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Linux News for Aug 31, 1999
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Kernel Traffic #32 Is Out (Aug 31, 1999, 23:52)
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osOpinion: Speech Recognition: Freenix and Windows at a desktop crossroads (Aug 31, 1999, 22:14)
"... if Freenix developers want the UNIX desktop to...
flourish,... they must begin planning speech integration into their
desktop systems immediately."
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osOpinion.com: MS Linux (Aug 31, 1999, 21:58)
"Who would benefit if Microsoft started supporting Linux?"
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LinuxPR: "Linux Will Continue to Grow" say Running Linux, Third Edition, Authors (Aug 31, 1999, 21:52)
"Running Linux, Third Edition explains everything you need to
understand, install, and start using the Linux operating
system."
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CNET News.com: Hotmail hole raises larger security issues (Aug 31, 1999, 21:04)
"While Netscape, Yahoo, and other free email services direct
users to specific login Web sites, Hotmail allows users to access
their accounts from any Web page."
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UltimateOS.com: Linux Users Love to Hate (Aug 31, 1999, 20:27)
"Don?t get me wrong, I think Linux is a suitable alternative OS
for those whose needs are better suited for it."
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Ottawa Citizen: Corel stock draws strength from Linux (Aug 31, 1999, 20:08)
"Corel Corp. stock hit its highest price levels in two years
yesterday as Linux fever gripped the market."
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ZDNet: Hotmail glitch: Wake-up call! (Aug 31, 1999, 19:33)
" 'Basically the consumers are going to have to start asking for
better security or Microsoft's not going to see it as a big
problem'..."
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E-Commerce Times: E-smith Adds To Linux Fervor (Aug 31, 1999, 18:30)
"The e-smith server and gateway... features an Apache Web server
and the latest version of the Red Hat Linux distribution."
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Perl.com: The Perl Conference 3.0 Curve (Aug 31, 1999, 17:56)
"This year, the Perl Conference 3.0 joined the Linux, Apache,
Python, sendmail, and Tcl/Tk conferences as part of the O'Reilly
Open Source Convention."
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Sun.com: Free Office Software on the Web (Aug 31, 1999, 17:47)
"Our aim is to .com office productivity. We are publishing the
StarOffice specifications and will make the source code available
through the Sun Community Source Licensing program..."
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Financial Times: SUN: Software group challenges Microsoft (Aug 31, 1999, 17:37)
"It may also signal a rapid restructuring of the entire software
industry."
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CNET News.com: Sun to offer Microsoft Office competitor for free (Aug 31, 1999, 17:25)
"... when Sun officially announces the Star Division acquisition
in New York, the company will demonstrate the use of StarPortal on
a Java-enabled PalmPilot, which is connected to a server."
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BW: Intel'S Craig Barrett Says Pace of Building the Internet Ecomony Must Quicken (Aug 31, 1999, 17:13)
"Barrett demonstrated the Merced processor on an engineering
prototype platform running... a prototype IA-64 Linux Operating
System with a web server."
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CNET: Software firms soar on Linux fever (Aug 31, 1999, 16:55)
"Desktop software maker Corel and Java software maker Applix are
both riding a Linux wave washing over Wall Street in the past few
days."
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InfoWorld: Sun mounts attack on desktop (Aug 31, 1999, 16:51)
"Sun will pull a one-two punch on the corporate client market
over the next two weeks by announcing both software and hardware
moves to challenge the Wintel stronghold of commercial
desktops."
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InfoWorld: IBM: Microsoft must improve Windows 2000 (Aug 31, 1999, 16:41)
"...Microsoft must make several improvements to the
much-anticipated operating system before it works and plays well in
multivendor corporate environments."
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Audio Broadcast: An Interview with Richard Stallman (Aug 31, 1999, 16:28)
The Fight for Free Software is far from over, according to
Richard Stallman.
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BW: Cygnus Releases New GNUPro Dev Kit for Linux (Aug 31, 1999, 14:24)
"Version 2.0 Results in Faster Pentium Code and Offers Easier
Installation for Linux Software Developers"
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CBS MarketWatch: All Aboard! Applix joins the Linux Party (Aug 31, 1999, 14:22)
"...it is a true joy to be able to do work without worrying
about the 'blue screen of death' thanks to Linux's stability."
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Yahoo initiates Linux Stock club (Aug 31, 1999, 12:08)
"Looks like we've arrived, apparently."
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Slackware releases updated INN (Aug 31, 1999, 12:00)
"INN-2.2.1 has been released, fixing a possible security hole in
INN 2.2. inn.tgz has been updated in both slackware-4.0 and
slackware-current. The ChangeLog entries and MD5 sums follow."
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Windows 2000 is ready for the enterprise (Aug 31, 1999, 11:58)
"...Just shows how Win95/NT is good enough to run production
systems at airports..."
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Linux Demo Days' Deepak Saxena as guest on The Linux Show (Aug 31, 1999, 11:56)
"We are going to have on the show tonight Linux Demo Days
project founder and leader Deepak Saxena as we discuss the upcoming
events planned for Linux Demo Days."
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UK ISP Demon Internet Ltd. pulls the plug on some NT servers (Aug 31, 1999, 11:54)
Half-life and Team Fortress Classic game servers will be dumping
Windows NT in favor of Linux.
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IT-Director: Red Hat Linux money boosts open source (Aug 31, 1999, 11:45)
"One of the leading Silicon Valley venture capital outfits,
Benchmark Capital , saw a big pay back from its Red Hat investment
following the successful IPO. It has announced another investment
in the area, in Collab.net, the initiator of SourceXchange."
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Red Herring: Applix shares feed on Linux fad (Aug 31, 1999, 11:44)
"...the maker of Linux software applications not only burst onto
the radar screen, but filed a two-day flight plan worthy of an
Arkansas crop duster in the midst of a locust outbreak."
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Red Hat Security Advisory: Buffer overflows in amd (Aug 31, 1999, 02:02)
"Red Hat recommends... to upgrade to the fixed versions
immediately."
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Reuters: Sun Micro to buy Microsoft Office competitor Star (Aug 31, 1999, 01:35)
"Sun said... it... plans to make the source code of
StarOffice... free, making StarOffice a part of the open source
community..."
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LinuxPR: Cygnus Partners with Tech Data to Expand Reseller Channel (Aug 31, 1999, 00:56)
"Cygnus' Commercial Linux Software Development Tools Available
Worldwide Through Tech Data."
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SGI to give away an SGI 1400L server (Aug 31, 1999, 00:01)
Basically, you fill out a questionnaire on your use of Linux,
and you're in.
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