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IBM snags 'Lord of the Rings' deal (ZDNet) |
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Press, May 30 (Thursday) |
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ZDNet reports on
IBM's sale of 150 workstations to Weta, a New Zealand-based film company.
"The deal underscores IBM's recent push into digital effects as it and
other technology giants try to capitalize on studios' move to embrace the
Linux operating system, which has been promoted for its cost savings and
flexibility."
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Red Hat update for tcpdump |
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Security, May 30 (Thursday) |
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Red Hat has issued an update that fixes the tcpdump buffer overflow problem.
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Linux United - an operating system grows up (IT-Director) |
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Press, May 30 (Thursday) |
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IT-Director writes about
Linux United. "If the announcement rolls out as everyone expects
there will be five major Linux distributions - Red Hat, Mandrake, Debian,
Slackware and 'Linux United'"
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Major vendors tout united Linux (vnunet) |
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Press, May 30 (Thursday) |
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Vnunet covers the United
Linux collaboration. "Red Hat is missing from the list of leading
Linux providers but Barnett thought that it would be forced to join in
the near future to avoid losing market share."
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RealizationEngine 1.0 Released to Open Source Community |
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Commerce, May 30 (Thursday) |
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Realization Systems, Inc
has released version 1.0 of their web-based RealizationEngine
communication tool. "By employing a dual-licensing model, we will be
able to offer this great project to most people at no charge, but still
allow companies to build proprietary products on our code if they choose
to purchase a non-GPL License."
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Technical Whitepaper: Memory Management Under uClinux |
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Resources, May 30 (Thursday) |
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David McCullough, from SNAPgear, has written a white paper that
examines memory management issues under uClinux.
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Devil-Linux 0.5RC1 |
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Distributions, May 30 (Thursday) |
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Version 0.5RC1 of Devil-Linux
has been announced.
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Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! |
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Development, May 30 (Thursday) |
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The May 29, 2002 Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! looks at
time server interaction, manipulation of TCL lists in C, creating new
data types in C, migrating from Java to TCL, and more.
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Embedded Linux Newsletter |
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Press, May 30 (Thursday) |
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The May 30, 2002 Linux Devices Embedded Linux
Newsletter is out. Topics include the business of embedded linux,
the Dragonix Linux SBC, BOEL part 2, unification by Linux vendors, and
more.
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Eridani update for tcpdump |
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Security, May 30 (Thursday) |
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Eridani has released an update for tcpdump that addresses a buffer overflow
problem.
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BPDG Conference Call Notes |
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Announcements, May 30 (Thursday) |
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Bradley Kuhn from the Free Software Foundation has sent us his notes from the recent Broadcast Protection
Discussion Group conference call. "Clearly, the BPDG was not ready
for even this small level of public outcry. BPDG as a whole became
flustered when they were forced to deal with media representatives and
members of the public listening in."
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Red Hat banding for compatibility (News.com) |
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Press, May 30 (Thursday) |
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News.com reports
on Red Hat's Alliance program, which is intended to improve
compatibility among products from different vendors. "The partners
include BMC Software, Borland Software, Computer Associates
International, IBM and Veritas Software. "
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UnitedLinux press release |
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Commerce, May 30 (Thursday) |
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Here is the
press release from Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE, and Turbolinux on the
"UnitedLinux" initiative. It's long on marketing talk and short on
details, but it looks like the four will jointly maintain a common
distribution base; each will then continue to add its own goodies and
sell it under its own brand. "UnitedLinux will significantly diminish
the number of distributions that vendors are asked to certify and will
provide a true standards-based Linux operating environment." The UnitedLinux web page is also now
operational.
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Reminder: no LWN Weekly Edition this week |
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LWN, May 29 (Wednesday) |
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Just a reminder: the LWN.net Weekly Edition will not be published this
week - we're seriously busy on another project that we'll be talking to
you all about shortly. The Weekly Edition will return on June 5.
