Linux News for Dec 31, 1999

• Dave Launches Linsight (Dec 31, 1999, 23:57)
  "Linsight is the professional approach toward providing a single and complete information resource for Linux."


• Linux ranked last -- what happened here? (Dec 31, 1999, 23:20)
  "According to this deja.com survey, Linux ranked dead last in reliability, scalability, performance, and cost..."


• Slashdot: Interview: The L0pht Answers (Dec 31, 1999, 20:37)
  "This week's...interview guest is L0pht Heavy Industries as a group....Many insightful questions for the L0pht guys were posted Monday. Today, lots of insightful answers on everything from political controls on the Internet to hardware hacking."


• Linux Journal: Writing an Alphanumeric Pager Server for Linux (Dec 31, 1999, 20:30)
  "For those thinking of setting up an alphanumeric paging service or gateway, here is an explanation of the protocols and methods involved."


• CNET News.com: Linux explodes onto the scene (Dec 31, 1999, 20:02)
  "By the end of the year, four successful Linux-related initial public offerings raised hundreds of millions of dollars, at least three executives became paper billionaires and the operating system had grown from a counterculture hobby into a corporate mainstay."


• Upside: 1999 UPSIDE Elite 100 (Dec 31, 1999, 19:51)
  "The movers and shakers of the digital world."


• CNET News.com: Gateway unloads Amiga name (Dec 31, 1999, 19:44)
  "...Gateway signed a deal to sell its Amiga trademarks and computer systems to Amino Development Corp. ..."


• Upside: The 10 Most Significant Tech Decisions of 1999 (Dec 31, 1999, 19:11)
  "Navigating through the shark infested waters of tech business in a incredible year like 1999 must have been a scary experience, even for the most successful CEOs."


• The Standard: Disorder in the Court over DVD (Dec 31, 1999, 19:04)
  "Linux enthusiasts claim the code was not meant to facilitate illegal copying or to disseminate copyrighted material. A DVD need not be decoded to be copied, the courtroom protesters pointed out."


• Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: new libtiff, groff packages available (Dec 31, 1999, 18:20)
  "New libtiff and groff packages are available to fix minor date-related issues."


• LinuxPR: Japanese WordMage Suite Enhanced For Students And Schools (Dec 31, 1999, 18:16)
  "All The Applications You Need In One Great Package."


• TLS: Last Chance to Vote for Best of 1999 Linux Community Awards (Dec 31, 1999, 18:14)
  "The final tabulations for Editors Choice and the Listeners Poll will be posted on the web site next Tuesday night. The actual awards will be passed out at the LinuxWorld Expo in New York City February 1st through 4th."


• Linux Gazette #49 (January 2000) is available (Dec 31, 1999, 17:44)
  "Linux Gazette...Making Linux just a little more fun!"


• ZDNET: Feedback Center: Linux Survey (Dec 31, 1999, 16:44)
  "Do you want to tell ZDNET how you feel about their Linux coverage?"


• LinuxPR: Easy Software Products Releases HTMLDOC v1.8.4 (Dec 31, 1999, 16:39)
  "HTMLDOC is provided under the GNU General Public License."


• LinuxPR: Quake III Arena for Linux Now Shipping (Dec 31, 1999, 16:38)
  "Quake III Arena for Linux, The smorgasbord of slaughter has come to Linux!"


• LinuxPR: Yellow Dog Linux Gone Home Sneak Preview at Mac World! (Dec 31, 1999, 16:36)
  "Yellow Dog Linux Gone Home Technology Preview at Mac World."


• CNET News.com: Netscape updating current browser while new version lags (Dec 31, 1999, 16:26)
  "Netscape Communications will shortly release a new and improved version of Communicator, but it promises to be a big disappointment for fans anxiously awaiting the long-promised fifth generation of the Web browser."


• Government Technology: Open Sesame! (Dec 31, 1999, 16:15)
  "Open-source software infiltrates the mainstream with powerful performance and rock-bottom prices."


• Linux.com: The Value of a Community in Learning Linux (Dec 31, 1999, 15:59)
  "Unix is goal-oriented, designed first and foremost to produce a result. And without that basic vocabulary of commands, without an essential grammar of how they string together, your linguistic competence in Linux will be limited to a frightening degree."


• 32BitsOnline: SUN vs. BlackDown and Y2K Wishes (Dec 31, 1999, 07:35)
  "You mean that someone at the Open Source Developer's Best Friend, the same ones that hung up the banner at Comdex stating that "Scott Mcnealy doesn't want your money" FORGOT to credit the Blackdown team for their critical and irreplaceable expertise in getting this Java Development Kit out the door?"


• LinuxWorld: A graphical mystery tour (Dec 31, 1999, 07:23)
  "SuSE 6.3 has the best GUI installation I've experienced yet."


• LinuxPower: SuSE 6.3: Linux from the Deutschland (Dec 31, 1999, 07:22)
  "As one of the main attractions of the new release of SuSE is supposed to be YaST 2, the new GUI setup tool, I chose to test with it rather than the older (though still supported) method of installing via YaST."


• Borland.com: Welcome to the Linux Community (Dec 31, 1999, 05:18)
  "As Linux approaches the mainstream it is time to draw a specific focus to Linux and the Inprise/Borland community, and an introduction is in order."


• osOpinion: Penguinista: reflections of a revolutionary nickname (Dec 31, 1999, 03:44)
  "I'm gratified that Penguinista is becoming more generalized throughout the Alternative Software movement."


• LinuxPR: muLinux V7r6 - minimalistic single floppy Linux distribution (Dec 31, 1999, 03:37)
  "muLinux is a full-configured, minimalistic but mostly complete, application-centric Linux distribution, fitted on a single 1722K floppy, with add-ons. Main goals: proselitism, rescue."


• Linux Journal: DVD Fun (Dec 31, 1999, 02:34)
  "Gonzo hacker Don Marti is at it again. Last time it was Burn All Gifs Day. This time it's The Great International DVD Source Code Distribution Contest."


• CNET News.com: Top stories of 1999 cut wide swath (Dec 31, 1999, 01:49)
  "Here's a summary of 20 of the year's top stories (culled from about 14,300) that were published by CNET News.com."


• Quicknet.net: Quicknet Releases Internet Telephony Drivers GPL! (Dec 31, 1999, 00:14)
  "Quicknet has both PSTN and POTS interface cards suitable for a wide range of Internet Telephony and general-purpose telephony use."