News Linux News for Sep 03, 2009:

Internet celebrates 40th birthday: but what date should we be marking?
(2009-09-03 00:04:20)
Telegraph UK: "The internet celebrates its birthday today, September 2, with 40 years having passed since the first successful transfer of data between two computers."

New Virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
(2009-09-03 02:04:20)
InternetNews: "Linux vendor explains why it didn't wait to put KVM into the new enterprise release."

Opera 10 - A First Look At This Fabulous Web Browser
(2009-09-03 04:04:20)
All About Linux: "Opera 10 has been released. This release of Opera sports a number of alluring, new features, many of them not seen in any of its contenders. The enhancements to look out for in Opera 10 are as follows."

Joomla responds to IBM X-Force security report
(2009-09-03 08:04:20)
Software's Sublimation: "Earlier this week, an IBM X-Force report said that the open source Joomla! content management system led in unpatched vulnerabilities."

Useful Ubuntu Links
(2009-09-03 10:04:20)
Ian's Thoughts: "I recently helped a friend switch to Ubuntu and he wanted a list of Ubuntu-related links. I compiled the following list for him and thought it might be useful to others."

64-Bit Upgrade By Way of Open Source Isn't Bump-Free
(2009-09-03 12:04:20)
eWeek: "In the wake of analyst Andrew Garcia's Windows 7 64-bit migration woes, Labs' Jason Brooks considers the bumps he's encountered on his own journey to 64-bit on the Ubuntu Linux machines he runs at home and work."

4 +1 ways to celebrate the Software Freedom Day
(2009-09-03 12:44:20)
Free Software: "With the Software Freedom Day fast approaching, the Free Software Foundation and communities across the world are planning their activities and are preparing to celebrate and promote Free Software in their region. Joining your local community and partaking to its activities is strongly suggested; however, here are some ideas for individual promotion of Free Software:"

CodeWeavers Releases Crossover Games 8.0 for MAC and Linux
(2009-09-03 13:34:20)
Wine-Reviews: "Latest Release Features Support for Left4Dead, Tales of Monkey Island. "Zombies need to die," CEO proclaims"

My Arch Linux Experiment (Part 1)
(2009-09-03 14:04:20)
IT News Today: "For the longest time, Kubuntu has reigned supreme as the master of all of my PC's. Unfortunately, version 9.04 was one of the worst releases in its history and for the first time I started to look for greener pastures."

Which licence is best: EPL, GPL or BSD?
(2009-09-03 14:34:20)
IT Wire: "Debates about the pros and cons of various licences available to free and open source software developers often end up generating more heat than light."

Apple Built a Better Kitty (Thanks to Linux)
(2009-09-03 15:04:20)
Daily Revolution: "I have the Snow-Cat running now on my 3-year old MB and my daughter’s one-year old MBP (yes, and Apple is to be praised for still lacking the paranoid proprietary madness of MS in this respect), and both are purring."

Installing Ubuntu Server 9.04
(2009-09-03 15:34:20)
Recently a friend requested I help him with an installation of Ubuntu Server. Since he was completely new to the process of installing Linux (and the topic is a winner anyway) I thought it would be smart to walk through the process of installing a Ubuntu Server, step by step, here on Ghacks.

Ageism rife in IT?
(2009-09-03 16:04:20)
IT Wire: "More than 20% of IT professionals say they have experienced age discrimination, and unemployment among senior IT professionals is running at over 30%."

Sony PCs to Ship with Google Browser
(2009-09-03 16:34:20)
Datamation: "Google Inc is shipping its Chrome browser with Sony Corp PCs, sealing the Internet company's first such deal since it introduced the Web browser last year to compete with Microsoft."

Microsoft: Can't Our Patent Systems Get Along?
(2009-09-03 17:04:20)
InternetNews: "One of Microsoft's top attorneys on Wednesday called for an overhaul of the patent system to create a single, global patent office that will streamline and accelerate the approval process."

Downright Painful: Server Sales Plummeted in Q2
(2009-09-03 17:44:20)
InternetNews: "Server sales initially held up for about a quarter amid the economic collapse of late 2008, but now the economy is catching up with big iron -- and then some, as sales fell even further and faster than desktops."

Red Hat launches GateIN open source portal project
(2009-09-03 18:24:20)
Netstat -vat: "GateIN melds JBoss Portal technologies with the eXo portal to create a new portal framework. Red Hat originally announced the partnership with eXo in June and the today's availability of GateIN is the first deliverable."

A Few Details On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
(2009-09-03 19:07:20)
Phoronix: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 was just released, but Red Hat engineers have already been working on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 and today a few details regarding this next major feature release were learned during the Red Hat Summit in Chicago"

Zenity Brings a Little GUI Goodness to Linux Shell Scripts
(2009-09-03 19:47:20)
LinuxPlanet: "Paul Ferrill shows how adding a graphical user interface (GUI) component to any utility script can make it more user friendly, and introduces us to an excellent tool for doing this---Zenity."

Sun-Oracle Merger Delayed by EU
(2009-09-03 20:29:20)
EnterpriseStorageForum: "Anyone looking for clarity on the fate of Sun Microsystems' (NASDAQ: JAVA) Open Storage and other programs will have to wait a while longer."

ZaReason's New Linux Netbook, How to Thrive in a Tough Market
(2009-09-03 21:01:46)
LinuxPlanet: "ZaReason is an independent Linux OEM that sells a line of pre-installed Linux machines, from netbooks to desktops to servers. Their new Terra A20 Ubuntu netbook is flying off the shelves. Founder Cathy Malmrose talks about the challenges of running a Linux shop in a Windows world."

New Red Hat Linux's top five features
(2009-09-03 21:14:20)
Cyber Cynic: "Red Hat has released its latest version of its flagship operating system RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 5.4 and there's a lot to like in this new business Linux."

Why Linux does not look like Windows
(2009-09-03 22:24:20)
Tech-No-Media: "Apparently if someone completely copied the interface of Windows and slapped that on top of Linux, Windows users would migrate in droves and Microsoft would be bankrupt."

SCO Group Gets Key Ruling in Appeals Court
(2009-09-03 23:04:20)
Linux.com: " The long six-year legal saga of The SCO Group Inc. was recharged a bit last week when an appeals court overturned four critical August 2007 rulings that had seemingly put the brakes on the company's legal case against Novell Inc."

Eight-core PowerPC SoC begins sampling
(2009-09-03 23:44:20)
Linux Devices: "Freescale Semiconductor has begun sampling the top-of-the-line eight-core version of its Linux-compatible, PowerPC-based QorIQ system-on-chips (SoCs)."

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