News Linux News for Apr 14, 2004:

osViews: What Does It Mean to Choose Open Source?
(2004-04-14 01:00:00)
"I know perhaps twenty-five or thirty programmers personally; I'd count eight of them as friends... But of all of us, I am the only one actively developing under Linux..."

OSNews: Why Free Software Matters
(2004-04-14 02:30:06)
"Today I'm going to talk about why software--any software, all software--actually matters, what the different types of software are, and why you should care about its properties (no matter who you are, or what you do)..."

MLUG.ca: Desktop Linux--Scientific Opinion
(2004-04-14 04:00:21)
"We thought it was time to put an end to the debate, to resolve the issue once and for all. To do this we decided to put the question to some of the greatest scientists of all time..."

Release Digest: GNOME, April 13, 2004
(2004-04-14 05:00:00)
Today's GNOME apps: libxml++ 2.6.0, libxklavier 1.01, gnome-gcj 0.17.0, Gaphor 0.3.0, Anjuta 1.2.2, and Alexandria 0.1.1.

Release Digest: KDE, April 13, 2004
(2004-04-14 05:00:30)
Today's KDE apps: KWirelessMonitor 0.1.2, KRename 2.9.4, soli 0.2, Kumula Business Suite 0.1, and KXDocker 0.13.

FedoraNews: Contributing Article: CD Creation with Nautilus
(2004-04-14 05:30:51)
"Gnome's integrated Nautilus makes CD burning simple. I recently stumbled on this powerful feature, for years now I have been using the command line tool cdrecord..."

HelpNetSecurity: Mail Scanning With Exim And The Exiscan ACL
(2004-04-14 07:00:54)
"With all the spam and viruses circulating the Internet these days, any network admin worth his or her salt will have appropriate filters in place to prevent these irritants from getting to users and customers..."

Computerworld NZ: Local Linux Site Rates Hardware Compatibility
(2004-04-14 08:30:05)
"A local Linux enthusiast has set up a website for New Zealand Linux users to swap information about compatible and incompatible hardware..."

FedoraNews: Contributing Article: Clam AntiVirus on Fedora Core 1
(2004-04-14 10:00:27)
"This article describes how to setup Clam AntiVirus on Fedora Core 1 for use with sendmail..."

dot.KDE: Interview: Trolltech's Eirik Eng and Matthias Ettrich
(2004-04-14 11:30:52)
"Eirik Eng, president of Trolltech, and Matthias Ettrich, founder of the KDE project and director of software development at Trolltech, were interviewed by Philippe Fremy, KDE enthusiast..."

Linux Journal: Automating Tasks with Aap
(2004-04-14 13:00:35)
"Aap is a flexible tool that can do what make does and much more..."

LinuxPR: Lindows, Inc. Announces New Product Name: Linspire
(2004-04-14 14:30:38)
"Legal Battle to Continue for Right to Use 'Lindows' Brand in the United States..."

CNET News: Attackers Infiltrating Supercomputer Networks
(2004-04-14 16:00:56)
"Unknown attackers have compromised a large number of Linux and Solaris machines in high-speed computing networks at Stanford University and other academic research facilities..."

ADTmag: The Call of MySQL
(2004-04-14 17:30:39)
"Effects are being felt in the database world as well, as MySQL especially seems to be displacing other DBs and gaining open-source traction..."

NewsForge: Gosling Defends Sun's New Partnership with Microsoft
(2004-04-14 19:00:04)
"Since the announcement of Sun's settlement with Microsoft over Java, there has been a lot of rampant speculation echoing back and forth over the net..."

Groklaw: The Missing Code Turns Up in Blepp's Suitcase in Germany. Say, What?
(2004-04-14 20:30:37)
"Well, no wonder SCO hasn't been able to present the missing million lines of infringing code in discovery. Gregory Blepp, their man in Germany, says he has it in his suitcase over there..."

PR: Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official is Available
(2004-04-14 20:45:38)
"Mandrakesoft today announced the availability of Mandrakelinux 10.0 Official, a full-featured operating system that includes a full suite of desktop and server applications..."

Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.26
(2004-04-14 21:58:08)
"2.4.26-rc4 was released as 2.4.26 with no changes..." Changelog, link within.

Computerworld: It's Possible to Ditch Microsoft Office
(2004-04-14 22:00:33)
"Is today's OpenOffice good enough for the enterprise? For most jobs--word processing, presentations or spreadsheets--the answer is yes..."

First Monday: Fundamental Issues with Open Source Software Development
(2004-04-14 23:30:12)
"This paper discusses five fundamental problems with the current Open Source software development trend, explores why these issues are holding the movement back, and offers solutions that might help overcome these problems..."

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