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Last year, I had the opportunity to participate in Running Linux 5th Edition. Mae West once said, "Flattery will get you everywhere". So, I felt flattered when asked to re-write the first chapter and add a major section in Chapter 28. For aspiring writers and interested parties, you might benefit from my experience with what we called RL5.

Faced with former Massachusetts CIO Peter Quinn's harsh appraisal of the real reason behind the "inertia" of Linux in the business world, Linus Torvalds and OSDL have come up with an action plan for rebranding the Linux image and the image of its core developers. They have jointly agreed on the formation of OSDSU, the world's first Open Source Dress for Success University.

[Will this be enough to save Linux and Linus et. al. from themselves. I truly doubt it.]

A few weeks ago, Jonathan Riddell had asked me on IRC in passing why kprinter and KDEPrint 3.5.1 didn't work with CUPS-1.2. My reply had been like "CUPS-1.2 hasn't even released an alpha or beta tarball -- w.t.h. does Ubuntu Dapper plan to include an SVN version of a piece of core software which has a yet unknown release date??" Of course, this is not Jonathan's personal field of work -- Kubuntu just inherits the CUPS version and setup which the Ubuntu main developers decided for.

Regarding an impending CUPS-1.2 release, prospects have become much brighter in the meanwhile. During March, Mike Sweet released 2 Betas and the first Release Candidate. So a final 1.2.0 release seems pretty close now.

After reading this morning that "Dapper Flight 6" was available, I decided to download the Live CD version of Kubuntu. Download took 6 hours, but luckily was completed after I woke up.

Yours truly and other Linux aficionados will be in Boston next week for the love fest known as Linux World Conference and Expo. This year's show is gearing up to represent the year of the ecosystem, as there won't be any major distribution announcements from the Linux heavies.

Milan Babuskov one of original creators of fbManager which became Flamerobin, just made it publicly known that he now works for MySQL AB.

As we all know, NVIDIA does support the Linux community with their very best. At least the drivers for their graphics cards work flawlessly. But it seems, that this is not enough for them. Quite a few minutes ago two NVIDIA employees appeared in wine's IRC channel.

In the CyberCynic podcast, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols asks: Will the now more open-source friendly Sun finally open the doors to the popular programming language? (Podcast #57)

"A versatile, old school Unix program -- Wget is a highly hackable, handy little tool that can take care of all your downloading needs. Whether you want to mirror entire web site, automatically download music/movies from a set of favorite weblogs, or transfer huge files painlessly on a slow or intermittent network connection, Wget’s for you." ...

Just in time to give you something to do this weekend, Alexandre released Wine 0.9.11.

Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) chairman Dan Glickman and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) president Cary Sherman today announced the historic merger of the two organizations. The newly-created entity is being called the Music And Film Industry Association of America, Inc.

Here is a cool article which pursues how one can enable or disable services during start up in GNU/Linux. You get to know how you do the same task in different distributions like redhat, gentoo and ubuntu as well as the old fashioned way.

There has been a great deal of buzz lately about KDE4 and especially Plasma. People are talking excitedly on Osnews and Slashdot about what KDE4 will bring. Many other people are asking where they can see what new features are being developed at the moment, and other signs of progress. Some real screenshots of KDE 4 in development.

The Ubuntu team is proud to present the 6th Alpha test, called Flight 6 of our next release, Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake). With Flight 6 comes additional Look-and-Feel improvements, Live-CD installer enhancements, GNOME 2.14 final, and much more.

Wikipedia has a list of all of the big pranks that have happened. The list is growing fast, enjoy the hilarity.

A non-funny April Fools Day Joke? Quite.

In an email I received from Canonical today, they have stated that nUbuntu must cease development. Their reasoning behind this is that the ideas behind nUbuntu are giving Canonical & Ubuntu a badname. I have fully complied with their request, and this site will go down as of 12:00pm on Saturday. I would like to thank everyone who has supported nUbuntu and I hope I will be able to develop a new distribution, which people will find just as good as nUbunt

Novell last week announced a migration path for users of NetWare that will allow them to run the legacy operating system on Linux as a guest operating system under the open source Xen or VMware ESX Server virtualization environments.

Call me a dodo bird, but my desktop OS is OpenVMS, an operating system that's secure, reliable, and low-cost, with consistent performance and desirable functionality.

Notice of Intent: When Debian (desktop) fails you, what are you going to do? Panic, of course. Afterwards, try to set up Ubuntu to my liking, however, that requires modifying grub so that it once again knows about that Linux installation on hdb.

Last issue I told you how Novell CEO Jack Messman had come right out and committed to supporting NetWare, at least in the form of NetWare 6.5, for "as long as customers want to support it." It was perhaps the most pleasant announcement heard at the annual BrainShare conclave for the NetWare stalwarts. Of all the training sessions, for example, there was only one focused on NetWare. But there were lots of other announcements that could affect your Novell-based network.

[lg-announce] Linux Gazette #125 is out!