News Linux News for Oct 11, 2007:

Get Down and Dirty with Linux
(2007-10-11 00:00:41)
PC Advisor: "Let me start with a controversial statement: installing new software is almost always easier on Linux than on Windows..."

Open Source Adoption: More Rigor, Less Emotion
(2007-10-11 00:45:45)
ZDNet: "Determining a move toward open source and open standards needs to become a lot less emotional. And to get there companies need to cook up a policy for evaluating a move to open standards and open source..."

Ten Ways to Make More Humane Open Source Software
(2007-10-11 01:30:36)
Humanized: "A lot of bandwidth has been wasted arguing over the lack of usability in open-source software/free software..."

Stallman Schools Me on "IP"
(2007-10-11 02:15:59)
Nancy Scola: "Finding an email in my inbox from Richard Stallman is not the way I start most mornings, but on a recent morning, there it was..."

The FOSS Project Marketing HowTo: Start At Home
(2007-10-11 03:00:48)
Blue-GNU: "At the Recent Ohio (GNU)LinuxFest, I talked about the importance of promoting your FOSS projects, covering some of the tasks project teams need to engage in, working with the press, and handling negative publicity..."

Open Source CMSes Worth the Price
(2007-10-11 03:45:21)
LinuxWorld: "When last surveying open source Web content management systems I provided some common-sense advice..."

Nginx HTTP Server + PHP5 (With fast-cgi And xcache) On Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
(2007-10-11 04:30:33)
HowtoForge: "This HowTo describes the implementation of Nginx with php5 support (through FastCGI). The fast-cgi process will be initiated via spawn-fcgi.

A Label Printer for Linux
(2007-10-11 05:15:09)
Linux.com: "When Seiko Instruments said it is now offering Linux drivers for its Smart Label Printer 450 and offered to send me one to test, I was happy to hear it..."

Master Your Domain with Linux
(2007-10-11 06:00:27)
iTWire: "Every web site needs a domain name. Every domain name needs DNS. Yet, it's often overlooked and misunderstood. If you own a domain you need to understand DNS. And here's the low-down as well as some helpful Linux tools..."

Installing GNOME On PCLinuxOS 2007
(2007-10-11 06:45:43)
HowtoForge: "The default desktop environment on PCLinuxOS 2007 is KDE, and during the installation you have no choice to install another desktop environment..."

12 Tips for KDE Users
(2007-10-11 07:30:57)
Datamation: "Back in the late 1990s,when the KDE and GNOME desktops were getting started, KDE had the reputation of being the most suitable choice for new GNU/Linux users, especially those migrating from Windows..."

Photoshop 7 on Linux with Wine
(2007-10-11 08:15:34)
Wine Review: "Mixed-media professionals such as photographers, Web designers, and graphic designers will not be disappointed in Adobe's latest incarnation of Photoshop..."

The Perfect Desktop--Slackware 12
(2007-10-11 09:00:52)
HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can set up a Slackware 12 GNU/Linux desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop..."

Experiments with GUPnP
(2007-10-11 09:45:39)
A Potted Account of Ross' Life: "Now that through black magic, voodoo, and a working network driver I have Avahi working on my NAS and UPnP working on my SoundBridge, I can get back to the task of learning a bit about GUPnP..."

Kernel Space: A Simplified Security Framework for Linux
(2007-10-11 10:30:30)
LinuxWorld: "An alternative to SELinux, designed for simplicity of administration, is helping to keep Linux's framework for generic security modules in place..."

Managing MySQL Table Relations with Rails' Active Record Association Types
(2007-10-11 11:15:55)
Developer.com: "In this installment, I'll delve deeper these features, showing you how Active Record can help you to manage table relations more effectively than ever..."

An Absolute Review
(2007-10-11 12:00:08)
Tech Source from Bohol: "Absolute Linux is a stripped-down version of Slackware. It is made for speed, stability, security, and ease of use and development..."

Shuttleworth on Ballmer
(2007-10-11 12:30:03)
Linux-Watch: "In an interview with Linux-Watch, Shuttleworth, the man behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, explained why he thinks Ballmer's latest claims against Linux and open source are so much nonsense..."

Mozilla Aims Firefox at Mobile Devices
(2007-10-11 13:00:40)
Underexposed: "Another star is coming into alignment in the mobile Linux galaxy: Firefox..."

Oracle Fixes Glitch in PHP Web Applications
(2007-10-11 13:30:55)
LinuxWorld: Oracle has released a database driver free to the open source community that improves retrieval of data from Oracle databases for Web applications developed using PHP..."

