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News Linux News for Aug 13, 2007:
Freespire On; Freespire Off
(2007-08-13 00:00:50)
Community: "Freespire has a long way to go before being competitive with the really serious Linux distros. While Freespire may be the base and testing ground for its parent company, one would have to cautiously question some of the logic it uses for the attraction of potential clients..."
For GNU/Linux Matters Freedom is Key
(2007-08-13 02:00:29)
Blue GNU: "Blue GNU interviewed Gustavo Narea and Olivier Cleynen of GNU/Linux Matters, the organization behind GetGNU/Linux.org..."
The Ultimate Linux Handheld
(2007-08-13 04:00:30)
Linux Journal: "Last year's winner in this category, the Nokia 770, has a younger sibling, and, as oft happens, the kid takes the cake. Nokia's N800, the follow-up to the 770, is smaller, lighter, better-looking, faster and has a larger brain..."
How To Harden PHP5 With Suhosin On OpenSuSE 10.2
(2007-08-13 05:30:03)
HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how to harden PHP5 with Suhosin on an OpenSuSE 10.2 server..."
The Lesser Apps of KDE--System
(2007-08-13 06:00:22)
Raiden's Realm: "One of the more useful, and lesser known sections of the KDE menu is the System section. In it is a collection of very useful applications to simplify your user and administrative experience..."
Watch Online Video? Get Miro
(2007-08-13 07:30:18)
Linux.com: "First it was called DTV, then Democracy Player, and now it is Miro. Whatever you call it, the Mozilla-based, cross-platform, open source video player is now in public release..."
Tip: Taking Advantage of Java Generics
(2007-08-13 09:00:35)
Developer.com: "Java5 has been out for several years now, but the reality is that many corporations have just recently standardized on this version of the Java programming language..."
Dual Booting Windows-Linux: The Dell Option
(2007-08-13 10:30:49)
Datamation: "Generally when a company is considering an upgrade to new workstations or notebook computers, they will elect to use Microsoft Windows..."
LinuxWorld Expands to the Virtual Realm
(2007-08-13 11:15:58)
ServerWatch: "If this week's Linux World were to be summed up under a single theme, it would be penguins gone virtual..."
Linux Mint 3.0 Xfce Review
(2007-08-13 12:00:44)
Open Review: "Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution whose goal is to provide a more complete out-of-the-box experience by including browser plugins, media codecs, support for DVD playback, Java and other components..."
SCO Speaks
(2007-08-13 12:00:59)
Groklaw: "Here they are, at last, with a statement..."
Google Adds StarOffice to Google Pack
(2007-08-13 12:30:43)
iTWire: "In what may come as a surprise to many office productivity software users, Google has added Sun Microsystems' open source but not free office productivity suite Star Office to its Google Pack suit..."
Pundits' Take on SCO/Novell Ruling
(2007-08-13 13:00:06)
Pundits give their armchair reactions to Friday's SCO v. Novell copyright ruling, including Daniel Lyons' new outlook.
Changes at MySQL Draw Fire from Community
(2007-08-13 13:30:31)
LinuxWorld: "MySQL AB has made it harder for developers to use the enterprise edition of its database software for free, sparking a debate about whether the company has strayed from its obligation to its open-source community..."
What's Left?--A Chart of the Summary Judgment Rulings in SCO v Novell
(2007-08-13 14:00:04)
Groklaw: "The court's rulings on the numerous summary judgment motions in SCO v. Novell are in a document that is long and complex, and I'm still reading and analyzing it myself..."
Linux 2.6.23-rc3 [Released]
(2007-08-13 14:30:52)
LWN: "Either people really are calming down, and figuring out that we're in the
stabilization phase, or it's just that it's the middle of August, and
most everybody at least in Europe are off on vacation..."
Linus Explains Why Open Source Works
(2007-08-13 15:00:23)
Linux.com: "Linus Torvalds is often described as an open source champion, interested in licensing only insofar as it affects his ability to share code and improve software more quickly..."
