[newsforge daily] December 03, 2002

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December 03, 2002

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Prelim GNOME Board election results
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/0156231

• by Tina Gasperson -Voting has closed and the ballots have been counted for the GNOME Board elections. It's not surprising to find the new board is laced with Ximian staff.

Cheap Mandrake for Windows refugees
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/02/2031216

    -by Tina Gasperson - Monday, MandrakeSoft announced what it calls a     Refugee Program. If you can muster up proof that you purchased an     operating system license to run Windows or UNIX or any other OS,     Mandrake has got a deal for you.

OFTC: A study in cooperative open source software politics http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/01/1559223

• By David 'cdlu' Graham - Managing an open source or free software related project can be challenging, so why do it alone? This essay explains how the Open and Free Technology Community's pseudo-democratic system works to divide up power and authority and always keep fresh blood working on the project.

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ROCK Linux 1.5.20 released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/127243

    blindcoder writes "Yesterday, Andreas Huebner announced the Release of     ROCK Linux 1.5.20. This will be the last 1.5.x. The next released will     be 1.6.0-pre1, according to Huebi."

Terra Soft Presents PPC Hardware Solution Running http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/127223

    Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews features an article revealing a new     product from Terra Soft, makers of the most popular PPC Linux     distribution, Yellow Dog Linux."

Challenge for "Robust Audio Hash"
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/126245

    New challenge for creating an audio hash.

Interview With Ingo Molnar
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/124248

    Jermye Andrews writes "KernelTrap has interviewed Ingo Molnar who has     been contributing to Linux kernel development since 1995 with an     impressive list of accomplishments."

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Mozilla 1.2.1 Released
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/124223

    Asa Dotzler writes "We've fixed the bug with writing into a dynamically     created element that was causing DHTML and other layout problems in the     1.2 release. The new builds are available at mozilla.org's releases     page."

Does Free Linux Have Hidden Costs?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/123218

    paleo writes "Organizations running Windows 2000 spend less in the long     run for some tasks, such as print and file serving, than organizations     running Linux, according to a new survey from research company IDC."

A Chat with John Fowler, Sun Software CTO http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/03/121241

    Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews had a quick chat with John Fowler, Sun     Software's CTO about Solaris 10, Java, the web services competition and     more. In the interview, Fowler reveals the timing in which Gnome2 will     become the default desktop environment."

Linux ColdFusion Users Irate With Macromedia http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/02/206237

    ColdFusion MX users who are running the rapid server-scripting     environment on Unix or Linux said they feel they've been left out in     the cold by developer Macromedia Inc.

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Liberty Alliance Having Problems
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/02/200252

    Slashdot discussion: torre writes "This article would suggest that     there seems to be some chaos in the Liberty Alliance fight against     Passport. Between Sun’s Jonathan Schwartz and..."

Court test for US digital piracy law
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/12/02/1959242

    The first legal test of a controversial law designed to prevent digital     piracy is starting in the US... After more than a year of courtroom     skirmishes, jury selection is scheduled to begin in San Jose,     California, in the trial of the Moscow-based software company     ElcomSoft.                                                             

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