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Linux News for Mar 31, 2003
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LinuxPR: Deutsche Telekom Division Selects Sistina's Storage Infrastructure Software (Mar 31, 2003, 23:30)
"Faced with the arduous task of consolidating and managing
massive amounts of data, ATIX GmbH and T-Systems GEI implemented a
consolidated storage architecture running on the Red Hat Linux
platform..." Press release within.
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Two on the General Public License (Mar 31, 2003, 22:00)
Two recent articles have been posted on the 'Net contemplating
the nature of the General Public License (GPL).
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ADTmag.com: A New BioIT Resolver Asks: Why Can't We Share? (Mar 31, 2003, 20:30)
"Last week, IBM announced it contributed its implementation of
the Life Sciences Identifier (LSID) Resolver software to open
source..."
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Three Reviews of Mandrake Linux 9.1 (Mar 31, 2003, 19:00)
Mandrake Linux 9.1 has no loss for commentators lining up to
review it. We have gathered three reviews in this post, one from
DistroWatch, a site that has been following the development of this
new release very closely, and two from OSNews, including one review
from a Windows XP user looking for something better.
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mwvlug.org: HB 2892 News Update: Visit to Oregon's Capitol (Mar 31, 2003, 18:00)
An update on the progress to get House Bill 2892 through the
legislature including the advocates' recent visit to the Oregon
State Capitol.
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Two Advance Reviews of SuSE Linux 8.2 (Mar 31, 2003, 17:00)
Two previews of the upcoming release of SuSE Linux 8.2.
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VNUnet.com: Growing Trust in Linux Not Reflected in Sales (Mar 31, 2003, 16:00)
"Confidence in open source software is growing, but there has
been no growth in overall usage, according to new research..."
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internetnews: More Headaches for Sendmail (Mar 31, 2003, 15:00)
"The Sendmail Consortium, which manages deployment of the
world's most popular message transfer agent (MTA) to handle email,
was left scrambling over the weekend to fix a remotely exploitable
vulnerability that could allow an attacker to gain control of a
unpatched sendmail server..."
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PCAdvisor: Warnings About Linux Virus Risks Rebuffed (Mar 31, 2003, 14:00)
"However, Eddie Bleasdale, director of consultancy netproject,
yesterday roundly dismissed Central Command's advice, saying it was
as good as impossible to conduct a virus attack on a Linux system
or desktop..."
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SearchEnterpriseLinux: Don't Dismiss Possibility of Malicious Code on Linux (Mar 31, 2003, 13:00)
"But Central Command Inc., a Medina, Ohio-based antivirus
vendor, warns that companies utilizing Linux in server or desktop
environments cannot afford to be so dismissive in their
thinking..."
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DesktopLinux.com: California Prison Program Offers Mandrake to Schools (Mar 31, 2003, 11:30)
"California schools can choose to have the Mandrake Linux
desktop pre-installed on reconditioned computer systems from an
inmate-run refurbishing program.The computers are made available to
eligible schools for free by the TTFA..."
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ZDNet UK: IBM Shows Off Two-Petabyte Storage Controller (Mar 31, 2003, 10:00)
"He said that the SVC ran Little Blue, an IBM embedded variant
of SuSE Linux, but with no OS calls in the data path: it managed
1Gbps consistent throughput..."
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The Register: Fujitsu Preps Linux-based Robot (Mar 31, 2003, 08:30)
"Fujitsu has launched a humanoid robot--based on a real-time
version of the Linux operating system..."
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EE Times: Five TV Makers Preparing Internet TV Specs (Mar 31, 2003, 07:00)
"The two companies will develop a consumer electronics version
of Linux to provide functions and performance required for digital
products. The resulting source code will be made available through
the General Public License procedure..."
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ZDNet UK: Linux Skills in Short Supply (Mar 31, 2003, 05:30)
"The full results of this year's skills survey show a need for
Linux skills and a movement of tech workers away from the South
East..."
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Release Digest: GNOME, March 30, 2003 (Mar 31, 2003, 05:00)
This weekend's GNOME apps: ticker-0.5, Battfink 0.3, gnome-vfsmm
1.3.0, galculator 1.0rc1, Hardware Monitor 0.3, Grubconf 0.3,
gnome-mime-data 2.3.0, and Themus 0.1.4.
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Kernel Traffic #211 by Zack Brown (Mar 31, 2003, 04:00)
Community Roundup: The latest message traffic
from the Linux kernel mailing list.
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Wine Traffic #163 by Brian Vincent (Mar 31, 2003, 03:00)
Community Roundup: The latest message traffic
for Wine development.
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GNUe Traffic #74 by Arturas Kriukovas and Peter Sullivan (Mar 31, 2003, 02:00)
Community Roundup: The latest news from the
GNUe project.
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