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Linux.com: "Nominations are now open for the Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. The winner could be someone you know, or someone whose work you admire, but don't mull over your recommendation too long -- entries must be submitted by September 30."

Enterprise Storage Forum: "Sun Microsystems says its open source storage initiative is catching on, with registered members growing and more than 40 projects under way.

Tech Broiler: "...despite a small number of very vocal FOSS Community Whiners (FCWs) who have taken Novell to task for it in the past and accuse the company of compromising Open Source principles in the process, many folks -- read as “reasonable people who are oriented towards business solutions, fostering productive uses of technology and not mired in religious dogma" -- believe the alliance has made a positive impact on increasing Linux adoption in the enterprise."

Groklaw: "SCO Group Germany must check software updates of the nut/mother company message to read out"

Netstat -vat: "As Microsoft is set to pump up to $100 million more in Novell for Linux, it's important to note that Microsoft is not paying off Linux - it's actually making money from it."

Software Freedom Law Center: "The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), provider of pro-bono legal services to protect and advance Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS), today published a guide to effective compliance with the GNU General Public License (GPL) and related licenses."

Bob Cares: "Phusion Passenger (mod_rails or mod_rack ) makes execution of Ruby web applications more easier on Apache webserver. It requires no maintenance from our part and minimal port management. It was designed keeping in mind performance, stability and security."

OStatic: "Nearly every open-source Web developer used Apache -- except for programmers using the Ruby on Rails framework, for whom Apache was a poor fit."

IBM Developerworks: "The GAE is a platform for creating Web applications. The biggest prerequisite for it is knowledge of Python, as this is the programming language used on it (currently, Python V2.5.2). For this series, it would be helpful to have some typical Web development skills (e.g., knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS)."

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Today's Linux/Unix bash shell script is is a blatant exploitation of a post we did, not too long ago, where we put together a Thesaurus shell script. This time we're creating a shell script to emulate a full-function dictionary. The actual online source we draw from (Dictionary.com) deserves the credit for knowing what virtually every word in the English language means"

Linux Today Blog: "More hardware manufacturers than ever support Linux in some way- they supply binary drivers, or support and sponsor FOSS drivers. Even better, some actually admit it publicly. Though some still act like you want to peek up their skirts when you ask about Linux."

IBM Developerworks: "Bottlenecks with hosts, services, and networks can be costly. To ensure Service Level Agreement (SLA) guarantees, Ajax applications must be monitored remotely over the networks. In this article, learn how to quickly install and start Nagios, an open source host, service, and network monitoring program, and discover how it can help."

HowtoForge: "This tutorial explains how you can set up a FreeRadius (1.1.7) server with Wifi authentication and accounting in conjunction with MySQL & web management with Daloradius on Ubuntu 8.04 (LTS) This howto should work for a newbie."

UbuntuGeek: "atftp is Multi-threaded TFTP server implementing all options... Atftpd also supports multicast protocol known as mtftp, defined in the PXE specification. The server supports being started from inetd as well as in daemon mode using init scripts."

Phoronix: "How does this feature work though on Linux and does it deliver similar performance gains to their Windows driver? Today we have a full rundown on ATI CrossFire for Linux along with benchmarks from the ATI Radeon HD 4850 and Radeon HD 4870."

Phoronix: " The motherboard we are looking at is the ASUS P5E64 WS Professional, which ships with all of the usual ASUS innovations in addition to having four PCI Express x16 slots."

OStatic: "He suggests that businesses should think twice before using open-source software, lest they find themselves on the receiving end of a lawsuit themselves. Fortunately for the open-source community, his claims don't hold much water."

InfoWorld: "Awards were given to 60 winners across 8 categories covering business and productivity applications, development tools, middleware, networking, security, and storage. Winners include (among others) OpenOffice.org for office productivity, Snort for network intrusion detection, Splunk for security log analysis, Jitterbit for data and application integration, SugarCRM, Alfresco in content management."

OStatic: "Acquia, as we've covered before, has been working away on an array of support offerings and services for the powerful open source Drupal content management system (CMS). OStatic is based on Drupal, as are sites such as Fast Company and The Onion. Acquia's goal is to apply a Red Hat-like approach to support and services for Drupal, and it will deliver these offerings later this year."

The VAR Guy: "Based in Spain, Openbravo is backed by $12 million in new funding, a growing partner program and a new Ubuntu Linux Server effort. Translation: Openbravo seems to be on quite a roll."