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Developer Linux News for Mar 22, 2004
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LinuxWorld: Netscape Co-Founder's 12 Reasons for Growth of Open Source (Mar 22, 2004, 22:00)
"Internet whizz Marc Andreessen took the 3rd annual 'Open Source
in Government' conference by storm last week... when he came up
with his personal top twelve reasons for why open source will boom
over the next 5-10 years..."
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LinuxPlanet: Sun Wants to Make Linux 3D (Mar 22, 2004, 20:00)
"'We believe the Linux desktop is a compelling desktop and
there's no reason it should be standing still or following any
other platform for features for the user, so we embarked on Looking
Glass and we are rapidly working to formalize the
implementation...'"
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NewsForge: Proven: Windows is More Secure than Linux Out of the Box (Mar 22, 2004, 13:00)
"After years of petty squabbling between the most innovative
company in the software industry and a few pesky upstart hippie
developers over which of their operating systems is more secure,
the verdict is finally in..."
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Stuart: Free the IBM STB Chip Documentation (Mar 22, 2004, 11:00)
"Unfortunately IBM is maintaining a 'closed documentation
policy' for its STB (Set Top Box) series chips..."
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Tectonic: Namibian OSS Workshop Produces Kiswahili Dictionary (Mar 22, 2004, 08:00)
"Kiswahili speakers can now spellcheck documents in their own
language. A group of developers taking part in the Africa Source
joined forces--and resources--to develop the first-ever Kiswahili
dictionary..."
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The University of Western Ontario Western News: Student Linux Project (Mar 22, 2004, 07:00)
"The Ignalum Linux Project (ILP) student initiative is designed
to give opportunities to faculty and students at Western to
participate in promoting the Linux Open Source concept..."
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Release Digest: KDE, March 21, 2004 (Mar 22, 2004, 05:00)
This weekend's KDE apps: NoteBookManager 0.1, Konverter 0.5,
KSalomon 0.1.2-alpha, KFreeRings 1.0beta2, KMLDonkey 0.10pre3,
kio_reb 0.44, KickPIM 0.5.3, Kio-Apt 0.10, Kasablanca 0.3,
KPkgManager 0.2, gwenview 1.0.1 - 1.1.1, Serverwatch 1.0.1,
KOmnibook 1.3, K3b 0.11.7, CUTE 0.2.6, and K3b Monkey's Audio
plugin.
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Release Digest: GNU, March 21, 2004 (Mar 22, 2004, 05:00)
This weekend's GNU apps: GNU CLISP 2.33 and GNU Libidn 0.4.2
alpha.
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Release Digest: GNOME, March 21, 2004 (Mar 22, 2004, 05:00)
This weekend's GNOME apps: GGV 2.6.0, F-Spot 0.0.1, Gossip
0.7.3, gtkam 0.1.11, Grubconf 0.5.1, Glade 2.5.0, and galculator
1.2.1.
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Andrew Morton: Linux 2.6.5-rc2-mm1 (Mar 22, 2004, 03:00)
Changelog, link within.
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