[newsforge daily] January 29, 2003

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January 29, 2003

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Making a Living Saving the Government Money http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/1829254

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Peter Gallagher is president of devIS (AKA Development Infostructure), a Virginia-based company that designs, develops, hosts, and operates large-scale custom Internet applications for government agencies and private consultants. He says devIS saves its clients a minimum of $100,000 per contract by using Open Source Software. Gallagher also claims none of the Web sites or Web applications devIS has produced have ...

Red Hat 'End of Life' Decision Explained by Red Hat http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/2149203

• By Jeremy Hogan, Red Hat About a month ago Red Hat announced in our "Under the Brim" newsletter that we were changing the lifecycle of our Red Hat Linux product line. This product was originally designed to meet the needs of many types of users, including large enterprises, corporations, and individuals. As open source has advanced, it's become clear that this one size fits all productization of open source technologes no longer addresses ...

Predicting the weather with Linux at the National Weather Service http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/27/2324236

• By Norbert Cartagena - Government institutions are often maligned for their spending habits, especially when it comes to computer hardware and software. With the increasing popularity and reliability of open source software, more and more government institutions are looking to Linux to help reduce their computing costs. But can Linux really live up to all the hype? The National Weather Service (NWS) thinks so. In fact, the implementation of ...

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Interview with Alan Cox
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1023218

    One of the head programmers behind Linux, Alan Cox talks exclusively to     Builder Australia about the uptake of Linux, MicrosoftÃ&#x201a;Â&#x2019;s plans to     share its source code and his Linux predictions.

HP opens Linux centre in Shanghai
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1021247

    The recent opening of Hewlett-Packard's first HP-Intel Open Solution     Center for the Asia-Pacific is also the first salvo this year by a big     gun in the continuing fight for Linux market share. Hewlett-Packard and     IBM are jostling for the biggest slice of the Linux systems pie in the     Asia-Pacific, with Dell following closely behind.

GNOME 2.2 Desktop Release Candidate 2 (2.1.91): '' http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/29/1019224

    Anonymous Reader writes "GNOME release guy Jeff Waugh announces: GNOME     Desktop 2.2 Release Candidate 2 (2.1.91): "OUTATIME", is ready for your     bug-busting and testing pleasure! It is available for immediate     download on ftp.gnome.org and mirrors."

New Linux desktop aims for government role http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/2255230

    KDE's new desktop software is targeted at large businesses and the     public sector, which has been showing increasing interest in Linux and     open source

A Big Test for Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/228235

    Anonymous Reader writes "Business 2.0's Eric Hellweg takes a look at     whether the licensing efforts of key patent holder SCO Group (formerly     Caldera) could derail Linux's corporate growth.

Tonight Live: Son of "Hack Our Guest"
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/220232

    Jeff Gerhardt writes "Tuesday, January 28th, 2003, from Chicago IL,     home of Sultry Jazz Diva Judy Roberts Tonight LIVE on     www.thelinuxshow.com. SPECIAL NOTE: Doc and russ are on the road, so we     will be joined on the panel by well known Linux maven Joe Barr.

Internet cafe loses music-copying case
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/2157220

    GatesPrettyF****d writes "A High Court judge in England has determined     that the EasyInternet cafe has violated copyright laws by permitting     users of its computers to burn music. Does anyone know how CD burining     is done at the EasyInternet cafes? Does the company burn the discs or     merely permit the user to burn the CD at their workstation without     company supervision?"

Etnus Announces TotalView 6.0
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/2154254

    January 28, 2002. Natick, MA -- Etnus, the world's leading provider of     debugging solutions for complex code, today announced that Etnus     TotalView 6 has shipped to customers. With expanded compiler and     hardware coverage, support for HP UPC 2.0, improved C++ support, and     support for seamless Java/C/C++ debugging through Etnus' new CodeRoad     JNI Bridge, TotalView maintains its position as the premium debugger     for both commercial and scientific ...

 KDE Project Ships Major Feature Release http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/1652216

     January 28, 2003 (The INTERNET). The KDE Project today announced the     immediate availability of KDE 3.1, a major feature upgrade to the third     generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for Linux and     other UNIXes. KDE 3.1 ships with a basic desktop, an integrated     development environment and seventeen other packages (PIM,     administration, network, edutainment, utilities, multimedia, games,     artwork, web development and more). KDE's ...

VeriSign 'violates DNS' - IAB
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/01/28/143232

    The Internet Architecture Board, which oversees the internet's     standard-setting bodies, this weekend criticized as "a violation of the     DNS protocol" a service VeriSign Inc recently introduced to help web     users use non-English letters in domain names, writes Kevin Murphy.                                                             

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