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Conectiva security update to mozilla |
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Security, May 29 (Wednesday) |
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Here is Conectiva's update to
mozilla fixing the "let people read your files" vulnerability and
several others.
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Mandrake security update to dhcp |
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Security, May 29 (Wednesday) |
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MandrakeSoft has issued a
security update to dhcp fixing the format string vulnerability in
the logging code.
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Development kernel 2.5.19 released |
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Kernel, May 29 (Wednesday) |
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Linus has released the 2.5.19 development
kernel. Changes this time include more block, buffer, and IDE layer
work, some enhancements to the driver model code, more kbuild tweaks, and
many other fixes and updates. The long-format
changelog is also available.
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Notes from the BPDG conference call |
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Commerce, May 29 (Wednesday) |
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FSF Executive Director Bradley Kuhn took part in a recent conference call
held by the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group; here are his notes from the conversation. "I spoke for the
FSF, stating that: (a) BPDG's recommendation would retroactively
declare existing Free Software as "Covered Products", and (b) since
we cannot, as a matter of ethics, add features to such Products that
'frustrate user modifications', we are at a complete impasse. BPDG must
take seriously the concerns of Free Software."
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LyX 1.2.0 released |
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Development, May 29 (Wednesday) |
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Version 1.2.0 of the LyX document processor - the first stable release in
some time - has been announced. There is a long
list of new features; see the announcement for the full scoop.
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Obsolete Microkernel Dooms Mac OS X to Lag Linux in Performance (Linux Journal) |
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Press, May 29 (Wednesday) |
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Here's a
detailed, technical, and opinionated article in the Linux Journal on
the superiority of Linux's monolithic kernel architecture. "Given how
the microkernel experiment has worked out, I'm surprised by Apple's
quaint choice to use a microkernel in a new design. At the very least,
it creates an opportunity for Linux to establish and maintain performance
leadership on the macppc platform."
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Red Hat might face a new Goliath in 'United Linux' (NewsForge) |
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Press, May 29 (Wednesday) |
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NewsForge reports
on the upcoming announcement from Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE, and
Turbolinux. "The United Linux announcement is marketing at it's most
excellent: giving the public what they want. It's business strategy at
its finest: Let's find out what makes Red Hat so successful and imitate
it. They're nosing in on Red Hat's territory by invading and taking over
the paradigm."
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Red Hat statement of position on software patents |
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Commerce, May 29 (Wednesday) |
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Red Hat has posted a statement of its
position on software patents. "Red Hat has consistently taken the
position that software patents generally impede innovation in software
development and that software patents are inconsistent with open
source/free software.... At the same time, we are forced to live in the
world as it is, and that world currently permits software patents. A
relatively small number of very large companies have amassed large
numbers of software patents. We believe such massive software patent
portfolios are ripe for misuse because of the questionable nature of many
software patents generally and because of the high cost of patent
litigation. One defense against such misuse is to develop a corresponding
portfolio of software patents for defensive purposes. Many software
companies, both open source and proprietary, pursue this strategy."
The statement includes a promise not to enforce any patent claims against
software using an "approved" open source license. The list includes the
GPL but not the BSD license. Update: we asked Red Hat
about the omission of the BSD license; they responded: "We elected to
specifically exclude licenses that don't expressly prohibit open source
code from being incorporated into proprietary code. Absent that stance,
the patents would be of little benefit."
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Global server market shrinks 15 percent (News.com) |
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Press, May 29 (Wednesday) |
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News.com is carrying a Reuters article
stating that the market for servers dropped 15% in the first quarter.
The news is not all bad, though: "Sales of servers running Linux, the
upstart operating system developed by engineers worldwide, jumped 54.7
percent from a year earlier to just under $400 million, with IBM leading
the pack."
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Caldera reports second quarter results |
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Commerce, May 29 (Wednesday) |
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Caldera International has announced
its second quarter results. The company lost $6.6 million on
$15.5 million in revenue over the quarter.
