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News Linux News for Jan 05, 2004:
Release Digest: GNOME, January 4, 2004
(2004-01-05 05:00:15)
This holiday season's GNOME apps: BEAST/BSE v0.5.6, gURLChecker 0.7.4, GGV 2.5.1, GNOME Desktop Themes 2.5.2, GTK+ OpenGL Toolkit 0.2.1, Pigeon CD Recorder 0.2, GHex 2.5.2, GChemPaint 0.4.0, Yelp 2.5.2, GnomeSword 2.0.0, GENIUS 0.5.7, GHex 2.4.1, gLabels 1.93.2, gnome-games 2.5.3.1, SLgtk v0.5.3, SLIRP v0.9.8, Gfax-0.6beta5, gnome-games 2.5.3, Gnumeric 1.2.4, GtkSourceView 0.8.0, The GNOME XSLT toolkit 1.1.2, GDM 2.4.4.7, Gnomoradio 0.7, gnome-mud 0.10.4a, GNOME System Tools 0.31.0, The GNOME XML toolkit 2.6.4, Gweled Happy New Year 0.4, Epiphany 1.1.2, Gnomoradio 0.8, GDM 2.4.4.6, Coriander 0.99.9, Epiphany Extensions 0.6, Pigeon CD Burner 0.1, gst_0.14, Evolution 1.5.1, OpenHacha 0.2, and Eleventh release of PythonCAD.
Release Digest: GNU, January 4, 2004
(2004-01-05 05:00:30)
This holiday season's GNU app: GNU CLISP 2.32.
Release Digest: KDE, January 4, 2004
(2004-01-05 05:00:45)
This holiday season's KDE apps: KSubtile 1.0, kfile_torrent v0.3, KDar 1.0-beta1, and KBudget 0.6.
FedoraNews.org: Tutorial: mplayerplug-in
(2004-01-05 05:30:10)
"In this tutorial you will learn how to get the source for mplayerplug-in from CVS and create and install a rpm package for Fedora Core 1..."
Python Community Server: Hinges and Integration
(2004-01-05 07:00:53)
"If the consumer always needs two products at the same time, they are not two products, they are one, and selling them together should make sense..."
AlwaysOn: In Europe, Apple Threatens Linux
(2004-01-05 08:30:16)
"Everyone knows the Linux headlines and the hype. But the situation in Europe, on the ground, is a little more complex; and certainly subject to a different set of market and industry forces than in the United States..."
NewsForge: XFree86 Core Developers Disband--So What?
(2004-01-05 10:00:03)
"David Dawes, developer/release engineer for the XFree86 project, posted the news on the project website Wednesday: The XFree86 core developers team has voted to disband itself..."
eWeek: MySQL CEO Mickos Addresses Critics, Looks to Open-Source Growth
(2004-01-05 11:30:37)
"...[W]ith the knowledge that MySQL 5.0 will be announced soon, eWEEK.com Database Editor Lisa Vaas decided to catch up with MySQL AB CEO Marten Mickos..."
Andrew Morton: Linux 2.6.1-rc1-mm2
(2004-01-05 12:28:52)
Changelog, link within.
internetnews.com: The Open-Sourcing of Cobalt
(2004-01-05 13:00:59)
"On December 24, Sun Microsystems released the source code for the software that runs its RaQ Web and e-mail server. Why not? Sun won't be using it any more..."
Debian GNU/Linux Advisories: lftp, ethereal
(2004-01-05 13:52:06)
Two security advisories from the Debian Project.
Open Letter to the Government of Newfoundland, Canada
(2004-01-05 14:00:24)
"The cost of moving the standard word processing software for the Government of Newfoundland to Microsoft Word will cost millions of dollars in tangible and intangible costs, lock the province into insecure, bug-ridden, proprietary software, and buck a global trend towards free software, with absolutely no benefit to either the Government or the taxpayers of Newfoundland..."
Update: Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.24
(2004-01-05 14:30:19)
Incremental changelog, links within. [Note: Marcelo went ahead and released -rc1, which came out earlier this morning, as 2.4.24 final. -BKP]
Red Hat Linux Advisory: kernel
(2004-01-05 14:57:37)
"Updated kernel packages are now available that fix a security vulnerability which may allow local users to gain root privileges..."
Aftenposten: Prosecutors Let DVD-Jon's Victory Stand
(2004-01-05 15:00:13)
"It looks like young Norwegian computer whiz Jon Lech Johansen can finally rest easy after years of legal challenges. State prosecutors announced Monday that they won't appeal a recent court ruling in his favour..."
NewsForge: The Free Software Community After 20 Years: With Great But Incomplete Success, What Now?
(2004-01-05 16:00:29)
"It was twenty years ago today that I quit my job at MIT to begin developing a free software operating system, GNU..."
IT Manager's Journal: Will Longhorn Become a Microsoft Linux Distro?
(2004-01-05 17:00:54)
"New Year's prediction: Longhorn will never ship, but Microsoft Linux will..."
internetnews.com: OpenOffice Finds Sweet Spot with Governments
(2004-01-05 18:00:42)
"Governments around the world appear to be taking an interest in Openoffice.org and open source software in general..."
SearchEnterpriseLinux: Experts on 2004: SCO Sinks; Linux Rocks with 2.6, NT and Desktop Migrations
(2004-01-05 19:00:58)
"In 2004, SearchEnterpriseLinux.com's resident experts predict a surge of Microsoft Windows NT-to-Linux migrations, 2.6 upgrades, consumer and enterprise Linux desktop adoptions and other market and technology movements will take Linux out of the niche player role forever..."
OfB.biz: 2003 in Review: One Step Backward, Two Steps Forward
(2004-01-05 20:30:59)
"This year was a year that wasn't exactly how we might have hoped, but overall, the state of GNU/Linux was overall better at this side of 2003 than it was at the other..."
I, Cringely: Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back: Bob's Predictions for 2004
(2004-01-05 22:00:48)
"Here is one I got wrong. I predicted that China would standardize on Linux running on MIPS hardware..."
ComputerWeekly: SCO Sends Notices to 6,000 Linux Licensees
(2004-01-05 22:30:19)
"The SCO Group has begun sending written notices to its 6,000 Unix licensees requiring them to certify that they are in full compliance with their Unix source code agreements and are not using Unix code in Linux..."
LinuxPlanet: Integrating Writer into Your Business
(2004-01-05 23:30:59)
"As Linux is brought into service in small and medium sized companies, desktop pilots often wonder how they will ever get off the ground without proprietary word processing applications like Word. "Can I still do basic business letters with Linux?" And 'Will our old Word docs work with Linux?', they ask..."
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