News Linux News for Dec 07, 2007:

Who is Browsing the Web? More Mac and Linux, Less Windows
(2007-12-07 01:00:16)
The Open Road: "NetApplications tracks market share numbers on the Internet, surveying 160 million site visitors each month, among other means, to determine 'who' is browsing the Internet..."

Ubuntu Linux Is Dead, Long Live Ubuntu Linux
(2007-12-07 02:30:34)
TechIQ: "The VAR Guy received a rude greeting when he returned home from a business trip last night. His Ubuntu PC from Dell was dead. Fried. Done..."

What if nVidia Had an Open Source Driver?
(2007-12-07 04:00:44)
CrazyTB's Blog: "So, let's try to guess what would happen if nVidia decided to release the graphics drivers as FOSS..."

Linux Traffic Analysis, Quick and Simple
(2007-12-07 05:30:41)
Linux.com: "Full-featured traffic analyzers for Linux systems such as ntop and vnstat are widely available, but sometimes you just want a simple program that gives you fast, basic information..."

Risk Gamers Use Free Software to Take Over the World
(2007-12-07 08:30:43)
Linux.com: "How are GNU/Linux users preparing for Linus Torvalds' plan of world domination? By playing free software computer games based on the classic world conquest board game Risk..."

First KDE Education Project Meeting a Great Success
(2007-12-07 10:00:36)
dot.KDE: "Last weekend the members of the KDE-Edu team met in Paris for a meeting about the Education project..."

Firefox Hero: Legends of FOSS
(2007-12-07 11:30:56)
The Linux Distillery: "What--no, we're not talking about that game, but Firefox, the lean, clean and mean web browser. Here's a collection of terrific plug-ins that will really enhance your web experience, for developers and end-users alike..."

Sidux Linux 2007.4 [Review]
(2007-12-07 13:00:53)
TechnieMoe.com: "Hold the jokes, please. Apparently they name their releases after mythical gods. I endeavored to see how blessed the distribution really was..."

Show Me the RPMs
(2007-12-07 14:18:27)
SUSE Linux Enterprise in the Americas: "A customer just asked me this one: where can they get the source code or source RPMs for SLED 10...?"

GNOME/OOXML Podcast Shows Two Sides Closer Than Appears
(2007-12-07 14:30:49)
Linux.com: "The discussion came about as a result of GNOME's support for the efforts of Jody Goldberg, the lead developer of the Gnumeric spreadsheet, to use the ECMA process to force Microsoft to reveal more about OOXML and, by extension, its previous binary formats..."

BusyBox Developers File GPL Infringement Lawsuit Against Verizon Communications
(2007-12-07 15:15:25)
Software Freedom Law Center: "The Software Freedom Law Center today announced that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Verizon Communications, Inc. on behalf of its clients, two principal developers of BusyBox, alleging violation of the GNU General Public License..."

Seagate Snubs Linux
(2007-12-07 16:00:19)
The Inquirer: "Seagate's latest batch of drives, the ironically titled Free Agent series are not compatible with the Open Sauce operating system Linux..."

When More Bugs Can Mean Tighter Security
(2007-12-07 16:45:27)
ZDNet UK: "Tristan Nitot, the president of Mozilla Europe, has much to say on the differences between Microsoft's and Mozilla's approaches to browser development..."

Microsoft Accused of Stacking ISO Committee
(2007-12-07 17:30:28)
Shared Software, Shared Processes: "...[O]utgoing Governor Martin Bryan, an expert on SGML and XML, accused the company of stacking his group..."

Measuring the Value and the Worth of the OLPC's XO Laptop
(2007-12-07 19:00:20)
Roundup: Überpundits Jack Kapica and John Dvorak take a look at the XO; Kapica reviews it (and the Everex gPC), while Dvorak questions the overall worth of such a project.

Judge Kimball to SCO and Novell: Provide Info by Dec. 13th
(2007-12-07 20:30:30)
Groklaw: "As you know, since they've told us so since 2003, SCO can't wait to have its day in court. So I'm sure they will be delighted..."

Cash for Code--Are Prizes the Right Model for Community Development?
(2007-12-07 22:00:38)
451 CAOS Theory: "Sun's plan to award open source developers with prizes is an interesting one and reaction has on the whole been good, but I can’t help wondering if it is the right way to reward community developers for their efforts..."

When Worlds Collide
(2007-12-07 23:30:05)
"The differences between proprietary software and open source software can run far deeper than many people casually suspect. Here, then, is a story that brings one of those differences up into the light..."

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