Linux News for Oct 31, 2006

• Free Software Magazine: What's Wrong with Software Patents? (Oct 31, 2006, 23:30)
  "I know that many people come to the FFII--as I did--because they feel a deep sense of injustice at how the smaller players in IT are consistently squashed by special interests and monopolists..."


• Motivational Linux: Linux 2.0--The Rise Of Capitalism (Oct 31, 2006, 22:45)
  "Do you want to compete and get paid? Pick your area of expertise and serve customers better than Red Hat, Oracle, or Ubuntu..."


• LinuxInsider: Open Source Security Player Sourcefire Going Public (Oct 31, 2006, 22:00)
  "The IPO is a rarity in that it involves a security company, as well as a company that relies on open source development and software for its security..."


• CNET News: GPL Enforcer Bemoans Code Quality (Oct 31, 2006, 21:15)
  "Open-source programmer Harald Welte spends a lot of time enforcing provisions of the General Public License, taking legal action when companies include GPL software in products without releasing their versions of the underlying source code..."


• LinuxPlanet: Will Oracle's 'Standardization' Offset Linux Fragmentation? (Oct 31, 2006, 20:30)
  "Yet is it possible that Oracle's newly minted membership in the standards group might actually help to dispel industry fragmentation...?"


• internetnews.com: Microsoft Opens PHP Door (Oct 31, 2006, 19:45)
  "Microsoft is officially helping to fund a joint effort with PHP vendor Zend to ensure that PHP works well on Microsoft's server platforms..."


• IT Week: Gartner Urges Users to Test Oracle's Linux Support (Oct 31, 2006, 19:00)
  "Red Hat customers should perform compatibility tests and pilot one or two mission critical systems on Oracle's new Unbreakable Linux support for Red Hat Linux, according to analyst firm Gartner..."


• All About Linux: What is Free Software?--An Interview with Richard M Stallman (Oct 31, 2006, 17:30)
  "In recent times, if you ask me to name one personality in the free software community who has been as much reviled as being adored, I would say it is Richard M Stallman..."


• Andrew Morton: Linux 2.6.19-rc4-mm1 (Oct 31, 2006, 16:45)
  Incremental changelog, links within.


• InfoWorld: Oracle's Red Hat Support Spells Trouble for Sun (Oct 31, 2006, 16:00)
  "It wasn't the Oracle-branded Linux that many were expecting. In a way, it was something much worse..."


• Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.19-rc4 (Oct 31, 2006, 14:30)
  "-rc4 is mostly some driver (scsi, and random smattering of other stuff) and architecture (avr32, power, arm, with some mips and x86 noise) updates, with various random fixes thrown in..."


• AP/BusinessWeek: Red Hat Seen Generating Strong Cash Flow (Oct 31, 2006, 13:45)
  "...[J]umped in morning trading on Monday after an analyst speculated that even if the company does cut prices on some of its services, it will still have healthy cash flow..."


• Linux.com: How to Share a Scanner on Your Network (Oct 31, 2006, 12:15)
  "Start with SANE (Scanning Access Now Easy), the scanning suite for Linux and other Unix-like systems. Check the project's list of supported devices. If your scanner is listed, most of the job is already done..."


• NewsForge: Brazilian Government Faces Challenge Over Proprietary Tax Software (Oct 31, 2006, 12:00)
  "The Free Software Foundation--Latin America (FSFLA) is campaigning against the Brazilian government's regulations that some citizens must use non-free software for paying taxes..."


• SearchOpenSource: Exporting Data from an OpenOffice.org Base Database (Oct 31, 2006, 11:30)
  "I think somebody on the OpenOffice.org database development team has a mystery fetish..."


• Linux.com: CLI Magic: Command-Line Contact Management (Oct 31, 2006, 10:00)
  "My requirements for an address book and contact manager are simple. I just want to be able to search and view records whenever I need them, from the command line and a text editor..."


• Linux Journal: Manipulating Lists in OpenOffice.org Calc (Oct 31, 2006, 08:30)
  "When asked to explain the purpose of spreadsheets, most people think of calculations first. And it's true that spreadsheets like Calcs have hundreds of different functions for performing calculations..."


• Zmanda: How to Setup and Verify a Backup Solution for MySQL in 15 Minutes (Oct 31, 2006, 07:00)
  "For our 15-minute challenge, we will backup a MySQL 5.0 database on Linux. We will only use freely downloadable open source software for the solution..."


• Linux Journal: LDAP Series Part III--The Historical Secrets (Oct 31, 2006, 05:30)
  "The origins of LDAP begin with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) based in Geneva..."


• Advisories, October 30, 2006 (Oct 31, 2006, 04:45)
  Today's security advisories: qt-x11-free (Debian GNU/Linux); and PHP and Asterisk (Gentoo Linux).


• All About Linux: A Brief Look at a Couple of New Features in Firefox 2.0 (Oct 31, 2006, 04:00)
  "Firefox ver 2.0 was released a few days back and naturally it is loaded with a host of new features some of them prominent and many more rather subtle..."


• Cigan's Random Thoughts: Xubuntu's Edge First Impressions (Oct 31, 2006, 03:15)
  "So as soon as the Xubuntu page updated, which was sadly after both Ubuntu and Kubuntu, I ran in and grabbed the shiny new 6.10 iso..."


• Free Software Magazine: Does Free Software Taste Great, or is Open Source Less Filling? (Oct 31, 2006, 02:30)
  "Which do you like best: the satisfying, rich taste of principle in free software? Or do you prefer the less morally filling and pragmatic goodness of open source...?"


• The R Zone: Call to Arms: Two System Management Applications We Sorely Need in Linux Land (Oct 31, 2006, 01:45)
  "Diagnosing server (and desktop, and network) load issues is always tricky. When an application misbehaves for short bursts of time, it's often a matter of guesswork to find out which..."


• Open Addict: Ten Reasons Linux and BSD are Vastly Superior to Windows--Part I (Oct 31, 2006, 01:00)
  "Linux and BSD are vastly superior to Windows in every way. Don't believe me? Read on, my friend. Read on and realize the folly of your MS ways..."


• The R Zone: Linux is Ready for the Desktop, and This is No Longer a Debatable Matter (Oct 31, 2006, 00:15)
  "While I do agree with most of what the writer says, I definitely would like people to stop beating the dead horse. Linux is, in fact, ready..."