http://linuxtoday.com en-us Linux Today News Service http://linuxtoday.com/pics/ltnet.png http://linuxtoday.com Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:35:17 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-030-35-PS <b>Wi-Fi Planet:</b> "Not that Sputnik has grown enormous or anything. It&#8217;s still a lean, mean entrepreneurial machine, with fewer than ten employees. But it evidently hasn&#8217;t just been flying in circles. LaDuke says Sputnik will start showing an operational profit before the end of this quarter. Not bad for a little start-up with a one-track mind." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-030-35-PS Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:05:17 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-029-35-NW-HW-RL <b>LinuxDevices:</b> "DisklessWorkstations says one of its thin clients now supports dual monitors, when used with LTSP 5 (Linux Terminal Server Project v5). The Troy, Michigan based thin client vendor claims to be the "first to release how to configure dual monitors using LTSP 5."" http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-029-35-NW-HW-RL Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:35:17 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-028-35-RV-HW-SW <b>Linux and Open Source:</b> "Our review of the latest Linux laptop, the Asus EeePC 1000, has not begun auspiciously but with an important lesson. In a Linux laptop, the bundle is all." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-028-35-RV-HW-SW Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:05:17 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-027-35-OP-SW <b>Linux and Open Source:</b> "You can read stories about doom and depression somewhere else today...There is something there that does not exist in the proprietary wreckage, something important. Code." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-027-35-OP-SW Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:35:17 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-026-35-OP-BZ-DB <b>Open Enterprise:</b> "Once it emerged that Google ran on GNU/Linux, there could be no more argument about the latter's suitability for the enterprise. Similarly, MySQL's adoption by just about every Web 2.0 company meant that it, too, could no longer be dismissed as underpowered." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-026-35-OP-BZ-DB Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:05:17 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-025-35-RV-HW-RL <b>Defensive Computing:</b> "The S10 is here, I ordered one yesterday and I'm psyched. The IdeaPad S10 is Lenovo's just-released entry in the Netbook market. "Netbook" is a new term that's applied to cheap small laptops that run either Windows XP Home Edition or Linux. No Vista or OS X here (neither is cheap)." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-025-35-RV-HW-RL Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:35:17 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-024-35-SC-SW <b>DevX:</b> "Yet many developers try to build their own cryptographic technology, which often gets them in trouble. A better approach is to employ tools that rely on proven cryptography techniques and algorithms. A great example of this approach is eCryptfs, a complete cryptographic file system for Linux that essentially is a robust implementation of mature cryptographic technology." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-024-35-SC-SW Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:05:17 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-022-35-RV-SV <b>ServerWatch:</b> "Zimbra Collaboration Server (ZCS) separates itself from the pack in several ways. First and foremost, it occupies a newly emerging niche of "commercial open source" products. That is, the base version of ZCS is open source software, free to acquire or modify." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-022-35-RV-SV Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:35:17 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-021-35-RV-RL <b>The Smaller Bang:</b> "After a few months of using it, I finally feel I am confident enough to write a piece about one of the best, and I MEAN best, linux distros ever, archlinux. This distro is rather unique, and several things in it make it the ideal distro for the intermediate level linux user." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-021-35-RV-RL Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:17:17 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-023-35-PS <b>O'Reilly:</b> "Though open drivers exist for video cards produced by companies who produce binary-only drivers, I realized a fundamental point about my purchasing habits. I'm profoundly uncomfortable purchasing devices which, by default, do not provide the freedoms I desire." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-023-35-PS Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:05:17 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-019-35-OS-HL <b>Linux Journal:</b> "A subtle point about pathname expansion that is not often understood is that it is done by bash and not by the operating system or by the program that is being run. The program never sees the wildcards, bash substitutes the expansion into the command line before running the program." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-019-35-OS-HL Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:35:17 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-018-35-OS-HL-SW <b>Blue GNU:</b> "Although Picasa is now available on GNU/Linux, it is still proprietary and, as such, unethical. One year ago, I wrote a simple Bash script that handles a very rapid download of entire PicasaWeb albums/galleries. During the last weeks, Google changed twice the format of the related Web pages and my script could not fetch any picture. Here is an updated script that does even more than the previous one." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-018-35-OS-HL-SW Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:17:17 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-020-35-NW-KN-RL <b>Linux Format:</b> "Crank up your compiler -- kernel 2.6.27 has arrived, including (deep breath): a new filesystem (UBIFS) optimized for "pure" flash-based storage devices;" http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-020-35-NW-KN-RL Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:05:17 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-017-35-NW-DB-RL <b>Tectonic:</b> "It seems the Debian team is battling "too many release critical bugs" to make Lenny viable. And now the team is calling for help from the community to squash the remainder of these bugs." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-017-35-NW-DB-RL Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:35:17 GMT http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-016-35-NW-SW <b>Snake Bytes:</b> "There have been a lot of strange ironies for me in the last week in the security world. Rather than expound on any one of them, I thought I'd take a stab at all of them all at once. So bear with me -- you're in for a ride." http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-10-10-016-35-NW-SW