News Linux News for Jan 05, 2007:

InfoWorld: The Free Multimedia Opportunity
(2007-01-05 01:00:36)
"With Windows Vista on the horizon, the fate of desktop Linux could rest in open media formats..."

ConsortiumInfo: Standards and Disruptive Technologies
(2007-01-05 02:30:52)
"Providing a convincing argument why the resulting pleasure will more than offset the pain is therefore imperative..."

InfoWorld: Which Should Novell Buy? XenSource or Altiris?
(2007-01-05 04:00:47)
"Altiris would be accretive; XenSource would not. At least, not in the short term..."

Advisories, January 4, 2007
(2007-01-05 04:45:28)
Today's security advisories: DenyHosts, Mozilla Firefox, and Mozilla Thunderbird (Gentoo Linux); and OpenOffice.org and mono-web (SUSE Linux).

Linux.com: Text Email Clients Revisited
(2007-01-05 05:30:32)
"Lately, I've been pining for the simplicity of a text email client. Though Sylpheed has been a reliable workhorse, I decided to survey today's text email clients to see if I should go back to reading email in an xterm..."

HowtoForge: How To Create A Local Debian/Ubuntu Mirror With apt-mirror
(2007-01-05 07:00:35)
"This tutorial shows how to create a Debian/Ubuntu mirror for your local network with the tool apt-mirror..."

SearchServerVirtualization: New Year, New Linux Virtualization Options
(2007-01-05 08:30:58)
"OpenVZ, the open source virtualization software akin to SWsoft's Virtuozzo, now runs on Sun Microsystems Inc.'s eco-friendly UltraSPARC T1 chip, in addition to x86, IA-64 and Power 64 processors..."

Linux.com: ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick?
(2007-01-05 10:00:14)
"The ImageMagick (IM) suite of command-line graphics tools is a free software staple; Linux, other Unix-like operating systems, and proprietary OSes like Windows have supported IM for close to two decades..."

BusinessWire: Rwanda Commits to One Laptop Per Child Initiative
(2007-01-05 11:30:29)
"In recognition of children being Rwanda's most precious natural resource, the government of Rwanda has committed to provide one laptop per child to all primary school children within five years..."

ZDNet UK: Anger as EU Ignores Open-Source Video
(2007-01-05 13:00:00)
"More than 7,000 angry Linux users have protested against the European Union after it excluded them from viewing streaming videos..."

Red Hat: Fedora 7 [Roadmap]
(2007-01-05 14:30:14)
"There will be no more releases of Fedora Core or Fedora Extras..."

ZDNet UK: OpenOffice Hit by 'Highly Critical' Vulnerability
(2007-01-05 16:00:21)
"OpenOffice.org has patched a critical vulnerability in the open-source application suite..."

Linux.com: YoYoNation Pledges Allegiance to Open Source
(2007-01-05 17:00:42)
"In 2005, two former Merrill Lynch techies, young and living large in New York City, left their jobs to start a company based on their favorite pastime: playing with yo-yos..."

CNET News: Could Red Hat Lose JBoss Founder?
(2007-01-05 17:30:30)
"Just months after Red Hat acquired JBoss, it's possible the start-up's leader, Marc Fleury, won't be staying on..."

Groklaw: Bryan Sparks in the Late 1990s on Linux v. Unix in the Enterprise
(2007-01-05 18:15:13)
"A reader mined through his old emails and came up with a work email from 1998 that included a copy of an Open Letter to SCO from Caldera's then-CEO Sparks, saying: 'We want your VARs...'"

LWN: The 2006 Linux and Free Software Timeline
(2007-01-05 19:00:19)
"This is the 'one big page' version of the LWN.net 2006 Linux and Free Software timeline..."

DesktopLinux: OLPC to Demo its Laptop at CES
(2007-01-05 20:30:06)
"The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project will showcase its self-powered, low-cost, XO laptop computer at the 2007 Computer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week..."

iTWire: Google Sponsors Linux Notebooks for Fijian Schools
(2007-01-05 22:00:09)
"A substantial grant from Google has enabled notebook computers running Linux and a variety of open source software to be rolled out at rural schools in Fiji..."

Editor's Note: Not-So Friendly Fire
(2007-01-05 23:30:46)
In the quest to praise Linux to the exclusion of all else, some nasty and ill-informed statements are making accusations about the wrong people.

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