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Linux News for Sep 24, 2004
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Editor's Note: Dramatically Speaking (Sep 24, 2004, 23:30)
"And now, for your entertainment, the Linux Today Players will
now perform brief sketches loosely based on this week's events..."
Break out the tomatoes!
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StrategyPage: China Shoots Itself in the Cyberfoot (Sep 24, 2004, 22:45)
"China is trying to get around this by using Linux, a free
operating system that is subject to far less Internet attack. But
Linux does not have as much software available for it, and users
are reluctant to abandon Windows..."
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CNET News: Red Hat Exec Takes Sun to Task on Open Source (Sep 24, 2004, 22:00)
"A top Red Hat executive has attacked the open-source
credentials of its sometime business partner Sun
Microsystems..."
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LinuxInsider: Red Hat Faces Stiff Competition (Sep 24, 2004, 21:15)
"It's fighting time now, says Matthew Szulik, Red Hat's chief
executive. For years, the software company struggled for
acceptance, selling a computer operating system that can be
downloaded for free from the Internet..."
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The Inquirer: ATI Readies Big Linux Driver Push (Sep 24, 2004, 20:30)
"Terry Makedon, a senior product manager, largely talked about
those, but he did say the firm is readying a major push in the next
few weeks to outline its plans for Linux driver support..."
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NewsForge: HP's NX5000 Linux Notebook: A Breach of the Windows Wall? (Sep 24, 2004, 19:00)
"I've waited years to write such a review. I thought I was going
to write it this time last year, when we looked at the HP D220, but
that turned out to be a false alarm..."
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mozillaZine: Case Study on Mozilla and Open Source (Sep 24, 2004, 17:30)
An MBA thesis that examines the business value of open source
software, through the Mozilla Project.
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internetnews.com: Sun Fights Rumors, Old Perceptions (Sep 24, 2004, 16:00)
"When Sun Microsystems President and COO Jonathan Schwartz made
his pitch to financial services customers at an event in New York
Tuesday, he provoked a flurry of neutral to skeptical comments
among analysts that cover the company..."
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Andrew Morton: Linux 2.6.9-rc2-mm3 (Sep 24, 2004, 15:15)
Changelog, link within.
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Waters: Free to SAMBA (Sep 24, 2004, 14:30)
"London's FTSE adopts Linux clustering for its SAMBA file
sharing..."
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NewsForge: Thanks to Linux, This Beer's For You! (Sep 24, 2004, 13:00)
"Eagle Eye Solutions, based in the United Kingdom, is launching
a new service today called Buymeabeer.com using a Linux-based
server platform..."
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Kuensel Online: Dzongkha Computing on Linux (Sep 24, 2004, 11:30)
"The Dzongkha Development Authority, the Department of
Information and Technology and Sherubtse College in Kanglung are
working together to enable Dzongkha computing on the Linux
operating system..."
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Computer Business Review: Novell Plans European Consultancy Acquisitions (Sep 24, 2004, 10:00)
"Novell Inc's president of EMEA Richard Seibt is planning how he
plans to spend a share of the $475m the company recently raised for
acquisitions via a debt offering, with consulting services top of
his shopping list..."
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NewsForge: Hardening Linux Authentication and User Identity (Sep 24, 2004, 08:30)
"The Linux PAM implementation allows a system administrator to
choose how users authenticate to various services..."
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developerWorks: Statistical Programming with R, Part 1 (Sep 24, 2004, 07:00)
"In the first of a three-part series, David and Brad introduce
you to R, a rich statistical environment, released as free
software..."
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Release Digest: KDE, September 23, 2004 (Sep 24, 2004, 05:30)
Today's KDE apps: SnakeKeeper 0.5, K3b 0.11.17, KlamAV 0.05,
rkward 0.2.9, K ADSL Watch 01.00.05, K ISDN Watch 01.00.08,
NeuroScope 1.2.3, PDFKreator 0.2, KImgSm (Image Service Menu) 0.5,
G System 0.4.0, and KMyMoney 0.6.2.
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Release Digest: GNOME, September 23, 2004 (Sep 24, 2004, 05:30)
Today's GNOME app: gob2 2.0.10.
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OSNews: The Paradox of Choice: Round Three (Sep 24, 2004, 04:00)
"After reading Adam Scheinberg's original article 'The Paradox
of Choice; and Kevin Russo's response, I want to add my personal
comments to this discussion..."
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The Inquirer: Open Sourced IBM Speech Code Doesn't Include ViaVoice (Sep 24, 2004, 02:30)
"In short: those of you (and me) that were expecting the opening
or resurrection of the abandoned Viavoice for Linux speech
recognition engine are going to be as disappointed as
myself..."
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Fedora Core Advisories: subversion, httpd (Sep 24, 2004, 02:29)
Two security advisories from the Fedora Project.
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Humorix: SCO Still Has Programmers On Its Payroll! (Sep 24, 2004, 01:45)
"In a shocking revelation, The SCO Group announced today that,
contrary to conventional wisdom, the company still maintains a
'thriving' software development division..."
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Conectiva Linux Advisories: apache, qt3, spamassassin (Sep 24, 2004, 01:44)
Three security advisories from Conectiva Inc.
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Gentoo Linux Advisories: FreeRADIUS, xine-lib, glFTPd, GTK+ 2 (Sep 24, 2004, 01:43)
Four security advisories from the Gentoo Foundation.
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LinuxPR: Dark Horizons: Lore Ready for Linux Hardcore Gamers
(Sep 24, 2004, 01:00)
"The first persistent universe mech-style team-based war game
arrives for all Linux distributions..."
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