What They're Using: Christian Einfeldt, Producer, the Digital Tipping Point
(Sep 5, 2008, 23:32 UTC) (200 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Journal: "The boxes to my left are the thin clients. If you look just over my right ear, you will see a silvery small computer between two black monitors. That's the computer on which I captured this photograph (Gutsy Ubuntu running on the ZaReason media box)."

A Graphical Representation of the Linux File Structure
(Sep 5, 2008, 22:32 UTC) (751 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Geek2Live: "I hope that breakdown of Linux File Structure will help."

openSUSE 11.0: A Versatile Linux Server
(Sep 5, 2008, 22:02 UTC) (297 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxPlanet: "OpenSUSE 11.0 does a great job on the desktop, but it shines equally as bright in the server role. Everything you need to set up most any type of server comes on the OpenSUSE 11.0 installation DVD. The trick is narrowing down the options to the ones you'll really need."

Online Sharing with Creative Commons
(Sep 5, 2008, 20:02 UTC) (247 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
BusinessWeek: "The Japanese Net entrepreneur Joichi Ito makes a case for free-content distribution on the Internet. Nine Inch Nails is an early adopter."

Document Management With Epiware
(Sep 5, 2008, 18:32 UTC) (451 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Out of the many available open source document management packages, Epiware GPL is noteworthy because it includes project management features: if your work has to do with producing written matter, you can not only manage the documents themselves, but the development project as well."

Ten Tweaks For a New Acer Aspire One
(Sep 5, 2008, 18:02 UTC) (739 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Register: "Hands on Acer's smart Small, Cheap Computer, the Aspire One (AA1), is ready to go out of the box, but if you've opted for the Linux version and you're new to the open source OS, you may be wondering how to take charge of the little machine. Here are ten things to try."

Microsoft Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates Commercial
(Sep 5, 2008, 16:32 UTC) (2677 reads) (13 talkbacks) (feedback)
YouTube: Yes folks, this is it, the new hip, cutting-edge, trendy face of Microsoft. -- ed.

HP's 'End Run' Around Windows
(Sep 5, 2008, 15:02 UTC) (2428 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Businessweek: "A Skunk Works of engineers at the company is even angling to replace Windows with an HP-assembled operating system, sources say."

Open Source Software: Your Company's Legal Risks
(Sep 5, 2008, 12:32 UTC) (823 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Insider: "The granting of injunctive relief is significant, because it can force a company to stop using or distributing its software products and, therefore, significantly impact overall business functions."

The Power of Perception
(Sep 5, 2008, 09:02 UTC) (683 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
ServerWatch: "It certainly looks like people are still taking heed of the old adage that "No one ever got fired for buying IBM": One third of all server spending went to Big Blue in the last quarter, according to IDC's latest Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker figures, giving it the largest share of the Unix market."

Power Monitoring and Logging With Apcupsd and Cacti
(Sep 4, 2008, 22:31 UTC) (664 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Available for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and Solaris 10, Apcupsd reliably warns me when the power goes out and gives me time to get my box properly shut down before data is lost, or does so automatically if I am not there to supervise."

Red Hat Bets on Startup to Shake Up Virtualization
(Sep 4, 2008, 20:31 UTC) (1049 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Internet News: "The acquisition brings Qumranet's SolidICE virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) under the Red Hat banner, giving the Linux vendor a claim to end-to-end platform virtualization -- thanks to its existing role in the OS."

Linux in U.S. Schools: Why the Resistance?
(Sep 4, 2008, 18:01 UTC) (1760 reads) (10 talkbacks) (feedback)
Datamation: "Software alternatives are just not available for Linux."

Fonality, Backed By Intel, Plans Open Source Acquisitions
(Sep 4, 2008, 16:31 UTC) (518 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The VAR Guy: "Move over, Digium. You’re not the only poster child for Asterisk and open source PBXes. Rival Fonality has scored another $12 million in financing from Intel Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson..."

