Installing Lighttpd With PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 5.6

Lighttpd is a secure, fast, standards-compliant web server designed
for speed-critical environments. This tutorial shows how you can install
Lighttpd on a CentOS 5.6 server with PHP5 support (through FastCGI) and
MySQL support.

The 2.6.39.3 stable kernel update is out.
It contains another long list of fixes (130 files changed, 871 insertions,
335 deletions) for all kinds of serious problems.

Linux User & Developer magazine: Google's New Facebook Alternative Sparks Personal Data Liberation War

InternetNews: Apple Jailbreak, Cisco WiFi, Facebook VoiP and LInux driver alien abductions

An anonymous reader writes "The Debian Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Community Distribution Patent Policy FAQ, a document meant to educate Free Software developers, and especially distribution editors, about software patent risks. The FAQ has been prepared by lawyers at Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) at the request of and with input from the Debian Project. While the document does not constitute legal advice, it provides insights on dealing with software patents, which might be applicable to other community-driven Free Software distributions.

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KDE: For the usage of KWin in Plasma Active many of KWin's advanced features are just not needed.

Datamation: The Java 7 release brings Oracle together with rivals IBM and HP to evolve what has become the most influential programming language for enterprise deployments.

Tech Drive-in: "According to Microsoft, Google's Android OS is infringing on many of its patents and hence those manufacturers who use Android for their devices owe royalties to Microsoft."

opensource.com: "Free," "open" and "libre" software has been a buzzword in media and technology spheres alike.

Ars: "Open source software is used extensively by CERN, the particle physics lab behind the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments"

Life the Universe & Debian: Moving from Firefox 3.6 to 4.x to 5 isn't a problem anymore...

Ubuntu Vibes: "Fans of Nethack, UnNetHack and Slash'Em can play these games in isometric graphical interface on Linux, thanks to open source project Vulture."

InternetNews: From the 'Cloning Takes....Time' files..(unless you're on Kamino)

Datamation: "Tech Comics: "The History of Search"

On his Network World blog, Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier has posted a rebuttal to Nina Paley's "rantifesto" on free culture vs. free software. "Not only is the process for creating cultural works different, so is the process for enjoying them and working with them. While a person might enjoy having the rights to modify a book, essay, or movie, the works function as intended without those rights. The same is often not true of code.

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HowtoForge: "Using the following steps, I was able to setup and integrate an Ubuntu 10.04 LTSPv5 server into a Windows 2008 Active Directory domain."

A short note on the CentOS web site indicates that, at long last, CentOS 6 is imminent. "The internal mirrors will now be opening up for external mirrors to sync from. This may take up to a couple of hours to propagate throughout the system, but external mirrors should start seeing the 6.0 soon." (Thanks to John Haller.)

ZDnet: "It's the end of the future as we knew it as the U.S. backs out of manned spaceflight with Atlantis' last flight." Editors' Note: Did you know that SJVN used to work for NASA?

CentOS has updated bind (C5: denial
of service).

Debian has updated wireshark
(multiple code
execution flaws) and openoffice.org (code
execution).

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Unixmen: " Google Chrome released its latest version, version 12 earlier this June followed by Mozilla's Firefox (controversially) version 5 later this June; official release dated 22 June."