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News Linux News for Jun 04, 2004:
NewsForge: Judge Deals MS a Mortal Blow in Linspire Case
(2004-06-04 01:00:51)
"It's unknown at press time if Microsoft will have to go to BayStar Capital, or the Royal Bank of Canada, or perhaps to SCO itself for the cash..."
LinuxInsider: OSRM Chairman Daniel Egger on Open-Source Insurance
(2004-06-04 02:30:42)
"'We decided to go straight to the heart of the matter and evaluate whether we could defend the Linux kernel,' said Daniel Egger, founder and chairman of OSRM. 'We determined that we can; and we will...'"
Planet Geek!: Review: Mozex Plugin for Mozilla/Firefox
(2004-06-04 04:00:21)
"Enter Mozex by Tomas Styblo, a tool for invoking external programs for various actions within the Mozilla browser family. Mozex is purported to work with Mozilla and Firefox, though I've only tested it from Firefox 0.8..."
DistroWatch: Distributions, June 3, 2004
(2004-06-04 05:00:00)
Today's distributions: Damn Small Linux 0.7.1 and OpenSLS 1.0-CURRENT Alpha1.
Release Digest: GNOME, June 3, 2004
(2004-06-04 05:00:20)
Today's GNOME apps: Gnomoradio 0.12.2 and Ruby/GtkTrayIcon 0.1.0.
Release Digest: KDE, June 3, 2004
(2004-06-04 05:00:40)
Today's KDE apps: TreeLine 0.8.0, edk 1.0.1, and kdecvs-build 0.65.
SearchEnterpriseLinux: Inspecting Web Pages with Mozilla
(2004-06-04 05:30:35)
"The Mozilla browsers, both the Application Suite and Firefox, include a tool called the DOM Inspector that exploits these standards. Here we'll take it for a quick spin..."
NewsForge: Drive Recovery Comes to Linux
(2004-06-04 07:00:21)
"Fire. Flood. Having a five-foot-thick redwood tree fall on your home office. Collectively, these are disasters that can befall your computers' hard drives..."
LinuxDevices: Building a Solid-State Mini-ITX Linux Recording Studio
(2004-06-04 08:30:53)
"This simple embedded Linux project builds a dedicated music recording and editing computer that uses a CompactFlash card instead of a hard drive, to eliminate hard disk chatter..."
OSNews: Quick Review & Introduction to Gnome-PPP
(2004-06-04 10:00:00)
"Here's a kind of an application that is sorely missing from a stock Gnome installation and not many Gnome users know about: Gnome-PPP, a front-end to the wvDial, a modem/ISDN dial-up software..."
SearchEnterpriseLinux: Thin Linux Clients Deliver Internet to Library Patrons
(2004-06-04 11:30:53)
"Where would you look to find Linux in the library? Under computer science or operating systems, perhaps? If you're at the Otis Library in Norwich, Conn., you would need look no further than the search terminal right in front of you..."
NewsForge: Behind Four Linux Community Sites
(2004-06-04 13:00:30)
"In our recent overview of Linux community sites we highlighted several active sites that offered news, reviews, commentary, and Linux information..."
PC Pro: Sun's Scott McNealy Squashes Idea of Java Becoming Open Source
(2004-06-04 14:00:00)
"...Scott McNealy has squashed hopes that its Java programming language could be made open source, and cast a shadow over Sun COO Jonathan Schwartz's statement yesterday that the Solaris operating system was to go the same way..."
Reuters/ZDNet: In Brazil, Microsoft Decries Linux Use
(2004-06-04 15:00:55)
"The president of Microsoft's Brazil unit, Emilio Umeoka, said that ideology led the country's government astray when it decided to adopt Linux's free software in public-sector computers..."
NewsForge: Open Source on Offense in ERP and Business Applications Market
(2004-06-04 16:00:02)
"Now a recent IDC study shows that one of the last holdouts, the big-vendor-dominated market of enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications, is also poised to start taking off for non-proprietary technology..."
CyberIndia Online: "Linux Does Not Depend on Microsoft’s Failure"
(2004-06-04 17:00:46)
"In a tête-à-tête with CyberMedia’s Nisha Kurian, the Red Hat India head for enterprise sales Sachin Dabir explained how Linux emerged from being a push product to a pull product..."
SearchEnterpriseLinux: Windows, Linux to Win War Over Data Center
(2004-06-04 18:00:44)
"Like it or not, within the next five years, data centers will be running most of their applications on Linux and Windows. If this thought made you shudder a year ago, chances are your take is somewhat different now..."
Fedora Core 1, 2 Advisories: net-tools, ethereal
(2004-06-04 18:59:45)
Three security advisories from the Fedora Project.
internetnews.com: Gaim's Ground in a Closed IM World
(2004-06-04 19:00:19)
"One of the more actively developed open source projects, the Gaim instant messenger client, is out with its latest incremental release..."
Debian GNU/Linux Advisories: log2mail, kernel-source-2.2.20, kernel-image-2.2-sparc
(2004-06-04 19:59:44)
Two security advisories from the Debian Project.
IT-Analysis: The Open Sourcing of Ingres
(2004-06-04 20:00:39)
"This year at CA World, it caught the attention of the press and the database world by announcing its decision to turn the Ingres database into an Open Source product..."
NewsForge: Linux is Inching Into College Curriculums
(2004-06-04 21:00:51)
"...[B]ut when it comes to teaching Linux and open source development, administration, or other knowhow, it appears higher education has just been accepted for early admission..."
IBM: What You Need to Know--Windows NT Server 4.0 End of Life Planning
(2004-06-04 22:00:13)
"The end is in sight for Windows NT Server 4.0. Microsoft has announced that in December 2004... So what should organizations still using Windows NT Server 4.0 do...?"
Editor's Note: Microsoft as Benchmark? Pfft! Think Again!
(2004-06-04 23:30:55)
Tired of all those "Is Linux better than Windows?" articles? Signs are now being seen that this line of reasoning is dying out. Now IT managers want to know how Linux products compare to each other.
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