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Developer Linux News for Feb 25, 1999
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Dr Geo -- interactive geometry education software (Feb 25, 1999, 23:23)
"... for Linux... a GNU education oriented project for K12
schools."
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Open Source Erlang 47.4.1 released (Feb 25, 1999, 20:32)
"Erlang is a small concurrent functional programming language
... being used... for large concurrent distributed systems."
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FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE now shipping from Walnut Creek CDROM (Feb 25, 1999, 18:27)
"In what must be our fastest turn-around replication time ever,
we now have 3.1-RELEASE CDs in stock. Please see http://www.cdrom.com for ordering
details."
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CNET: VRML looks to open source (Feb 25, 1999, 16:42)
"After some gyrations of its own, 3D browser and tools owner
Platinum Technologies has signed a letter of intent with the Web3D
Consortium to turn over the source code to those products for some
kind of development project. "
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ZDNET UK: Exclusive: Corel says Linux on the desktop in 2000 (Feb 25, 1999, 16:40)
This is a 3 part interview with Corel's executive vice president
of engineering, Derek Burney.
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Vancouver Sun: Wrestling with the Penguin (Feb 25, 1999, 14:54)
"The Linux operating system, is reliable, fast, and cool.
Mainframe and Web server owners love it, since a computer running
on Linux might crash only once a year. Geeks love it because it's
technical."
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New release of the GNOME file manager (Feb 25, 1999, 14:43)
Version 4.5.21 of the GNOME file manager has been released. Only
bug fixes this time.
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New Red Hat RPMS for KDE 1.1 available (Feb 25, 1999, 14:41)
"thanks to the excellent work of the KDE Packager Team I am
proud to announce the availability of new improved binary RPM
packages for RedHat"
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CNN: "I Don't Do Windows" transcript (Feb 25, 1999, 12:46)
The transcript from the February 24, 1999 story about Linux's
rise in popularity..
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NewsAlert: Cygnus Optimizes GNUpro Development Tools Software for Pentium Processors; Market Leading Embedded Development Tools to be Optimized for Intel Architecture (Feb 25, 1999, 12:40)
"Cygnus(R) Solutions today announced its GNUPro(R) software
development technology will be optimized for Celeron(TM) and
Pentium(R) II processors. Cygnus also announced plans to optimize
GNUPro to support the Pentium III processor."
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32BitsOnline (Newsbytes): Moreton Bay Ports Linux To Motorola's ColdFire (Feb 25, 1999, 12:31)
"Moreton Bay [Australia] will use the software to build network
appliances based on ColdFire."
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Spokane.net: Linux moves from obscurity to mainstream (Feb 25, 1999, 11:46)
"Tired of being confined to a software world driven by Microsoft
and its capitalistic spirit, Linux is becoming a tool of choice for
technical iconoclasts."
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ABC News: Intel Makes Linux Move (Feb 25, 1999, 11:37)
"Forget the Wintel paradigm. How about Linux and Intel ...
Lintel?"
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Enterprise Computing: Intel funds move to boost Linux on Pentium (Feb 25, 1999, 07:57)
"Linux got a serious shot in the arm with news that it will
benefit from an Intel-funded effort to add support for Pentium MMX
and Pentium III instructions."
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BOOK REVIEW: Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution (Feb 25, 1999, 03:03)
'Open Sources' is a look into the minds of 14 of the leaders of
the Free Software movement and one of the best reads I have had in
years. -- Dwight Johnson
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InfoWorld: Sun makes Java 2 platform source code public (Feb 25, 1999, 01:00)
"The Java 2 Community Source Licensing model enables developers
to use and modify the source code for commercial products free of
charge..."
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