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Linux News for Apr 28, 2003
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osOpinion: Microsoft Embraces Linux! (Sort Of) (2003-04-28 23:00:02)
"Porting to Linux allows Microsoft to get its digital-rights
management software into the consumer device market. This puts
Redmond in a position to be a gatekeeper for Hollywood and the
music industry, a role that could be highly profitable for
Microsoft..."
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I, Cringely: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished (2003-04-28 22:00:20)
"We can easily just dismiss the creaking parts of Open Source by
bunching them in the 80 percent we ignore... But ignoring them does
not make those parts go away, and here is where we'll find Open
Source's vulnerability..."
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LinuxWorld: Getting Frugal: Red Hat Network's Low-Cost Upgrade to Red Hat 9 (2003-04-28 21:00:20)
"I decided to put my Red Hat Network subscription to greater
use. I normally use RHN to run up2date at least weekly so I can
keep up with the latest security fixes and updates. This week, I
decided to download the iso images of 'shrike' (Red Hat's code-word
for its new release) and upgrade my desktop from Red Hat 8 to Red
Hat 9..."
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LinuxPlanet: Microsoft Users, Partners Add Linux To The List (2003-04-28 20:00:01)
"Jacqueline Emigh visited the New York Windows 2003 launch event
and learned that many long-time Microsoft users are still
evaluating Linux as an alternative platform. Reasons cited by IT
administrators range from cost savings to 'an anti-Microsoft boss.'
Meanwhile, many of Microsoft's partners in the launch already offer
products for both environments..."
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ZDNet/Gartner: Myths of Linux on the Desktop (2003-04-28 19:00:59)
"This piece is not intended to be negative toward Linux on the
desktop. The appropriateness of Linux for a population of users
will have a lot to do with the incumbent environment, including the
types of users and architectures of the applications in use..."
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Alan Cox: Linux 2.4.21-rc1-ac3 (2003-04-28 18:57:42)
Changelog, link within.
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IBM: Nicholas Petreley on What Linux Developers Really Want (2003-04-28 18:00:39)
"To get some perspectives on what the survey tells us about
Linux developers' likes and dislikes, we caught up with Nick and
asked him what it was all about. Here's what he had to say..."
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Times of India: Oppn Soft on Linux, Wants No Windows (2003-04-28 17:00:52)
"The government, they said, should not insist on proprietary
software while issuing tenders for computers, since open source
software is available at one-tenth or even one-twentieth the cost
of proprietary software like Windows..."
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Seattle Times: Area's Linux Lovers Laud Computing 'Democracy' (2003-04-28 16:00:09)
"Linux is alive in Western Washington, demonstrated at
Saturday's LinuxFest Northwest. About a thousand people traveled to
the Bellingham Technical College to show off products, talk
technology and hear an address by Jon 'Maddog'" Hall..."
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Python.org: Python 2.3 Beta 1 Released (2003-04-28 15:00:42)
"This is a beta release. We request widespread testing of this
release but don't recommend using it for production
situations..."
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ZDNet UK: Red Hat Eyes 32-Bit Itanium Software (2003-04-28 14:30:53)
"The top Linux seller may take advantage of upcoming technology
that allows Intel's 64-bit chip to run 32-bit software with greater
performance..."
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Computerworld Singapore: MySQL Grows Up (2003-04-28 13:00:33)
"Recently, MySQL AB launched its first user conference in San
Jose, California, to promote its open source database as a viable,
more affordable alternative to databases from heavyweights such as
Oracle and IBM..."
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ServerWatch: Pogo Linux StorageWare 3800: An Affordable Terabyte (2003-04-28 11:00:41)
"Rackmount servers are relatively common, and even servers
preconfigured for Linux are easy to find today. So how does Pogo
Linux distuinguish its rack-mount StorageWare 3800 from the rest of
the crowd? By combining an affordable price with an expandable
platform..."
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Memphis Business Journal: Landmark Grant Latest Prize for Institute (2003-04-28 09:00:33)
"This is the first entirely Linux-based exploration and
production software grant to be awarded by Landmark and it allows
students and researchers at the university to engage in research
not previously possible..."
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KDE Traffic #48 by Russell Miller (2003-04-28 07:00:10)
Community Roundup: The latest traffic from the
KDE development mailing lists.
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Release Digest: KDE, April 27, 2003 (2003-04-28 05:00:30)
This weekend's KDE apps: Boson 0.8, KWappen 1.1.4, KnowIt
0.8beta1, KMPlayer 0.7.4a, krename 2.6.1, Gwenview 0.17.0pre2, and
KRelais 0.1.
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Release Digest: GNOME, April 27, 2003 (2003-04-28 05:00:00)
This weekend's GNOME app: gnome-sensors-0.9c.
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