News Linux News for Jun 10, 2008:

Gates Says Linux Best OS Ever
(2008-06-10 00:00:59)
BBspot: "At a hastily convened press conference Bill Gates announced that he personally thinks that 'Linux is the best OS ever...'" (Humor)

GNOME in the Age of Decadence
(2008-06-10 00:45:40)
wingolog: "The problem, as I see it, is that GNOME is in a state of decadence--we largely achieved what we set out to achieve, insofar as it was possible..."

Twitter Clients for Linux
(2008-06-10 01:30:48)
Socialized Software: "I love Twitter but when I use my Linux laptop (Ubuntu running Hardy Heron) I don't have many native options for Twitter clients. The preferred native client appears to be Twitux..."

Has the Eee PC Helped Linux's Market Share?
(2008-06-10 02:15:02)
Linux Loop: "Unfortunately, it is very hard to know for sure how many people are using any particular operating system, since there is no way to measure OS usage..."

Open Source Tour of Europe [Switzerland and Austria]
(2008-06-10 03:00:36)
451 CAOS Theory: "The country is of course famous for its neutrality but has shown itself to be less than neutral when it comes to open source with the federal government having adopted an open source software strategy as long ago as February 2004..."

My Linux Box is INFECTED!
(2008-06-10 03:45:47)
Blog of Helios: "Hey, I wasn't doing anything a million other websurfers weren't doing... all I wanted was a link to a live webcam somewhere in Felton California..."

Using Snort: Part 1: Installation and Configuration
(2008-06-10 04:30:09)
developerWorks: "Then, you wake up one morning, and all that's left of your site is a full-page banner ad for a site you'd rather not be associated with..."

The Perfect Desktop--Ubuntu Studio 8.04
(2008-06-10 06:00:34)
HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can set up an Ubuntu Studio 8.04 desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop, i.e. that has all the software that people need to do the things they do on their Windows desktops..."

Using Perl To Handle Mass Mailing In Linux Or Unix
(2008-06-10 06:45:30)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today, we're going to take a look at a quick Saturday script to handle mass mailing with Perl. This is not to be confused with SPAM, although you could use it for that purpose if you're looking to trim down your social circle..."

Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva Performance Compared
(2008-06-10 07:30:19)
Phoronix: "Today we have up 28 test results from Ubuntu 8.04, Fedora 9, and Mandriva 2008.1..."

Desktop Environments: The Past and The Future
(2008-06-10 08:15:10)
PolishLinux: "The goal of ergonomics is to make the interaction of humans with machines as smooth as possible, enhancing performance, reducing error, and increasing user satisfaction through comfort and aesthetics..."

Tale of a Codec Optimisation: Doing Things the GNU/Linux Way
(2008-06-10 09:00:50)
Free Software Magazine: "In this short article I will explain how I gained a 300% speed boost when encoding DVDs and will show how having the program's sources and being able to talk to the maintainers sometimes really, really helps..."

Distributing New SSH Keys Using Rsh On Linux And Unix
(2008-06-10 09:45:04)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today we're going to grind through our 'Lazy Sunday' post with a quick script to update SSH keys network-wide, by using rsh (the less secure of the two protocols)..."

Rowgen the Full Package, IRI CoSort Says
(2008-06-10 10:30:46)
Enterprise Linux Log: "Data protection and security may become easier if a new Linux-friendly product from IRI Cosort delivers on its promises..."

Running a GNU/Linux Desktop on the Web with Ulteo
(2008-06-10 11:15:39)
Free Software Magazine: "Is it possible to develop full GNU/Linux desktops that run on the web and can therefore be accessed from anywhere...?"

Open Source Astaro Security Appliance Installed at Insurance Company
(2008-06-10 12:00:18)
SearchEnterpriseLinux: "At Underwriters Safety & Claims, security abruptly rose to the top of IT Director Grant Nickle's to-do list late last fall when it became clear that the existing security system needed replacement..."

