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Linux News for Jul 27, 2006
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Linux Journal: Does Dual Licensing Threaten Free Software? (2006-07-27 23:15:58)
"After the dotcom doldrums of the past five years, there is a
new wind blowing through the world of commercial software. It's
open source, but not as we know it..."
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InfoWorld: Ubuntu's Jeff Waugh Says Power Management is Getting Better (2006-07-27 22:30:27)
"I tackled Jeff Waugh, prince of Ubuntu to discuss why I would
be thrilled to switch to an Ubuntu laptop but several things aren't
allowing me to move off the Mac..."
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InformationWeek: Review: Napster And Rhapsody For OS X And Linux? Sort Of (2006-07-27 21:45:00)
"With the launch of new Web-based services from two major online
music subscription providers, Mac and Linux users can finally get
in on the all-you-can-download action. But are these services any
good...?"
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CNET News: Selling Mozilla Through Sex and Religion (2006-07-27 21:00:45)
"Sex and ego sells, students in a project at Stanford University
have confirmed, but so does religion..."
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The Jem Report: Ubuntu Linux 6.06 Review (2006-07-27 20:15:36)
"...[U]nless businesses like dealing with multiple hardware
issues, a substandard Java environment, and a lack of proprietary
Web browser plugins, I can't see how Ubuntu Linux 6.06 is ready for
anything except perhaps a patch release..."
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NewsForge: NeroLinux Revisited: No Better than the Alternatives (2006-07-27 19:30:33)
"Like its Windows counterpart, NeroLINUX combines an easy-to-use
interface with a variety of options. However, unlike the Windows
version, it offers little, if anything, that is not available in
comparable free software..."
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CNET News: Adobe Returns Attention to Flash for Linux (2006-07-27 18:45:10)
"Adobe has resumed work on a Linux version of its Flash Player
and plans to catch the software up to its Windows and Mac OS X
equivalent, version 9, the company has said..."
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PR: Second Discussion Draft of Revised GNU General Public License Released (2006-07-27 18:00:17)
The Free Software Foundation and the Software Freedom Law Center
(SFLC) today have released the second discussion draft of the GNU
General Public License version 3..." Announcement
within.
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internetnews.com: Sugar 4.5 Gets 'AJAXed' (2006-07-27 17:15:10)
"With the 4.5 release of its open source CRM package, SugarCRM
is capitalizing on its growing popularity in the space..."
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PC Magazine: Motorola Outlines Plans for RAZR Successor, the SCPL (2006-07-27 16:30:31)
"He also said Motorola will be abandoning the familiar operating
system used on its feature phones, such as the RAZR, for a Linux-
and Java-based solution..."
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Fellowship of FSFE: Alan Cox 5 Minutes on GPLv3, Plus Comments (2006-07-27 15:45:04)
"In the Q+A session after a recent talk by Alan Cox in Limerick,
he was asked for his thoughts on GPLv3..."
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NewsForge: OSCON Day 2 (2006-07-27 15:00:56)
OSCON: "The eighth annual O'Reilly Open Source
Convention (OSCON) continued yesterday with more tutorials, the
O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing, the Open Source Awards, and
Larry Wall's State of the Onion report..."
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internetnews.com: Will All Software Go Open Source? (2006-07-27 14:15:51)
"When open source developers gather on a panel to discuss
whether 'all software will go open source,' you can expect the
sentiment to tip that way, only with lots of arguments..."
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The Register: India Rejects One Laptop Per Child (2006-07-27 13:30:56)
"India has decided against getting involved in Nicholas
Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child scheme--which aims to provide
kids in developing countries with a simple $100 machine..."
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PR: GNOME 2.16 Beta 1 Released (2006-07-27 12:45:12)
"The latest development release of GNOME is here: GNOME 2.15.90,
a.k.a. GNOME 2.16 Beta 1..." Announcement, links
within.
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Andrew Morton: Linux 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 (2006-07-27 12:00:00)
Incremental changelog, links within.
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SearchOpenSource: Testing a New Linux Kernel While Keeping the Old One (2006-07-27 12:00:00)
"This article describes how I accomplished this task by using a
dual-boot system with two Linux kernels to choose from during
startup..."
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PC World: Make Dapper Drake Perform on Old Hardware (2006-07-27 10:30:36)
"Ubuntu 6.06 is sweet, but can be slow on older PCs. Here's how
to speed it up..."
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Linux Journal: System Administration: Another Step Toward the BIND [Parts III & IV] (2006-07-27 09:00:27)
"Before we take a look at a complete primary zone file, we need
to cover background. Consider this background the context where the
file itself is content..."
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Enterprise Networking Planet: Use Fedora Directory Server For Manageable LDAP (2006-07-27 07:30:35)
"So, before we get into exploring the wonders of Fedora
Directory Server, let's give that question a meaningful answer. Why
should you consider using LDAP...?"
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Linux.com: Emacs Tips: Checking Spelling and Syntax (2006-07-27 06:00:00)
"Even the Emacs-enlightened are still but humble human beings
who may err..."
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LinuxDevices: Device Profile: RobuSoft RobuROC 6 Autonomous Vehicle (2006-07-27 04:30:26)
"French transport and cleanliness robot specialist RoboSoft has
used real-time Linux in a six-wheeled outdoor autonomous vehicle
aimed at reducing human risks..."
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Advisories, July 26, 2006 (2006-07-27 03:45:51)
Today's security advisories: kernel-source-2.6.8 et. al. (Debian
GNU/Linux), and mozilla-thunderbird and php4 (Ubuntu Linux).
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ZDNet: Qlusters Serving All Virtualization Schemes (2006-07-27 03:00:28)
"The headline was that its openQRM project would deliver plug-in
support for all the major virtualization projects--Xen, VMWare,
QEMU, VServer--whatever..."
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CRN: Getting Linux To Disrupt The Market, Not The User Experience (2006-07-27 01:30:43)
"Novell's chief technology officer, Jeff Jaffe, wrote yesterday
why the Linux desktop is hogging much of the attention..."
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Slashdot: Web Services and Open Source at OSCON (2006-07-27 00:45:57)
OSCON: "I spend a lot of time with my head
buried in code, and every time I pick my head up it feels like the
future is closer than I thought. So I like coming to OSCON..."
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ZDNet: MS Platform Chief: Closed-Mindedness About Open Source Continues (2006-07-27 00:00:51)
"...[G]etting to this place where Open Source is no longer
considered a pejorative by Microsoft has been a slow and deliberate
process that must be massaged both internally and
externally..."
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