News Linux News for Jun 11, 2008:

Open Source Tour of Europe: Romania
(2008-06-11 00:00:48)
451 CAOS Theory: "When it comes to open source adoption, Romania is also well behind some of it European neighbours, although given the socio-political changes that have taken place in Eastern Europe in the last 20 years it is no surprise that the maturity of the IT industry in many countries is well behind what we see in Western Europe and the US..."

Linux Mint 5 Review
(2008-06-11 01:30:47)
The Gay Hacker: "The wonderful team over at Linux Mint has just released their fifth version (release notes, download) of the operating system, codename Elyssa, presenting yet another stable and elegant system..."

Comparing Asterisk and OpenSER
(2008-06-11 03:00:23)
Packt: "If you work with IP telephony, it's quite possible that you have not heard about OpenSER, but certainly you must have heard about Asterisk..."

Add Multitouch Gesture Support to a TouchPad-Equipped Laptop
(2008-06-11 04:30:02)
developerWorks: "Multitouch interfaces provide a great deal of benefits for integrating new interaction modes within applications..."

Finding The Number Of Open File Descriptors Per Process On Linux And Unix
(2008-06-11 06:00:25)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today, we're going to take a look at a fairly simple process (no pun intended), but one that (perhaps) doesn't come up enough in our workaday environments that the answer comes to mind as obviously as it should..."

Installing mod_geoip For Apache2 On Fedora 9
(2008-06-11 07:30:39)
HowtoForge: "This guide explains how to set up mod_geoip with Apache2 on a Fedora 9 system..."

Save Disk Space--Use compFUSEd to Transparently Compress Filesystems
(2008-06-11 09:00:45)
Linux.com: "The Filesystem in Userspace project allows you install new filesystems without touching your Linux kernel..."

How To Get Started With Logical Volume Management In Linux
(2008-06-11 10:30:51)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "If you use any of the 'major player' Linux flavours out there, you've probably noticed (over the last year or so) that standard installs show all your disks listed out in df..."

Digium Releases New Switchvox Product: Price Still an Issue for Many
(2008-06-11 11:15:24)
OStatic: "Open Source Asterisk PBX maker Digium released it's widely anticipated mid-range appliance today called the AA300..."

3 Reasons Why Your System Might Be Slow
(2008-06-11 12:00:25)
Royal HeHe2-Ness: "When we say the system is slow we mean that it isn't responding to our input in a reasonable time, or taking too long to complete a task..."

Harsh Words for Microsoft Technology
(2008-06-11 12:45:49)
The New York Times: "The European Union's competition commissioner, Neelie Kroes, delivered an unusually blunt rebuke to Microsoft on Tuesday by recommending that businesses and governments use software based on open standards..."

ISO Puts Standard for Microsoft's OOXML Document Formats on Hold
(2008-06-11 13:30:02)
Heise Online: "Procedure requires that they be dealt with by the end of June, when the ISO and IEC have to hand over their comments on the complaints to two management committees for a final decision..."

Red Hat Settles 2 Patent Lawsuits--1 More to Go
(2008-06-11 14:15:32)
Netstat -vat: "In March of this year Red Hat expanded its legal firepower by hiring lawyers Rob Tiller and Richard Fontana. Three months later it's evident that these two have been busy as today Red Hat announced that it has settled two of three outstanding patent lawsuits..."

Violate the GPL at Your Own Risk
(2008-06-11 15:00:02)
Practical Technology: "It used to be that companies could get away with stealing GPLed open-source code into their own software and no one would be the wiser. Those days are done..."

X Server 1.4.1 Is Released, No Joke
(2008-06-11 15:45:47)
Phoronix: "Today--just 212 days after the planned November launch date--X Server 1.4.1 is finally released...!"

Forrester Survey Finds Lack of Interest in OSS?
(2008-06-11 16:30:40)
Open Sources: "'Seventy percent of decision-makers responded that they don't have interest or have no plans to adopt open source software..."

IBM Lotus Symphony Turns Old Ooo Code Into Enterprise Judas Goat
(2008-06-11 17:15:44)
Linux.com: "Oracle and now IBM seem to have strange ideas about creating a business around open source software for the enterprise..."

Are Cisco and Red Hat Getting Cozy?
(2008-06-11 18:00:05)
The VAR Guy: "When Red Hat kicks off its big customer summit June 18 in Boston, the open source giant will bring along a rather large--and surprising--date: Cisco Systems Inc..."

Compiz and Compiz Fusion 0.7.6 Out in Wild
(2008-06-11 18:45:11)
cyberorg's blog" "Our friends Dennis Kasprzyk and Guillaume Seguin announced the release of Compiz and Compiz Fusion 0.7.6 respectively..."

Should Novell Invade Red Hat Summit?
(2008-06-11 19:30:05)
The VAR Guy: "Imagine if the Los Angeles Lakers held a fan rally in Boston, right in the Celtics' back yard. That's the situation facing the open source industry, where the Red Hat Summit starts June 18 right in Boston--roughly 15 miles from Novell's corporate headquarters..."

Mandriva Flash 2008 Spring Released
(2008-06-11 20:15:41)
Mandriva Club: "Mandriva today announces the launch of the Mandriva Flash 2008 Spring, the new product in the popular Mandriva Flash family. Take your entire desktop with you wherever you go..."

linux-staging Tree Created
(2008-06-11 21:00:19)
LKML.org: "Oh great, not yet-another-kernel-tree, just what the world needs..."

Eye Candy: So Bad, Yet So Good
(2008-06-11 22:30:58)
Hoosier Penguin: "Even though I consider myself a fairly advanced Linux user, there are some things in Linux I haven't gotten around to yet..."

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