News Linux News for Dec 10, 2007:

The Average Week of a Linux Guy in an MS Windows World
(2007-12-10 01:00:54)
TalkBMC: "Mint 4.0 has been performing flawlessly so far. Here I am on week two of using it, after taking a chance that it would be OK, based on testing of both Ubuntu 7.10 before and things I did on my personal Acer..."

PHP Frameworks, Part 3: Exceptions to the Rule
(2007-12-10 05:30:59)
developerWorks: "A common criticism of early versions on PHP was that they did not support Model-View-Controller (MVC)-style architectures..."

HowTo: Install 113 Amazing Fedora Games
(2007-12-10 07:00:42)
Sysad Linux Blog: "Yes, you read it right, Linux game lovers, meet 113 Fedora graphical games..."

Manage Your Documents with Knowledge Tree
(2007-12-10 08:30:55)
Linux.com: "Knowledge Tree is an open source document management system that helps enterprise users categorize, store, index, and share documents..."

OpenSuse 10.3 for My Friend
(2007-12-10 10:00:28)
Tech Source from Bohol: "A friend asked me to install Linux for him several weeks ago. He got curious after seeing Compiz Fusion in action on YouTube. Since I finally had a lot of free time last weekend, I agreed to install Linux for my friend..."

Linux on Board: Auto-Uploading Nokia N800 Photos
(2007-12-10 11:30:16)
developerWorks:"Now in this third and final installment, you see how to add automatic uploading of those JPEGs to a remote site..."

VMWare: Coming Out of the Cloud?
(2007-12-10 13:00:22)
tecosystems: "Buried under the above news was word that the latest rev of RHEL included Xen 3.1, capable of--among other tricks--live migration. The kind of thing, in other words, that customers typically pay VMWare for..."

Nokia Rails Against "Proprietary" Ogg
(2007-12-10 13:45:16)
PC Pro: "In a Position Paper, Nokia states that the Vorbis audio and Theora video codecs are not the open, free formats that their advocates claim them to be..."

Ahead of the Bell: Red Hat
(2007-12-10 14:30:23)
CNN/AP: "A Jefferies & Co. analyst downgraded Red Hat Inc., saying competing technologies are nabbing market share and could hurt profit growth..."

Eee PC News--Warranty Update
(2007-12-10 15:15:27)
ASUSTeK Computer Inc.: "ASUS wishes to assure its customers that merely breaking or removing this kind of seal will not void the ASUS Limited Warranty..."

KDE Takes Stand on OOXML; GNOME Dithers
(2007-12-10 16:00:07)
iTWire: "Three cheers for the developers and management of the K Desktop Environment. They have taken a principled stand on the divisive issue of OOXML, the Microsoft Office Open XML document format..."

Cultural Changes Key to Reducing Barriers to Open Source Software
(2007-12-10 16:45:25)
SIGNAL Magazine: "Misconceptions about open source software have made many U.S. Defense Department sectors reluctant to employ this technology..."

Dutch Open Source Vote Could Sideline Microsoft
(2007-12-10 17:30:38)
Computerworld UK: "The Dutch parliament is set to discuss a plan to mandate use of the Open Document Format at government agencies, a move which observers have said could infuriate Microsoft..."

IBM Still Silent on Open Source OS/2
(2007-12-10 18:15:01)
Roundup: "A group of die-hard OS/2 users are petitioning IBM--again--to release the operating system's source code as open-source. The question may not be whether IBM wants to do so... but if it can. Not, I expect, that IBM will actually say this out loud..."

OpenID Becomes Enterprising
(2007-12-10 19:00:07)
Computerworld UK: "But supremely stupid security lapses aside, managing identity is a problem that everyone online has to face on a daily basis..."

"Cloudbook" UMPC to Run Googlish Linux
(2007-12-10 19:45:41)
LinuxDevices: "Everex has confirmed plans to ship a UMPC (ultra-mobile PC) with a 7-inch screen, similar to competitor Asus's EEE PC..."

True or False: E-Waste
(2007-12-10 20:30:29)
CNN/asia: "Switching from a Windows-operated computer to a Linux-operated one could slash computer-generated e-waste levels by 50%..."

ODF vs. OOXML: War of the Words Chapter 3
(2007-12-10 21:15:54)
ConsortiumInfo: "In 1980, Microsoft was a small software vendor that had built its business primarily on downsizing computer languages created for mainframes to a point where they could be used to program the desktop computers that were then coming to market..."

Introducing Acquia: Dries Buytaert's Drupal Start-Up
(2007-12-10 22:00:02)
451 CAOS Theory: "...[A] few days ago Dries Buytaert announced that he is forming his own Drupal start-up, called Acquia..."

Sri Lankan School Children Soon May Own "$100 Laptop"
(2007-12-10 22:45:57)
Lanka Rates: "Some of the two million primary school students in Sri Lanka soon may get to own the '$100 laptop' if an ambitious plan to introduce the product into Sri Lanka gets adequate support, officials said..."

Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian: 'There Has to Be a Better Way'
(2007-12-10 23:30:21)
LinuxInisder: "While Linux has come a long way in the past 10 years, I think it's safe to say that it hasn't yet taken over the world--nor has Linux reached its full potential..."

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