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Linux lab hires second guru (News.com)

News.com reports that Andrew Morton is also joining the Open-Source Development Lab and also names him as the primary 2.6 kernel maintainer. "Although OSDL will fund Morton to work full time on the 2.6 kernel, he'll retain his principal engineer title at Digeo, which makes set-top boxes."

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Hacker group releases software-only Xbox mod details (Register)

The Register reports that Free-X has now released details of their software-only Xbox security exploits. "Last night, in a statement from the Free-X hackers, the team said that its attempts to contact Microsoft had been rebuffed, and a meeting arranged with a Microsoft representative had been cancelled at the last minute. The group is now believed to have released details of its exploit (being called the "Fourth of July hack" in some quarters) onto certain Internet mailing lists."

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The mozdev site is back online

The mozdev site was taken down by a distributed denial of service last week. The site is now back online and is mostly functional. Mozdev is now running on new server hardware.

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Microsoft antitrust case takes Linux twist (News.com)

News.com looks at the continuing saga of the Microsoft antitrust case and allegations that Microsoft has retaliated against a computer maker for promoting Linux. "A Microsoft representative denied the allegations. "Microsoft's compliance is being closely monitored, and the consent decree is being closely enforced," spokesman Jim Desler said on Monday."

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Microsoft, Open Source Leaders Coming Together (eWeek)

eWeek talks to Microsoft people at OSCON. "Jason Matusow, manager of Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative, told eWEEK on Monday that the Redmond, Wash., software company's specific goal at the conference is "participation.""

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SCO takes Linux case to Japan (News.com)

News.com covers SCO's fishing expedition to Japan. "McBride will try to outline SCO's position to Asian business leaders, many of whom already pay SCO to use Unix, Stowell said. "This trip is partly to explain to them our position with our current dealings with IBM," he said. "It's also to see where we're at, with them, in terms of the Unix license that many of them already have." Gordon Haff, an analyst with research firm Illuminata, saw the overseas trip as more of a fishing expedition for SCO."

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Group urges Australian governments to adopt open standards (The Age)

The Age reports that Open Source Victoria has urged the Australian Federal and State governments to mandate the use of open, documented and inter-operable file formats and data communication protocols. "Consultations within the group had shown that such policies would attract widespread support across the political spectrum, OSV said, adding that if this mix of purchasing policies was adopted, Free and Open Source Software such as Linux would be the best route to fulfilling these requirements, but all technologies could compete openly and fairly." (Thanks to Vladimir Likic)

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EDC: Enterprise interest in Linux not abating (ZDNet)

ZDNet Australia takes a brief look at an Evans Data survey. "EDC's bi-annual survey of enterprise software developers in the U.S. found a 24 percent jump in the number of respondents employed by enterprises using Linux on corporate servers over the last 12 months." (Thanks to Con Zymaris)

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Technische Universität München opts for Zope and Open Source (ZopeMembers)

Zope Members News reports on the adoption of Linux and Zope by the Technische Universität München. "One of the leading European universities, the Technische Universität München (TUM), with over 20000 students and 9000 employees has decided in favor of the powerful and well established open source product Zope as base for its future internet platform. The objective on the one hand is to gain permanent independence from specific vendors and to dramatically reduce license and maintenance costs, on the other hand to obtain a flexible and powerful platform for web based services and information systems."

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Linux Access in State and Local Government, Part IV (Linux Journal)

Linux Journal takes a look at the process of getting legislation passed at the state level of government. "Other ways of initiating legislation exist. In the circumstances of open-source legislation, sponsors' constituents began by presenting a business case. For example, I presented an argument based on cost savings. My senator (Senator Carona of Texas) liked the idea and moved forward. According to Carona's senator's aide, I presented more research than was needed. Most lobbyists or special interests achieve results with far less information. Fortunately, Senator Carona knew about Linux and open-source software as a businessperson."

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Securing Linux (The Age)

The Australian magazine The Age interviews Russel Coker about his work on SE-Linux. "On the community front, he has ported and packaged SELinux for Debian GNU/Linux and now handed off maintenance of the package for Debian stable to fellow Australian, Brian May."

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An Interview with the Author of Practical mod_perl (O'Reilly)

O'Reilly has published an interview of Stas Bekman, author of Practical mod_perl. "Stas Bekman is a long-time contributor to mod_perl. In addition to writing the mod_perl guide, he's also coauthor of the recently released Practical mod_perl. Stas recently agreed to a brief email interview about his work, mod_perl 2, and what it's like to be sponsored to work on free software full-time."

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Asterisk: A Bare-Bones VoIP Example (O'ReillyNet)

O'Reilly has an article by John Todd on Asterisk. "Asterisk is both an open source toolkit for telephony applications and a full-featured PBX application. Learn how to configure a simple telephone system with Asterisk in this tutorial."

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LDAP Programming in Python (Linux Journal)

Linux Journal has a HOW-To article on LDAP programming in Python. "Most major programming languages have an LDAP API, but I chose to use Python because it is perhaps the easiest and clearest language with which to demonstrate. If you do not already understand the basics of the Python programming language and LDAP, you probably should come back to this tutorial after you have become better acquainted with them."

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A users look at changes in Nautilus since 2.2 (GnomeDesktop)

GnomeDesktop features a review of the latest Nautilus features. "I am a simple Gnome user and have been following Nautilus's cvs Changelog during its 2.3 development. Now as Gnome has reached it's feature freeze state and I thought about listing the major changes. The main reason I decided to do this was because of how immensely impressed I was with Nautilus's improvement from 2.2 and how practically most of the things that people said they felt missing were taken care of."

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Mozilla 1.4 and Netscape 7.1 News and Reviews (MozillaZine)

MozillaZine points to a large number of reviews of Mozilla 1.4 and Netscape 7.1.

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TVBrick to pump Japanese TV across Net (Register)

The Register covers French open source software company Nexedi as it launches TVBrick. "TVBrick works something like this. At home, in Japan, you connect your TVBrick to your TV and to the Internet via a broadband link. When you're away, you can use a standard PC, again connected by broadband, to log into your TVBrick and start watching. Nexedi also offers what it calls the TVBrick Player, a simple playback system for users without a PC in their remote location."

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Sticking with it -- Zope

Edd Dumbill writes about Zope on his blog site. "When I saw Zope, I realised that it was pretty much my dream come true. Zope's huge advantage is the way that functionality can be deployed in reusable "products" that can be dropped into a site. For example, navigation elements. Then I hit the other side of Zope, the steep learning curve! In the earlier days, however much you admired the ideas behind Zope, the learning curve hit you hard. Still, there was enough of value to me there, as well as a friendly and helpful community, and I put Zope to work."

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Linux Users Standing Fast Despite SCO Legal Threats, InternetWeek Readers Say (TechWeb)

Tech Web reports that SCO's Linux lawsuit and threats seem to be having little affect on IT managers except to make them angry. "Fully 91 percent of people responding to an InternetWeek Reader Question said they will not change their Linux deployment plans as a result of SCO's actions."

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