News Linux News for Feb 06, 2008:

How Would GNU/Linux Users Be Affected by Yahoo-Microsoft Merger?
(2008-02-06 00:15:18)
Datamation: "Articles about Microsoft's bid have probably tired you to death by now, but this article discusses one particular aspect of the potential takeover, namely its effect on GNU/Linux and BSD users..."

GNU/something
(2008-02-06 01:00:04)
PolishLinux: "Let me get this straight--this idea seems a little bit odd at the first glance. Everybody knows that KDE is a graphical environment just like GNOME, Aqua or Aero are..."

Improving Gentoo's PR
(2008-02-06 01:45:09)
spyderous: "For anyone who hasn't heard, I took over as lead of Gentoo's public relations efforts a little over two weeks ago..."

What Does "Open Source" Mean to You?
(2008-02-06 02:30:37)
opensville: "To start things off I asked 1300 people on twitter what 'open source' meant to them..."

Totally Free Wordpress Hosting
(2008-02-06 04:00:22)
The Tech and Other Cents: "For anyone who tries to be a blogger or create some sort of information resource, the most important issue is always with high quality of the blog or site..."

CLI Magic: Manage All Your Archives with atool
(2008-02-06 05:30:17)
Linux.com: "The atool package is a collection of Perl scripts that allows you to handle many different archive formats and compression schemes using a single command-line interface..."

Secrets of the MySQL Client Command Line
(2008-02-06 07:00:03)
Developer.com: "Graphically oriented MySQL administration tools abound, but for true speed and no-frills management perhaps nothing is more effective than the command-line driven MySQL client..."

Make Sure Word, OpenOffice.org Writer Play Well Together
(2008-02-06 08:30:21)
Worker's Edge: "The first few times I worked on Word files in the OpenOffice.org Writer program, I was satisfied if the documents opened at all..."

First Look at GoblinX 2.6 Mini
(2008-02-06 10:00:39)
Linux Love: "Here we go again, another Linux distribution has been updated and caught my attention so I've decided to take it out for a spin and write about how the ride was..."

Open-Source Creative X-Fi Support
(2008-02-06 11:30:14)
Phoronix: "Last Friday 4Front Technologies had released the binaries and source-code to OSS 4.0 Build 1013..."

Renoise For Linux
(2008-02-06 13:00:12)
Linux Journal: "On January 17 of this year the first beta release of Renoise 1.9.1 was announced. Along with new features and fixes for its Windows and OSX versions, this release includes the first version of Renoise for Linux..."

Forbes Names Red Hat America's 11th Fastest-Growing Company
(2008-02-06 13:45:46)
The Open Road: "I wouldn't mind being in a list with companies like Google and Salesforce.com, which is precisely the company Red Hat is keeping in its continued growth trajectory..."

Germany, Italy Lead Desktop Linux Adoption
(2008-02-06 14:30:53)
Computer Business Review: "I've penned a few blogs about Linux on the desktop, and the fact that various statistics I've uncovered suggest it has less than a 1% market share..."

Red Hat Announces SAP-Certified Mainframe Apps
(2008-02-06 15:15:46)
Linux-Watch: "People have been predicting the death of the mainframe for more years than the mainframe has been around..."

KDE 4.0.1 Release Announcement
(2008-02-06 16:00:15)
KDE.org: "The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.0.1, the first bugfix and maintenance release..."

Born from Firefox
(2008-02-06 16:45:19)
LinuxWorld: "Developers and startup founders use the Mozilla toolkits to build apps for diverse uses including music and video playing..."

New Team Takes Over at Linux Australia
(2008-02-06 17:30:26)
iTWire: "Melbourne's Stewart Smith heads the 2008-09 team of office-bearers who have taken over at Linux Australia..."

Sun's Next Two Open Source Moves
(2008-02-06 18:15:22)
The VAR Guy: "The VAR Guy isn't ready to predict which company Sun will acquire next, but he has noticed Schwartz getting pretty darn cozy with two fast-growing open source businesses..."

Elive Distro Illustrates Power, Beauty of Enlightenment
(2008-02-06 19:00:53)
Linux.com: "Elive is based on Debian and uses Enlightenment as its windows manager, which gives the distribution a Mac OS X look and feel..."

Zen Gift of Education
(2008-02-06 19:45:51)
Packt: "ZenEdu is a Live distribution that packs a whole bunch of educational tools on top of the Slackware-based light-weight and zippy Zenwalk Linux..."

Distro Review: Wolvix 1.1.0 Hunter
(2008-02-06 20:30:30)
Adventures in Open Source: "This is the 3rd part or my trip through Slackware-based distros and today's candidate is Wolvix 1.1.0 Hunter, I was intrigued to see how it would compare to Zenwalk and Vector which I tested recently..."

Oh Linux, How Do I Love Thee?
(2008-02-06 21:15:13)
LinuxHow2: "Let me count the ways... an open letter to Linux..."

2008: Year of the Linux Desktop
(2008-02-06 22:00:04)
Mad Penguin: "Are we doing enough to attract new users from the IT community...?"

IBM's Power Moves
(2008-02-06 22:45:49)
Enterprise Unix Roundup: "Lots of news in the world of the PowerPC platform this week: a native Linux on Power release, a virtual offering from IBM, and some fightin' words from the Linux community regarding OS X..."

Super Friday to Climax Microsoft Open XML Push
(2008-02-06 23:30:46)
ZDNet: "Super Friday is February 29, the end of the ISO Ballot Resolution Meeting which will decide the fate of Open XML as an ISO standard..."

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