Hosting Provided By

[newsforge daily] February 08, 2003

From: <newsforge-daily-txt-mm-admin(at)newsfeed.osdn.com>
Date: Sat Feb 08 2003 - 05:30:25 EST

 OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT NETWORK                 DAILY EDITION * NEWSLETTER

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

Sponsored by Thinkgeek
http://www.ThinkGeek.com/

February 08, 2003

                                  NewsForge

NewsForge Reports

Linux Advisory Watch - February 7th 2003 http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1147223

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 cvs, mcrypt, slocate, qt-dcgui, bladeenc, cim, mysql, kernel, kerberos, php, OpenLDAP, windowmaker, xpdf. The distributors include Caldera, Conectiva, FreeBSD, ...

E-Government Conference laden with Open (and Shared) Source goodies http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/06/1512247

by Tina Gasperson - The Center of Open Source & Government is sponsoring a conference that is designed to "raise awareness" and "share experiences among policy makers" from the U.S. and Europe. The event is jam-packed with speakers that Open Source advocates will find interesting. And Microsoft will be there too.

SPI working on elections, welcoming Perens back to the fold http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/05/1526200

by Tina Gasperson - Software in the Public Interest (SPI), the entity that owns the Debian trademark, is holding elections and working to generate enough interest in said elections to actually elect some new board members. Ironically, the last "original" board member just resigned at the same time a former board member is getting re-acquainted with the project.

NewsForge NewsVac

Broadband could cost AOL $1bn in revenue by 2005 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2234214

Do you need help?

In its report Can AOL Bridge the Broadband Gap?Strategy argues that AOL will lose out financially as the dial-up market, which it dominates shrinks (as more and more people sign up to broadband). Even if punters sign up to AOL's "Bring Your Own Access" scheme, which lets users who get broadband from cable or telephone companies sign up to AOL's content service for $14.95 a month, Strategy estimates that it would cost AOL almost $9 a month per ...

Don't Underestimate Cyberterrorists, Experts Warn http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2233206

Greater network dependence boosts risk of damage by cybervandals who code with vengeance.

SuSE Linux 8.1 Takes Our Challenge
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2232239

Timothy R. Butler writes "SuSE Linux 8.0 earned positive marks from us last summer for its strong feature set and low occurrence of bugs; will SuSE Linux 8.1 be able to keep up with its older sibling and win the Penguin Shootout? Find out all of that and more at OfB.biz."

Debian powers home entertainment gateway device http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2232216

Anonymous Reader writes "This LinuxDevices.com article profiles the PRISMIQ MediaPlayer, a recently introduced device which is said to represent the first instance of a new consumer device category -- the "networked entertainment gateway."

US ponders cyber war plans
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/2225230

Do you need more help?

The US may be making plans for attacking enemy computer networks but experts are divided on how effective a cyber war would be.

Linux-based mobile humanoid robot to debut in Japan http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1838249

The 100 cm tall robot, called Wakamuru, is described as being able to assist the sick or elderly in their homes. It can conduct simple conversation using a 10,000 word vocabulary, and uses face recognition technology to find (and follow) faces and movements. Wakumuru's locomotion is based on wheels rather than leg-like motion used by several other experimental robots developed in Japan.

Investors plug Linux for phone work
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1826221

An international trio of venture capital firms has banded together to try to spark businesses that use IBM and Linux technology for telecommunications purposes.

Evolution Updated
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1655200

vmlinuz writes "Ximian updates the Unix leading mail program Evolution to version 1.2.2. Changes are mostly fixes. For more information go to Ximian's website."

SCO-Caldera and IP
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1653259

Can we help you?

Anonymous Reader writes "SCO's Blake Stowell, MozillaQuest Magazine's (mozillaquest.com) Mike Angelo, and others discuss SCOsource intellectual property (IP) issues. At issue are libs owned by the SCO Group (formerly Caldera) that allow UNIX applications to run on Linux."

Linux Test Project
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/07/1548258

Robbie Williamson writes "Linux Test Project test suite LTP-20030206.tgz has been released. Visit our website (http://ltp.sourceforge.net) to download the latest version of the testsuite that contains 950+ tests for the Linux OS."

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

This message: [ Message body ]
Next message: newsforge-daily-txt-mm-admin(at)newsfeed.osdn.com: "[newsforge daily] February 09, 2003"
Previous message: newsforge-daily-txt-mm-admin(at)newsfeed.osdn.com: "[newsforge daily] February 07, 2003"

Contemporary messages sorted: [ By Date ] [ By Thread ] [ By Subject ] [ By Author ] [ By messages with attachments ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Wed Aug 23 2006 - 13:27:26 EDT