News Linux News for Dec 04, 2006:

IT Manager's Journal: Nine Ways to Combat Spam
(2006-12-04 01:00:04)
"Anyone with an inbox nowadays knows that email spam is a real and serious problem..."

ArsGeek: How to Install Puppy Linux Onna Stick
(2006-12-04 07:30:54)
"I must confess that I have a new love, a fling if you will. That love is Puppy Linux. Puppy Linux how do I love thee? Let me count the ways..."

NewsForge: Cool Greasemonkey Scripts for Gmail
(2006-12-04 08:30:20)
"In case you haven't heard of it, Greasemonkey is a plugin for Firefox that lets you quickly install and run scripts that change the content of selected Web sites..."

My Documents: LaTeX for the Nontechnical User
(2006-12-04 10:00:22)
"Microsoft Word does not know that you are writing a book, Open Office does not know that the text you just entered was in fact the title of your document..."

Tectonic: A Week with SuSE 10
(2006-12-04 11:30:59)
"A series of events led me to installing a copy of Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 last week..."

Linux DevCenter: When Linux Runs Out of Memory
(2006-12-04 13:00:35)
"Perhaps you rarely face it, but once you do, you surely know what's wrong: lack of free memory, or Out of Memory..."

Groklaw: The Novell-MS Deal: What Happens *After* the 5 Years?
(2006-12-04 13:45:49)
"A friend asked me a question yesterday that I couldn't answer, so I did some research to see if I could find one. The question was: In the Novell-Microsoft deal, what happens at the end of the 5-year term...?"

eWeek: Red Hat: From 'Cuddly Penguin' to Public Enemy No. 1
(2006-12-04 14:30:11)
"Marc Fleury... discussed a variety of subjects including increasing the Red Hat investment in JBoss R&D, evolving the JBoss code base and governance model, hiring, technology, and the Red Hat 'cuddly penguin' growing some teeth..."

[opensuse-announce]: openSUSE 10.2 is Done
(2006-12-04 15:15:31)
"We've mastered yesterday openSUSE 10.2 RC5 and declared it as goldmaster..."

VARBusiness: The Tao Of Linux
(2006-12-04 16:00:58)
"'Buddha was essentially a brain-hacker,' Friedman says. 'He developed techniques for manipulating the human mind, ways of creating happiness and removing worries...'"

Enterprise Open Source Magazine: The Unwritten Story Of Open Source Java
(2006-12-04 16:45:50)
"Using the GPL instead of yet another Sun license certainly makes adoption that much easier. But why did it take so long and why the change now...?"

internetnews.com: Unix 03: The Future or The Past?
(2006-12-04 17:30:23)
"Unix standardization efforts are ongoing. No that's not a misprint. Unix is far from dead, and efforts to provide a degree of standardization for the remaining Unix players may well be a lifeline..."

CNET News: Microsoft Has OS patents; Linux Has None
(2006-12-04 18:15:02)
"It reveals that many open-source backers fundamentally don't understand the software business. When vendors compete, customers win. This is good..."

-stable: Linux 2.6.18.5
(2006-12-04 19:00:00)
"We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.18.5 kernel..."

Groklaw: Novell Files Motion for Partial Summary Judgment
(2006-12-04 19:00:06)
"This just isn't SCO's week. Here it is, leaning against the ropes in SCO v. IBM, and here comes Novell..."

CNET News: Linux Lab Cuts Staff, Focuses on Legal Issues
(2006-12-04 19:45:59)
"Open Source Development Labs, an industry-funded consortium, has cut a third of its staff, lost its chief executive and scaled back some technical work..."

Computerworld: Inside Story: How Microsoft & Massachusetts Played Hardball Over Open Standards
(2006-12-04 20:30:27)
"E-mails show that the vendor lobbied for hardball legislation over the file format controversy--and then backed off..." Headline changed per original source.

CNET News: Novell to Support Microsoft Office Documents
(2006-12-04 21:15:37)
"Novell said Monday it is participating in an open-source project designed to bridge rival document formats and thus enable its OpenOffice.org customers to work with Microsoft Office documents..."

Ars Technica: Open Document Format Published as ISO Standard
(2006-12-04 22:00:51)
"The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) finally published the Open Document Format (ODF) as an official standard last week after approving it as an international standard last May..."

eWeek: Outlook 2007: Linux and Open Source
(2006-12-04 22:45:17)
"In the year to come, we expect to see Linux maintain its torrid development pace, with major new enterprise releases from Red Hat..."

DesktopLinux: Iran's Parsix Linux Revs Up with Live/Install CD
(2006-12-04 23:30:40)
"Parsix 0.85 GNU/Linux, a Debian/Knoppix-derived distribution, was released in Iran, today, by its project team..."

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