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Software RAID on OpenBSD using RAIDframe

Software RAID provides an easy way to add redundancy or speed up a system without spending lots of money on a RAID adapter. OpenBSD includes support for software RAID using RAIDframe, which was ported from NetBSD, and supports RAID modes 0, 1, 4, 5.

CompUSA Offers Xandros' Consumer Ready Linux Desktop

Xandros has said that the retail giant, CompUSA®, is now selling the Xandros Desktop product in all of its stores, nationwide.

Ceo Gael Duval Departs From Mandriva Linux

Gael Duval, CEO of Mandriva, creator of Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva Linux), has been let go (maybe fired) from the company. The information was leaked onto the Mandriva forums. Duval confirmed his departure from the company on his blog.

Linux duo in SMB push

Infrastructure specialist LinuxIT Europe has teamed up with Red Hat Inc. to push Linux to small and medium-size businesses (SMB), a part of the market that has always been reluctant to embrace open source.

Linux Vaporware

How many times have you seen stories about "we're gonna do this thing". Here at Linux News we get way too many of those articles and press releases. Our advice, just do it, release it and then talk about it.

Debian Weekly News - March 14th, 2006

  • Mailing list; By Martin Schulze (Posted by tadelste on Mar 14, 2006 10:54 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Newsletter; Groups: Debian
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Debian Weekly News
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2006/11/ Debian Weekly News - March 14th, 2006
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Mysql Database Backup Script

Mysql Database Backup Script

A Call for Authors

Have a great idea for an article or tutorial? We want to hear about it.

How to give Linux Away

  LXer Feature: 16-Jan-06

As a community we would like to see a large computer manufacturer sell PC's with Linux already on them. Is this the only option?

How your IT department is breaking data protection laws

Comment Grid-tools a dream in a compliance nightmare

Novell Launches Next-Generation SUSE Linux Desktop

Novell Inc. unveiled their new Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 today at CeBit, hoping to spark companies into migrating their desktop systesm from Windows to Linux. Considered the first version of the product powerful enough to truly challenge Windows' desktop advantage, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 features a number of updates, including Xgl and Banshee.

Phoronix: NVIDIA Linux GeForce 7900GTX 256MB

  • LinuxHardware.org (Posted by tadelste on Mar 14, 2006 8:26 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Video Card Reviews Phoronix writes "The speculations flying around the Internet in recent months in regards to the GeForce 7900 series can now come to a close. This morning NVIDIA is unveiling the new GeForce 7900 series GPUs that packs a fair amount of improvements over the existing flagship 7800 GPUs, and we have already taken this new unit for a spin at our facilities.

KOffice ships v1.5 final beta

  • DesktopLinux.com (Posted by tadelste on Mar 14, 2006 7:22 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
The project team is being a bit more deliberate about this important 1.5 release. The dates for the first release candidate and final stable versions have been pushed out by about a month; the first final v1.5 RC1 is now set for March 27 availability, with the final version of KOffice 1.5 now set for an April 11 release, the team said.

SSH Announces Future Plans for Enhanced File Transfer

SSH Tectia(TM) to Deliver Security and Simplicity for Automated File Transfers

[ED: Security and Linux should always be seen with coincident interests - HC]

BAMBIOS: BIOS emulator for EFI

  • SX 86 Project; By Amit Singh (Posted by tadelste on Mar 14, 2006 5:53 AM CST)
  • Groups: IBM; Story Type: News Story
A few researchers from IBM are working on a new BIOS emulator for EFI based on the Boch's x86 emulator.

Some Good News from New Zealand - Updated

[Ed.: New Zealand's State Services Commission responds positively to feedback from Open Source advocates regarding the commissioned document "Guide to Legal Issues in Using Open Source Software".]

My desktop OS: Kanotix

I expect both ease of use and advanced capabilities in any Linux distro. I am therefore hard to please when using a live CD-based distro, which is necessarily limited to about 2GB of software compressed onto a 700MB CD. I have tested more than a dozen live CD distros. Of all of them, Kanotix comes closet to being the "perfect distro."

Asterisk Users to Get Free Call Management Application From Fonality

  • PR Newswire; By Press release (Posted by tadelste on Mar 14, 2006 4:38 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Press Release
Businesses Improve Communications With Drag-Drop Calling and Call Control, Call Monitoring and More

Linux a lovely little earner for IBM

  • Computerworld New Zealand; By Randal Jackson (Posted by Herschel_Cohen on Mar 14, 2006 3:49 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: IBM
IBM’s business built around Linux was worth US$16 billion last year and is projected to be worth more than US$50 billion, says the company’s global head of public sector Linux sales, Mary Ann Fisher.

“Governments worldwide are spending more than US$3 billion a year on Linux hardware, software and services, and this is growing at 35% a year,” she says. “But it’s the US military that is spending the most..."

[ED: IBM luxurating in cash from littl' ol Linux - had to censor the quote, had that innovation word. - HC]

The Macintosh through Linux eyes

  • Linux Box Admin; By Keith Winston (Posted by slippery on Mar 14, 2006 3:01 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Editorial
I've been using Linux for almost 10 years, and it has been my primary desktop for more than four years. So why am I writing about a Macintosh? Because during a recent exercise in curiosity, I discovered a few unexpected things -- about the Mac and about how I use my desktop.

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