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Why do I see this message in my syslog: “kernel: VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day…”? There is a condition in both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 where the kernel fails to properly clean up inodes after an NFS filesystem is unmounted. When this happens, the above message is printed to the /var/log/messages file.

I've had a chance now to think a bit on what's left after the court's ruling Friday. SCO's statement yesterday seems to indicate that they are looking at what they can do next, so I'm doing the same. I'm seeing some new FUD in response to the judge's ruling in SCO v. Novell, so let me explain a few things, using Paul McDougall's article in Information Week, "Novell's Victory Over SCO Could Have Downside For Linux Users", as a template. The most important thing to understand is that both Novell and IBM will go to trial insofar as this ruling is concerned.

[A great rebuttal to this article that was recently posted to LXer—Sander]

Proprietary code powers the world banks, networks, voting machines and other critical applications that we regularly interact with. But the real question is where mission critical applications like this can be done with open source code, as many open source advocates would like to see happen. There are concerns regarding the security of allowing open source applications into the mission critical fields, such as voting and banking, while others believe that with certain implementations, it could be done securely.

You have just written a fantastic and useful Python application, and you're ready to share it with the world. Distutils, a Python module that provides a standard way of distributing and installing Python apps, can help you simplify the process of installation. This article shows you how to package your Python application with Distutils.

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Significant progress in Colour Mixing in Krita. A new sidebar for okular. International Date Line support, and the merge of Summer of Code work in Marble. Solid is used for hardware detection in Digikam. KRunner uses Strigi for filename-based searches. The ability to switch cursor themes without restarting KDE. Timelines for multiple timezones, rich-text support and other journal improvements in KOrganizer. Support for storing bookmarks in Akonadi. Initial porting of the Kollision game to QGraphicsView. Support for KNewStuff2 in KWordQuiz and KVocTrain; KNewStuff2 support (and the spectrum viewer) removed in Kalzium until KDE 4.1. Initial import of Blitz, an improved graphical effect and filter library for KDE 4.0.

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ... DELL Ubuntu Linux? Just one problem though...This is Linux-fever journalism at its worst, and an example of a simple lie being easier for people to swallow than the complex truth. Now I want you to take a deep breath at this point, because you’re about the get a sick feeling in your stomach. That feeling of utter hopelessness. And it’s going to come in shock waves, one after the other, over and over...

There is in fact a coming divide that will hit the Linux community like a freight train. The battle lines have already been drawn, and companies that support Linux, such as Canonical, will eventually find themselves fiercely pitted against companies like Linspire, who only a short time ago, entered into an agreement of cooperation. A clash between the different versions of the GPL have already begun to show their roots , and luckily, thus far, has been pretty much transparent. What I want to know is how all of this is going to go down when it comes time for the enforcement of such things.

Analysts at Credit Suisse last week issued a research note saying that Citrix is - or at least should be - in the market for hypervisor software key to virtualizing both PCs and servers. Either XenSource or Virtual Iron - developers of the open source Xen hypervisor - would stand as attractive buys for Citrix, according to the analysts. They reckon such software could help Citrix as it looks to expand a software empire based on the flexible use of server-side code.

Linux backers are reacting with glee to all of this news. An anonymous blogger who goes by the name 'Pamela Jones' on the anti-SCO Web site Groklaw said over the weekend that he or she would "eat chocolate" to celebrate Novell's victory. But hold the Godiva and Toblerone for a moment. If I'm a Linux user, do I really want SCO v. IBM to be called off without a definitive ruling on SCO's claims?

[An article that is wrong on many levels, but asks an interesting question ~Az]

Last month marked the introduction of Fedora 7 support with the fglrx 8.39.4 ATI/AMD driver but not much more than that was to be found aside from an undocumented XML file. This driver did also present watermark problems that led to the driver being recalled and a corrected driver being pushed out. Today the fglrx 8.40.4 driver has been released and while many had speculated the 8.40 series would mark the introduction of the new Linux driver code-base, that's not the case for 8.40.4 driver. What changes does the 8.40.4 driver hold in store for Linux users? We'll tell you today but there isn't much.

Open Source Global Server Load Balancing is the focus of the latest issue of o3 magazine. o3 is a FREE digital open source / business magazine. Web Acceleration, Rails / Mongrel and more.

Sco stock is down 71% today:
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This is the first day of trading since the verdict. They'll probably get de-listed by the end of the month. The end is near for them.

HP's Linux Imaging and Printing subsystem brings parity to the penguin where previous printer purveyors have punted. Hewlett-Packard has the most extensive line of well-supported Linux printers, scanners, and multi-function devices of any printer manufacturer. It even make it easy to find them (unlike the others).

Warren Guy, a sysadmin from Perth, Western Australia, just set up a great resource for sysadmins: Planet SysAdmin

Midland Valley High School, in Aiken, SC, received a grant allowing it to deploy Moodle and offer students laptops.

I have the privilege to communicate that Chile already has a site for the community of Fedora users. This site tries to give information to local users, as well as to make available a local Yum mirror of Updates. You can enter the site http://fedora.linuxdiinf.org.

PatientOS is a free open source Healthcare Information System designed for hospitals and physician offices worldwide. Version 1.0 is slated for October 31, 2008. PatientOS v0.11 demonstrates database independence by porting from PostgreSQL to an embedded database. The orders interface has been refined to increase navigation speed and usability. Screenshots, video footage and further information can be foundhere.

Oracle last week announced new projects and code contributions designed to add to the enterprise-class capabilities of Linux and to help ensure Linux's success within the enterprises market. Oracle last week also announced six new configurations, now available on Oracle Enterprise Linux, as part of the Oracle Validated Configurations program.

After a long time reorganizing, the people at the old Compiz and Beryl projects are releasing their first development release of the new Compiz Fusion. This is the first development release of Compiz Fusion, the result of more than six months of work and polish. The first stable release, 0.6.0, will follow after the Compiz 0.6.0 release.

In this week's issue, we have announcements on Virtual FudCon8, Announcing Fedora 8 Test 1. In Ask Fedora, we have a few good questions on Intel IP2200 Wireless In Fedora 7, Distribution Upgrades And Peripherals, Yum Reverse Dependency Removal. In Daily Package, we have a few good reviews on Qcad - Simple 2D CAD program, Gscan2pdf - Frontend for scanning utilities, Xephyr - New nested X server and Really Slick screensavers. To celebrate our 100th issue, one lucky winner will receive "Fedora 7 Bible" by Christopher Negus. See Extras Extras section for more information.