News Linux News for Apr 13, 2007:

What is Google's Open Source End Game?
(2007-04-13 00:00:41)
ZDNet: "May 31 is Google Developer Day, Google proudly announces. Why...?"

Open Source and Secret Sauce
(2007-04-13 01:30:22)
LinuxWorld Australia: "A few weeks back, one of The Tolly Group's testing clients got a fair bit of press when it announced test results showing that its open source, Fast Ethernet router outperformed Cisco's 2821 Integrated Services Router..."

Some Thoughts on OLPC
(2007-04-13 03:00:53)
Ideas, Opinions, Comments, Criticisms: "I found a link to the OLPC Linux distro live-CD and couldn't help but try it...!"

Enterprise Unix Roundup: Murdock's Solar Leap
(2007-04-13 04:30:15)
ServerWatch: "Fellow Hoosier Ian Murdock surprised a lot of people last month when he came aboard Sun Microsystems as chief operating platforms officer..."

Creating a Code Search Engine with PHP and MySQL
(2007-04-13 06:00:29)
Developer.com: "In this article I'll offer a simplified version of this search engine, introducing you to some compelling PHP and MySQL features along the way..."

How to Encrypt a Diskdrive in (X)Ubuntu Feisty with dm-crypt and LUKS
(2007-04-13 07:30:48)
HowtoForge: "In this tutorial I will show how to encrypt a whole disk drive using (X)Ubuntu Feisty, dm-crypt, and LUKS..."

Beginner's Guide to Debian Etch
(2007-04-13 09:00:45)
Free-Bees.co.uk: "Debian is one of the most common distributions in the world. With a possible total of twenty one CDs, it is also one of the biggest..."

OpenSUSE vs Ubuntu
(2007-04-13 10:30:40)
Techzone: "I have used Ubuntu for almost 2 years and was completely in love with Ubuntu. One fine day my UPS gave up and my lazy self never allowed me to buy another..."

Bubba Makes an Exciting SOHO Server Appliance
(2007-04-13 12:00:02)
Linux.com: "Have you considered setting up a server on your home LAN, but shied away from the idea because you didn't want to dedicate a machine to the task...?"

Red Hat-Based CentOS 5 Goes Gold
(2007-04-13 12:45:41)
DesktopLinux: "CentOS 5, touted as a '100 percent compatible' rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, was released today, featuring the GNOME desktop and a 2.6.18 kernel..."

openSUSE 10.3 Alpha3 Released
(2007-04-13 13:30:40)
[opensuse-announce]: "I'm glad to announce the third public alpha release of openSUSE 10.3..."

SCO About to Face Delisting Trouble, Again
(2007-04-13 14:15:14)
Quantenblog: "The same story will show up again soon, but this time for another reason: the stock price is too low to meet Nasdaq's requirements..."

Red Hat Fattens Pork Pie
(2007-04-13 15:00:11)
The Register: "Red Hat has sealed a potentially lucrative marketing and technology deal that could see its open source and Linux software land in more government and defense locations..."

Ohloh's Open Source Goods
(2007-04-13 16:30:52)
internetnews.com: "There are tens of thousands of open source projects in the wild, but how do you determine what's good and what's not...?"

Linux-Watch: Dear Mr. Gates: Save Vista, Open-Source It
(2007-04-13 17:15:26)
"Although Microsoft may claim otherwise, Vista, from both from a technical and business point of view, is proving to be a failure..."

Will Linux Be de facto Mobile OS?
(2007-04-13 18:00:16)
Electronics Weekly: "Concerns over the usefulness of Linux as a mobile phone operating system have been played down by market analyst IMS Research..."

Ubuntu Fanboys on Linux Today Arise for Wireless Input Rant
(2007-04-13 19:30:59)
iTWire: "My last article on the experiences of moving from Windows to Kubuntu Linux brought out the best and the worst of the Linux community judging by some of the responses it received..."

Why Linux is the Perfect System for People who Hate Computers
(2007-04-13 21:00:11)
The Guardian: "We've had computers powerful enough to be effortlessly useful for ages now. In fact, there is probably one in your attic..."

There Are No Staples in Rwanda
(2007-04-13 22:30:41)
Editor's Note: Looked at the new OLPC interface yet? I have, and I didn't get it. But that's okay.

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