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Linux and Open Source News for 13th June 2007

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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Berry Size: 531.78 MB Status: 2 seeders and 3 leechers Added: 2007-06-13 19:11:28


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: ZenWalk Size: 263.37 MB Status: 7 seeders and 10 leechers Added: 2007-06-13 16:21:12


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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: DesktopBSD Size: 660.91 MB Status: 642 seeders and 726 leechers Added: 2007-06-13 00:27:25


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Source: zenwalk

The Zenwalk Linux development team has announced the release of Zenserver 0.5, the project's new server edition: "After over four months of development, Zenserver 0.5 has been released. There has been a huge amount of changes since last release. Zenserver 0.5 features the 2.6.19.7 kernel with the Grsecurity .



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Source: Linux Today

HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can install the eyeOS on a standard Linux system. When you have finished ths tutorial, you will have a full, working eyeOS on your server "


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nixCraft: "With this tip you will be able to work from home using VPN and that too from Linux / FreeBSD system for the proprietary Microsoft Point-to-Point vpn server "


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developerWorks: "Writing a Web-based data entry UI for a complex application is never fun and is often downright tedious "


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A Blog Of Gentoo and Other Stuff: "I decided to write a series of essays about moving from Windows system to a Linux one. There are plenty resources online that can help with this transition "


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ZDNet: "Vyatta and the open source community behind the company have developed a complete enterprise-class router/firewall/VPN that can be hosted in a virtual machine "


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Source: Linux Today

OSWeekly: "Last time, we discussed Microsoft, their approach to protecting patents and why the enforcement of this is going to cost them much more than just some market share "


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Source: Linux Today

The Huffington Post: "In recent years, we've seen the growth of a canker on the Constitution. A swelling blind spot where were are increasingly not allowed to look. I'm talking about abuse of governmental secrecy "


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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "Zenoss has big ambitions for Zenoss Core 2.0, its open source management product "


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Source: Linux Today

Seopher: "Offering Ubuntu is an excellent step in the right direction; bringing quality open source operating systems to the mainstream market "


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Nerds-Central: "Is Solaris better than Linux? Is Ruby better than PHP? All this is totally missing the point! Core stuff like OS, Web Server, Scripting Language And C Compilers--are good enough "


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Source: Linux Today

InfoWorld: "This is the question that Peter Yared asks in his blog, and it's fascinating given that he founded a company (ActiveGrid) based on the premise that Java was going to get shunted aside "


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Source: Linux Today

Enderle: "No matter how we look at it, the open source movement is relatively young even when compared to a young technology market. We are learning as we go, but even so, we should be able to apply business knowledge and experience "


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Source: Linux Today

The Register: "Here's a poser for you: could there be anything more frightening than a bunch of open source geeks (proud ones, at that) milling around the mean streets of Edinburgh? Well, yes. How about if you put some of them in special Debian kilts ?"


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Linux.com: "Newly released VMware Workstation 6 has lots of new features and improvements to ease collaboration between the host and guest operating systems "


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DesktopLinux: "However, that deal, along with Novell's growing partnerships with enterprise software players such as SAP and now Capgemini are bound to win it friends in big business "


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Ars Technica: "Lars started the KHTML project as we know it in the late 90s to provide an HTML rendering component for the (then) newly-released KDE 2.0 "


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LinuxInsight: "Jerome Glisse announced today that a small team of X.Org developers has managed to provide the initial support for ATI R500-based cards "


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SearchEnterpriseLinux: "Commercial Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. and security vendor Symantec Inc. announced this week the pending availability of two secure server bundles "


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eWeek: "Researchers at three IBM labs have donated to the open-source community a package of advanced software that can help predict the transmission of diseases across countries and around the globe "


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Source: Linux Today

KPIX: "After meeting and informally talking with the judge who will preside over his case, computer science engineer Hans Reiser agreed Tuesday to delay his trial on charges that he murdered his wife Nina Reiser until at least September "


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Source: Linux Today

Silicon.com: "The hidden cost and complexity of open source is still a key barrier to adoption for many CIOs and large enterprises "


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LinuxDevices: "TiVo cautioned that, 'If the currently proposed version of GPLv3 is widely adopted, we may be unable to incorporate future enhancements to the GNU/Linux operating system into our software, which could adversely affect our business '"


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Source: Linux Today

internetnews.com: "Like a battered boxer that refuses to give up, SCO has once again picked itself up from the mat "


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CRN: "Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz is defending his company's actions in the Linux community, hours after Linux creator Linus Torvalds ripped Sun for taking but not giving back to the open source universe "


