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Gordano - an "Exchange Replacement" that predates Exchange http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/14/1320221

By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - The company Web site says, "Gordano has provided robust and secure messaging for over eight years and continues to innovate and lead the market. Since 1994, the Gordano Messaging Suite has been deployed in over 20,000 organizations in 120+ countries and supports over 54 million Email accounts. These companies and users have enjoyed the benefits of low cost of ownership of our solution allowing them to reduce their ...

Make big money! Deliver 'The Linux experience!' http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/15/0145211

By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Okay, maybe not big money, but Massachusetts-based Open-Pc founder/CEO Morgan Lim says he's turning a steady profit. And lately he's been making waves with plans to move a prominent state government agency entirely to Linux.

Red Hat Linux 9 - Why drop the dot?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/25/2125220

By Jeremy Hogan, Red Hat - Yesterday we issued an announcement that we'd be making our next release, Red Hat Linux 9, available early for RHN subscribers. It was lacking some supporting info, and as you'd expect, we got a lot of questions. Most notably, "Why 9?" and "Why drop the dot?"

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ALT Linux Junior 2.2 availabe for download http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/28/0323248

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David @ Virtual Sky Media Group writes "ALT Linux Junior 2.2, a new distribution in the company's GNU/*/Linux Junior line, is now available for sale. The distribution is easy to install and use. It is designed for office and home workstations. Junior 2.2 implements support for a wide spectrum of hardware, manufactured by many well-known producers, including soft modems (winmodems), 3D graphics accelerators, printers, and many other devices. ALT ...

Affero Helps Open Source Developers Take Online Reputations With Them http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/2259235

Anonymous Reader writes "In the interview "Trust Unlimited", Robert McMillan at LinuxPlanet asks Poole about the roots, current developments, and future of Affero's trust and commerce system. Poole talks about his work at the Well, Mandrakesoft's e-services initiative, and current work with LinuxQuestions, and covers topics of transportable reputations, gaming, profits, blogs, forums, independent media and the importance of independent ...

Don't dismiss possibility of malicious code in Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/2225250

Michael S. Mimoso writes "Many in the Linux community scoff at the possibility of a major virus or worm slithering about their platform. With source code open to inspection, surely someone in the community will find and remediate dangerous vulnerabilities that could be exploited by pieces of malicious code similar to those that plague Windows."

Intel May Have 64-bit Desktop Chip After All http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/1640200

Eric Peterson writes "As 64-bit desktop processor technology is soon upon us, many consumers wait in high anticipation for solutions from IBM and AMD to power their next-generation 64-bit computers. Why isn't Intel among these players offering 64-bit solutions? Intel said that the reason is because consumers aren't yet ready for 64 bit technology as of yet.

Debian Weekly News - March 25th, 2003
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/1852211

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Welcome to this year's 12th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. This year's leader election will end in less than a week and some interesting numbers have been released already. Hugh Saunders wondered if people could imagine anything more frustrating than trying to read a Debian list from a Hotmail account. Quickly, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta answered with a set of programs to manage exactly this under GNU/Linux.

Domain names set to go multilingual
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/1931212

Internet domain names in languages other than English should be available within the next few weeks or months, the chairman of the Internets key oversight body said Wednesday. Vincent G. Cerf said the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, would likely approve technical standards Thursday. The standards allow the worlds computers built around English to recognize Chinese, Arabic and other languages.

FSF Announces Corporate Patronage Program http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/1748216

Following the highly successful launch of its Associate Membership program, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced today its new Corporate Patronage Program. According to FSF's Executive Director Bradley M. Kuhn, "since its launch in late November, more than 950 people have signed up as Associate Members of FSF. We are now offering a similar opportunity to the community of businesses that use Free Software."

HP's Linux Legions give tip of the hat to Red Hat Software http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/1719248

HP's Linux contingent doesn't spend its time painting blue footprints on the streets of San Francisco -- the Linux legions at the Palo Alto firm are too busy engaging in Open Source Alchemy in an effort to make money and margin off Mr. Torvald's operating system.

Axceleon Wins Drug Discovery Deal
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/1717212

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Jacob Webb writes "Axceleons EnFuzion provides complete grid computing solution for medical research. Axceleon, leaders in computational grid software, announced today that the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research (WEHI) is using EnFuzion to conduct medical research for new drug discovery.

SoL-desktop 0.2 - the desktop extension to SoL 16. http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/27/1659205

antitachyon writes "SoL-desktop 0.2 - the desktop extension to SoL 16.00 has been released!

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