News Linux News for Dec 01, 2006:

DesktopLinux: Linux Gaming: Don't Sell your Xbox
(2006-12-01 01:00:04)
"Over at ExtremeTech, my colleague in crime, Jim Lynch, took a long, hard look at Linux gaming and declared, 'Frankly, I've had it with gaming under Linux. It's not worth the time or the effort...'"

Free Software Magazine: Fork Off Mr Ballmer!
(2006-12-01 02:30:45)
"Any serious, committed user of GNU/Linux who hasn't heard about the Microsoft/Novell deal has either been slightly dead or at the bottom of an Albanian tin mine shaft wearing a particularly sturdy pair of ear muffs..."

Network World: Microsoft and Novell: Good for Enterprises, Linux and Open Source
(2006-12-01 04:00:29)
"Blind noise of ill-informed bloggers drowns out the good news of the Microsoft-Novell deal..."

Advisories, November 30, 2006
(2006-12-01 04:45:59)
Today's security advisories: libgsf and proftpd (Debian GNU/Linux); ProFTPD (Gentoo Linux); proftpd (Mandriva Linux); and gnupg and evince (Ubuntu).

NewsForge: From XML to Paper with Prince
(2006-12-01 05:30:23)
"Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose text markup language often used for data storage or passing messages between applications..."

Linux.com: Influence Scheduling Priority with nice and renice
(2006-12-01 07:00:45)
"The 'niceness' of a process is a numeric hint to the kernel about how the process should be treated in relation to other processes contending for the CPU..."

Personal Computer World: Damn Small Linux: Operating System
(2006-12-01 08:30:11)
"As the demands of all operating systems increase, Damn Small Linux (DSL) is a refreshing change and worth considering by anyone with an old computer..."

SearchServerVirtualization: VMware Server on Windows vs. VMware Server on Linux
(2006-12-01 10:00:14)
"VMware Server is great, but should you run it on Windows or Linux? Both have their pluses and minuses..."

All About Linux: FizzBall--A Well Designed Enjoyable Game for Linux
(2006-12-01 11:30:15)
"Anybody who has played games on their PC will be familiar with a classic game called Breakout where you have to bounce a ball with a paddle and smash all the bricks..."

Linux Journal: LDAP Series Part V--Getting a Grip on Directory Service Modeling
(2006-12-01 13:00:27)
"I have an observation I'd like to disclose about the Open Source community: We tend to leap into all kinds of things before we have all the facts and/or information necessary to make intelligent decisions..."

Groklaw: First Word from the Hearing: It's IBM All the Way
(2006-12-01 13:45:43)
"Magistrate Judge Brooke Wells ruled from the bench in favor of IBM. SCO will not be allowed to, as IBM put it in its motion papers, 'litigate this case by ambush...'"

Techworld: Birmingham City Council Claims Open-Source Success
(2006-12-01 14:30:21)
"Birmingham City Council has defended its year-long trial of desktop Linux, claiming it to be a success, despite an independent report showing it would have been cheaper to install Windows XP..."

The New York Times: For $150, Third-World Laptop Stirs Big Debate
(2006-12-01 15:15:31)
"When computer industry executives heard about a plan to build a $100 laptop for the developing world's children, they generally ridiculed the idea..." Splash ad ahead.

CNET News: Open-Source Group Wants Educational Patent Reversed
(2006-12-01 16:00:11)
"A legal center is trying to overturn a patent it says threatens three open-source educational projects, a sign of the tension between patent holders and the collaborative programming community..."

Linux-Watch: Novell Announces Linux-Based Open Enterprise Server 2
(2006-12-01 16:45:19)
"Novell Inc. on Nov. 30 announced its latest NetWare upgrade operating system, the Linux-powered Novell Open Enterprise Server 2..."

The Register: Is 'GNU/Solaris' Emerging from Microsoft-Novell Deal?
(2006-12-01 17:30:16)
"'First you take the politics out, and when the veal has been bleached absolutely white, you can cover it with any sauce you like. And that's what Microsoft did, and 'Open Source' became the sauce on top of Microsoft proprietarianism...'"

internetnews.com: Is There Perfection in The Linux Kernel?
(2006-12-01 18:15:07)
"In a perfect world, you could compile a brand-new Linux kernel without the need for much configuration and without error..."

ServerWatch: Xen Hypervisor Goes Standard
(2006-12-01 19:00:23)
"Simon Crosby, CTO at XenSource, has begun calling Xen the 'de facto standard' hypervisor for virtualization even though enterprise-ready Xen solutions have spent just months in the market and as yet have virtually no market share..."

Forbes: SCO Gets TKO'ed
(2006-12-01 20:30:46)
"This week, SCO's appeal of the Wells ruling was tossed out in a harshly worded decision, which Judge Dale Kimball wrote 'should come as no surprise to SCO...'"

Datamation: Microsoft vs. Linux: An Updated Perspective
(2006-12-01 22:00:43)
"In the war between Microsoft and those that support Linux, there have been many phases. Most of this war, like most wars, has been concealed by the 'fog of war' and propaganda from both camps..."

Editor's Note: Shuckin' and Jivin'
(2006-12-01 23:30:50)
Microsoft tosses out a paid-for analyst report about your editor's home state. It's go time.

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