News Linux News for May 11, 2007:

Apache, GPL License Compatibility Back On Track
(2007-05-11 01:00:00)
Channel Web: "The Free Software Foundation's goal to make the GNU General Public License (GPL) compatible with the Apache License isn't dead, as the most recent GPL 3 draft indicated."

Fault-tolerant Web hosting on a shoestring
(2007-05-11 02:30:00)
Linux.com: "The words "fault-tolerant Web hosting" bring to mind hosting centers with multiple redundant power supplies, complex networking, and big bills. However, by taking advantage of the underlying fault-tolerance of the Internet, you can get a surprising level of reliability for little cost."

The "One Laptop per Child" project enters its critical phase
(2007-05-11 04:00:00)
Heise Mobil: "OPLC is based on the conviction that capacity building and the education of schoolchildren in developing and industrializing nations will make the world a bit more just and peaceful. The XO laptop provides users with a means of communications and access to content to promote this goal. The OLPC's goals are grand: millions of XOs are to be manufactured. In two years, the annual production is to reach around 100 million items, more than the current global annual production of all notebooks."

Microsoft attacks IBM over ODF
(2007-05-11 05:30:00)
ZDNet UK: "Microsoft has severely criticised IBM, saying the company is pushing the OpenDocument Format standard to the detriment of Microsoft's own Open XML standard."

Ubuntu is SuperOS
(2007-05-11 07:00:00)
A Blog of Gentoo and other stuff: "Ubuntu. Humanity to others. That's what it means, right? For many of us, it is the Linux OS. For some, it is the only one. For others - its the show-off brother. An enemy for others."

Build and Brand an Eclipse RCP app
(2007-05-11 08:30:00)
DeveloperWorks: "This article provides step-by-step guidelines on how to package and manage a Rich Client Platform (RCP) application as a product with your own branding by using Eclipse's Production Configuration and PDE. Besides common concepts such as splash screen and an icon file's color and size, this article also introduces advanced branding aspects of production configuration: the RCP executable file and its configuration file, progress bar and message, RCP window image, About dialog and welcome page."

Linuxfest Northwest 2007 Report
(2007-05-11 10:00:00)
MontanaLinux.org: "According to the exhibits list and exhibits map, there were approximately 48 booths including hardware vendors, software companies, services companies, and training outfits, the Free Software Foundation, and (of course) user groups. As you might expect, there was quite a bit of swag to be had."

Puppy Linux 2.16 now in beta
(2007-05-11 11:30:00)
InsideSoCal: "In keeping with its frantic pace of development and improvement, today the Puppy Linux team has released the beta of Puppy 2.16."

Virtualization advice, RHEL 5.1 preview top draws at Red Hat Summit
(2007-05-11 13:00:00)
Search Enterprise Linux: "Virtualization sessions drew standing-room-only audiences on the first day of Red Hat Summit 2007 in San Diego, and presenters gave attendees a glimpse of upcoming virtualization features in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 (RHEL 5.1)."

Eight common misunderstandings about GPLv3
(2007-05-11 13:45:00)
IT Manager's Journal: "The official release of the third version of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3) is still a couple of months away, yet already, the misunderstandings about it are almost as numerous as those for the second version (GPLv2)."

Linux Still a Hit in China
(2007-05-11 14:30:00)
Internet News: "A new report from Beijing-based CCID Consulting pegs Linux operating sales revenues up by nearly 31 percent in the first quarter of 2007 to 31 million Yuan (just over US$4 million), as compared to the same period a year prior."

Video of librarian installing Ubuntu: fast and funny
(2007-05-11 15:15:00)
Librarian.net: "I installed Ubuntu on two of the donated PCs at my library yesterday. It took less than an hour. In fact, if I hadn’t been making the little movie at the same time [with my laptop and my little Canon digital Elph; I don’t have a video camera] it would have taken me even less time."

Longhorn server and Ubuntu do they still play together?
(2007-05-11 16:00:00)
Odin's Blog: "There real question however is can linux boxes still join and authenticate against Active Directory domains running at Native Longhorn Server levels. Well the answer a non surprising NO!"

Music 2.0: Pitchfork
(2007-05-11 16:45:00)
Fading Roses & Raging Viruses: "Pitchfork allows me to stream my music over my Local Network, and over the internet, with a nice and responsive interface that facilitates access to my songs."

Neat crontab tricks
(2007-05-11 17:30:00)
LXPages: "There are several special entries, some which are just shortcuts, that you can use instead of specifying the full cron entry. The most useful of these is probably @reboot which allows you to run a command each time the computer gets reboot."

Linux system auditing by example
(2007-05-11 18:15:00)
DeveloperWorks: "Think you have a secure Linux® system? Following best practices during installation and setup is a must, but if you haven't set up regular system auditing, you're missing half the picture. This article discusses some existing tools and offers a couple of sample scripts to automate the process in a real-world environment."

More Bugs Quashed With Bugzilla 3.0
(2007-05-11 19:00:00)
Internetnews: "Mozilla, mostly known for its Firefox browser and Thunderbird e-mail application, is into bugs, too. The company has announced version 3.0 of Bugzilla, one of the most widely used open source bug tracking tools."

Red Hat Summit 2007: Day 1 - desktops and licenses
(2007-05-11 19:45:00)
Linux.com: "Yesterday's big news was Red Hat's announcement of plans for Global Desktop, a partnership with Intel that is scheduled to go live this summer. Global Desktop will see hardware and software combined in a single offering, apparently aimed at expanding the Linux market in developing countries. The new desktop brings the Red Hat total to three: Fedora for hobbyists and developers, the Enterprise Desktop for corporate worker bees, and now Global Desktop for developing nations.:

More details on Red Hat's Global Desktop
(2007-05-11 20:30:00)
Desktop Linux: "The first version of Global Desktop will be appearing in June. Shipping systems with it on board will soon follow. The relatively inexpensive PCs will primarily be aimed at small businesses and governments in emerging countries. It seems a safe bet that some white box vendor will also offer Global Desktop-equipped PCs in the U.S."

Progeny's closure highlights problems of small FOSS companies
(2007-05-11 21:15:00)
Linux.com: "Founded by Ian Murdock and John H. Hartman in 2000, Progeny Linux Systems seemed for years like a modestly successful free and open source software (FOSS) company. Although it abandoned its original plans for revolutionizing networks, it survived the dot-com crash while many other companies had gone under, and its efforts to commercialize Debian were profitable after its first year and a half. By early 2005, Progeny had reinvented itself by offering update services and modular components for building specialized GNU/Linux distributions. Yet on April 30, Progeny ceased operations. What happened?"

The Freedom to be Civil
(2007-05-11 21:45:00)
Editor's Note: "Why bother with courtesy?"

KDE Project Ships First Alpha Release for Leading Free Software Desktop, Codename "Knut"
(2007-05-11 22:30:00)
KDE.org "KDE 4.0-alpha1 features major overwork of artwork, new frameworks taking care of issues from hardware integration to multimedia and some new and improved applications."

Lintrack As A LAN Gateway And An OpenVPN Bridge
(2007-05-11 23:15:00)
HowtoForge: "This tutorial will guide you through installation and configuration of Lintrack, a GNU/Linux distribution specialized in networking tasks. We will give two LANs access to the internet along with DHCP and DNS cache servers, and then we will connect our networks using OpenVPN in bridging mode. You should be running all these in well under an hour, thanks to the unified configuration interface of Lintrack."

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