News Linux News for Oct 09, 2006:

Mad Penguin: A Viable iTunes Clone for Linux
(2006-10-09 00:00:52)
"For a couple of years now, I have been attempting to dump my destructive tendency of using MP3 as my audio format of choice and have instead, been working very hard to get onboard with OGG Vorbis 100 percent..."

Advisories, October 8, 2006
(2006-10-09 04:30:14)
This weekend;s security advisories: mozilla (Debian GNU/Linux); ncompress (Gentoo Linux); php (Mandriva Linux); php, php-mysql, php-pgsql, nss_ldap, gnome-ssh-askpass, openssh, openssh-client, and openssh-serve (rPath Linux); openldap, php, and php4 (Trustix Secure Linux); and python2.3 and python2.4 (Ubuntu).

Linux.com: Get Your FLAC on with MP3FS
(2006-10-09 06:00:09)
"I don't know if the folks at Xiph.org can live day-in and day-out using only the free Vorbis, FLAC, Speex, and Theora codecs, but the rest of us routinely run into consumer devices that don't recognize and support them..."

CRN: Monster's Einstein Brings Intelligence To Home Control
(2006-10-09 07:30:36)
"Rich Green has seen the future of home automation and it looks like a Monster..."

Linux.com: Task Management Made Simple with todo.txt and Tux ToDo
(2006-10-09 09:00:12)
"Keeping track of your to-do items and tasks should be simple, but often the software that people use for those purposes is anything but..."

eChannelLine: SUSE Linux 10: Easy to Use, Cheaper to Run
(2006-10-09 10:30:02)
"Novell CTO Ross Chevalier is traveling the continent giving demonstrations of Novell SUSE Linux 10 Enterprise Desktop..."

destinationCRM: Kumbaya My CRM App, Kumbaya
(2006-10-09 12:00:16)
"SugarCRM deploys a community marketplace where developers can offer extensions and community-built applications..."

Mozilla.org: Firefox 2.0 RC 2 Released
(2006-10-09 12:45:51)
"There is a lot in Firefox 2 RC 2 that you can play around with and give us feedback on..."

ZDNet UK: Microsoft 'Offered to Underwrite SCO Funding'
(2006-10-09 13:30:05)
"Legal papers filed in the SCO vs IBM case claim that Microsoft offered financial help to BayStar..."

Red Hat: Fedora Core 6 Release Date Slip
(2006-10-09 14:15:31)
"A few issues are still present that we would like to see fixed before we release..."

CRN: Oracle To Bring Siebel CRM To Linux
(2006-10-09 15:00:04)
"With its upcoming Siebel 8 release, Oracle will bring Siebel CRM into Linux realm for the first time..."

InfoWorld: BEA CTO: Open-Source Projects Out of Sync with Users
(2006-10-09 15:45:43)
"The open-source community doesn't always deliver software that customers want, according to Rob Levy, executive vice president and chief technology officer of BEA Systems Inc..."

Linux.com: Konsole License Violations Highlight GPL Confusion
(2006-10-09 16:30:04)
"In July, Konsole author Lars Doelle posted a note on the MotorolaFans.com forum about two programs that appear to violate the GNU General Public License..."

AP/WTOP: $100 Laptop May Be at Security Forefront
(2006-10-09 17:15:51)
"The $100 laptops planned for children around the world might turn out to be as revolutionary for their security measures as for their low-cost economics..."

LinuxInsider: Ubuntu's Linux Backflip
(2006-10-09 18:00:03)
"Most fans of Linux know that while the open source operating system has proven its might in corporate computer servers, it has languished on the desktop, where Microsoft maintains its monopoly..."

CIO Australia: The Scrabble for Open Source
(2006-10-09 18:45:58)
"Why all the fuss about open source software? And what does 'open' actually mean, anyway...?"

LinuxPlanet: Bugzilla Makes Big Trucks Better
(2006-10-09 19:30:23)
"Adapting the popular Open Source Bugzilla framework proved a great way to track the Komatsu manufacturing process..."

SearchOpenSource: Firms Find Open Source Way to Save Over HP OpenView
(2006-10-09 20:15:44)
"Make that open-source alternative a hosted offering, and you lighten the load even further, freeing the IT staff of server and network management duties..."

NewsForge: High-Tech Social Enterprise Reaps Free Software's Benefits
(2006-10-09 20:15:49)
"Benetech is a non-profit corporation whose mission is to use technology to improve the world..."

CNET News: InfiniBand Meets Storage Networking
(2006-10-09 21:00:08)
"InfiniBand, a high-speed communication technology, has been extended to speak the language of iSCSI networked storage systems..."

Raw Matter: Free Software and Quality
(2006-10-09 22:30:17)
"...[D]eveloping software for the kind of systems he describes (nuclear power plant controlling, medical equipment...) means developing software with a large budget and a limited, relatively well specified functionality..."

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