News Linux News for Sep 10, 2007:

Gates & Shuttleworth: What Rich People Are Doing for Education
(2007-09-10 00:00:33)
Steve's Blog Spot: "She commented that she admired Bill Gates for all the things he was doing for education. When I asked her if she knew who Mark Shuttleworth was, she said no..."

Why I'm Staying with Debian
(2007-09-10 04:30:25)
Off the Wall: "Setting up a new workstation is the easiest time to choose a new GNU/Linux distribution..."

Linux: Improving kswapd
(2007-09-10 06:00:21)
KernelTrap: "'The current VM can get itself into trouble fairly easily on systems with a small ZONE_HIGHMEM, which is common on i686 computers with 1GB of memory...'"

ATI Radeon HD 2400/2600 On Linux
(2007-09-10 07:30:35)
Phoronix: "This week has been extremely exciting to say the least. We started by telling you about the AMD 8.41 Display Driver which is largely rewritten and offers Radeon HD 2000 product support, performance improvements, and soon will support AIGLX..."

Learning Ruby for Python's Sake?
(2007-09-10 09:00:54)
ONLamp: ""So, I made good on my promise to start learning Ruby..."

Linux: Clarifying the ath5k License
(2007-09-10 10:30:49)
KernelTrap: "Author of OpenBSD's hardware driver layer for wireless Atheros devices, Reyk Floeter, sent a query to the Linux Kernel mailing list regarding the recent licensing debate surrounding the Linux 'ath5k' driver..."

Norbert Bollow Starts OpenISO
(2007-09-10 12:00:04)
<NO>OOXML: "Norbort Bollow, an XML standards specialist from Switzerland, takes action..."

Judge Kimball Rules: There Will Be No Jury in SCO v. Novell
(2007-09-10 12:45:50)
Groklaw: "The Honorable Dale Kimball has now ruled: there will be no jury at the trial of SCO v. Novell. He granted Novell's motion on that. He will hear it himself..."

GPLv3 is Officially Open Source
(2007-09-10 13:30:46)
Computer Business Review: "Given that the GPL is used for an estimated three-quarters of free and open source licenses, it might seem strange that the OSI even had to think about it, but such is the nature of bureaucracy..."

2.4.36-pre1, Preventing NULL Dereferences
(2007-09-10 14:00:06)
KernelTrap: "'I've just released Linux 2.4.36-pre1,' announced 2.4 maintainer Willy Tarreau..."

IBM Joins OpenOffice.org Community
(2007-09-10 14:30:58)
ZDNet UK: "IBM on Monday joined the OpenOffice.org community, providing a boost to supporters of the OpenDocument Format..."

Lenovo Opening the Door for Ubuntu ThinkPads?
(2007-09-10 15:00:14)
DesktopLinux: "Lenovo finally started shipping SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on its T-Series ThinkPads for its mainstream business users..."

Eudora E-mail Program Reborn as Open Source
(2007-09-10 15:30:19)
eWeek: >"Eudora, a pioneering e-mail program named after author Eudora Welty, is rising from a technical grave as an open source program after owner Qualcomm Inc quit selling the product in May..."

Inside the Mind of the Man Who Tried to Milk Linux
(2007-09-10 16:00:42)
Wired: "Darl McBride has the unenviable reputation as the man who tried to milk Linux..."

Dell's Linux Sleight of Hand
(2007-09-10 16:30:56)
The Register: "Pssst, pass it on... Dell is selling Linux-based home PCs and laptops to its UK customers, but you'll need a very good eye and probably a magnifying glass to find the systems on the direct seller's website..."

Government Backsliding on Open Source Promises
(2007-09-10 17:00:59)
Computerworld UK: "Parliamentary battle looms over failure to break proprietary software stranglehold..."

Firefox Passes 400 Million Downloads
(2007-09-10 17:30:27)
CNET News: "Firefox just passed the 400 million download mark, according to the Spread Firefox site for promoting the open-source, extendable Web browser..."

Novell's Objections to SCO's Supplemental Jury Instructions--What Was SCOsource Licensing?
(2007-09-10 18:00:24)
Groklaw: ""SCO wants to keep as much of the money it took in from licenses since it began its anti-Linux campaign as it can, and it framed its jury instructions to try to achieve that goal..."

NVIDIA: Got Specifications?
(2007-09-10 18:45:31)
Phoronix: "They have also thus reaffirmed that Linux is a viable desktop operating system. But the ball has now landed in NVIDIA's court..."

Did SCO Get Linux-Mob Justice?
(2007-09-10 19:30:17)
CNN/Money: "Once in awhile a judicial ruling comes down that's so wrong at such a basic level that you're just left scratching your head..."

IBM Throws its Active Support Behind OpenOffice.org (At Last)
(2007-09-10 20:15:19)
ConsortiumInfo: "In what many will see as a long-overdue move, OpenOffice.org announced today that IBM will become an active supporter of, and contributor to, OpenOffice..."

Open Source Macro vs. Micro
(2007-09-10 21:00:42)
There is No Open Source Community: "When I've written about the inevitable march of Open Source, there are a couple of things I've failed to note, or that I just got wrong..."

Linux's Biggest Enemy
(2007-09-10 22:30:14)
Sibylle and Thomas: "But one thing hasn't changed, and it is, in my eyes, Linux's biggest enemy: its users! Arrogance combined with a love of obfuscation make the self-appointed gurus the real enemies of the cause..."

OpenSolaris vs. GNU/Linux: Deathmatch or Lovefest?
(2007-09-10 23:15:56)
ONLamp: "I have been reading the CEO of Sun, Jonathan Schwartz's blog, lately and it has some great material..."

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