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[newsforge daily] April 22, 2003
Date: Tue Apr 22 2003 - 05:30:25 EDT
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April 22, 2003
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Open Source Development Lab names new CEO http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1446245
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - According to a press release issued this
morning (complete text below) the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL),
"a global consortium of leading technology companies dedicated to
accelerating the adoption of Linux in enterprise computing," has appointed its first CEO. Lab director Tim "wookie"' Witham will continue to hold his current position and will still be the primary tech contact. Stu Cohen, the new CEO, will ...
So you want to be a Web African programmer? http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/1518210
- Guido Sohne - Accra, Ghana - Working as a software developer in Web
Africa can be a trying experience. I remember the days when, less than
two months into starting a new company, we had to endure the infamous
"load-shedding" -- a practice of cutting off electricity to whole
sections of the city in order to conserve power. Never mind that you need electricity to work and you need to work to eat. Nowadays things are much better -- they just cut ...
LinuxISO.org: a valuable resource for new users http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/08/1833251
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - "Where do I get Linux?" is one of the
most frequent questions we get through our editors@linux.com email
address. An excellent answer I think we'll be giving in the future is,
"From LinuxISO.org." Assuming the site survives, that is.
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All power big and small
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1855259
The walls of Apple Computer in Cupertino are covered with international awards for excellence in industrial design - the flat-panel iMac, the iPod and, perhaps most impressive of all, the PowerBooks.
New York gets a dose of PHP: PHPCon East Opens Wednesday http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/186231
Monica Ortiz writes "San Francisco, CA Last years successful addition to the PHP conference circuit heads to New York City this week with an expanded program that includes a third day of tutorials and several new and returning PHP gurus. PHPCon East 2003, the first of two regional, PHP-centric shows scheduled in 2003, runs April 23 to 25, 2003 at the Park Central Hotel in New York City, NY.
Interview with the PostgreSQL Team
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1758255
Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews features an interview with some members of the PostgreSQL team regarding the much needed replication feature, their competition to MySQL, their future plans and a "native" Windows/.NET port."
GRID WARS Parallel Programming Challenge Featured at ClusterWorld Conference and Expo http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1611257
Engineered Intelligence Corporation (EI) today announced that the next
"GRID WARS(TM) parallel programming challenge, where competing programs
written in CxC ("C by C") fight for survival of the fittest in a grid
of processors, will be held live at the ClusterWorld Conference and
Expo in San Jose, June 23-26.
Novell to offer Linux version
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/160236
NOVELL is to integrate open-source components and industry standards in the next version of its NetWare. Version 7.0 of NetWare is to be built to run on either NetWare or Linux kernels, Novell announced at BrainShare, its annual user conference.
Canon color and wide format printers get Linux support http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1555251
Canon and Codehost today announced the availability of Codehost's BrightQ suite of Linux and Unix-based printing tools for Canon's imageRUNNER line of multi-function devices, CLC Color Laser Copier/Printers, and wide format printers.
Texas Uni adopts big Opteron, Linux combo http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1537228
A report said that Texas A&M University is to build a big 128 dual processing Opteron cluster using SuSE Linux.
Book Review: A History of Modern Computing, Second Edition http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1534253
A History of Modern Computing covers business and scientific computing from about 1945 until the present. Paul Ceruzzi is a historian and curator, and this evident in his writing, which is more like a textbook than a dramatized history, as many books about computing history tend to be.
Open Source Reference Book 2003 requests submissions http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1516201
The Center of Open Source & Government announces that it will publish
"The Open Source Reference Book 2003 [What Local/National Governments,
the Defense Establishment, and The Global 1000 Need To Know About Open
Source Software]." According to the organization, this is an Open
Source resource book targeting the 20,000 IT power users around the
world.
Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.5.68
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/21/1512245
Tons of changes all over the map. The diff is large, partly because the s390x support got merged into the s390 port as a 64-bit subset, and the old s390x architecture files thus became irrelevant. And a merge with Alan gave us a another architecture instead - h8300.
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