News Linux News for Jun 11, 2007:

Microsoft hires senior Linux engineer
(2007-06-11 02:00:17)
Linux-Watch: "Microsoft has quietly hired Tom Hanrahan, formerly the Linux Foundation's director of engineering, to become its Director of Linux Interoperability. As part of his responsibilities, Hanrahan will manage the Microsoft/Novell Interoperability Lab that Microsoft began staffing up earlier this year."

Search smarter with Apache Solr, Part 1: Essential features and the Solr schema
(2007-06-11 06:00:17)
IBM Developerworks: "You'll learn how to use Solr to index and search content and explore Solr's support for faceted browsing. I'll conclude Part 1 with a look at Solr's schema and an explanation of how it is configured for the example application's index structure."

Anti-DRM Activists Take On the BBC
(2007-06-11 10:00:17)
FreeTheBBC: "The BBC plans to offer old content only through Real or Windows Media DRM technology. DRM, or Digital Restrictions Management, is technology that artificially limits what users can do with media."

Alan Cox on Patent Law and MS-Novell Deal
(2007-06-11 12:00:17)
ABC Linux: "Of the big vendors I deal with I would say Intel are probably the most co-operative today, they provide good documentation, errata information and also fund or write key drivers for their hardware such as the 3D support (done by Tungsten Graphics) and the wireless. That has really paid off and made their systems hardware of choice."

A Patent Lie
(2007-06-11 12:45:21)
New York Times: "Microsoft sang a very different tune in 1991. In a memo to his senior executives, Bill Gates wrote, 'If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.' Mr. Gates worried that 'some large company will patent some obvious thing' and use the patent to 'take as much of our profits as they want...'"

Reiser Murder Trial Set To Begin
(2007-06-11 13:30:22)
AP/KGO-TV: "As a murder trial gets under way Monday in the disappearance of Nina Reiser, a 31-year-old mother of two missing since September, defense lawyers are trying to sow doubt about whether she is dead at all..."

KOffice 1.6.3 Released with Major Updates to Kexi
(2007-06-11 14:15:21)
Linux.com: "KOffice 1.6.3 is out with a long list of changes, particularly for database management tool Kexi, the KOffice answer to Microsoft Access..."

Mobile Linux Group Releases First Specifications
(2007-06-11 15:00:59)
Computerworld UK: "The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum is releasing its first mobile phone specifications, in order to encourage more application development for Linux phones..."

Legislators Wimp Out on Open Document Format Bills
(2007-06-11 15:45:35)
ConsortiumInfo: "I am overdue in offering a few thoughts on the news that open format legislation has gone down in flames in legislatures throughout the US..."

OpenOffice Worm Hits Mac, Linux and Windows
(2007-06-11 16:30:45)
ZDNet UK: "Malware targeting OpenOffice documents is spreading through multiple operating systems including Mac OS, Windows and Linux, according to Symantec..."

Apache Synapse Accelerates Open Source SOA
(2007-06-11 17:15:49)
internetnews.com: "After nearly two years of development, the open source Apache Synapse enterprise service bus (ESB) is ready for prime time with its 1.0 milestone release..."

First Look: Firefox 3 Alpha 5
(2007-06-11 18:00:23)
Ars Technica: "The fifth public alpha build of Firefox 3 has been officially released..."

Sun Pushes Multicore Tools to Linux Developers
(2007-06-11 18:45:23)
Computerworld UK: "Sun has unveiled compiler and tool technologies that work on multicore chip architectures and extend to application development on Linux..."

Zenoss Grows with Open-Source IT Management
(2007-06-11 19:30:30)
eWeek: "Open-source IT monitoring and management provider Zenoss on June 11 will seek to build momentum behind its alternative to the big four enterprise management offerings when it introduces the second major release of its Zenoss Core tool..."

House Approves Second Anti-Spyware Bill
(2007-06-11 20:15:21)
internetnews.com: "The U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday endorsed its second anti-spyware bill in less than a month. Both bills target unauthorized downloads but take significantly different approaches."

Privacy International Demands Apology from Google Over Smear Campaign
(2007-06-11 21:00:21)
Daniweb: "Two European journalists have independently told us that Google representatives have contacted them with the claim that 'Privacy International has a conflict of interest regarding Microsoft.' I presume this was motivated because Microsoft scored an overall better result than Google in the rankings...'"

DreamWorks Animation "Shrek the Third": Linux Feeds an Ogre
(2007-06-11 21:45:21)
Linux Journal: "All the big film studios primarily use Linux for animation and visual effects. Perhaps no commercial Linux installation is larger than DreamWorks Animation, with more than 1,000 Linux desktops and more than 3,000 server CPUs..."

Memo to Xandros CEO: You're Better Off Selling Potatoes
(2007-06-11 22:30:29)
iTWire: "A few days ago, I became aware of a fact I'd never known before: the chief executive officer of Xandros Corporation is named Andreas Typaldos..."

It's Time to Consider Open Source Software [Parts 1 & 2]
(2007-06-11 23:15:25)
LinuxInsider: "Many people are surprised to hear that Stallman's free software dream has been realized..."

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