News Linux News for Mar 12, 2004:

CNET News: What Linux Can Learn from Windows
(2004-03-12 00:00:08)
"Microsoft's focus on ease of security also offers an instructive example for the Linux world..."

Triangle Business Journal: Red Hat Teams with IBM, HP for Linux World Tour
(2004-03-12 01:00:20)
"Raleigh-based Linux provider Red Hat announced on Wednesday that its executives will bring the company's open-source message to four continents via a seven-city world tour sponsored by IBM and Hewlett-Packard..."

LinuxDevices: Open Source for Capitalists
(2004-03-12 02:30:05)
"Yet despite all the attention paid to open source; all the momentum behind it; and all the progress it has made, the open source community has overlooked one critical ingredient to its ultimate, overwhelming success..."

KDE France: Highest Internet Access Center in Europe uses KDE
(2004-03-12 04:00:59)
"An intrepid KDE fellow did not hesitate to venture in the bare landscape of ice, snow and rocks of the French Alps to report on the highest Public Internet Access Centre..."

Release Digest: GNOME, March 11, 2004
(2004-03-12 05:00:00)
Today's GNOME apps: gcalctool 4.3.50, PyGTK 2.2.0, GARNOME 2.4.2, GtkGLExt 1.0.6, and gnome-crystal 0.6.0.

Release Digest: GNU, March 11, 2004
(2004-03-12 05:00:15)
Today's GNU app: The GIMP 2.0pre4.

Release Digest: KDE, March 11, 2004
(2004-03-12 05:00:30)
Today's KDE apps: Bookcase 0.8.5, shamaroK 0.2, ConvertAll 0.3.0, Shut Down-O-Matik (aka KShutDown), KSalomon 0.1.1-alpha, KDETrayProxy 0.2, KPreg 1.5, and Kuake.

Linux Yesterday: March 11, 2004
(2004-03-12 05:00:59)
Popular stories from yesteryear.

developerWorks: Design Cross-Platform Java UIs with Native Performance
(2004-03-12 05:30:51)
"Can you write Java code that compiles across several platforms but still performs as fast as native code? This is a problem that has vexed Java developers, particularly when it comes to applications with complex UIs..."

TechDigest: Interview with Quanta: Eric Laffoon
(2004-03-12 07:00:13)
"Eric Laffoon, keeper of Quanta has agreed to interview with us. Along with our questions, he has answered several of our readers' questions..."

Linux Orbit: Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo for Linux Review
(2004-03-12 08:30:57)
"I've been playing the UT2004 demo for a week now, and as being someone who wasn't thrilled with UT2003, I can say that Linux users should be thrilled to have UT2004 coming to their favorite operating system..."

NewsForge: Watch TV on Your Linux Computer
(2004-03-12 10:00:06)
"Wouldn't it be nice to sit at your Linux machine and have a crisp little color TV screen right there in one of your desktop windows...?"

VNUnet: Vignette Adds Linux Support
(2004-03-12 11:30:16)
"Vignette has ported its content management, integration and portal management suite to run natively on Linux, claiming that it will cut costs for customers' web applications..."

Linux Journal: VLANs on Linux
(2004-03-12 13:00:54)
"An introduction to VLANs and VLAN trunking, how Linux interacts with VLANs and how you might use them in networks..."

ONLamp: Will Mono Become the Preferred Platform for Linux Development?
(2004-03-12 14:00:30)
"The Mono project has a clear goal: to become the first-choice platform for Linux software development. Considering that Mono is an implementation of Microsoft's .NET framework, that goal might sound particularly audacious to many Linux fans..."

NewsForge: How Microsoft Initiated $50 Million SCO Deal
(2004-03-12 15:00:01)
Mostly a roundup of recent SCO events, with a little more information about S2 and the Royal Bank of Canada: "When asked Thursday if Microsoft or any of its divisions had any input into the Royal Bank of Canada portion of the PIPE deal, Microsoft spokesman Martin told NewsForge that 'Microsoft had no involvement in that matter...'"

ZDNet UK: 'Default' Open-Source Licensing Plans Under Fire
(2004-03-12 16:00:27)
"Software developed by public bodies should be released under open-source licences, says the government, in a document that has spooked proprietary software vendors..."

The Age: Open Source Advocates Wary of FTA
(2004-03-12 17:00:48)
"Australian open source developers and advocates are wary of the trade deal struck with the US, saying it would lead to the acceptance of American-style patent and intellectual property laws which, in turn, would cripple the local software industry..."

SOT Linux Advisory: gdk-pixbuf
(2004-03-12 17:56:35)
"A vulnerability in gdk-pixbuf versions before 0.20 exists that could allow a malicious BMP file to crash the Evolution mail client..."

Debian GNU/Linux Advisories: calife, xitalk
(2004-03-12 17:59:34)
Two security advisories from the Debian Project.

Reuters UK: Brazil to Train 1,000 Workers to Use Free Software
(2004-03-12 18:00:38)
"Brazil's government says it will train a thousand state workers to use freely available software as part of an effort to save more than 18 million pounds in information technology costs..." [Story repaired -ed.]

VNUnet: Don't Fear SCO Lawsuits, UK Firms Advised
(2004-03-12 19:00:34)
"'We're advising our clients to sit tight; we think IBM will sort the problem out,' said Phil Carnelly, software research director at Ovum..."

Voilà! Two Mandrake Linux 10 Reviews
(2004-03-12 20:00:12)
OSNews and Mad Penguin each review the latest edition of Mandrake Linux.

VNUnet: Linux Brings Mars Rover Images to Earth
(2004-03-12 21:00:59)
"Open source operating system used to host Nasa and European Space Agency content..."

DesktopLinux: Linux Tech Center Planned for Baghdad, Seeks Textbook Donations
(2004-03-12 22:00:51)
"The LUG of Iraq is establishing a Linux Center in Baghdad to conduct training in all levels of Linux usage, administration, and development..."

DistroWatch: Distributions, March 12, 2004
(2004-03-12 23:30:00)
Today's distributions: BLAG 9002, Quantian 0.4.9.5, and Rubyx 42.

Release Digest: GNOME, March 12, 2004
(2004-03-12 23:30:15)
Today's GNOME apps: gURLChecker 0.7.10 and Evolution 1.4.6.

Release Digest: KDE, March 12, 2004
(2004-03-12 23:30:30)
Today's KDE apps: Umbrello UML Modeller 1.2.1, rpCalc 0.4.3, KXDocker 0.8, and GLobal Application Network (GLAN) 0.0.5.4.

Linux Yesterday: March 12, 2004
(2004-03-12 23:30:45)
Popular stories from yesteryear.

Editor's Note: Desktop, Schmesktop
(2004-03-12 23:30:59)
Will Linux succeed on the home PC platform? Perhaps not, because soon this platform may not even matter.

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