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Issue : 16Team : T.Shrinivasan ( tshrinivasan@gmail.com ) , K.Balavignesh ( kbalavignesh@gmail.com )Date : 25-11-2008To subscribe, Join Mailing List athttp://groups.google.com/group/fossnews/

Contents

1. Red Hat opens Dubai Office2. screenshots.debian.net3. Creative Gives In, They Open-Source Their X-Fi Driver4. RMS visit to Bangalore5. 50 Must-Have Open Source Tools for Security6. Check Your Mysql Server Performance with MySQLTuner7. Install and Configure Cacti Monitoring tool in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Server8. Red Hat Fedora Linux: 9.5 Million Users and Growing9. World's smallest humanoid robot can run Linux10. A free seminar on FOSS Employment Opportunities on 29th Nov 08 in Chennai

1. Red Hat opens Dubai Office

Red Hat has announced the expansion of its international presence with the opening of an office inDubai. The new office will provide support for its growing customer base in the Middle East andAfrica and enable Red Hat to leverage experts with local knowledge to meet new business demandsin the region.http://www.cpilive.net/v3/inside.aspx?scr=n&NID=2239&cat=LOCAL%20NEWS&pub=RESELLER%20WORLD%20MIDDLE%20EAST&k=Red%20Hat%20open%20source,%20virtualisation

2. screenshots.debian.net

A picture is worth a thousand words. And thanks to screenshots.debian.net this finally comes truefor Debian packages. please consider contributing screenshots of your favorite applications.Currently there are already over 260 screenshots available but there is still some way to go.Everybody can upload screenshots - you don't have to be a Debian developer or Debian maintainerto help. Your uploads will just be checked by the admin team and then published.http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/11/msg00003.htmlhttp://screenshots.debian.net

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3. Creative Gives In, They Open-Source Their X-Fi Driver

The Sound Blaster X-Fi sound card driver for Linux from Creative Labs was awful. That's simplythe nicest way to put it. The driver was home to many bugs, initially only supported 64-bit Linux,and it was arriving extremely late. The open-source drivers supporting the Creative X-Fi drivershave also been at a stand still. However, Creative Labs has finally turned this situation around andthey have open-sourced the code to this notorious driver. The source-code for the Creative X-Fidriver is now licensed under the GNU GPLv2.http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=creative_xfi_gift&num=1http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=soundblaster&thread.id=132288

4. RMS visit to Bangalore

Richard.M.Stallman(RMS), the founder of Free SoftwareFoundation, will be in Bangalore from

12th to 14th (tentative)December 2008

. Following this, FSUG Bangalore along withRV College of Engineering has plans to organize a set of eventsand would like to hear from Free Software enthusiasts around inBangalore about various possibilities of their participationduring this occasion.http://bangalore.gnu.org.in/index.php/Events:RMS_visit_to_Bangalore

5. 50 Must-Have Open Source Tools for Security

The area of open source security software is growing rapidly, with a cornucopia of apps for everyuse: anti-spam, firewalls, forensics, encryption, log monitoring, passwords – the list is growing evenas you read this.In many cases, these open source security tools – many of which are free – are available for theWindows, Linux and Mac operating systems.Let the downloading begin…http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/secu/article.php/3781306/50+Must-Have+Open+Source+Tools+for+Security.htm

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6. Check Your Mysql Server Performance with MySQLTuner

MySQLTuner is a script written in Perl that will assist you with yourMySQL configuration and make recommendations for increased performance and stability. Withinseconds, it will display statistics about your MySQL installation and the areas where it can beimproved.http://www.debianadmin.com/check-your-mysql-server-performance-with-mysqltuner.html

7. Install and Configure Cacti Monitoring tool in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Server

Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool’s datastorage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multipledata acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box. All of this is wrapped in anintuitive, easy to use interface that makes sense for LAN-sized installations up to complex networkswith hundreds of devices.http://www.ubuntugeek.com/install-and-configure-cacti-monitoring-tool-in-ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex-server.html

8. Red Hat Fedora Linux: 9.5 Million Users and Growing

“The total number of users has always been an incredibly difficult number tomeasure,” Paul Frields, Fedora's project leader, told InternetNews.com. "If youtotal up all the unique IP's ... on Fedora 7, 8 and 9, it adds up to about 9.5million boxes right now."http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3786726/Red+Hat+Fedora+Claims+Its+the+Leader+in+Linux.htm

9. World's smallest humanoid robot can run Linux

Mobisense is shipping a Linux-ready, robot-targeted"MBS270-520" single-board computer (SBC) that can controlsmall robots such as Tomy's i-Sobot. The 6.5-inch-tall i-Sobot hasbeen dubbed "the smallest humanoid robot in production" byGuinness World Records, says Tomy.http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS7591575275.html