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News Linux News for Apr 06, 2004:
The Age: How Independent is Independent?
(2004-04-06 00:00:11)
"...[T]he Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) has joined a long string of self-titled independent think tanks such as the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute in releasing a study strongly critical of Open Source..."
eWeek: Fork in Linux Road?
(2004-04-06 00:30:10)
"Many pundits and industry leaders are predicting that Linux will fork or even saying that it has forked already..."
Mandrake Linux Advisory: mplayer
(2004-04-06 00:59:49)
"A remotely exploitable buffer overflow vulnerability was found in MPlayer..."
InfoWorld: Commercial Linux
(2004-04-06 01:00:27)
"The success of Linux in business comes down to how skillfully vendors leverage it..."
Mad Penguin: First Look At SUSE LINUX Professional 9.1
(2004-04-06 01:30:04)
"What's so special about this release to merit taking up your valuable time? Well, for starters this will be the first commercial Linux release built on a production 2.6 kernel..."
Datamation: Lindows Tries to Take the Geek out of Linux
(2004-04-06 02:00:10)
"While Windows is good for untrained users, for those who want to get in under the hood and tinker with the source code, there is Linux..."
UWStudent.org: Waterloo Federation of Students Shifting to Open Standards
(2004-04-06 02:30:17)
The University of Waterloo's Feds Council is taking steps to "use open data formats, and prefer open source software." Links to initial and follow-up articles within.
Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.26-rc2
(2004-04-06 02:57:03)
Incremental changelog, links within.
OfB.biz: Just About Right: Revisiting Mandrake 9.2 and Fedora Core 1
(2004-04-06 03:00:51)
"We did find a few interesting points worth revisiting, however, and those deal with Mandrake Linux 9.2 and Fedora Core 1..."
OSNews: Xandros: Good Defaults But With Expandability Problems
(2004-04-06 03:30:16)
"I have been using Xandros for a few weeks now and recently I have had to use it as my sole machine. There are some good things to it, but don't sue it if you plan to do anything with it outside of basically what's installed..."
LinuxWorld: The Growing Market for Linux Games
(2004-04-06 04:00:26)
"There are people that say the market for Linux games is a small one. I would have to disagree..."
DistroWatch: Distributions, April 5, 2004
(2004-04-06 04:45:00)
Today's distrbution: INSERT 1.2.7.
Release Digest: GNOME, April 5, 2004
(2004-04-06 04:45:20)
Today's GNOME app: Mergeant 0.50.
Release Digest: KDE, April 5, 2004
(2004-04-06 04:45:40)
Today's KDE apps: Digikam 0.6.1 Final, KXDocker 0.11, KEuroCalc 0.8.2, kdsl 0.4, aviz 5.6, and KRssEditor 0.1.
developerWorks: POWER to the People: A history of chipmaking at IBM
(2004-04-06 05:30:28)
"In the last decade alone, IBM scientists have announced one semiconductor breakthrough after another: copper technology, silicon-on-insulator, silicon germanium, strained silicon, and low-k dielectrics. All of these technologies came out of IBM's fertile in-house research community..."
Linux.com: CLI for Noobies: Stay Regular with cron and crontab
(2004-04-06 06:15:30)
"Your mother may have told you that it was good to be regular, but most likely she didn't tell you about how cron and crontab can help keep you that way..."
ServerWatch: Back to Linux Basics With Debian GNU/Linux
(2004-04-06 07:00:35)
"Debian GNU/Linux is largely distinguished by rigorous quality assurance, a wide range of platform support (11 architectures so far), and solid package management tools that make staying up to date and secure a snap..."
GISuser: Announcing Open Source GIS Conference 2004
(2004-04-06 07:45:20)
"The Ottawa MapServer User Group is proud to host the Open Source GIS Conference 2004 and Second Annual MapServer User Meeting..."
SearchEnterpriseLinux: VMware Workstation 4.5 Focuses on Enterprise
(2004-04-06 08:30:35)
"Today, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based vendor released Workstation 4.5, which broadens its focus to include the enterprise system administrator..."
OSNews: Gentoo Linux: Your Friendly Quick Installation Guide
(2004-04-06 09:15:45)
"I've managed to take the standard 20-30 hour installation and bring it down to about 2-3 hours of time. This guide will try and lead you into the correct direction of the Gentoo installation..."
Linux Journal: Overcoming Asymmetric Routing on Multi-Homed Servers
(2004-04-06 10:00:55)
"Did you pay for two network interfaces and find your server is using only one? Balance the traffic with some simple routing hints..."
