News Linux News for Oct 05, 2007:

Could PCLinuxOS 2007 Spell Death for Windows on the Desktop?
(2007-10-05 00:00:34)
Community: "Being so impressed with this new, fast, and super easy to use Linux distribution, has made me not only an advocate but an evangelist..."

ODF and OOXML: Something New to Ponder
(2007-10-05 00:30:39)
Hoosier Penguin: "Until then, let me tell you about the discussion that ensued from some of the speakers about how the OpenDocument Format may not be the great unifier of documents after all..."

Scott McNealy's Five Reasons That Free, Open Source Software is Good for Sun and Our Customers
(2007-10-05 01:00:58)
Jim Laurent's Weblog: "Recently Scott McNealy spoke to the Sun OS Ambassadors at our semi-annual conference in Menlo Park CA..."

Speaking of Linux...
(2007-10-05 01:30:06)
ZDNet Education: "Certainly a nice project machine for my computer club or an introductory computing class (or a college student, or a high school kid, or... well, you get the idea)..."

Cult of the Mad Penguin
(2007-10-05 02:15:08)
Linux Journal: "'Hi!,' the guy said. 'I see you're wearing a Linux shirt...'"

Why Should You Use Linux?
(2007-10-05 03:00:52)
Raiden's Realm: "It's a question that most people wouldn't give a second thought to. And why should they...?"

Managing Packages And Repositories With Yum And Yumex On Fedora 7
(2007-10-05 04:30:24)
HowtoForge: "This article explains how to improve/optimize/speed up package installation with Yum, install packages with 'Yum Extender...'"

Setting Time the Right Way, The Linux Way
(2007-10-05 06:00:16)
Linux-Watch: "How do you do that, though? The usual answer on SOHO networks is to have each PC call in over the Internet to a NTP server..."

Kudos for Kino
(2007-10-05 07:30:25)
Linux.com: "Kino is a video editor that allows you to produce your own video masterpieces using only free and open source software.

Using Dtrace on MySQL
(2007-10-05 09:00:36)
Joyeur: "Even though there aren't DTrace probes for MySQL released yet, we can still get useful information from MySQL..."

The First Freedomware Gaming Festival Warming Up
(2007-10-05 10:30:46)
Nuxified: "...[W]e are issuing the final call for players on all platforms, be it Windows, GNU/Linux, Mac OS or BSD, to join us as we commence with the first Freedomware Gaming Festival..."

ARM and Friends to Develop Linux Mobile Computing
(2007-10-05 11:15:46)
Tech.Blorge: "UK-based ARM has announced that it and six companies will work together to develop a Linux-based open source platform for next-generation mobile applications..."

Open Source for Business: Now More Than Ever, Part 1
(2007-10-05 12:00:28)
LinuxInsider: "Business-targeted open source software has made great strides recently, from CRM systems to business intelligence to server software..."

Linux Group Calls Microsoft's Bluff
(2007-10-05 12:45:51)
vnunet: "The head of the Open Invention Network (OIN) has dismissed Microsoft's claims that Linux violates over 200 of its patents..."

And Novell Fires the First Shot...
(2007-10-05 13:30:47)
Groklaw: "Here we go: Novell has filed a Motion For Relief From Automatic Stay to Proceed With District Court Action to (I) Apportion Revenue From SCOSource Licenses..."

LATU Uruguay Buying 100,000 OLPC XO's Over Classmate PC
(2007-10-05 14:15:32)
One Laptop Per Child News: "We now have the results from the first open competition for government purchases of laptops designed for 1:1 implementation in public schools, the Ceibal Uruguay RFP..."

Open Source vs. Windows: Security Debate Rages
(2007-10-05 15:00:34)
LinuxWorld Australia: "It's a topic of fierce debate among high-tech cognoscenti: What's more secure--'open source' code such as Linux and Apache, or proprietary 'closed source' operating systems and applications, Microsoft's in particular...?"

Sun Fixes Severe Java Vulnerabilities
(2007-10-05 15:45:05)
internetnews.com: "Security experts are warning anyone running Java on their computer needs to upgrade their software immediately, regardless of platform..."

Microsoft's Risky, Misleading Ad Campaign
(2007-10-05 16:30:17)
The Open Road: "Just when I thought Microsoft couldn't do worse than it's done, I see something like this ad..."

That's One Way To Reinvent A Company
(2007-10-05 17:15:12)
BusinessWeek: "Jonathan Schwartz wants to return Sun Microsystems to glory by giving away its software..."

Fedora Patches Old OpenOffice Flaw
(2007-10-05 18:00:36)
vnunet: "Fedora has fixed a 'highly critical' flaw in the OpenOffice suite of products more than two weeks after it was first discovered..."

Cedega to be Packaged with Mandriva
(2007-10-05 18:30:39)
ArsGeek: "Under this agreement, MandrivaLinux 2008 customers will receive access to TransGaming's Cedega product that will allow them to play hundreds of PC games out-of-the-box..."

A Journey Into the Dumb-o-Sphere
(2007-10-05 19:00:15)
Miguel de Icaza's web log: "It did not take long for the IT pundits to declare that having the source code available for .NET is either 'a trap for Mono,' 'the end of Mono' or some similarly low accuracy per bit arguments..."

Linux Shops Navigate the Nuanced Support Landscape
(2007-10-05 19:30:39)
SearchEnterpriseLinux: "But easily accessible, affordable Linux support tailored to users' specific technology environments remains elusive..."

OpenOffice vs. Lotus Symphony
(2007-10-05 20:15:44)
Datamation: "The strengths of IBM Lotus Symphony are also its weaknesses..."

Open Source--Then and Now: A Conversation With Ray Gans of the OpenJDK Community Program
(2007-10-05 21:00:26)
Sun Developer Network: "Few have been closer to the day-to-day processes involved in open sourcing the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) than Ray Gans..."

Why the Unbundling Windows Sceptics are Wrong
(2007-10-05 21:45:30)
Cybersource: "Numerous industry observers have long-called for the adoption of policies by competition regulators which will spur competition in the personal computer operating system platform market..."

If I Were in Charge of...
(2007-10-05 22:30:21)
Editor's Note: The business of Linux is not perfect. So let me put it to you: if you were in charge of Company X, what would you do? For X=Red Hat or IBM or even... Microsoft?

The Four Freedoms Applied to Software as a Service
(2007-10-05 23:15:42)
LinuxDevCenter: "The Free Software Foundation has defined Four Freedoms related to software. These freedoms apply to users of software, not necessarily developers..."

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