Linux Today Newsletter For MARCH 23, 2006
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TODAY'S NEWS:
------------------------------------------------------------------ FORBES: FREE VS. OPEN
In an interview by e-mail with Forbes, Stallman says freedom is more important to him than popularity.
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------------------------------------------------------------------ NEWSFORGE: DUVAL LAYOFF: MANDRIVA CEO RESPONDS
"Mandriva CEO François Bancilhon told NewsForge he wishes he 'could still be friends' with Gaël Duval, who was laid off this month from the company he co-founded in 1998..."
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------------------------------------------------------------------ CONSORTIUMINFO: MICROSOFT JOINS THE ODF/ISO RECONCILIATION COMMITTEE
"The reason why this is significant bears a bit of explaining, because the global standard setting infrastructure is rather complex, and also has a bit of history that is worth understanding..."
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------------------------------------------------------------------ INFORMATIONWEEK: OPEN SOURCE STRUGGLES TO WIN CRITICAL MASS
"Such of the political controversy around the open standards movement in government, generated by vendors angry with governments for moving away from their proprietary technologies, is mirrored in the open source movement..."
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------------------------------------------------------------------ COMPUTERWORLD AUSTRALIA: HILF SPEAKS ABOUT LINUX THROUGH MICROSOFT EYES
"Computerworld managed to grab a few minutes with Hilf, the man who runs Microsoft's Linux and open source technology group to hear the proprietary software giant's views on open source, and what the Linux lab inside Microsoft gets up to..."
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------------------------------------------------------------------ DESKTOPLINUX: MEPIS FOUNDER PLOTS TRANSITION TO UBUNTU
"'MEPIS is no longer involved with the DCC due to 'creative differences.' We wish Progeny, Xandros, and Linspire the best of luck in their mutual endeavors,' said Woodford..."
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------------------------------------------------------------------ NEWSFORGE: CARMONY: LINUX DESKTOP DEMAND INCHING INTO RETAIL CHANNEL
"Linspire President Kevin Carmony doesn't want Dell selling and promoting Linux desktops--at least not yet..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,jzyz,lfxu,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ CNET NEWS: LINUX LAB LAUNCHES TECH ADVISORY BOARD
"The Open Source Development Labs, an organization devoted to improving Linux, has launched a technical advisory board to try to foster better relations with programmers..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,lnjb,c165,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ LINUXELECTRONS: CRAY WILL LEVERAGE OFF THE SHELF CPUS AND LINUX FOR NEW SUPERCOMPUTER
"Over the next few years, Cray supercomputers will combine standard microprocessors, vector processing, multithreading and hardware accelerators in one high-performance computing platform that uses the industry-standard Linux operating system..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,ykb,c0yy,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ LIGHT READING: GODADDY MIGRATES TO MICROSOFT
"Upon completion of the migration, Go Daddy will have moved all its parked domains from Linux to the Windows platform..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,343o,zb3,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ TONIGHT ON THE LINUX LINK TECH SHOW
"We talk to Dirk Hohndel, Intel's Director of Linux and Open Source Strategy..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,dlip,4n5n,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ DESKTOPLINUX: A LINUX DESKTOP FAIRY TALE
"Once upon a time, long long ago, everyone who was anyone in the Kingdom of Linux used SlackWare. Then, along came Red Hat, which many people in the kingdom thought was neater and had a great package manager..."
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------------------------------------------------------------------ OPEN...: WHAT OPEN SOURCE CAN LEARN FROM MICROSOFT
"In case you hadn't noticed, there's been a bit of a kerfuffle over a posting that a Firefox 2.0 alpha had been released..."
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------------------------------------------------------------------ LINUX-WATCH: LATE VISTA, TIMELY LINUX
"Why does Microsoft constantly fall on its face when it comes to operating system deadlines, while Linux continues to cruise along popping out one release after another...?"
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,1e6v,jrjl,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ INFOWORLD: GRID AND VIRTUALIZATION FINDING COMMON GROUND IN LINUX
"In the Grid community, there has been a lot of discussion recently about the synergies between Grid and virtualization... and there are also some pilot proof of concept projects underway..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,dppw,byf8,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ CENTOS: CENTOS 4.3 IS RELEASED FOR I386, X86_64, AND IA64
"The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS-4.3 in the following architectures..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,e3fz,i4sn,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ SYS-CON BRASIL: ARK LINUX 2006.1-RC1 RELEASED
"The Ark Linux team has announced the release of Ark Linux Home 2006.1-rc1--the first release candidate of Ark Linux Home 2006.1..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,khr5,6wwi,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ ADVISORIES, MARCH 22, 2006
Today's security advisories: snmptrapfmt (Debian GNU/Linux), kernel (Mandriva Linux), and sendmail (Fedora Core, Mandriva Linux, Red Hat Linux, Slackware Linux, and SUSE Linux).
