News Linux News for Jul 06, 2007:

If You're Steve Ballmer, Don't Read This
(2007-07-06 00:00:56)
CNET News: "Instead of kicking back for the July 4 holiday, Steve Ballmer should be going crazy right now..."

How Predictable: Massachusetts' About-Turn
(2007-07-06 00:45:03)
Computer Business Review: "How predictable was Massachusetts’ about-turn on Office Open XML...?"

Joomla!--The Licence Stays the Same
(2007-07-06 01:30:50)
iTWire: "Did this mean that releases of Joomla! uptil that point had been violating the GPL? Would users face problems as a result...?"

The Real Meaning of GNU GPLv3
(2007-07-06 03:00:27)
Linux Journal: "Now that the final version of the GNU General Public Licence version 3 has been released, the in-depth analysis of its implications can begin..."

Red Hat, Microsoft Talk Tux
(2007-07-06 03:45:57)
Linux-Watch: "In fact, Red Hat made a point of spitting on the Microsoft/Novell deal... That was then. This is now..."

A Sysadmin Toolbox for Web Site Maintenance
(2007-07-06 04:30:08)
Linux.com: "I run a small but fairly active Web site from a home server, as was commonly done back in the early days of the World Wide Web.

GConf--GNOME Under the Hood
(2007-07-06 06:00:31)
PolishLinux: "To put things short, Gconf is a system built in GNOME 2 which stores applications' preferable configuration data as well as graphical environment variables in its own files..."

KDE 4: Kubuntu, Systemsettings vs kcontrol
(2007-07-06 07:30:24)
/home/liquidat: "The first news in this talk was that Kubuntu will not ship with KDE 4 as the default version for the next two (!) Kubuntu [releases]..."

Installing Google Desktop On PCLinuxOS 2007 And Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
(2007-07-06 09:00:52)
HowtoForge: "This article shows how you can install the Linux version of Google Desktop on a PCLinuxOS 2007 desktop and an Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04) desktop..."

Linux: Suspend2 Becomes TuxOnIce
(2007-07-06 09:45:12)
KernelTrap: "The 'Suspend2' project has been renamed to 'TuxOnIce' Nigel Cunningham announced on the lkml..."

Burning Debian Packages and Repositories to Disc with APTonCD and apt-mirror
(2007-07-06 10:30:41)
Linux.com: "Have you ever wished you had access to your Linux distribution's online package repositories when you didn't have access to the Internet, or when your access was slow and unreliable...?"

Network Card Bonding On CentOS
(2007-07-06 11:15:27)
HowtoForge: "Bonding is the same as port trunking. In the following I will use the word bonding because practically we will bond interfaces as one..."

Microsoft Says It Is Not Bound by GPLv3
(2007-07-06 12:00:59)
eWeek: "Microsoft also said July 5 that its agreement with Novell, as well as those with Linux rivals Xandros and Linspire, were unaffected by the release June 29 of GPLv3 by the Free Software Foundation..."

Linux Official, Microsoft Give Thumbs-Down to GPLv3
(2007-07-06 12:45:38)
InfoWorld: "'We're not going to bother,' says one Linux gatekeeper; Microsoft issues make-no-mistake statement of no support..."

Linux Developers Considering Move to Eclipse
(2007-07-06 13:30:09)
Linux-Watch: "At the recent Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, it was decided to start making Eclipse, the open-source development platform, the Visual Studio for Linux..."

MS: Dancing as Fast As It Can to Try to Get Away from GPLv3
(2007-07-06 15:00:11)
Groklaw: "In other words, not to put too fine a point on it, GPLv3 worked..."

Microsoft Tries to Spit Out the GPLv3 Hook
(2007-07-06 15:45:50)
eWeek: "In other words, Microsoft is doing its best not be caught on the hook of GPLv3. Ah, Microsoft you'd love to be able to do that, wouldn't you...?"

Will Open Source Developers be Well Paid?
(2007-07-06 16:30:07)
Datamation: "He's the author of The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software, a scholarly article that describes significant shifts in the software business. Datamation spoke with him about how these shifts are shaping the pay levels of open source developers..."

Apache Foundation Co-Founder Likes GPLv3
(2007-07-06 17:15:10)
InformationWeek: "One of the unsung features of GPLv3 is its grant of compatibility to the Apache and Eclipse open source licenses..."

Kernel Space: Linux Security Non-Modules and AppArmor
(2007-07-06 18:00:53)
Techworld: "Meanwhile, the LSM interface is easily abused; since it allows the insertion of hooks into almost any system operation of interest, it can be used by other modules to provide non-security functionality..."

The Viral Clause
(2007-07-06 18:45:29)
Tux Deluxe: "Paradoxically, the viral clause, the part of the GPL licensing framework that so many people objected to because it wasn't business friendly, made the license business friendly..."

2009: Year of the Dirt-Cheap, $50 OLPC XO?
(2007-07-06 19:30:13)
Ars Technica: "The success or failure of the One Laptop Per Child Project hinges critically on the cost of the XO laptop, which governments are expected to purchase on behalf of their citizens in developing countries..."

Elive Gem Released
(2007-07-06 21:00:56)
Elive: "After a long wait, the first official Stable version of Elive, 1.0, has finally been released..."

Another Brick in the Wall?
(2007-07-06 22:30:28)
Editor's Note: The GPLv3 has spooked Microsoft; but does this mean any chance for real interoperability is gone?

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