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News Linux News for Oct 03, 2008:
At What Price Will Oracle Start Sniffing Around Red Hat Again?
(2008-10-03 00:02:23)
The Open Road: "At what point -- or, rather, at what price -- does Oracle give up its Quixotic Unbreakable Linux quest and simply buy the real thing?"
Bash Parameter Expansion
(2008-10-03 01:32:23)
Linux Journal: "Anytime you use a dollar sign followed by a variable name you're doing what bash calls Parameter expansion, eg echo $a or a=$b. But parameter expansion has numerous other forms which allow you to expand a parameter and modify the value or substitute other values in the expansion process."
Making Multi-Player Games an (Almost) Open-Source Experience
(2008-10-03 03:02:23)
The Open Road: "Video games have long struck me as a perfect platform for open-source development. Unfortunately, many gamers agreed, and the courts are littered with copyright lawsuits over the years when developers tried to extend their favorite games."
Is the End Near For Independent Open Source?
(2008-10-03 04:32:23)
The Open Road: "For the first time I'm scared for open source. Not open source as a global movement and way of doing business and software development - that's safe. Even Microsoft believes in it."
Red Hat Reaches Out to Uncle Sam
(2008-10-03 06:02:23)
The VAR Guy: "And now, Red Hat is campaigning for change. The software company will spend next week evangelizing the government’s growing need for open source. It’s a smart, timely move by Red Hat. Here's why."
What Is Ubuntu Easy Business Server (UEBS)?
(2008-10-03 07:32:23)
Works With U: "What is Ubuntu Easy Business Server? A Canonical product? A small business concept? Or something else?"
Red Hat Linux Trumps Unix on TPC Price/Performance Test
(2008-10-03 09:02:23)
SearchEnterpriseLinux: "In a recent independent test, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Advanced Platform trumped all other operating systems that process more than 1 million transactions per minute -- and at 22% lower cost than its next closest competitor."
GParted Live 0.3.9-4 Released
(2008-10-03 10:32:23)
SoftPedia: "Being based on the latest build (10-01-2008) of Debian Lenny, the new version brings an updated GParted, an updated kernel, 3 new boot options and a handful of improvements."
The Microsoft-Stacked SC 34 Committee Makes a Move
(2008-10-03 11:32:23)
Groklaw: "Guess what the SC 34 committee, the ISO/IEC committee responsible for OOXML, is up to now? I call it a takeover attempt of ODF...it is what it is. An attempted coup."
Red Hat Undercuts Microsoft on High-Performance OS Pricing
(2008-10-03 12:02:23)
InfoWorld: "Factoring in fees for Microsoft's maintenance agreement, one Windows HPC 2008 Server would cost $800 over three years, while Red Hat HPC Solution is about $750."
Report: Skype Helped China Snoop on Users
(2008-10-03 12:32:23)
LinuxInsider: "In China, nothing is private. As if we needed more proof, a Canadian group has spotted a bank of unsecured servers containing what appear to be filtered-out information from Skype messages that might run afoul of Chinese censors..."
Norwegians Leave Their Standards Body in Protest
(2008-10-03 13:02:23)
No OOXML: "Remember that Standards Norway was voting Yes with the support of only 2 companies (Microsoft and Statoil), and against the will of the rest of the technical committee (read our previous article "Norway: 21 "No", 2 "Yes" and Microsoft still gets its way?")."
Bubba Two: The Little Server That Could
(2008-10-03 13:32:23)
Linux.com: "Bubba Two arrives in a nondescript package containing the server itself, a power supply, a crossover Ethernet cable, and a two-page getting started guide. The server is surprisingly small -- about the size of of two stacked VHS tapes -- and thanks to its low-power processor and passive cooling, the only moving part in it is a hard disk."
To Encrypt or Not? That is the Question
(2008-10-03 14:02:23)
CNet Security: "Even before someone hacked Sarah Palin's Yahoo Mail account I had been wondering whatever happened to encryption."
Ubuntu 8.10 Beta Screenshot Tour
(2008-10-03 14:32:23)
Softpedia: "Compared with the sixth alpha, which brought Firefox 3.0.2, Samba 3.2 and GNOME 2.24 Beta 2, this version comes with the final and stable GNOME 2.24 desktop, a brand new wallpaper, Firefox 3.0.3, PAM authentication framework and a BBC plugin for Totem (the default movie player in Ubuntu)."
KpackageKit: Future of Package Managers on Your Desktop
(2008-10-03 15:02:23)
Polish Linux: "PackageKit is a system designed to make installing and updating software on your computer easier. The primary design goal is to unify all the software graphical tools used in different distributions."
Standards, Open Standards and Double Standards
(2008-10-03 15:32:23)
Interop News: "I am not impressed with OpenOffice as an alternative to Office. And I am really not impressed with IBM’s attempt to ram the little-used ODF down our throats."
e1000e and the Joy of Development Kernels
(2008-10-03 15:47:23)
LWN: "This particular bug goes beyond breaking networking; when it bites, it corrupts the EEPROM on the device, causing it to cease to function forevermore..."
