News Linux News for Dec 06, 2008:

6 Diamonds in the Rough for Evaluating Open Source Apps
(2008-12-06 00:02:15)
OStatic: "One of the most popular features offered here at OStatic is our database of over 150,000 open source projects, many of which include screenshot tours, and more."

Vyatta Expanding Linux Networking Appliances
(2008-12-06 01:32:15)
InternetNews: "Startup Linux networking vendor Vyatta is set to announce a new hardware appliance on December 9th. The new device will add more power to Vyatta's lineup of networking products that they are targetting competitively against Cisco and other proprietary vendors."

WFTL Bytes! for Dec 5, 2008: Songbird Flies, OOo Gets Some Go Go Go, Opera Hits a High Note
(2008-12-06 03:02:15)
WFTL!: "This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Friday, December 5, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagne. This is episode 34. Today's show is brought to you by the letter O. Stories include a Songbird that's just turned 1, an extreme makeover for OpenOffice.org, more on the faster, slicker version of said OpenOffice.org, IBM reinvents and rediscovers thin clients, as a newcomer to the world of Opera hits a high note."

OpenSolaris 2008.05 vs. OpenSolaris 2008.11 Benchmarks
(2008-12-06 04:32:15)
Phoronix: "Seven months after the release of OpenSolaris 2008.05 (a.k.a. Project Indiana) its successor was finally released earlier this week. OpenSolaris 2008.11 was released on Tuesday with many updated packages and new features. To see how this new work has affected the performance of Sun's OpenSolaris operating system, we have benchmarked both releases through some different tests."

Managing OpenVZ With The Vtonf Control Panel On CentOS 5.2
(2008-12-06 06:02:15)
HowtoForge: "Vtonf is a free web-based control panel (released under the GPL license) for managing virtual private servers (VPS) based on OpenVZ. It makes it very easy to create and manage OpenVZ VMs even for people with little technical knowledge. Right now, Vtonf is available only for RedHat, Fedora, and CentOS (support for Debian is planned), therefore I describe its installation and usage on a CentOS 5.2 server."

Unix - System VI Release Notes - More Linux and Unix Humor
(2008-12-06 10:02:15)
The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "For this weekend, I again combed the Internet with a fine-toothed ...hair brush... and found even more funny stuff out there. It never ceases to amaze me that, out of the billions of people alive on this planet, so many have managed to retain their sense of humor :)"

No Kindle for Christmas
(2008-12-06 12:02:15)
Cyber Cynic: "I don't have a Kindle. Yet. I was holding out for the second edition of the Kindle, but Amazon was unable to ship out by this holiday season. Now, even if you wanted the first model, you can't have it. Amazon has run out of Kindles."

Five Open Source Content Management Systems You Should Know About
(2008-12-06 16:02:15)
Fierce Content Management: "For these reasons and more, you should at least include open source options when you evaluate content management vendors. Many vendors like eZ Publish and Alfresco are working with large organizations, which shows how well they can scale to even the largest content repository requirements."

Red Hat cancels party; will feed needy instead
(2008-12-06 18:02:15)
News Observer: "Red Hat recently scrapped plans for a massive holiday party. Instead, the Raleigh software company will donate the money it would have spent to a food charity chosen by employees."

OpenOffice's UI will be getting a refurb
(2008-12-06 20:02:15)
Heise Open Source: "In addition, the office suite's menus have become so cluttered and badly structured that users find it impossible to locate certain functions – a problem Microsoft addressed with the ribbon feature in Office 2007. Ribbons have replaced the classic menus of Word, Excel, Access and Powerpoint in the latest Office, and will come to Paint and Wordpad in Windows 7."

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