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Linux and Open Source News for 31st August 2007

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Source: LinuxTracker.org

Category: Linux Live CDs Size: 372.60 MB Status: 2 seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-08-31 21:40:43


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Category: PCLinuxOS Size: 1.45 GB Status: no seeders and 2 leechers Added: 2007-08-31 00:32:22


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Source: pcbsd

The release candidate for PC-BSD 1.4 is now ready for testing: "After a month of refinement, the PC-BSD team is pleased to make available the 1.4RC release. This update addresses many of the reported bugs from 1.4BETA, as well as adding working i18n support for many languages." From .



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iTWire: "There are plenty of celebratory noises emanating from the project but one needs to ask: was a second such project really needed ?"


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Source: Linux Today

ZDNet: "An eSchools report says open source spending is growing 70% per year, and will be up 800% in 2011 from last year's level "


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Computer Business Review: "The approvals process has been one of the most petty, underhand, deceitful, and childish events I have had the misfortune to witness during ten years in the technology industry "


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PlexNex: "The activities around OOXML indicate that this is the playbook "


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OSI: "There's been a lot of debate in the community about how OSI should properly handle Microsoft's planned submission of some of its licenses for OSD certification. That debate has been been going on within OSI, too "


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Source: Linux Today

Editor's Note: "The short- versus long-term argument is something that I see occur in history time and again. People continually opt for short-term gains while ignoring the long-term impacts of their decisions "


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Once More Unto the Breach: "An interesting bit of technical experimentation was published in the past week in the shadow of the vote. It shows something more pragmatically damning than all of Rob Weir's hard work digging through faults in the OOXML specification "


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Groklaw: "Essentially, they are concerned about too many technical issues and wish to see them fixed before it becomes a standard "


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The Register: "As one of his clients told us, 'Mark Radcliffe is the law when it comes to open source software '"


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Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine: "Whether it involves choice or price, freedom isn't free "


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OOXML: "The repeated voting session again was not legitimate, because it was not the secretary but the general manager who sent out the invitation letters "


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CNET News: "Dell actually beat analysts' expectations Thursday when it released the preliminary results of its earnings for the second quarter of fiscal year 2008, but again opted against the traditional follow-up conference call with company executives, investors and the media "


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LinuxInsider: "Linux platform provider Xandros has taken one step further in a collaboration agreement with Microsoft that it signed in June over how the two firms will handle intellectual property on Linux interoperability projects "


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[gnome-announce-list]: "This is our eighth development release on our road towards GNOME
2.20.0, which will be released in September 2007 "


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eWeek Channel Insider: "Seven state attorneys say key provisions of the final antitrust judgment have had little impact on competition with Microsoft "


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[kde-core-devel]: ""We, The Release Team, hereby announce that we are extending the KDE 4.0.0 schedule 2 months by inserting an extra 2 Betas.."


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ConsortiumInfo: "Earlier this week I reported that there were nine new, last minute 'P' members of ISO. I also predicted that the number could rise. Well, now that we're down to the wire on the ISO/IEC vote on OOXML, it has "


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SearchEnterpriseLinux: "As Canonical Ltd. readies another major release for its Ubuntu Linux operating system (code-named Gutsy Gibbon), one executive hinted that a pre-installed server initiative would arrive soon if customer demand remains high "


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Geekzone: "Standards New Zealand have casted a 'NO' vote on the proposal to adopt the Open XML draft Standard as an international Standard "


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LinuxWorld Conference & Expo: "It is with regret that we must announce that LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2007 has been postponed until spring 2008 "


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Groklaw: "Even though Microsoft denies having put pressure on partners to get them involved in the OOXML debate, some partners have experienced pressure from the software giant anyway "


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InformationWeek: "Darl McBride says his company has strong products and a growing number of customers, so it will survive regardless of the outcome of legal battles "


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Groklaw: Apparently, the majority voted No with Comments in a pre-vote, but I understand France is a country that must reach consensus "


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Libervis: "Since I wasn't yet as clear as I'd like to be on what can we consider to be free (as in freedom) among works which are not software and not functional "


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KDEDevelopers.org: "Kochizz is a Qt4-based GUI tool to get to grips with the Apache2 configuration "


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SearchSecurity: "In this installment, we note that you first must make sure your customer's hardware is up to the job before you can configure the IDS sensor Snort on a network running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 "


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EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet: "An easy, inexpensive way to double up Ethernet interfaces to get more more bandwidth and reliability is called Ethernet bonding "



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Source: Slashdot: Linux

An anonymous reader writes "SCO is asking the court to enter a final judgment on the Unix ownership issues so that it can seek an immediate appeal. The logic for this, according to Groklaw Editor Pamela Jones, is that SCO would rather appeal right away so it can try all its claims at IBM, should it successfully appeal the judge's order. 'Otherwise, SCO has to wait until Novell goes through trial to a verdict and then appeal, and while it is in the appeal process, IBM would go forward in its now much smaller version, based on the August 10th ruling The trial starts, though, in less than a month and it will last less than a week, so none of this makes any sense if you look at a calendar. I think, therefore, it must be about FUD, so it sounds like SCO is on the move again.' The text of the request is available online. "Read more of this story at Slashdot.



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Source: eWEEK Linux

Opinion: The Department of Justice has declared Microsoft's antitrust settlement to be a success, and if they say so, it must be true!



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Source: ONLamp.com

Python 3.0a1 has been released. See Guido’s announcement here. This is awesome news. I’ll have to download it tonight and start poking around.



Updated: Sat Sep 1 23:55:03 2007


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