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Developer Linux News for Aug 24, 2004
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Baseline: A New Program for the Enterprise (Aug 24, 2004, 20:30)
"Microsoft's developer support is eroding as coders turn to open
source tools such as the Python programming language..."
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Scooblog: More Microsoft Engagement with Open Source Projects (Aug 24, 2004, 18:15)
"Engaging the 'open source crowd' is something that we have
historically neglected. Hell, from their perspective, some of our
assaults on Linux are downright insulting..."
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Computerworld Australia: Nuclear Science Group Develops Eclipse-based App on Linux (Aug 24, 2004, 17:30)
"...[T]he Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization
(Ansto) has started using it to build a Linux-based desktop
application for controlling laboratory instrumentation..."
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NewsForge: Report from the KDE World Summit: Day Two (Aug 24, 2004, 16:45)
"The second day of aKademy, KDE's World Summit 2004, opened the
two-day developers' conference, involving a series of presentations
and discussions both on ground-breaking topics like KJSEmbed and
other subjects important to KDE..."
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Microsoft Patent Happy? Su-Don't Say... (Aug 24, 2004, 16:00)
Two stories on the discovery of a Microsoft patent application
that apparently patents sudo. With a link to the actual patent so
you can read for yourself.
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CNET News/NY Times: Microsoft Quits UN Standards Group (Aug 24, 2004, 14:30)
"Microsoft on Monday withdrew from a United Nations software
standards group for commerce, citing 'business reasons...'"
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Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.9-rc1 (Aug 24, 2004, 12:30)
Changelog, links within. (And a statement regarding the 2.6.x
vs. 2.6.x.y naming scheme.)
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Linux Journal: Programming for Oracle on Linux, Part I (Aug 24, 2004, 05:30)
"Interaction with a legacy Oracle database can be done simply in
only a few hundred lines of code, using Perl, DBI and
DBD::Oracle..."
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Release Digest: KDE, August 23, 2004 (Aug 24, 2004, 04:45)
Today's KDE apps: Bookcase 0.10, komposé 0.4.1, QLiss3D
1.3.2, Konverter 0.7, KAlarm 1.1.4, Equations Tester 1.0, and knoda
0.7.1-test1.
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Release Digest: GNU, August 23, 2004 (Aug 24, 2004, 04:45)
Today's GNU app: GNUbik 2.2.
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Release Digest: GNOME, August 23, 2004 (Aug 24, 2004, 04:45)
Today's GNOME apps: Nautilus Sendto 0.1 and GARNOME 2.6.2.1.
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DistroWatch: Distributions, August 23, 2004 (Aug 24, 2004, 04:45)
Today's distributions: Mandrakelinux 10.1 Beta 2 and Knoppix
3.6.
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DesktopOS: If I Had My Way--Functionality, Similar To A Mouse (Aug 24, 2004, 02:30)
"The suggested change will affect operating systems and in the
case of GNU/Linux, the design of window managers as well..."
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