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Developer Linux News for Jul 30, 1999
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GNOME 1.0.50 Plan (Jul 30, 1999, 23:26)
"GNOME development hasn't been very focused, we aren't making
quite as fast progress as is possible, and some bugs are still
lingering. I've discussed it with Miguel, the other RHAD hackers
gave lots of impetus to the plane, and the gnome-hackers seem to be
in agreement with it, so now I put it to you for
consideration."
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GRE First Public Release (Jul 30, 1999, 22:46)
"GRE is a simple text editor that supports Bi-Di languages like
Arabic and Hebrew, based on GTK+, and a patch to gtktext widget
made by Dov Grobgeld."
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ZDNN: Open letter to Steve Case (Jul 30, 1999, 20:06)
Executives from Excite@Home, Microsoft, Activerse, Tribal Voice,
Prodigy, Yahoo!, AT&T, and Infoseek have signed an open letter
to AOL...
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MSNBC: Hole opens Office 97 users to hijack (Jul 30, 1999, 17:03)
"...vulnerability... can allow malicious code contained in an
Excel 97 worksheet hidden in a Web page or sent in e-mail to take
control of online computers without the victims' being
aware..."
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BetaNews: MS fingers in the Firewall pie (Jul 30, 1999, 16:04)
"Comet includes a secure firewall, high-performance proxy/cache
services, a fax server, a web-based interactive voice response
(IVR) engine, and other network connectivity services."
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Games Weekly: Q3A Test 1.07 Linux
(Jul 30, 1999, 14:33)
"...it will be ID Software's Quake III: Arena (Q3A) that will
totally put Linux on equal footing with Windows in terms of gaming
technology."
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Performance Computing: Reborn Linux, Revamped NT, And ASP On UNIX (Jul 30, 1999, 14:30)
"There are times when cool new technology grabs me so much that
I have to share it with you."
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Salon.com: A Linux lament (Jul 30, 1999, 14:28)
"As Red Hat prepares to go public, one Linux hacker's dreams of
IPO glory are crushed by The Man."
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Richard Stallman -- U.S. Congress Threatens to Establish a New Kind of Monopoly (Jul 30, 1999, 03:47)
"This would be devastating for the future of free software."
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InfoWorld: Group approves controversial software law (Jul 30, 1999, 01:49)
"The Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) was
voted on during a meeting in Denver of the National Conference of
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws"
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The War (Jul 30, 1999, 01:32)
"They did not choose this fight. It was chosen for them by a
company in Redmond, Washington."
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The Right, the Easy and the Unusual (Jul 30, 1999, 00:49)
User interfaces for Unix from an amateur's point of view
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