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Linux Today Newsletter For NOVEMBER 27, 2007Latest News for the Linux and Open Source Community.___________________________ Sponsors ________________________________ Internet.com eBook Library_____________________________________________________________________All newsletters are sent from the domain "internet.com." Please use this domain name (not the entire "from" address,which varies) when configuring e-mail or spam filter rules, if you use them.------------------------------------------------------------------

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ODF VS. OOXML: WAR OF THE WORDS "I refer, of course, to the ongoing, ever expanding, still escalating conflict between ODF and OOXML, a battle that is playing out across five continents and in both the halls of government and the marketplace alike. And, needless to say, at countless blogs and news sites all the Web over as well..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,53x6,m1r1,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

OLPC: HOW DO WE GAUGE SUCCESS? WILL 490,000 UNITS DO? "The One Laptop per Child project's 'Give One, Get One' program has been extended through Dec. 31 as donations averaged about $2 million a day..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,k1g6,2mgt,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

GETTING THE (SHARE)POINT ABOUT DOCUMENT FORMATS "We at the OpenDocument Foundation have been displeased with the direction of ODF development this year. We find that ODF is not the open format with the open process we thought it was or originally intended it to be..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,cl1,bcz4,9l1g,j17rMore Developer stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hqmx,eofg,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

SAMBA ISN'T ENOUGH FOR SUN "What does it take to have seamless Microsoft Windows file sharing and transfer capabilities on a *nix system? According to Sun Microsystems, it takes more than just Samba..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,jdji,gl1k,9l1g,j17rMore Storage stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,9fbe,ttl,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

Q&A: PAMELA JONES OF GROKLAW "IT PRO spoke to the site's founder, Pamela Jones about the impact of the site, the SCO case and the role Groklaw has played in the ongoing legal case..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,gw2e,xen,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

STORMY SKIES OVER GNOME Jeff Waugh adds his two cents to the GNOME/OOXML/Novell reports, while his candidacy for the GNOME Foundation board endures some nasty community in-fighting.COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hn8m,m5hr,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------/-------------------------------------------------------------------

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RED HAT GETS ALL CHARGED UP IN ASIA "In a role created for him in February this year, Red Hat's president for the Asia-Pacific region is vocal about the power of 'talent attracting talent' which, he believes, is vital to growing the business..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,8oqa,kctf,9l1g,j17rMore IT Management stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,1p84,42vr,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE NEW AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER, KEVIN RUDD "I would like to get a quick word in before you are deluged by work and a cacophony of voices representing the spectrum of Australian interests..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,sy6,3v6u,9l1g,j17rMore IT Management stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,1p84,42vr,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

SOURCEFORGE EXEC ON THE OPEN SOURCE BREEDING GROUND "With more staff, improvements to its website, new infrastructure and an increased enterprise take-up of open source, it's full steam ahead..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,kmhc,jeyv,9l1g,j17rMore Developer stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hqmx,eofg,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

EUROPE'S OPEN SOURCE OPPORTUNITY "...[C]omments made [Thursday] by Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for information and society, indicate that perhaps Europe should be taking advantage of the fact the Americans are having a day off to focus on its use of open source and how it could be used to bolster the European economy..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,m40g,6pz4,9l1g,j17rMore IT Management stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,1p84,42vr,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

OPEN SOURCE LICENSING: SHOULD SUGARCRM ADOPT THE AGPL? "Simon Phipps is surprised SugarCRM didn't wait for Affero, while Michael Tiemann would like to see the AGPL tested in the marketplace..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hyll,lhfe,9l1g,j17rMore Developer stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hqmx,eofg,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

DOES MYSQL'S PROPRIETARY WORKBENCH SIGNAL THAT THE FUTURE OFOPEN SOURCE IS... CLOSED? "Is this the future of open source? To get ubiquity through open source and then cash through proprietary source...?"COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,jicc,3vz3,9l1g,j17rMore IT Management stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,1p84,42vr,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

FACETS OF OPEN SOURCE PART I "What is the point of differentiating Open Source as an entity versus something that has just always been there...?"COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,3hf9,cdmv,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

THE BROTHERHOOD IS DISPLEASED "Clearly, those that I feel I owe, I also feel I have already taken care of by way of the JBoss equity cap table..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,3jcb,4d6a,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

REAL ANSWERS TO THE QUESTION "CAN YOU RUN YOUR BUSINESS ONLINUX AND OPEN SOURCE?" "A friend said to me recently that 'Firefox is for the home, Internet Explorer is for the office...'"COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,djt8,3ybc,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

INSECURITY BLUES "It hasn't been a good month for my code. Samba, the project I'm responsible for, has had to announce several security flaws..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,df0r,fc4h,9l1g,j17rMore Security stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,fzmy,6313,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

