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Winners and losers in the New Linux World (Linux-Watch)

Linux-Watch predicts the outcome from recent corporate agreements involving Linux. "Would you have believed at the end of last summer that Microsoft and Novell would partner over Linux, or that Oracle would create its own brand of Linux? Yeah, I wouldn't have believed it either, but here we are. So, what does it all mean? Rather than make a snap judgment I decided to sit, wait and watch before trying to make sense of it all. Now, I'm ready to give you my two-cents on who are the winners and losers in this post-deal Linux world. First, here are the winners. Commercial Linux has taken one giant step forward."

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Novell Speaks (Groklaw)

Groklaw covers the latest back-and-forth between Novell and Microsoft, including Novell's open letter to the community: "We disagree with the recent statements made by Microsoft on the topic of Linux and patents. Importantly, our agreement with Microsoft is in no way an acknowledgment that Linux infringes upon any Microsoft intellectual property. When we entered the patent cooperation agreement with Microsoft, Novell did not agree or admit that Linux or any other Novell offering violates Microsoft patents."

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Trade Shows and Conferences

SC06: A Beowulf cluster of supercomputer people (Linux.com)

Linux.com covers SuperComputing 2006. "SC06, "the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking and storage," was held last week in Tampa, Florida. I took my video camera with me so that I could give you a little feeling of what the show was like, and even grabbed a couple of shots of the "by invitation only" Beowulf Users Group party that was held at a bar a few blocks away from the Tampa Convention Center."

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Companies

IBM aims to ease Linux, grid deployments (LinuxWorld.com)

LinuxWorld.com reports on IBM's latest Grid services. "On Wednesday, IBM introduced its Implementation Services for Linux and Grid and Grow Express Implementation Service, both of which expand on existing IBM offerings by building on lessons learned from individual projects to create a standard way to deploy computing grids and Linux. The services use an automated, Web-based tool to streamline projects, cutting costs and improving efficiencies, IBM says."

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Microsoft May Indemnify Some Red Hat Linux Users (eWeek)

eWeek reports that Microsoft may offer patent indemnity to Red Hat customers. ""We would like to strike similar patent deals with all the Linux vendors, but we had to start somewhere. The fact that Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian approached us in this regard made that conversation happen very quickly," Bill Hilf, Microsoft's general manager of platform strategy, told eWEEK in an interview here at IT Forum. But Hilf acknowledged that it is an awkward situation having Microsoft's customers who use Novell's SUSE Linux covered by the covenant not to sue, while those Windows users running Red Hat Linux are not."

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Nokia Partners with Red Hat (Techtree.com)

Techtree.com covers a partnership between Red Hat and Nokia. "Nokia and Red Hat have announced a collaboration to develop carrier-grade telecommunications solutions that meet the high performance and availability requirements of operators. As part of the deal, Nokia will deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux as its primary operating system for carrier-grade platforms; while Red Hat will provide Nokia with onsite consulting, support, certification, and training services. Besides, the two teams will work together closely towards development of these high-end telecommunications solutions."

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Red Hat ponders new JBoss strategy (ZDNet)

ZDNet reports that Red Hat may split JBoss into a free, unsupported product and a subscription-based supported one. "Currently, there is a single version of JBoss, and Red Hat has sold support for it since acquiring the company behind it in April. But Chief Financial Officer Charlie Peters, speaking at a UBS financial conference Tuesday, said that the company is considering applying the two-version formula it used to profit from Linux."

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Legal

Getting Cute with the GPL (Groklaw)

Groklaw mentions a new plan to adjust the wording of the GPLv3 license. "Eben Moglen has now stated that GPLv3 will be redrafted to include clear language that will make the Novell-Microsoft agreement an obvious GPL violation, and more: "GPL version 3 will be adjusted so the effect of the current deal is that Microsoft will by giving away access to the very patents Microsoft is trying to assert." I expect that got Microsoft's attention."

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Interviews

Linux desktop domination "just a matter of time" (DesktopLinux)

DesktopLinux.com has an interview with Mark Shuttleworth. "South Africa native and current London resident Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical Ltd. and the Ubuntu Linux distribution, told DesktopLinux.com Friday in an interview that widespread adoption of Linux on the desktop -- so long-awaited by many people -- "is just a matter of time, IMO.""

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RedHat's response: Interview with Mark Webbink (RedHat) (LinuxInterviews.com)

LinuxInterviews.com talks with Mark Webbink, Deputy General Counsel and Secretary at Red Hat. "LinuxInterviews.com: Given the recent announcement of the deal between Novell and Microsoft, would RedHat have accepted a similar deal? Mark Webbink: We have not had the opportunity to review the Microvell deal in detail, but from what we have read in public reports, we cannot see that this arrangement is in the interests of the open source software community or end users."

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Resources

Three, two, one...Geronimo!, Part 3: Issues of state (developerWorks)

IBM developerWorks looks at Apache Geronimo. "Though computers and the Web make daily tasks more convenient, they also give rise to new challenges. Today's Internet no longer functions simply by responding to requests for HTML-coded Web pages. Nowadays, Web sites must maintain mountains of information about users and be able to manage many complicated tasks. Luckily, leading-edge tools can simplify such issues of state. Discover an industrial-grade solution to this age-old problem -- namely, session state. This article demonstrates how Apache Geronimo maintains the state of thousands of simultaneous connections so that IT managers can breathe easier."

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Monitor your Linux computer with machine-generated music (IBM devloperWorks)

Nathan Harrington shows how to turn system status into music in an IBM devloperWorks article. "Use Perl and FluidSynth to create a real-time musical composition of your system status. Learn how to integrate various system monitoring data into a harmony-producing, MIDI-controlled audio synthesis. Explore audible information methods and configurations to help you monitor and manage your computing environment."

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Bring back deleted files with lsof (Linux.com)

Michael Stutz explores lsof in a Linux.com article. "There you are, happily playing around with an audio file you've spent all afternoon tweaking, and you're thinking, "Wow, doesn't it sound great? Lemme just move it over here." At that point your subconscious chimes in, "Um, you meant mv, not rm, right?" Oops. I feel your pain -- this happens to everyone. But there's a straightforward method to recover your lost file, and since it works on every standard Linux system, everyone ought to know how to do it."

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Getting My Kicks On Route 64 (Linux Journal)

Dave Philips puts together a 64 bit audio workstation running the 64Studio distribution. "Daniel James and Free Ekayanaka share a dream. They want to create a pure 64-bit Linux distribution devoted to the needs of multimedia workers, complete with low-latency kernel and an up-to-date selection of Linux sound, music, and video applications. These fellows have the required expertise: Daniel is the editor-in-chief of Linux User & Developer, Free was one of the chief engineers of the great AGNULA/Demudi project. With their experience in this domain I expected great things from 64Studio. I'm most happy to say that I have not been disappointed."

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