News Linux News for Apr 06, 2007:

Three till Seven: Everyone Uses Linux
(2007-04-06 00:00:16)
"Don't you have any friends with living brain cells? Let me see, Sony, the largest consumer electronics company on the planet, uses Linux for its products and its movies..."

Toponce: I'm Going Back To Windows
(2007-04-06 01:30:55)
"No. Not me personally. It's the threat that we, as Linux users and developers, hear constantly. It's on the forums, mailing lists and IRC..."

ArsGeek: What It's Really Like to Use Linux 24/7/365
(2007-04-06 03:00:08)
"I've spent the majority of that time in my Linux partition and I haven't actually booted into Windows in over a month now..."

Softpedia: What Do You Love and Hate About Ubuntu?
(2007-04-06 04:30:02)
"This is supposed to be a shout out to all the current and upcoming Ubuntu users out there, because I think it's not too late to let the Ubuntu developers know what we think about this wonderful distribution..."

Linux.com: Creating Hackergotchis Using the GIMP
(2007-04-06 06:00:56)
"A hackergotchi is a picture of a person's head that's used as an avatar for identification on a blog..."

TriedIT: Review: SimplyMEPIS 6.5 64
(2007-04-06 07:30:50)
"I am reviewing the 64-bit version on my AMD Athlon 64 x2 system that I built myself..."

Linux.com: Ekiga Videophone Gets You Connected
(2007-04-06 09:00:46)
"Linux has come a long way in a lot of areas, but if my experience is an indicator, we're not much further along in the use of personal webcams today than we were five years ago..."

InfoWorld: High Availability with Open Source
(2007-04-06 10:30:21)
"When I build a network or a system, I try my best to make sure that everything is as redundant as possible..."

internetnews.com: MontaVista Extends Embedded Linux
(2007-04-06 12:00:01)
"With MontaVista Software's latest release of Linux Professional version 5, the Linux vendor is upping the ante in the race to provide faster and more robust embedded Linux capabilities..."

Technetra: No Strings Attached
(2007-04-06 12:00:28)
"As governments in the developing world seek to manage the inevitable globalization of their economies, it's important to pick policies that promote the best practices, not the worst..."

internetnews.com: Mozilla Thunderbird's New Outlook on E-Mail
(2007-04-06 13:30:25)
"Tagging has taken off in the Web 2.0 world as a way to organize and find items of interest. And for the most part they've existed only in the browser view of the Web..."

The Inquirer: Open Source Coders Caught Stealing Open Source Code
(2007-04-06 14:15:55)
"Far less scrupulous, the OpenBSD developers seem to have simply copied bits of that GPL code into their own driver, bcw, published under the BSD licence..."

TechCentral: Sirim Pulls Plug on Format Fight
(2007-04-06 15:00:31)
"Standards body Sirim Bhd has stopped a feud between IBM Malaysia and Microsoft Malaysia over competing technologies in this country..."

eWeek: ACT Warns of Legal Risk with Latest GPL Draft
(2007-04-06 16:30:44)
"The third discussion draft of the GNU General Public License Version 3, particularly the provisions designed to block patent cooperation agreements like the one between Novell and Microsoft..."

Linux.com: ChangeLog: Linux Fund Loses its Funding Source
(2007-04-06 18:00:57)
"Linux Fund, an organization founded to fund open source projects through financing from affinity credit cards, is losing its affinity card provider..."

Florida Free Culture: Legislature 2007: State of Florida IT--Open Standards
(2007-04-06 19:30:04)
"As mentioned in my earlier post about the Digital Divide Council, there is another issue under discussion in the capital that resulted from the demise of the State Technology Office..."

LinuxLookup: Mandriva Flash 4GB Released
(2007-04-06 21:00:58)
"Mandriva today launches the 4GB version of Mandriva Flash, its live flash drive..."

BetaNews: Groklaw's Jones Confident Amid SCO Deposition Summon
(2007-04-06 22:30:58)
"...SCO Group filed a motion on Monday stating it is seeking to serve blogger Pamela Jones with a subpoena to be deposed in its intellectual property case against Linux vendor Novell..."

Technocrat: Bruce Perens Admits to Spoofing Netcraft
(2007-04-06 23:15:46)
"Yes, I did it. For a year, I operated OpenSourceParking.org and all of its parked sites on Lighttpd, and spoofed the server-name header to Apache in order to give Apache the credit in the Netcraft report..."

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