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Infrastructure Linux News for Sep 01, 2001
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CNET: Commentary: Making the move to Linux
(2001-09-01 22:00:30)
"...Microsoft's aggressive pricing is driving the momentum of
Linux. Enterprise customers are angry about the larger bite that
Microsoft is now taking out of their budgets with its latest Client
Access License pricing. If a reliable version of Linux can be used
on Web servers at a lower total cost of ownership, it will find
enterprise customers ready to listen."
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Linux Journal: Vi IMproved--Vim and Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite 2
(2001-09-01 20:09:28)
"Vim enhances the original vi so you can edit faster, but the
Happy Hacking series of keyboards removes features to achieve the
same goal. There's no top row of function keys or anything right of
Enter. Escape moves down to just left of the number one, which is
why we're mentioning this keyboard in an review of a book about
Vim--there'll be no more 'Mom, can you make me some sandwiches? I'm
going to go hit Escape today, be back for dinner.'"
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Evild3D.net: A Look At VectorLinux 2.0 (2001-09-01 18:10:25)
"...VL has almost become the defacto distribution for evil3D
gaming boxes. Why? Small, quickly installed, and the ability to
take on any sort of package you want to throw at it. Version 2.0
has recently been released by the VL team and has all the earmarks
of being an even better distro. But, can the new edition keep up
the trend of massive improvement over the last?" {
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Linux.com: Setting Up a Home Computer Lab to Learn Linux Networking (2001-09-01 16:04:17)
"All you need are the space, hardware, and the software. In this
article, I'll discuss each of these so that you too can set up your
own lab."
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IBM developerWorks: Words of wisdom from one of Linux's most vocal supporters [Jon "maddog" Hall] (2001-09-01 14:09:15)
"The problem is really that more traditional companies are not
working with a clean slate; they have legacy systems that they want
to integrate Linux into, but they can't just sweep whole systems
aside during installation, because they need to maintain uptime
availability. It's quite a bit different from building a whole new
bank of Web servers and being able to plan from square one. In the
future there will be a huge market for established companies who
say 'My software is doing 90 to 95% of what I want it to do, and
I'll pay someone to get that last 5%.' Well, it might cost 20 or 50
thousand dollars, but it'll be cheaper than retraining 100
people."
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Why should open source software be used in schools? (2001-09-01 12:07:29)
"...throughout many school systems, the software in use on
computers is closed and locked, making educators partners in the
censorship of the foundational information of this new age. This
software not only seeks to obscure how it works, but it also
entraps the users' data within closed, proprietary formats which
change on the whim of the vendor and which are protected by the
bludgeon of the End User License Agreement. This entrapment of data
is a strong, punitive incentive to purchase the latest version of
the software, regardless of whether it suits the educational
purposes better, thereby siphoning more of the school's limited
resources away from the school's primary purpose. The use of such
closed software in education may be justified only where no
suitable open source solution exists."
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CNET: Chipmakers angle for Linux support (2001-09-01 10:10:47)
"'Linux gets software into market more quickly than waiting for
support from Microsoft,' said Mercury Research analyst Dean
McCarron. 'Linux is a wonderful operating system for rapid
deployment. The Microsoft operating systems ultimately get used in
very large volume, but when (a chip) is first coming out, those
operating systems aren't typically available.'"
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ZDNet Closes AppWatch (2001-09-01 05:03:15)
"It's been nearly a year since CNET Networks acquired John
Rowell's directory of Linux distributions and other open-source
software. We're proud to have brought this excellent site to our
ZDNet audience during a time when open source became a key
consideration for IT decision makers everywhere. It is with regret,
therefore, that we announce the closure of AppWatch.com."
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