IBM's Roadrunner Supercomputer Sets World-Record Speed
(2008-06-10 12:45:14)
ChannelWeb: "Beep beep! Sorry coyote, but you're still not wily enough to touch Roadrunner, IBM's supercomputer, billed as the fastest in the world operating at 1 petaflop or 1,000 trillion calculations per second..."

Boy Scouts of America Look to Open-Source Community for Help
(2008-06-10 13:30:22)
Computerworld: "Scouts honor--the 98-year-old Boy Scouts of America (BSA) organization is adopting open-source software as a path to building better software to support the almost 3 million scouts and 1.1 million adults who make up the group..."

UK Unix Beardies Appeal for $cash
(2008-06-10 14:15:43)
The Inquirer: "The UK UNIX User Group may have to drop its legal challenge to Microsoft's controversial international document standard because it doesn't have the money to see it through..."

Nokia: Linux Role Growing, Not Yet Mainstream
(2008-06-10 15:00:24)
Reuters/iTnews: "The world's largest cellphone maker Nokia said it expected the role of Linux operating software in mobile handsets would grow, but it would take some time to become mainstream..."

Suncorp Envisages Linux, ODF for 20,000 Desktops
(2008-06-10 15:45:20)
ZDNet Australia: "Suncorp's CIO, Jeff Smith, says he would like the banking and insurance giant to use open source software for its 20,000 desktops, which currently run Windows XP..."

Law.com Article Spins Old Confusions into New "Danger"
(2008-06-10 16:30:30)
Software Freedom Law Center: "Law.com recently ran a sensationalist piece by Edmund J. Walsh warning of the impending 'dangerous real world business dispute' in store for any for-profit company that uses free software..."

Open Enterprise Interview: Bernard Dalle, Index Ventures
(2008-06-10 17:15:49)
Computerworld UK: "The pragmatic and ethically-rooted world of free software might seem about as far away as possible from the highly abstract and, at times, morally dubious world of high finance..." Link repaired. -ed.

Cloudy Saturday: Puppet, for Automating Virtual Machines
(2008-06-10 18:00:44)
OStatic: "Puppet is built upon the legacy of the venerable Cfengine system, but takes things to a whole new level..."

"Fake" Write Support
(2008-06-10 18:45:16)
KernelTrap: "In a series of seven patches, Arnd Bergmann proposed adding in-memory write support to mounted cramfs file systems..."

How's Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Doing?
(2008-06-10 19:30:51)
The Linux Beacon: "One of the great things about the double-barrel open source software and fee-based subscription support strategy that commercial Linuxes have is that there is very little economic pressure on Linux shops to upgrade from one version of the platform to another..."

Interview: John De Goes Introduces a Newly Free Source Code Editor
(2008-06-10 20:15:56)
Javalobby: "UNA Collaborative Edition is a real-time collaborative development environment for software engineers. It lets two or more developers edit the same code, at the same time..."

Ubuntu Netbook Strategy Faces Four Questions
(2008-06-10 21:00:41)
Works with U: "But which PC companies and device makers will back Ubuntu on netbooks? Here are some thoughts, plus four key questions facing Canonical’s netbook strategy..."

GPL: Why Can't a Lawyer Understand It?
(2008-06-10 21:45:18)
iTWire: "Nearly a year after the Free Software Foundation released an updated version of the General Public License--the GPLv3--there appears to be a great deal of confusion about what the license actually means, if one goes by two recent publications..."

Firefox 3: Past, Present, and Future
(2008-06-10 22:30:24)
Practical Technology: "Firefox 3 is almost here. The latest version is now at release candidate two and, in a word, it's great..."

Is the VA Killing VistA? Say It Ain't So
(2008-06-10 23:15:11)
FierceHealth: "As longer-term readers know, this newsletter has praised the VA's efforts with open-source EMR VistA since we first got started..."

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