News Linux News for Feb 04, 2008:

Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Xubuntu...
(2008-02-04 01:00:02)
Linux Journal: "I know that about six billion people have compared and contrasted the differences between the Ubuntu variants..."

Riding the Rails with WebSphere: Part 1
(2008-02-04 05:30:05)
developerWorks: "Many organizations have standardized their IBM WebSphere Application Server environments with Java because of its excellent scalability, security, and support..."

Linux Optimize Directories (File Access Time) in ext3 Filesystem
(2008-02-04 08:30:19)
nixCraft: "I'm using CentOS Linux 5 server with ext3 on /disk2 (/dev/sdb1). How do I improve my file server performance. I've many large files in directories and how do I speed up access time...?"

Do--A Quick Launcher for GNOME
(2008-02-04 08:30:35)
The Daily Ubuntu: "Do is an application to find things on your system and quickly perform actions, similar to Quicksilver for OSX and GNOME Launch Box..."

SCSI Targets
(2008-02-04 10:00:54)
KernelTrap: "'As you probably know there is a trend in enterprise computing towards networked storage..."

FOSS to Electric Cars: Not Such a Big Leap
(2008-02-04 11:30:03)
iTWire: "Richard Keech was an early adopter of Linux on the desktop back in the 1990s..."

Big Mods for the Small Eee PC
(2008-02-04 13:00:43)
LinuxWorld: "During the 2007 holiday season, there was another small, white and cheap tech device that became a hard-to-find bestseller: the ultra-portable Eee PC notebook by ASUS..."

Linus Torvalds [Interview]--Part II
(2008-02-04 13:45:44)
The Linux Foundation: "Patents are nasty. It's kind of hard to really say a lot more than the fact that patents on ideas in general are a huge mistake and the whole notion that you can have patents, business models and software is pretty broken to begin with..."

Ubuntu's Hardy Heron Flies to Alpha 4
(2008-02-04 14:30:49)
PC Pro: "The fourth Alpha version of Ubuntu 8.04 has been released, offering intriguing new features for both businesses and consumers..."

Gartner Predicts 80% of All Commercial Software will Embed Open Source by 2012
(2008-02-04 15:15:52)
The Open Road: "Gartner has made 10 key technology predictions to kick off 2008, and in Gartner's view, life has never been better for open source..."

openSUSE Welcomes Zonker--The New Community Manager
(2008-02-04 16:00:59)
openSUSE News: "I'd like to give a warm welcome to Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier who joins the openSUSE project as 'openSUSE community manager...'"

Refocus
(2008-02-04 16:45:27)
Funtoo by Daniel Robbins: "I will not be forking the project, and you may be bummed about that, but at the same time I am going to find effective ways to help the larger Gentoo community..."

Open Source Management Continues to Thrive
(2008-02-04 17:30:27)
NetworkWorld: "Open source management applications disrupted the market a few years back and some of the pioneers in the technology area continue to progress and grow their business..."

Australian Open Source Workers Earn More Money
(2008-02-04 18:15:10)
iTNews: "IT workers who specialise in free and open source software are earning more than the national average for IT, according to the results of Australia's first open source census..."

NVIDIA Quietly Releases New Drivers, Utility
(2008-02-04 19:00:10)
Phoronix: "[Feb. 1] NVIDIA quietly uploaded a new Linux display driver to their FTP server.

Open Source OS/2: The Impossible Dream
(2008-02-04 19:45:17)
internetnews.com: "Is it finally time to relegate the petition to the same retirement patch as OS/2 itself...?"

Microsoft to Renault: It's Tax Time!
(2008-02-04 20:30:40)
Open Sources: "I've asked this before, but why should a customer care about IP assurance...?"

Worried About Zimbra? Fork-edaboutit!
(2008-02-04 21:15:32)
Roundup: "When Yahoo acquired Zimbra in September 2007, some Zimbra backers worried Yahoo would mismanage the open source email asset..."

Thoughts on "Proprietary" Open Source
(2008-02-04 22:00:44)
Roundup: A new meme is making the rounds: "Proprietary Open Source." What is it, and is it a valid business model? Answers--hopefully--within.

Palamida Moves Beyond IP, Empasizes App Security
(2008-02-04 22:45:09)
Hoosier Penguin: "When Palamida was first founded in 2003, their business model seemed rather... familiar..."

Canonical Staffers Re-State KDE Stance
(2008-02-04 23:30:04)
Roundup: After Aaron Seigo's assertion in an interview that Canonical "neglected" its KDE user base, Kubuntu developer Jonathan Riddell and Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon have posted their own differing responses.

News Archives: Select a month
2009    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov
2008    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2007    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2006    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2005    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2004    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2003    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2002    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2001    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2000    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
1999    Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
1998    Sep Oct Nov Dec