News Linux News for May 08, 2008:

GNU/Linux: Source Code and Human Rights
(2008-05-08 00:00:41)
Datamation: "Ask average computer users what FOSS is about, and, if they've even heard of it, they'll probably say something about the source code being publicly available..."

Impossible Thing #6: Freedom for All with the One Laptop Per Child Project
(2008-05-08 00:45:25)
Free Software Magazine: "For many years, there has been a growing concern about the emergence of a 'digital divide' between rich and poor..."

Why Many MCSEs Won't Learn Linux
(2008-05-08 01:30:37)
Managing L'unix: "Nathan's basic question, however, can be paraphrased as something that's both serious and interesting: why do so many MCSEs have such a hard time learning to use Linux...?"

AGPLv3 Keeps Open Source Vibrant in Age of SaaS
(2008-05-08 02:15:04)
FOSSBazaar: "Software as a service entered the IT landscape in 2000 and has revolutionized the deployment models of many software companies and even entire industries, such as Internet search..."

Blogging Live From Ubuntu Live 2008
(2008-05-08 03:00:27)
The VAR Guy: "Here are five reasons you should care about the Ubuntu distribution of Linux, and the Ubuntu Live conference..."

What is Free Software and How to Make Money With It
(2008-05-08 03:45:07)
Conversas do Bruno: "As I became more familiar with GNU/Linux and free operating systems in general, I became aware of the Open Source movement. Later, I became aware of the Free Software movement..."

Migrating to ext4
(2008-05-08 04:30:53)
developerWorks: "Linux supports several different file systems. Some are specialized network file systems or file systems developed for other operating systems, but a surprising number may be used as Linux native file systems..."

Installing an All-in-One Printer Device in Debian
(2008-05-08 06:45:00)
Free Software Magazine: "Recently I had cause to buy a scanner. Being in a reasonably small home I was eager to save on desk-space, and so decided to upgrade my aging inkjet printer at the same time..."

ack! (thpppt!)
(2008-05-08 07:30:51)
Blog of an Alpha Animal: "Yet, the other day I read about ack, which claims to be 'better than grep, a search tool for programmers.' Woo. Better than grep? In what way...?"

Tyan Thunder n3600M
(2008-05-08 08:15:37)
Phoronix: "Two months ago we had looked at the Tyan Tempest i5400XT motherboard, which was Tyan's latest product based upon Intel's newest workstation chipset and had support for dual Intel Xeon quad-core processors..."

Indexing Offline CD-ROM Archives
(2008-05-08 09:00:09)
Free Software Magazine: "Suppose you've been good (or sort of good anyway), and you have a huge stack of CD-ROMs (or DVDs) with backups and archives of your old files. Great. But how can you find anything...?"

Linux Got Game: War§ow 0.42
(2008-05-08 09:45:20)
Tech Source From Bohol: "Another tip from Free and Open Source gamer extraordinaire SlippJigg encouraged me to try out another action-packed First-person shooter (FPS) game called War§ow last weekend. So what exactly is this game and what makes it interesting...?"

Miniature Linux PC Targets Military Apps
(2008-05-08 10:30:46)
LinuxDevices: "Mercury Computer Systems announced a Linux-based engineering development kit for a 7-10 pound computer that targets small ground, naval, and air vehicles..."

American to Lobby for OLPC Down Under
(2008-05-08 11:15:10)
iTWire: "It's quite characteristic of the cultural cringe that prevails in Australia that a man who works in America, Barry Vercoe, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is coming to the country next week to lobby for the local branch of the One Laptop Per Child project..."

Open Enterprise Interview: Mike Milinkovich
(2008-05-08 12:00:17)
Computerworld UK: "A couple of years ago, I described the Eclipse project as open source's best-kept secret, and to some extent that's still true today..."

Mozilla: Firefox Plugin Shipped with Malicious Code
(2008-05-08 13:30:38)
LinuxWorld: "Mozilla warned Wednesday that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plugin that has been downloaded thousands of times over the past three months..."

Sun's Rich Green: Solaris-Linux Code Sharing Inevitable
(2008-05-08 15:00:10)
ABC Linuxu: "Should the license situation ever allow it, how would you feel about possible code-sharing between Solaris and Linux...?"

Red Hat Heads For The JON 2.0
(2008-05-08 16:30:59)
internetnews.com: "New JBoss Operations Network takes aim at open source middleware management, though the solution isn't entirely open source--yet..."

Geek Sheet: Bare-Metal Backup and Recovery
(2008-05-08 18:00:23)
Between the Lines: "Tired of the same old punditry and OS wars? Want to read something practical you can actually use and apply to your real job...?"

Top Ten Reasons for a Linux Laptop
(2008-05-08 19:30:59)
Really Linux: "You can save yourself serious money, not only at the register but in years to come, avoiding paying for countless upgrades. For all of us paying the crazy food and fuel prices, this is a real easy way to save money..." (Humor)

Senior Debian Developer Quits Core Teams
(2008-05-08 20:15:54)
iTWire: "A senior Debian developer, Australian Anthony Towns, has left some core teams of the project and gone quiet in the last couple of weeks, according to project sources..."

VIA Gives 16,434 Lines Of OSS Code
(2008-05-08 21:00:39)
Phoronix: "VIA has released over 16,000 lines of code that provides a frame-buffer driver in the Linux kernel..."

SaaS, Open Source and the Migration of Burden
(2008-05-08 21:45:50)
McPherson: "Just the week before I had a reporter ask me how Linux is going to deal with the threat of cloud computing. The threat? I told her that virtually all of the major cloud computing initiatives (except Microsoft’s) are built on Linux..."

Free Software Great and Small
(2008-05-08 22:30:52)
ZDNet: "I recently got to attend a couple of conferences, both of them the really technical kind where I end up learning things..."

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