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Linux News for Feb 23, 2005
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LWN: Fedora Core 4 Test 1 Slips (Feb 23, 2005, 23:30)
"Looking at the overlap of the FC4 schedule with the GCC 4.0
schedule, it appears that shipping GCC 4.0 in FC4 has become
viable..."
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The Register: Nokia Denies Firefox Rumours (Feb 23, 2005, 22:45)
"Nokia has denied reports that it is to migrate 55,000 desktops
from Internet Explorer to the Firefox browser..."
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NewsForge: Project GNUtemberg: A Free Software Print-on-Demand Project (Feb 23, 2005, 22:00)
"Sometimes it would be great to have paper copies of a manual
that was never printed, or whose publication stopped long ago due
to lack of demand..."
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CNET News: Microsoft May Offer Peek at SQL Server Code (Feb 23, 2005, 21:15)
"Will the software industry's wave of open-source databases
spill onto Microsoft's turf...?"
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Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.30-pre2 (Feb 23, 2005, 21:15)
Incremental changelog, link within.
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ZDNet UK: Wine Maker Relaxed Over Microsoft's 'Blockade' (Feb 23, 2005, 20:30)
"Jeremy White... said this week that he wasn't worried about the
issue because Microsoft would face legal action if it attempted to
tie Office and Windows too tightly together..."
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Federal Computer Week: Linux Maker Throws Red Hat Into Ring (Feb 23, 2005, 19:00)
"With their newly created government business unit, officials at
Linux distributor Red Hat believe the federal market will become
fertile ground for the open-source operating system..."
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PC Pro: Open Source Not Running Short of Developers (Feb 23, 2005, 17:30)
"Open-source has gained so much momentum of late that one might
ask where all the developers needed for these new projects are
coming from..."
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OSDir: Corporate Desktop Linux--The Hard Truth [Part III] (Feb 23, 2005, 16:00)
"You are the CIO of a small to medium sized company. You want a
big splashy cost-saving victory to impress your board..."
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Andrew Morton: Linux 2.6.11-rc4-mm1 (Feb 23, 2005, 15:15)
Changelog, link within.
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CNET News: Novell Profit Surpasses Analyst Projections (Feb 23, 2005, 14:30)
"Novell, which is transplanting Linux into the core of its
software product line, on Tuesday reported surpassing analyst
profit expectations for a quarter boosted by a legal settlement
with Microsoft..."
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PC Magazine: How to Kill Linux (Feb 23, 2005, 13:00)
"The immediate usefulness of Linux running under Windows is
obvious. You can use all the Windows drivers for all the
peripherals that don't run under Linux..."
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NewsForge: Year-Long Italian Programming Tournament Announces Winners (Feb 23, 2005, 12:15)
"The winners of the first Italian Open Source Contest were
officially announced on February 9 in Milan, during the
Infosecurity and Storage Expo Italia 2005..."
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Mercury News/Bradenton Herald: Sprinting for Open Source (Feb 23, 2005, 11:30)
"So, there they were, lovers of the open source software Plone,
coding as fast as their fingers would fly in what those in the know
call a sprint. Five straight days of near-non-stop coding..."
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QGIS Community: Interview with Tyler Mitchell (Feb 23, 2005, 10:00)
"As I dug into the roots of OSS GIS, I found a tremendous group
of programmers. I was really encouraged to see so many Canadians
involved with the tools I was using, that was a bonus..."
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Exploring: The Memory Problem (Feb 23, 2005, 08:30)
"What started out as a blog posting showing the memory
improvement between GTK+ 2.4 and HEAD, turned into a full fledged
desktop wide optimization project..."
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FedoraNews: OpenEMR, XRMS, CRM and open source medical applications (Feb 23, 2005, 07:00)
SCALE 3X: "One lecture that was particularly
interesting to me was Walt Pennington's talk on open source(OS)
medical applications..."
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NewsForge: Bare-Metal Server Restore Using tar (Feb 23, 2005, 05:30)
"When my production Web server, running Red Hat Enterprise Linux
(RHEL), began generating filesystem errors, I found my backup
system put to the ultimate test..."
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Advisories: February 22, 2005 (Feb 23, 2005, 04:45)
Today's security advisories: squid and postgresql (Fedora
Core).
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DotGeek: Brief Review of Vector Linux SOHO (Feb 23, 2005, 04:00)
"Recently, I purchased an old laptop for the princely sum of a
chocolate cake and a power cable..."
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OSNews: Flush and the FVWM (Feb 23, 2005, 02:30)
"Flush is a shell with a difference, you'll be able to execute
simple commands like mv and rm, but there will be no support for
scripting constructs, pipelines, globbing or substitution..."
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Tuxme.com: Freedom in Software (Feb 23, 2005, 01:00)
"What exactly is the value of software such as GNU/Linux? This
article takes a look at the value of freedom in software, how it
relates to open source software and Linux in particular, and why it
is something we should all take note of..."
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