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[newsforge daily] April 30, 2003
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 05:30:25 EDT
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April 30, 2003
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Opera CEO says Linux is a big part of the company's future http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/26/1310230
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Opera Software CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner says the ratio of Windows to Linux Opera downloads is eight to one. This either means Linux is on 12.5% of computer desktops (unlikely) or that Linux users are far more likely than Windows users to download Opera.
HB 2892 (Oregon Open Source bill) update http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/117227
- by Ken Barber - In the last couple of weeks many heroic efforts have been made by Reps. Barnhart and Wirth to resuscitate HB 2892 (Open Source Software for Oregon bill) after Speaker of the House Karen Minnis (R-Wood Village) ordered it killed.
Metaphors make the operating system
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/23/1958212
- by Lee Schlesinger - Linux per se is not a specific set of ones and zeroes, but a self-organizing Net subculture. -- Neal Stephenson Neal Stephenson is a science fiction author perhaps best known for his magnum opus Cryptonomicon. I recently read and enjoyed a couple of his novels, so I was interested to discover his 1999 essay In the Beginning was the Command Line, which discusses the state of the operating system market four years ago from ...
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Review: User-Mode Linux April 2003
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/1826239
I've always been fascinated by the idea of running an operating system under another operating system. It's a cool hack to make a piece of hardware do double (or triple, or quadruple...) duty by running virtual machines. I've been hearing such good things about User-mode Linux (UML) that I had to give it a whirl.
Third Open Source Content Management Conference http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/181218
Gregor J. Rothfuss writes "Leveraging content with CMS: authoring and syndication towards the semantic web Open Source CMS Conference 3, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, May 28-30, 2003, Cambridge, MA: OSCOM is proud to announce that registration for OSCOM 3 is now open, at $200 for three days.
Tech's top-ten hype-notic spells
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/170258
It doesn't often happen, but I recently found myself agreeing with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. In a Wall Street Journal interview, Ellison was quoted saying, "We became the largest industry in the world by selling things that people didn't want to buy."
WineX 3.0 with Point2Play Review: No More Wine From the Command Line? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/1757216
GonzoJohn writes "With the release of WineX 3.0 from Transgaming on April 17th this year, it looked like it was time to revisit the wonderful world of Wine. This time around, Transgaming WineX 3.0 has some new tools as well as improvements in the number of games supported and gaming speeds. In this article, we're going to take a look at the new features of WineX 3.0, with a focus on their new GUI installer called Point2Play."
Linux' New Best Friend: Microsoft Licensing 6.0 http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/1650202
Ultimately, Microsoft's best friend is corporate inertia. IT departments that want to ditch Microsoft will have to make a strong case to executives that replacement costs will be recouped in a timely manner.
Linus Torvalds blesses DRM, and nothing happens http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/1549202
Last week Linus Torvalds said share denial technology, or DRM (Digital Rights Management) is OK. He did so on a linux kernel mailing list and so anticipating the reaction, with the Subject line: Flame Linus to a crisp!, he wrote: "I'm going to just hunker down for some really impressive extended flaming, and my asbestos underwear is firmly in place, and extremely uncomfortable." Continuing the dramatic costume theme, Linux IDE subsystem guy ...
Mosaic Blows Out 10 Candles
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/1544214
Grunge was fashionable. Version 1.0 of the Linux kernel was about ready to make its debut. Intel's snappy new 66-MHz Pentium processor had just been introduced.
Leading software vendors ensure the future of Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/1539228
The jury is no longer out on Linux. Oracle, Novell and even Microsoft have acknowledged the Penguin as suitable for the enterprise.
CA Rolling Out On-Demand Offerings
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/1527244
Computer Associates International Inc. today is expected to unveil its entry into the nascent market for on-demand computing products and services, attempting to one-up established rivals such as IBM Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. with an a la carte offering that can be used across various computer platforms.
New software for fault-tolerant Linux-based systems http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/29/1429255
Eternal Systems unveiled a new software product for adding high availability and fault-tolerant capabilities to Linux-based systems requiring "five-nines" (99.999%) or greater service availability, at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco last week.
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