News Linux News for Mar 09, 2004:

Seattle Times: Upgrades Make Linux So Easy to Use
(2004-03-09 00:15:47)
"Don't you wish some days you could just toss that Windows computer out the, er, window and try something else...?"

Dasgupta: Diving Into GNOME 2.5--A Preview of GNOME 2.6
(2004-03-09 01:00:01)
"The last time I did this, I also wrote an article about what I saw, but unfortunately, I never learn from my mistakes--so here I go again..." [Link updated. -ed]

Newsday: Linux Offers an Alternative to a Landscape Dominated by Microsoft
(2004-03-09 01:45:08)
"Imagine an alternate universe where there's no Microsoft. In this alternate universe, software is free, and you only pay for product support and various conveniences of use to beginners..."

Mandrake.Tips: Mandrake 10.0 Community Edition Installation Review
(2004-03-09 03:15:18)
"This page describes the installation I did with the 4cd Mandrake Linux 10.0 Community Edition set..."

CXOtoday: Greater Bank Implements Linux Based Firewall
(2004-03-09 04:00:58)
"Mumbai based IT Security consultancy firm Network Intelligence India (NII), has implemented a Linux firewall solution called IPTables for Greater Bombay Co-operative Bank Ltd..."

DistroWatch: Distributions, March 8, 2004
(2004-03-09 04:45:00)
Today's distribution: Trustix Secure Linux 2.1.

Release Digest: GNOME, March 8, 2004
(2004-03-09 04:45:20)
Today's GNOME apps: gnopernicus 0.7.6, BEAST/BSE v0.6.1, GRegExp Explorer 0.2, gnome-games 2.5.8, Epiphany Extensions 0.7.90, criawips 0.0.2, gnome-netstatus 2.5.91, Epiphany 1.1.11, CVSGnome Build Script 0.5.2, and Ruby-GNOME2 0.9.0.

Release Digest: KDE, March 8, 2004
(2004-03-09 04:45:40)
Today's KDE apps: KWordQuiz 0.5, PiKdev 0.6.3, and KXDocker 0.7.

Linux Yesterday: March 8, 2004
(2004-03-09 04:45:59)
A trial feature on Linux Today highlighting the big events from one, two, and five years ago.

WineHQ: Wine Weekly News #213
(2004-03-09 05:30:00)
"This is the 213th issue of the Wine Weekly News publication..."

Kernel Traffic #253 by Zack Brown
(2004-03-09 05:30:30)
The latest news from the Linux Kernel Mailing List.

developerWorks: Connect KDE Applications using DCOP
(2004-03-09 06:15:58)
"Hidden deep within the KDE desktop lies a powerful set of scripting technologies that can allow the power user to automate many tasks..."

Linux.com: CLI for Noobies: background foreground suspend
(2004-03-09 07:00:42)
"This week, you lame and laggardly louts, we're going to 'Bravely go where no Noobies have gone before.' We'll fly into the background from the command line interface, and return...!"

eBCVG: GNU/Linux Summit Was a Success
(2004-03-09 07:45:52)
"GNU/Linux Summit 2004 -event attracted a record number of visitors to the Finlandia Hall last week on Thursday and Friday 26-27.2.2004. All together 560 visitors participated in the seminar and lectures..."

FedoraNews: Review: The Fedora Legacy Project
(2004-03-09 08:30:10)
"The goal of The Fedora Legacy Project is to work with the Linux community to provide security and critical bug fix errata packages for select End of Life Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core distributions..."

KDE.nl: Zack Rusin [Interview]
(2004-03-09 09:15:53)
"I know that the first time I tried it was when one of my friends forced me to try Caldera. I think it was either late 1998 or early 1999..."

LinuxDevices: Migrating Custom Linux Installations to 2.6
(2004-03-09 10:00:49)
"This whitepaper provides an overview of the types of changes that you may need to make to a customized or specialized Linux installation in order to use it with the Linux 2.6 kernel..."

ZDNet Australia: Linux Rides Enterprise Software Wave into Education
(2004-03-09 10:45:10)
"Linux' momentum in the tertiary education market appears set to increase as enterprise software giant Oracle intensifies its activity in the sector..."