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SuSE security update to tcpdump |
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Security, May 29 (Wednesday) |
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SuSE has put out a security
update to tcpdump fixing the buffer overflow problems in that
package.
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Cisco $15,000 'blade' is really a PC (Inquirer) |
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Press, May 29 (Wednesday) |
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The Inquirer talks with
an engineer who opened up the Cisco "Network Access Module" for its
6500 switch. "The card, he claims, is running a Linux kernel and has
a number of GPL tools included such as syslogd klogd crond mingetty
agetty ps & top. 'If you have access to CCO and download updated
software for the NAM you find that it is basically a gziped disk image of
a Linux System complete with Lilo and a number of FSF foundation
utilities (strings imagefile | grep Foundation)'."
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Meet Dragonix (LinuxDevices) |
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Press, May 29 (Wednesday) |
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The latest
hardware profile from LinuxDevices.com is about "Dragonix."
"What's Dragonix? It's an 'Open Hardware' single-board computer (SBC),
based on a Motorola Dragonball 68VZ328 processor, running uClinux."
Pictures included.
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2.5 Kernel Status Summary |
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Kernel, May 29 (Wednesday) |
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Here is the May 28 2.5 kernel status
summary by Guillaume Boissiere.
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Stable kernel prepatch 2.4.19-pre9 released |
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Kernel, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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Marcelo Tosatti has released 2.4.19-pre9, the last
-pre in this series, he says.
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Eridani Linux security advisory - nss_ldap |
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Security, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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The pam_ldap module, provided by nss_ldap, enables a system to
authenticate a user against an LDAP database. Versions of pam_ldap older
than version 144 include a string format bug in its logging
mechanism. These packages include version 144 of pam_ldap, and fix this
issue.
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A TimeSys perspective on the Linux preemptible kernel (LinuxDevices) |
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Press, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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LinuxDevices.com is running
a whitepaper by Dr. Doug Locke, Vice President of Technology at
TimeSys Corp. Dr. Locke explores the changes recently made to the
mainstream Linux development kernel to improve its preemptibility,
discusses the implications of these changes relative to embedded and
real-time applications, and contrasts the recently adopted approach with
that used in TimeSys Linux GPL.
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GNOME Summary for May 19 to May 25 |
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Development, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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The GNOME Summary for May 19 to May
25th looks at Sun and MetaCity, an interview with Murray Cumming, how
AbiWord points the way to tables, GNOME vrs KDE, Glade 1.1.0 beta
release, and much more.
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Microsoft Shills on the Attack, Again (OOoDocs) |
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Press, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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The Open Office Documentation Project is
running a commentary on the latest Gartner pronouncements. "The
Gartner arguments are shallow and spurious, as if from another age,
another time. What plantation are they talking about anyway? All of which
causes any sane person to ask not about Open Office.org, but rather,
"What's up with Gartner?"" (Thanks to Martijn Dekkers)
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Linux in education report #71 for May 27 |
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Development, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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The Linux in education
report #71 is available. This week Sun donates StarOffice 6.0 to
schools, the Connexions Project, and more.
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Announcement from Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE, and Turbolinux |
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Commerce, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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The CEOs of Caldera, Conectiva, SuSE, Turbolinux and several major
industry partners
will make an announcement "that will shape Linux in the enterprise
and around the globe." Join them in a conference call at 8am PDT on May
30th.
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Public review of the LSB's gLSB & archLSB-IA32 v1.2 written specifications |
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Development, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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The draft gLSB and archLSB-IA32 v1.2 written specifications for Linux
will be published on the web Monday June
3rd for a two week public review. The Linux community is invited to
comment by Monday June 17th.
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Mandrake Linux security advisory - perl-Digest-MD5, fetchmail |
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Security, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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A bug exists in the UTF8 interaction between the perl-Digest-MD5 module and perl that
results in UTF8 strings having improper MD5 digests. The 2.20 version of
the module corrects this problem.
