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Linux News for Apr 29, 2003
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NewsFactor: Linux' New Best Friend: Microsoft Licensing 6.0 (2003-04-29 23:30:40)
"Ultimately, Microsoft's best friend is corporate inertia. IT
departments that want to ditch Microsoft will have to make a strong
case to executives that replacement costs will be recouped in a
timely manner..."
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Tonight Live: Small Victories and Why We May Fail on The Linux Show (2003-04-29 22:00:37)
"Tonight on the news: Judge: File-swapping tools are legal,
Balmer: Linux? What Me Worry?, follow up to: "in search of Linux
Laptops", DARPA Cancels Project funding, The Internet makes for
strange bed fellows (will disney save us), and way way more..."
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Red Hat Linux Advisory: MySQL (2003-04-29 21:53:01)
"Updated MySQL server packages fix both a double-free security
vulnerability and a root exploit security vulnerability..."
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ZDnet: IBM Spreads the Reach of Linux (2003-04-29 20:30:29)
"IBM has added several new centers worldwide devoted to Linux
specialties in energy, government and mainframes, part of its
years-long effort to spread the operating system as widely as
possible..."
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OSNews: SuSE 8.2 Pro Vs Red Hat Linux 9 in Desktop Usage (2003-04-29 19:00:12)
"This is a desktop comparison of Red Hat Linux 9 and SuSE 8.2
Professional Edition. We have used Red Hat Linux 8 for all our work
since last fall, and installed version 9 as soon as it became
available. However, we have not been fully content with Red Hat, so
we gave SuSE 8.2 a try when it became available this month..."
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boston.internet.com: Sun, IBM Forge High Performance Computing Units (2003-04-29 17:30:20)
"[Sun executives] highlighted where they see areas of growth and
expressed confidence that HPTC will thrive despite some evidence
that low-level Linux clusters are eating away at the
high-performance market..."
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VNUNet: Penguin Cracks Windows Servers (2003-04-29 16:00:47)
"The jury is no longer out on Linux. Oracle, Novell and even
Microsoft have acknowledged the Penguin as suitable for the
enterprise..."
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CNET News: SuSE Touts New Telecom Ware, Top Execs (2003-04-29 14:30:15)
"SuSE has introduced a new Linux operating system product geared
for telecommunications companies, named several new executives and
signed up an advertising agency to elevate the German company's
profile..."
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Red Hat Linux Advisory: zlib (2003-04-29 14:27:27)
"Updated zlib packages are now available which fix a buffer
overflow vulnerability..."
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Mandrake Linux Advisory: pam, snort (2003-04-29 14:25:50)
Two security advisories from Mandrake Linux.
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Linux Journal: Inteview with Matthias Ettrich (2003-04-29 13:00:59)
"Matthias Ettrich is the creator of the KDE desktop environment.
[In this article], Aleksey Dolya interviews Matthias about the
process of creating KDE and what he's up to these days..."
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CIN: Mitsubishi's Latest Creation: A Linux-Powered Robot (2003-04-29 12:00:34)
"Mitsubishi's new Linux-based robot walks, talks, and goes
online. For a mere $14,250, you can take it home with you..."
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CyberNautix: Why People Write Open Source Software (2003-04-29 11:00:34)
"I frequently puzzle over how to explain why great programmers
go to the trouble of creating fine software and then give it away.
'How could the software possibly be any good,' people reason, 'if
they don't want to sell it...?'"
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CNET/Forrester: Linux Questions and Answers (2003-04-29 10:00:53)
"Linux will go mainstream in the data center in 2003. Why?
Because the open-source operating system delivers Unix reliability
at Intel prices and has strong support from vendors such as
Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle and SAP. But executives still wonder
about the right Linux strategy..."
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Linux and Main: A Linux Application That Isn't (2003-04-29 09:00:02)
"Given the proliferation of Linux software (as any pass through
SourceForge or the CDs in a modern Linux distribution
demonstrates), it's surprising to find one application category for
which there appears to be no entry, none at all..." [Link
repaired. -ed.]
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DesktopLinux.com: Textmaker for Linux Reviewed (2003-04-29 08:00:53)
"SoftMaker is just a week or so away from the official release
of the first component in their Office Suite, the word processor,
TextMaker for Linux. DesktopLinux.com reviews their latest beta
release to determine how the product performs in real world
use..."
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ZDNet UK: Linux PDA Has Wi-Fi, Camera and Phone (2003-04-29 07:00:17)
"Japanese firm PalmNet will soon launch a Linux-based PDA with
built in mobile phone, digital camera and WLAN card..."
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BargainPDA: Review: Jack the Uni-Psychle for Linux (2003-04-29 06:00:49)
"Jack the Uni-Psychle is the first release from Discord Studios.
It is a sideways scrolling platform game in the style of such
classics as Sonic the Hedgehog and the Mario series, with cool
music and rapid game play..."
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Kernel Traffic #214 by Zack Brown (2003-04-29 05:00:30)
Community Roundup: The latest message traffic
from the Linux kernel mailing list.
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dot.KDE.org: KDE Developers' Conference 2003: Initial Announcement (2003-04-29 05:00:20)
"The conference kicks off on Friday the 22nd of August and will
take place at the Zamek ('Castle') in Nove Hrady in the southern
part of the Czech Republic in Central Europe..."
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Release Digest: GNOME, April 28, 2003 (2003-04-29 05:00:10)
Today's GNOME apps: Terminal Server Client 0.106, Gringotts
1.2.7, Gnome Pilot 2.0.6, Gnome Pilot Conduits 2.0.6, gcalctool
4.2.83, and gnometab 0.7.4.
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Release Digest: General, April 28, 2003 (2003-04-29 05:00:00)
Today's general app: Open Webmail version 2.01.
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ZDNet Australia: Get Apache 2 and PHP 4 Working Together in Windows (2003-04-29 04:00:34)
"Installing Apache and PHP on Windows isn't easy, but it doesn't
have to be a process of trial and error. Learn the tricks you'll
need to get started with our guide..."
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JavaWorld: A Do-It-Yourself Framework for Grid Computing (2003-04-29 03:00:07)
"Large-scale grid computing frameworks can be successfully used
to build computational grid infrastructures, but their
sophistication can also be a barrier for software designers
experimenting with entry-level grid computing..."
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Mandrake.Tips: Successfully Making the Transition to GNU/Linux (2003-04-29 02:00:03)
"If, after a lot of trouble with a setup that in the end only
works partially--and that in an unexpected or undesired way--people
turn away from GNU/linux, this is fully understandable..."
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Stuff.NZ: Consider Open Source--SSC (2003-04-29 01:00:53)
"State Services Commissioner Michael Wintringham has written to
the heads of all government agencies, encouraging them to assess
open source options when buying software..."
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Help Net Security: EnGarde Secure Linux Community Edition Released (2003-04-29 00:00:27)
"Guardian Digital announced the next generation of the
award-winning EnGarde Secure Linux Community Edition..."
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