A Big Day in Court for the FOSS Community.
Today those who believe in free content and free and open source software won a major victory in court, as reported by Larry Lessig, Mark Radcliffe, and Pamela Jones, among others. more... and Federal Circuit Says Open Source License Conditions are Enforceable as Copyright Condition and Open source advocates hail court ruling.

Canonical Joins The Linux Foundation.
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that Canonical has become a member of the Foundation. Canonical is the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, a popular version of the Linux operating system more...

An update on Fedora's "issues".
The Fedora Infrastructure team continues to work on the issues we discovered earlier this week. Right now, we're getting the account system restored to service, along with some of the application servers. We're also taking advantage of the outages to upgrade a few systems at the same time. more... and more...

Fluendo walks the line between free and proprietary codecs.
Despite all its advances, GNU/Linux remains weak in its support for proprietary audio and video codecs. Because these codecs are often encumbered by patents, distributions must choose either to include support of questionable legality or else exclude it altogether. In the middle of this controversy sits Fluendo, a Catalan company of about 50 employees that is a main contributor to projects like GStreamer, and supports open formats, more...

Adjust Sound Levels in Audio Recordings With Levelator.
Do you have a niggling little issue constantly cramping your workflow? You know what I'm talking about -- every time you use your favorite program, you remember it's missing that one small feature that would make it perfect. Don't you love it when you find an app that fills in that gap? Me too. more...

Lessons From PHP 4.4 End-of-Life Announcement.
The developers of PHP announced last week that PHP version 4.4.9 is now available. This would not be remarkable in and of itself, except that the developers also indicated that this would be the last release of PHP 4.4. more...

Misc.
How Adobe can stop Microsoft.
Pandora can't make money, may pull the plug.
Music Education With Linux Sound Tools, Redux.
Expressive Inputs for Live Music Visualization.
Banshee 1.2.1 out in the wild!
OpenGL 3.0 released.
Dell’s comeback machine.
DimDim 4.0 is here!

How To Tips.

How To Hiding Software Versions - A Step Forward to a Secure Server.
How To Finding Running Process ID's On Linux Using Pidof.
How To Format date for display or to use in a shell script.
How To Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL in Ubuntu 8.04 Server.
How To Connecting Evolution to Exchange.

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