News Linux News for Sep 02, 2009:

Novell, SCO: When FUD Comes Calling
(2009-09-02 00:03:53)
ServerWatch: "Companies with inferior products are often tempted to create Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. A bit of FUD is an effective leveler, allowing these companies to compete on more equal terms with the competition."

OpenOffice 3.1.1 fixes bugs
(2009-09-02 02:03:53)
The H Open: "It fixes a number of bugs in the previous version and a potential security vulnerability, but does not add any new functionality."

Mirroring Web sites with wget
(2009-09-02 04:03:53)
Linux and Open Source: "...once I heard the site might be going down, it was a mad rush between myself and many other security researchers to obtain a local mirror of the contents of the site for ourselves."

Linux Unified Kernel 0.2.4.1 released
(2009-09-02 06:03:53)
Linux Unified Kernel: On August 31st, 2009, the new version of Linux Unified Kernel (Longene) 0.2.4.1 is released. In this release, we updated the kernel patch and module based on Linux 2.6.30, so it will support more features that the new kernel brings.

How To Install GRUB 2 On Ubuntu 9.04
(2009-09-02 08:03:53)
Howtoforge: "This tutorial shows how you can upgrade your GRUB bootloader to GRUB 2 on Ubuntu 9.04. GRUB 2 has been rewritten from scratch to clean up everything for modularity and portability."

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review (The most detailed review of all time)
(2009-09-02 10:03:53)
ars Technica: "Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard has landed. This time around, Apple goes light on the glitz in favor of some heavy work under the hood. John Siracusa dives deep into Apple's new OS offering to see what's new, what's still the same, and whether it's worth upgrading."

The Move to Linux - Netbook Remix
(2009-09-02 12:03:53)
Linux Journal: "If you have been following my postings over the last year, you will have read about my attempts to migrate to Linux. Some have been partially successful, others have been unmitigated disasters."

Comes Antitrust: Microsoft McCarthyism Exposed
(2009-09-02 12:33:53)
Boycott Novell: "David & I have spoken with Maureen O’Gara (based on go ahead from BrianV) and planted the story. She has agreed to not attribute the story to us."

Kolibri - a desktop operating system in under 3 MB
(2009-09-02 13:03:53)
Distrowatch: "What if I told you that I was recently running a modern operating system that requires about 5 MB of disk space and about 10 MB of RAM? That sounds like a stretch, doesn't it, even for Tiny Core Linux?"

Let's Get Together ... and Ignore Each Other
(2009-09-02 13:33:53)
Intranet Journal: "Two guys walk into a Starbucks. They bump their way up to the barista and say ... nothing. Then the first guy says to the second guy ... nothing. The second guy turns to the first guy, and without looking at him says ... nothing. So what's the punch line?"

Usefull extensions for openoffice
(2009-09-02 14:03:53)
Unixmen: "Writer's Tools-- Writer's Tools is a set of utilities designed to help OpenOffice.org users perform a wide range of tasks. Using Writer's Tools, you can back up documents, look up and translate words and phrases, manage text snippets, and keep tabs on document statistics."

Sharp to Introduce New Mobile Internet Tool
(2009-09-02 14:33:53)
Sharp press release: "Sharp Corporation will introduce into the Japanese market the PC-Z1, a new Mobile Internet Tool that is as easy to handle as a mobile phone and that has performance similar to that of a PC."

KDE 4.3.1 released
(2009-09-02 15:03:53)
ItRunsOnLinux: "The popular Linux Desktop Environment KDE is now upgraded to version 4.3.1. This release contains several bugfixes & enhancements, like Support for transferring files through SSH using KIO. According to KDE this is a "stable release"."

Redis: Lightweight key/value Store That Goes the Extra Mile
(2009-09-02 15:33:53)
Linux Magazine: "Calling redis a key/value store doesn’t quite due it justice. It’s better thought of as a “data structures” server that supports several native data types and operations on them."

