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News Linux News for Oct 09, 2007:
Why SUSE Why?
(2007-10-09 00:00:47)
Techzone: "SUSE 10.3 was released and I had to try it. All geared up, I started downloading the torrent of the KDE version..."
And the Winner Is...
(2007-10-09 00:30:43)
The DistRogue: "I've found the perfect distro for me, and it was right under my nose the whole time. I'm writing this from Mandriva 2008..."
Is There a Correlation Between Socialism and Free Software?
(2007-10-09 01:00:29)
All About Linux: "The word Socialism is a broad term. There are different streams of socialism..."
Review: My Ubuntu PC from Dell
(2007-10-09 01:30:23)
The Open Source Advocate: "Ever since Dell announced that they would be selling computers with Ubuntu pre-installed, I have wanted to buy one..."
HOWTO Make Gentoo Great
(2007-10-09 02:00:47)
Wouldn't It Be Nice...: "Gentoo is good. How do we make it great...?"
Does Euro Linux Still Have a Pulse?
(2007-10-09 02:30:00)
Interop News: "My downstairs neighbor--I'll call him 'Fred' to keep his name out of print--works for Microsoft. I don't know exactly what his job is--something to do with developer relations down here in the Bay Area..."
Advantages of Open Source: Revisited
(2007-10-09 03:00:03)
The Open Source Advocate: "I feel that is important for me to further analyze the benefits of open source software..."
Ubuntu Pride--On the Basketball Court
(2007-10-09 03:45:49)
CNET News: "The Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association and the Linux community now have more in common than you might have thought..."
Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.0
(2007-10-09 04:30:58)
HowtoForge: "Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed for speed-critical environments..."
Massive Scale Installation and Management Tools for Debian GNU/Linux (Part 1)
(2007-10-09 05:15:51)
Linux Blog: "You have 5,000 or 50,000 machines to install and manage across the country, at a thousand distant locations into your enterprise..."
Amarok, Cowon and the iAudio Player
(2007-10-09 06:00:21)
Blue-GNU: "The Amarok team is giving away an iAudio player. Kudos to them, but also to Cowon, a company that has boldly proclaimed support for GNU/Linux for some time now..."
Installing Ubuntu Or Fedora From A Windows Or Linux System With Unetbootin
(2007-10-09 06:45:59)
HowtoForge: "UNetbootin is a tool that allows you to install various Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, OpenSuSE, Debian, ArchLinux) from a Windows or a Linux desktop over the internet (i.e., you don't need to burn the Ubuntu, Fedora... CDs)..."
Open Source Relational Databases
(2007-10-09 07:30:29)
ONLamp: "How many open source relational databases can you name...?"
The Perfect Desktop--OpenSUSE 10.3 (GNOME)
(2007-10-09 08:00:52)
HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can set up an OpenSUSE 10.3 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e., that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops..."
ASUS Motherboard Ships With Embedded Linux, Web Browser
(2007-10-09 08:30:53)
Phoronix: "The good folks over at ASUS have sent over the P5E3 Deluxe, which is based upon Intel's new X38 Chipset and continues in the usual ASUS fashion of pushing new (and often unexpected) innovations onto the motherboard..."
Kelley Graham of Toasterz Talks About Appliances, Migration and More
(2007-10-09 09:00:59)
Blue-GNU: "Blue GNU caught up with Kelley Graham, of Toasterz, to find out about his company's business appliances, migration and education work..."
Firefox Extensions for Tab Addicts
(2007-10-09 09:30:59)
Linux.com: "For Firefox users who are constantly referring to multiple pages, tabbed browsing is not a feature, but a way of life. There are enough of us that the Firefox addon page lists more than 110 extensions related to tabs..."
OpenOffice.org 2.3: New Features, Extensions and the Much Anticipated New Charting Tool
(2007-10-09 10:00:48)
SearchEnterpriseLinux:
New Scalix E-mail Server Still Targets Microsoft Exchange
(2007-10-09 10:30:14)
Linux-Watch: "Linux calendaring and messaging company Scalix announced Oct. 4 the release of a new version of its flagship e-mail and calendaring program, Scalix 11.2..."
Linux-Based Airline Seat-Back Entertainment System is a Winner
(2007-10-09 11:00:32)
Linux.com: "The Linux-based eX2 in-flight entertainment system (IFE) from Panasonic Avionics was the big winner at this year's Avion Awards, sponsored by an IFE trade group..."
The Great Showdown: MS Office vs. OpenOffice
(2007-10-09 11:30:49)
LinuxInsider: "Microsoft has the best products money can buy--at least, that's what they would have you believe..."
Measuring Kernel Marker Overhead
(2007-10-09 12:00:55)
KernelTrap: 'It looks to be about 2.1% increase in time to do the make/mount/unmount operations with the marker patches in place and no blktrace operations...'"
