News Linux News for Feb 11, 2009:

The Good News, Linux Fans, is Venture Capital Is Harder to Find
(2009-02-11 00:02:21)
Linux Today Blog: "This sort of model works well for VCs, because each invests in dozens of companies, with the home runs making up for the wash outs. But an entrepreneur's portfolio includes only one company -- and odds that are stacked against her."

Virtualization With Xen On Debian Lenny (AMD64)
(2009-02-11 01:32:21)
HowtoForge: "This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen on a Debian Lenny (5.0) system (AMD64). Xen lets you create guest operating systems (*nix operating systems like Linux and FreeBSD), so called "virtual machines" or domUs, under a host operating system (dom0)."

Monty Widenius talks about why he left Sun Microsystems
(2009-02-11 03:02:21)
Tectonic: "The other side of the coin was that some people in MySQL management made my life hell; They didn't let me participate in MySQL development, didn't give me resources in doing Maria development and did a lot of backstabbing to make my life difficult."

Keeping Your ssh Connection Alive
(2009-02-11 04:32:21)
Tip of the Trade: "You may have had the experience of having your SSH connection to another machine drop if you ignore it for too long... You can fix this..."

KVM Guest Management With Virt-Manager On Ubuntu 8.10
(2009-02-11 06:02:21)
HowtoForge: "Virt-Manager (Virtual Machine Manager) is a graphical interface for managing KVM and Xen guests on the local and also on remote systems. You can use it to start, stop, pause, create, and delete guests, and you can connect to the guests using the graphical console."

Digiband - Drumming & Guitar simulator in openSUSE
(2009-02-11 07:32:21)
SUSE & openSUSE: "DigiBand is a full home version Drumming/Guitar simulator. It isn't just intended to be a simulator, but a uniquely refreshing new experience. It is much different than simulators already out there."

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0, aka 'lenny', due this weekend
(2009-02-11 09:02:21)
Computerworld: "Should Debian meet its deadline, lenny will come out almost two years after the release of etch, which made its official debut in April 2007."

Help Fight This Patent-Encumbered IETF Standard
(2009-02-11 10:32:21)
Open Enterprise: "I've written numerous times about the importance of writing to governments about their hare-brained schemes, but this one is rather different."

Open letter to Obama: Uncle Sam should go open source
(2009-02-11 12:02:21)
ars Technica: "The Obama administration has expressed interest in evaluating the potential benefits of broader open source adoption in government IT, but it's unclear if its current approach will be able to produce sound policy guidance."

Free software isn't freeware: why Linux and FOSS have a higher standard
(2009-02-11 13:02:21)
IT Wire: "Microsoft's recent survey proclaimed nearly half the population believe it is ok to use pirated software for personal use. This diminishes the argument by Linux advocates that you can use their operating system without any cost. Yet, you can't confuse free as in cost with free as in freedom. Here's what FOSS really means."

How to write a Linux virus in 5 easy steps
(2009-02-11 13:32:21)
Foobar: "But nevertheless, users can't just catch a virus by email or downloading malware from the Internet, contrary to "those Windows users". Linux will protect them from their own stupidity. At least so the story goes. But sadly, that's not true."

PCLinuxOS 2009 Beta 3 Released
(2009-02-11 14:02:21)
Tech Source From Bohol: "Don't count out PCLinuxOS just yet. The Ripper Gang announced today the release of the third public beta of PCLinuxOS 2009."

Review: Yoggie Gatekeeper Pro
(2009-02-11 14:32:21)
Raiden's Realm: "I reviewed their stand alone portable USB powered SOHO firewall a while back and found it to be quite good, although lacking in some advanced configuration options. So how does this one stack up? Let's take a look and find out."

Over 30 Must-Have Open Source Resources
(2009-02-11 15:02:21)
OStatic: "In this post, you'll find more than 30 collections and resources. Hopefully, there is something right up your alley here, and the good news is that everything you'll find is free."

Happy 15th Birthday Linux Journal!
(2009-02-11 15:32:21)
Linux Journal: "The big news that comes along with this maiden issue of Linux Journal is that the Linux kernel itself has matured to 1.0 status."