Ubuntu Linux Now Has 8 Million Users
(Sep 4, 2008, 15:31 UTC) (1575 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The VAR Guy: "Sure, Windows is expected to run on 1 billion devices by 2010. But a loud minority is making its voice heard by moving to Ubuntu Linux. In fact, Canonical’s marketing materials state that Ubuntu now has more than 8 million users."

Novell: Desktop Linux Losses Trigger Server Gains
(Sep 4, 2008, 14:31 UTC) (890 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The VAR Guy: "Novell is losing money in the desktop Linux market, but those desktop deals are driving big wins in the server arena, according to Senior VP and Chief Marketing Officer John Dragoon."

Dell's Ubuntu-Powered Mini-Laptop Arrives Today
(Sep 4, 2008, 12:31 UTC) (2487 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
Cyber Cynic: "...whoops they changed the name on me, it's the Inspiron Mini 9 -- mini-laptop. It will come with your choice of (Boo!) Windows XP Home SP3 or (Yea!) Ubuntu 8.04."

SECURITY: Managing Active Directory Accounts From Ubuntu (And Monitoring WMI)
(Sep 4, 2008, 06:01 UTC) (1286 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
An Irishman's (IT) Diary: "Last week I found a truly excellent tool for adding, modifying and managing user in Active Directory from Linux...adtool."

Networking 101: Understanding (and Using) ICMP
(Sep 3, 2008, 23:02 UTC) (1390 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
LinuxPlanet: "Charlie Schluting explains how ICMP is much more than "that thing ping uses". There's plenty to take in before we move further up the layer stack."

Tomorrow's War: Why FOSS Needs to Change its Views of Apple
(Sep 3, 2008, 22:02 UTC) (1424 reads) (7 talkbacks) (feedback)
Datamation: "...while fear and loathing of Microsoft often reaches towering, even paranoid heights, Apple is hardly ever condemned, and even seems to be regarded with approval by many members of the FOSS community. Yet, in some ways, Apple poses a greater proprietary threat than Microsoft."

GNU Turns 25
(Sep 3, 2008, 20:02 UTC) (703 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Register: "...software was a tool that had always been open, hackable and redistributable, and now mediocre people in ill-fitting suits were trying to steal that freedom... by making a quick buck with dodgy products, and putting very little back."

Chalk Another One Up for Linux
(Sep 3, 2008, 17:02 UTC) (1422 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Motley Fool: "You have to wonder how much Novell would have sold if the products weren't essentially free to the end user."

If Google's New Browser Isn't Even Available on Linux, Why is This Great News For Linux?
(Sep 3, 2008, 13:31 UTC) (2736 reads) (5 talkbacks) (feedback)
Zemlin's Blog: "In particular in makes a LOT less sense for people to PAY for a heavy and bloated operating system."
link fixed-- ed.

Strip Mining of Open Source
(Sep 3, 2008, 12:01 UTC) (1435 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
IT Pro: "...Fleury claimed that "IBM reacted negatively to the Sun announcement" that Java would be released under the GPL "because IBM's approach to open source is what we call 'strip mining'..."

Finnix: Compact Linux Distribution for System Administrators
(Sep 3, 2008, 09:01 UTC) (1067 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "Finnix is a live CD distribution designed to assist system administrators in such tasks as system recovery and network monitoring. Based on Debian testing and Linux kernel 2.6, Finnix helps with filesystem and partition manipulation as well as with data recovery, installation of other operating systems, and boot record repair."

Actor/Author Stephen Fry Endorses Free Software
(Sep 3, 2008, 03:01 UTC) (1005 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux.com: "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has kicked off a month-long celebration of the GNU Project's 25th anniversary with a video in which British actor and comedian Stephen Fry expresses his support for free software."

Elgg Offers Educators Safe Open Source Social Networking Platform
(Sep 2, 2008, 20:33 UTC) (635 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
DaniWeb: "Elgg, a new open source social networking platform aimed specifically at the education market, solves this problem by providing a safe, open source alternative to the popular blogging platforms such as LiveJournal and Blogger, and the even scarier (at least to them) Facebook and MySpace."