A problem was discovered with versions of fetchmail prior to 5.9.10 that was
triggered by retreiving mail from an IMAP server. A bug made it possible
for a malicious server to make the fetchmail process write data outside of
array bounds.
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Opera Gives Back to the Community |
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Commerce, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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Opera Software unveiled its new Global
Donations Program, giving registered versions of Opera away for free
to organizations for the physically challenged, schools grades
kindergarten through the 12th grade, as well as Web designer schools or
individual programs.
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Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! for May 28 |
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Development, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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The Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! for May 28th
includes resources, links and news for the Python community.
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Linux development kernel gets Bluetooth (ZDNet) |
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Press, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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Support for Bluetooth has been added to the Linux development kernel, reports ZDNet.
"On 8 May the Linux Bluetooth protocol stack made its debut in version
2.5.14 of the Linux development kernel, in its first non-experimental
form."
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From Junkie to, Well, Junkman (Wired) |
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Press, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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Wired takes a
look at James Burgett, a man who is building a trash empire from
recycled computers. "All the machines are loaded with SuSe's version
of the free Linux operating system. It takes too long to load Linux via
the CD drive, so Burgett hooks each machine onto a network to burn in the
operating system."
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Linux Dreamworks Redux (Linux Journal) |
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Press, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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Linux Journal takes us back to the DreamWorks
SKG Glendale studio, to see how Linux was used in the production of
""For Spirit the Ink and Paint department was entirely Linux, as was
half of rendering", says DreamWorks Head of Animation Technology Ed
Leonard. "Now all the departments have been converted. For our current
production, Sinbad, every workstation and the entire renderfarm is
Linux." Linux gained its first toehold in the motion picture industry on
servers for rendering and has now become a standard desktop for
artists. For Spirit DreamWorks utilized more than 150 Linux
desktops. More than 350 are in use for Sinbad."
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Microsoft fails to win over the Pentagon (vnunet) |
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Press, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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Vnunet reports on an
attempt by Microsoft to get the Pentagon to dump its move to open
source. "Among the most high-profile efforts is research funded by
the National Security Agency to develop a more secure version of the open
source Linux operating system..."
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Kernel Traffic #168 |
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Kernel, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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Kernel
Traffic #168 for May 27 is available. Topics include: Status Of 2.5
VM, ext3, And IDE Code; Status Of Big File Support; Status Of kbuild;
More kbuild Discussion; and Status Of HCF Modem Support.
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LinuxTag entry tickets available under the GPL |
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Events, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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LinuxTag 2002 is offering entry tickets as a free download, under the terms of the General Public License.
""Free Software increases its position in a medial society more and
more. Therefore we provide the entry- tickets for the LinuxTag 2002 as a
free download on our web pages", Oliver Zendel, Chairman of LinuxTag
e. V., announced today." LinuxTag is coming up June 6 - 9, 2002 at
the Karlsruhe, Germany - Fair Ground & Centre of Congress.
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OpenSSH 3.2.3 released |
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Development, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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OpenSSH 3.2.3 has just been released.
This release fixes several problems in OpenSSH 3.2.2 including: a defect
in the BSD_AUTH access control handling for OpenBSD and BSD/OS systems,
login/tty problems on Solaris, and build problems on Cygwin systems.
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SOT, MySQL and EFFI Team up to Oppose Software Patents |
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Commerce, May 28 (Tuesday) |
|
SOT has joined forces with MySQL AB and local lobby group Electronic
Frontier Finland (EFFi) to file a
statement to the Finnish Ministry of Trade and Industrial Affairs
opposing the proposed EU directive that could allow software patents
within Europe.
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People Behind KDE: Jason Katz-Brown and Masaji Takeyama |
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Press, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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KDE.News has interviews
available with Jason Katz-Brown who recently enriched KDE CVS with
Kolf, and with Masaji Takeyama who brings KDE to the masses in Japan.
