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This is WFTL Bytes!, your occasiodaily FOSS and Linux news show for Friday, December 12, 2008, with your host, Marcel Gagné. This is episode 37. Today's stories ask you to decide whether Cisco is a good or a bad witch as the Free Software Foundation sues forward. Meanwhile HP shows IBM they aren't the only ones, netbooks are seriously hot, Amarok rocks hard, and even teachers can learn.

Codenamed "Coltrane", the major release of Wordpress 2.7 comes with more than a few changes. First, the most important: Wordpress v.2.7 has a one-touch refresher function.

Microsoft never utters the phrase “ Free Software”. Microsoft tries to obliterate the meaning of “ Free Software” as in fighting-for-freedom- and-against-monopolisation- of-knowledge-software (remember the distasteful comments of Bill Hilf, one of Microsoft executives, saying “ Free Software doesn’ t exist in 2007″ , there is no such thing as a free lunch, and etc ad nauseam) and instead substitute it by the much-easier-to-tame “ Open Source” phrase, which they promote for everyone to embrace, without any ethical implication whatsoever which must represent just a way of developing software and monetizing it.

Open-Xchange, the open source groupware company, is backed by a growing list of system integrators and hosting companies. Portions of the European market, in particular, are making the move to hosted Open-Xchange rather than Microsoft Exchange, according to MSPmentor. Here's the scoop.

In this article, learn how to integrate an x86-based IBM BladeCenter server and external IBM BladeCenter Boot Disk System SAS storage, as a critical prerequisite for a reliable Linux/blade server environment.

While I'm a die-hard Google user -- especially the PIM apps -- I still appreciate offline applications for the integration with the desktop, speed, and features they sport. The Evolution contact and calendaring application is a great example: it's as feature-packed as Microsoft Outlook, but with GNOME integration, and it's fast. Gmail, by comparison, is slow and lacks any desktop integration. In a perfect world, Evolution would sync with Google's PIM apps. Unfortunately, there aren't any good, easy-to-use, comprehensive guides for setting up Evolution to sync with all of these apps -- until now.

This article describes how you can shrink and grow existing software RAID partitions. I have tested this with non-LVM RAID1 partitions that use ext3 as the file system. I will describe this procedure for an intact RAID array and also a degraded RAID array.

The most recent "Howto" mentioned in headline has been published about one week or latter then another one Installing Opensolaris 2008.11 RC2 on a Linux (RedHat/Centos) dom0

For some time, Adobe AIR has looked like a promising way to make applications inherently cross-platform. The problem is, it was never open-source or open in any way and there was never any good alternative. Now Appcelerator Titanium has come and changed that.

Tasmania will host its first national Linux conference in just over 30 days and while the pace is getting crazy, the organisers appear to have one thing in abundance - enthusiasm.

After installing your basic Joomla! component and making the website ready, there are a few additional features that you can include. One of them came up with the idea of allowing visitors to send reviews to their friends through email. Another could be adding audio reviews in addition to text. We can also begin to look into ways of expanding the market for the software. Internationalizing the component now will make it easy to translate the user interface later. In the following article we will be taking a look at including the following additional features : * Sending emails * Managing languages * Creating translations * Handling file uploads

Hi All, Here's the 21st tip in the "OpenLDAP Quick Tips" series kindly contributed by Vincent van Gelder. "You need to carry out LDAP[?] operations using shell scripts".

HP has been quirky over the years when it comes to open source. It has been, traditionally, a company that supports open source -- especially in larger enterprises. While large businesses are a major focus for HP -- and it has supported open source in other ways -- a "smaller business" line of open source products has been a long time coming.

When it comes to processing financial transactions, money can be won or lost in milliseconds. That's why high throughput, low latency, and consistent latency for transactions are the name of the game. Financial institutions are fanatical about their market data and trading systems, and Linux distros want to cash in on that.

Tunneling over untrusted networks is a flexible, powerful security tool. We continue our classic Networking 101 series with Charlie Schluting's gentle introduction to how they work, and some easy-to-try examples with SSH.

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington is reporting that Google's vice president Marissa Mayer told him in an interview that Chrome will be coming out of beta. Mayer didn't give a definite time frame, but one would assume that this would mean sooner rather than later. This announcement is a little surprising for a few reasons.

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco. The FSF’s complaint alleges that in the course of distributing various products under the Linksys brand Cisco had violated the licences of many programs on which the FSF holds copyright, including GCC, binutils, and the GNU C Library. In doing so, Cisco has denied its users their right to share and modify the software.

Here is a very interesting little Firefox extension that caught my attention: GPhotoSpace. It requires Firefox 3 and leverages the 7GB+ of storage space that you currently get with a Gmail account for an online photo storage repository. I am constantly surprised that people still stick with the many free online storage accounts that only provide 1GB of capacity.

Just in time for the holidays is a new Nouveau Companion newsletter to update the community on the status of this open-source 2D/3D NVIDIA driver that is written by clean room reverse-engineering of NVIDIA's binary driver. It has been a while since Nouveau Companion 40, but there is still active work going into this X.Org driver. Among the topics covered in the 41st edition of the Nouveau Companion is kernel mode-setting, Gallium3D, layering GEM on top of TTM (similar to the GEM-ified TTM Radeon driver), and thermal monitoring code for the Nouveau driver.

Notice that installation Ubuntu HVM and runtime performance at opensolaris 2008.11 Dom0 is extremely low versus same HVM perfomance at Xen 3.3.1 openSUSE 11.1 Dom0 on the same box with C2D E8400 and 8 GB RAM. Actually, Linux as well as Nevada HVM DomUs demonstrate very low performance even been installed on zvols. Paravirtual DomUs behave at opensolaris 2008.11 absolutely normal been installed on zvol’s images.