Businesses Don't Need to Buy Linux
(Sep 2, 2008, 16:03 UTC) (1140 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Cyber Cynic: "The 451 Group has issued a report that shows that companies are beginning to pick up something serious Linux users have known since day one: You don't have to buy Linux to use it."

Microsoft's Man in Open Source: Sam Ramji on Redmond's Linux Strategy
(Sep 2, 2008, 14:33 UTC) (1088 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
Datamation: ""I am focused on narrowing the gap between the Open Source community and Microsoft through research, collaboration, interoperability, and community engagement.""

Can the Giant IE Catch the Quick Red Firefox?
(Sep 2, 2008, 12:03 UTC) (1457 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
TechWorld: "In a dramatic turnaround since the Netscape air supply days, millions of people have chosen to go out of their way, download and install an independent browser and use it in preference to IE, the one that ships with Windows."

Linux Server Share Keeps Growing
(Sep 2, 2008, 08:03 UTC) (1512 reads) (1 talkbacks) (feedback)
Practical Technology: "While the worldwide server market’s factory revenue grew 6.4% over the last year, according to the IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Server Track, Linux server revenue was running ahead of the curve at a growth rate of 10%."

Skegness Grammar School, Using GNU/Linux and Thin-Clients Across the School
(Sep 2, 2008, 04:03 UTC) (1442 reads) (2 talkbacks) (feedback)
Free Software Magazine: "These run as thin-clients using the Linux Terminal Server Project, which uses low power clients with most of the processing being done on fewer, more powerful, servers."
Link fixed-- ed.

Complete Kickstart: How to Save Time Installing Linux
(Sep 1, 2008, 16:02 UTC) (2354 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Linux Magazine: "If you have to perform a lot of Linux installs, there’s a fast and easy way to do so quickly and efficiently without having to babysit the installation process each time. By making use of Kickstart, you can save time and effort by setting up a Kickstart server and spend your time getting more useful work done."

Dell Puts Linux and Atom in Vostro PCs for Emerging Markets
(Sep 1, 2008, 12:02 UTC) (2425 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Computerworld: "Dell unveiled this week two new laptops and two desktops in its Vostro range designed to meet the needs of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), governments, and educational institutions in emerging markets in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe."

Novell and SCO Agree on Interest, Trust Amounts; Final Judgment Still in Dispute
(Sep 1, 2008, 02:02 UTC) (2175 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
Groklaw: "What do I get from all this? SCO is frantic to get a final judgment, so it can file an appeal, and so it's trying to get all standing issues resolved."

It's a Joke: In a Linux World Without Walls Who Needs Windows?
(Aug 31, 2008, 23:03 UTC) (3361 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
IT Wire: "Most of the details are still scarce at this stage but what has been confirmed is that Bill Gates will make an appearance as well as various others, with Jerry Seinfeld as the headline act."

Free-Software Activist Speaks on Moral Duty to Share
(Aug 31, 2008, 22:03 UTC) (1767 reads) (6 talkbacks) (feedback)
The Rice Thresher: ""Today we have what we didn't have 20 years ago - powerful enemies," Stallman said."

Why Linux...? You Might be Surprised
(Aug 31, 2008, 20:33 UTC) (2584 reads) (4 talkbacks) (feedback)
Blog of helios: "With the proliferation of Lindependence and upcoming events for that effort, HeliOS Solutions and HeliOS Solutions West will publish some basic and informative articles to guide the New Linux User."

Sun Naming Confusion: Is OpenSolaris an OS or a Project?
(Aug 31, 2008, 19:03 UTC) (1115 reads) (0 talkbacks) (feedback)
Polish Linux: "Over three years, the OpenSolaris project has gathered some community under Sun Microsystems Inc. (SMI) guidance. The whole project resides at www.opensolaris.org and is focused on the open flavor of Solaris operating system, licensed under CDDL."

Microsoft Investment Shows All is Not Well at Novell
(Aug 31, 2008, 16:03 UTC) (1847 reads) (3 talkbacks) (feedback)
ITWire: "In the same period, Red Hat has shown impressive growth and gone from strength to strength."

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