News Linux News for Sep 07, 2006:

CRN: Advice To Linux: Kill The Penguin
(2006-09-07 00:00:40)
"Right off the bat, if Linux wants to be taken seriously by the business desktop market, it has to first take itself more seriously. What do I mean by that? Basically, kill the penguin and all of the marketing cuteness...!"

Seopher: Run Ubuntu! Run!
(2006-09-07 00:45:31)
"In my office--Ubuntu has gained some serious credibility..."

Mad Penguin: The Future of Virtualization On Linux
(2006-09-07 01:30:17)
"When I first started writing about this, my goal was to do a review on Win4Lin and offer my findings to you..."

Linux.com: Online Word Processors: A Hands-On Comparison
(2006-09-07 03:00:11)
"The last year has seen the first appearance of online word processing applications such as ajaxWrite, ThinkFree Online, Writely, and Zoho Writer..."

Advisories, September 6, 2006
(2006-09-07 03:45:26)
Today's security advisories: gcc-3.4 (Debian GNU/Linux); Streamripper, GTetrinet, OpenTTD, and LibXfont (Gentoo Linux); openssl (Mandriva Linux); and imagemagick (Ubuntu).

Biohackery: HOWTO Access a Superfast Linux Desktop From Anywhere Using FreeNX
(2006-09-07 04:30:55)
"This HOWTO uses Kanotix Linux, a Live-CD distribution that can be run entirely from CD or installed to a hard drive..."

Pluf: Linux Per-Process Syscall Hooking
(2006-09-07 06:00:05)
"This document describes a new syscall hooking technique for Linux systems and exposes how it can be implemented as part of a virus or a backdoor in order to take full control over an userland application..."

Linux.com: Improving Server Management with Minicom and Conserver
(2006-09-07 07:30:15)
"With all of the redundancy in today's servers, its easy to think that you will never need serial port access to your shiny new server..."

SearchOpenSource: Shell Game: Managing Bash Command History
(2006-09-07 09:00:10)
"One default feature of the Bash shell is to record a history of all the commands entered by a user in a log file called .bash_history, found in the user's home directory..."

Linux Journal: The Changing Face of Charts in OpenOffice.org
(2006-09-07 10:30:57)
"The charting component is probably the least satisfactory part of OpenOffice.org..."

Free-bees.co.uk: SimplyMEPIS 6.0 [Review]
(2006-09-07 12:00:17)
"It's time to give the latest version of SimplyMEPIS a spin--this time, the version has jumped from 3.x to 6.0, along with a change of base from Debian to Ubuntu. So, has it made any difference...?"

Reuters: New IBM Super-Computer Aiming for Petaflop
(2006-09-07 12:45:08)
"The new [Red Hat-based] computer, dubbed 'Roadrunner,' will be built at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico..."

Linux-Watch: SCO's Red Ink Disgorge Persists
(2006-09-07 13:30:03)
"The SCO Group, Inc. reported its financial results for its third quarter ended July 31, 2006 on September 6th. It wasn't pretty..."

PR: openSUSE 10.2 Alpha4 Release
(2006-09-07 14:15:27)
"I'm glad to announce the fourth alpha release of our openSUSE 10.2 distribution..."

LinuxWorld Australia: Mozilla Taps Former Microsoft Executive for Security
(2006-09-07 15:00:58)
"Mozilla has hired a former Microsoft security strategist to help lock down its open-source products against online attacks..."

eChannelLine: Sun Teams with Red Hat to Integrate NetBeans and JBoss App Server
(2006-09-07 15:45:36)
"Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced the general availability of an installation program that bundles the NetBeans IDE and the JBoss Application Server..."

Linux.com: Hail the Konqueror
(2006-09-07 16:30:28)
"Many KDE users tend to take the Konqueror Web browser for granted, but that's a mistake. Konqueror may not be able to replace Firefox as a Web browser for every site, but it does a lot more than just simple browsing..."

DesktopLinux: Richard Stallman on Kerala's Desktop Linux Adoption
(2006-09-07 17:00:31)
"Knowing that Stallman was still in the midst of his world travels on his GNU/Linux mission, we contacted him via email in France in an effort to follow up on our prior story about Kerala's Windows-to-GNU/Linux migration..."

LinuxDevices: Opera Aims Flash Player at Linux Devices
(2006-09-07 17:30:33)
"Opera Software will resell Adobe's Flash Player 7 SDK (software development kit) to customers of its Opera for Devices SDK..."

ZDNet Australia: NZ Government Defends DRM Policy
(2006-09-07 18:30:55)
"New Zealand's lead state sector agency yesterday responded to criticism of its new digital rights management guidelines, saying the policy does not alter its support for open source software in government agencies..."

DesktopLinux: Upgrade Price Wars: Vista vs. Linux
(2006-09-07 19:00:28)
"Let's say that you have a small office. Let's also presume that you've been running Windows XP Professional on decently powerful machines..."

Techworld: VMware and Linux--Friends Forever?
(2006-09-07 19:30:53)
"Two key mainstays of the not-Microsoft camp look destined to be prised apart..."

LinuxPlanet: Sectoo--A Live Look at Gentoo
(2006-09-07 20:00:28)
"One Gentoo Linux-based distribution, called Sectoo, might also warrant a 'live' look..."

EFY Times: Fujitsu-Hopling Take Linux Road
(2006-09-07 20:30:25)
"...[T]he mutual goal of enabling faster and smoother integration of the WiMAX baseband system-on-chip (SoC) into a Linux-based wireless equipment environment..."

Yahoo!/Motley Fool: Wind River Flying High With Linux
(2006-09-07 21:00:44)
"Software developer Wind River Systems has been getting some traction lately, as seen with the strength of its second-quarter results..."

dēcīdere: Cutting Off Windows
(2006-09-07 21:45:19)
"The English word 'Decide' comes from the Latin word 'decidere' which literally means 'to cut off'... and that's exactly what I've done with Window$...!"

VarLinux: CA State NOT Out of the Running in the OSS/Linux Races
(2006-09-07 22:30:19)
"Out of my ignorance, I had come to the conclusion that, with only isolated exceptions, California state government was firmly in the pocket of proprietary software solutions..."

Wired Magazine: Free, As in Beer
(2006-09-07 23:15:23)
"Ever since the birth of the free software movement, its defenders have struggled to explain just what 'free software' is..."

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