News Linux News for May 01, 2008:

Can We Rescue OLPC from Windows?
(2008-05-01 00:00:13)
Free Software Foundation: "I read Negroponte's statement presenting the OLPC XO as a platform for Windows in the most ironic circumstances possible: during a week of preparing, under a deadline, to migrate personally to an XO..."

Is Ubuntu Selling Out or Growing Up?
(2008-05-01 01:30:26)
InteropNews: "Sometimes I wonder whether Ubuntu is really an open source software company any more..."

Open Source's Hidden Trap: IP Liabilities
(2008-05-01 03:00:52)
InformationWeek: "'You have to be careful' about when, where and how you use open source software in a commercial environment, said Janet Campbell, legal counsel for the Eclipse Foundation..."

The Perfect Desktop - Kubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)
(2008-05-01 04:30:06)
HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can set up a Kubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop..."

Automatically Watching Web Sites for Changes
(2008-05-01 06:00:28)
Linux.com: "If you want to be notified when and how a Web site has changed, you can turn to either netstiff or urlwatch to keep and eye on things for you..."

Firefox 3: Color Profile Support (Oh the Pretty, Pretty Colors)
(2008-05-01 07:30:57)
dria.org: "One thing that has always irritated me about looking at pictures on the web is that browsers don't seem to display photographs properly. And by 'photographs' I really mean 'colors...'"

Six Twitter Clients for the Linux Desktop and One for the Road
(2008-05-01 09:00:37)
Linux.com: "Twitter is a popular social networking utility that's gaining popularity as a micro-blogging tool..."

Xfce, The Hidden Gem of Desktop Environments
(2008-05-01 10:30:01)
Flipping the Linux Switch: "In the beginning, we talked a bit about the holy war that wages onward between KDE and GNOME. Some of you aptly pointed out that there is a third desktop environment out there..."

Nortel Pitches Networks Revamp For Virtualization
(2008-05-01 12:00:33)
internetnews.com: "Linux-based hardware appliance aims to optimize virtualization for datacenter deployment..."

Day 2 of the Novell v. SCO Trial
(2008-05-01 12:45:11)
Groklaw: "Darl took the stand today, called by Novell..."

Dell's OfficeWorks Retail Deal: No Linux Yet, XP to Come
(2008-05-01 13:30:51)
Australian PC World: "Customers can configure their own Dell machines in selected OfficeWorks stores--but Ubuntu Linux is not on offer yet..."

Threat Level Visits Inmate No. BFPS63--aka Hans Reiser
(2008-05-01 14:15:01)
Wired: "Inside the Cellblock 9 visiting room here at Santa Rita Jail, inmate number BFPS63 looked like a man with a big hangover..."

OpenBSD's De Raadt Sings Stallman Blues
(2008-05-01 15:00:04)
Tectonic: "The OpenBSD team traditionally makes available a new song with each new release of its software..."

gNewSense DeltaH CD 2.0 Release
(2008-05-01 15:45:27)
[gNewSense-Users]: "I've just released the LiveCD for gNewSense 2.0, the first full release of DeltaH..."

Subversion's Future?
(2008-05-01 16:30:18)
iBanjo: "I have to say, after using Mercurial for a bit, I think distributed version control is pretty neat stuff..."

Open Screen Shows Adobe Opening Up
(2008-05-01 17:15:29)
451 CAOS Theory: "Fresh off joining the Linux Foundation and extending its support for Flash Player and AIR runtime software to Linux, Adobe is heading up a new collaborative project to ease development and design of rich applications on a variety of devices from PCs and TVs to mobile devices and other consumer electronics..."

Interop : Open Source Panel Heckled and Walked Out On
(2008-05-01 18:00:59)
internetnews.com: "From the 'when sessions go bad and people shout and walk out' files..."

Law and Order, Unix Edition
(2008-05-01 18:45:03)
Enterprise Unix Roundup: "Two trials have captured the attention of the IT community this week: the California court drama of the Hans Reiser murder trial and the quieter but equally dramatic SCO vs. Novell case, which finally went to trial on Tuesday..."

Why Microsoft Will Dump Their Anti-Linux Rhetoric
(2008-05-01 19:30:55)
The Linux Distillery: "Microsoft's PR department are insulting their audience. They are lacking in integrity. It's time for the site to be pulled down. Here's why..."

GRUB vs. the Inodes: Who Needs a Bootable System, Anyway?
(2008-05-01 20:15:57)
LinuxPlanet: "Users of GRUB legacy, which is version 0.97, are getting bitten by an e2fsprogs incompatibility that renders their systems unbootable..."

ReiserFS Without Hans Reiser, Continued
(2008-05-01 21:00:15)
InformationWeek: "And as it turns out, that's precisely what's happening: according to folks on the ReiserFS team, work on ReiserFS will continue..."

Is Linux Now a Slave to Corporate Masters?
(2008-05-01 21:45:45)
Linux Journal: "Does it matter who pays the salaries of Linux kernel developers? If so, how much, and in what ways...?"

Bringing Microsoft to the Table: Can MS Become an Open Source Contributor?
(2008-05-01 22:30:50)
openSUSE Spotlight: "Novell is working with Microsoft to help Microsoft cooperate and contribute to open source projects under open source licenses, and sticking with the existing standards to do so..."

GPL: Man Gets Feet in Mouth
(2008-05-01 23:15:00)
iTWire: "The fact that the General Public Licence, better known as the GPL, is oft misunderstood, even by those who could be expected to know better, came home to me with a vengeance yesterday..."

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