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Coalition Asks European Parliament to Vote Against Data Retention |
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Commerce, May 28 (Tuesday) |
|
A coalition of 40 civil liberties organizations from 15 countries have
sent the European Parliament an open letter which strongly recommends that Members vote against general data
retention of communications by law enforcement authorities.
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Linux gets big in Christchurch (ComputerWorld) |
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Press, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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ComputerWorld in New Zealand looks
at local businesses that are using Linux. "The firm is now
conducting policy routing between its ADSL and dedicated data
connections, its proxy services, intrusion detection, mail gateways and
traffic shaping, all using standard Linux utilities." (Thanks to
Ross Boswell)
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Linux for Playstation comes to UK (BBC) |
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Press, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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According to
this article in the BBC News, Sony has started taking UK orders for a
kit to turn the Playstation 2 games console into a computer running the
Linux operating system. (Thanks to Jim Jarvie)
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The Business of Embedded Linux (LinuxDevices) |
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Press, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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In this opinion
column at LinuxDevices.com, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols offers a
perspective on the business side of the Embedded Linux Market.
Vaughan-Nichols sees 'consolidation' in his crystal ball.
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Mandrake security update to wu-imapd |
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Security, May 28 (Tuesday) |
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MandrakeSoft has updated its
imap package (which uses the WU-IMAP server) fixing the buffer
overflow vulnerability there.
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Red Hat security update to pam_ldap |
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Security, May 27 (Monday) |
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Red Hat has issued a security
update to its pam_ldap package fixing a format string vulnerability
there.
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Sun's StarOffice no longer free (ZDNet) |
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Press, May 27 (Monday) |
|
Here's a ZDNet
article on the (May 29) end to free downloads of StarOffice 5.2.
"Sun's maneuvres with StarOffice are being closely watched as
open-source software businesses continue to search for ways to boost
revenues. Paid, proprietary software is controversial in the open-source
world, which is based on the theory that profits can be made on 'free'
products, but some open-source companies say it is the only way to
continue to fund themselves."
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GARNOME Preview Seven |
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Development, May 26 (Sunday) |
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GARNOME 0.10.1 ("the bad-ass, bleeding edge GNOME distribution for testers
and tweakers everywhere") has been released.. There's a number of new goodies in this release,
including a "magicdev" preview.
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Eridani security update to imap |
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Security, May 26 (Sunday) |
|
Eridani has issued a security
update to imap fixing the buffer overflow vulnerability in that
package.
|
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|
Slackware 8.1-rc1 |
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|
Distributions, May 26 (Sunday) |
|
The latest Slackware changelog includes the little note "Well folks, we are now at Slackware
8.1-rc1." Time to find those last problems before the real 8.1 comes
out.
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Development kernel 2.5.18 |
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Kernel, May 25 (Saturday) |
|
Linus has announced the 2.5.18 development
kernel. Changes this time around include the software suspend patch (see
this week's LWN Kernel Page), a
bunch of kbuild fixes (which are not Keith Owens's new kbuild
system), more IDE reworking, more VFS changes, and a bunch of other fixes
and improvements. The long format changelog is available for those wanting all the details.
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Red Hat security advisory for imap |
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Security, May 24 (Friday) |
|
The UW imap daemon
contains a buffer overflow which allows a logged in, remote user to
execute commands on the server with the user's UID/GID.
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Conectiva security advisory for mailman |
|---|
|
Security, May 24 (Friday) |
|
Conectiva has an update for a cross site scripting vulnerability in mailman.
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Red Hat goes for software patents |
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Commerce, May 24 (Friday) |
|
Red Hat, it seems, has decided to get into the software patent business.
