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Developer Linux News for Mar 21, 1999
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MyC - VB-like C API wrapper for MySQL (Mar 21, 1999, 22:26)
"MyC is a set of simple C routines intended to make programming
applications for use with the MySQL database engine a bit easier,
especially for those familiar with Microsoft's DAO engine model
(used with Microsoft Access and Microsoft Visual Basic)."
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SJ Mercury: Code maestro bringing Linux to the masses (Mar 21, 1999, 21:57)
"De Icaza is orchestrating the development of software dubbed
``Gnome,'' a sophisticated line of programs full of graphics and
icons that aim to make it easy for ordinary users to run computers
with Linux, a non-Microsoft operating system."
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InfoWorld: GNOME builds an open interface (Mar 21, 1999, 21:48)
A review of the GNOME desktop.
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TheAge: Once were Windows (Mar 21, 1999, 20:58)
"All around the world, anonymous volunteers are fine-tuning an
operating system that may redefine computers as we know them. It's
people power in its purest form - and it has Microsoft looking
anxiously over its shoulder."
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Windows Magazine: Opening Pandora's box (Mar 21, 1999, 11:00)
Readers respond to an earlier article that speculated on
Microsoft opening the source code to Windows.
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Information Week: Microsoft's Legacy (Mar 21, 1999, 10:27)
"Since when has compatibility been a primary concern for
Microsoft in any of its products? Such problems have been in
Microsoft products throughout its history. I remember being very
upset when the second release of the Windows software developers'
kit came out and many of the APIs had changed and new ones were
introduced. I was set back weeks in making the programs usable with
the new SDK. Maybe Linux and other software producers will provide
us with more stable and standardized software systems."
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Boulder Daily Camera: Lining up for Linux (Mar 21, 1999, 10:19)
"The Eklektix trio - former National Center for Atmospheric
Research engineers Jonathan Corbet and Elizabeth Coolbaugh, and
former operations specialist and teacher Dennis Tenney - provide
client companies with customized training on the best ways to
install and use Linux and other open-source software. Eklektix also
publishes a weekly online newsletter, Linux Weekly News, which
attracts 700,000 page views per month."
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On Free software and the Free press (Mar 21, 1999, 07:03)
Paul Ferris asks, "Can we afford to let one company own the
printing press of the digital age?"
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SJMercury: AOL May Cut 750 Netscape Workers (Mar 21, 1999, 06:48)
"America Online Inc., moving quickly to swallow its newly
acquired Netscape unit, reportedly plans to slash up to 30 percent
of the software pioneer's work force, or 750 employees."
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