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News Linux News for Mar 04, 2004:
NewsForge: Why Software Preference Mandates Hurt Us All
(2004-03-04 00:00:30)
"According to Bob Kramer, '...the Initiative for Software Choice (ISC) was created to address the proliferation of restrictive 'preference' proposals springing up across the globe...'"
Groklaw: Judge Wells' Order--SCO Doesn't Get All AIX Files, IBM Doesn't Have to Go First
(2004-03-04 00:11:55)
"SCO has 45 days to identify 'all specific lines of code' they allege IBM put into Linux from AIX or Dynix; identify and provide 'with specificity' all lines of code in Linux that it claims rights to..."
Linux Warcry: Beyond XFree86, Searching for the Alternative
(2004-03-04 01:00:54)
"There's an uproar from several of the largest Linux distributions where they're refusing include XFree86 4.4 in their new releases. This is bad news for a few but also in the middle of this conflict begs the question. What are the alternatives...?"
Connected Home Media: Product Review: Sharp Zaurus SL-5600
(2004-03-04 02:30:39)
"Can a Linux-based PDA be easy to use? Can it stack up against a Palm or Pocket PC offering? I decided to take a look..."
NewsForge: KDE Launches Quality Teams Project
(2004-03-04 04:00:42)
"For projects like KDE, which are in a sense the face of free software for many non-technical users, getting widespread involvement from a representative sample of users can be difficult..."
DistroWatch: Distributions, March 3, 2004
(2004-03-04 05:00:00)
Today's distributions: KANOTIX 03-2004, Adamantix 1.0.3, ADIOS Linux 3.01, and ASP Linux 9.2.
Release Digest: GNOME, March 3, 2004
(2004-03-04 05:00:20)
Today's GNOME apps: GNOME CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor 0.1.1, libxml++ 2.5.2 (2.6 beta), and GTK+-2.3.5.
Release Digest: KDE, March 3, 2004
(2004-03-04 05:00:40)
Today's KDE apps: KXDocker 0.5, Score Reading Trainer 0.1.2, LinkStatus 0.1-rc1, Konference, amaroKky 0.1beta2, and knoda 0.6.3-test2.
developerWorks: Linux Wireless Networking
(2004-03-04 07:00:16)
"These days you cannot talk about computers and networks without thinking of Linux and wireless networking..."
LinuxDevices: Unitech to Launch New Linux PDA
(2004-03-04 08:30:12)
"The PDA will use a PowerPC chip, and, like the Enterprise Zaurus developed by Sharp in conjunction with IBM, will likely target enterprise customers..."
mozillaZine: Brendan Eich's Mozilla Futures Talk at Developer Day
(2004-03-04 10:00:53)
"The slides from Brendan Eich's Mozilla Futures session are the first be available online..."
CRN: Ingram Micro Launches Linux Strategy
(2004-03-04 11:30:25)
"Ingram Micro is in the Linux business..."
OpenSource.org: Halloween X: Follow The Money
(2004-03-04 11:40:07)
ESR has posted a possible internal SCO memo: "Excuse me, did we say in Halloween IX that Microsoft's under-the-table payoff to SCO for attacking Linux was just eleven million dollars? Turns out we were off by an order of magnitude--it was much, much more than that..."
ComputerWeekly: Computer Associates Named as SCO Licensee
(2004-03-04 12:00:36)
"Computer Associates has licensed The SCO Group's Intellectual Property Licence for Linux..."
OSNews: Linux on the Opteron, Part III
(2004-03-04 13:00:51)
"Continuing with the Linux on the AMD64 series of articles, this installment is to be a summary of two new distributions, and the changes that have been made to Gentoo since the last installment..."
Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.4-rc2
(2004-03-04 13:01:17)
Changelog, links within.
CNET News: Torvalds, Linux Users Unfazed by SCO Suits
(2004-03-04 14:00:47)
"The SCO Group's lawsuits against two Linux users this week sent ripples through the Linux universe, but not much in the way of fear..."
Enterprise Linux IT: PeopleSoft Broadens Linux Support
(2004-03-04 15:00:50)
"'Supporting Linux is really driven by a desire to provide the platforms for the geographies where manufacturing is moving to,' says Lenley Hensarling, PeopleSoft vice president for EnterpriseOne..."
The Register: Email 'Leak' Suggests SCO Got Up to $100m from MS
(2004-03-04 16:00:09)
An op-ed follow-up from The Register that provides more background to the Halloween X memo published early this morning.
The Age: FSF Raises Doubts Over Two Open Source Licences
(2004-03-04 17:30:30)
"A change in licensing terms by the well-known open source projects Apache and XFree86 has led to the Free Software Foundation listing both licences as being incompatible with the General Public Licence or GPL..."
Mandrakesoft: Mandrakesoft Unveils 'Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community'
(2004-03-04 19:00:13)
"Mandrakesoft is proud to announce that its new flagship operating system 'Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community' has been released..."
eWeek: SCO Licensee Takes Heat from Users
(2004-03-04 20:00:20)
"According to an informal poll on the site, more than 25 percent of EV1Server's customers will abandon the company for another Web-site provider, while more than 58 percent said they are staying..."
Computer Business Review: Sun "Open" to Letting Java Go, with Strings
(2004-03-04 21:00:28)
"Sun Microsystems Inc is open to relinquishing stewardship of Java to a neutral third party, but is apparently against releasing the language to open source under GPL..."
LinuxPlanet: Off The Shelf And Onto Your Lap(top)
(2004-03-04 22:00:18)
"A Linux training company did so well with their laptop giveaways, they're starting to sell new Linux laptops as part of their business. LinuxPlanet recently got their hands on one of these machines, and has a review of LinuxCertified's new product venture..."
Techworld: Microsoft Global Pricing Policy in Tatters
(2004-03-04 23:30:03)
"However, most see Microsoft's move as a response to both the threat Linux poses to its core business, as well as piracy..."
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