News Linux News for Nov 06, 2007:

The Irrelevance of Desktop Linux
(2007-11-06 00:15:39)
The 451 Group: "Can Google save desktop Linux? Or more accurately, can online applications? I have previously been skeptical about the potential for Linux to ever make serious in-roads on the desktop market..."

Taming the Firehose: A New Evangelism Team Project
(2007-11-06 01:00:55)
dria.org: "As anyone who has spent any time around the Mozilla Project knows, we generate a lot (lot, lot) of information..."

Linux Fundamentalism
(2007-11-06 02:00:00)
Harry J Foxwell, PhD: "This was a huge step for Sun, not lightly considered, and admittedly littered with numerous technical and marketing challenges. Jon [maddog Hall] glanced at the plan and summarily dismissed it, commenting 'it's not GPL...'"

The Truth About the Linux Desktop Market Share
(2007-11-06 02:30:51)
Technocrat: "To understand the markets you have to know something about magicians, and how they work..."

Open Standards, Open Format--Key to the Future
(2007-11-06 04:00:23)
Legal World and Childhood Dreams: "Gandhi's philosophy is still relevant, in all walks of life. In the context of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT), the end is--dissemination and communication of information..."

Installing Songbird 0.3 Developer Pre-Release On Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
(2007-11-06 05:30:24)
HowtoForge: "This guide shows how to install the Songbird media player (0.3 Developer Pre-Release) on an Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) desktop..."

A Second Life for 'Second Life' with Open Source?
(2007-11-06 07:00:29)
Australian PC World: "Virtual world hype trumps open source hype, so little virtual ink has gone into discussing the open source initiative that Linden Lab, the company behind the virtual world, established to further its development..."

Connecting OpenOffice.org to PostgreSQL Via SDBC - An Overview
(2007-11-06 07:45:20)
Blue-GNU: "For those who use PostgreSQL, however, finding good documentation on using OpenOffice.org with it has been like finding a needle in a haystack..."

Why I Dumped Beryl for Metacity
(2007-11-06 08:30:14)
Mad Penguin: "For a number of reasons, I have opted to leave my cube spinning days behind me, as it just did nothing for me..."

A Tale of Two Plug-and-Play Linux Boxes
(2007-11-06 09:15:30)
iTWire: "As many of us who watch the Linux market know, the past week has seen the announcement of two markedly different plug-and-play Linux computers..."

Another Day Another Distro--Part 6--Slackware 12
(2007-11-06 10:00:42)
Adventures in Open Source: "After my positive experience of Debian it was time to move on and this time I chose Slackware 12 to try out..."

antiX M-7, The Fat-free Mepis
(2007-11-06 10:45:37)
Tech Source From Bohol: "A new lightweight flavour of Mepis which is intended for older hardware was released recently..."

Zenwalk 4.8 Review
(2007-11-06 11:30:32)
Open Review: "Zenwalk (formerly Minislack), or Zenwalk Linux, is a Slackware-based GNU/Linux distribution with a goal of being slim and fast by using only one application per task and with focus on graphical desktop and multimedia usage..."

Open Source VoIP Guide Part 2: Who Uses It?
(2007-11-06 12:15:28)
SearchVoIP ANZ: "The Asterisk open source VoIP platform is making 'pretty substantial headway' in the business market place, says creator Mark Spencer..."

Reside@HOME: Linux For Elderly Healthcare
(2007-11-06 13:00:43)
Phoronix: "...[A] new technology start-up is hoping to alleviate some of this burden and create a new opportunity for Linux in the next-generation tele-health market..."

Red Hat Joins Sun's Open Source Java Party
(2007-11-06 13:45:22)
internetnews.com: "Sun's open source Java effort has won a new convert today; Red Hat has announced that it will join the Sun-led OpenJDK effort and will now be an active participant in the process..."

Reiser Attorney Says Defending Linux Programmer 'A Challenging Thing'
(2007-11-06 14:30:28)
Wired: "The defense attorney for Hans Reiser--the murder suspect and prominent Linux open source programmer--said Monday he was 'apprehensive' that his client wanted to testify on his own behalf..."

Prism Prototype Now Available on Mac and Linux
(2007-11-06 15:15:16)
Mozilla Labs: "We're happy to announce the Prism prototype is now available for Mac and Linux...!"

Exciting Features For GNOME 2.22, 2.24
(2007-11-06 16:00:34)
Phoronix: "The GNOME team is out with the road-map for GNOME 2.22, 2.24, and future releases. There's quite a few changes planned, but a few in particular had caught our attention..."

How Much Open Source Are You Using?
(2007-11-06 16:45:08)
internetnews.com: "Open source software might make it simpler for employees to download and install an application without first having to check that it meets with the company's approval and governance policy..."

Roundup: Pundits Not Dreamy About Android
(2007-11-06 17:30:05)
The day after the Android open mobile platform announcement from Google, the general feeling from the media and analysts seems to be: "where's my gPhone?" Articles within.

Details On The Open Source Version Of Movable Type
(2007-11-06 18:15:23)
Wired: "Judging by these details, MTOS will be identical it MT4..."

Defense Procurement Ill-Suited for Open Source
(2007-11-06 19:00:16)
Government Computer News: "In order to fully take advantage of open-source software, Defense Department agencies may need to rethink how they do procurement, said Fritz Schulz, who works in the chief technology office of the Defense Information Systems Agency..."

Mug-rosoft
(2007-11-06 19:45:06)
Hoosier Penguin: "That, I sense, is why Bancilhon is so torqued about this deal collapsing. It's bad enough that the deal crashed--but to not know exactly why or how would be immensely frustrating..."

Open and Responsible
(2007-11-06 20:30:07)
aseigo: "Nathan Willis complains about people complaining when other people take their work they are releasing under open licenses and runs off with it..."

The Many Aspects of "Non-Profit"
(2007-11-06 21:15:37)
Mitchell's Blog: "I'm often asked various questions about non-profits. Many people have a general idea of what 'non-profit' means but very few have a specific, technical understanding..."

The Client Opportunity for Linux
(2007-11-06 22:00:04)
451 CAOS Theory: "Perhaps a better title for my post from Friday ('The irrelevance of desktop Linux') would have been 'The irrelevance of the desktop PC...'"

Are Linux Users Really a Feral Bunch?
(2007-11-06 22:30:57)
iTWired: "It is, however, uncommon for a writer to set out to deliberately provoke Linux users with over-the-top stuff--just to prove his contention that said users are a bunch of ferals..."

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