DesktopLinux: Extending the Linux Desktop with Business Intelligence
(2004-03-09 11:30:32)
"So shouldn't an organization making a transformation with business intelligence software to gain ROI look at reducing reducing the cost of their software infrastructure with Linux...?"

ZDNet Australia: Investigating Open Source
(2004-03-09 12:15:31)
"The proprietary/open source dilemma confronts governments and businesses everywhere--it's only a matter of scale..."

Wheeler: Comments on OSS/FS Software Configuration Management (SCM) Systems
(2004-03-09 13:00:46)
"In my opinion three OSS/FS SCM systems get the most discussion: CVS, Subversion, and GNU Arch..."

internetnews.com: Linux Privilege Escalation Hole Detected
(2004-03-09 13:45:47)
"For the second time in as many months, security researchers have uncovered a privilege escalation security flaw in the Linux kernel..."

CNET News: SCO's Failing Case Against IBM
(2004-03-09 14:30:55)
"SCO subsequently contended that under the terms of the Unix license, any software written by IBM and then added to AIX would automatically become SCO's property. In other words, it could not legally be added to Linux..."

LinuxInsider: The Groklaw Story, Part Two
(2004-03-09 15:15:43)
"'SCO doesn't like it that the truth is out there,' Groklaw's Pamela Jones told LinuxInsider. 'But it's out there. If [Blake Stowell] wishes to make a statement on Groklaw, stating his position in some matter, he's free to send it to me...'"

eWeek: Q&A: Raymond Expounds on Open Letter to Sun, McNealy
(2004-03-09 16:00:33)
"Open-source advocate Eric S. Raymond stands by his criticisms of Sun's flirtation with IBM and restates his interpretation of the infamous 'Halloween' memo, which linked Microsoft to SCO's lawsuits..."

NetworkWorldFusion: Moving Linux to the Desktop
(2004-03-09 16:45:24)
"Increasingly, businesses, government entities and schools are starting to look beyond Windows... Instead they're considering running Linux as their client operating environment. But the move is a slow one..."

Federal Computer Weekly: Linux Meets Enterprise Server Challenge
(2004-03-09 17:30:30)
"Government officials are beginning to sit up and take notice of the Linux operating system..."

eWeek Pundits Debate Open-Source Java
(2004-03-09 18:15:16)
Another point/counterpoint discussion from eWeek, this time on the pros and cons of Sun Microsystems potentially open-sourcing Java.

OSNews: The Command Line--The Best Newbie Interface?
(2004-03-09 19:00:22)
"This essay describes the surprising results of a brief trial with a group of new computer users about the relative ease of the command line interface versus the GUIs now omnipresent in computer interfaces..."

Computerworld Australia: Linux, Windows Run Equal on Hosting Costs
(2004-03-09 19:45:35)
"There's little TCO difference between Linux and Windows, according to a hosting giant but its customers' preferences fall in favour of Windows..."

KDE.org: KDE 3.2.1 Release Announcement
(2004-03-09 20:30:39)
"The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.2.1, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes..."

NewsForge: Five Years of Bringing Linux to the Feds First-Hand
(2004-03-09 21:15:00)
"This edited transcript of our conversation can and should serve as an 'advocacy guide' for other LUG activists who want to do effective Linux promotion at computer expositions that are not all about Linux..."

ExtremeTech: A Taste of Linux, Part Two
(2004-03-09 22:00:00)
"In this follow-up, we look at three live versions from major Linux distributors SUSE, Lindows and Mandrake..."

Tonight Live: The Microsoft Smoking Gun, Department of Justice Are You Listening?
(2004-03-09 22:45:02)
"Unhappy web host clients, Microsoft's Smoking Gun, Sun gets nice, a clueless pundit or two..."

eWeek: SCO: Make-or-Break Moves?
(2004-03-09 23:30:00)
"They question how SCO, which is already engaged in lawsuits against billion-dollar enterprises such as IBM and Novell Inc., will be able to maintain and fund all these legal actions at a time when its revenues and profits are falling..."

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