[newsforge daily] January 19, 2003

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January 19, 2003

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Commentary: Why I would miss Mandrake
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/238248

• By Dr. Paul Miller Well, I am guilty as charged in the potential demise of Mandrake. You see, I am one of those leeches who likes to get something for nothing. I burned the download version of Mandrake 9.0 and installed it on my old AMD Athlon 800. No money paid to Mandrake. Thanks guys :) I can even get access to their update servers for nowt, zilch, nada. They are most kind and generous. They are nearly bankrupt.

Linux Advisory Watch - January 17th 2003 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/17/0933238

• 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. This week, advisories were released for wget, xpdf, openldap, libmcrypt, impsql, bugzilla, mod_php, cups, dhcpd, kde, leafnode, libpng, postgresql, mysql, vim, and ethereal. The distributors include ...

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 ...

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Qlusters Introduces ClusterFrameÂ&#x2122; for Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/1150224

    Ofer Shoshan, Qlusters, Inc. writes "Menlo Park,California (January 21,     2003) - Qlusters has today announced the release of ClusterFrameÃ&#x201a;Â&#x2122;.     Qlusters' ClusterFrame product brings mainframe features and     capabilities to business applications and traditional compute-intensive     environments."

NGO launches long-term open source research http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/1149211

    Kodek writes "A new two year study by NGO Bridges.org and SchoolNet     Africa hopes to provide an unbiased view of the benefits and pitfalls     of using open source software in Africa."

Why the Supreme Court is wrong on Eldred v. Ashcrost http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/1148253

    Anonymous Reader writes "The 'exclusive Right to their respective     Writings' that is conferred by Copyright law is not the whole story.     The taxpaying public is obligated to police and defend the monopoly of     the copyright holder. In return for that favor, the written work goes     into the public domain after a limited time. By this decision, the     Supreme Court seems to be only enforcing one side of that bargain. Read     the whole story at Librenix."

NetBSD now has native pthreads!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/19/1148225

    Jan Schaumann writes "Jason Thorpe has merged the nathanw_sa branch     with -current. NetBSD now has a high performance, modern kernel thread     implementation using Scheduler Activations in the main source tree.     This work was performed by Nathan Williams with contributions by     several other developers."

 Interview with Shamyl Zakariya on SlicKer development http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/1351242

    mangeli writes "As the second victim in the TinyMinds interview series     we have picked the SlicKer project as our target. SlicKer aims to     someday replace Kicker in KDE with its own more taskoriented approach.     Today we talk to one of its developers; keyboard cowboy Shamyl     Zakarika.

Why Microsoft Should Build Its Next Version of Windows on Top of Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/1340236

    I was exchanging e-mail recently with my friend Mike Class, SJ, who is     associate dean of the Graduate School at Marquette University in     Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mike, who is a Jesuit priest and therefore     naturally drawn to the whole idea of conversion, wants Microsoft to     build its next version of Windows on top of Linux. And you know, it     actually makes some sense!

How does Linux stack up against Windows XP? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/1336208

     Shortly after I lost the ALT-F-S feature in Microsoft Word last fall,     I made a New Year's resolution to try out the Linux operating system.

Will Silicon Valley get its mojo back?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/1327200

    Will Silicon Valley--mired in a post-boom crisis of confidence--ever     regain its status as an economic powerhouse and its place at the center     of the high-tech universe?

Intellectual property issues everywhere
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/1323227

    While I suspect that everyone's heard of this week's Eldred vs.     Ashcroft decision , there are also some interesting developments on the     patent front, including trouble in Web Services and a pointed comment     from Microsoft on the W3C's latest Patent Policy draft .

EFF Pioneer Awards Call for Nominations
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/18/1318240

    It's time to recognize the people who have done the most for freedom in     the past year.                                                             

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