News Linux News for Jun 12, 2007:

Opinion: 2008 May Be the Year of the Open-Source Desktop
(2007-06-12 00:00:09)
Computerworld: "But the desktop is uncharted territory. Over the past year, I've been on a quest to find an operating system that balances ease of use, stability, low cost and high functionality..."

Catching Up
(2007-06-12 00:45:24)
Hoosier Penguin: "Say thanks to Xandros, everybody, for validating Microsoft's plan to kill Linux..."

Well It Was Twenty Years Ago Today...
(2007-06-12 01:30:27)
OSI: "I was 22 years old at the time, and I still harbored a dream that I might someday write 'The Great American Compiler...'"

Elvis Presley, et al Join Class Action Against Google, YouTube
(2007-06-12 02:15:09)
LawFuel: "Cherry Lane Music Publishing Co, one of the world’s leading independent music publishers--responsible for catalogues of world famous artists such as Elvis Presley, Quincy Jones, The Black Eyed Peas, John Legend, and more than 65,000 other copyrights -- along with the national French tennis organization (Federation Française de Tennis) and French soccer league (Ligue de Football Professionel) join and strongly support the copyright infringement class action claims against YouTube and Google..."

Nixstaller and the Inconvenience of Do-It-Yourself
(2007-06-12 03:00:44)
Linux.com: "Nixstaller 0.2.2 is a command-line tool for creating graphical installers for archived files on Unix-like systems. If that sounds paradoxical, it is..."

How to Cleanup Your GNOME Registry?
(2007-06-12 04:30:02)
LinuxInsight: "The other day I stumbled upon this neat tool that helps cleanup your GConf registry, called GConf Cleaner. While GNOME registry size isn't nowhere near the size of Windows registry, and thus shouldn't slow your computer too much, it's still nice to have a tool that cleans unused and obsolete entries..."

Revisor Utility Creates Custom Install Images for Fedora
(2007-06-12 06:00:21)
Linux.com: "Imagine a customized GNU/Linux distribution, built to your specifications with a minimal amount of effort on your part. If you are running Fedora 7, that dream is now a reality, thanks to Revisor, a graphical interface for building custom install images for Fedora. Taking the shape of a GNOME wizard, Revisor comes close to being an ideal desktop tool. Inexperienced users can use its default settings without much knowledge of what is happening behind the scenes, while more expert users can customize each aspect of producing an .ISO."

How To Install VMware Server On A Fedora 7 Desktop
(2007-06-12 07:30:52)
HowToForge: "This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server on a Fedora 7 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ('virtual machines') such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system..."

Linux: Translating Kernel Documentation
(2007-06-12 09:00:15)
KernelTrap: The translation of a some kernel documentation into Japanese led to a discussion as to whether or not it was appropriate to include translated documentation with the kernel source code..."

Installing The PHP-MSSQL Module On CentOS 5.0
(2007-06-12 10:30:14)
HowtoForge: "As you might have noticed on Centos 5.0, there is no PHP-MSSQL module/extension available in the default yum repositories..."

Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn--Cool, Fresh and… Unstable
(2007-06-12 12:00:56)
PolishLinux: "It is going to be rather a report from another successful upgrade, pointing out the biggest surprises and the most miserable failures of the latest release of Ubuntu Linux, codenamed Feisty Fawn..."

Linux: Dual-Licensing the Kernel
(2007-06-12 12:45:33)
KernelTrap: "'I was impressed in the sense that it was a hell of a lot better than the disaster that were the earlier drafts,' Linus Torvalds explained in reply to a comment suggesting that he was impressed with the final draft of the GPLv3..."

US Patent Office to Try 'Open Source' Approach
(2007-06-12 13:30:54)
BetaNews: "Last week, it announced its official support of a Web site whose purpose will be to encourage citizens to assess the validity of patent applications for themselves, and issue challenges where necessary..."

Clubbing Baby Linux Penguins
(2007-06-12 14:15:36)
Groklaw: "Similarly, when Microsoft joined the SCO 'you must pay me forever for my precious IP' club, made up of companies that don't know enough not to club baby Linux penguins, the world said, Ewww..."

Why the Dell/Ubuntu Deal Won't Improve Linux's Market Share
(2007-06-12 15:00:52)
Datamation: "Over the past few weeks much has been written about Dell's decision to offer desktop and notebook PCs that have the Ubuntu Linux distro installed on them as opposed to Windows..."

What the Microsoft/Xandros Deal Means for Linux
(2007-06-12 15:45:26)
Linux-Watch: "While the FSF (Free Software Foundation) has tried to block such patent deals with the latest version of the GPLv3, Microsoft and Xandros didn't let that legal objective stop them..."

Dell Ubuntu Machines Start Hitting the Streets, Answering Q's
(2007-06-12 16:30:42)
eWeek: "Dell's customer feedback-driven initiative for preloading Linux on some of the machines it sells is moving forward with a full head of steam..."

Why Microsoft Loves GPL 3.0: Changing Strategies
(2007-06-12 17:15:27)
Enderle: "Two Slashdot posts and a long meeting with Microsoft really got me to thinking about whether Microsoft really likes, or doesn't like, the new GPL version and how its strategy..."

Hanrahan Hire Shows True Microsoft Weakness
(2007-06-12 18:00:50)
ZDNet: "Microsoft's hire of Tom Hanrahan, formerly director of engineering for the Linux Foundation (and before that of the OSDL, one of its predecessors) says a lot about the company's true open source situation..."

Taking OpenSolaris for a Spin
(2007-06-12 18:45:08)
Linux-Watch: "If you're like most Linux users, you've heard of OpenSolaris, but I'm willing to bet you've never tried it..."

No Penguins On Today's Safari?
(2007-06-12 19:30:16)
whurley: "Safari is a pretty cool browser, and I do use it on my MacBook Pro. But where's my Safari for Linux? Why wasn't today's announcement about open sourcing Safari...?"

Ubuntu and the Unions
(2007-06-12 20:15:20)
Eric Lee: "I no longer use Microsoft Windows XP and instead now use Ubuntu Linux. That's nice, you may be thinking, but what does that have to do with the trade union movement...?"

Day 1 With Fedora 7
(2007-06-12 21:00:36)
Just Another Tech Blog: "Although I don't intend to keep daily journals of my trials of various Linux distributions this summer, I will chronicle the first day I spend with each distro..."

Dell's Next Step--SUSE Linux Desktops?
(2007-06-12 21:45:52)
iTWire: "Why would the world's second-ranked PC seller make an effort to sell an operating system that it's never sold before on custom hardware--and do it in a half-hearted manner...?"

Xen: Moving Beyond VMware [Part 1 & 2]
(2007-06-12 22:30:56)
NetworkWorld: "Q&A with Jim Klein, director of information services and technology for the Saugus Union School District in California..."

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