WordPress Makes a Stand for Open Source Morality
(2007-10-11 14:00:14)
Guardian Unlimited: "Matt Mullenweg, the 23-year-old who is the founding developer of the open source blogging software WordPress, woke up in March to find that disaster had struck..."

Red Hat Linux in Professional Portal Push
(2007-10-11 14:30:54)
DaniWeb: "Red Hat has opened a dedicated online resource for its partners around the globe, giving them access to the product, program, pricing and training information on both Red Hat and JBoss solutions and services..."

Legal Firms Wake Up to Open Source
(2007-10-11 15:00:15)
vnunet.com: "Legal firms are rapidly expanding their open source practices as the legal challenges to developers and users mount..."

Open Source for Business: Now More Than Ever, Part 2
(2007-10-11 15:30:31)
LinuxInsider: "Part 2 continues the discussion of issues facing the open source business applications industry today..."

Time To Break Out The 'Prove It' Pins Again, Mr. Szulik?
(2007-10-11 16:00:57)
InformationWeek: "So how much longer will it be before he unleashes his legal team to defend against Microsoft's patent accusations in the same way he railed against SCO Group's copyright claims...?"

Embedded Development Goes Virtual
(2007-10-11 16:30:53)
internetnews.com: "A potential pitfall for embedded developers is actually determining what silicon and what board to use. It can turn into a time and money pit..."

First Look: IBM's Symphony Office Suite
(2007-10-11 17:00:37)
PC World: "Its new Lotus Symphony office suite--now available as a public beta--does much of what the $400 Standard edition of Microsoft Office does, only at a much better price: It's free..."

Measuring Process Scheduler Performance
(2007-10-11 17:30:14)
KernelTrap: "'As far as my testsystem goes, v2.6.23 beats v2.6.22.9 in sysbench,; explained Ingo Molnar in response to a posting showing the opposite results..."

New Linux Server Competition for Novell, Red Hat?
(2007-10-11 18:00:08)
TechIQ: "There's a growing body of evidence suggesting that Novell and Red Hat could soon face new competition in the Linux server market. Something new from Microsoft? Nope..."

Mono at ReMIX: No Moonlight Incarnation of WPF Planned
(2007-10-11 18:30:31)
ZDNet: "...[de Icaza] warned that a full implementation of Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation/Everywhere, aka Silverlight, is unlikely--at least under his watch..."

Did Microsoft Ruin SCO?
(2007-10-11 19:00:02)
ITtoolbox: "There appear to be a few parallels between what SCO did and what Microsoft is blustering about..."

Digital Photo Management In Linux, Part 2
(2007-10-11 19:30:02)
LinuxPlanet: "Today we'll look at Digikam's built-in editing tools. You'll be able to do a surprising amount of your editing work without ever leaving Digikam..."

Why Ubuntu Linux Tops Debian
(2007-10-11 20:00:23)
Intranet Journal: "For those of you who have used it, you'll know that Debian is a solid distribution of Linux. Like Fedora or OpenSuSe, it was developed with all users in mind..."

Plone's Open Source Community is Strong as Ever
(2007-10-11 20:30:05)
CMSWire: "It is impossible to understand the value of Plone the product without having a sense of Plone the community..."

Apparently the "Many Eyes" Need Glasses
(2007-10-11 21:00:16)
Hoosier Penguin: "Take this article on Microsoft TechNet I found this morning. In it, Senior Product Manager Pat Edmonds writes a lengthy piece about how the 'Many Eyes Makes Bugs Shallow' mantra of open source development is just plain wrong..."

On Joe On Patents
(2007-10-11 21:30:21)
Luis Villa's Blog: "Which is why they are going after Linux users, most of whom have no patents of their own to retaliate with..."

Giving Microsoft a Voice... And You
(2007-10-11 22:00:24)
The Open Road: "Why let Microsoft speak? For one, because I've always felt Microsoft had more to give to open source than to take from it..."

Mr. Ballmer's Personal Mushroom Cloud
(2007-10-11 22:30:06)
ZDNet: "Excuse me for being so sarcastic, but can we please calm down for a moment and THINK about what was said...?"

Comparing Lies and Flies
(2007-10-11 23:15:32)
Join the Revolution: "Previously I found that Microsoft is admitting that Linux and Open Source are the biggest threat to its Windows operating system and its business model altogether..."

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