LINUX ON BOARD: DEVELOPING FOR THE NOKIA N800 "Linux is enjoying a well-deserved surge in popularity for mobile and embedded applications, owing to its ability to scale down to the small footprint needed to run efficiently in compact devices..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,1if8,71h8,9l1g,j17rMore Developer stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hqmx,eofg,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

AMD CATALYST 7.11 LINUX DRIVER "For the past two months, the AMD release train has been running full speed ahead as they introduced their new driver code-base and last month had dropped in the AIGLX support..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,iffd,dr4o,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

INSTALLATION GUIDE: LINUX MINT 4.0 DARYNA (A.K.A. THE PERFECTDESKTOP) "This tutorial shows how you can set up a Linux Mint 4.0 (Daryna) desktop that is a full-fledged replacement for a Windows desktop..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,aknb,3aar,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

APT-BUILD--OPTIMIZE YOUR DEBIAN! "But here comes the rescue--an apt-build goody available under every distro armed with the big gun--APT package manager..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,5r5n,aghl,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

TEN FIREFOX EXTENSIONS TO KEEP YOUR BROWSING PRIVATE AND SECURE "Most people lock their doors and windows, use a paper shredder to protect themselves from identity theft, and install antivirus software on their computers..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,1yzv,c9lf,9l1g,j17rMore Security stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,fzmy,6313,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

NVIDIA 169.04 DRIVER BRINGS IMPROVEMENTS "Last week NVIDIA introduced the 169.04 Beta Linux driver for their GeForce and Quadro graphics cards..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,8rzk,g5e9,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

MOZILLA FIXES MEMORY AND CPU PROBLEMS IN FIREFOX 3 BETA 1 "Mozilla.org says it fixed a problem with Firefox 3 Beta 1 that caused it to spike CPU usage and eat hundreds of megabytes of RAM..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,6cm6,1oi6,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

SOUTH AFRICA, NETHERLANDS AND KOREA STRIDING TOWARD ODF "But France is still making the strongest move to ODF and its native office suite, OpenOffice..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,g6sq,d0xt,9l1g,j17rMore IT Management stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,1p84,42vr,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

CALIFORNIA CITY REBUILDS NETWORK USING ALL OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE "Open source network tools such as Asterisk IP PBX give the city of Madera needed voice and data improvements for a cost it can handle..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,dial,20cm,9l1g,j17rMore IT Management stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,1p84,42vr,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

NEWS FROM HUNGARY: A FOLLOWUP MEETING OF TC ON MSOOXML DEC. 5 "On December 5th, there will be another meeting of the Technical Committee in Hungary with what looks to be a fascinating agenda..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,6706,d5ba,9l1g,j17rMore Developer stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hqmx,eofg,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

A RESPONSE TO THE CACOPHONY "Of course, resolving these issues did not require such hatefulness, but that is a property of the dysfunctional relationship on display..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,gkga,e8zw,9l1g,j17rMore Developer stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hqmx,eofg,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

IN DEFENSE OF THE GPL "The ultimate impact of these actions could well serve to either spurn or spawn even greater open source adoption, industry observers say..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,f16j,huk3,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

THE PENGUIN COMES IN FROM THE COLD "Linux hardware and software makers have been trumpeting the virtues of the open-source operating system for quite a while, but businesses have been slow to take the bait..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,k9dp,fv3m,9l1g,j17rMore IT Management stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,1p84,42vr,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

EXAMINING THE "FACTS" IN ILLINOIS "One such case study revolves on the decision by the State of Illinois to standardize on Microsoft's servers and related technologies..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,m2sd,19mv,9l1g,j17rMore IT Management stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,1p84,42vr,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

PUBLIC BETA NOW OPEN FOR RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX ON AMAZONELASTIC COMPUTE CLOUD "Today, less than three weeks since the announcement of our collaboration with Amazon Web Services, Red Hat has opened the beta for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2 to the general public..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,1sr8,gony,9l1g,j17rMore IT Management stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,1p84,42vr,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

LINUX KERNEL MAINTAINERS: ACCOUNTABLE TO ALL, BEHOLDEN TO NONE? "Forget IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle. How much software do you think businesses have developed for internal use? Here's one expert's guesstimate..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,bivx,lxzh,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

POLITICS 'STIFLING $100 LAPTOP' "A lack of 'big thinking' by politicians has stifled a scheme to distribute laptops to children in the developing world, a spokesman has said..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,3nkk,1uh5,9l1g,j17rMore Infrastructure stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,hfcu,kuvm,9l1g,j17r------------------------------------------------------------------

LINUX PCS: LOOK BEYOND WAL-MART "But a lot of bloggers, including The VAR Guy, need to remind readers that it might be wiser to look elsewhere for affordable, reliable Linux PCs. One prime stop should be ZaReason.com. Here's why..."COMPLETE STORY:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,jb7,58b4,9l1g,j17rMore stories:http://nl.internet.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=1,3mmt,1,ioqq,lhlt,9l1g,j17r