When Linux Does Well: the e1000e Ethernet Bug
Fixed
(2008-10-03 16:02:23)
Cyber Cynic: "One reason I love Linux is that when there's a problem, it gets fixed. Usually, it gets fixed in a hurry and that's exactly what happened with the e1000e Ethernet bug."
FireTune Takes the Hassle Out of Optimizing Firefox
(2008-10-03 16:32:23)
OStatic: "Have you ever typed about:config into Firefox's address bar? If you do, you'll get back a huge array of files that you can modify to configure and customize your Firefox installation. Some people like to play with these. I don't like to, and that's why I'm a big fan of FireTune."
Build Better Blogs With Linux
(2008-10-03 17:02:23)
The Linux Distillery: "The theme for this month is "I didn't know you could do that in Linux," and today I'll show you how Linux can really help your blog take off, both in terms of improving its performance as well as giving you a much greater handle on what's happening."
FSF High Priority List Becomes a Campaign, Seeks Donations
(2008-10-03 17:32:23)
Linux.com: "After marking the GNU Project's 25th anniversary with an endorsement by Stephen Fry and the relicensing of OpenGL, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is concluding the month-long celebration by relaunching its high priority list, which enumerates as-yet unwritten or incomplete software needed to run a completely free computer system."
Mono Moonlight – Shedding Light Without Generating Heat
(2008-10-03 18:02:23)
LinuxPlanet: "The need for Mono's Moonlight project, which allows Microsoft's Silverlight to run on Linux, might be questioned by many Linux purists, but the fact remains that there will be websites developed using Silverlight."
LPC: Booting Linux in Five Seconds
(2008-10-03 18:32:23)
LWN: "How did they do it? Arjan said it starts with the right attitude. "It's not about booting faster, it's about booting in 5 seconds.""
Google's Picasa for Linux Catches up to Windows
(2008-10-03 19:02:23)
Underexposed: "The new release catches the open-source operating system up with Windows, which got the Picasa 3 beta one month earlier. There's still no word about a Mac OS X version..."
Speaking UNIX: !$#@*%
(2008-10-03 19:32:23)
IBM Developerworks: "That's great, but you want to understand what the UNIX® administrators next to you are typing. It looks like a lot of commands interspersed with strange symbols. Learn what |, >, >>, <, <<, [[ and ]], and many more symbols mean in UNIX and Linux® as well as how to get the most out of operators such as &&, ||, <, <=, and !=."
Useful and Highly Dynamic: GIMP 2.6 has Arrived
(2008-10-03 20:02:23)
Linux Pro: "Among others is to offer developers integration with the Generic Graphics Library (GEGL) to allow non-destructive editing of HDR and RAW graphics that are rendered in up to 32-bit color depth per channel."
Sharing Files With a USB Drive in Ubuntu
(2008-10-03 20:32:23)
Computingtech: "Simply plugging the drive into the USB port will automatically mount the drive. From there, you can access it as you would access any mounted partition."
This Isn't Your Grandpappy's dd Command
(2008-10-03 21:02:23)
Red Hat Magazine: "In some ways, dd can seem like Old Spice -- only the guys over 60 use it. But the younger generation should know that dd still has some tricks up its sleeve. In this article, we're going to put a new twist on this old favorite and show how grandpappy really does know best sometimes."
Python's New Release Bridges the Gap
(2008-10-03 21:32:23)
InternetNews: "With sweeping changes ahead in version 3.0 of the open source programming language, the 2.6 release arrives to smooth the transition."
Quit Smoking and Other Ways to Keep Healthy With Linux
(2008-10-03 22:02:23)
The Linux Distillery: "Ah, Linux! Is there anything it can't do? Not only can you surf the Internet, write documents and calculate taxes, here's how Linux also wants to look after your health and well-being, including getting you off cigarettes and avoiding repetitive strain injury."
Ubuntu 8.10 Beta Released
(2008-10-03 22:32:23)
Practical Technology: "It certainly, in the updated archive manager, File Roller, now has more support for other compressed formats such as ALZ, RZIP, CAB, and the TAR.7Z file types. Nautilus, the GNOME file manager, also now has tabs and I, for one, find that a very useful feature."
Editor's Note: Dummy Pride
(2008-10-03 23:02:23)
What most folks really want is not a better tool, but a magic wand.
Gameloft Moves 1,000 Business Desktops to Ubuntu Linux
(2008-10-03 23:32:23)
The VAR Guy: "Gameloft Moves 1,000 Desktops to Ubuntu LinuxBusinesses are catching on to Ubuntu, Canonical’s Linux distribution. The latest example: Gameloft, a major mobile games developer, has moved more than 1,000 desktops to Ubuntu..."
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