News Linux News for Jun 01, 2007:

Are Linux Vendors Predatory?
(2007-06-01 00:00:55)
ZDNet: "I want to continue our discussion about penguins as predators by talking about Covalent..."

Short Overview: Current State of Mesa and OpenGL on Linux
(2007-06-01 01:30:37)
/home/liquidat: "Graphics in Linux has several problems and issues: first of all there is only Intel providing real free graphics drivers--but Intel does not build high-end graphics software..."

Dell + Linux + Wal-Mart
(2007-06-01 02:15:34)
NetworkWorld: "Lots of news from Dell about Linux lately. A few weeks ago, Dell said they planned to preload Ubuntu Linux version 7.04 on three new PCs, two desktops and a laptop..."

Security Through Obscurity? It's Not All Bad
(2007-06-01 03:00:11)
Enterprise Networking Planet: "Security-through-obscurity is rightfully derided under most circumstances. My favorite examples are silly copy-protection schemes that are trivially foiled..."

Six Ways to Write More Comprehensible Code
(2007-06-01 04:30:47)
developerWorks: "When I'm chasing down a bug at 3 a.m., staring at a nightmare cloud of spaghetti code, and I say, 'Dear God, what idiot child of married cousins wrote this garbage?', the answer to that question is 'Me...'"

Installing Liberation Fonts on Linux
(2007-06-01 05:15:17)
Tectonic: "Red Hat recently released a set of free fonts designed to be a metrically-exact replacement for the Microsoft Core TrueType fonts..."

Kiosktool Locks Down KDE Users' Desktops
(2007-06-01 06:00:56)
Linux.com: "Recently I wrote about locking down the GNOME desktop environment with Pessulus..."

Kernel Space: On-Demand readahead
(2007-06-01 06:45:56)
LinuxWorld: "'Readahead' is the act of speculatively reading a portion of a file's contents into memory in the expectation that a process working with that file will soon want that data..."

Tip of the Trade: Voyage Linux
(2007-06-01 07:30:57)
ServerWatch: "The tiny Linux category is filled with excellent, stripped-down specialized Linuxes for all occasions, from desktops to servers to routers to Internet kiosks, and everything else you can think of..."

Hacking Firefox: The Secrets of about:config
(2007-06-01 08:15:54)
Computerworld: "Ever since its debut, Firefox has garnered a reputation for being an enormously customizable program, both through its add-on architecture and its internal settings..."

Ubuntu Goes Ultraportable
(2007-06-01 09:00:05)
XYZ Computing: "Recently I had a chance to spend some time with Fujitsu's P7230 ultraportable notebook..."

Xubuntu Gets Feisty
(2007-06-01 09:45:01)
LinuxDevCenter: "In some ways the new release does take a step forward but in some truly important areas it took a couple of steps backwards and has been something of a disappointment..."

The Road to KDE 4: Kwin Composite Brings Bling to KDE
(2007-06-01 10:30:54)
dot.KDE:"KWin, KDE's window manager, has been around since KDE 2.0 (replacing KWM in KDE 1.x) and has grown to be a mature and stable window manager over the years..."

Fedora 7--My Personal Bugfest
(2007-06-01 11:15:27)
/home/liquidat: "I already got a copy of the last RC and have been bug hunting since then. And I gathered quite some over the last days, unfortunately, but most are simply due to new, not yet tested application features..."

Supercomputer Center Gets Super Storage Needs Met
(2007-06-01 12:00:01)
Enterprise IT Planet: "When it comes to demand for data storage, it's hard to top the San Diego Supercomputer Center..."

Last Call for GPLv3
(2007-06-01 12:45:39)
internetnews.com: "Though GPL version 3 will be compatible with Apache, the new GPL will not be compatible with GPL version 2..."

Kimball Takes It Under Advisement--SCO v Novell Hearing
(2007-06-01 13:30:21)
Groklaw: "His longer report will come after he can type it up, but as expected the judge took it under advisement. No. Boies didn't argue for SCO..."

Firefox 1.5 Gets Its Last Update
(2007-06-01 15:00:44)
internetnews.com: "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more..."

Novell's So-So Second Quarter Results
(2007-06-01 16:30:03)
Linux-Watch: "Novell Inc. has announced its financial results for its second fiscal quarter, which ended April 30..."

Dell Delights Investors
(2007-06-01 18:00:55)
internetnews.com: "Dell shares jumped more than 5% in late trading Thursday after the company beat Wall Street estimates and announced plans to lay off 10% of its workforce, or more than 8,000 employees..."

Sun Hopes Project Indiana Will Help OpenSolaris
(2007-06-01 19:30:08)
CNET News: "Sun Microsystems has revealed the outline of a project code-named Indiana, an effort to package up the OpenSolaris operating system into a convenient and usable 'distribution' in the mold of Linux..."

MS Sees No Conflict with Its Patent/Open Source Initiatives
(2007-06-01 21:00:04)
eWeek: "Microsoft does not believe there is an inherent contradiction between its recent statements that free and open-source software infringes on 235 of its patents... and its attempts to reach out and build bridges with the open-source community..."

The Next Generation
(2007-06-01 22:30:28)
Editor's Note: An interest in Linux can show up in the most unexpected places.

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