[newsforge daily] November 24, 2002

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November 24, 2002

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Setting up a CLAN
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/23/1240224

• By Edward Kamau - I was recently hunting around the net for some RPMs and the thought occurred to me that there must be an easier way to find files and programs that you need. Besides, a number of mirrors that I've tried to use can be very uncooperative, with my connection being occasionally dropped and with significant difficulty connecting. So I thought, why not have a network of super mirrors, mirrors that mirror all other mirrors. In short ...

Linux Advisory Watch - November 22nd 2002 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/22/1558234

    By:  Benjamin D. Thomas - Linux Advisory Watch is a comprehensive     newsletter that outlines the security vulnerabilities that have been     announced throughout the week. It includes pointers to updated packages     and descriptions of each vulnerability.

Enterprise-level software vendors can no longer ignore Linux http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/20/1940257

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - A quote from a LUG email list: "...my manager has (finally) given me the go ahead to research moving all of our current Unix operations to Linux." The alternative, says the person who sent this email, is Windows. The company in question* has a stack of (leased) AIX RS6000 servers. As a cost-cutting measure, they plan to drop the lease when it comes up for renewal. The engineering staff people who use the AIX servers ...

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A Losing Bet: the Last Days of Comdex, Part 1 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/24/1211212

    Linux kept a low profile at Comdex this year. But maybe that's because     Comdex itself is failing, and Microsoft is using what's left as a     promotional vehicle.

Linux makes inroads against Windows PCs
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/23/1439234

    Government agencies in Europe, China, India and South America have     started to encourage Linux over proprietary software because it     provides cost savings, freedom from reliance on a single software     vendor, and flexibility.

Server Makers Converge on Small and Medium Business Market http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/23/1435201

     Competition among mid and large server suppliers are heating up in the     small and medium business market as they roll out new products and gear     up for sales in earnest. HP Korea released a new server tailored to     SMBs in September, jumpstarting the competition, and its rivals such as     IBM Korea, Sun Microsystems and LGIBM are all set to follow suite.

MobiliX: Court says Mobilix too close to Obelix http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/23/1424224

    Werner Heuser writes: Yesterday, the "Oberlandesgericht" (highest court     of the Bavarian state) has affirmed that the brands "MobiliX" and     "Obelix" can indeed be mixed up. The onomatopoetic similarities are big     enough that a "normal user" could immediately be thinking of "Obelix"     when hearing the word "MobiliX". Whether this a fact for IT people,     too, though, was not answered by the court....

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New Linux PDA for the Chinese market
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/23/1419257

    Group Sense PDA Ltd. (GSPDA) has introduced a new Linux-based V-2002     PDA into the Chinese market. Like many recent PDA introductions, the     V-2002 is based on an Intel StrongARM processor and provides a     full-color 320 x 240 pixel LCD display.

Father of Java Sounds Off
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/22/224226

    James Gosling, the father of Java and a fellow at Sun Microsystems     Inc., graced the Software Development Conference and Expo East 2002     with his presence this week, addressing a wide range of issues from     Sun's software strategy to Web services to embedded Java to open-source     software.

Open-Source Security Comes Under Fire
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/22/222225

    Thanks to several high-profile vulnerabilities and an overall increase     in the number of flaws, open-source software has taken over Microsoft     Corp.'s position at the bottom of the security heap. Oh my God!! No!!

New security.debian.org server after fire in Twente http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/22/220239

    The Debian Team has reinstalled security.debian.org on the host     klecker, which is hosted at XS4all in the Netherlands. We apologize     that it took about two days to resurrect this important service, but we     are happy that it only cost two days.

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BroadQ releases Gold version of QCast Tuner with Linux support http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/22/2158216

    Anonymous Reader writes "QCast Tuner turns a standard Sony PlayStation     2 with a Sony network adaptor into a true multimedia platform that can     be simply connected to your PC (Window, MAC or Linux)and home network.     Software costs $49.95 and is available online at www.broadq.com."

Automatic Session Management on the Apache Server http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/11/22/2155229

    Tara Rinke writes "Tulsa, OK -- Farpointer Technologies today announced     new automated session management for the Apache server."                                                             

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