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Infrastructure Linux News for Oct 16, 2001
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Tonight Live: Jon "maddog" Hall Announces ALS is Now FREE, Plus We Are NOT Alone (Oct 16, 2001, 19:46)
"We will be covering the hot Linux news of the last few weeks
while we have been absorbed by the world events. In particular, we
will talk about the soon to be released WINDOWS XP."
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NewsForge: Osama bin Laden, Open Source software, and the United States (Oct 16, 2001, 15:30)
"...We export the Jerry Springer Show, you know. And people in
some countries do not know that Springer represents us at our
worst, not at our best. Similarly, the Open Source and Free
Software advocates who get the most press are often the most
outrageous, not those who are best at presenting the many benefits
of Open Source and Free Software in a logical manner..."
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LinuxWorld.com: HP's open-source printer drivers need improvement
(Oct 16, 2001, 14:20)
"The open source community needs to step in and bring the
drivers up to parity with what users get in the world of
Windows."
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SEUL.org: Linux in Education Report #55 for October 15 (Oct 16, 2001, 10:49)
SEUL/edu is the discussion group for those interested in using
Linux for education. This covers all aspects of educational uses of
Linux, by teachers, parents, and students. This week: Tux of Math
Command, The Linux Public Broadcasting Network, GeekOS (a tiny
operating system kernel for x86 PCs), Open Source Electronic Lab
Notebook, more.
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MySQL 4.0.0 Released (Oct 16, 2001, 09:08)
"The new version is intended as a platform for building mission
critical, heavy load database solutions, and much effort has been
put into providing a solid foundation for planned enhancements,
some of which are included from the start. Although the current
release is an alpha version, the development team expects to
release a beta version after rapid initial testing and will also
add a number of new features in the weeks to come." Feature list
within.
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Linux Mandrake Security Announcement: Zope update (Oct 16, 2001, 07:24)
A new Zope hotfix is available that fixes a problem with DTML
scripting as described in the README.txt of Hotfix_2001-09-28: "The
issue involves the fmt attribute of dtml-var tags. Without this
correction, Zope does not check security access to methods invoked
through fmt. This issue could allow partially trusted users with
enough knowledge of Zope to call, in a limited way, methods they
would not otherwise be allowed to access."
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