News Linux News for Sep 08, 2006:

CNET UK: A Letter from Linuxland--Part 1
(2006-09-08 00:00:29)
"I don't know exactly what bit of Microsoft corporate madness finally provoked the allergic reaction that swelled my anger gland..."

Seopher: Don't Kill the Penguin! Embrace the Image
(2006-09-08 00:45:39)
"Following an article I read on Linux Today I was surprised that there was anyone who felt that Tux the penguin was a bad mascot for Linux..."

ExtremeTech: PCLinuxOS .93A (Big Daddy) Review
(2006-09-08 03:00:07)
"Plenty of Linux distributions are out there to play with, and sometimes one of the good ones slips by..."

Advisories: September 7, 2006
(2006-09-08 03:45:58)
Today's security advisories: ethereal (Debian GNU/Linux); OpenSSL (Gentoo Linux); openssl and php (Mandriva Linux); and libxfont, xorg, php4, and php5 (Ubuntu).

SecurityDocs: Writing Syslog Messages to MySQL
(2006-09-08 04:30:37)
"In this paper, I describe how to write syslog messages to a MySQL database. Having syslog messages in a database is often handy, especially when you intend to set up a front-end for viewing them..."

Linux.com: Geotagging Files with libferris and Google Earth
(2006-09-08 06:00:05)
"Geotagging is the association of geographic location information with an object. A geotag comprises three pieces of information: a name and longitude and latitude values..."

SearchOpenSource: Preparing the Enterprise for an Open Source Software Stack
(2006-09-08 07:30:32)
"Operating system vendors are 'moving up the stack' and including common open source components in their releases..."

Linux.com: Tracking and Charging for Printing with PyKota
(2006-09-08 09:00:34)
"PyKota is a robust Linux-based open source print quota and print accounting system that runs via LDAP, MySQL, or PostgreSQL on the back end and CUPS and Samba on the front end..."

nixCraft: Howto: Build Linux kernel Module Against Installed Kernel w/o Full Kernel Source Tree
(2006-09-08 09:45:18)
"How do I build Linux kernel module against installed or running Linux kernel? Do I need to install new kernel source tree from kernel.org...?"

All About Linux: Optimal Use of Fonts in GNU/Linux
(2006-09-08 10:30:12)
"Things changed somewhat with the release of good set of fonts for GNU/Linux called Bitstream..."

Spidertools.com: What's on Your Network?
(2006-09-08 11:15:41)
"IPTraf is a program provides a graphical interface to what is happening with your internal network..."

LinuxLookup: Funambol Announces Bounties for its Community Code Sniper Program
(2006-09-08 12:00:48)
"The Funambol Community Code Sniper Program will focus development efforts on the most desired projects stated by the mobile open source community..."

PR: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1 Availability Announcement
(2006-09-08 13:30:10)
"Red Hat is pleased to announce the availability of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Beta 1 milestone..." Announcement within.

ZDNet UK: Red Hat Spearheads Vulnerability Initiative
(2006-09-08 15:00:06)
"The open source software company has proposed an initiative to let customers know when they are affected by vulnerabilities, and also when they are not..."

internetnews.com: IBM To Offer Paid Support For Eclipse
(2006-09-08 16:30:57)
"The promise of open source development is free software. The pain of open source software is often that you have to rely on free community resources to support it..."

CNET News: German GPL Defender Claims Legal Victory
(2006-09-08 18:00:08)
"Open-source programmer Harald Welte said Thursday he won a civil court case in Germany centered on the General Public License..."

Linux-Watch: The Linux CD/DVD Burning License Squabble
(2006-09-08 18:00:26)
"Cdrtools is an important set of open-source programs that deliver CD/DVD burning capabilities in most versions of Linux and in some other operating systems such as OpenSolaris..."

The Register: Just How Buggy is Firefox?
(2006-09-08 19:30:29)
"A former Mozilla developer has criticised the methodology of the analysis and said it provides little help in unearthing real security bugs..."

LinuxLookup: Mandriva Linux 2007 Beta version "Mona" Released
(2006-09-08 20:15:35)
"Linux 2007 Mona is the first release candidate for the Mandriva Linux 2007 release..."

Computerworld Australia: Blazing Trails with Open Source
(2006-09-08 21:00:06)
"It's often said that open source doesn't innovate. It imitates. That's certainly what the proprietary software industry would have you believe..."

Editor's Note: Does Freespire Inspire?
(2006-09-08 22:30:28)
Does Freespire meet the needs of its target audience, the casual PC user?

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