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Linux News for Aug 28, 2003
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SearchEnterpriseLinux: Fact or FUD? Attorney Offers Views on SCO Allegations (Aug 28, 2003, 23:30)
Scott Nathan, an attorney who specializes in technology-related
matters, answers questions from IT administrators regarding the SCO
Group's legal action against Linux.
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CNETAsia: Open Source Has "Strategic Role": M'sia (Aug 28, 2003, 22:00)
"The Malaysian government has repeated its support for the use
and development of open-source software, saying that it has a
'strategic role...'"
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LinuxPlanet: NetMax Professional: Bringing Linux to the Less Technically Inclined (Aug 28, 2003, 21:00)
"Cybernet Systems has created the NetMax Professional Suite in
an effort to release an out-of-the-box turnkey Linux solution
requiring very little technical knowledge to configure and
maintain. Have they succeeded...?"
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LinuxWorld Australia: Brazilian Parliament to Adopt Free Software (Aug 28, 2003, 20:00)
"Since Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of the left-wing Workers' Party
(PT) took office as Brazil's president in January, the government
has been very clear about its bias towards open source
software..."
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NewsForge: SCO: Inside the Hurricane (Aug 28, 2003, 18:00)
"Say what you will about the merits or demerits of the case,
life at SCO is like being in the eye of the hurricane..."
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internetnews.com: SGI to Slim Down Workforce... Again (Aug 28, 2003, 17:00)
"Silicon Graphics (SGI) Wednesday said it is making drastic cuts
to its staff levels in an effort to hone its core products and stay
in the server and workstation hunt..."
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Government Computer News: Linux, Mac OS Added to Federal Enterprise Architecture Platforms (Aug 28, 2003, 16:00)
"The Office of Management and Budget added Linux and Mac OS to
the list of supporting platforms under the Technical Reference
Model of the Federal Enterprise Architecture..."
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SOT Linux Advisory: gdm2, perl (Aug 28, 2003, 15:51)
Two security advisories from SOT Linux.
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ZDNet UK: Microsoft Hides Behind Linux for Protection (Aug 28, 2003, 14:30)
"Microsoft has employed Akamai's Linux-based servers to protect
its Microsoft.com Web site and reduce the site's vulnerability to
viruses, worms and denial of service attacks..."
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Linux Journal: Operating the ULB: SLES 8 on the Ultimate Linux Box (Aug 28, 2003, 13:00)
"Installing the 64-bit optimized SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8
on the ULB and seeing what it has to offer..."
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Mozilla.org: Mozilla 1.5 Beta is Out (Aug 28, 2003, 11:41)
A new beta for the popular open-source browser has been
released. Release notes, links within.
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LinuxWorld Australia: Alston Dismisses Call for Open Source Procurement Guidelines (Aug 28, 2003, 11:00)
"Guidelines proposed by the Australian Unix Users Group (AUUG)
promoting a 'level playing field' between open source and
proprietary software within government departments are unnecessary,
according to the Department of Communications, Information
Technology and the Arts..."
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The Age: Open Source Gets Political (Aug 28, 2003, 09:00)
"Australia's premier open source user group is for the first
time running seminars for government agencies at its annual
conference--largely thanks to the backing earlier this year of the
Federal Government's information economy agency..."
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developerWorks: Create Web services with the WebSphere SDK (Aug 28, 2003, 07:00)
"This article discusses how to create Web services using Java
and .NET tools and the interoperability of Web services and the
activities of the Web Services Interoperability Organization
(WS-I)..."
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Debian Weekly News - August 26, 2003 (Aug 28, 2003, 05:00)
Community Roundup: The latest news from the
Debian Project.
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Release Digest: KDE, August 27, 2003 (Aug 28, 2003, 05:00)
Today's KDE apps: KHTML2PNG 1.0.0, KBabel 1.2, KStella 0.8.1,
Mixxx 1.0, K3Guitune 0.3, and Design Recovery Tool 0.3.9.
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Release Digest: GNOME, August 27, 2003 (Aug 28, 2003, 05:00)
Today's GNOME apps: gedit 2.3.4, Wallpaper Tray 0.3.0, Rhythmbox
0.5.2, Sirius 0.8.0, gedit 2.3.5, ooo-build-1.1.37, Inti-SourceView
0.6, gedit-plugins 2.3.5, Pango-1.2.5, Monster Masher 1.2, and
Hardware Monitor applet 0.7.
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PHP.net: PHP 4.3.3 Released (Aug 28, 2003, 04:00)
"This maintenance release solves a fair number of bugs found in
prior PHP versions and addresses several security issues..."
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apcmag.com: Give Linux a Leg Up (Aug 28, 2003, 02:30)
Huge functionality enhancements debuted in [Win4Lin] version
4.0, but the improvements between 4.0 and 5.0 are less
noticeable..."
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Linux Journal: The Penguin in the Apple (Aug 28, 2003, 01:00)
"In this article we discuss the Apple PowerBook, covering the
hardware features and the installation of Gentoo Linux and trying
to understand if it really is a good choice for Linux users..."
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NetworkWorldFusion: Lab Soups Up Linux Supercomputer (Aug 28, 2003, 00:00)
"A 2,000-processor Intel Corp. Itanium 2 supercomputer at the
U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Labs (PNNL)
has edged out Lawrence Livermore National Lab's Intel Xeon-based
Multiprogrammatic Capability Cluster for the title of world's
fastest Linux supercomputer..."
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