News Linux News for Oct 11, 2006:

Linux-Watch: Open Source Madness!
(2006-10-11 00:00:12)
"At the moment, I'm ticked off because the Debian community's recent hissy-fit over the Mozilla Corp.'s trademarked Firefox logo has led them, and others, to forking the Firefox code to avoid the use of the logo..."

DesktopLinux: What's the Best Linux for Beginners?
(2006-10-11 01:30:23)
"I recently received a letter from a computer pro who's nearing 80. He's disgusted by 'how [Microsoft] things have developed, and how most software is put out there full of errors and omissions...'"

SearchOpenSource: Bringing Data into an OpenOffice.org Base Database
(2006-10-11 03:00:28)
"Let's say you built a house and forgot the door..."

Advisories, October 10, 2006
(2006-10-11 03:45:33)
Today's security advisories: openssl096 (Debian GNU/Linux); python (Mandriva Linux); awstats, mozilla, php4, and php5 (Ubuntu).

developerWorks: GNU Project Debugger: More Fun with GDB
(2006-10-11 05:15:00)
"This article presses on to customize the debugger to make the experience more personal and efficient..."

LinuxDevices: Hack Web-Enables Linux Config/Build Process
(2006-10-11 06:00:57)
"Kirk Murrin of Linux Guru Consulting has published a clever-looking hack that adds a web interface to mconfig..."

ClusterMonkey: Building a Virtual Cluster with Xen (Part Two)
(2006-10-11 07:30:11)
"This is the basis for this second part of the article, in which we see how to install a number of packages that will allow us to run parallel programs on it and manage the cluster more efficiently..."

SearchOpenSource: PostgreSQL vs. SQL Server, Oracle: Enterprise-Ready and Able to Compete
(2006-10-11 09:00:31)
"Why are you paying so much in licensing costs and annual maintenance when you could use PostgreSQL for free, and get community support and upgrades for free as well...?"

LinuxDevices: Device Profile: Box Populi Podcast in a Box
(2006-10-11 10:30:46)
"Box Populi, formerly 'Webcast in a box,' has used Linux to create a podcast capture appliance aimed at corporations, schools, radio stations, and churches..."

SearchOpenSource: Open Source Databases Place Pressure on Oracle, SQL Server
(2006-10-11 12:00:30)
"In this tip, Neil Matthew and Richard Stones explain where PostgreSQL is best put to use and why businesses more likely to choose a big name product..."

AP/The San Francisco Chronicle: Oakland Police Arrest Missing Woman's Estranged Husband
(2006-10-11 12:45:04)
"Hans Thomas Reiser was arrested one day after Oakland police, with the help of the FBI, searched his house a second time for clues in the disappearance of Nina Reiser..."

AP/Boston Herald: Libya Reaches Agreement with Nonprofit to Buy Laptops for all its Schoolchildren
(2006-10-11 13:30:05)
"The government of Libya reached an agreement with an American nonprofit group to provide inexpensive [OLPC] laptop computers to all of its 1.2 million schoolchildren

vnunet: OSDL Links Battling Linux Factions
(2006-10-11 14:00:54)
"The Open Source Development Labs has released version 1.0 of its Project Portland application to link rival Linux technologies..."

Computerworld: The Slow But Steady March of Open Source
(2006-10-11 15:00:35)
"It may not be taking the world by storm, but open source still has a growing and determined group of adherents..."

ZDNet Australia: Torvalds Takes Bite of Mac Mini
(2006-10-11 15:30:30)
"Linus Torvalds has picked up one of Apple's new Intel-based Mac minis to play with, but the Linux creator still prefers Apple's old PowerPC architecture..."

InformationWeek: Scalix Posts Open Source E-Mail Components
(2006-10-11 16:00:55)
"Scalix has officially posted the first components of its e-mail and calendaring software lineup for download..."

Debian, Firefox Trademark Debate Continues
(2006-10-11 16:30:19)
Linux.com analyzes the Mozilla/Debian dispute over Firefox, and Mozilla's Christopher Beard lays out Mozilla's side of the debate.

iTWire: Qualcomm to Set Eudora Free, on Thunderbird
(2006-10-11 17:00:55)
"...[I]n conjunction with the Mozilla Foundation make all future versions of Eudora open source and free and based on the same technology platform as the open source Mozilla Thunderbird email program..."

KDE: KDE 3.5.5 Release Announcement
(2006-10-11 17:30:21)
"KDE 3.5.5 features translations in 65 languages, improvements in the instant messaging application and in the HTML rendering engine (KHTML)..."

Update: internetnews.com: Google Docs Brings Spreadsheet & WP to the Web
(2006-10-11 18:00:01)
"Google is scheduled to officially launch Google Docs & Spreadsheets later today at the Office 2.0 Conference in San Francisco..." A new Blog entry examines how the new apps work on Linux and wonders about their overall purpose. Link within.

ServerWatch: Enterprise Unix Roundup: The Penguin Plunge
(2006-10-11 18:00:32)
"When the city of Chicago took a gamble on Red Hat, it addressed pitfalls and challenges, some unique to the governments sector and some universal to all migrations..."

Enterprise Open Source Magazine: Old DEC Mafia Reassembles
(2006-10-11 18:30:37)
"SiCortex, a three-year-old Maynard, Massachusetts stealth start-up chaired by Ethernet inventor Bob Metcalfe and founded by DEC veterans to engineer a Linux cluster computer from the silicon on up..."

Mad Penguin: Bluefish: Getting Your Feet Wet with Linux HTML Editor
(2006-10-11 19:00:42)
"Let's face it, these days it takes a special breed of individuals to be able to successfully create and maintain websites for a living..."

LWN: Debian Etch Freeze to be Delayed
(2006-10-11 19:30:45)
"In spite of much hard work by our many bugsquashers, the current RC bug count is floating around 250..."

All About Linux: The Unique Relationship between Hollywood Movies and Linux
(2006-10-11 20:00:08)
"And the fact that Linux played a part in the making of this movie is not an accident..."

Debian Admin: OpenSUSE 10.1 Installation with Screenshots
(2006-10-11 20:30:10)
"The openSUSE project is a community program sponsored by Novell. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, this program provides free, easy access to openSUSE, a complete Linux distribution..."

Linux.org: Mandriva 2007: Why is This Distribution Still Around?
(2006-10-11 21:00:44)
"And my experience with French distribution Mandriva 2007 brought me back to those frustrating times I used to have with Microsoft's decade-old offering..."

ZDNet UK: Behind SCO's Open Source Challenge
(2006-10-11 21:45:17)
"The subsequent course of this and related cases has not been kind to SCO. To the frustration of many, including the judge, the company has been unable or unwilling to provide specific evidence of infraction..."

Tonight on The Linux Link Tech Show
(2006-10-11 22:30:00)
"We talk to author and home automation expert Neil Cherry..."

InfoWorld: SUSE 10 Tastes Sweet to SMBs
(2006-10-11 23:15:53)
"SUSE's German (well, it started out that way). I'm German (well, I started out that way). So I know that suesse means sweet in the mother tongue..."

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