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Linux and Open Source News for 17th June 2007
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Linux Today News Service
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Source: Linux Today Linux.com: "What do you do if one of your services stops working? Here are some handy command-line tools for managing processes "
Source: Linux Today HowtoForge: "One of the challenges you may face when converting an office from Microsoft Windows to Linux is that many people archive their e-mail in PST files "
Source: Linux Today ZDNet: "It's a tough road. Customer Relationship Management is more than mission-critical. The title describes your business right there "
Source: Linux Today Linux-Watch: "OK, so why have Novell, Xandros, and Linspire all gotten into bed with Microsoft ?"
Source: Linux Today ONLamp: "A unique survey ran on O'Reilly's web site during the first three months of 2007, aimed at people who contribute free documentation to online mailing lists, web sites, and other forums "
Source: Linux Today LinuxDevices: "Chumby, a venture-backed San Diego startup, is readying a soft, leather-covered Linux-powered gadget conceived as an Internet-era replacement for clock and table radios "
Source: Linux Today KernelTrap: "Chris Mason announced an early alpha release of his new Btrfs filesystem, 'after the last FS summit, I started working on a new filesystem that maintains checksums of all file data and metadata '"
Source: Linux Today Each distribution has some specific tools to build a custom kernel from the sources. This article is about compiling a kernel on a Debian Etch system
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News for nerds, stuff that matters
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Source: Slashdot: Linux xseedit writes "The RIAA has moved their main Web site www.riaa.com from IIS on Win2003 to Apache 2.2.3 on Red Hat. It appears that the move did not go smoothly as it resulted in an 8-hour downtime starting yesterday around noon, according to Netcraft. And the RIAA is still showing a 'temporarily under construction' page. They also moved their DNS from the small company that had been hosting them for the past 4 years, Tomorrow's Solutions Today (TST Inc.), to Mindshift Technologies. One can only guess what happened here, but the move seems to have been sudden and unplanned. They still haven't moved the riaa.org, riaa.net, and musicunited.org domains — those are still pointing to the TST nameservers that no longer accept queries for those domains. TST Inc. deserves credit, however. They seem to have managed to host the RIAA quite successfully for the past 4 years. Will Mindshift do a better job hosting one of the most reviled, and therefore most attacked, Web sites in the world? I wonder if anybody at the RIAA or TST would care to comment on the reasons behind this sudden move. Could it be that the RIAA is being sued by its hosting provider? Or perhaps the sue-happy organizaiton is suing its provider?"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot: Linux bobbocanfly writes "Another crack in the Windows Genuine Advantage wall. A user at UbuntuForums.org managed to validate an Ubuntu installation as a genuine copy of Microsoft Windows and get to the download page of Windows Defender, using IE4Linux and Wine. (Here is an OGG video of the process.) Along with the advancement of LiveCD technology, this could spell the end of Microsoft's control over who gets their updates."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot: Linux Martin writes "Microsoft has agreed to change the terms of its school agreement contract with Norwegian regional municipalities, following a complaint by Norwegian open-source software company Linpro to the Norwegian Competition Authority. Microsoft 'introduced two kinds of flexibility in the agreement, that were previously missing,' the head of the company's Norway operations said. One of these 'kinds of flexibility' involved Microsoft not getting paid a license fee for each Linux and Mac computer in schools."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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News, reviews and commentary on all aspects of Linux and open-source software, including application servers, communications and database servers.
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Source: eWEEK Linux Shuttleworth rules out any kind of deal with Microsoft concerning patents, but he doesn't close the door entirely on other kinds of partnerships with Microsoft.
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The O'Reilly Network ONLamp Articles and Weblogs
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Source: ONLamp.com Somewhere among the readers of the O’Reilly Network are people who know something relevant to pending software patents. For instance, you might have seen papers, conference presentations, or actual working code similar to a “Cooperative mechanism for efficient application memory allocation” or a “User selectable management alert format.”
The US Patent and Trademark Office wants your help. Through the Peer to Patent project you can look for prior art, discuss its relevance with other people in your field, and tell the patent office why they should take it into consideration–and you’ll be listened to.
At noon Pacific time today (June 18), members of the Peer-to-Patent project team will discuss the project on the New York Law School’s Democracy Island in Second Life. This is sure to be informative for anyone interested in public policy regarding inventions, and perhaps a memorable occasion in a project that could change how government interacts with citizens.
Source: ONLamp.com Head over to the O’Reilly Network OnLAMP site for my article Why Do People Write Free Documentation? Results of a Survey, which analyzes the 354 responses to a survey on the O’Reilly Network.
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