News Linux News for Jun 04, 2008:

OpenSUSE 11 RC1: The Mercedes-Benz to Ubuntu's Volkswagen
(2008-06-04 00:00:12)
Between the Lines: "2008 will be a very good vintage for community end-user Linux distributions. So far, we've seen the release of Ubuntu 8.04, which is universally considered to be a major milestone release in usability and device compatibility, and one of the easiest distros to install..."

Why Linux Won the Embedded Market?
(2008-06-04 01:30:45)
ZDNet: "One story not told often enough involves Linux' growing domination of the embedded market..."

New Ubuntu Remix Opens Fast-Track OS for MIDs
(2008-06-04 02:15:04)
Hoosier Penguin: "The consumer market has been going ga-ga for Linux-powered ultra-mobile PCs such as the much-balleyhooed Asus Eee PC and (soon) offerings from HP, Acer, and (maybe) Dell. And ga-ga they should..."

Why CentOS Will Not Become the Next Microsoft
(2008-06-04 03:00:49)
Field Commander Wieers: "The subject may sound weird to you, but all the arguments that free CentOS from becoming the next Microsoft can be used to to counter the pundits that position Red Hat as being the next Microsoft..."

How To Set Up WebDAV With Apache2 On Debian Etch
(2008-06-04 04:30:26)
HowtoForge: "This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on a Debian Etch server..."

Manage Ogg Audio Streams with OGMtools
(2008-06-04 06:30:03)
Linux.com: "When I make videos, I almost always use Ogg to encode the audio. Storing the audio in Ogg saves space on my machine without sacrificing quality..."

How To Virtualise A Physical Linux Machine
(2008-06-04 07:30:13)
HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can virtualize a physical Linux machine. It is intended not only for virtualisation, but for any relocation of a RedHat Linux based system from one machine to another..."

Ubuntu 7.10 to PCLinuxOS 2008
(2008-06-04 09:00:23)
Everything is Broken: "I started a new project at a client's office a month or so ago. On the first day I turned up, and managed to work for about an hour, before my laptop died..."

Untangle: Aptly Named
(2008-06-04 10:30:01)
InformationWeek: "Scarcely a week goes by when I don't hear about yet another new (or relatively new) open source project that stands in for a proprietary solution..."

More Pleasant Surprises with Ubuntu
(2008-06-04 12:00:57)
ZDNet UK: "As I continue to test and work with Ubuntu, I have come across a few more very pleasant surprises..."

Update on the NetApp-Sun Patent Litigation
(2008-06-04 12:45:28)
Groklaw: "You may have read in News Picks recently that Sun won a partial stay in the NetApp patent lawsuit over ZFS..."

EnterpriseDB Snags Red Hat Sales VP as CEO
(2008-06-04 13:30:25)
Computerworld: "Open-source database vendor EnterpriseDB Inc. today said it has appointed a senior sales executive from Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. as its new CEO..."

Why Novell is Cashing In On Linux
(2008-06-04 14:15:10)
Practical Technology: "The real news though isn't the Linux income itself--$29-million--it's that Novell year-over-year growth in Linux is up a healthy 31%..."

Linux File System 'Firestorm' Fizzles
(2008-06-04 15:00:07)
Storage Soup: "I'm no stranger to such responses myself, so it's not that I doubt they occurred, but in poking around on message boards and the various places Newman's article was syndicated I haven't been able to uncover any of that controversy in a public place..."

CPAL is Not an Open Source Poison Pill for Facebook
(2008-06-04 15:45:15)
internetnews.com: "A pair of my colleagues forwarded me a pitch today titled, 'Disappointing: Facebook Does Open Source like Microsoft.' It's an 'interesting' email pitch--it's a pity I wasn't contacted directly..."

Google Gadgets for Linux [Released]
(2008-06-04 16:30:34)
Google Code: "Since releasing Google Desktop for Linux, we've added almost all of our most requested features, like 64-bit support and the ability to search applications and documents. All except one major exception: Desktop Gadgets..."

The A-Z of Programming Languages: Ada
(2008-06-04 17:15:19)
Techworld: "S. Tucker Taft, maintainer of Ada, speaks about the development of the language and its 1995 and 2005 revisions..."

The Most Popular Linux Desktop? The Numbers Might Surprise You
(2008-06-04 18:00:07)
openSUSE Spotlight: "What Linux desktop is most popular? Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, Slackware, or another distro...?"

Could the eeePC End Up Being Microsoft's Trojan Horse?
(2008-06-04 18:45:17)
iTWire: "It is rarely that one finds a hardware device, or for that matter a software package, about which it is extremely difficult to find a negative word. The eeePC fits neatly into this bracket..."

Linux: You Get What You Paid For (When You Bought Windows)
(2008-06-04 19:30:21)
Linux Journal: "There are many other 'features' that get attributed to Windows and OSX, but I don't think it's fair they get all the credit..."

Tracking Kernel Oops
(2008-06-04 20:15:33)
KernelTrap: "'The http://www.kerneloops.org website collects kernel oops and warning reports from various mailing lists and bugzillas as well as with a client users can install to auto-submit oopses...'"

Are Your Firefox Extensions Proprietary Software?
(2008-06-04 21:00:51)
Command Line Warriors: "However, it seems that not a lot of people think about another side to this, i.e. what are your Firefox extensions licenced under...?"

Astronomy Domine
(2008-06-04 22:30:06)
TuxDeluxe: "The similarity between the two is that Astronomy, like computing, is one of the few fields of science where amateurs can still make a difference..."

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