A search of the appropriate databases turns up the following applications:
Both of these techniques show Ingo Molnar as the inventor. "The
embodiments of the present invention described are implemented in a
computing platform based on the computer operating system commonly known
as 'Linux' that is available as open source directly over the
Internet. Linux is also available through various vendors who provide
service and support for the Linux operating system. Among these vendors
are Red Hat, Inc., of Research Triangle Park, N.C., the assignee of the
present invention." (Seen originally (in Italian) on FreeGo).
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Netscape 7 beta: first looks (Register) |
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|
Press, May 24 (Friday) |
|
The Register reviews
Netscape 7 beta. "Netscape 7.0 Preview Release, which is based on the
recent Mozilla 1.0 RC2 build and the Gecko browser engine, features a
variety of enhancements on Netscape 6.2. These include tabbed browsing (a
la Opera), print preview, the ability to save complete web pages, email
return receipts, message labels and S/MIME support. A quick Search within
mail and address book, filtering facility and mail alerts, has also been
included."
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Conectiva advisory for imap |
|---|
|
Security, May 24 (Friday) |
|
Conectiva has released an update for imap to fix a remote buffer overflow
vulnerability in the IMAP server. This vulnerability only affects the
IMAP server available in this package.
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Linux man pages at LinuxQuestions.org |
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|
Announcements, May 24 (Friday) |
|
You can now view man pages
online at LinuxQuestions.org
in HTML, Plain Text, PostScript, or PDF.
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It came from Boston U. (News.com) |
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Press, May 24 (Friday) |
|
This News.com article looks at
Boston University's Scientific Computing and Visualization Group - Deep
Vision Display Wall and the supercomputer that powers it. "A cluster
of 52 dual-processor IBM X330 Linux servers renders and manipulates the
images, while 24 workstations serve to direct eight projectors, which
create the image. Each of the eight NEC liquid-crystal display (LCD)
projectors costs about $4,500. In all, this extra equipment costs about
$300,000."
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IBM boosts Linux for oil industry (News.com) |
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|
Press, May 24 (Friday) |
|
IBM and Landmark Graphics will be building Linux
supercomputers and PCs for oil and gas companies, according to this
News.com article.
|
| |
|
Gnome2 -beta5 and beyond available on Gentoo |
|---|
|
Distributions, May 24 (Friday) |
|
Gnome2 is now available
for the Gentoo portage system.
|
| |
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Packet Design unveils Layer 3 switch (InfoWorld) |
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|
Press, May 24 (Friday) |
|
InfoWorld looks
at Route Explorer, a new network appliance from Packet Design.
"Within the appliance is an open-source mySQL database running on a
Linux operating system. Standard with 20GB of disk space, Route Explorer
records as many as 4 months of commands issued over OSPF and IS-IS
protocols. Estrin says future releases of the product will also listen to
BGP." (Thanks to Lenz Grimmer)
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| |
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An Interview with Dr. Edgar Villanueva (Linux Journal) |
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|
Press, May 24 (Friday) |
|
Linux Journal
interviews Dr. Edgar Villanueva on the topic of free software in
Peru. "Dr. Edgar Villanueva has recently become somewhat of a
celebrity in the Free Software and Open Source communities as a result of
his legislative efforts favoring free software and his highly publicized,
well informed and eloquent response to a Peruvian Microsoft executive's
letter."
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German Zope Users Group |
|---|
|
Announcements, May 24 (Friday) |
|
A German Zope Users Group has been
created, in German, of course. (Thanks to Holger von Ameln.)
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|
Dr. Dobb's TCL-URL! |
|---|
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Development, May 24 (Friday) |
|
The May 23, 2002 Dr. Dobb's Tcl-URL! covers
the latest Tcl developments.
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|
Mandrake Linux Community Newsletter |
|---|
|
Development, May 24 (Friday) |
|
Issue #43 of the Mandrake Linux
Community Newsletter is out. "This Week's Summary: StarOffice 6.0
Officially Released; Spotlight on MandrakeExpert; MandrakeClub
Activities; Website of the Week (plf.zarb.org); Online Survey; Ximian
GNOME for Mandrake 8.2; Mandrake in the News; Website Updates; Software
Updates; Headlines from MandrakeForum."
