[newsforge daily] April 27, 2003

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April 27, 2003

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Why do programmers write open source software? http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/19/2128256

• Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - "What motivates people to participate in the open source community? Is it creativity, or what? There's a lot of work involved, and the remuneration must be minimal. What do open source developers do for a source of income?" These questions were recently asked on a journalists' email list I belong to. Here is an edited version of my reply:

Linux Advisory Watch - April 25th, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/25/119202

• By Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for vixie-cron, tcpdump, balsa, sendmail-wide, ircii, mime-support, kdelibs, gkrellm, snort, ethereal, and xinetd. The distributors include Contectiva, Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, and Turbo Linux.

History repeats itself
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/18/189226

• Lee Schlesinger - When I read the news from Novell's BrainShare conference I'm mentally transported back in time 10 years and in space 2,000 miles east from Salt Lake City to bucolic Westborough, Massachusetts, once home to Banyan Systems. Novell is taking NetWare squarely down the path Banyan took its VINES network operating system. Can Novell avoid Banyan's fate?

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Linux and the Knowledge Worker
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/1917256

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    This article is intended to hopefully give insight into the state of     desktop Linux as it pertains to the business market. One of the     oft-stated goals of Linux developers is adoption by businesses for both     server and desktop for technical and non-technical staff alike. I took     it upon myself to use Linux daily for my job (most staff uses Windows     98 or XP) for a variety of reasons. In this (and future) article(s) I     would like to share my ...

Red Hat warms to Itanium-booster plan
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/146257

     Leading Linux seller Red Hat is looking fondly at an Intel technology     that improves the ability of the chipmaker's Itanium processor to run     older software written for Xeon or Pentium chips.

Linuxbeginner IRC on freenode.net
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/141243

    jleveille writes "#linuxbeginner is live on irc.freenode.net, stop in,     we will be happy to help GNU/Linux beginners out."

Red Carpet 2.0 preview 2 release
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/140232

    "We're happy to announce a second previous release of Red Carpet 2.0."

We're not Microsoft
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/1141234

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    Anonymous Reader writes "The resurgence of interest in Linux as an     operating system for desktop machines seems to have led at least some     distributors to a peculiar conclusion: computer users are stupid. Fact     is, Linux users are smarter than we look."

   Oppn soft on Linux, wants no Windows
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/0334251

     In a sign that the cyber age has well and truly dawned inside     Parliament, the Opposition on Thursday warned the government against     the Microsoft monopoly over software.

Linux questions and answers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/25/2340257

     Linux will go mainstream in the data center in 2003. Why? Because the     open-source operating system delivers Unix reliability at Intel prices     and has strong support from vendors like Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle     and SAP. But executives still wonder about the right Linux strategy.

'Open Source Software - Case Studies Examining Its Use' Released by the Dravis Group http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/25/2013228

    The Dravis Group LLC has published the report "Open Source Software:     Case Studies Examining its Use," which illustrates the diverse uses of     open source software. After releasing "Linux, Inc.: A Survey of Open     Source Software -- October 2002," The Dravis Group recognized a need to     provide perspectives on the benefits and challenges associated with     open source software. Discussions with numerous commercial, government     and non-profit organizations ...

Win XP, now on Linux !
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/25/1730237

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    CodeWeavers new software offering enables Linux users to run most     Microsoft Office XP components on Linux, thus giving an extra edge to     this OS.

The world beyond Windows
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/25/1526201

    Whether or not Microsofts new Windows Server 2003 software has .Net in     its name, it is clear the companys real commitment is to its Windows     operating system. Obviously, it makes business sense for Microsoft to     want to continue generating demand for its flagship products,     especially now that action in the industry is moving away from the     desktop, where Microsoft rules, toward the Web where competition is     king.                                                             

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