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Linux News for Oct 30, 1999
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Linux Gazette #47 (November 1999) is available (Oct 30, 1999, 23:23)
"Linux Gazette...Making Linux just a little more fun!"
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LinuxPR: SuSE Establishes E-Business Competence for IBM's Software Products on Linux (Oct 30, 1999, 23:11)
"Leading Linux distributor to support resellers and ISVs in
developing market for e-business solutions."
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ADVISOR: Linux Deployment Hot, Windows 2000 Cool (Oct 30, 1999, 22:33)
"Companies are increasing their use of the Linux operating
environment and delaying roll-out of Windows 2000, according to a
market research survey."
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ADVISOR: Future Looks Bright for Linux (Oct 30, 1999, 21:29)
"Red Herring journalist R. Scott Raynovich recently posted a
wrap-up of industry opinion on Linux that should interest Java
developers, whether you are interested in Linux, in competition
with Linux, or aligned with Linux in open-source efforts to oust
Microsoft."
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Daemon News: I've been hacked! How OpenBSD saved our project (Oct 30, 1999, 21:28)
"Looking back on this today, it is clear this should have sent
up bright red flags all over the place - but like many busy SAs
might have done, we just lumped it in with our many other ongoing
projects."
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GA-Source: Creative Labs to Embrace the Open Source Philosophy (Oct 30, 1999, 20:50)
"Jacob Hawley, Director of Custom Engineering, sends word that
they are planning to get their CVS / Bugzilla server up by early
next week, and would like to take this opportunity to ask the Linux
community to help them make the opensource driver better."
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Slackware 7.0 Released (Oct 30, 1999, 20:40)
"Slackware is the longest-running distribution of the Linux
operating system."
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LinuxPower: GRASS Is Now Greener (Oct 30, 1999, 19:39)
"A Geographic Information System Joins the GPL Family."
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Debian Security Advisory: New versions of lpr released (Oct 30, 1999, 15:50)
The version of lpr that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux
2.1 suffers from a couple of problems:
* there was a race in lpr that could be exploited by users to print
files they can not normally read
* lpd did not check permissions of queue-files. As a result by
using the -s flag it could be tricked into printing files a user
can otherwise not read
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Eric Harlow: Growth of Linux Jobs (Oct 30, 1999, 15:44)
"I've been watching the number of Linux jobs grow each month,
and it's been growing at a very fast pace."
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MSC Times (Malaysia): Solinique Aims To Be SEA's Linux Center (Oct 30, 1999, 15:40)
"Linux proved to be the ideal platform for the application
because when I ported it over to Linux, it ran beautifully."
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Linux.com: Open Source Pricing Models (Oct 30, 1999, 15:27)
"Has anybody noticed the pricing models that companies use when
selling Open Source Software and Free Software?"
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PROPAGANDA announces new staff member and IRC Party (Oct 30, 1999, 15:13)
"PROPAGANDA has been a phenomenal success and Jack would love to
meet some of the 250,000+ vistors that have stopped by to download
seamless tiles for their desktop."
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ADVISOR: Linux Use Will Climb (Oct 30, 1999, 15:11)
"The Linux operating system will be increasingly adopted by
companies, thanks to its low cost and open source code benefits,
according to a study by RHI Consulting."
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The Last Dinosaur and the Tarpits of Doom: How Linux Smashed Windows (Oct 30, 1999, 04:53)
"Are you a Microsoft investor? Be afraid. Be very afraid. By
2010 Windows will be as dead as CP/M, and every Windows-based
software vendor will be either supporting Linux or out of
business."
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linuxfool.com: Web Ring Drives Serious Traffic To Sites (Oct 30, 1999, 04:08)
"Any site that deals with Linux may join the webring. The sites
can be of any type - commercial, non-profit or personal."
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LinuxPR: IndyBox to offer Red Hat 6.1 (Oct 30, 1999, 04:03)
"IndyBox is shipping Red Hat Linux version 6.1 with all IndyBox
Linux systems."
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Linux kernel 2.2.13aa2 released (Oct 30, 1999, 03:58)
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Linux kernel 2.2.14pre3 released (Oct 30, 1999, 01:38)
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Wired: IPO Eyeballs on Cobalt (Oct 30, 1999, 00:44)
"It's probably going to ride the wave of RedHat," said IPO
analyst Tom Taulli."
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CNET News.com: Linux is star attraction in next week's IPOs (Oct 30, 1999, 00:38)
"Some investors have singled out Cobalt Networks as the IPO to
watch next week, largely because of the demand for offerings by
Linux-related companies."
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