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Developer Linux News for Jan 16, 2003
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CNET News: Intel Software Fine-Tunes Linux Code (Jan 16, 2003, 19:00)
"Intel announced on Tuesday new software to help programmers
speed up Linux programs running on Intel Xeon and Pentium 4
processors..."
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PC Advisor: Dell Boss Still Interested in Linux on the Desktop (Jan 16, 2003, 16:00)
"Despite pulling out of the Linux desktop market, Dell boss
Michael Dell appears to believe the Microsoft alternative could
still have a chance at success, although it is unlikely to make
much of an impact in the next few months..."
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Two on Microsoft's Government/Open Source Plan (Jan 16, 2003, 14:30)
Wired has a more in-depth, tongue-in-cheek analysis of
Microsoft's new plan: "The company's new Government Security
Program will be far more akin to a peep show guarded by aggressive
bouncers than a full-blown open-source orgy." And the Associated
Press has a widely distributed article on why this new venture is
being greeted with skepticism--even a brief comment from Peruvian
congressman Villanueva.
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iTweb: Govt Steps Up Open Source Pace (Jan 16, 2003, 08:00)
"The State IT Agency (SITA) [of South Africa] is committed to
transforming open source software from a niche product into a
mainstream tool for delivering government services, SITA CIO
Mojalefa Moseki said yesterday..."
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Release Digest: KDE, January 15, 2003 (Jan 16, 2003, 05:00)
Today's KDE apps: KCheckers 0.4, Celestia 1.2.5, Taruli 0.1, and
QtSharp 0.6.
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Release Digest: GNOME, January 15, 2003 (Jan 16, 2003, 05:00)
Today's GNOME apps: guinstaller 0.2.0 and gnocl 0.5.5.
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InfomaticsOnline: Sun Urges UK Schools to Try StarOffice (Jan 16, 2003, 04:00)
"Over 400 schools have registered for a free StarOffice licence
in the past three months and Sun Microsystems claims that if every
school switched from Microsoft Office they would save
£48m..."
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NewsForge: OpenEMed Helps Detect Epidemics--And Bioterrorism (Jan 16, 2003, 02:30)
"Its objective is to aggregate data from clinics, emergency
rooms, pharmacies, and individual physicians so that epidemics or
bioterrorism attacks can be rapidly spotted and, hopefully, stopped
before they affect large numbers of people..."
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