..."

KernelTrap: Reiser4 Internal Abstraction Layer
(2006-08-02 21:00:57)
"The ongoing discussion about the Reiser4 filesystem continues on the lkml..."

Application Development Trends: New LAMP Layer: FileMaker API for PHP?
(2006-08-02 21:45:29)
"A three-way collaboration among FileMaker customers well-versed in PHP, engineers and commercial PHP vendor Zend Technologies has enabled FileMaker to roll out the first public beta preview of a new Application Programming Interface..."

Seopher: Why Linux Needs to Bite the Bullet and Become More Like Windows
(2006-08-02 22:30:20)
"Now, bear with me on this, I'm not saying Linux should just be a Windows clone but the key to it's major success would be to appeal to the mainstream market..."

SDA India Magazine: Is the 100-Dollar Laptop the Roadblock for Education?
(2006-08-02 23:15:07)
"India's Education Secretary Sudeep Banerjee said in a statement that this product would not benefit the kids in India where they can do better with the funds being spent on more classrooms and teachers..."

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