News Linux News for Feb 05, 2007:

HowtoForge: Custom Monitoring MySQL and SNMP with BixData
(2007-02-05 01:00:55)
"With BixData you can monitor your servers as well as VMware and Xen. BixData includes pre-built plugins for things like CPU, Memory, Disk, etc. but any good monitoring tool needs to be customizable..."

Linux.com: Linux Guitar Project is Not a Solo Act
(2007-02-05 05:30:29)
"Artistic geeks often find creative ways to combine technology and art. A love for good software and beautiful guitars is what inspired Canadian luthier Mark Kett to begin the Linux Guitar Project..."

Linux DevCenter: Improving Bash
(2007-02-05 07:00:59)
"Bash is one of those Unix things that I am fully aware has a lot more potential and power than I know how to use. Every so often I go looking for another handful of useful things to learn about it: this is a selection of recent ones..."

Linux.com: Handling RAR and 7-Zip Archives in Linux
(2007-02-05 08:30:38)
"The RAR and 7-Zip file compression formats originated on Windows, so support for them on Linux is not as automatic as it is for old Unix holdovers like Gzip and TAR..."

LinuxGazette.net: Debugging WiFi
(2007-02-05 10:00:46)
"Don't you hate it when you have a problem, only to be told, 'On my machine, it just works'? I know I do..."

Linux Journal: Now Revealed! Secrets of Line Spacing in OpenOffice.org Writer
(2007-02-05 11:30:00)
"Designed to write long documents, Writer is in many ways a document processor comparable to FrameMaker, suitable for designing books and dissertations while falling short of a complete desktop publishing solution..."

LinuxWorld Australia: Linux System Management Now a Puppet Penguin
(2007-02-05 12:15:12)
"In 2003 he founded Reductive Labs to work on new open source automation and administration tools, and Puppet is its first major project..."

LKML.org: Super Kernel Sunday!
(2007-02-05 13:00:59)
"In a widely anticipated move, Linux 'headcase' Torvalds today announced the immediate availability of the most advanced Linux kernel to date, version 2.6.20..."

Linux-Watch: The Free Software Foundation vs. Novell?
(2007-02-05 13:45:19)
"Eben Moglen, the Software Freedom Law Center's executive director and an FSF board member, explained: 'This is a story being hyped by the Reuters guy who wrote it...'"

InformationWeek: How To Tell The Open Source Winners From The Losers
(2007-02-05 14:30:48)
"Businesses must know what to look for in a project's leadership, community, and level of innovation. The wrong choice can cost you..."

The Economic Times: Is Windows Losing Out and Linux Gaining?
(2007-02-05 15:15:21)
"The penguin's come of age. What began as a battle between proprietary and open source Linux software, started by geeks around the world, isn't plain tech rhetoric anymore..."

CNET News: Perens Set to Tackle Open-Source Hardware
(2007-02-05 16:00:56)
"Bruce Perens, an author of the Open Source Definition that codified elements of the collaborative programming philosophy, is set to bring the approach to hardware designs..."

Linux.com: New Open Source Advocacy Group's Launch is Shrouded in Secrecy
(2007-02-05 16:45:29)
"But unlike most open source software launches and even open source association beginnings, OSA founders are unwilling to be quoted by name about their plans before their formal launch..."

InfoWorld: French Students to Get Open-Source Software on USB Key
(2007-02-05 17:30:23)
"Authorities employ tactics for bridging digital divide while avoiding, if not fighting, software piracy..."

Sullivan: Operation Cold Comfort Successful
(2007-02-05 18:15:28)
"Despite bad press, and discouraging comments from various sources in the Toronto Linux community that we shouldn't be unprofessional, and that we're giving Linux a bad name, Operation Cold Comfort was an absolute success..."

mozillaZine: Netscape Announces Cross-Platform Netscape 9 to be Developed In-House
(2007-02-05 19:00:19)
"A subsequent post revealed that Netscape 9 will be released simultaneously for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Netscape Browser 8 is only available for Windows..."

Linux-Watch: Novell and Microsoft Staff Up Interoperability Lab
(2007-02-05 19:45:38)
"According to Sam Ramji, Microsoft's director of platform technology strategy, the companies are looking for a few good program managers and software engineers to populate that joint research facility..."

The Dominion Post/Stuff.NZ: Vista Too Taxing But Linux on Agenda
(2007-02-05 20:30:42)
"Inland Revenue has eschewed Microsoft Vista and will instead upgrade to Windows XP, while continuing to evaluate the merits of a switch to open source rival Linux..."

FOSDEM.org: First FOSDEM Interviews
(2007-02-05 21:15:00)
"With only 20 days left before FOSDEM, we have published the first batch of interviews with our speakers..."

Linux-Watch: Unlovable Linux?
(2007-02-05 22:00:21)
"At the time, most of us thought Oracle undercutting Red Hat's Linux business with its Unbreakable Linux was a big deal..."

LinuxDevices: Will GPLv3 Energize Free Software, or Marginalize the FSF?
(2007-02-05 22:45:39)
"In that long and contentious year, what began as an incremental revision to a fifteen year old license has become a highly charged debate, a purported battle for the soul of Free and Open Source Software..."

PolishLinux: One Laptop Per Child: XO Phase 2 Progress
(2007-02-05 23:30:44)
"The first pieces of the B1 series have been produced in November last year. The B2 prototypes are planned to be delivered to the interested countries for practical testing later this month..."

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