[newsforge daily] April 12, 2003

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April 12, 2003

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Linux not ready for the desktop? Give me a break! http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/203248

• Lee Schlesinger - I'm tired of reading on an almost monthly basis articles asserting that Linux isn't yet ready for the desktop. Nonsense! Linux is about as ready for the desktop as Windows is. It's simply a matter of corporate and user inertia that's keeping Linux marginalized.

Linux Advisory Watch - April 11th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/0314230

    By Benjamin D. Thomas This week, advisories were released for snort,     sendmail, samba, dhcp, file, kernel ptrace, zlib, man, mutt, metrics,     moxftp, glibc, heimdal, seti, kde, apache, cvs, kerberos, mysql, httpd,     and openssl. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Gentoo,     Immunix, FreeBSD, Mandrake, Slackware, SuSE, and Trustix.

Replacing MS Exchange with Communigate Pro http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/01/1750203

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Stalker Software's Communigate Pro is an increasingly popular corporate email/groupware alternative to Microsoft's Exchange Server. According to Stalker spokesperson Philip Slater, it supports "any POP or IMAP client on the market. We never have a compatibility problem. We even support pine."

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   Swedish institute goes Itanium
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/12/0436205

     Hewlett-Packard has sold 90 dual-processor Itanium 2 machines to the     Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden's largest engineering school, for     use in a wide variety of intense calculation tasks.

Lights, camera, and lots of action
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/12/042238

     Apple this week announced new versions of its professional film, video     and DVD editing applications.

Book review: Hacker's Challenge 2
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/234227

    LogError writes "There is a number of ways to write a security related     book, and from my perspective the authors did a great job. By combining     both the technical security issues with nifty situation descriptions,     they created a book so interesting, that you won't be able to put it     down."

Sun Steps Up Linux (Lightly)
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/1638254

     Major enterprise software players, such as Oracle, IBM, BEA and Sun     Microsystems, duke it out in the application server sector.

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Upgrading your Linux system
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/1559232

     New releases of Linux come out periodically, driven by healthy     competition between the major Linux distribution vendors as well as the     "release early, release often" philosophy that guides most Open Source     projects. For example, the latest Mandrake 9.1 has just been released     recently, followed shortly by the new Red Hat 9 appearing this week.

   Itanium gets revamped Linux supercomputer software http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/1551250

     A new version of the NPACI Rocks software will make it easier for     users to add Itanium systems into clusters that use the other chips.

Open Source Alternative: NetBSD
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/1543250

     NetBSD's main claim to fame, so to speak, is its portability. Although     ports of Linux are available for several platforms, NetBSD blows the     penguin's doors off when it comes to platform support.

MySQL battles the big guys
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/1528259

    MySQL kicked off its first-ever users conference by releasing the     source code of its upcoming MySQL 5.0 product and touting its     reputation as the little database company that could.

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Initial release of PHPope
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/1441247

    gurix writes "With the release 0.8a starts the opensource project.     PHPope is a webbased content management application providing full     functionality for use with websites, intra- and extranets.The system is     designed for high flexibility, it's modular structure allows individual     adjustments to needs. More about PHPope on http://www.phpope.org"

IBM Brings Linux Offering to Small and Medium Sized Businesses http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/1519221

     At developerWorksLive! IBM today introduced a new packaged offering     that allows its Business Partner network of software vendors and     resellers to deliver Linux*-based solutions incorporating IBM hardware     and software that are priced and designed for the small and medium     business (SMB) marketplace.                                                             

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