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Developer Linux News for Aug 28, 2001
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Ottawa Citizen: Parliamentary Library defies trade tribunal (Aug 28, 2001, 18:31)
A Canadian trade tribunal ruled that the Parliamentary Library
was obligated to accept bids from a Linux-based business, but the
library is ignoring the ruling. The business owner says the ruling
"is a major legal victory for software that is based on open
standards, open source code and free from the tyranny of
proprietary monopoly," the library says it doesn't have a budget
left to implement the order.
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LinuxPower.org: Sun's Desktop Division making headway (Aug 28, 2001, 17:06)
This is a wide-ranging interview (our way of saying 'an excerpt
won't do it justice') with a collection of Sun employees working on
GNOME that touches on everything from 'why's Sun backing GNOME in
particular' to 'what makes an interface usable?': "Hackers are so
close to the applications they develop that they might not see how
these implementations could trip up someone who is not as familiar
with the underlying code. Often user interfaces mimic the code that
lies underneath. Most users do not think about accomplishing tasks
in the order that a computer system would approach the task. They
need a user interface that masks the underlying system architecture
from the user level. But hackers are so in tune with their code
that their user interfaces are often too revealing of this
underlying architecture."
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TechTV.com: Leave Linux to the Geeks (Aug 28, 2001, 13:01)
"I don't run Linux. Why? Because I'm a lazy sucker with limited
computer skills and low geek self-esteem. I'm the worst kind of
Windows user. I'm the guy who's read all the bad press on
Microsoft, felt firsthand the bug-ridden frustration of Windows 98,
and witnessed Steve Ballmer beating a competing software developer
about the face and neck with a 3.5-inch floppy (OK, not the last
one). Yet I continue to patronize Windows for the same reason that
Sir Edmund Hillary climbed that big hill: "Because it's there."
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CodeWeavers CrossOver Plugin Enables Display Of Windows
Browser Plugins, MS Office Files In Linux (Aug 28, 2001, 11:45)
"CrossOver Plugin is an exclusive CodeWeavers product designed
to operate in conjunction with Wine. CrossOver Plugin allows
seamless use of Apple QuickTime and Macromedia Shockwave Director
on most Linux Web browsers including Netscape and Mozilla; what's
more, the adapter allows Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and eFax email
viewers to be used with Linux email clients."
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Consulting Times.com: City of Largo Completes Desktop Transition (Aug 28, 2001, 10:45)
"In an exclusive interview with ConsultingTimes, Largo's CIO
Harold Schomaker described how the city was initially looking to
upgrade and migrate their GroupWise system. 'Novell was going to
embrace Linux and write Linux clients. But all of a sudden that got
dropped.' Schomaker and his staff explored the possibility of
upgrading the existing GroupWise system to meet their needs, but
the customization costs were prohibitive."
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Alan Cox: Linux 2.4.9-ac3 (Aug 28, 2001, 06:37)
"Ok this seems to be stable. The changes in ac3 are actually all
queued fixes from before the merge. The bits outstanding are the vm
changes which I want to take very slowly, and the min/max thing
which needs to be dealt with."
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