News Linux News for Mar 12, 2008:

Threats (Subversive and Otherwise) to GNU/Linux Growth
(2008-03-12 00:00:09)
Datamation: "From a purely technical perspective, there is little or no reason why GNU/Linux-powered devices should cease to thrive..."

Red Hat Calls JBoss Problems Solved and Marketing Related
(2008-03-12 01:30:19)
ZDNet: "Addressing a blogger's snarky criticisms directly, the Red Hat vice president in charge of JBOSS' middleware insisted the unit's problems are now under control and were really all down to marketing anyway..."

Linux Mint 4.0 Daryna KDE Community Edition
(2008-03-12 03:00:56)
distro-review: "The last time I investigated Linux Mint I decided that I 'didn't get it' and I approached the latest release with that in mind..."

Multipath Storage with Xen and DS4800
(2008-03-12 04:30:01)
developerWorks: "Virtualization technology was part of the IBM mainframe decades before virtualization gained its current industry adoption..."

Creating Snapshot-Backups with BackerUpper On Ubuntu 7.10
(2008-03-12 06:00:44)
HowtoForge: "BackerUpper is a tool similar to Apple's TimeMachine..."

Tyan Tempest i5400XT
(2008-03-12 07:30:16)
Phoronix: "When the Intel Quad-Core 'Clovertown' Xeon processors were introduced in late 2006 we had reviewed (among other motherboards) the Tyan Tempest i5000XT (S2696) motherboard..."

Installing Fonts on Linux
(2008-03-12 09:00:42)
Linux Journal: "One of the things I always enjoy when creating presentations, letters, videos, graphics and other documents is playing with different fonts..."

Consuming RSS Feeds with Ruby
(2008-03-12 10:30:12)
Developer.com: "Last year, noted blogger and technical evangelist Robert Scoble made headlines by explaining how he manages to read a staggering 622 RSS (Rich Site Summary) feeds each and every morning..."

Linux Thin Client: Considering the Network
(2008-03-12 12:00:04)
Really Linux: "Much information already exists concerning methods for deploying networks and hardware using thinclients..."

Three in Race for Debian Project Leader
(2008-03-12 12:45:21)
iTWire: "Three developers are in the running for the post of Debian project leader (DPL) this year, after nominations closed on March 9. The current leader, Sam Hocevar, is not among the three..."

Linux Market to Triple by 2012
(2008-03-12 13:30:33)
IT Jungle: "Analyst firm Research and Markets has just put out a project on Linux-based server and client hardware sales, and is projecting that the market will more than triple between 2007 and 2012..."

Straight From The Horse's Mouth: Was SCOsource About UnixWare?
(2008-03-12 15:00:29)
Groklaw: "SCO's new position is that UnixWare is just another interchangeable name for UNIX and that SCOsource was about UnixWare, not Unix System V, but here's some more evidence that they are not the same thing and that SCOsource was primarily about UNIX System V..."

Is FOSS Heading for an Identity Crisis?
(2008-03-12 15:45:56)
451 CAOS Theory: "In his recent Forbes article Cash Me Out (by way of The Register’s Open Season) Dan Lyons likens the assimilation of open source into the mainstream IT industry to the incorporation of gay culture into mainstream culture..."

Wal-Mart "Snub" No Big Deal, Says ThinkGOS
(2008-03-12 16:30:24)
ZDNet: "Reports on the death of the Wal-Mart Linux PC are greatly exaggerated, according to the man selling its operating system..."

Why Sun's CEO Is Fast Becoming a Leading Spokesperson for the Open-Source Community
(2008-03-12 18:00:49)
eWeek: "Schwartz--the only one I could find in the room with a ponytail, man or woman--stood out in this discussion with his simple but effective parables explaining how open-source software works...""

FOSS Helps Krugle Help Developers Search for Code
(2008-03-12 19:30:06)
Linux.com: "In three years, Krugle, the company behind the code search engine of the same name, has gone from an idea to a company that's starting to produce revenue..."

GNU/Linux World Domination for the Wrong Reasons
(2008-03-12 21:00:41)
Datamation: "Whenever I hear people discussing GNU/Linux's prospects for becoming more popular, I'm reminded of a comment by Tommy Douglas, the social democrat who became a hero for introducing universal health care into Canada..."

Measuring TCO: Wintel vs Lintel
(2008-03-12 22:30:56)
Managing L'unix: "The most basic, and traditional, Wintel vs Lintel TCO comparison argued that since the hardware is the same, everything comes down to the cost of the OS and applications licenses--all of which are free for Lintel and expensive for Wintel..."

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