[newsforge daily] February 18, 2003

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February 18, 2003

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A Review of SuSE Linux Office Desktop
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1411244

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - I was going to write a review of the new (and pricey - at $129.00) SuSE Linux Office Desktop, but Adam Doxtater of MadPenguin sent us his review (with permission to republish) before I had mine finished, and since he said almost exactly what I was going to say, we're running his review (below) instead of the one I was in the process of writing. Thanks, Adam.

Film Gimp Continues Hollywood Takeover
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/16/1355224

• By Robin.Rowe - Film Gimp has recently been adopted by ComputerCafe, the fourth motion picture studio to use it in making feature films. Film Gimp, a sophisticated image retouching program designed to manipulate high dynamic range 35mm film images, is a collaborative open source project that branched from GIMP in 1998. After years behind the scenes in Hollywood, Film Gimp had its public launch on SourceForge on July 4, 2002.

Commentary: The Greatest Flaw In Linux
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/15/1342225

• By Patrick 'LinuxAddict' Pauwels - The largest flaw with Linux is not in its ease of use or installation. There's no crisis with lack of software. The hardware support is solid. Actually, I feel Linux is very much ready for the masses. The greatest flaw with Linux is that nobody knows what it is.

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ICEM to Offer Linux Version of ICEM Surf http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/218230

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    ICEM Ltd. announced that its ICEM Surf 3D surface modeling and     evaluation software suite is to be made available for the Linux open     source operating system. All of the ICEM Surf core software modules and     ICEM-developed software options will be offered on Linux.

Northwest Software Expo Highlights Open Source Software http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1913222

     LinuxFest Northwest, a regional exposition for computer users     interested in the Linux operating system and other Open Source     software, will be held on April 26 at Bellingham Technical College     (BTC) in Bellingham, Washington. This event is being organized by Linux     User Groups from Bellingham, Kitsap Peninsula, Seattle, and Tacoma, and     hosted by BTC.

New day for Linux on the desktop
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1846208

    It started off as a conference about the Linux desktop. In the end, it     may be considered the event that accomplished its goal in spite of     itself.

Linux Advisory Watch - February 14th 2003 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1836247

     This week, advisories were released for w3m, wml-net, hypermail,     postgresql, lynx, python, pam_xauth, fileutils, and mozilla. The     distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Mandrake, and Red Hat.

What the Linux World Needs Now
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1829214

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     When I first got in touch with the Linux world - it was back in 1998     -, I started with an old Slackware distribution. Of course I cannot say     it was a wise choice for a beginner, and I soon moved to Red Hat, and     then tried various SuSE, Mandrake and Debian flavours; now I am using     this good Slackware 8.1. Everyone can see the Linux world has been     making giant steps towards usability during the last five years.     Applications have dramatically ...

Australia at Linux leading edge
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1824232

     THE Australian Government is a "leader" in guiding public sector Linux     implementations, the head of IBM's global public sector Linux program     says. Mary Ann Fisher is speaking at an open source seminar for     government CIOs in Canberra tomorrow, which is being organised by the     National Office for the Information Economy and will also feature     speakers from Microsoft, Gartner and the Australian Unix Users Group.

Oracle and Red Hat work on securing Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1821201

    Oracle is working with Red Hat to gain an internationally recognised     Linux security certification, hoping to woo security conscious public     sector customers.

Software Learns Language Using Visual Perception http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1811200

    Experience-Based Language Acquisition (EBLA) is an open source software     system that enables a computer to learn simple language from scratch     based on visual perception. It is the first "grounded" language system     capable of learning both nouns and verbs. Moreover, once EBLA has     established a vocabulary, it can perform basic scene analysis to     generate descriptions of novel videos.

Open Source & Taxes in Geneva
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/184202

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    miladus writes "The Tax Office of the canton de Genève is     apparently distributing Mozilla and OpenOffice (in French & Linux,     for Linux & Windows) along with its GEtax 2002."

Opera unleashes Linux preview of version 7 browser http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/02/17/1645237

    On Friday Opera announced the first Linux preview edition of Opera 7,     the company's next-generation browser, which recently shipped for     Windows. The company stresses that the Linux version's a preview, so     there are rough edges, but it means that we're moving, and Linux users     can more or less keep pace with what Opera's up to on the Windows     platform.                                                             

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