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------------------------------------------------------------------ HOWTOFORGE: TWO-IN-ONE DNS SERVER WITH BIND9
"This tutorial shows you how to configure BIND9 DNS server to serve an internal network and an external network at the same time with different set of information..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,auc8,l85o,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ THE FRACTURED SINGLETON: JACMAN: PACKAGE MANAGEMENT IN ARCH LINUX
"Arch Linux is not what one would call a 'newbie friendly' distribution. As such, the default package management software, Pacman, has no default GUI front end to it..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,edy7,40t9,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ SYS-CON BRASIL: OPEN SOURCE JSP TAG LIBRARY PROJECT PROVIDES 100% JAVA FRONT-END TO GOOGLEMAPS API
"...[T]he group says that the Tag Library provides JSP developers with the ability to create fully functional Google Maps with absolutely no JavaScript or AJAX programming..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,71yv,15gt,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ LINUXDEVICES: FAA GRANTS RSC STATUS TO LINUX-FRIENDLY RTOS
"A proprietary RTOS capable of running Linux binaries has been certified by the Federal Aviation Administration as a re-usable software component..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,3f2s,freg,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ TECTONIC: SOWETO'S OSS HACKERS ATTRACT ATTENTION
"'This 'scarce skills' talk is nothing but a fallacy,' says Msimang. 'The problem is that the country has not put them to use...'"
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------------------------------------------------------------------ THE MERCURY: OPEN SOURCE IT CENTRE FOR LOCAL SCHOOL
"The specialised centre is the first of its kind in KwaZulu-Natal and the second-largest in Africa..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,1ilf,g4py,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ THE HALIFAX CHRONICLE HERALD: LINUX AN EASY ALTERNATIVE
"Odds are that more than half the Windows users reading this column have computers that have been compromised in some manner without their owners knowing it..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,eob0,59zh,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ ANDREW MORTON: LINUX 2.6.16-MM1
Incremental changelog, links within, plus: "a look at the -mm lineup for 2.6.17..."
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------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERNETNEWS.COM: FIREFOX 2.0 'BON ECHO' TAKES ITS BABY STEP
"It's just an early alpha release at this point, but Mozilla Firefox 2.0 'Bon Echo' is an early showcase for the next round of the modern browser wars..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,gndf,cr85,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ EWEEK: NOVELL SAYS IT'S TALKING TO OEMS ABOUT BUNDLING ITS DESKTOP
"Novell is talking to a number of OEMs about getting its upcoming SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 preinstalled on the hardware systems they ship..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,4ns8,i22o,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ ZDNET: MOZILLA PLANS TO FUND DEVELOPER COMMUNITY
"The Mozilla Foundation is planning to use some of its millions of dollars in revenues to fund active members of its developer community, the organization said Tuesday..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,34nf,7zxr,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ MICHAEL'S MINUTE: BYE BYE MICROSOFT WORD, HELLO AJAXWRITE
"What if there was alternative for Microsoft Word that would install and open in 6 seconds, read and write Microsoft Word .doc files and run on Macintosh, Microsoft Windows or Linux computers...?"
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,cu2r,k5n1,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ COMPUTERWORLD: APACHE'S GREG STEIN SAYS COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE DAYS NUMBERED
"The days of selling software through the traditional commercial model are numbered, as open source is becoming the paradigm of choice..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,2uk,1me,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE: NOVELL CHEERS BAD NEWS FOR MICROSOFT
"'Why, I feel bad for them,' he quipped, holding up a copy of USA Today with a headline trumpeting, "Microsoft Delays New Windows" as the Salt Palace convention crowd of several thousand cheered..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,7jrx,k1sp,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERNETNEWS.COM: SPIKESOURCE STACKS OPEN SOURCE APPS
"It's not always as easy as you'd think to get an open source application up and running in any given environment..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,b0cd,8j0t,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ ZDNET AUSTRALIA: HP LAUGHS OFF SOLARIS MERGER OFFER
"During Hewlett-Packard's Business Critical Systems conference in Macau this week, executives described a recent offer by Sun Microsystems' boss Scott McNealy to merge Solaris with HP-UX as 'almost laughable...'"
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,7hxy,k1qw,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ EGOV MONITOR: IT CERTIFICATION SCHEME OPENS FOR BUSINESS
"The new scheme entitled Certified Open aims to assess the degree of 'openness' of a suppliers' products, services and staff..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2bmb,1,darh,2xsz,2ezm,3q9m
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