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Linux and Open Source News for 3rd October 2008

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DeviceGuru: "Zilog expects its new general purpose 32-bit microcontroller family to see use in applications such as home and office monitoring and control, multimedia devices, medical equipment, telematics and GPS systems, cameras, and universal remote controls."


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SearchEnterpriseLinux: "You've just had your first cup of coffee and have received that dreaded phone call. The system is slow. What are you going to do? This article will discuss performance bottlenecks and optimization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL5)."


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Free Software Magazine: "In the proprietary production world, what matters about a copyright is who owns it. In the free production world, however, who owns a copyright is relatively unimportant. What matters is what license it is offered under."


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Datamation: "The man who prompted that decision could be described as the worst enemy a Free Software project could have. This is the story of how our community was able to benefit from that enemy."


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The VAR Guy: "Gameloft Moves 1,000 Desktops to Ubuntu LinuxBusinesses are catching on to Ubuntu, Canonical’s Linux distribution. The latest example: Gameloft, a major mobile games developer, has moved more than 1,000 desktops to Ubuntu "


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What most folks really want is not a better tool, but a magic wand.


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Practical Technology: "It certainly, in the updated archive manager, File Roller, now has more support for other compressed formats such as ALZ, RZIP, CAB, and the TAR.7Z file types. Nautilus, the GNOME file manager, also now has tabs and I, for one, find that a very useful feature."


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The Linux Distillery: "Ah, Linux! Is there anything it can't do? Not only can you surf the Internet, write documents and calculate taxes, here's how Linux also wants to look after your health and well-being, including getting you off cigarettes and avoiding repetitive strain injury."


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InternetNews: "With sweeping changes ahead in version 3.0 of the open source programming language, the 2.6 release arrives to smooth the transition."


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Red Hat Magazine: "In some ways, dd can seem like Old Spice -- only the guys over 60 use it. But the younger generation should know that dd still has some tricks up its sleeve. In this article, we're going to put a new twist on this old favorite and show how grandpappy really does know best sometimes."


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Computingtech: "Simply plugging the drive into the USB port will automatically mount the drive. From there, you can access it as you would access any mounted partition."


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Linux Pro: "Among others is to offer developers integration with the Generic Graphics Library (GEGL) to allow non-destructive editing of HDR and RAW graphics that are rendered in up to 32-bit color depth per channel."


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Underexposed: "The new release catches the open-source operating system up with Windows, which got the Picasa 3 beta one month earlier. There's still no word about a Mac OS X version "


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LWN: "How did they do it? Arjan said it starts with the right attitude. "It's not about booting faster, it's about booting in 5 seconds.""


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LinuxPlanet: "The need for Mono's Moonlight project, which allows Microsoft's Silverlight to run on Linux, might be questioned by many Linux purists, but the fact remains that there will be websites developed using Silverlight."


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Linux.com: "After marking the GNU Project's 25th anniversary with an endorsement by Stephen Fry and the relicensing of OpenGL, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is concluding the month-long celebration by relaunching its high priority list, which enumerates as-yet unwritten or incomplete software needed to run a completely free computer system."


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The Linux Distillery: "The theme for this month is "I didn't know you could do that in Linux," and today I'll show you how Linux can really help your blog take off, both in terms of improving its performance as well as giving you a much greater handle on what's happening."


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OStatic: "Have you ever typed about:config into Firefox's address bar? If you do, you'll get back a huge array of files that you can modify to configure and customize your Firefox installation. Some people like to play with these. I don't like to, and that's why I'm a big fan of FireTune."


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Cyber Cynic: "One reason I love Linux is that when there's a problem, it gets fixed. Usually, it gets fixed in a hurry and that's exactly what happened with the e1000e Ethernet bug."


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LWN: "This particular bug goes beyond breaking networking; when it bites, it corrupts the EEPROM on the device, causing it to cease to function forevermore "


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Interop News: "I am not impressed with OpenOffice as an alternative to Office. And I am really not impressed with IBM's attempt to ram the little-used ODF down our throats."


