News Linux News for Feb 05, 2008:

Ecma's Top 10 Worst Responses to NB Comments
(2008-02-05 00:15:47)
ODF Alliance Weblog: "With the input of our members, we've taken a first cut at the Top 10 Worst Responses (reproduced below) to the 3,522 comments submitted by National Bodies..."

Microsoft Partnerships, Open Source Software ISVs, and Culture and History
(2008-02-05 01:00:01)
Once More Unto the Breach: "First, if you sell software solutions, and one of the platforms you support is Windows, you're not alone. There is a lot of free and open source software that has company support that is deployed on Windows as one of its platforms..."

Microsoft's Open-Source Plan: WAMP Instead of LAMP
(2008-02-05 01:45:01)
Linux-Watch: "I would argue that Novell's Microsoft partnership has worked out for Novell, but as for Linspire, Turbolinux and Xandros, well, no, I don't see it..."

The Disappointing Formats
(2008-02-05 02:30:37)
PlexNex: "Hope for a harmonization of formats does reflect one truth: that the whole point of this ugly exercise is to have one single FORMAT. Anything else ridiculously undermines common sense..."

Can KDE Save a Dying Windows Platform?
(2008-02-05 04:00:53)
MrCopilot: "His only hope was that he knew Qt was cross compatible with Windows Linux and Mac, and there was talk that someday, KDE was to be ported to Windows. So he waited..."

Creating Snapshot-Backups with FlyBack On Ubuntu 7.10
(2008-02-05 05:30:11)
HowtoForge: "FlyBack is a tool similar to Apple's TimeMachine. It is intended to create snapshot-backups of selected directories or even your full hard drive..."

FTP Server setup with TLS (Transport Layer Security) on Debian
(2008-02-05 07:00:48)
Debian Admin: "The TLS protocol allows applications to communicate across a network in a way designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery..."

SCALE 6X--An Interview with Publicity Chairman Orv Beach
(2008-02-05 08:30:22)
Click: "We all know that Linux is a kernel, an operating system, maybe even a socio-political movement (it depends on whom you ask), but in a sense, Linux is about people--those who create, use and promote it..."

Finding the Happy Medium in FOSS
(2008-02-05 10:00:06)
Linux.com: "Last year, Dell began offering Ubuntu on non-corporate desktops and laptops, opening the door for other large computer companies to follow suit..."

Kernel Rate of Change
(2008-02-05 10:45:48)
KernelTrap: "'I re-ran some statistics the other day on our kernel development rate, and changed my formula after Andrew accused me of severely undercounting the rate of change,' noted Greg KH during a discussion about the stability of the Linux kernel..."

An Easy Tutorial on IP Tables and Port Knocking
(2008-02-05 11:15:09)
LinuxPlanet: "Do you wish you had access to your home file server without leaving your firewall wide open to attacks? Well today's your lucky day! While you can implement this on any OS its easiest to do this on Linux..."

MIT Researchers Fight Gridlock with Linux
(2008-02-05 12:15:29)
LinuxDevices: "At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, researchers are testing a Linux-based automotive telematics system intended to reduce traffic congestion..."

One Laptop Per Child On its Way to Australia
(2008-02-05 13:00:08)
The Open Source Report: "The One Laptop Per Child initiative, a charity which is attempting to create and distribute educational laptops to disadvantaged children, is on its way to Australia..."

Torvalds Pans Apple with 'Utter Crap' Putdown
(2008-02-05 13:45:10)
Sydney Morning Herald: "Apple's much-touted new operating system, OS X Leopard, is in some ways worse than Windows Vista, says the founder of the Linux open source project, Linus Torvalds..."

IBM Responds to Microsoft: OOXML is "Technically Inferior"
(2008-02-05 14:30:10)
Ars Technica: "IBM isn't taking the accusations sitting down, however, telling Ars that Microsoft is leading a fight against truly open standards..."

Yahoo Moves Forward With Zimbra 5.0 Suite
(2008-02-05 15:15:16)
internetnews.com: "Zimbra is out today with the first major release of its open source based Zimbra Collaboration solution since being acquired by Yahoo last year..."

'Battle Command' Summits
(2008-02-05 16:00:58)
DefenseNews: "What happens when the U.S. Army, whose Blue-Force Tracking system runs on Microsoft software, starts introducing the Future Combat Systems (FCS) vehicles that use the Linux operating system...?"

New Theme for Ubuntu 8.04 Deferred
(2008-02-05 16:45:59)
Tombuntu: "The original plan was to have a fresh theme for every long-term-support release, starting with Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. Now it has been decided to put off the redesign until Ubuntu 8.10..."

KDE 4 Developers: An Interview with Sebastian Kuegler
(2008-02-05 17:30:53)
Linux Tech Daily: "Project governance is an important aspect for Free Software projects, and KDE has managed to make itself more sustainable and stable from this point of view..."

We Have Submitted AGPL to OSI
(2008-02-05 18:15:13)
Mobile Open Source: "The last chapter is that AGPL v3 (the GPL version that fixes the ASP loophole) was finalized in November, and we switched the Funambol project to it..."

Announcing Fedora 9 Alpha
(2008-02-05 19:00:18)
Fedora: "A funny thing happened on the way into the office today, an Alpha release of Fedora 9 happened...!"

Terra Soft Releases Yellow Dog Linux v6.0
(2008-02-05 19:30:52)
Terra Soft: "Terra Soft today released Yellow Dog Linux v6.0 for Sony PS3, Apple G4/G5, and IBM System p..."

Village School Director Backs Linux
(2008-02-05 20:00:45)
Kommersant: "Alexander Ponosov, director of the school in the village of Sepych, Perm Territory, who has found guilty of installing pirated Windows software in 12 school computers, has changed jobs..."

PostgreSQL 8.3 Designed for Better Speed
(2008-02-05 20:30:46)
Underexposed: "Programmers behind the PostgreSQL project released the new version 8.3 of the open-source database software Monday, saying they've boosted improved performance 5 percent to 30 percent and added several useful features..."

Linux on Mainframes Made Easy
(2008-02-05 21:00:02)
Linux-Watch: "Linux and mainframes go together like ham and eggs. Linux virtual machines were reviving the mainframe market before most IT administrators knew anything about virtualization..."

"Wephone" Spells "Debian" in Plaid
(2008-02-05 21:30:13)
LinuxDevices: "A Canadian firm will soon announce a phone whose plaid case spells 'Debian' in Morse Code..."

Deliver Us from Microsoft
(2008-02-05 22:00:24)
The Guardian: "The two great pillars of Open Source are the GNU project and Linux. I shan't burden you with too much detail, I'll just make the outrageous claim that your computer will be running some descendant of those two within the next five years and that your life will be better and happier as a result..."

The Journalist Who Came in From the Cold
(2008-02-05 22:45:58)
Hoosier Penguin: "So it was with great relief when I heard that one of us was getting out, freeing himself to enter the much saner world of commercial-community Linux relations. Because we know nothing controversial ever happens in a job like that..."

What Would a Recession Mean for IT Spending?
(2008-02-05 23:30:49)
The Open Road: "Normally IT gets walloped in a recession, with new projects put on hold until the economy thaws..."{

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