[newsforge daily] January 16, 2003

From: <newsforge-daily-txt-mm-admin(at)newsfeed.osdn.com>
Date: Thu Jan 16 2003 - 03:30:25 EST

 OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT NETWORK                 DAILY EDITION * NEWSLETTER

----------------------------------------------------------------------

With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel
http://hpc.devchannel.org/

---

January 16, 2003

                                  NewsForge                                  

  NewsForge Reports

Open Source Security: Better Protection at a Lower Cost http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1659246

    Steve Schlesinger, Astaro Corp. At first glance, the idea of using open     source software for a firewall or other security application seems     counterintuitive, even absurd. Why would a corporation use code that's     available to anyone - hackers, cyber-terrorists, disgruntled employees

• to protect their most vital information assets? Yet that's what's happening at places like Stanford University, EDS, and Los Alamos National Labs, to name but a few ...

MandrakeSoft in French Equivalent of Chapter 11 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1927220

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Despite the happy-talk statements made to NewsForge by Mandrake co-founder Gael Duval on January 14, it seems the company has gone, as our friends at The Register would put it, "tits up." Not only that, the filing was made on January 13, even though Mr. Duval told us on Jan 9 and Jan 10 that rumors that the company was bankrupt were just that: rumors.

OpenEMed helps detect epidemics -- and bioterrorism http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/13/1550249

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - "OpenEmed is a distributed healthcare information system built around the OMG distributed object specifications and the HL7 (and other) data standards and is written in Java for platform portability," says the first sentence on the project's home page. Its objective is to aggregate data from clinics, emergency rooms, pharmacies, and individual physicians so that epidemics or bioterrorism attacks can be rapidly ...

   NewsForge NewsVac

Desktop Dreams in the Wake of MandrakeSoft's Bankruptcy http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/100256

    Timothy R. Butler writes "Linux's dreams for the desktop died today     with Mandrake's bankruptcy filling. Yes, it was a worthy cause, and we     fought hard, but now it is time to admit it -- it is over. No more.     Finished. Done. Kaput. GNU/Linux's true place is on the server, and its     time for everyone to recognize that. Is everyone with me?"

MS goes open in Sweden
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/0959231

    Mikael Pawlo writes Swedish Gnuheter today reveals that Thursday's     issue of Dagens Industri will carry the following headline on its front     page: "Microsoft Surrenders" ("Microsoft viker sig"). It appears that     Microsoft has been under heavy pressure from several huge public     offices. Microsoft will therefore relase the source code to Windows and     other applications to the Swedish government."

NetBSD announces plans for merging branch implemen http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/16/0958214

    Jan Schaumann writes "A plan for the long anticipated merging of the     nathanw_sa branch into NetBSD -current has been announced. The     nathanw_sa branch implements scheduler activations and provides native     support for pthreads. The vast majority of the work on this branch has     been done by Nathan Williams. Please see Jason's mail to current-users     for details."

HP sponsors GRIDWARS Championship - Prizes announced http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1935235

    Anonymous Reader writes "Hewlett-Packard is sponsoring the GRIDWARS     parallel programming challenge with prizes and systems. In GRIDWARS     participating developers submit CxC battle programs that will fight     against each other for control of parallel processors. The GRID WARS     Championship takes place in February on an HP IntelÃ&#x201a;® ItaniumÃ&#x201a;® 2     cluster computing system running Linux. The battle programs are     developed under Windows. The HP-sponsored prizes ...

Installgen 1.72 - automates Oracle 8.1.7 installs http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1933251

    David Simpson writes: Version 1.72 of Installgen generates the scripts     required to automate the installation of Oracle 8.1.7 databases on 8     releases of Red Hat Linux.

TCO: Total Cost of Ownership Â&#x2013; a case for Linux in http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1931223

    Anonymous Reader writes "Amidst the brouhaha over the Microsoft     sponsored study that reflected the act that Ã&#x201a;Â&#x201c;in the long run, the TCO     for systems running Linux as OS would be considerably higher than ones     running on MS platformsÃ&#x201a;Â&#x201d;, one item that got lost is the usage of the     word TCO. TCO as defined by the above mentioned IDC study relates to     the cost of ownership, however in this case the author would like to     evaluate TCO as Total Cost of ...

Analysis of the "Truce" Between RIAA, BSA, http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1930210

    Ernest_Miller writes "LawMeme analyzes the seven "policy principles"     put forward by the RIAA, BSA and CSPP yesterday. The analysis shows     that there is much less to the "principles" than claimed."

Supreme Court upholds retroactive extension of copyright http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1623200

    Anonymous Reader writes "In a 7-2 decision, the Supreme Court has     upheld the Sonny Bono copyright act (aka - the Mickey Mouse Act b/c     Disney was the primary advocate of the act)."

Scaling Linux to New Heights: the SGI Altix 3000 System http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1621217

    SGI recently debuted its new 64-bit, 64-processor, Linux system based     on the Intel Itanium 2 processor--a significant announcement for the     company and for Linux. This system marks the opening of a new frontier     as scientists working on complex and demanding high-performance     computing (HPC) problems can now use and deploy Linux in ways never     before possible. HPC environments continually push the limits of the     operating system by requiring larger ...

Dell boss still interested in Linux on the desktop http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/15/1618202

     Despite pulling out of the Linux desktop market, Dell boss Michael     Dell appears to believe the Microsoft alternative could still have a     chance at success, although it is unlikely to make much of an impact in     the next few months.                                                             

---

 To unsubscribe - If you do not wish to subscribe to NewsForge Daily, go to:  http://www.osdn.com/newsletters/unsubscribe.shtml

---

Copyright (c)1999-2002 Open Source Development Network. All rights reserved Received on Thu Jan 16 10:24:06 2003