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Polish Linux: "PackageKit is a system designed to make installing and updating software on your computer easier. The primary design goal is to unify all the software graphical tools used in different distributions."


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Softpedia: "Compared with the sixth alpha, which brought Firefox 3.0.2, Samba 3.2 and GNOME 2.24 Beta 2, this version comes with the final and stable GNOME 2.24 desktop, a brand new wallpaper, Firefox 3.0.3, PAM authentication framework and a BBC plugin for Totem (the default movie player in Ubuntu)."


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CNet Security: "Even before someone hacked Sarah Palin's Yahoo Mail account I had been wondering whatever happened to encryption."


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Linux.com: "Bubba Two arrives in a nondescript package containing the server itself, a power supply, a crossover Ethernet cable, and a two-page getting started guide. The server is surprisingly small -- about the size of of two stacked VHS tapes -- and thanks to its low-power processor and passive cooling, the only moving part in it is a hard disk."


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No OOXML: "Remember that Standards Norway was voting Yes with the support of only 2 companies (Microsoft and Statoil), and against the will of the rest of the technical committee (read our previous article "Norway: 21 "No", 2 "Yes" and Microsoft still gets its way?")."


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LinuxInsider: "In China, nothing is private. As if we needed more proof, a Canadian group has spotted a bank of unsecured servers containing what appear to be filtered-out information from Skype messages that might run afoul of Chinese censors "


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InfoWorld: "Factoring in fees for Microsoft's maintenance agreement, one Windows HPC 2008 Server would cost $800 over three years, while Red Hat HPC Solution is about $750."


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Groklaw: "Guess what the SC 34 committee, the ISO/IEC committee responsible for OOXML, is up to now? I call it a takeover attempt of ODF it is what it is. An attempted coup."


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SoftPedia: "Being based on the latest build (10-01-2008) of Debian Lenny, the new version brings an updated GParted, an updated kernel, 3 new boot options and a handful of improvements."


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SearchEnterpriseLinux: "In a recent independent test, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Advanced Platform trumped all other operating systems that process more than 1 million transactions per minute -- and at 22% lower cost than its next closest competitor."


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Works With U: "What is Ubuntu Easy Business Server? A Canonical product? A small business concept? Or something else?"



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ruphus13 writes "As mentioned earlier, there was a kernel bug in the alpha/beta version of the Linux kernel (up to 2.6.27 rc7), which was corrupting (and rendering useless) the EEPROM/NVM of adapters. Thankfully, a patch is now out that prevents writing to the EEPROM once the driver is loaded, and this follows a patch released by Intel earlier in the week. From the article: 'The Intel team is currently working on narrowing down the details of how and why these chipsets were affected. They also plan on releasing patches shortly to restore the EEPROM on any adapters that have been affected, via saved images using ethtool -e or from identical systems.' This is good news as we move towards a production release!"Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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An anonymous reader writes "Blogger and ex-Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony reports that Michael Robertson has been sued by a Linspire shareholder to get to the bottom of what happened to Linspire's assets. One hundred shareholders have been left uninformed as to what happened to the company and its assets after Linspire was sold to Xandros a few months back."Read more of this story at Slashdot.


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nerdyH writes "Dell is preparing to ship two enterprise-oriented Windows Vista notebooks with an interesting feature — a built-in TI OMAP (smartphone) processor that can power instantly into Linux. The 'Latitude ON' feature is said to offer 'multi-day' battery life, while letting users access email, the web, contacts, calendar, and so on, using the notebook's full-size screen and keyboard. I wonder if someday we'll just be able to plug our phones into our laptops, switching to the phone's processor when we need to save battery life? Or, maybe x86 will just get a lot more power-efficient. Speaking at MontaVista's Vision event today, OLPC spokesperson and longtime kernel hacker Deepak Saxena said the project is aiming for 10-20 hours of battery life during active use, on existing hardware (AMD Geode LX800 clocked at 500MHz, with 1GB of Flash and 256MB of RAM)."Read more of this story at Slashdot.



Updated: Sat Oct 4 23:55:01 2008


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