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Groklaw; By Pamela Jones / Douglas Burns (Posted by bstadil on Aug 12, 2005 10:35 PM)
[Story Type: Editorial; Groups: Community]
I hope those of you who wonder if a patent commons is useful or who don't see the point of other legal strategies friends of FOSS have been coming up with to try to deal with the SCO's and Microsofts of this world will note that he reports from attending Daniel Egger's speech that Microsoft has apparently been telling people that they have patents being infringed by the LAMP stack, Wine and Samba
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Dr. Dobb's Journal (Posted by bstadil on Aug 12, 2005 8:26 PM)
[Story Type: News Story; Groups: Debian, Fedora, GNOME, Progeny, Sun]
At this year's LinuxWorld, the .Org Pavilion was a special section of the Conference reserved for not-for-profit organizations developing cutting-edge projects. The .Org Pavilion participants included X.org, Gnome Foundation, Fedora, and Debian, among others. But the news wasn't who was there, but who wasn't--the OpenOffice.org folks.
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Tectonic; By Richard Frank (Posted by tadelste on Aug 12, 2005 8:21 PM)
[Story Type: News Story; Groups: Novell]
A growing number of Linux-powered desktops and laptops are finding their way into the retail market -- driven by a more receptive system builder channel that includes the likes of Mustek, Rectron, Pinnacle and Esquire. "We are very enthusiastic about the sales through the OEMs as they are growing on a month-by-month basis, though obviously off of a low base," says Hodgson. "The biggest deal we have done to date was the deal with Rectron for 2000 units ... and those units are also apparently selling well through their channel.
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CNET News.com; By Stephen Shankland (Posted by dave on Aug 12, 2005 7:35 PM)
[Groups: Debian, Progeny; Story Type: News Story]
Progeny, which is aiming to commercialize the Debian version of Linux, is looking to "accelerate our growth," co-founder says.
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Linux Journal; By Matthew Gast (Posted by tadelste on Aug 12, 2005 7:24 PM)
[Story Type: Interview]
In the complex world of wireless LAN security protocols, two major open-source development projects are serving as "standards cops": xsupplicant and wpa_supplicant. I first met Chris Hessing, the lead developer of xsupplicant, at Interop in 2003. Since then, he has continued to develop xsupplicant in his spare time away from his day job as the wireless network architect at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. I recently had a chance to talk with Chris by phone about xsupplicant, his views on wireless security protocols and what he's trying to do on the one of the largest decentralized secure wireless networks in existence.
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LinuxDevices.com; By Ed Sutter (Posted by tadelste on Aug 12, 2005 6:27 PM)
[Story Type: News Story]
After writing code for booting dozens of different hardware platforms on numerous embedded operating systems (including VxWorks, Nucleus, pSOS, uC/OS, among others), Ed Sutter decided to develop a common boot platform for embedded devices. In 2000, his employer (Lucent) granted him permission to post "Micromonitor" (aka "uMon") on Lucent's Software Distibution Website for free public download under the Lucent Public License. Sutter has continued to enhance Micromonitor over the past five years, and has just issued the 1.0 milestone release. In this whitepaper Sutter discusses uMon's features, capabilities, typical uses, and APIs, before listing new features in version 1.0.
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SAP INFO (Posted by tadelste on Aug 12, 2005 5:30 PM)
[Story Type: News Story; Groups: MySQL]
Startup EnterpriseDB said it aims to compete with MySQL AB, the open-source database leader while also taking on rivals Pervasive Software and Greenplum. Greenplum recently unveiled a software and hardware bundle that includes data analysis tools and an early version of the company’s specialized business intelligence database, which is built around a version of the PostgreSQL open-source database designed specifically for building large-scale analysis databases. PostgreSQL is the collective work of hundreds of developers which started at the University of California at Berkeley. Pervasive Software touts Pervasive Postgres as community-maintained open source database along with a bundle of connectivity drivers and management tools like views, triggers, stored procedures and security.
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ComputerWorld; By Juan Carlos Perez (Posted by tadelste on Aug 12, 2005 4:24 PM)
[Story Type: News Story; Groups: Microsoft, Mozilla]
Score:   (1 vote; 100% negative)
AUGUST 12, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer halted the steady market share advance of The Mozilla Foundation's Firefox browser in July, a Web site monitoring company announced today. Last month, Internet Explorer, by far the most used browser, regained lost ground and pushed back the upstart Firefox for the first time since Version 1.0 of the open-source browser debuted late last year, according to NetApplications.com, an Aliso Viejo, Calif., maker of applications for monitoring and measuring Web site usage. Firefox's share shrunk to 8.07% from 8.71% in June, while Internet Explorer grew its market slice to 87.2% in July from 86.56% last month. (Editor's note: Anyone interested in a bridge I have for sale in Brooklyn?)
