News Linux News for Jan 09, 2003:

PCWorld: Cell Phone Makers Call on Linux
(2003-01-09 01:00:32)
"The Linux operating system has made the jump from computer servers to handheld computers, digital video recorders, and wristwatches and soon may find a home inside your cellular telephone..."

OpenP2P.com: LazyWeb and RSS: Given Enough Eyeballs, Are Features Shallow Too?
(2003-01-09 02:30:34)
"A persistent criticism of open source software is that it is more about copying existing features than creating new ones. While this criticism is overblown, the literature of open source is clearer on debugging than on design..."

CNET News: Congress to Take on Spam, Copyright
(2003-01-09 04:00:55)
"On Tuesday, Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Va., and three other legislators reintroduced their bill from last year that would defang the DMCA. Their proposal, called the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act, would let Americans bypass copyright-protection schemes for legitimate 'fair use' purposes..."

TechWeb: Microsoft Challenges Linux On The Bottom-Line
(2003-01-09 07:00:11)
TechWeb has aggregated some of its recent Microsoft v. Linux stories in a special report.

LinuxWorld: 10 Linux Predictions for 2003
(2003-01-09 08:30:20)
"It's the time of year when columnists make shots in the dark about what will happen in the next 365 days, and Joe Barr is no exception. Plus, we review how well Barr did last year..."

New Britain Herald: Student Legislators Work on Mock Bills
(2003-01-09 08:31:15)
Tux goes to PoliSci class: "The student's second [mock] bill is directed at the security infrastructure at the state Capitol. Kovach is proposing that [Connecticut] should change all its computer systems from Microsoft to Linux, thus saving the state a large amount of money in a tough fiscal year..."

DesktopLinux: Alternative Computing in Education
(2003-01-09 08:32:31)
"Calling for computing options in education, Michael C. Barnes examines the integration of proprietary applications in homework assignments. Barnes challenged educators at his daughter's school to defend a social studies project that required the use of Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation software, and won. Barnes raises the issue of software costs in educational computing and offers some great examples and approaches for implementations that make the grade..."

First Monday: The Institutional Design of Open Source Programming
(2003-01-09 09:00:08)
"Little research has been published outlining the details of how successful open source programming endeavors are achieved, such as how projects are initiated and organized over time, what rules for participation have been established, and how the methods for maintaining versions of new submissions have been managed..."

Release Digest: GNU, January 8, 2003
(2003-01-09 05:00:00)
Today's GNU apps: GMP 4.1.2, Bison 1.875, GNU Libidn 0.1.0, GNU Mailman 2.1, and GNU Gengetopt 2.8.

Release Digest: KDE, January 8, 2003
(2003-01-09 05:00:30)
Today's KDE apps: Design Recovery Tool 0.2.2, KDown 0.2.1, and KDirStat 2.3.4.

Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.5.55
(2003-01-09 08:01:40)
Changelog, links within.

Debian GNU/Linux Advisory: tomcat4
(2003-01-09 15:47:06)
"A security vulnerability has been confirmed to exist in Apache Tomcat 4.0.x releases, which allows to use a specially crafted URL to return the unprocessed source of a JSP page, or, under special circumstances, a static resource which would otherwise have been protected by a security constraint, without the need for being properly authenticated..."

BetaNews: Apple Bridges OS X and Linux with X11 Beta
(2003-01-09 16:00:11)
"Because Mac OS X finds its roots in FreeBSD, it is no surprise that Apple is courting open source developers to its Darwin platform..."

LinuxPlanet: NEC Calls Dibs on Breaking Linux Eight-Processor Limit
(2003-01-09 17:30:10)
"Earlier this week, SGI announced their new line of supercomputer-class Linux servers that can run up to 64 processors--thus passing the so-called eight-processor limit for Linux. But--much to our chagrin--SGI was not the first to successfully demonstrate post eight-way technology: that honor actually falls to NEC..."

The Age: Living Up to the Linux Name
(2003-01-09 20:30:39)
"The Debian project is currently led by Bdale Garbee. Martin Schulze from the Debian press team was asked about the distribution, the motivation behind it and where he sees it going..."

LinuxWorld: The Good, Bad & Ugly for Linux in 2002
(2003-01-09 22:00:57)
"The economy wasn't the only thing that stunk in 2002, but there were some very encouraging signs for Linux and open source..."

LinuxDevices: Embedded Linux Design Issues
(2003-01-09 23:30:13)
"What is an embedded device? Is it simply a low-resource 'PC', so all you need is a scaled down Linux and off you go? Not really..."

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