News Linux News for May 12, 2008:

Declaration of Lindependence
(2008-05-12 00:00:40)
Lindependence 2008 Felton Diary: "When in the course of digital events, it becomes necessary for the people to dissolve the proprietary bonds which have connected them with their computer operating systems and other proprietary software.

Enforce User Guidelines And Restrictions With Sabayon On Fedora 8 (Gnome)
(2008-05-12 04:30:07)
HowtoForge: "This document describes how to set up and use Sabayon on Fedora 8..."

Autotools: A Practitioner's Guide to autoconf, automake and libtool
(2008-05-12 06:00:46)
Free Software Magazine: "There are few people who would deny that autoconf, automake and libtool have revolutionized the free software world.

Installing WINE
(2008-05-12 07:30:34)
atomic: "In our Linux gaming feature a couple of months ago we looked at Wine, the Windows compatibility layer that allows Linux users to run a number of Windows games, including recent hits like Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty 4..."

Amarok Review
(2008-05-12 10:30:28)
Linux Tutorials: "Since Amarok 2 is on its way with all the fuss around it and the currently stable 1.4.9.1 version will probably be the last in the 1.x series, I decided to make a review of the last stable Amarok..."

Digital Rights Management (DRM): Is It In Its Death Throes?
(2008-05-12 12:00:19)
Free Software Magazine: "In this opening salvo, I will reprise the technical terms and history of DRM and thereafter I will try to keep you abreast of the issues for computer users in general and free software in particular..."

Open-Source Software: How the Stock Market Views It
(2008-05-12 12:45:21)
MITSloan/Wall Street Journal: "But does giving ideas away help--or hurt--the company's stock price? Will investors reward openness by driving up the company's shares--or punish it by knocking the stock down...?"

Firefox 3 RC1 Code Complete, Due in Late May
(2008-05-12 13:30:06)
ZDNet: "Mozilla now expects Firefox 3 RC1 will be ready to go in late May..."

Microsoft Emails Blender
(2008-05-12 14:15:26)
Groklaw: "Microsoft has just approached the Blender guys, and I would assume have or will approach other FOSS projects since we learn that Microsoft has assigned a guy to work with Open Source projects, with a request for information on how to make Blender run better on Windows..."

Sun Exec Ponders OpenSolaris, Linux
(2008-05-12 15:00:22)
Computerwork Australia: "In an interview, Ian Murdock, formerly with the Linux Foundation and now with Sun, discusses the company's open-source efforts and how to monetize them..."

Running a Business on Desktop Linux
(2008-05-12 15:45:24)
DesktopLinux: "How many are self-employed in the United States? No one knows for sure, but estimates range around twenty million..."

The Art of Release
(2008-05-12 16:30:15)
here be dragons: "As a result, we can commit that the next LTS release of Ubuntu will be 10.04 LTS, in April 2010..."

Linux File Systems: You Get What You Pay For
(2008-05-12 18:00:54)
Enterprise Storage Forum: "Linux file systems have a number of limitations that make them a poor choice for large and high-performance computing environments..."

Wireless Mesh Standard Gets Boost from OLPC, Open Source
(2008-05-12 19:30:35)
Computerworld Australia: "The proposed IEEE wireless LAN mesh specification is already getting some traction, though still over 18 months from final ratification, thanks to early experimentation by the One Laptop Per Child Foundation and a recently launched open source project..."

Are We Breathing in the Same Rhythm?
(2008-05-12 21:00:21)
vizZzion.org: "Tom and Aaron discuss timing and release schedules, and development cycles. Aaron talks about trunk/ and freezes therein should follow a natural lifecycle..."

The State of Oracle Linux
(2008-05-12 22:30:40)
Practical Technology: "Oracle's Unbreakable Linux is something of an odd-duck in Linux distribution circles..."

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