News Linux News for Feb 13, 2007:

Linux.com: STUX Live CD: Some Technical Difficulties
(2007-02-13 00:15:03)
"STUX is a Slackware/Knoppix-powered live CD with the Morphix-like ability to build a custom ISO. While the combination has high potential, this implementation leaves something to be desired..."

InfoWorld: Ubuntu Embraces Proprietary Software(?)
(2007-02-13 01:00:25)
"Mark Shuttleworth has developed an exceptional Linux distribution, Ubuntu. Mark spends much of his time, however, deriding Red Hat, his biggest Linux competitor, for waxing proprietary..."

Postcards from /dev/edge: Back From the Blogging Dead
(2007-02-13 01:45:49)
"Still, it's been too long, so I thought I'd drop a note to let you know what's new in the Linux part of my life..."

Larabel: Are You Stupid For Using OpenSuSE?
(2007-02-13 02:30:14)
"I can tell you one thing, and that is you're certainly not the stupidest person seeing as for the past three years you have been a generation ahead of Microsoft Windows users..."

Mad Penguin: Rhapsody: A Music Service for Linux Users
(2007-02-13 04:00:34)
"The idea of Rhapsody offering a Linux music service is fantastic, except for the fact that they have opted not to allow the full functionality offer to those in the Windows world..."

Advisories, February 12, 2007
(2007-02-13 04:45:57)
Today's security advisories: gd, wireshark, and samba (Fedora Core); postgresql and ImageMagick (Mandriva Linux); java-1.5.0-ibm (Red Hat Linux); dbus, dbus-glib, dbus-qt, dbus-x11, gd, ImageMagick, and kernel (rPath Linux); and postgresql-8.1, moin, and moin1.3 (Ubuntu).

developerWorks: Program the Synergistic Processing Elements of the Sony PLAYSTATION 3
(2007-02-13 05:30:54)
"Part 2 begins an in-depth discussion of the Cell BE chip's SPEs..."

HowtoForge: Resolving Domains Internally And Externally With Bind9 And Caching Nameserver
(2007-02-13 06:15:01)
"Caching-Nameserver is a type of nameserver that will resolve a web addresses (domain names) from its next or master DNS, and will keep those entries in cache..."

Bobcares: VPS Handbook
(2007-02-13 07:00:35)
"This document provides complete steps to install and configure a virtual private server (including both host and guest) using the openvz kernel..."

developerWorks: Linux Tip: Printing DVI Files with CUPS
(2007-02-13 07:45:46)
"The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) is the print spooler used on many Linux and UNIX systems today..."

Linux Howtos: Beryl: Usability [Parts i-iii]
(2007-02-13 08:30:04)
"Beryl has a couple of great plugins for organising applications that have a proliferation of little windows like the gimp or kopete,.."

Linux.com: CLI Magic: Zip Your Files Across the Network with Woof
(2007-02-13 09:15:06)
"Transferring files from one computer to another on a network isn't always a straightforward task..."

Cgisecurity: Interview with Sullo the Author of Nikto
(2007-02-13 10:00:24)
"Nikto is a very popular open source web application security scanner..."

Linux Journal: Mix Libre
(2007-02-13 10:45:15)
"It's a mixed bag this week from Studio Dave. I'll skip the preliminaries and just invite you to dive in and check out some of the latest news from the ever-expanding world of Linux sound and music software..."

Tectonic: Ten More Cape Schools Get Linux Labs
(2007-02-13 11:30:39)
"Absa and Engen will spend R600 000 to provide ten Northern Cape schools with Linux-based school laboratories..."

KernelTrap: New Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Driver
(2007-02-13 12:15:37)
"James Ketrenos announced a new 80211 based driver for the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG network connection adapter, 'this new driver uses the new d80211 subsystem previously only available as part of the wireless-dev tree...'"

Linux.com: Portrait: LinuxChix Brazil's Sulamita Garcia
(2007-02-13 13:00:54)
"A lot of people have bemoaned the lack of women participating in open source communities, but Sulamita Garcia is one of the few who have stepped up to do something about it..."

