News Linux News for Nov 16, 2001:

Enterprise Linux Today: HP and Samsung SDS Sign Licensing Agreement for OpenMail Software
(2001-11-16 00:41:42)
"Hewlett-Packard Company and Samsung SDS have signed a licensing agreement allowing SDS to develop, enhance and sell messaging solutions built on HP's OpenMail e-mail server software."

LinuxPR: Common UNIX Printing System 1.1.12 Released
(2001-11-16 01:30:06)
"Easy Software Products today announced the 1.1.12 release of the Common UNIX Printing System ("CUPS"), an IPP/1.1-based printing system for UNIX."

news.kde.org: KDE 3.0 Screenshots (A/K/A, Do You Like Themes?)
(2001-11-16 01:32:06)
"Rob Kaper has graciously fulfilled the oft-heard request for screenshots of the upcoming KDE 3.0 release. Take a trip to KDE.org and have a look at the screenshots..."

Linux 2.4.15-pre5 Released
(2001-11-16 05:20:39)
Changelog, link within.

SuSE 7.3 Available for Download
(2001-11-16 07:54:16)
After the customary delay after release of the shrinkwrap version, SuSE has made its latest release, 7.3, available for download via ftp. Link to mirrors within.

UnixReview.com: Tool of the Month: J-Pilot
(2001-11-16 12:01:39)
"J-Pilot has a similar look and feel to the Palm software for Windows, but it lets you manage your information on a Linux or other UNIX-type operating system."

New Unofficial Ximianized ISO Image for Red Hat 7.2
(2001-11-16 10:10:08)
As the story on the page says: "I once meet a guy named Javier. Javier created an ISO image of RH 7.1 and replaced the GNOME packages with the Ximian packages for his personal use. I made a copy of this images and started using them, I loved them. A friend of mine told he wanted a copy of the images and that I should make them available in case someone else needs it. I think he is right, so here they are." The ISO's in question have been upgraded to Red Hat 7.2.

IBM developerWorks: Journaling capabilities of ext3
(2001-11-16 13:05:21)
"I think you'll find that that ext3 has several surprising and intriguing capabilities. In this article, I'll give you a good understanding of how ext3 compares to the other journaling filesystems currently available."

Netscape 4.79 Released
(2001-11-16 11:06:29)
Netscape 4.79 has been released. "What's New" within.

AlterNet.org: Techsploitation: Linux Apocalypse?
(2001-11-16 14:07:07)
"Is this the last tango for Linux? Is open source a dead end? No. Open source is just headed underground, where it will reproduce virally in the community of developers to whom it always mattered most."

O'Reilly Network: Why Use a Command Line Instead of Windows?
(2001-11-16 14:52:37)
"Years ago, I took a class on computer user-interface design. Some of my professor's words have stayed with me since then. One characteristic of a user-friendly system, he told us, is that it does what the user wants. In other words, the most user-friendly system isn't necessarily the simplest one."

LinuxFocus: Nessus : another brick in the (security) wall
(2001-11-16 16:55:35)
"Nessus is a free security scanner. The project was started and is maintained by Renaud Deraison. The stable version at the time of this writing is 1.09 and the experimental one is 1.14. The software is released under GPL and many people contribute to the project, especially for plugins... while some other people benefit from nessus work without even mentioning the name (more on this at the end of the article). Nessus works on many Unix flavors as a client and a server, and on Win32 as a client. Let's have a look at this great tool."

Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting November 13 2001
(2001-11-16 10:33:59)
Weekly minutes of the GNOME Foundation Board.

Kylix 2 Open Edition available for Download
(2001-11-16 16:59:32)
Kylix 2 Open Edition is now available for download from the Borland website.

The Register: SuSE 7.3 rocks Red Hat and flips XP the bird
(2001-11-16 18:05:12)
"Think of it this way: if you should break your sad dependency on Redmond's digital heroin and install something like SuSE 7.3, you'll be able to run your machine pretty much like a Windows box without a struggle from the git go; but on top of that, you might one day find yourself curled up in an easy chair with the documentation, as in some bygone age of elegance and style, and then it might just hit you what a convenient patsy you've been."

ZDNet: Travel ASP takes Linux down the road to success
(2001-11-16 18:27:47)
"Not to put too fine a point on it, Abel's co-workers thought he was crazy. 'Even I told him he was making a big mistake,' says Deven Phillips, security officer and network analyst for Viata, who was then an outside technical consultant to the firm. Though Phillips had some experience with Linux, 'I thought it was a little more difficult than the average user could handle. It wasn't as polished or friendly as modern OSes are.'"

LinuxProgramming: Meet the DotGNU Crew in 2002 at LinuxWorld NYC
(2001-11-16 18:35:53)
"Here is your chance to meet many of the key people behind organizing the DotGNU effort in January 2002. A special DotGNU panel is being held as part of this year's LinuxWorld in NYC, on January 30th. This panel will offer the community an opportunity to hear from and question those involved in forming DotGNU."

NewsForge: Review: SuSE 7.3 Personal: easy to love, hard to install
(2001-11-16 20:46:53)
"For me, getting SuSE 7.3 Personal installed and running was a lot like having a baby -- it was painful and took a long time. But baby, am I ever happy with the result."

The Register: Apple patents perturb PNG programmers
(2001-11-16 19:38:57)
"Developers of the open source graphics format PNG and its derivative, MNG, have called on Apple to clarify whether its ownership of key PNG component technologies will be used to hinder their work."

ZDNet: HP sacrifices Linux handhelds
(2001-11-16 21:35:42)
"One PDA, code-named Calypso, was to run on a 133MHz StrongARM processor and include a monochrome touch-screen and an MP3 player. Rumours of a low-end HP Linux PDA have circulated recently, and the model was scheduled for release in late November or early December, according to the engineer. It was to have been sold under the Jornada brand."

Yahoo!/Reuters: Caldera, VA Linux rise on IBM Linux comments
(2001-11-16 22:28:56)
"Shares of struggling Linux software maker Caldera International Inc., on Friday continued a steep climb on the back of positive comments from IBM about the alternative operating system."

VMware Workstation 3.0 Now Available at SuSE Linux
(2001-11-16 23:18:10)
"SuSE has announced that SuSE now offers VMware Workstation 3.0. One of the main new features of VMware Workstation 3.0 is the support of Windows XP. Using Workstation 3.0, a virtual Windows XP PC can be started under Linux or vice versa."

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