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Linux News for Dec 31, 1998
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Boston Globe: Blunders and brilliance (Dec 31, 1998, 20:46)
"I hit the bull's-eye. Back in February, I began singing the
praises of the free Linux operating system."
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Raleigh News-Observer: A Triangle annual report (Dec 31, 1998, 20:36)
Red Hat finds out it's sometimes hard to get respect in your own
home town.
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Humorix: Linux Advocacy Crackdown (Dec 31, 1998, 16:06)
"If he would have spent as much time actually working as he did
hiding Windows books at the back of shelves, he wouldn't have
received the pink slip."
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3 announcements from LinuxPPC (Dec 31, 1998, 13:33)
Ultra/Wide SCSI-compatible kernel 2.1.130 posted, BootX 1.0.1
available, Kernel 2.2-pre2 posted
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GNOME 0.99.1 RPMS available (Dec 31, 1998, 13:25)
Untested and intended for "the basic 0.99.1 experience"
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Linux kernel 2.2.0pre2 ready (Dec 31, 1998, 11:26)
The second kernel on the way to the 2.2.0 release.
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Performance Computing: UNIX Riot: The problem of Linux... (Dec 31, 1998, 05:47)
...continues to bother me. By Mark Hall.
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AsiaBizTech: Malaysia Orders Cybercafes to Register Users (Dec 31, 1998, 02:55)
All cybercafes must register their customers or have their
permits revoked.
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Humorix: Santa Tux Sightings (Dec 31, 1998, 02:36)
Santa Claus' monopoly of the holiday global gift-giving industry
has apparently ended.
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New KDE utilities simplify package management (Dec 31, 1998, 00:50)
Working with RPM, DEB, tar.gz, bz2 and zip have never been
easier.
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LinuxNow getting major facelift (Dec 31, 1998, 00:12)
The well-known Linux reference center is currently offline while
it is being rebuilt.
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News.com: Microsoft trying to match Sun's Jini (Dec 31, 1998, 00:10)
"Within the next month, the software giant will likely disclose
its efforts to make small office and home networks easier to create
and use."
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CNN: Promising new year for emerging IT tools (Dec 31, 1998, 00:03)
"InfoWorld's Michael Vizard makes a list of 10 technologies to
watch in 1999."
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Linux kernel 2.2.0pre1-ac4 released (Dec 31, 1998, 00:02)
Alan Cox posts his fourth patch to the 2.2.0pre1 kernel.
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New versions of the core GNOME components (Dec 31, 1998, 00:02)
The GNOME team has just released updated versions of a number of
GNOME packages that fix a share of bugs that were reported with the
gnome 0.99 release.
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Gimp User Group project forming (Dec 31, 1998, 00:01)
"The ideas behind GUG is trying to establish a USER forum for
Gimp."
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GNOME 0.99.1 released (Dec 31, 1998, 00:00)
The GNOME team has just released updated versions of a number of
GNOME packages that fix a share of bugs that were reported with the
gnome 0.99 release.
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