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Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 teaches Mac new tricks (ZDNet) |
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Press, June 1 (Friday) |
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Yellow Dog Linux extends support to older Mac hardware that the new Mac
OS X can't reach, according to this ZDNet report.
"If somebody has a [Power Mac] 8500, they can't run
Mac OS X. They may need the robustness of
Unix, but Mac OS X just doesn't run on their
hardware. With Yellow Dog Linux, they can say,
'Look, I've got this old machine, and suddenly it's
useful again' as a server."
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A Constitutional Right to Decode? (Wired) |
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Press, June 1 (Friday) |
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Wired examines the
EFF's battle over the DeCSS rulings.
"During oral arguments on May 1, the three-judge panel appeared to be siding
with copyright over free speech, but then took the
unusual step a week later of
sending both sides 11 questions to answer. The queries
included "Does the dissemination of DeCSS have both speech and non-speech
elements?" and "Does the use of DeCSS to decrypt an encrypted DVD have
both speech and non-speech elements?""
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Turning the Tides on Perl's Attitude Toward Beginners (Perl.com) |
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Development, June 1 (Friday) |
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This article from Perl.com examines
how the Perl community can open its
arms to beginners better than it has in the past.
"After said programmer has been flambe'ed to perfection they have to endure
five more messages concerning the use of chop() and its evils, not to
mention a handful of warnings about why putting double
quotes around $username will cause famine in the
land. Granted, these last few messages contain good
information, but it's unlikely the beginner will even
read these messages. Why would anyone want to
subject themselves to more abuse when it's easier to
delete the messages and move on to another programming language?"
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Review: Red Hat Linux 7.1 (ZDNet) |
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Press, June 1 (Friday) |
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ZDNet reviews Red Hat's latest Linux release,
Red Hat Linux 7.1.
"Managing multiple user accounts and passwords
can be a significant burden for a systems
administrator. On the client side, Red Hat Linux
lets you specify which NIS, LDAP, or Kerberos
server you'd like for user authentication. Red Hat's
support for client- and server-side centralized
user authentication is an attractive option for
organizations looking to minimize the number of
passwords that users are required to remember."
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Enter Runix: Linux for the PlayStation (ZDNet) |
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Press, June 1 (Friday) |
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Runix, which is coming from a Czech company, is
set to be released under the GPL in order
"to make the PlayStation2 a low cost PC," according to this ZDNet
story.
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Caldera update for webmin |
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Security, June 1 (Friday) |
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Caldera has posted a security advisory for the
webmin package to address
a "root account leak".
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Steve Ballmer on Linux (Chicago Sun Times) |
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Press, June 1 (Friday) |
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You thought Mundie was bad? Microsoft has now trotted out the real
attack dog in this
interview with Steve Ballmer. "Open source is not available to
commercial companies. The way the license is written, if you use any
open-source software, you have to make the rest of your software open
source. If the government wants to put something in the public domain, it
should. Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that
attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it
touches. That's the way that the license works." (Found on Slashdot).
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PA-RISC Linux 0.9 released |
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Distributions, June 1 (Friday) |
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HP has released version 0.9 of PA-RISC Linux, a
version of the Debian distribution for the PA-RISC processor.
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Penguin Gallery update |
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LWN, June 1 (Friday) |
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After far too much delay, the LWN.net Penguin
Gallery has been updated by Dennis Tenney. There are now some 350
penguins on 13 pages; some of them are quite imaginative. Have a look to
see what Tux has been up to...
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Fully Automated Installation 2.0 released |
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Distributions, June 1 (Friday) |
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Thomas Lange has announced the release of FAI (Fully
Automatic Installation) 2.0. This package is intended to ease the
installation of the Debian distribution on clusters, but can be used in
any situation where multiple systems need to be installed.
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Trustix update for gnupg |
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Security, June 1 (Friday) |
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Trustix has posted their
update for gnupg to address the format string
problem discovered last week.
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Linux Gazette #67 (June 2001) |
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Press, June 1 (Friday) |
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The monthly
Linux Gazette
has been published for the month of June. Topics in this issue include
spam protection with Mailfilter, an introduction to awk and using
ssh-agent.
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Details emerge on Sharp's Linux-PDA program (LinuxDevices) |
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Development, June 1 (Friday) |
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LinuxDevices.com reports a well placed source as saying that, among other
things, the new
Sharp Linux-based PDA will be on display at the JavaOne
Conference in San Francisco next week.
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The tribulations of being a wandering penguin |
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Humor, June 1 (Friday) |
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Dr. Fun tells
us that it can be tough to be a penguin on the move....
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Linux-Mandrake for Itanium |
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Distributions, June 1 (Friday) |
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Thanks to Bob Finch for pointing out to us that Linux-Mandrake is available
for Itanium-based systems. The ISO images can be downloaded now.
This distribution was announced on May 29 with the others, but we
managed to miss it.
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Linux 2.4.5-ac6 |
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Kernel, June 1 (Friday) |
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Linux 2.4.5-ac6 is now available.
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KDE 2.2alpha2 is out |
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Desktop, June 1 (Friday) |
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The latest developer release of the
version 2.2 for the KDE desktop has
been released. There are many improvements in this version over the last
alpha release along with the addition of the new Kooka scanning application.
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Linux on the Desktop: The Possibility Still Exists (Penguinista) |
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Desktop, June 1 (Friday) |
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This opinion piece says that the
Linux Desktop isn't dead, with or
without Eazel.
"Why am I comparing Eazel's Nautilus to Konqueror in an article about the
Linux desktop? The point is that, while it was good to have the
additional support from
Eazel, the Linux desktop can and will continue to improve without Eazel. The
mistaken assumption that it will not arises from another
false idea - that GNOME is the Linux desktop."
