News Linux News for Aug 09, 2006:

Free Software Magazine: Your Data or Your Life
(2006-08-09 00:00:10)
"Or, at least he would be if he'd renewed the tech support contract on his medical records software. He didn't, though, and now his information--and your daughter's--is locked away in a proprietary database he can't access..."

Community: The "Linux Community"? Not From What I See
(2006-08-09 00:45:51)
"I have never considered myself a community member. I am simply a businessman who has taken advantage of this minor miracle. I don't know anything about the 'Linux Culture' or your politics, and frankly, now I don't want to..."

OSWeekly: Should I Really Care About Linux?
(2006-08-09 01:30:24)
"When ZDTV (later renamed TechTV, then G4TechTV and finally G4) first broadcasted its signal across the airwaves, I was intrigued by the ongoing enthusiasm that was expressed for a little operating system called Linux..."

jakilinux.org: 10 Reasons to Dump Windows [Part I]
(2006-08-09 03:00:08)
"I'm going to cumulate my Windows XP frustrations and tell you about the top 10 reasons why I decided to dump Windows and use GNU/Linux as my primary desktop OS..."

Advisories, August 8, 2006
(2006-08-09 03:45:22)
Today's secueity advisories: freeradius (Debian GNU/Linux); GnuPG, ClamAV, and DUMB (Gentoo Linux); and krb5 and apache (Red Hat Linux).

Linux.com: Processing RAW Image Files on Linux
(2006-08-09 04:30:22)
"The easiest way to sound like a professional when you talk about photography these days is to grumble about the deficiencies of RAW file converters..."

NewsForge: Open Source Videos Capture a New Way to do Tech Support
(2006-08-09 06:00:38)
"An enterprising young computer scientist in Belgium has come up with a new twist on the old help desk..."

LinuxDevices: Commodity PC Morphs into Mobile Linux Robot
(2006-08-09 07:30:23)
"WhiteBox Robotics says its 914 PC-Bot 'does everything a PC does,' with the added capability of mobility..."

NewsForge: Interview: PortableApps Brings Open Source to USB
(2006-08-09 09:00:06)
"Now, thanks to John T. Haller's PortableApps project, you get to use your favorite open source productivity applications from a USB drive without restarting a Windows-based host computer..."

Tectonic: Easing Kids Into Free Software
(2006-08-09 10:30:32)
"By current standards I was already old when I had my own computer for the first time. It was 1997 and I had already been out of school for six years..."

LinuxGames Interviews id Software's TTimo
(2006-08-09 12:00:37)
"I had the opportunity to catch up with id Software's resident Linux expert, Timothee 'TTimo' Besset..."

PR: Linspire Releases Freespire 1.0 Desktop Linux OS
(2006-08-09 12:45:58)
"...[A] free, Debian-based desktop Linux operating system that optionally combines open source software with legally-licensed proprietary drivers, codecs and applications..." Press release within.

InfoWorld: VMware and Xen Clash Over Linux Virtualization Patch
(2006-08-09 13:30:31)
"Kernel quarrel proves that you don't have to be proprietary to be petty..." One developer's reaction to the fray also linked within.

ComputerWeekly: Firefox 2.0 Beta Delayed
(2006-08-09 14:15:00)
"The open source Mozilla Foundation has delayed the release of Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 by a week because of bugs yet to be ironed out in the browser software..."

DesktopLinux: Migration Tool Adds "Full" MS Office-to-OO.o Support
(2006-08-09 15:00:35)
"Desktop migration specialist Versora on Aug. 8 released an updated version (v2.0) of its Progression Desktop Windows to Linux desktop migration software..."

jonobacon@home: Goodbye OpenAdvantage, Hello Canonical
(2006-08-09 15:45:38)
"On September 4th I start as the Ubuntu Community Manager, and I am raring to go..."

NewsForge: Mercy Hospital Opens Arms to Open Source Enterprise Systems Management
(2006-08-09 16:30:53)
"Mercy's data center houses more than 200 machines running Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, and other, more obscure operating systems..."

Linux DevCenter: Why Binary-Only Linux Kernel Modules Are Illegal
(2006-08-09 17:15:13)
"I ran across a series of postings the other day that clarified the problem with loadable Linux kernel modules at the GPL..."

Linux Journal: Google: The Godfather of Open Source?
(2006-08-09 18:00:30)
"It's well known that Google runs its vast array of servers using a custom version of GNU/Linux. But this is only one aspect of its support for free software..."

Linux-Watch: Is Apple Serious About Open Source?
(2006-08-09 18:45:22)
"When Apple announced that it was moving Mac OS X to the Intel platform, one thing that didn't get much attention was that Apple would not be open-sourcing the Intel Darwin kernel..."

LinuxPlanet: LinuxWorld Analysts Cite Hottest Open Source Trends
(2006-08-09 19:30:53)
"What are some of the hottest trends in the Linux/open source market today? Avid activity among some resellers, abundant virtualization, and a growing tendency to mixed open source/proprietary deployments..."

The Potential of Open Source
(2006-08-09 20:15:05)
Pundits Matt Asay and Dan Farber are having a blog-bate about traditional (re: proprietary) enterprise software and open source software. Links within.

O'Reilly Radar: Open Source: Architecture or Goodwill?
(2006-08-09 21:00:41)
"There are a lot of reasons why people make their code open source. I believe that one of the strongest original motivations has often been overlooked..."

Inside Open Source: Software Choice = Political Freedom
(2006-08-09 22:30:46)
"A few days ago I made a blog posting in which I said that I've switched my office computer to Windows..."

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