[newsforge daily] January 14, 2003

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January 14, 2003

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Mandrake: Rumors of our imminent demise are just that http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/10/2131224

• by Tina Gasperson - Apparently there are tales going around that there will be no Mandrake 9.1 - that one of the most user-friendly distros around is not going to be around much longer. Not surprising, what with all the recent pleas for cash coming from the direction of Paris.

SCO says it has made no decision on Unix "IP" http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1738217

• by Tina Gasperson - A story at Linux Business Week, originally published by Client Server News, raised a ruckus in the Linux community. SCO, it said, had drafted a press release that detailed plans to cash in on its Unix patents, either by charging an extra license fee to users of its Linux distribution, or by "pressing infringement claims" against other Linux distributions, possibly even fellow members of the UnitedLinux tribe.

Review of Quanta+ and Quanta Gold
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1148231

• By Rev. Wesley T. Allen - A side-by-side comparison of (free GPL) Quanta+ and (commercial) Quanta Gold, two popular HTML editors from theKompany.

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Py 1.3 Ships
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/1018234

    Bryan RIchard writes "Py Parlour Press[1], in conjunction with It's     About Time Productions, announces availability of the third (1.3) issue     of Py."

Desktop Linux Computing Solutions for the Home http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/1017246

    Anonymous Reader writes "Michael C. Barnes examines Linux options for     home users in his latest article for DesktopLinux.com."

GNU Bayonne Telephone System at NYC LinuxWorld http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/1017207

    David Sugar writes "(January 13, Bayonne, NJ) Open Source Telecom     Corporation will be exhibiting a GNU Bayonne based office telephone     system at LinuxWorld 2003 in New York City later this month. This     system will be based on the soon to be available 1.2 release of GNU     Bayonne and will be demonstrated running on GNU/Linux with VoiceTronix     OpenSwitch computer telephony hardware, and with many telephones people     can walk up to and try out, at the ...

A Proposed Web Bug-based Micropayment Model http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/1015259

    Anonymous Reader writes "Use the dreaded web bug for good, not evil.     Librenix has the story."

CF InFlight Chooses LynxOS for Skycam® Robotic Cam http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/1015228

    Julie Crabill writes "Upgrading from embedded Linux to real-time LynxOS     provides superior camera views in time for Super Bowl XXXVII."

MontaVista Software and Opera 7
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/14/1013214

    Annette Oevermann writes "Oslo, Norway and Sunnyvale, Calif. Ã&#x201a;Â&#x2014; Jan 13,     2003 Ã&#x201a;Â&#x2014; Opera Software ASA and MontaVista Software, Inc. today     announced that the two companies have verified interoperability between     MontaVistaÃ&#x201a;Â&#x2122; LinuxÃ&#x201a;® and the newly released Opera 7 browser.

Hyper-Threading speeds Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/2253258

    An anonymous coward writes "The Intel Xeon processor introduces a new     technology called Hyper-Threading (HT) that makes a single processor     behave like two logical processors. The technology allows the processor     to execute multiple threads simultaneously, which can yield significant     performance improvement. But, exactly how much improvement can you     expect to see? This article gives the results the investigation into     the effects of Hyper-Threading ...

Today's latest mass mailing worm
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/2252220

    There's precious little sign of any let-up on the virus front, with the     emergence of a new mass-mailing worm. The (perhaps aptly) named Sobig-A     is a mass-mailing worm that incorporates an SMTP engine. The worm     spread rapidly across the Internet last weekend, after first appearing     on Thursday morning. Yes, it's for Windows, not Linux, but still     necessary to know about.- ED

Universities' $8m Linux foray
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/2250208

    QUEENSLAND'S university-based advanced computing consortium has     acquired two Linux-based supercomputers from Silicon Graphics worth     about $8 million.

Microsoft Ramps Up Wireless Campaign
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/2125244

    Already a force in software for personal digital assistants, Microsoft     is ramping up efforts to provide the operating systems for those     devices' close relative: the next generation of "smart" cell phones     that can handle E-mail, digital photos, and other data.                                                             

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