News Linux News for Mar 03, 2008:

Meeting of Minds in Open Source
(2008-03-03 01:00:50)
Zenoss: "For the past three years, an open source consulting firm appropriately named the Olliance Group has put on an event called the 'Open Source Think Tank...'"

Partitioning for Linux
(2008-03-03 05:30:19)
A.P. Lawrence: "The overall file system structure on a UNIX system1 is always a single tree, no matter how many or how few physical or logical disks might be connected to it..."

Back Up Your Files With Fwbackups On Fedora 8
(2008-03-03 07:00:28)
HowtoForge: "This document describes how to set up, configure and use Fwbackups on a Fedora 8 desktop..."

Improve Security with Polyinstantiation
(2008-03-03 08:30:05)
developerWorks: "This article describes a way to add another layer of depth to your security strategy: using PAM to polyinstantiate world-writeable shared directories..."

Slack Off: GoblinX vs. Zenwalk
(2008-03-03 10:00:56)
Tech Source from Bohol: "Today, two Slackware-based Linux distributions from the lightweight division will square off to find out once and for all, who has the clear edge..."

Distro Review: Foresight Linux 1.4.2
(2008-03-03 11:30:08)
Adventures in Open Source: "Foresight is a distro I've been interested in for quite some time, I knew it had a lot of cutting edge features but I was a little worried about the stability issues that might cause..."

Firefox, Or Pigfoot?
(2008-03-03 13:00:24)
InformationWeek: "One index of success for an open source project is how many other projects are derived from it--or how many people have created alternate builds of the same project..."

An Open Letter To NVIDIA
(2008-03-03 13:45:04)
OpenTheBlob.com: "We the GNU/Linux community and the undersigned, kindly request that you, NVIDIA Corporation, increase your efforts in better enabling the open-source community to develop free software drivers for your graphics hardware..."

End Software Patents Project Comes Out Swinging
(2008-03-03 14:30:44)
Linux.com: "Four months after being announced, the End Software Patents project is launching a new Web site with arguments for economists, computer scientists, lawyers, and lay people about why they should support the project..."

Open Source Drupal Goes Commercial With Acquia
(2008-03-03 15:15:39)
internetnews.com: "The open source Drupal content management system is going commercial thanks to a new company, called Acquia, that's led by Dries Buytaert, the founder of the Drupal project..."

Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring RC 1 Released, Reviewed
(2008-03-03 16:00:24)
Roundup: The latest release candidate of Mandriva hit the servers this weekend, and Planète Béranger offers a quick peek at the GNOME version.

Dizzy from the BRM Spin...
(2008-03-03 16:45:21)
Roundup: 451 CAOS Theory has a wrap-up of all the different spins coming out of last week's Ballot Resolution Meeting regarding the OOXML proposal before the International Standards Organization. Meanwhile, a ZDNet blog noticed something surprising about the way the US voted.

Utter Crap?: Matt Asay and The Linux Desktop Q&A (and Video)
(2008-03-03 17:30:10)
tecosystems: "But the one area in which we've never seen eye to eye is the Linux desktop. I certainly don’t agree that desktop Linux is 'utter crap' compared to Mac or Windows, and I've disagreed with his statements on desktop Linux for years..."

New Foundation Trustees Elected
(2008-03-03 18:15:11)
Gentoo: "New trustees for the Gentoo Foundation were just elected. The foundation takes care of Gentoo's intellectual property (copyrights, trademarks) and money..."

Red Hat Leader Taking Lesser Role, Pay Cut
(2008-03-03 19:00:45)
The News & Observer: "Matthew Szulik, who built Red Hat into a global technology company, will take a pay cut with his reduced role at the Raleigh software developer and could step down in February 2009..."

Amazon MP3 Now Open To Linux Users
(2008-03-03 19:45:15)
Mashable: "And now the company’s gone and done another decent thing with is music download service: it has opened its doors to Linux users..."

Plasma Packages
(2008-03-03 20:30:49)
aseigo: "Here's another of the topics I was going to show in the screencast: Packages. The test case was getting Apple's Dashboard Widgets to work out of the box..."

Why Attracting More Users to Linux Matters
(2008-03-03 21:15:43)
Linux Loop: "Many decisions and opinions in the Linux world are justified by the idea that the decision will help attract new users to Linux, but why should anyone care at all if other people use Linux...?"

What's in a Label? ODF vs. OOXML and Open Standards
(2008-03-03 22:00:53)
OSI: "The OSI adopted a mandate of working on Open Standards two years ago. We put forward a statement on requirements for an Open Standard which boiled down to a simple proposition..."

I'm Sad to Say: A Lot of GNU/Linux-Users Don't Care About Freedom
(2008-03-03 22:45:03)
tuxtoday: "Many users of GNU/Linux these days, think that projects like Gnash are stupid, when you can get the original Flashplayer..."

If Ever Linux Rules...
(2008-03-03 23:30:44)
PC Ton!c: "Can you think of any changes that will take place if Linux dethrones Windows and Microsoft goes broke...?" (Humor)

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