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This week on LinuxWorld.com, the SCO case pops up in the news again, with new documents on Groklaw seeming to show that Microsoft had a behind-the-scenes role in funding SCO’s thinly-substantiated attack on Linux. But it’s not all courtroom drama here. Kick your Linux productivity up a notch with a detailed how-to on the GNU screen utility, answers to your batch image processing questions, and some important items to check on your DNS server.
Virtual Iron launches VMware competitor, 10/12/06
Virtual Iron has launched version 3.0 of its virtualization software, aimed directly against VMware.
Portland Project launches common desktop tools, 10/11/06
The Open Source Development Labs, as part of its Portland Project on desktop standards, has released a set of utilities called xdg-utils to handle common tasks such as setting up menu items on application install.
Kernel space: Faster startup and suspend and resume changes for 2.6.19, 10/11/06
Faster boot times are the goal of new driver API changes. Drivers will be able to initialize in parallel, and to be more flexible in suspend and resume.
IBM adds Web 2.0 features, Notes on a Stick to Lotus platform, 10/11/06
IBM has added enterprise blogging capability to its venerable Lotus Notes/Domino e-mail and collaboration software in an incremental update available now.
BayStar exec says Microsoft ‘guaranteed’ SCO investment, 10/09/06
The long-running contract dispute between The SCO Group and IBM took another twist last week when IBM filed court documents that suggest Microsoft agreed to back up BayStar Capital’s investment in SCO.
Microsoft denies BayStar connection, 10/10/06
Microsoft has denied allegations that it offered to guarantee an investment made in The SCO Group, a software company embroiled in a long-standing intellectual property dispute with IBM.
Review: Open source Quagga router sets an acceptable pace, 10/09/06
Open source routing software projects have been receiving attention lately as viable, inexpensive platforms for midlevel routing deployments. But are they practical for enterprise network managers?
An introduction to GNU screen, 10/09/06
If you want to use desktop real estate more efficiently or if you ever find yourself without the X Window System yet needing more than one terminal, the popular GNU screen utility may be the perfect solution.
Automatically reattaching to a screen session, 10/09/06
One of screen’s best features is its ability to detach from an entire session — leaving all your windows and programs running — and reattach later.
Is your DNS server configured wrong?, 10/09/06
More than half of the Internet’s name servers are configured incorrectly, leaving networks vulnerable to pharming attacks and enabling servers to be used in attacks that can wipe out DNS infrastructure.
Infrequently Asked Questions: Mixing Ubuntus, batch image resizing, rsync backups, 10/06/06
The LinuxQuestions.org team takes on your Linux questions, and comes up with answers that include one big data saver and one big time saver.
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Will there ever be an “application for Linux”—or just applications that happen to work on one or more distributions? OSDL’s Portland Project released some useful desktop utilities this week, but there’s a lot more than a few common tools required to make an application build on one distribution and install on another. Is OSDL overselling Portland? We link to the latest discussions of cross-desktop, cross-browser compatibility from Jeff Waugh, Ian Murdock, Mark Shuttleworth, and Mike Melanson.
