News items of casual interest…
…from around the web:
- Marc pointed us to
Warbline, an open source web
sites’ directory where it is easy to find information and good
links but, also, where you can discover new open source in a lot of
domains : internet, networking, programming, etc… - Ext2 seeks staff writer for scripting section. Rob Kennedy says, “We’re looking for
someone to write 2 articles/month for the scripting section of
Ext2.org. They must be high quality
articles, and there must be 2 per month 🙂 Email me for details on
this, using the subject line ‘[Ext2 Scripting]'”
Foreign (Not U.S.):
- Haisam K. Ido pointed us in
the direction of the Arab Hackers
Association. Shrug. - Rajiv wanted us to
mention BaratBhasha.org:
Indian Languages for Linux. Indian Languages capability for Linux
may be had in the following languages: Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati,
Gurmukhi and Bangla. - IBM, OS/2 and Open Source (In Spanish). Francisco Burzi (of NCC) wrote in about a feature
article on the NCC news site that talks about a proposal to IBM
to release the source code for OS/2 Warp. The article explains why
this option is viable, and what kind of response they might see
from developers if they did this. - Rildo Pragana says: “The
University of Pernambuco is presenting it’s 2nd. university week,
featuring panels, meetings, seminars. We will have also a new Linux
InstallFest for 2 days and a short Linux presentation (by myself).
Please check it at 2a. Semana
Universitária (in portuguese).
Fun Stuff:
- CodeZ pointed us to
iPic – A
Match Head Sized Web-Server. Not really any Linux content here,
but amusing nonetheless. - Linux MusicStations…
Anonymous writes: “What is
MusicStation? It’s a place for Linux music news and software info,
tips, opinions and anything else that comes to mind – maybe even a
Linux music distribution. Anyways, please send us news, your tips,
opinions, setups. Also an
interview with Dev Mazumdar of 4Front Technologies, a
commercial supplier of Linux/Unix sound drivers to companies and
individuals. The driver set is quite easy to install on Linux and
enables features such as full-duplex use of your soundcard (which
you won’t get with the OSSfree drivers)” - Art Cancro
says, “This is perhaps kind of tasteless, but it’s too funny for
any Linux fan to pass up. KIM Special Agent (requires
Macromedia Flash player).” As I don’t have MacroMedia in my
browser, I have no idea what this is.
Miscellaneous:
- Ajay Shah writes:
I’d like to draw your attention to
“The Linux Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux”
by James G. MacKinnon
Journal of Applied Econometrics
volume 14, page 443-452, 1999.It’s very nicely written, and explains the strengths and
weaknesses of using Linux in doing Econometrics. MacKinnon is a
well respected top scholar. - SSL
means bad news for Linux, according to Glenn
Mullikin. - Business 2.0 Linux poll Randy pointed us to a poll on
the homepage of Business
2.0.The right frame of their home page has poll asking the reason
for Linux’s “continuing popularity.” The results look fairly
positive so far. - FrankenLinux lives, according to a Network World
Fusion article. Art Smith
notes that ZD Net has also used the name FrankenLinux. He suspects
the name will become a generic label for what I call “Dumpster
PCs”, 486s and old Pentiums that are too obselete for the
desktop. - Donald A. Sime mentioned that the August 25th Robert Bennin
IPO Edge Report
contained an entry for Red Hat Software. “…And while Red Hat only
places 9th with around a 300% first day return, it does rank first
on another very important all-star list … only issue that was
able to fight market gravity … Red Hat was not only the number
one all time performer, but with a 500+% return it couldn’t even be
seen by its closest competitor.”diva writes: “In
a follow-up to my Diva Review: On Bill, His Mini-Me’s and the Linux
Alternative, I interview Gary
Rivlin, author of The Plot to Get Bill Gates, and ask him his
thoughts on the Linux community…”
Ports:
- Essbase on Linux Rich was excited to show us
a press
release about Essbase. Rich wrote: “Probably not a big deal to
most people, but as an Essbase developer I was thrilled to hear
that they’re finally going to port to Linux (towards the bottom of
the article).”