[newsforge daily] April 16, 2003

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April 16, 2003

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CEO conversation: Jim Curtin of Win4Lin publisher NeTraverse http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/10/1824235

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Jim Curtin, President and CEO of Win4Lin publisher NeTraverse, says, "We're seeing people who've moved to Linux workstations and are finding they have a 20% gap on average between the functionality they're used to in a Windows environment and what they get in Linux." Curtin claims Win4Lin is the best way to bridge that 20% gap; that with Win4Lin it is almost as easy to upgrade from Windows 98 to Linux as it is to ...

Affirmative action for open source
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/04/2231254

• Lee Schlesinger - Should a public agency use privately developed software when equally suitable open source alternatives exist? Maybe a better question is, should politicians set software evaluation guidelines for IT managers, or should software compete on its own merits? That's the question at issue in two US state legislatures this year, as well as in various nations around the world.

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, ...

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Corel debuts new WordPerfect
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/0430231

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     Corel will begin selling the new version of its WordPerfect office     software Wednesday, but analysts don't expect the package to make much     headway against Microsoft Office.

The "Open" Road
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/0228221

    Clinton Goveas writes "The free software movement has formally existed     since 1983. Followers of it's philosophy have been distributing their     code under GNU licenses since 1984. Why then did a group of free     software enthusiasts set out to establish an Open Source Initiative?     And why is it still going strong today?

PROOF That File Trading Sells DVDs...Sort Of http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/0359228

    Anonymous Reader writes "MP3newswire.net has an article that mocks the     RIAA's claims that file trading is hurting the record industry. The     music industry has been wailing that the proof comes from the direct     correlation between the rise in file trading and the fall of record     sales. OK, guess what? DVD sales are up 61% this year alone. So the     author has used the exact same logic (a direct correlation between the     rise in file trading and the rise ...

MontaVista Linux Powers New Panasonic Broadband TV http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/16/0143235

    Annette Oevermann writes "TOKYO, April 15, 2003 MontaVista Software,     Inc., the company powering the embedded revolution, today announced the     selection of MontaVista® Linux® as the development platform and     operating system for Broadnow, the new broadband TV tuner from     Panasonic (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd: NYSE: MC; TSE:     6572).

Interview with Jordan Hubbard of Apple and OpenDarwin http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/2251237

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    Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews hosts an interview with Jordan Hubbard     (or Apple, OpenDarwin and FreeBSD fame) and they discuss about the     OpenDarwin Ports and how they compare to Fink's. There is also a hint     from Jordan that there might be some of the FreeBSD 5.x advancements to     be found on the next Mac OS X 10.3 Panther that is coming out,     reportedly, this autumn."

Why Mandrake 9.1 Makes Me Laugh
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/1814209

    Anonymous Reader writes "Thoughts about Mandrake 9.1"

Tonight Live: Pay Taxes and then we die Plus The http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/1812256

    Jeff Gerhardt writes "Tonight Live: On The Linux Show!! Tuesday, April     15th, 2003, from Chicago IL, Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com. At     6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.... Kevin Hill, Jeff Gerhardt, Doc     Searls (Linux Journal), Arne Flones and Russ Pavlicek; are back live     tonight. We have a great show lined up tonight on The Linux Show!

IBM Linux sequences the deadly SARS virus http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/1811223

    Anonymous Reader writes "This weekend, using IBM technology running     Linux, scientists at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre at the     British Columbia Cancer Agency in Vancouver, in collaboration with the     BC Centre for Disease Control and the National Microbiology Lab in     Winnipeg -- accomplished a breakthrough in the race the stop the spread     of the deadly SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome): They completed     the world's first genetic ...

SCO Ships SCO Linux Server 4.0 for the Itanium(R) Processor Family http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/1712225

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     Designed for Use With Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2-Based Systems, SCO Linux     Server 4.0 for the Itanium Processor Family Provides Reliable and     Easy-to-Use Business Services for the Enterprise

Panasonic Runs Set-Top Box on Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/15/171224

     Panasonic has selected MontaVista Software to supply the Linux     development platform and operating system for its latest broadband TV     tuner.                                                             

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