Linux Today Newsletter For APRIL 18, 2006
Latest News for the Linux and Open Source Community.
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TODAY'S NEWS:
------------------------------------------------------------------ GROKLAW: WELLS TO SCO: "IS THIS ALL YOU'VE GOT?"
"Judge Wells to SCO's Stuart Singer: 'Does SCO have, can they provide, additional specificity... I mean, basically, Is this all you've got...?'"
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------------------------------------------------------------------ ZDNET: FINNISH REVENGE AS MYSQL GETS SOLID SUPPORT
"Oracle played a big card when it bought InnoDB, the most popular way to inject data into the open source mySQL database..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,bsol,af57,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ PEOPLE'S DAILY ONLINE: BANK REFORMS SPARK SOFTWARE WAR IN CHINA
"A market war has broken out between Microsoft and Chinese IT firms to supply software for the country's financial industry..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,13xw,f6jv,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ NETWORK WORLD: DOES OPEN SOURCE ENCOURAGE ROOTKITS?
"Rootkits are becoming more prevalent and difficult to detect, and security vendor McAfee says the blame falls squarely on the open source community..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,aq0s,9kw6,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ ZDNET ASIA: HP STRIVES TO EASE OPEN-SOURCE WOES
"Hewlett-Packard hopes to break down barriers to open-source software adoption with a new portfolio of hardware, software and services..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,80a5,5bfo,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ THE REGISTER: LESSIG, STALLMAN ON 'OPEN SOURCE' DRM
"When Sun trumpeted its 'open source DRM' last month, no one at first noticed an unusual name amongst the canned quotes..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,217l,3kv9,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ COMPUTERWORLD: Q&A: NEW MASS. CIO OFFERS UPDATE ON OPEN DOCUMENT FORMAT PLANS
"Louis Gutierrez, CIO of the Information Technology Division of Massachusetts, said this week that he doesn't envision a 'full-scale, completed implementation' of the state's controversial Open Document Format policy by a January 2007 deadline..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,b7u7,9g2d,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ MAD PENGUIN: LOOKING AHEAD: UBUNTU LINUX 6.04
"Ubuntu is a pretty interesting Linux distribution isn't it? I mean, no other take on Linux has shot so high so fast..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,h26y,9ot4,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ LINUXPLANET: SYNCHRONIZING YOUR LINUX LAPTOP AND DESKTOP
"If your laptop computer is a complement to your desktop machine, you're probably well aware of the need to synchronize data between the two..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,4s81,1u69,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ WASHINGTON POST: IT DOES LITTLE, AND NOT VERY WELL
"The Nokia 770 Internet Tablet ought to possess all the ingredients necessary for tech success..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,e202,bx8w,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ NEWSFORGE: NAR WALKS THE OPEN SOURCE WALK
"The National Association of Realtors (NAR) exists to help its 1.2 million members 'become more profitable and successful...'"
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,ccan,fswc,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ IT MANAGER'S JOURNAL: OPEN SOURCE VS. PROPRIETARY MANAGEMENT TOOLS
"In deciding between open source and proprietary management tools, an organization may have to decide whether it's willing to forgo some niche features in exchange for a less costly tool that does 80% of what its proprietary counterpart does equally well..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,a93d,hu0k,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERNETNEWS.COM: CHRISTINE MARTINO, VP, OPEN SOURCE AND LINUX ORGANIZATION, HP [INTERVIEW]
"Internetnews.com recently caught up with Martino to talk about her role and her views on HP's Linux effort and how they stack up against the competition..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,l21e,4y4v,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ COMMUNITY: LET'S HELP MICROSOFT!
"Why don't we the F/OSS community put our heads together and create a piece of software that basically makes it impossible to install an illegal copy of a Microsoft product and then give the code to Microsoft...?"
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,1ueh,7dbh,2ezm,3q9m
More Security stories: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,fzmy,6313,2ezm,3q9m
------------------------------------------------------------------ LINUX-WATCH: ORACLE LINUX?
"Larry Ellison, CEO and God-king of Oracle, may not be willing to pay a few billion for Red Hat, but he has thought about buying Novell, and he hasn't closed the door on buying a major Linux distributor..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,ddyy,6c9x,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ BLOG OF HELIOS: MICROSOFT IS PLAYING A DANGEROUS GAME... ONE WHICH LINUX COULD LOSE
"Port25 has been touted as the salve that will heal the wounds of the warriors from both Armies. You buyin' this...?"
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,9uvr,6dcm,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ ZDNET: WHY WINDOWS IS LESS SECURE THAN LINUX
"Windows is inherently harder to secure than Linux. There I said it. The simple truth..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,db4g,4s72,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ ITWIRE: WILL GOOGLE AND LINUX MAKE MICROSOFT YESTERDAY'S COMPANY
"Back in the mid 1980s, it would have been hard to imagine anyone breaking the IT market dominance of the mighty IBM. Big Blue was seven times as big as the number two player..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,481a,22de,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ INFOWORLD: MERGED RED HAT AND JBOSS COULD BE HEADED FOR A FALL
"With JBoss under its wing, Red Hat gains a new level of enterprise viability..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,813b,in1k,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ FREE SOFTWARE MAGAZINE: WHY CAN'T FREE SOFTWARE DO PORTABLE RIGHT?