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Network World; By Phil Hochmuth (Posted by tadelste on Aug 12, 2005 3:14 PM)
[Story Type: News Story; Groups: Kernel]
Coverity, a maker of software analysis tools, said it had analyzed the 2.6.9 version of the Linux kernel in December and a newer version of the kernel (2.6.12) in July. The study found that open source developers who write and maintain the kernel had fixed some significant issues with the software over the six-month study period. Linux kernel code analyzed in December of 2004 was found to have five file system buffer overrun weaknesses and one major network buffer overrun issue. Both of these were corrected when the code was re-analyzed in July, the company says. The study says that the code base for the Linux kernel grew from 5.76 million lines of code to 6.03 million lines. Total code defects found in Coverity's study increased overall from 985 in December 2004 to 1,008 in July, but the number of defects per lines of code decreased from .17 per 1,000 lines of code to .16.
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NewsForge (Posted by dave on Aug 12, 2005 2:00 PM)
[Groups: KDE, GNOME; Story Type: News Story]
One of the original Windows selling points was that it included a version of solitaire, the centuries-old, time-filling card game. Later, in the mid-1990s, several critics told me Linux would never catch on unless it, too, included solitaire. Now, of course, solitaire has been part of the KDE and GNOME desktops for so long that most users can't remember not having it. So okay, everyone has solitaire, which leads us to the burning question of the day: "Which has the best built-in version of solitaire: Windows XP, GNOME, or KDE?"
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OSDir (Posted by linuxbeta on Aug 12, 2005 12:34 PM)
[Groups: Mandriva]
Distrowatch reports - The second beta of Mandriva Linux 2006 is now available for testing. From the release notes: "x86_64 initrd generation problem is workarrounded (sic); new Mandriva theme; massive PHP modules update; fixed single user mode in initscripts; diskdrake: fix update boot loader on renumbering partitions; drakconnect: allow to use WEP keys in wpa_supplicant, use ifplugd for wireless interfaces, handle access point roaming using wpa_supplicant, initial IPv6 support (6to4 tunnel), keep MS_DNS1, MS_DNS2 and DOMAIN variables in ifcfg files; drakhosts, draknfs: do not crash when config file is empty.... OSDir has put together a lengthy screenshot tour of Mandriva Linux 2006 Beta 2.
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CNET News.com (Posted by dave on Aug 12, 2005 12:05 PM)
[Groups: Microsoft; Story Type: News Story]
Microsoft's platform technology director says he has to balance competitiveness with cooperation.
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Network World; By Audrey Rasmussen (Posted by tadelste on Aug 12, 2005 11:15 AM)
[Story Type: News Story]
In a market climate, where IT is being asked to do more with smaller budgets, how prevalent is the issue of cost? Some IT organizations are turning to Linux as an alternative to reduce the licensing costs of software. So taking that thought the next step further, if the Linux platform is looked upon as a bargain or lower cost solution, then, are IT organizations less likely to pay for management tools for this platform?
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KernelTrap (Posted by bstadil on Aug 12, 2005 10:55 AM)
[Story Type: News Story; Groups: Intel, Kernel]
Jeff Garzik noted that he has updated the Serial ATA Linux softwarestatus report, "things in SATA-land have been moving along recently". The status report notes that, "the 'ATA host state machine', the core of the entire driver, is considered production-stable." The libATA driver uses the kernel's SCSI layer, and causes each SATA port to appear as a new SCSI bus.
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NewsForge (Posted by dave on Aug 12, 2005 10:30 AM)
[Story Type: News Story]
Rachel App is a renaissance woman whose interests are shared mostly by men and not other women. She's an independent label singer, songwriter, musician, and Linux geek who uses a variety of open source applications to record and enhance her music.
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CXOToday.com; By CXOtoday Staff (Posted by tadelste on Aug 12, 2005 8:42 AM)
[Story Type: News Story; Groups: Red Hat]
Red Hat, Inc. has recently announced the availability of Red Hat Network with Monitoring Module and support for Solaris. Red Hat and BMC Software also announced collaboration to extend cross platform support for heterogeneous configuration management. In the Monitoring Module, customers can create dozens of monitoring probes for each of their systems, configuring warning and critical thresholds for each probe. Probes can monitor systems, network functionality, or applications. Over 60 pre-built probes are available initially, including many for applications from Oracle, MySQL, Apache, and BEA. Meanwhile, the Red Hat Network Solaris Management is a simple and inexpensive tool to patch legacy Solaris environments. Customers with both Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployed will be able to leverage the benefits of a single, unified systems management system with Red Hat Network.