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Ripley -- a Linux-based wearable computer --> -- (LinuxDevices) |
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Development, June 1 (Friday) |
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The founder of ZeroSpin talks about his companies wearable computer
project, known as Ripley, in this LinuxDevices.com article.
"The first design, Ripley-1.0, was modeled loosely after Dr.
Steve Mann's WearComp6 wearable computer. The Ripley's
core, however, was based on Cell Computing's CardPC
technology and the batteries were COTS (commercial off the
shelf) Sony InfoLithium camcorder batteries."
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Minutes of the GNOME Board meeting 29 May 2001 |
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Desktop, May 31 (Thursday) |
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The weekly
summary of the GNOME Foundation board meeting has been
posted.
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Apache group confirms server break-in (News.com) |
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Press, May 31 (Thursday) |
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C|Net reports on the
break in over at apache.org.
"The Apache Software Foundation said its public
server--which handles mailing lists and stores source code for
all foundation projects--was illegally accessed earlier this month. The
intrusion was quickly discovered and the server was taken offline."
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GNUstep LaunchPad Version 1.0.1 |
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Development, May 31 (Thursday) |
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The GNUstep project has released an update to their
LaunchPad libraries for
creating non-GUI applications using an API based on OpenStep and the
MacOS X API.
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Embedded Linux Newsletter for May 31, 2001 (LinuxDevices) |
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Development, May 31 (Thursday) |
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The weekly summary from LinuxDevices.com for the
embedded Linux
marketplace is now available.
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Caldera Establishes Japanese Subsidiary |
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Commerce, May 31 (Thursday) |
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Caldera announced the formation of its
Japanese subsidiary, Caldera K.K.
The venture will be backed by Fujitsu and Hitachi.
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Open-source spat spurs software change (News.com) |
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Press, May 31 (Thursday) |
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News.com covers the
IPFilter licensing debate. "The squabble illustrates some of the
pitfalls of the open-source software movement, in which philosophical
principles can butt heads with the legal complexities of intellectual
property law. Though proprietary software isn't immune from such tangles,
companies writing proprietary code typically have better access to legal
advice than the open-source programmers, often volunteers working on
their own time."
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A pile of security updates |
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Security, May 31 (Thursday) |
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Here's a few security updates that came in a bit late for this week's
Weekly Edition. The format string problem with gnupg was covered on this week's security
page. Since then we've gotten additional updates from Linux-Mandrake and Immunix.
Also from Immunix there is this update to
kerberos fixing a buffer overflow problem, and this fix for the man buffer overflow.
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Linux on the Desktop--an Impossible Dream? (Linux Journal) |
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Press, May 31 (Thursday) |
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Is the usable
desktop an unattainable goal for Linux? Not according to this Linux
Journal opinion piece. "I believe there's a bright future for Linux
on the desktop, but understanding this future requires going beyond
viewing the Linux desktop in isolation. Smith's point focuses on the
difficulties of Linux in 'pulling' users away from Windows and Mac
OS--but that's only part of the story. As the history of personal
computing reveals, major usage shifts involve 'push' as well as
'pull.'"
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Getting started with PyXPCOM (IBM developerWorks) |
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Development, May 31 (Thursday) |
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IBM's developerWorks looks at
PyXPCOM,
the Python interface to XPCOM that
comes as part of the Komodo project.
"The main developer
of PyXPCOM is Mark Hammond, who is also the main force behind the Python
binding for COM. He's had help from others
including David Ascher and the expanding community of PyXPCOM
users. PyXPCOM allows the developer to access
XPCOM objects from Python code and implement XPCOM objects
in Python code."
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Net2Phone adds Tux-tone dialing service (LinuxDevices) |
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Development, May 31 (Thursday) |
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LinuxDevices reports on Net2Phone's adoption of the
Aplio/RAVE Internet
phone, a embedded Linux based device.
"Here's a neat trick:
Multiple DIDs can ring the same device, so you can get a DID in New
York and one Dallas both ringing an Aplio/RAVE in San Francisco."
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LWN User Survey |
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LWN, May 31 (Thursday) |
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As was mentioned in this week's LWN Weekly
Edition, we are currently running a user survey. We hope to both
learn how to improve LWN, and to get some statistical information to give
to advertisers to help us to pay for this whole thing. We would much
appreciate it if you could help us out. Please consider taking a minute
to fill out the
survey and help us out. We much appreciate it.
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LWN.net weekly edition for May 31, 2001 is available |
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LWN, May 31 (Thursday) |
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The LWN.net Weekly Edition
for May 31th, 2001 has been published.
Inside this week's Linux Weekly News:
- Front Page:
Linux costs less to insure, auditing of free software, IPFilter
followup, and Linux TV's.
- Security:
European Parliament recommends encryption and Open Source software,
new vulnerabilities in gnupg, Webmin, and TWIG. More distribution
updates.
- Kernel:
2.4.5, the Stanford checker returns; 2.4 virtual memory stability.
- Distributions:
Red Hat, SuSE and Turbolinux announce Itanium ports,
Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 ships, Lanthan Linux added to the list.
- On the Desktop:
Printing issues but skip the tissues (the desktop is not dead)
- Development:
Wavsurfer, new PostgreSQL and mnoGoSearch, an Animation Editor,
the GNet network library, FHS 2.2, Java 3d and JMF.
- Commerce:
Here comes the Itanium.
- History:
"Lignux", the importance of faith, Python's first move.
- Letters:
GPL boundaries, software bloat, desktop page
...plus the usual array of reports, updates, and announcements.
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