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Eridani update for OpenSSH |
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Security, May 23 (Thursday) |
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Eridani has issued an update for
openssh,
this is for version 3.2.3.
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Linux Orbit interviews Murray Cumming |
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Press, May 23 (Thursday) |
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Linux Orbit has an interview with Murray Cumming. "I sat down with Murray
Cumming, lead developer on the gtkmm and gnomemm C++ bindings for GTK+
and GNOME to get some information on the status of C++ development in
GNOME."
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Sony ships PS2-Linux PC conversion kit (ZDNet) |
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Press, May 23 (Thursday) |
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ZDNet reports on
Sony's release of a Linux kit for its PlayStation 2 platform. "Sony
Computer Entertainment has begun shipping a kit for turning the
PlayStation 2 into a Linux console, bowing to the requests of thousands
of open-source programmers. The kit is available in the United States and
Europe."
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gFTP: 2.0.12 has been released |
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Development, May 23 (Thursday) |
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Version 2.0.12 of the gFTP FTP client has been
released. This release fixes a number of bug fixes and features
support for the Bulgarian and Norwegian languages.
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Paint retailer brushes up on Linux (News.com) |
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Press, May 23 (Thursday) |
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News.com covers
the move of Sherwin-Williams from SCO Unix to Linux.
"Sherwin-Williams will use the PCs in more than 2,500 stores for
running each store's centralized cash register software, reading e-mail
and browsing the company's intranet, and for securely recording
customers' choices in custom paint tints."
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Processors: The next commodity? (ZDNet) |
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Press, May 23 (Thursday) |
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David Berlind suggests that
processor power could become a tradeable commodity on the Internet.
"Will the processor turn virtual and will MIPS ever become a commodity
like electricity? Probably. But it may take a while. Current prototypes
suggest that the first commercial grids will have some dependencies. For
example, there will be Linux grids that are only good for Linux-based
applications and they may only be able to run applications designed for a
specific processor architecture like IA-64 or IA-32. "
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Netscape 7.0 Available As Preview Release (TechWeb) |
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Press, May 23 (Thursday) |
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Internet Week reviews
Netscape 7.0 preview release 1. "The Mozilla browser code base,
available in nearly complete open-source form for a while now, this week
sees light of day for the first time as an official 'preview release'
from America Online's Netscape division."
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OpenSSH 3.2.3 released |
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Development, May 23 (Thursday) |
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Following on the heels of the last release, OpenSSH version 3.2.3
has been announced. This version
fixes a few bugs that showed up in version 3.2.2.
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KDE 3.0.1 released |
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Development, May 23 (Thursday) |
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A new release of the KDE desktop environment
has been announced. "KDE 3.0.1 is primarily a translation release
for KDE 3.0, which shipped in early April. In addition, KDE 3.0.1 offers
a number of performance and usability enhancements."
(Thanks to Scott Dowdle.)
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Embedded Linux Newsletter for May 23, 2002 (Linux Devices) |
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Press, May 23 (Thursday) |
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The Linux Devices Embedded Linux
Newsletter for May 23, 2002 features a guest editor by Red Hat CTO
Michael Tiemann, an interview with ELC chair Mark Brown, and lots more on
the topic of embedded Linux.
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Sherwin-Williams to deploy Linux in 2500 stores |
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Commerce, May 23 (Thursday) |
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Sherwin-Williams (the largest U.S. paint retailer) has announced that it has contracted with IBM to
deploy 9700 Linux systems in its 2500 stores. The systems will run paint
tinting and color matching applications, as well as the occasional
"manager's workstation." They will be running TurboLinux.