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Business Day; By Richard Waters - Financial Times (Posted by tadelste on Aug 12, 2005 8:37 AM)
[Story Type: News Story]
Every software company worth its salt already has some open-source strategy. IBM may have set the pace with its early support of Linux, but it has become common for tech companies to release open-source versions of software that does not earn its keep. What better way to undermine a more successful rival?
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Tectonic (Posted by tadelste on Aug 12, 2005 8:35 AM)
[Story Type: News Story]
The Meraka Institute's Open Source Centre (OSC) will host Soweto's first ever open source workshop tomorrow and has announced plans to develop satellite centres in the area with local open source experts able to assist users.The move comes as Meraka attempts to bridge the digital divide it sees developing in the open source arena. "There seems to be a disturbing trend emerging which reveals that our message seems to be getting through to everyone else but women and underprivileged communities," says Dr Ntsika Msimang of the OSC. "The irony here is that open source seems to be engineering its own digital divide and the idea of creating satellite centres is to reverse that trend by targeting the communities that we deem are the ultimate beneficiaries of bridging the digital divide."
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OhMyNews; By Xu Zhiqiang (Posted by tadelste on Aug 12, 2005 8:30 AM)
[Story Type: News Story]
People like Firefox because it just works. We designed Firefox to be invisible; we want you using the web, not the software. We've spent years refining it and streamlining it down to the pixel so that it works intuitively right out of the box. We have a formidable competitor in Microsoft, but the emergence of the network has changed the rules. If you create a great product, it will spread through word-of-mouth and people will use it. If people aren't talking about your product, your product isn't worth talking about.
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NewsForge (Posted by dave on Aug 12, 2005 4:30 AM)
[Story Type: News Story]
Most set-top digital personal video recorders (PVRs) cost anywhere from several hundred to more than a thousand dollars. The Neuros MPEG-4 Recorder is a much lower-priced PVR, but the reduced cost carries its own price: it can't do nearly as much as its more expensive hard drive- and DVD-based competitors, such as TiVo, ReplayTV, and UltimateTV.
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Techworld.com; By Paul Krill (Posted by tadelste on Aug 11, 2005 9:57 PM)
[Story Type: News Story; Groups: Intel]
The basic open-source licence covering software such as the Linux OS will be revamped and ready by 2007, according to an industry official involved with the project. The planned changes to the GNU General Public License (GPL) include resolving patent conflicts, accommodating Web services, and resolving incompatibilities with other licences. Dealing with wikis in the GPL also has been pondered.
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eWEEK Linux (Posted by bstadil on Aug 11, 2005 4:43 PM)
[Groups: Microsoft; Story Type: News Story]
It's late, it's lame and installing it won't be cheap, so now is the perfect time for Linux desktop vendors to make a charge at Microsoft.
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NewsForge (Posted by dave on Aug 11, 2005 12:00 PM)
[Groups: IBM, Sun; Story Type: News Story]
SAN FRANCISCO - 10 Aug 2005 - The second day of LinuxWorld passed without any fistfights breaking out between vendors, although there are rumors of rancor between Sun and IBM over a modification of OpenOffice.org that IBM is passing out on CDs. There are more hardware vendors than last year, with bigger and splashier displays. And in honor of the late, great San Francisco newspaper columnist Herb Caen, I will end this paragaph and some other ones with three dots...
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Techworld.com; By Manek Dubash (Posted by tadelste on Aug 11, 2005 11:00 AM)
[Story Type: News Story]
These guys have been talking to each other. Over the last two weeks, there has been a rash of announcements from a number of leading vendors pledging support for new open virtualisation standards. The plans pointedly do not involve Microsoft and could be seen as encircling the Redmond giant in the booming virtualisation market, which most observers see as becoming of growing importance over the next few years. Both Intel and AMD will build virtualisation hooks into their upcoming products, for example.
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LinuxWorld SF 2005 - A Report by Groklaw's Douglas Burns
Aug 12, 2005 10:35 PM
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Linuxworld 2005 Thursday
Aug 12, 2005 8:26 PM
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Novell's OEM Linux plans start showing successes
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Debian start-up seeks new funding
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Interview with Chris Hessing, Lead Developer of xsupplicant
Aug 12, 2005 7:24 PM
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An introduction to Micromonitor -- an open source boot loader and boot monitor
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Open Source Database Vendors Rival mySQL
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Firefox lost market share in July to Internet Explorer
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Study of Linux shows kernel improvements
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It takes patience to find the best solitaire
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