LinuxDevCenter: Linux on the GameCube
(2004-04-06 10:45:25)
"The effort to port Linux to the GameCube--a longtime goal for many hackers--finally came to fruition in December 2003 at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, Germany..."
VNUnet: F-Secure Pushes Linux Enterprise Products
(2004-04-06 11:30:39)
"F-Secure has jumped on the open source bandwagon by releasing products aimed at protecting enterprise Linux users..."
TechNewsWorld: Asian Governments Team on Linux Industrial Policy
(2004-04-06 12:15:24)
"Industrial policy has long been discredited as an economic strategy in the United States, but not in Asia..."
Groklaw: Open Source Software: What Is It and How Does It Work?
(2004-04-06 13:00:19)
"...I find it to be one of the clearest, most understandable articles I've come across yet on the GPL, what it is legally (contract or license), and how it works..."
PC World: Microsoft Posts Tool as Open Source
(2004-04-06 14:00:50)
"Anyone who thought Microsoft's recent settlement with longtime nemesis Sun Microsystems seemed surreal was in for another shocker Monday, when the software giant made some of its source code freely available on the Internet..."
eChannelLine: Linux Having Low TCO Could Be Misperception for Large Companies, Says Yankee Group
(2004-04-06 15:00:08)
"IT managers or company executives thinking that Linux might be the way to go to save on operating system costs need to do total cost of ownership analysis first..." [Note: This Yankee Group report was previewed last week, but more detail has been released. -ed.]
internetnews.com: Drag-and-Drop Editor Out for Linux Devs
(2004-04-06 16:00:43)
"Software developers at Innoopract released a Linux port to its Java programming tool for the Eclipse integrated development environment Tuesday, a move that's steps ahead of its competitors..."
The Salt Lake Tribune: SCO: IBM's Request Packs More Punch
(2004-04-06 17:00:50)
"IBM not only seeks to have Linux-related copyright infringement charges by Utah's SCO Group dismissed, it wants a federal judge to make sure the allegations are never allowed in court again..." A recap of the current state of the SCO-IBM lawsuit.
internetnews.com: Developers Split on Sun, Microsoft Deal
(2004-04-06 18:00:18)
"Maybe Scott McNealy and Steve Ballmer had it right; technical collaboration between the two companies isn't such a bad thing. That is unless if you happen to be a developer..."
OSNews: A Quick Look at Slackware's -Current Tree
(2004-04-06 19:00:54)
"What's in store for Slackware's next version? Have a look with us as to what Slackware's -Current tree tells us so far of what to expect..."
Gentoo Linux Advisory: Portage
(2004-04-06 19:58:24)
"A flaw has been found in the temporary file handling algorithms for the sandboxing code used within Portage..."
SOT Linux Advisory: Ethereal
(2004-04-06 19:59:52)
"Stefan Esser reported that Ethereal versions 0.10.1 and earlier contain stack overflows in the IGRP, PGM, Metflow, ISUP, TCAP, or IGAP dissectors..."
NewsForge: OSDL CEO: Linux is Coming and Portland is its Capital
(2004-04-06 20:00:56)
"The world's single largest official open source organization is headquartered not in Japan or Silicon Valley but in Beaverton, Oregon..."
Netwosix Linux Advisory: monit
(2004-04-06 20:56:19)
"Monit implements a simple HTTP interface that supports Basic authentication. This interface suffers from a buffer overflow vulnerability..."
Debian GNU/Linux Advisories: xine-ui, heimdal
(2004-04-06 20:59:36)
Two security advisories from the Debian Project.
internetnews.com: IBM's New 'Stinger' Database to Zap Pain Points
(2004-04-06 21:00:28)
"After months of unveiling features by the piece for its next-generation database, IBM is planning to launch the finished product in late April or early May, according to a source familiar with the company's plans..."
The Jakarta Post: HP Indonesia Ready to Support New Linux-based PCs
(2004-04-06 22:00:29)
"However, HP Indonesia will, for the time being, only offer the Linux-based PCs to corporate customers, and not yet to the public, who are mostly still unfamiliar with the OS..."
Tonight Live: The FCC is Still Trying to Kill the small ISP Industry!
(2004-04-06 23:00:59)
"TLS has a child, Unhappy web host clients make unhappy web host company, the word is out for the RIAA and it STINKS, Microsoft's tap dances, Novell on the path,
NASA has a great month, a clueless pundit or two..."
Joint Statement about GNU/Linux Security
(2004-04-06 23:30:58)
The Debian Project, Mandrakesoft, Red Hat, and SUSE have released a joint statement regarding the Forrester report entitled "Is Linux more Secure than Windows?"
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