Microsoft Aims Patent Guns at Red Hat
(2007-10-09 12:30:13)
vnunet: "Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has warned users of Red Hat Linux that they will have to pay Microsoft for its intellectual property..."
Mandriva Linux 2008 Now Available
(2007-10-09 13:00:40)
Mandriva: "We're proud to announce that Mandriva Linux 2008 is now available for download on the official site, and on the network of public mirror servers..."
Microsoft Steps Up Its Windows Game Against Linux
(2007-10-09 13:30:55)
Softpedia: "At this point in time, it seems that the Redmond company is lining up every last of its peons, building a consistent offensive that will accompany the official launch of Windows Server 2008..."
Steve Ballmer: "I Would Love to See All Open Source Innovation Happen on Top of Windows"
(2007-10-09 14:15:56)
The Open Road: "Steve Ballmer apparently likes open source. Well, so long as it drives Windows revenue. And doesn't replace any. Ever..."
RM Readies Linux Sub-Laptop... For £169
(2007-10-09 15:00:10)
Register Hardware: "UK PC company RM--formerly Research Machines, 1980s school-computer buffs--is to bring Asus' tiny Eee PC, launched last June, to these shores--for a mere 169 quid..."
Update: Novell Layoffs Rumored to be in the Works
(2007-10-09 15:30:58)
The Open Road: "Word on the street is that Novell will be laying off 50-60% of its Workgroup division this month, likely toward the middle..." [Layoffs apparently confirmed. Link within.]
KDE's Windows Weapon: Koffice 2.0
(2007-10-09 16:00:21)
ComputerWorld: "While the industry is distracted by the ongoing tussle between Microsoft and OpenOffice.org over document formats, the KDE project is quietly preparing the next generation of its own office suite..."
The Price is Right: Next Open Source Business Model
(2007-10-09 16:30:57)
InfoWorld: "2007 is shaping up to be a banner year for open source companies..."
Finding Freedom with Open Source
(2007-10-09 17:15:19)
The Daily Tar Heel: "Cristobal Palmer got very agitated when those 'cannot read file' boxes popped up on his computer--until he found out they could make him thousands of dollars..."
openSUSE 10.3: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
(2007-10-09 18:00:56)
iTWire: "These days when you download a Linux distribution and burn it to CD, you would expect that it would not take too much of an effort to have a look at it..." [Link repaired.- ed.]
Zend Brings Microsoft Into The PHP Fold
(2007-10-09 18:30:47)
internetnews.com: "PHP vendor Zend is set to kick off its annual ZendCon conference today with a number of announcements that will make the open source development language more attractive to Microsoft Windows platform users..."
Canonical Chases Deal to Ship Ubuntu Server OS
(2007-10-09 19:00:42)
LinuxWorld: "Canonical Ltd., the company that supports Ubuntu Linux, is trying to work out a deal with hardware vendors such as Dell Inc. to make Ubuntu available preinstalled on servers..."
Some openSUSE 10.3 Misconceptions
(2007-10-09 19:30:11)
KDE Developer's Journals: "There are some misconceptions floating around about openSUSE 10.3. Unfortunately uninformed people are still allowed to blog so let me pick up some I read..."
Making Sure Linux Doesn't Get Lost in Translation
(2007-10-09 20:00:34)
LinuxInsider: "The worldwide open source community shares a common overall goal: better software through collaboration and peer review..."
Bastille: Classic Linux and Unix Security
(2007-10-09 20:30:18)
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: "The glamorous new kids in the Linux security parade are SELinux, AppArmor, and all manner of virtualization technologies..."
Thank You Michael, But No, Thank You...
(2007-10-09 21:00:13)
Groklaw: "First, OpenOffice.org *is* released under the LGPL. Second, and perhaps more interestingly, Novell did not deny that it was forking, aside from Michael Meeks trying to nuance and to minimize this claim..."
The Future of Hardware is Open Source
(2007-10-09 21:45:48)
Raiden's Realm: "What if we lived in a world where all hardware was open source, including CPU's, memory, motherboards, and all peripherals...?"
OLPC is the PC You Can't Ever Criticize
(2007-10-09 22:30:24)
ZDNet: "As Nicholas Negroponte said a year and a half ago in a presentation on the OLPC: 'people really don't want to criticize this because it is a humanitarian effort, it is a non-profit effort and to criticize it is a little bit stupid actually...'"
Rebuttal to Rob Weir on a So-called 'OpenDocument Format Civil War'
(2007-10-09 23:15:09)
Boycott Novell: "There is so much to be said to not only complement but also correct Rob's assessment, but here we shall only refer to the parts which are associated with Novell..."
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