News Linux News for Jun 05, 2007:

Installing Ubuntu 7.04 on a Mac Book
(2007-06-05 00:45:17)
FriendlyLinux: "Going for pure Ubuntu was pretty undocumented. It seems that everybody else wants to have OS X along with Linux."

Building An Ubuntu MythTV Box
(2007-06-05 02:15:17)
Phoronix: "With more and more people assembling MythTV boxes as alternatives to Windows Media Center or going out and buying a TiVO, for this introductory article we will share some recommendations of hardware we had used on a recent MythTV build along with other information to consider when building your next home theater PC."

The Perfect Server - CentOS 4.5 (32-bit)
(2007-06-05 03:45:17)
HowToForge: "This tutorial shows how to set up a CentOS 4.5 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and web hosters: Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Dovecot POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc'

Andy Ritger of NVIDIA on Linux Drivers
(2007-06-05 05:15:17)
ABC Linux: "NVIDIA's stance is to neither help nor hinder Nouveau. We are committed to supporting Linux through a) an open source 2d "nv" X driver which NVIDIA engineers actively maintain and improve, and b) our fully featured proprietary Linux driver which leverages common code with the other platforms that NVIDIA supports."

Armor SSH and Block Brute Force Attacks
(2007-06-05 07:45:22)
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: ""Protocol 2" means do not allow connections from clients using the SSH1 protocol. SSH1 is old mold and not safe; anyone still using it is seriously behind the times."

Retrieving Emails From Remote Servers With fetchmail (Debian Etch)
(2007-06-05 09:15:22)
HowToForge: "This is where fetchmail comes into play. If you have a user account on a Linux server, you can make fetchmail download emails from remote servers and put them into just one mailbox..."

A day at the Open Source Business Conference
(2007-06-05 11:55:22)
LWN.net: "There was a session, led by Larry Augustin, on "downloads to dollars" - how to start making money once you have people actually downloading your software. Much talk on how to extract information from downloaders which can be used to "open a dialog" with them."

Getting rid of those pesky empty lines in OOo mail merges
(2007-06-05 12:45:22)
Free Software Magazine: "Nothing shows up where the empty Address2 value is. At least OpenOffice.org hides the empty Address2 field. That’s good. But OpenOffice.org doesn’t hide the empty carriage return, the empty line reserved for that field. That’s the problem: the carriage return is still there."

Tiny SBC integrates biometrics, Linux
(2007-06-05 13:30:22)
LinuxDevices: " The TMX1000 has a powerful ARM9 processor, and comes with an open-source software stack based on Linux 2.6."

Linux: making small businesses possible
(2007-06-05 14:15:22)
Lone Wolves: "I am going to give you three scenarios. The first one will show the cost if we would have drunk the kool-aid and bought the latest and greatest of anything we needed and Microsoft or it's preferred ISVs offered. The second scenario shows a more realistic Windows setup that we would use on a tight budget. The third scenario is what we actually use: Linux."

Configuring RedHat Linux for Oracle 10gR2 client installation
(2007-06-05 15:00:22)
Systems Engineering and RDBMS: "Here is a blog post detailing how to configure an environment on a RedHat Linux OS for the installation of a 10gR2 Oracle Client. It assumes some familiarity with both RHEL and Oracle."

Introducing Telephone Reminders 3.0: The Free Asterisk Telephone Reminder System
(2007-06-05 15:45:22)
Nerd Vittles: "Now you can set up recurring reminders that call daily or on weekdays as well as weekly, monthly, and annually. This means it can be used to wake you up in the morning, or to remind Granny to take her medicine every day, or to remind your Little League team of practice times and locations, or to remind you and your customers of scheduled and recurring events."

Trolltech's Qt Gets New Vista
(2007-06-05 16:30:22)
InternetNews: "Building cross-platform applications just got a bit easier with the release of Trolltech's Qt 4.3"

Is Microsoft winning the FUD war in the board room?
(2007-06-05 17:15:22)
ZDNet: "One by one, free and open source software providers are signing agreements with “the dark side”"

GNU Emacs 22 finally released
(2007-06-05 18:00:22)
Linux.com: "Emacs fans, limber up your fingers -- there's a new GNU in town. Almost six years after the release of the previous version, the Free Software Foundation has announced the release of GNU Emacs 22. (Actually, 22.1, but who's counting?) This release includes support for GTK+, drag and drop support for X, a number of new modes, and a graphical interface to the GNU Debugger (GDB)."

Stealthy attack method causes concern
(2007-06-05 18:45:09)
InfoWorld: "A new hacking method is causing concern for the lengths it goes to avoid detection by security software and researchers."

After Ubuntu, Windows Looks Increasingly Bad, Increasingly Archaic, Increasingly Unfriendly
(2007-06-05 19:30:09)
Linux.Sys-Con:"One of the things that's become clear as I've gotten used to the appliance-like experience of Ubuntu is that the future of software in an open source-dominated world is going to be significantly different than the world dominated by Microsoft."

Why did Microsoft and Sun support SCO?
(2007-06-05 20:15:09)
Linux-Watch: "What makes this even odder is that, according to the exhibit, Microsoft and Sun also paid for UnixWare rights, and incidental rights to the older UNIX System V source code. Since they had paid for the rights to use Unix, why should they also be paying SCO not to sue them for the use of Linux? My conclusion, then, as now, is that both companies were paying for SCO to attack IBM and Linux."

Extended Warranties on Ubuntu Systems Back Soon
(2007-06-05 21:00:09)
LinuxLookup: "User johnnyk submitted an idea on IdeaStorm asking us to bring back warranty options for these systems. The short answer—we will soon."

Microsoft/Xandros patent-pact deja vu
(2007-06-05 21:45:27)
Linux-Watch: "Here we go again. Once more we have Microsoft pledging that it won't sue Novell -- excuse me, Xandros -- Linux customers for violating its IP, specifically patents. What patents? Determined how? Violated in what way? We don't know, and Microsoft still isn't telling."

OpenSUSE aims Linux initiative at schools
(2007-06-05 22:30:27)
Desktop Linux: ""As more and more schools evaluate Linux as a cost-efficient alternative for their running systems in a way that will be 'ready for the future of education' and as more and more home users find out, that their children need a PC (and good PC knowledge) to have a stake in the future," the team added."

With RHEL 5, Red Hat goes to bat for SELinux
(2007-06-05 23:15:27)
SearchEnterpriseLinux: "[SELinux] stops theft; it stops spam relays, it stops worms from attacking your site," said Dan Walsh, principal software engineer at Red Hat and a regular contributor to the SELinux project. As such, IT managers should leave it on at all times in every facet of their data centers."

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