[newsforge daily] April 28, 2003

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April 28, 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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A Linux app that doesn't exist
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/28/0311252

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    Anonymous Reader writes "There are multiple Linux applications in just     about every category, including some very obscure ones. So why is there     no user-configurable, console-mode login manager and menuing program?"

IBM brings new Linux watch technology to GITEX Saudi Arabia 2003 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1526249

    Riyadh, KSA - The ‘WatchPad' will be showcased at GITEX Saudi Arabia     this year: a prototype of the Linux watch technology being jointly     developed by IBM Research and Citizen Watch. The Linux WatchPad on the     SBM stand brings to the region the latest technologies still emerging     from IBM's labs around the world.

Thread designs divide chip makers
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1523255

    The makers of the world's fastest microprocessors are engaged in a     theological debate: Which are better, fat threads or skinny threads?

LA Judge - P2P Services Legal!
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1430230

    Anonymous Reader writes "A dramatic victory was handed to the file     trade community Friday when a federal judge ruled that two P2P     companies were not liable for the content exchanged on their services."

LinuxInstall.org launches Support Forum
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/27/1426249

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    Thomas Chung writes "Hello, We have just launched a Support Forum Web     Site for LinuxInstall.org at: http://linuxinstall.org/forum/."

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

    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

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

    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."                                                             

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