CNET News: GPL 3 Release Could Slip Past March
(2007-02-13 13:45:37)
"The Free Software Foundation is no longer committing to the planned March deadline for a new version of the General Public License, but a third draft of the seminal open-source license is due soon..."

Linux-Watch: Ubuntu Gets U.S. Technical Support Provider
(2007-02-13 14:30:42)
"Canonical Ltd., Ubuntu Linux's commercial sponsor, and SpikeSource Inc., a provider of open-source solutions, announced today that SpikeSource will certify its business-ready open source applications for Ubuntu..."

Reuters/CNET News: Eight Nations Set to Get $150 Laptops
(2007-02-13 15:15:47)
"From Brazil to Pakistan, some of the world's poorest children will peer across the digital divide this month--reading electronic books, shooting digital video, creating music and chatting with classmates online..."

internetnews.com: Linux Appliances Get New rPaths
(2007-02-13 16:00:52)
"The Linux appliance market for the most part has been more about building appliances than managing them. Today, rPath is taking care of both..."

Linux Kernel Monkey Log: Free Linux Driver Development Questions and Answers!
(2007-02-13 16:45:58)
"Due to all of the responses I've gotten for the Linux driver announcement I have gotten a lot of questions asked to me about this. Here is a list of some of the most common ones, and their answers..."

Linux.com: FSFE's Fiduciary License Agreement is No Panacea
(2007-02-13 17:30:58)
"This week FSF Europe announced the release of its Fiduciary License Agreement, a form of copyright assignment in which a free software project can place its collective copyright under the control of a single organization or trustee..."

LinuxInsider: Linux vs. Vista: How Does Security Stack Up?
(2007-02-13 18:15:56)
"They suggest that rather than wait for a half-baked new Windows operating system, consumer and enterprise users would have far better security with Linux..."

Computerworld Australia: Open Source Accounting Sees New Symbol
(2007-02-13 19:00:01)
"Lack of a business-grade accounting system tailored for Australia's onerous taxation system has long kept even the most die-hard Linux fans tied to Windows, but all that is set to change with the open source SYMBOL Accounting..."

Linux.com: Autopackage Struggling to Gain Acceptance
(2007-02-13 19:45:15)
"Fourteen months ago, the Autopackage project was small and active, and members sounded optimistic about its success..."

Larabel: Ubuntu Reverts Video Driver Stance
(2007-02-13 20:00:58)
"Moments ago hitting the ubuntu-announce-list is word that the upcoming 7.04 'Feisty Fawn' release will not include the closed-source ATI and NVIDIA display drivers by default..."

J_K9@Linux: Proposing An Open Source Groove Alternative
(2007-02-13 20:30:48)
"Groove is a software initially developed by Groove Networks and now owned and developed by Microsoft as a component of the Office 2007 Enterprise suite..."

Mad Penguin: Novell and GPLv3: Let the Beatings Begin!
(2007-02-13 21:15:52)
"Even though I believe that the deal with Microsoft regarding patents was little more than corporate covering, the fact remains that Novell did what they felt was needed to keep itself from being litigated into oblivion..."

UT Daily Texan: Make Move to Open Source
(2007-02-13 22:00:37)
"For now, I wonder why more people haven't heard of a sexy little Finnish operating system called Linux, a free, highly compatible, highly functional system for which there exist only 40 known viruses..."

ConsortiumInfo: OOXML and ISO: Fact and Fancy
(2007-02-13 22:45:23)
"Given that there has been a fair amount of information, disinformation, and supposition flying around, I thought that I should share some additional details that I've learned relating to the contradictions received by JTC 1 regarding Ecma 376..."

Free Software Magazine: GPLv3: Do We Really Need It?
(2007-02-13 23:30:28)
"But with the Linux kernel developers stating that they oppose many of the changes, and with some people licensing software explicitly as 'GPLv2' rather than 'GPLv2, or any later version,' one could wonder whether the whole update effort makes any sense..."

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