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Linux News for Jul 19, 2001
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"MandrakeSoft Goes Public" (Jul 19, 2001, 21:55)
This brief message announces that MandrakeSoft has been approved
for listing on the Euronext stock market.
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Mandrake Linux Security Update Advisory: openssl (Jul 19, 2001, 20:20)
"The pseudo-random number generator in OpenSSL versions up to
0.9.6a has a design flaw. By knowing the output of specific PRNG
requests, an attacker would be able to determine the PRNG's
internal state and thus predict future PRNG output."
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FSF-India and FreeDevelopers-India To Be Inaugurated at Freedom First! Conference (Jul 19, 2001, 17:57)
"On July 20, 2001, the Free Software Foundation will inaugurate
Free Software Foundation-India, an affiliate organization
headquartered in Trivandrum, Kerala, India, at the "Freedom First!"
ceremonies. FSF India will be the national agency for the promotion
of the use of Free Software in India."
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Wired.com: Hacker Arrest Stirs Protest (Jul 19, 2001, 16:48)
The DMCA is to thank for the arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov, a
Russian programmer who violated its provisions by developing
software that decodes e-books. According to this article, community
protest is well underway, specifically targeted at Adobe, which has
a history with Mr. Skylarov where his software is concerned.
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ServerWatch: DBabble review (Jul 19, 2001, 15:15)
Aaron Weiss reviews DBabble, a commercial chat/communications
server that runs under Red Hat Linux, among other operating
systems.
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Linux 2.4.7-pre8 Released (Jul 19, 2001, 14:25)
Changelog within.
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Linux Weekly News for July 19, 2001 (Jul 19, 2001, 12:14)
Leading items and editorials: MySQL and NuSphere; DMCA strikes
again.
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Enterprise Linux Today: Scyld Releases Latest Professional Version Of Next Generation Beowulf Clustering (Jul 19, 2001, 10:00)
"Scyld Computing Corporation today released the Scyld Beowulf
Professional Edition, the latest version of its next generation
cluster operating system software."
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LinuxPR: Dell Announces Factory Installation of Red Hat Linux 7.1
(Jul 19, 2001, 08:00)
"Dell today announced immediate availability of
factory-installed Red Hat Linux 7.1 on its entire line of Dell
PowerEdge servers and select Dell Precision workstations."
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LinuxDevices.com: Lineo reduces workforce by 13 percent (Jul 19, 2001, 07:15)
Lineo has announced a 13 percent layoff, saying in this
statement to LinuxDevices.com that the issue is one of adjusting to
the unexpected downturn despite a healthier backlog than it had
last quarter.
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LinuxPlanet: .comment: The Desktop? The Desktop! (Jul 19, 2001, 06:08)
As is often the case, it's a week of surprises and changes of
direction around the Linux world and Dennis Powell catches us up on
a few of them. Read about how KWord may be ready to be your word
processor, Caldera's abdication of the desktop, the problems with
(and a possible solution for) root-privilege-requiring CD burners,
the sense behind SuSE's design, and just a bit about William Gates
III: Organ Grinder.
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CNET News.com: Open-source challenge to the musical status quo (Jul 19, 2001, 06:07)
This interview with the head of the Ogg Vorbis project is
interesting enough, even if the rationale behind the need for a
free and open sound standard is well-covered ground to most regular
readers. Mr. Montgomery's insights into the post-boom open source
world are possibly more interesting.
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LinuxDevices.com: An animated BusyBox mini-tutorial (Jul 19, 2001, 05:51)
Points for novelty to this Flash busybox tutorial. What's
busybox? BusyBox provides a variety of common UNIX utilities in a
single executable that can be tailored at compile time, making it
ideal for embedded systems.
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Debian Weekly News - July 18th, 2001 (Jul 19, 2001, 00:26)
Weekly news from the Debian project.
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