News Linux News for Mar 11, 2008:

Lessons Learned? We Can Only Hope.
(2008-03-11 00:00:48)
Blog of Helios Too: "While there are a number of reasons for this, one of them should be obvious. They stubbornly held onto their loyalty to Microsoft..."

Wolvix, My Kind of Wolf
(2008-03-11 01:30:37)
Tech Source from Bohol: "Wolvix, as described from its main website, is a LiveDistro built from Slackware and the Linux-Live scripts..."

PCLOS TinyMe--Nothing Tiny With This Little Fella
(2008-03-11 03:00:24)
New2Linux: "So I was looking around for a new distro to run my server at home, and decided on PCLinux Business Edition, which then had a link in the community to another called TinyMe..."

NVIDIA Workstation Performance: Windows vs. Linux vs. Solaris
(2008-03-11 04:30:11)
Phoronix: "Earlier this week we previewed the Quadro FX1700, which is one of NVIDIA's mid-range workstation graphics cards that is based upon the G84GL core that in turn is derived from the consumer-class GeForce 8600 series..."

NVIDIA 171.06 Linux Display Driver
(2008-03-11 07:30:10)
Phoronix: "On the same day as the limited open-source support arriving in the xf86-video-nv driver, NVIDIA's binary display driver for Linux has been updated to officially add support for the GeForce 9600GT graphics card.."

Ubuntu Eye for the Debian Guy: Running Linux on Linux
(2008-03-11 09:00:34)
DevX: "Sometimes you can stumble upon interesting discovers while actually looking for something else. That happened to me when I decided to try another Linux distribution besides my favorite one: Debian..."

Linux Gaming 2.0: Why More Linux Users Aren't Gamers
(2008-03-11 10:30:26)
Mad Penguin: "What would it take to get more Linux users playing video games? A better selection of native games for the Linux platform...?"

MindTouch Learns the Open Source Walk
(2008-03-11 11:15:35)
Linux.com: "How do two former Microsoft employees end up heading an open source company...?"

Wal-Mart Ends Test of Linux in Stores
(2008-03-11 12:00:40)
AP/Yahoo!: "'This really wasn't what our customers were looking for,' said Wal-Mart Stores Inc. spokeswoman Melissa O'Brien..."

Firefox 3 Beta 4 is 5x Faster than IE7, 3x Faster than FF2
(2008-03-11 12:45:06)
Dev Connection: "The almost-but-not-quite-final beta of Firefox 3 (FF3 beta 4) is now available for download. The most noticeable improvement is speed..."

GCC 4.3.0 Released
(2008-03-11 13:30:45)
GNU.org: "GCC 4.3.0 is a major release, containing substantial new functionality not available in GCC 4.2.x or previous GCC releases..."

GNOME 2.22: A Truly Amazing Desktop
(2008-03-11 14:15:05)
Softpedia: "Every six months, the GNOME team prepares a new and revolutionary release of the ever popular GNOME desktop environment..."

Linux 2.6.25-rc5 [Released]
(2008-03-11 15:00:04)
LKML.org: "So the size of the -rc patches is finally starting to shrink, but we still have way too many outstanding regression reports..."

IBM Denies Re-Entering PC Market with Russian Deal
(2008-03-11 15:45:54)
CNET News: "IBM has said it is not getting back into the PC market, despite selling 'Microsoft-free' PCs running Linux and OpenOffice in Eastern Europe..."

Group Offers Open Source Security Code to Java Developers
(2008-03-11 16:30:30)
LinuxWorld: "OpenLiberty.org tools aimed at helping add privacy, security controls to Java-based Web 2.0, SOA, mobile applications..."

Astounded in Arahuay
(2008-03-11 17:15:44)
code culture: "I recently returned from a grueling three-week stay in Peru, where I worked with the serious Ministry of Education team entrusted with the country’s 260-thousand laptop OLPC implementation..."

Ohm Sweet Ohm: Linux Versus Vista Smart Homes
(2008-03-11 18:00:39)
Computerworld NZ: Two very different takes on the 'smart home' concept produce widely differing results..."

BIOS Boots to Linux in One Second
(2008-03-11 18:45:29)
LinuxDevices: "Firmware company General Software announced that it is selling customized, quick-booting versions of its Linux-compatible BIOS firmware to the medical device industry..."

Interview: Howard Chu, OpenLDAP Chief Architect
(2008-03-11 19:30:34)
Computerworld UK: "Howard Chu is the Chief Architect of the OpenLDAP project and its main corporate sponsor Symas Corporation..."

Toward a $0 Cost Future?
(2008-03-11 20:15:51)
There is No Open Source Community: "By now, you've no doubt heard of Chris Anderson, Wired's Editor, and his recent article, Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business. If you haven't, you should read it..."

Yes, My Grandma Can Run Ubuntu Linux
(2008-03-11 21:00:26)
The Open Road: "Last week Lenovo lent me one of its X61 ThinkPad laptops so that I could give Ubuntu Linux a try..."

The OLPC, 3 Months In
(2008-03-11 21:45:40)
ONLamp: "Back in December, I was one of the 170,000 eager Linux geeks who forked out $400 for the privilege of getting my hands on a One Laptop Per Child XO..."

Microsoft's New Play for Linux Lovers
(2008-03-11 22:30:24)
The Wall Street Journal: "But it will probably be ignored by an increasingly important type of company: the many little start-ups building new Internet services and technologies. They love Linux; Microsoft would dearly love to woo them over..."

Embracing (and Extending) Change
(2008-03-11 23:15:23)
LUGradio: "Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge, Chris Procter, and Adam Sweet talk about Linux, open source, and all manner of associated things..."

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