[newsforge daily] June 04, 2003

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June 04, 2003

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NewsForge/Linux.com 'Roundtable' IRC meeting Thursday evening http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1621224

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - This is part of a large-scale media credibility study sponsored by The Associated Press and The Ford Foundation. Newspapers and TV stations do their 'Roundtables' in person, but since our readership is spread out all over the world, we're doing ours via IRC. You must sign up in advance to get the channel information, since this is a serious discussion, not a casual chat.

Brass tacks: SCO and your business
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/2354255

• by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols - Enough of intellectual property (IP) issues, and who actually wrote what in Linux. Let's get down to brass tacks. You're selling or working with Linux, SCO OpenServer, or UnixWare. What the heck do you do now?

Sonicblue's Linux tech toys head for final (?) roundup http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1158259

• By John Lettice, The Register - Sonicblue, producer of several interesting Linux-based devices, filed for Chapter 11 earlier this year and sold off its ReplayTV and Rio business units as part of its survival bid. But although hardware supplies are drying up and official support has been largely cut off, a weird side-effect of Sonicblue's difficulties is that there are still a few bargains to be had, often at a fraction of build cost, and there ...

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Reclaim the Public Domain
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/206228

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    jeremy_hogan writes "Help reclaim the Public Domain: Please sign this     petition: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/eldred/ I just read and signed     this petition from Lawrence Lessig.

Arcom releases VxWorks® 5.5 and Wind® ML 3.0 BSP for the 300MHz SBC-GX1 single board computer http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/201217

    Jenny McCrae writes "Arcom has launched a new board support package     (BSP) Development Kit to support Wind Rivers VxWorks 5.x, the most     widely adopted RTOS in the embedded industry. The development kit     enables customers to quickly create VxWorks 5.5 based applications     using a reliable reference platform and a production ready product. The     SBC-GX1 VxWorks 5.5 BSP Development Kit includes a complete BSP to     support both VxWorks and Wind ML 3.0. ...

Interview with Ximian's Nat Friedman
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1948232

    Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews features a very interesting interview     with Nat Friedman, of Ximian fame. Nat tells all and talks about the     upcoming Ximian Desktop 2 and its differences from Gnome 2, the     difficulties of developing the MS Exchange Connector, Linux as a     desktop and its integration issues, Mono and plans for Gnome     integration, the hundrends of OpenOffice.org changes made to make OOo     like a Gnome2 app, and how Ximian feels... about ...

Tonight Live: Eric Raymond and the War on SCO http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1942221

    Jeff Gerhardt writes "Tonight Live: On The Linux Show! Tuesday, May     27th, 2003 from Chicago IL: Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com.

LinuxForce And The Franklin Institute Science Museum Announce The Development Of New Interactive Edu http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1930217

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    Philadelphia, PA -- 3 June 2003 -- LinuxForce today announced that it     has been selected by The Franklin Institute Science Museum to develop a     new educational application for The Franklin Institute Science Museum     Online.

   Ximian Rolls Out New Linux Desktop
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1819246

     Linux desktop and server solution provider Ximian Inc. will on Monday     announce the next major version of its Linux desktop software, Ximian     Desktop 2.

Sun banks on broadband, mobile sales overseas http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1817254

    US network computer firm Sun Microsystems, hit hard by corporate     belt-tightening, is banking on high-speed mobile services and broadband     Internet access to lift sales overseas, its head for Europe told     Reuters on Tuesday.

Top Five Open Source Packages for System Administrators http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/183214

     The top honor in my top five tools list goes to Cfengine, written by     Mark Burgess. Cfengine is a wonderful tool for configuring and     maintaining Unix computer systems. Cfengine is a stand-alone tool (set     of tools), which administers and configures computers according to the     instructions in its configuration files. The configuration files     describe the desired characteristics of various system components using     a high-level language that is easy to ...

A sane legal review of the SCO case
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/174208

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    Agent Orange writes ""Always On Network" has the single best article I     have seen written to date on the state of the entire SCO affair. I am     not a lawyer, but the author of that piece is (Mr. Mark F. Radcliffe)     and he is an intellectual property lawyer to boot. If ever we had the     honest opinion of a legal mind, this is the best informed opinion I     have read."

Red Hat Linux Advisory: kernel
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1629223

     Updated kernel packages for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 8.0 are     now available. These packages fix a ptrace-related vulnerability that     can lead to elevated (root) privileges.                                                             

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