Metadata Performance of Four Linux File Systems
(2009-09-02 16:03:53)
Linux Magazine: "Using the principles of good benchmarking, we explore the metadata performance of four linux file systems using a simple benchmark, fdtree."

PC World:Open Source Is Polluting the Windows Experience
(2009-09-02 16:33:53)
PC World: "It's like a cancer: a creeping, deadly disease that slowly erodes all that's good and clean, replacing it with a swill of malignancy and decrepitude."

Guru Tips For The Linux Road Warrior
(2009-09-02 17:03:53)
Linux.com: "There is also a growing army of stealth Linux road warriors, that are running under the radar."

Android software development relatively unprofitable
(2009-09-02 17:33:53)
The H Open: "The same game on the Android store has, over the same length of time, sold five hundred copies; an equivalent income of $1,046 at most."

Intellectual Ventures Takes Indirect Route to Court
(2009-09-02 18:03:53)
Law.com: "Patent-hoarding giant Intellectual Ventures has long beat the drum that it doesn't file lawsuits. But now Intellectual Ventures has started selling some of its 27,000 patents to people who aren't afraid to sue..."

Building Linux Audio Applications 101: A User's Guide, Part 1
(2009-09-02 18:33:53)
Linux Journal: "Recently I've received some mail asking for a brief explanation on how to build Linux audio applications from source code packages. Ask and ye shall receive, hence the following simple guide for the perplexed, the puzzled, and the downright mystified. Compiling software is hardly rocket science, and if an old guitar-picker like myself can do it certainly you can too."

Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3 hits orbit with open source
(2009-09-02 19:03:53)
Netstat -vat: "Red Hat today announced the release of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3, the first release of the systems management tool built from the Spacewalk open source project."

Use FreeRADIUS for Wi-Fi Authentication (Part 2)
(2009-09-02 19:33:53)
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: "Now we'll open the CentOS firewall and configure our access points (APs). Then we'll distribute the CA file to all the computers and configure them with the encryption and authentication settings. Plus we'll set up SQL so you can store your user and AP information in a database rather than text files."

Should the Gates Foundation Support Linux and Apple Computers in Public Libraries?
(2009-09-02 20:03:53)
PC World: "Why buy a computer whose screen layout and operations you're not familiar with? You would be a fool to do otherwise, right?"

Windows 7 closes on Linux market share
(2009-09-02 20:33:53)
TG Daily: "Windows 7 might not be officially available until October 22, but the latest numbers from W3C show it's rapidly closing on the combined market share of every flavor of Linux."

Amarok 2.2 -- Reloaded, revamped, rethinked, reeverything!
(2009-09-02 21:03:53)
Padoca Virtual: "Are you curious to what incredible and life changing goodies it will bring to your life? Do you? Then keep on reading..."

Red Hat Warns of Microsoft Windows Azure Lock-In
(2009-09-02 21:33:53)
The VAR Guy: "During Red Hat Summit in Chicago, CEO Jim Whitehurst and Executive VP Paul Cormier warned attendees not to get locked into virtualization and cloud initiatives involving Microsoft Windows Azure and VMware."

Vixta Linux 2009.7
(2009-09-02 22:03:53)
Desktop Linux Reviews: "But what happens when Linux is made to look like Windows? Is that a good thing or a bad thing?"

Ten Things You Didn't Know Apache (2.2) Could Do
(2009-09-02 22:33:53)
Linux Magazine: "However, it also seems that a lot of folks are completely unaware of some of the cool new things available in 2.2. Sites are so used to Apache just working; most don’t think about the new features that are going into the Web server all the time."

The best netbook ever?
(2009-09-02 23:03:53)
ZDNet Education: "It’s for these older kids, their teachers, and the off-to-college set that some netbooks start to be less attractive, though. The cheapest of the cheap, as well as those really designed for younger kids, simply don’t meet their needs and can make typing and regular use more of chore than it’s worth."

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