News Linux News for Aug 03, 2007:

Open Source Being Repositioned in Corporate America
(2007-08-03 00:00:09)
Linux Journal: "Open Source methodology has gained some ground in one of the last places you and I might expect: In the development area of corporations..."

Mandriva Corporate Desktop 4.0 Beta [Review]
(2007-08-03 00:45:31)
GNUman: "Mandriva, on the heels of trying to gain popularity in the office environment has released a desktop that can rival its opponents like the Microsoft sponsored Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) and Red Hat's Fedora desktop..."

Review: Vector Linux 5.8 SOHO Edition
(2007-08-03 01:30:46)
Raiden's Realm: "Vector Linux SOHO edition is the big brother to Vector Linux Standard Edition and is designed to be run on more modern and powerful hardware than its little brother..."

Turn Your Computer Into a Media Center PC with GeeXBoX 1.1
(2007-08-03 02:15:29)
Linux.com: "GeeXBoX, a small media center Linux live CD distribution, can run from any small device, such as a USB disk or a wallet CD-R, and can play both disk-based media like DVDs and online media like Icecast streams..."

Austrumi 1.5.1 [Review]
(2007-08-03 03:00:04)
ReviLinux: "I had the same feeling when I reviewed Austrumi Linux 1.5.1 which is a business card size bootable Live CD Linux distribution from Latvia and is based on Slackware Linux..."

The Lesser Apps of KDE - Office
(2007-08-03 03:45:22)
Raiden's Realm: "Some may or may not know that KDE comes with its own built in Office suite known as Koffice. What even fewer people may know is what it actually contains..."

Build a Custom Search Engine with PHP
(2007-08-03 04:30:05)
developerWorks: "In the Internet age, people want information packaged like fast food: served instantly, hassle-free, and in bite-size (or is that byte-size?) morsels..."

Share Your Music Collection With gnump3d
(2007-08-03 05:15:11)
HowtoForge: "So, you have a large collection of mp3 or ogg files and you want to share it with your buddy in your working place...?"

Controlling Runaway Processes on Linux
(2007-08-03 06:00:47)
Rudd-O: "What happens if an application on your Linux machine goes haywire? Here's how to recover from these dreadful situations, as well as a nice prevention tip..."

Linux Tip: Controlling the Duration of Scheduled Jobs
(2007-08-03 06:45:59)
developerWorks: "Linux and UNIX systems allow you to schedule jobs in the future, either just once or on a recurring schedule..."

Fear and Loathing with Low End E-Commerce in Python
(2007-08-03 07:30:22)
ONLamp: "My wife's business has the need to make some sales online and so naturally I want to help..."

The INQ Takes a Dip into Open Sauce
(2007-08-03 08:15:33)
The Inquirer: "Browsing through the stacks of press releases and statements of seeming miracles by the open saucers, it seems as though we should take a look at some of these offerings..."

Power Saving for the Workstation, Part 2
(2007-08-03 09:00:48)
LinuxPlanet: "In part 1, you were shown how to set up hibernate and modify the configuration scripts to make it possible to suspend your desktop to RAM. In part 2, you'll step through how to implement your changes..."

Spotlight on Gnash
(2007-08-03 09:45:35)
Blue GNU: "Blue GNU interviews Rob Savoye, of the Gnash project, to provide readers an understanding of the project - how it began and where it is heading..."

Azureus vs. Ktorrent
(2007-08-03 10:30:43)
Linux.com: "BitTorrent is popular peer-to-peer sharing communication protocol used for transferring all kind of files over the Internet. Two of the most popular BitTorrent clients for Linux are Azureus and KTorrent..."

Linux Becoming Visible on Desktops
(2007-08-03 11:00:25)
Business Standard: "While it has an over 20 per cent market share when we speak of servers in India, the free OS called Linux has just around 5 per cent market share in the country when it comes to desktops..."

Open Source Secrets
(2007-08-03 11:30:35)
CIO Insight: "Open source is no longer a stranger in many IT shops as more companies become comfortable with the reliability of the ever evolving technology to develop crucial systems..."

Vancouver Law Firm Trades in MS for Desktop Linux
(2007-08-03 12:00:07)
ITBusiness.ca: "Vancouver boutique law firm Whitelaw Twining regards downtime with the kind of disdain reserved for something like a roach infestation at the Plaza Hotel--it simply won't be tolerated..."

Acer Clarifies Position on Linux PCs
(2007-08-03 12:45:00)
ZDNet.co.uk: "Acer is planning to sell Linux-based PCs to the UK market, the company told ZDNet.co.uk..."

Red Hat Delays Release of Linux Software
(2007-08-03 13:30:22)
Reuters/eWeek: "Red Hat Global Desktop Linux will not be available until September, product manager Gerry Riveros told Reuters in an e-mail..."

GNOME 2.19.6 Released
(2007-08-03 14:15:11)
GNOME.org: "This is our sixth development release on our road towards GNOME 2.20.0, which will be released in September 2007..."

Novell's Rule 26 Pretrial Disclosures--Update: SCO's Too
(2007-08-03 15:00:17)
Groklaw: "It's required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 26 that the parties tell in advance what witnesses, depositions, and exhibits or documents they expect to use at trial..."

Mozilla Puts The Fun in Fuzz
(2007-08-03 15:45:07)
internetnews.com: "Mozilla doesn't want to just make a better browser; it wants to make the Web a safer place for everyone..."

Cuba Embraces Migration to Free and Open Source Software
(2007-08-03 16:30:20)
Cuban Daily News: "Cuba's government is trying to shake off the yoke of at least one capitalist empire--Microsoft--by joining with socialist Venezuela in converting its computers to open-source software..."

Open Source Going Mainstream
(2007-08-03 17:15:34)
LinuxWorld: "...[O]ne industry analyst says customers are evaluating open-source software the same way they evaluate proprietary software: It has to be priced right and work well..."

Free Linux Distro Targets Smartphones
(2007-08-03 18:00:39)
LinuxDevices: "A free Gnome-based Linux distribution for mobile devices such as smartphones and PDAs has achieved a major release..."

Linux: The 0.02 and 0.03 Releases
(2007-08-03 18:45:44)
KernelTrap: "'Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?' began the October 5th, 1991 announcement for Linux kernel version 0.02 on the comp.os.minix newsgroup..."

Xandros and Scalix: A Marriage of Convenience
(2007-08-03 19:30:27)
ZDNet: "Given the voluminous number of Linux distributions, Xandros's ambition is lofty--but not insurmountable..."

The Cradle of Independence Rolls Over for Microsoft
(2007-08-03 20:15:18)
Linux.org: "In the fall of 2005, in my home state of Massachusetts, Peter Quinn, the CIO of the Commonwealth, endorsed a plan to require the state government to use the Open Document Format for storing government records..."

Linux: Ready for Prime Time?
(2007-08-03 21:00:18)
Redmondmag: "I could easily roll with all those punches, until Microsoft came out with Vista..."

Red Hat Global Desktop Linux: The Best Kept Secret?
(2007-08-03 21:45:22)
Planète Béranger: "Postponed to September, but why all this secrecy? What do we know about it...?"

Good Son, Bad Son
(2007-08-03 22:30:20)
Editor's Note: In which the Editor Has to Leave his Parental Unit Running Vista for a Few Days and Finds a Circle of Hell Reserved for Him.

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