The Openoffice.org Template & Clipart Creation Contest
The goal is to increase our trove. Frankly, we don't have enough; users are feeling deprived. That means over 50 million people.
You can help change that... and also maybe win some money.…
Nice collection of 270 Linux white papers
Kernel development, file systems, virtualization, networking, security, performance, scalability, applications and a lot more. Absolutely free. No other OS grows this fast!
Ottawa Linux…
Weekly Wrap-up
Since Linuxlookup news isn't updated over the weekends, here is the weekly wrap-up to hold you over till Monday.
Some top stories this week were:
- How XGL Works
- Alan Cox's…
Apache Muse 2.0.0 is now available
Apache Muse 2.0.0 is now available. The Apache Muse Project is a Java-based implementation of the WS-ResourceFramework (WSRF), WS-BaseNotification (WSN), and WS-DistributedManagement (WSDM)…
Torvalds should create a better GPL
The anti-GPLv3 position of Torvalds, and now a large cross-section of Linux kernel developers, appears to be hardening. In response to a rebuttal by Eben Moglen, chief counsel for the Free…
Potential Photoshop killer Pixel
According to the results of a survey conducted early this year by Novell, Adobe Photoshop tops users' lists as the most critical application not available on Linux. While Adobe continues to only…
Locking down portmap on Debian
Most sensible people are very wary of NFS and its potential for security holes. If you can at all help it, it's a good idea not to run NFS and portmap on a network interface with direct internet…
Linux Serial ATA status reports
The Linux kernel Serial ATA driver stack has several major updates in kernels 2.6.18 and [upcoming] 2.6.19. This status report describes the latest feature additions, driver updates, and core…
Gartner: Linux Not About to Do Damage to Windows
Microsoft Windows will not suffer irreparable damage on the server side at the hands of the Linux operating system over the next five years, Gartner analyst George Weiss told attendees at the…
Dave Neary leaves Gimp project because of abusive members
Neary says: "I'm finally, and definitively, leaving the project. [...] The failure of the project to control the limits of acceptable behaviour of its participants has been a long-standing problem…