News Linux News for Jan 03, 2008:

Linux Advocate--Seeking Geeks Who Know
(2008-01-03 01:00:44)
Blog of Helios: "If 2007 is ANY indication of the momentum we've achieved, then 08 ought to be a smokin' Hell-Raiser for this thing we call Linux. So here's what I need to get started..."

Word of the Year: Open
(2008-01-03 02:30:45)
Linux Journal: "The beginning of the year is traditionally a time to look back, and, for the brave of heart, to make a few predictions looking forward..."

Monkeys Still Unable To Produce Shakespeare--Or Perl
(2008-01-03 04:00:08)
Humorix: "It seemed like a simple experiment. Put a million monkeys in front of a million Linux boxes and see how long it would take for them to generate a Shakesperian play or a useful Perl script..."

AMD 790FX Phenom Chipset On Linux
(2008-01-03 05:30:23)
Phoronix: "Back in November AMD had launched their 'Spider platform,' which is made up of AMD's first quad-core processor, ATI Radeon HD 3800 series graphics, and the AMD 7-Series chipsets..."

Dual-Boot Windows and Linux, Step 1: Get Ubuntu
(2008-01-03 07:00:36)
Worker's Edge: "This is the year I kiss Windows good-bye. Well, maybe not entirely, but the writing is on the wall for Microsoft's flagship operating system, and all other desktop bloatware: The future of PC software is open source..."

So, Just What Can You Do with This ASUS Eee Linux PC Thing Anyway?
(2008-01-03 08:30:22)
The Linux Distillery: "Its screen is 7" and runs at the odd resolution of 800x480 and the operating system looks like something Fisher Price might have designed. Why would you buy it? What on earth can you do with this...?"

Three Steps to Open Source in the Church
(2008-01-03 10:00:56)
Ted Carnahan: "The history and legacy of the Church in the late 1990s and 2000s will be lost in 10 years because we will lack the software to open its data..."

The Sound Of Linux 2007
(2008-01-03 11:30:33)
Linux Journal: "In this article I've selected what I consider to be some of the past year's outstanding achievements in the world of Linux music and sound software..."

5 Things Open Source Needs In 2008
(2008-01-03 13:00:38)
InformationWeek: "As tempting as it can be to just look back and feel good about our progress, it's the right time for the community to take a long look forward and figure out what needs to be done to continue--and even accelerate--momentum..."

2.4.36 Stable Release
(2008-01-03 13:45:46)
KernelTrap: "'New year, new kernel: Linux 2.4.36 is finally ready and has been checked long enough to be released..."

Open Source Funding Plunged in Q4, FY07
(2008-01-03 14:30:33)
451 CAOS Theory: "The raw data indicates open source funding fell more than slightly in 2007. Disclosed funding deals were down 40.7% to $323.87m for the full year, compared to $546.3m in 2006..."

Firefox 3: Rocking On Linux
(2008-01-03 15:15:52)
Christopher Blizzard: "A few people have been noticing how good our support on Linux has gotten during the Firefox 3 development cycle and I thought I would post to try and point out some of the good stuff that we have coming down the pipe..."

Linux Security: 2007 in Review
(2008-01-03 16:00:20)
SearchEnterpriseLinux: "Storm bot attacks threatened, but new Linux tools and updates kept storm bots and most other IT security hacks at bay in 2007. That said, new problems--such as security risks in virtual machines--cropped up last year..."

Open Source in '08: Break-outs and Consolidation
(2008-01-03 16:45:39)
Negative Approach: "Before I was a big-shot executive, the end of a year meant rest and relaxation. Now it's crunching fourth-quarter numbers and budgeting for 2008..."

Is Linux Worth the Effort?
(2008-01-03 17:30:10)
Linux Journal: "I've spent the better part of the past 2 weeks banging away on 2 LTSP servers for our school district. I find myself lamenting to those around me, and being an otherwise cranky guy as well..."

A Linux Pragmatist, Not an Evangelist
(2008-01-03 18:15:09)
Guardian: "But, six months hasn't turned me into a evangelist but rather a Linux pragmatist..."

The Five Open Source Business Models
(2008-01-03 19:00:32)
Startup City: "Open source has become standard in Silicon Valley, with nearly every software startup planning to release at least some code. So far, they've found five main business models..."

10 Things I Love about KDE 4 RC2+
(2008-01-03 19:45:29)
Linux Tech Daily: "My previous article, 10 things I hate about KDE 4 RC2, got a lot of unexpected attention..."

Building A Linux Music Studio Part 2
(2008-01-03 20:30:49)
LinuxPlanet: "Last week we made a music CD from a live digital recording the easy and simple way. Today we're going to fix volume levels and do graceful fades and transitions using Audacity and normalize..."

Predictions for 2008
(2008-01-03 21:15:44)
LinuxWorld: "Well, it's the first work day of 2008, so here are my guesses on what we'll see in the news this year..."

The Proprietary Problem with Innovation and Scale
(2008-01-03 22:00:24)
The Open Road: "Glyn Moody takes Dave Weinberger's Harvard Business Review article on the difficulties singular organizations have with scale and runs with it..."

Conspiracy Theorists and Free Software
(2008-01-03 22:45:57)
Off the Wall: "No one can be involved in the free software community to any extent without stumbling across conspiracy theorists..."

Mac OS Adoption Rising, Linux Desktop Too
(2008-01-03 23:30:37)
Sociallized Software: "According to a Net Applications Survey Mac adoption rose with an increase to 7.1% of the total market share for web browsers..."

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