[newsforge daily] February 12, 2003

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February 12, 2003

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Microsoft to Open Source: You guys are hypocrites! http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2118256

• by Tony Stanco -Leave it to the kooks in the community to make Microsoft look sympathetic. I heard from Microsoft yesterday on the chatter over their appearing at our Open Source in Government conference and they quickly proposed that they be uninvited. Not so fast.

Free Software Foundation Associate Members to meet with FSF Board http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2038222

• by Tina Gasperson - Around 700 people have already signed up to be associate members of the Free Software Foundation, and in March they're all invited to Boston to chat with Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen, and the gang.

Open Source in Mexico - Part One
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/10/0238202

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - I spent most of last week attending CONSOL 2003 [English translation] in Mexico City. It was a lovely conference, heavy on technical and advocacy discussion and light on marketing hype. It reminded me of U.S. Linux gatherings back in 1997 and 1998. Indeed, the Open Source movement in Mexico in general seems to be five or six years behind the U.S. right now, but it's catching up fast.

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Lawsuit challenges software licensing
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/0533239

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    Vic writes "According to CNET News.com, 'A California woman is suing     Microsoft, Symantec and some software retailers, claiming the companies     "concocted a scheme" to mislead consumers by requiring them to consent     to software licensing agreements they haven't read.'"

RoEduNet Second Conference
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/038204

    Conference Announcement and Call for Papers - networking in Education     and Research - RoEduNet Conference Second Edition - Iasi, Romania June     5-6 2003

Locutus: P2P with security
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/032256

    Anonymous Reader writes "FreeNet's Ian Clarke has released the preview     version of his latest P2P endeavor Locutus. Aimed at the corporate     world, Locutus adds encryption to the mix - new for a P2P client - to     secure files traded across the network as well as the ability to scan     within text files to improve search results.

Fair Queuing Disk Schedulers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/031236

    Jeremy Andrews writes "Following the recent release of an anticipatory     IO scheduler, Andrea Arcangeli started a lengthy thread in which he     proposed an SFQ (Stochastic Fair Queuing) disk scheduler. The idea was     picked up by Jens Axboe who had evidently worked on a similar idea     earlier. Jens quickly posted two different disk schedulers utilizing     "fair queuing" algorithms, more commonly used in handling network     traffic. When someone suggested he ...

The Shuttle XPC and Linux Revolution
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/0259203

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    Anonymous Reader writes "This is an excellent article on Codeweavers,     Win4Lin and benchmarking Windows running natively versus running on     Linux."

ActiveState Unveils PerlASPX 1.0
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/0255226

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA - FEBRUARY 11, 2003 -- ActiveState, the leader in     applied open source, today announced the release of PerlASPX 1.0.     ActiveState PerlASPX enables professional Perl programmers to use Perl     for dynamic content generation on Microsoft ASP.NET Web servers. Built     on the Microsoft .NET Framework, PerlASPX adds Perl to the list of     supported languages for ASP.NET enabled Web servers.

Review of Knoppix and KDE 3.1
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/0252217

    Vinod writes "Ammai.com has published a review on a Linux distribution     called Knoppix KDE 3.1. This review is written by a beginner to Linux.     This review shows off the great features of Knoppix and the eye candy     of KDE 3.1 with many screenshots."

Hospital Software "Kills" Thousands
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/12/0249259

    Anonymous Reader writes "After some hospital software accidentally     marked thousands of patients as dead, one of them said, "I was pretty     sure I wasn't dead, but you never know. The hospital explained it was     just a computer glitch, but I'm still waiting to see what this is going     to mean for me.""

IBM Backs Off Linux Support for Itanium
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2323202

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    IBM has pulled back on its work tuning the Linux operating system for     Intel's Itanium processor, in a move that possibly points to a larger     shift away from the fledgling processor, according to an analyst.

Is Linux Certification Worth It?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/11/2320258

    Instead of focusing all their energies on answering multiple-choice     questions about administering a Linux system, the bulk of the RHCE exam     requires candidates to demonstrate their skills on Linux machines.                                                             

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