LWN.netLWN.net is a comprehensive source of news and opinions from and about the Linux community.KDE on KDE 4.0 (Groklaw)- July 11, 2008 Groklaw has Sebastian Kügler debunk 11 Myths About KDE 4. "Lately a lot has been said (or bemoaned) in the community about KDE 4, the 4.0 release and the KDE developers. In the following article we would like to address some common misconceptions about KDE 4 as we see it. As we firmly believe in KDE 4 and the future of the Free Desktop, we expected the heated discussions about KDE4 and especially the 4.0 release to go away - and we were wrong about that. As blogging about the issues...http://lwn.net/Articles/289676/rss Brian Proffitt Joins Linux Foundation as LDN Community Manager (OSTATIC)- July 11, 2008 Joe Brockmeier talks with Brian Proffitt about his new job with the Linux Foundation. "OStatic: What will your duties be with the Linux Foundation Brian Proffitt: My title is Community Manager of the Linux Developer Network, and my primary responsibility will be to direct that site to manage its content and overall direction. To do that, I'll be writing some content, figuring out what the overall content will be, and talking to Foundation members, outside vendors, and individual developers to..http://lwn.net/Articles/289682/rss Security advisories for Friday- July 11, 2008 Debian has updated iceweasel (multiple vulnerabilities). Gentoo has updated bind (DNS cache poisoning). Mandriva has updated pidgin (buffer overflow). SUSE has updated bind (DNS cache poisoning), firefox (multiple vulnerabilities).http://lwn.net/Articles/289644/rss Xandros buys Linspire What does it mean for Linux (ITPro)- July 11, 2008 ITPro writes off Xandros and Linspire in this lengthy article. "Where Xandros is sold in a box, Ubuntu is given away free. Where Ubuntu is seen to donate code back to the community, Xandros and Linspire have developed proprietary extensions. Where Ubuntu asks for manufacturers to free their drivers, Xandros and Linspire have signed patent covenants with Microsoft. Being easy to install and easy to use is not enough. The first lesson of 'open source business' is that your first debt is to your.http://lwn.net/Articles/289634/rss Ubuntu Photo Manager Experiment (Ubuntu Productivity)- July 10, 2008 Ubuntu Productivity reviews several free and commercial photo editing applications for Linux. "I have a passion for photography and have become heavily entrenched in the tools available on Mac OS X, such as Aperture and Photoshop. This experiment focuses mainly on Aperture and what tools, if any, exist for Ubuntu to replace my Aperture workflow with something cross-platform and open-source that I can use on Mac OS X and Ubuntu."http://lwn.net/Articles/289549/rss |