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Computerworld UK: "Europe's largest online hotel reservation site Booking.com has selected the MySQL open source database to process tens of thousands of online bookings a day "


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eSecurityPlanet: "A few years ago, when we spoke of network intrusion security systems, we spoke of IDS (Intrusion Detection System) appliances "


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ServerWatch: "When you need to set up a computer lab, classroom or meeting room in a hurry, look no further than Edubuntu, 'Linux for Young Human Beings '"


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HowtoForge: "This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install Xen (version 3.0.3) on a CentOS 5.0 system (i386) "



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

javipas writes "The controversial message published by Linus Torvalds (mirrored) in the Linux Kernel Mailing List was from the beginning to the end an open attack to Sun and its Open Source strategy. Linus criticized Sun's real position on GPL, and claimed that Linux could be dangerous to Sun. Upon his words, "they may be talking a lot more [about Open Source] than they are or ever will be doing.". Jonathan Schwartz's blog has been updated today with a post that is a direct response to Linus claims, but in a much more elegant and coherent way. Sun's CEO notes that "Companies compete, communities simply fracture", and tries to explain why using GPL licenses is taking so long."Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "I want to start (very small) software/hardware business. The code in question will be closed source. I won't modify or use any GPL code or any 3rd-party sources. It will be my own handwritten C/C++ code from start to finish. I am planning to sell embedded-like boxes with an OS (Linux or BSD) and this code. I am more familiar with Linux but I am scared a little bit of Linux licensing, and also of Linux fanboy-ism: I personally got a 'go to hell with your @#$ closed code' slur on Slashdot. I am not a GPL guru and not a software freedom fighter. I just want to do my job and make a living." Read on for this reader's five particular questions.Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: eWEEK Linux

Intuit said it is making this move in response to users' requests for an open-source option.



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Source: ONLamp.com

Thanks to Simon Morris’s A Rose by Any Other Name, I can now identify myself as a Neo-Desktopian. I’d say more, but I’m too busy right now trying to figure out why JSVim won’t launch on my iPhone; I’m trying to debug a compilation problem in the Monopolight GCC
front-end running on EC2.

I think it’s a CSS problem.



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There is a very interesting back-and-forth going on between Linux creator Linus Torvalds writing on the Linux kernel mailing list and Jonathan Schwartz, President and CEO of Sun Microsystems writing in his blog. Despite the different fora the two actually seem to be talking to each other as well as their respective audiences.
A year and a half ago Mr. Schwartz posted to his blog about possibly releasing Solaris under dual Open Source licenses, CDDL and GPL v3. Never mind that GPL v3 doesn’t exist yet and certainly wasn’t finalized a year and a half ago. This was one of Sun’s many pronouncements about their support for Open Source that seemed to have very little substance behind it.
Fast forward to yesterday and Linus’ post to the kernel mailing list in a discussion about the possibility of dual licensing the kernel under GPL v2 and v3. While Linus acknowledges positive contributions made by Sun he is very skeptical about their motives and about what, if anything, interesting they may release under any form of the GPL. While I share his skepticism I applaud his decision to be civil towards Sun and to say that he hopes he’s wrong. Read the whole post — it’s very interesting and informative.
Today Jonathan Schwartz responded. I must say he did nothing to allay my skepticism but… at least a discussion is taking place and a Sun commitment to Open Source and the GPL has been reiterated.
Having said all that, you should also read the comments in Mr. Schwartz’ blog. Here is a portion of a comment by Theo de Raadt that I found particularly insightful:
Sun gets great press out of UltraSPARC being all “open”, but what use is supervisor-mode documentation when the rest of the chips that the supervisor-mode code has to communicate with are entirely undocumented??? The press does not spot this problem, but Jonathan, you should clearly understand this is a fallacy. There are two operating systems which surprisingly do not run on the Sun v215/v245 — Linux and OpenSolaris. OpenSolaris?? Yes — Sun isn’t even open enough to give the OpenSolaris community enough documentation to support their new machines. So I think that Linus is right, and Sun has a long road ahead.
Like the eminent Mr. Torvalds I’d like to be wrong about this. Time will tell. Hey, at least Linus got a dinner invitation out of it :) Oh, and I also agree with Linus that WAFL for Linux would be awesome and ZFS for Linux would be interesting.
Tip of the hat to eauster on the Vector Linux forum for making me aware of this even if I am not as optimistic as he is.



Updated: Thu Jun 14 23:55:03 2007


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