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Using Mozilla 1.3's "Junk" email filter
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/11/0336205

By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - My new Mandrake 9.1 installation includes Mozilla 1.3, which comes with a simple Bayesian email filter that does a pretty fair job of getting rid of junk email before you waste eyeball time on it. But it is not a perfect utility, and unless you set it up correctly some of the email you want to read will inevitably end up in the "Junk" folder. This article explains some tricks I found to prevent this from happening, ...

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.

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IBM Dives Deeper Into Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/0413208

IBM next month will extend the reach of its Directory Server and Directory Integrator across additional Linux hardware platforms when it adds versions for the IBM i-Series and p-Series servers.

Phoenix's New Name: Firebird
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/035214

Anonymous Reader writes "mozilla.org's Phoenix browser has been renamed to 'Firebird'. 'Thunderbird', the proposed future name for the Minotaur mail client, has also been approved by the lawyers."

The Big Cheap Chance
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/2221216

At Fry's Electronics, a California store chain, you can buy an elephant's memory's worth of disk space--a 120-gigabyte hard disk drive from IBM/Hitachi--for $113. Welcome to the Cheap Revolution! The sum of this revolution is greater than its parts, as you'll see.

AMD Unveils RDK For Communications Access Equipment Apps http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/2214243

AMD has just taken the wraps off a new Access Equipment Reference Design Kit (RDK) for developers of a wide range of access equipment, including data- and voice-enabled wireless access points (WAP), gateways, and router-firewalls.

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eCos 2.0 Breaks Out of Red Hat Red Tape
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/2213220

Free of the shackles imposed by Red Hat Inc., maintainers of the open-source eCos real-time operating system said in mid-March that version 2.0, now in beta, could be generally available around April 15. The new version will add an all-new bootloader with remote debugging and full POSIX compliance, giving it the ability to run many Linux and Unix applications with just a recompile.

Linux Casts Shadow Over Sun
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/223249

Sun Microsystems has changed its mind on Linux more often than a 16-year-old flipping through outfits. Yet another shoe dropped at Sun with its announcement at the end of last month that it will be killing its Sun Linux 5.0 distribution.

Novell Drives Open, Cross-Platform Computing at BrainShare 2003 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/201206

Delivering on its promise of a world without information boundaries, Novell made a series of announcements today at its annual customer conference around new solutions to help customers move to open, cross-platform computing quickly and cost effectively.

Open source starts licencing ripples
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/1812221

Growing interest in open-source software could force vendors to change their licensing tactics. S2 Intelligence managing director Bruce McCabe says vendors can no longer squeeze customers as much as they once did.

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Catching up with Carly Fiorina
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/183209

Carly Fiorina, the chairman and chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, repeatedly declined the Mercury News' requests for an interview about the company's course since the Compaq Computer acquisition.

eXtreme Programming and OSS development - a comparitive study http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/1733208

Mathamota writes "Traditionally 'engineering' is more used for tangible things. Engineering has over ages developed to deal with houses, bridges, cars, factories etc. In the realm of software, 'software engineering' is a different developmental model altogether. Due to its flexible nature, software can be modified very quickly. Moreover, it is built on and through other software including OS and APIs, programming and development environment etc. ...

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