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Developer Linux News for Jul 18, 2002
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SearchWindowsManageability.com: Microsoft: It's Time to Deal with Linux, Not Deny It (2002-07-18 22:00:52)
"The time has come, [Microsoft's Peter Houston] says, for
Microsoft to stop taking swipes at the Linux community and offer up
a pragmatic business defense..."
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Infoworld: Looking into Lindows (2002-07-18 17:30:23)
"Over the past few months, people have asked me to comment on
Lindows. I haven't until now because I couldn't lay my hands on a
copy. I could not bring myself to pay $99 to play with a beta
release, which is expensive for a home edition of any Linux
distribution, let alone a beta version..."
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OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 Released (2002-07-18 16:00:06)
Openoffice.org has released version 1.0.1 of their open-source
office suite, a release which makes some important updates, both
technical and social.
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Linux Journal: Kernel Korner: Kernel Locking Techniques (2002-07-18 14:30:49)
"[Love] explains the various locking primitives in the Linux
kernel, why you need them and how kernel developers can use them to
write safe code..."
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O'Reilly Network: Lisa Nyman Discusses Open Source in Government (2002-07-18 13:00:34)
"Lisa Nyman is a senior Internet technologist with the U.S.
Census Bureau. She is one of the co-creators of QuickFacts, a
user-friendly feature on the Census Bureau's Web Page, which lets
visitors track down city, county, state, and national census data
using a single pulldown menu..."
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VNUnet: Open Source Initiatives All at Sea (2002-07-18 11:30:02)
"A government-run open source advocacy group is pressing to have
more Linux-based initiatives in the US Navy by the end of the
year..."
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OSNews: Interview with SuSE's and KDE's Waldo Bastian (2002-07-18 05:30:23)
"Waldo speaks today about the success of KDE, its future,
UnitedLinux, development and much more..."
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Release Digest: KDE, July 17, 2002 (2002-07-18 05:00:40)
Today's KDE apps: Qt 3.0.5, KBear 2.0beta1, KBruch 0.20,
Klicklack 0.1, Gwenview 0.14.3, Digikam 0.5 and KPortageMaster
0.4.
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Release Digest: GNOME, July 17, 2002 (2002-07-18 05:00:20)
Today's GNOME apps: GDM 2.4.0.2, Hep 0.1, GnomeMeeting 0.93.0,
and Random Background Script for Gnome2 version 0.01.
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Release Digest: GNU, July 17, 2002 (2002-07-18 05:00:00)
Today's GNU apps: GNU Source-highlight 1.5, Bash-2.05b, and
Readline-4.3.
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Silicon Investor: Better Instant Messaging Through Linux (2002-07-18 04:00:55)
"Written for the Linux operating system, Gaim may be the best
instant messaging program around. Originally written in a college
dorm room to emulate AOL's Instant Messenger, it now works not only
with the IM protocols championed by Microsoft and Yahoo! but also
with older, lesser-known versions like ICQ, Jabber and
Zephyr..."
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Help Net Security: Linux Security Modules: General Security Support for the Linux Kernel (2002-07-18 02:30:20)
"This paper presents the design and implementation of LSM and
discusses the challenges in providing a truly general solution that
minimally impacts the Linux kernel..." [Link to PDF document
within. -ed.]
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