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Linux News for Apr 25, 2001
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Nat Friedman: Ximian GNOME 1.4 is available. (Apr 25, 2001, 23:30)
We reported the highlights yesterday, but here's the official
(and more colorful) e-mail from Ximian VP of Product Development.
We'd have held off running it, but we failed to report about the
cellphone easter egg in there somewhere.
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LinuxProgramming: Sun's JXTA Project Launches New Open-Source P2P Protocol (Apr 25, 2001, 21:41)
Is peer-to-peer computing framework JXTA the biggest thing to
hit computing since TCP/IP? Sun says so, and has Bill Joy on board
to back up the claim. Brian Proffitt reports.
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OpenCollector.org: Interview with Simputer team (Apr 25, 2001, 21:25)
Simputer (pictured) is a very low-cost computer built around a
design licensed under terms similar to that of the GPL. The intent
behind Simputer is to provide low-cost (<$200) machines to
people living in rural India. The interview here is with various
members of the Simputer team, and they discuss the reasoning behind
the licensing scheme they chose, the design decisions they made,
and more.
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ConsultingTimes.com: The Free DCE Project - Trying to regain lost ground with Linux (Apr 25, 2001, 20:15)
"I wonder how many movies, television series, paperback novels
and other media focus on returning to a past incident from long ago
with the intention of changing history? If you and I could go back
to 1995, how would we handle the Open Group (the UNIX advocacy
organization who once owned the UNIX TradeMark) giving DCE to
Microsoft?"
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AP: IBM in hot water over Linux 'graffiti'
(Apr 25, 2001, 19:44)
IBM's crossed another city in its "Peace, Love, and Linux"
sidewalk graffiti campaign. This time it's Chicago, and the city
says it may press a fine and charge for the cleanup.
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Caldera Files for Layoffs (Apr 25, 2001, 18:01)
Caldera has filed a form 8-k with the SEC in anticipation of the
layoff of 32 of its 188 employees. The form relates the layoffs to
the pending finalization of Caldera's SCO acquisition and says the
cuts come from all areas of the company.
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EFF Releases Public Music License to Promote Audio Freedom (Apr 25, 2001, 17:39)
"As part of its Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression (CAFE),
EFF's Open Audio License allows anyone to freely copy, share,
perform, and adapt music in exchange for providing credit to the
artist for her gift to humanity."
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Issue #26 of Brave GNU World released. (Apr 25, 2001, 17:22)
Topics covered in this issue include: GNU Pipo BBS, Larswm,
GNUstep, W3Make, OpenWebSchool, and FSF Europe Update. Brave GNU
World is a monthly column which is being released simultaneously in
six languages (English, German, French, Japanese, Spanish and
Korean).
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CNN: Music group tries to suppress piracy study (SDMI) (Apr 25, 2001, 16:11)
The researches who cracked SDMI four separate times in the past
year are now being asked to suppress their findings by the SDMI
forum, a group formed by several very large record labels and
entertainment companies. According to this article, the RIAA's
senior attorney has invoked the DMCA to back his request that the
group refrain from discussing its findings.
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LinuxHardware.org: Gigahertz Processor Roundup, Linux Style! (Apr 25, 2001, 16:01)
Pentium or Athlon? It's a topic that's been done to death, but
LinuxHardware.org has taken a look at the 1GHz Pentiums and Athlons
and attempted to make a determination from a Linux user's
perspective. In the end, they argue, it boils down most to whether
you're building a new box or upgrading an existing system.
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First general assembly of the Free Software Foundation Europe (Apr 25, 2001, 15:30)
"On May 6th 2001, the first general assembly of the Free
Software Foundation Europe will take place at the Villa Vogelsang
in Essen, Germany."
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Stormix Confirms Layoffs and Suspension of Operations (Apr 25, 2001, 14:38)
Stormix has confirmed that it has, indeed, laid off all its
employees due to an inability to secure funding and is currently in
"hibernation mode." The company will no longer be providing support
for its products.
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Linux-Mandrake Security Update Advisory: hylafax (Apr 25, 2001, 11:57)
"A problem exists with the HylaFAX program, hfaxd. When hfaxd
tries to change it's queue directory and fails, it prints an error
message via syslog by directly passing user supplied data as the
format string. If hfaxd is installed setuid root, this behaviour
can be exploited to gain root access locally. Note that
Linux-Mandrake does not ship hfaxd setuid root by default."
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Salon.com: A boy and his computer [review of Linus Torvalds autobiography] (Apr 25, 2001, 11:38)
Self-confessed "stalker" Andrew Leonard posts a creepy review of
Linus Torvalds' autobiography, "Just for Fun: The Story of an
Accidental Revolutionary."
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ITworld.com: Linux spreading rapidly in Latin America (Apr 25, 2001, 11:00)
"Linux, like the Internet, exists beyond the United States,
Western Europe, and industrialized parts of Asia. The Linux OS has
taken hold wherever computer users desire freedom, and wherever
there is demand for inexpensive software. Latin America fits that
description perfectly; current projections from IDG indicate that
by 2003, 33 percent of computers in the region will be running
Linux."
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Ximian GNOME 1.4 is out (Apr 25, 2001, 04:58)
Ximian has announced the release of Ximian GNOME 1.4 and Red
Carpet 1.0. Information on new features (including a few not
released with the general GNOME 1.4 release), supported
distributions, and a download link within.
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Alan Cox: Linux 2.4.3-ac14
(Apr 25, 2001, 00:54)
"This isnt a proper release as such, it should just deal with
most of the compile failure/symbol failure problems." [ Mr. Cox
wrote the kernel list shortly after saying "Oops forgot to update
the text. This one is of course not just compile fixes." -ed.
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