News Linux News for Feb 06, 2003:

AllLinuxDevices: MontaVista Doubles Revenues; Completes Record Year with Record Quarter
(2003-02-06 01:00:38)
"MontaVista Software, Inc. has announced it has ended its 2002 fiscal year with revenues doubling over 2001, despite the general economic downturn..."

BBspot: Operating System Debate Causes Domestic Standoff
(2003-02-06 03:00:26)
The Battle of the Desktop moves into the realm of the Jerry Springer Show. Or not. A humorous tale from BBspot.

SiliconValley.com: Linux Server Start-up Gets Funds
(2003-02-06 07:00:33)
"In a rarity for Silicon Valley these days, a start-up plans to announce today that it plans to go into the computer hardware business..."

Bloomberg.UK: IBM Teams With 3 Venture Firms to Sell Linux Telecom Services
(2003-02-06 09:00:01)
"International Business Machines Corp... joined with three venture capital firms to boost sales of products that run on the Linux operating system..."

Linux Gazette: Linux-Based Voice Recognition
(2003-02-06 11:00:31)
"Linux computers have the capacity to accommodate voice recognition systems, such as IBM ViaVoice. This is especially advantageous to Chinese speakers because both Mandarin and Cantonese are very complex in the written form, so documents could be more easily produced through voice recognition software running on a Linux platform..."

eWeek: Billions, Billions of Linux Bucks Served?
(2003-02-06 13:00:05)
"It's next to impossible to disprove or prove anything IBM says... It just feels contrived that IBM is claiming revenue of $1 billion on Linux..."

Release Digest: GNOME, February 5, 2003
(2003-02-06 05:00:00)
Today's GNOME apps: GNOME Control Center 2.2.0.1, GUNit 0.1.999 (0.2 beta 2), and lock-keys-applet 1.0.

Release Digest: KDE, February 5, 2003
(2003-02-06 05:00:30)
Today's KDE apps: KKeyled 0.8.5, Kidthree 0.4, LyX 1.3pre3, KImg2mpg 1.1, KhordPro 0.2, and mplayerplug-in 0.34.

Two on Linux Products New to WalMart Online Retail Channels
(2003-02-06 14:30:00)
WalMart.com has been an active seller of Linux-based PCs for some time. Now it has added LindowsOS to its online offerings. At the same time, Sam's Club, another company under the WalMart umbrella, has added a $299 Red Hat PC to its online shelves. Articles within.

KernelTrap: GCC 3.2.2 [Released]
(2003-02-06 16:00:13)
The latest version of the GNU Compiler Collection is now out.

ZDNet.UK: Red Hat Aggressive with Premium Linux
(2003-02-06 19:00:19)
"The software company is betting that Advanced Server and Advanced Workstation will dramatically boost its finances.."

Mandrake Linux Advisory: slocate
(2003-02-06 15:48:33)
"A buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in slocate by team USG..."

LinuxPlanet: Grid Computing Oracle Style
(2003-02-06 20:30:40)
"Oracle has been at the forefront of database technology for a long time. The have also embraced the Linux environment in a big way. Now they've gone a step further, developing industrial strength database applications that run on clusters of commodity blade servers or grids..."

Red Hat Linux Advisiories: openldap, WindowMaker
(2003-02-06 15:59:51)
Two security advisories from Red Hat.

Enterprise Linux Today: MandrakeSoft Releases Mandrake Corporate Server 2.1
(2003-02-06 17:30:19)
"MandrakeSoft has announced the immediate release of Mandrake Corporate Server 2.1, a product that provides large accounts with critical business server functions..."

The Register: So Why Do So Few UK Schools Use Open Source?
(2003-02-06 22:00:14)
"Yes, it's the Open Source in Education Conference 2003, a 'National Conference to explore the use of Open Source software in UK Primary and Secondary Education Institutions...'"

Sydney Morning Herald: Trade Body Writes to Portugal about Free Software Bill
(2003-02-06 23:30:34)
"The bill, awaiting passage in the Portuguese parliament, would mandate free software procurement requirements for state-purchased software..."

Red Hat Linux Advisory: xpdf
(2003-02-06 18:56:33)
"During an audit of CUPS, a printing system, Zen Parsec found an integer overflow vulnerability in the pdftops filter..."

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