Audacity - Audio editing & recording in openSUSE
(2009-02-11 16:02:21)
SUSE & openSUSE: "Audacity is a free opensource audio editing and recording software. Audacity can run on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX. Audacity can manipulate digital audio wave forms. In addition to recording sounds directly from within the program, it imports many sound file formats, including WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, MP, and Ogg Vorbis"

Interview with Anthony Gold, President, Open Solutions Alliance
(2009-02-11 16:32:21)
Open Enterprise: "Long story short, Linux was so easy to use (boot, configure, tune, etc.) that we really got bitten by the bug. So, we looked long and hard at how Unisys could work with Linux in a meaningful way."

Vendor strips down rugged PC panel
(2009-02-11 17:02:21)
LinuxDevices: "Glacier is shipping a lower-cost, reduced-feature version of its ruggedized Everest panel PCs that targets warehouse, supply chain, and shop-floor environments. The e4000 model is equipped with a 600MHz Celeron or 1.4GHz Pentium M processor, and is available with an Igel thin-client image for Linux."

Benchmarked: Firefox Javascript on Linux and Windows - and it's not pretty
(2009-02-11 17:32:21)
Tux Radar: "In fact, we think more Linux users need to admit there are some places where Linux isn't quite as good as its competitors. And one place where that's certainly true is in web browsing. Don't believe us? We did some simple JavaScript benchmarks of Firefox 3.0 using Windows and Linux to see how it performed across the platforms - and the results are pretty bleak for Linux."

Looking Inside Microsoft's Open Source Repository
(2009-02-11 18:02:21)
Datamation: "Quoting a blog entry about CodePlex's growth, Assay suggests that the last year "has seen Microsoft make serious progress toward real open-source savvy." A closer look at the site, however, suggests that he may have too optimistic."

23 Useful System Applications for Linux
(2009-02-11 18:32:21)
TechCityInc: "It's always great to have Linux Alternatives to popular applications so I've decided to write about some of the most useful System applications for Linux including Cd burners, Anti Virus, FTP solutions and instant messengers that you can download today."

Set up Linutop in 5 Minutes
(2009-02-11 19:02:21)
Linutop Magazine: "Just because Linutop is based on Linux, it doesn’t mean it’s difficult to configure. In fact, the little machine comes with a custom Linutop Setup applet which allows you to configure virtually every aspect of the system in a matter of minutes. "

Silverlight, via Moonlight, comes to Linux
(2009-02-11 19:32:21)
Cyber Cynic: "The Mono Project, a Novell sponsored open-source initiative to bring .NET code to Linux, has just released an open-source, Firefox add-in Moonlight 1.0 that enables Linux desktop users to view Moonlight content."

Android moving on to mobile Internet tablets, media players
(2009-02-11 20:02:21)
ars Technica: "The new branch--which is codenamed Cupcake—introduces support for several important features, including an on-screen keyboard. This critical feature, which was missing from Android at launch, will make Android a viable platform for touchscreen tablet devices that don't have hardware keyboards."

Open-source projects to provide corporate benefits?
(2009-02-11 20:32:21)
The Open Road: "I spent some time talking with an Accenture veteran this morning, and came away with an intriguing idea: enable open-source projects to provide corporate benefits like health insurance to their developers so that they can ditch their day jobs to focus on their open-source passion."

Open Source News from FOSDEM 2009 - Day 1
(2009-02-11 21:02:21)
LXer: "Several new records were set this year during this event. Over 750 people showed up and the bill was close to 10,000 Euro, even though Google had sponsored some free beer. They had designed a new way to make sure everyone could get beer and it supposedly worked much better than last year."

Colorful man pages in linux
(2009-02-11 21:32:21)
UNIX BASH scripting: "By default, the man pages are formatted using Linux 'less' utility which displays the texts in blank and white colors. Using 'most' utility to view man pages gives a color formatted man page..."

Make your Ubuntu distro look like the Mini Mi
(2009-02-11 22:02:21)
ars Technica: "The GUI released by HP for its Mini Mi netbook has been winning accolades for its high design standards. The interface offers pleasing shiny black eye candy that some sites are comparing to Apple design."

Create a file with given size - Linux dd command
(2009-02-11 22:32:21)
UNIX BASH scripting: "Linux dd command (convert and copy a file) can be used for this purpose."

Novell layoffs still less than 100
(2009-02-11 23:02:21)
Practical Technology: "Rumors just won't die that Novell will be laying off more employees."

Open Source in India Today
(2009-02-11 23:32:21)
FOSS Bazaar: "The benefits of open source - affordability, availability of source code and freedom of choice - have made open source a preferred platform for many innovative Indian organizations and individuals who want to harness the power of high quality software which can be freely adapted to their own requirements."

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