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Open-Source Fight Flares At Pentagon (Washington Post) |
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Press, May 23 (Thursday) |
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The Washington Post
reports on Microsoft's efforts to head off open source software use
in the U.S. Military. "But the effort may have backfired. A May 10
report prepared for the Defense Department concluded that open source
often results in more secure, less expensive applications and that, if
anything, its use should be expanded."
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Debian Weekly News |
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Distributions, May 23 (Thursday) |
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The Debian Weekly News for May 23 is out, with
coverage of MPlayer, Nessus, the fair use status of the fortunes file,
and more.
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Debian Woody in less than two minutes |
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Distributions, May 23 (Thursday) |
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The Debian Project has sent out a release describing what is claimed to be a new intercontinental Internet
performance record: the first Debian Woody CD was transferred frmo
Fairbanks, Alaska to Amsterdam in 13 seconds. The systems on both ends
were running Debian, of course.
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How Linux will Revolutionize the Embedded Market (LinuxDevices) |
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Press, May 23 (Thursday) |
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Here's a
column by Michael Tiemann on LinuxDevices.com about how the embedded
Linux market will settle out. "In the mean time, the deeper I look
into environments adopting Linux, from embedded to enterprise, the more I
believe that Linux has the requisite DNA and development model to truly
scale from embedded to enterprise as a single platform, and Red Hat's
focus will remain on ensuring that what works for the mainframe, and the
server, and the workstation, also works for the appliance, the carrier,
the router, the PDA, and the cellphone; and, of course, vice-versa."
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Breaking the Ice: IceWM Review (LinuxOrbit) |
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Press, May 23 (Thursday) |
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LinuxOrbit reviews
the IceWM window manager. "To start with, IceWM is very easy on
system resources. If you've only used KDE or Gnome, then a switch to
IceWM on your desktop will seem like a major computer upgrade."
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This week's Python-URL |
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Development, May 23 (Thursday) |
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Here's Dr. Dobb's Python-URL for
May 22, with quick looks at Python and KDE, the Python Spread
module, and more.
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Update on Linux compatible Single-Board Computers (LinuxDevices) |
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Press, May 23 (Thursday) |
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LinuxDevices.com is running a survey of
Linux-friendly single-board computers. "With the growing
availability of application-oriented system-on-chip processors, SBC
vendors are beginning to target their boards at specific applications or
classes of applications. For example, there are boards with two or more
Ethernet ports that are intended for firewall/router uses or small
palm-sized boards with built-in LCD controllers and touch input
controllers for specialized handheld computer apps."
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Several Yellow dog security updates |
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Security, May 23 (Thursday) |
A pile of updates for Yellow Dog Linux has arrived, including:
- fetchmail (buffer
overflow leaving users open to a hostile server).
- imlib (falling
back to NetPBM and heap corruption).
- sharutils (uudecode /tmp vulnerability)
- webmin (session
hijacking vulnerability).
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LWN.net weekly edition for May 23, 2002 is available |
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LWN, May 23 (Thursday) |
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The LWN.net Weekly Edition
for May 23, 2002 has been published.
Inside this LWN.net weekly edition:
- Front page:
Closed source and national security; liability for software
defects.
- Security:
Goodbye rlogind; fingerprint scanners; OpenSSH and Mailman releases
- Kernel:
New quota code; the end of /dev/port,
misusing copy_*_user.
- Distributions:
Clustering and the Linux distribution; ClosedBSD.
- Development:
GCC 3.1, MnoGoSearch 3.2.4, Analog 5.23, Guikachu 1.2.0,
OpenSSH 3.2.2, AlsaPlayer 0.99.70, WaveSurfer 1.4, Netscape
7.0 Preview Release 1.
- Commerce:
FSF Files Brief Amicus Curiae in Eldred v. Aschroft Supreme Court
Case; Ericsson Joins Open Source Development Lab.
- Letters:
Outlawing markers; RMS and GNU/Linux.
...plus the usual array of reports, updates, and announcements.
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