LinuxWorld Expo 2007 Report
(2007-08-13 15:30:12)
ONLamp: "The outcomes of these efforts aren't the traditional standardization documents, numbingly complex yet short on critical detail, that companies have to rush to implement. Instead, the outcomes are working code, the open source way to achieve interoperability..."
Darl McBride, Where Are You?
(2007-08-13 16:00:13)
iTWire: "Now that a judge has knocked the wheels off the case by ruling that Novell, not SCO, owns the IP to UNIX, it is difficult to locate any of these people on the horizon..."
SpikeSource CEO: Linux All Grown Up
(2007-08-13 16:30:00)
Computerworld Australia: "Kim Polese, CEO of SpikeSource, says that's because Linux and open source are now battle-tested..."
SCO Shares Plummet In Novell Ruling Aftermath
(2007-08-13 17:00:11)
InformationWeek: "Shares of business software distributor the SCO Group tumbled in early trading Monday following a judge's ruling that the company has no ownership claim on the Unix operating system..."
Linux: Continuing 2.6.20.y -stable
(2007-08-13 17:30:09)
KernelTrap: "Greg KH and Chris Wright have been maintaining a -stable 2.6.x.y patchset for the 2.6.x and 2.6.(x-1) kernels since March of 2005..."
Did SCO Ever Truly Believe It Had the Unix Copyrights?
(2007-08-13 18:00:28)
Computer Business Review: "Anyone who has been following SCO's legal claims against Linux may remember the name Mike Anderer..."
Linux Geeks Dust Nerds In Golden Penguin Trivia Bowl
(2007-08-13 18:30:33)
CRN: "As Barry Bonds smashed Hank Aaron's home run record Tuesday evening at AT&T Park, another great sporting triumph went down less than a mile to the north at Moscone Center..."
MEPIS Releases KDE 4 Beta 1 Live DVDs
(2007-08-13 19:00:59)
DesktopLinux: "Warren Woodford of MEPIS announced on Aug. 10 that his company has built KDE 4 Beta 1 Live DVDs to verify the compatibility of KDE 4 with SimplyMEPIS 7.x..."
Nokia Pushes for GTK+ 3.0
(2007-08-13 19:30:12)
derStandard.at: "A few months ago, the GNOME Mobile Platform was announced to the public. One of the main forces behind the launch of this initiative was Nokia..."
BitTorrent's Closed Protocol: Fact or Fiction?
(2007-08-13 20:00:23)
Ars Technica: "The decision to distribute a proprietary implementation as the official client has generated controversy in the file-sharing community..."
Compiz Fusion Release 0.5.2 is Out
(2007-08-13 20:30:26)
[FusionComm]: "This is the first development release of Compiz Fusion, the result of more
than six months of work and polish. The first stable release, 0.6.0, will
follow after the Compiz 0.6.0 release..."
A Look at the Mozilla-Based One Laptop Per Child Web Browser
(2007-08-13 21:00:02)
Mozilla Links: "XO, as the laptops are officially named, use a Fedora Core 7 based operating system with a user interface dubbed Sugar that provides a simple desktop environment to access the bundled applications..."
Linux Dances with Penguins' Happy Feet
(2007-08-13 21:30:49)
Australian PC World: "In an interesting tale of penguins giving life to penguins, the smash hit animated feature film Happy Feet was creating with Linux servers and desktops, in addition to Windows 2000 and XP..."
Novell's CEO: Painted Into A Corner?
(2007-08-13 22:00:13)
TechIQ: "Hovsepian's motivations are easy to understand--Novell badly trails Red Hat when it comes to Linux application support. But will anybody answer his call for help...?
Will Google Be Destroyed By Open Source Search Engines?
(2007-08-13 22:30:50)
InformationWeek: "Could open source kill the golden egg that laid Google? If Wikia has their way, it just might..."
Why Capitalist Pigs Would be Good for Mozilla
(2007-08-13 23:15:40)
CNET News: "Mitchell Baker suggests that the web would be better off with robust public interest aspects. She's 100% right. Where she may be wrong is in how she thinks we get there..."
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