"But, I was disappointed to find that very few free software products where available from the U3 site. Now, I know what you're probably thinking and you�re wrong, this isn't U3's fault..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,hnwu,czx4,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ NEWSFORGE: THE HIDDEN BENEFITS OF FREE SOFTWARE
"Most conversations about the cost of free software deal with its effects on the software industry. Microsoft people often talk about how much money the proprietary software industry can add to a developing country's economy..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,4ccj,hj18,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ ADVISORIES, APRIL 17, 2006
Today's security advisories: bsdgames (Debian GNU/Linux), libapreq2 (Gentoo Linux), and kernel (Mandriva Linux).
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,7t3o,6ot4,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ LINUX FORUMS: DEMYSTIFYING REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
"In this article a simple usage of regular expressions is described..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,1enx,ljp4,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ HOWTOFORGE: THE PERFECT SETUP--FEDORA CORE 5 (64-BIT)
"This is a detailed description how to set up a Fedora Core 5 based server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,ak21,9r5x,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ ENTERPRISE VOIPPLANET: VOIPOWERING YOUR OFFICE WITH ASTERISK--BUILDING A TEST LAB, PART 3
"Today we shall connect to the big bad outside world..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,bflq,bmnh,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ OSWEEKLY: LINUX RUNLEVELS OPERATE?
"Similarly, Linux has different modes of executing as well, which are known as runlevels. But unlike Windows, we can change runlevels on a fly..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,dli1,5vfg,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ LINUX.COM: CLI MAGIC: IS THAT CD STILL FRESH?
"Ever wonder if that ISO or backup CD or DVD you burned last year is still good...?"
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,crcb,d7yp,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ BITUBIQUE: STARTING WITH SQLITE
"SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,fdp,6y3p,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ LINUXMEDNEWS: MIRRORMED HIGHLIGHTS FOSS IN ACTION
"The MirrorMed project shows how Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in medicine can create a successful electronic medical record/electronic health record..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,aynw,7rm,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ NEWSFORGE: CCPUBLISHER GETS A GNU OUTLOOK ON CROSS-PLATFORM AVAILABILITY
"Until recently, its ccPublisher program, which allows you to upload CC-licensed content to the Internet Archive, had official binary releases only for Apple Macintosh OS X and Microsoft Windows XP. This is about to change..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,kyns,kwm3,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ FREE-BEES.CO.UK: FEDORA CORE 5 [REVIEW]
"A little while ago, I tested Fedora Core 4, and was pretty impressed. However, I felt that Ubuntu and SUSE had it beaten, if not by a huge margin. That was around half a year ago. So, what has Fedora managed to do in that time...?"
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,m06x,m8p7,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ ATI RADEON X1800XL + FSAA
"Now that we have covered the ATI Radeon X1000 series in-depth under Linux, we are back today with yet another look at the X1800XL but this time it comes in form of looking at Full Scene Anti-Aliasing..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,d739,kjzr,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ NEWSFORGE: CHRISTIAN ENDORSEMENT OF FREE SOFTWARE INCREASES
Back then, Stallman wrote to me that 'indeed, it seems to me that a sincere Christian must condemn non-free software as satanic in spirit...'"
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,7ttt,9ljs,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ -STABLE: LINUX 2.6.16.6
"We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.16.6 kernel..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,3q15,iazn,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ ANDREW MORTON: LINUX 2.6.17-RC1-MM3
Incremental changelog, links within.
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,l3jq,1j22,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ FINANCIAL TIMES: FULL TRANSCRIPT: FT INTERVIEW WITH LARRY ELLISON
"If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. Take [the web server software] Apache: once Apache got better than our own web server, we threw it away and took Apache..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,fows,awqv,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ NEWSFORGE: HANDS-ON TESTING OF THE NEW LINUX VIRUS
"Thanks to one of our readers, NewsForge has obtained a copy of the widely reported Windows/Linux cross-platform 'proof of concept' virus..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,ctzz,2ujp,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ EWEEK: NEW GNOME DOES SEARCH RIGHT
"One of the most prominent of those projects, GNOME, recently underwent one of its twice-yearly updates, and the result is a compelling set of refinements..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,czd3,h64u,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ SEARCHOPENSOURCE: ORACLE AND LINUX--HOW ABOUT UBUNTU?
"While eyes were drawn to Novell Inc. as a potential acquisition target for Oracle Corp., a far less expensive Linux distribution was also mentioned as a better fit for the database giant-turned-open-source advocate..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,fce4,4ofd,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ AUSTRALIAN IT: OPEN SOLARIS A SOURCE OF CONTENTION
"Linux distributor Novell has taken a shot at open-source rival Sun, saying the company's moves to open the code on its Solaris operating system had added little to the open-source community..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,ajb3,13aa,2ezm,3q9m
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------------------------------------------------------------------ NEWSFORGE: MICRO CENTER ISN'T A HAPPY HOME FOR LINUX
"I decided to take a trip to my local Micro Center this week to see how that initiative was going. Unfortunately, the answer is not so well..."
COMPLETE STORY: http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,2dto,1,glz6,digc,2ezm,3q9m
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