News Linux News for Jan 03, 2003:

LinuxWorld: LinuxWorld's Top Stories of 2002
(2003-01-03 02:30:12)
"Maybe we're taking recycling thing too far, but the LinuxWorld editors decided to do a little archive-diving for the most interesting, popular, controversial and recyclable Linux stories of 2002..."

MozillaZine: MozillaZine Review of the Year 2002
(2003-01-03 04:00:12)
"With the release of Mozilla 1.0, the start of the Phoenix and Chimera projects and the launch of Gecko-based browsers from AOL, 2002 has been an exciting year for the Mozilla project. Join us as we take a look back at the past twelve months..."

developerWorks: Parsing with the Spark Module
(2003-01-03 05:30:09)
"Spark is a powerful and general parser/compiler framework written in Python. In some respects, Spark offers more than SimpleParse or other Python parsers. Being pure Python, however, it is also slower. In this article, David [Mertz] discusses the Spark module, with code samples, an explanation of its usage, and suggestions for its areas of application..."

Linux Game Tome: Happypenguin Awards Announced
(2003-01-03 07:00:29)
Got a favorite Linux game? Vote for it to receive a Happypenguin Award...

Tux Reports: Ydesktop 3.2.1 Release Candidate 2 At-A-Glance
(2003-01-03 08:30:02)
"Ydesktop is the first part of Your Operating System (YOS) being developed by Yoper. Ydesktop is optimized for 686 or higher x86 based machines, capable of using packages from all of the major distributions..."

Bangkok Post: A Look at RedHat Linux 8.0
(2003-01-03 10:00:01)
"The hard disk of this computer has seen quite a few operating systems coming and going. After the installation of RedHat Linux 8.0, however, I decided that Linux is going to stay..."

Computerworld.NZ: CTOs Opening Eyes to Open Source
(2003-01-03 11:30:27)
"While open-source technologies did not completely loosen the iron grip of proprietary technologies in 2002, CTOs began to seriously examine the potential of open source..."

Coyote Gulch: Linux Number Crunching
(2003-01-03 13:00:25)
"Ah, benchmarking--many a cold winter's night has been warmed by the glow of heated newsgroup debates and flaming mailing lists..."

Release Digest: GNOME, January 2, 2003
(2003-01-03 05:00:00)
Today's GNOME app: GDM 2.4.1.0.

Release Digest: KDE, January 2, 2003
(2003-01-03 05:00:30)
Today's KDE apps: KMPlayer 0.6, Gambas 0.41, KRSA 2 0.1, KMPlayer 0.6, and CalcChecksum 1.1.

ABC News/AP: Sun Gives Away New Version of StarOffice
(2003-01-03 14:30:22)
"The agreement means that 1.1 million [Danish] primary and secondary pupils, higher education students, their teachers and staff can download StarOffice 6.0 for free or pay a government agency $1.40 for a CD-ROM..."

Bugzilla Advisory
(2003-01-03 12:34:04)
"All Bugzilla installations are advised to upgrade to the latest versions of Bugzilla, 2.14.5 and 2.16.2, both released today. Security issues of varying importance have been fixed in both branches. These vulnerabilities affect all previous 2.14 and 2.16 releases..."

OfB.biz: A Critical Look at Mandrake 9.0
(2003-01-03 19:00:13)
"In this second part of the OfB Distribution Shootout, Eduardo Sánchez considers the distribution who nabbed our first annual Open Choice award last July--Mandrake Linux. After finding Mandrake Linux 8.2 quite possibly the best GNU/Linux distribution ever released, Sánchez probes deep into its successor to see if it is a worthy replacement..."

ExtremeTech: Red Hat Beta (Phoebe) Preview
(2003-01-03 22:00:50)
"Gnome2 (2.1.1-2) is still the default desktop environment for Red Hat Linux. On the surface everything looks pretty much the same--it still uses the Bluecurve desktop. All the cool stuff is underneath..."

Opensource.org: Halloween VIII: Doing the Damage-Control Dance
(2003-01-03 16:00:25)
Eric Raymond has released a new document leaked from Microsoft, which he has dubbed the eighth "Halloween Document." This internal memo discusses how to respond to recent and future announcements from governments contemplating a move to Linux or open-source software.

Debian GNU/Linux Advisory: mhonarc
(2003-01-03 20:24:59)
"Earl Hood, author of mhonarc, a mail to HTML converter, discovered a cross site scripting vulnerability in this package. A specially crafted HTML mail message can introduce foreign scripting content in archives..."

Release Digest: KDE, January 3, 2002
(2003-01-03 23:30:42)
Today's KDE apps: Retail Auto Auction 1.3.2, KZap 0.1, qGo 0.0.14, QVCDGear 0.8.2, Atlantik 0.5.1, and Quintalign 1.0.1.

Red Hat Linux Advisory: pine
(2003-01-03 20:29:41)
"A vulnerability in Pine version 4.44 and earlier releases can cause Pine to crash when sent a carefully crafted email..."

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