[newsforge daily] June 11, 2003

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June 11, 2003

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New WPA wireless security coming soon
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/09/1331225

• by Anne Zieger - Virtually no one has a kind word to say about Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), the standard for securing data transmissions on Wi-Fi networks. WEP, which relies on cryptography that can be cracked with a half-hour of laptop time, isn't well-defended, but until recently it's all Wi-Fi fans had.

The demise of copyright
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/06/1913204

• by Lee Schlesinger - Last week Justin Frankel, the founder of Nullsoft, the company that created the popular Windows music player Winamp, quietly posted on Nullsoft's Web site a collaboration program called WASTE licensed under the GPL. Nullsoft is owned by AOL Time Warner. The day after Frankel posted the software AOL ordered it removed from the site, and instead posted a notice asserting the company's rights to the software. (Shortly after ...

Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies sponsors Open Source Conference http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/05/1328209

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - "The Caribbean Centre for Monetary Studies (CCMS) and the Trinidad and Tobago Linux Users Group (TTLUG) would like to inform you of the first ever local conference on Free, Libre and Open Source (FLOS) Software. The Conference will be held on the 26th and 27th of June 2003 at the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago." NewsForge will be there. Will you?

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Did SCO Violate the GPL?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/11/0022204

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     Some members of the open-source community are claiming that the SCO     Group may have violated the terms of the GNU GPL (General Public     License) by incorporating source code from the Linux kernel into the     Linux Kernel Personality feature found in SCO Unix without giving the     changes back to the community or displaying copyright notices     attributing the code to Linux.

Introduction and History of Darwin
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/2131259

    Anonymous Reader writes "OSNews features an article introducing the     Darwin, where it came from, the technologies used behind it, the Open     Darwin and Gnu Darwin distributions, how the Darwin architecture is     evolving and where it is going."

OSA Intros Linux Server Manager Software http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/2130236

    OSA Technologies writes "OSA Technologies Showcases New Linux support     for IPMI Server Manager Product at the DMTFs Global Management     Conference Company Expands Beyond Windows Product Line Supports WBEM     and Taps into Growing IPMI Market for Linux Systems.

Torvalds Says SCO Won't Give Him Peek At Code Without NDA http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/2125227

     The SCO Group has shown off a few hundred lines of Linux code that     allegedly violates its rights to Unix but won't allow Linus     Torvalds--the father of Linux--to take a peek without signing a     non-disclosure agreement.

   GNU/FreeBSD progress
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1734233

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     The Debian GNU/FreeBSD port has recently made significant progress     using the GNU C library as a base instead of FreeBSD's libc.

Bell tolling for PNG graphics format?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1733216

     A patent underlying one of the Web's most popular graphics formats is     set to expire later this month, raising the question of whether a     rival, open format, created as a royalty-free alternative, will become     obsolete.

SCO Backs Up Claims of Linux IP Theft
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1722200

     The biggest threat facing open-source sensation Linux today isn't     Windows and the voracious company that makes it, but an increasingly     dangerous legal battle with the SCO Group, the owner of various     copyrights, patents, and intellectual property for UNIX, the OS on     which Linux is based. According to SCO, IBM and numerous other Linux     makers and users are violating the law by using Linux because the OS     includes code stolen from UNIX, and SCO is ...

Turning the SEGA Dreamcast into a Linux firewall/router http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/172227

    Anonymous Reader writes "Learn how to turn a SEGA Dreamcast gaming     console into a Linux-based software router with firewalling and virtual     private networking capabilities. The article explains how to create the     necessary toolchain for compiling both programs and the Linux kernel,     and shows how, starting from scratch, you can build a Linux operating     system that runs entirely in memory."

CNET News: Two Linux Server Specialists Combine http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/171200

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    Penguin Computing, a server maker that specializes in Linux-running     machines, has signed an agreement to acquire Scyld Computing, the two     companies plan to announce Tuesday.

Microsoft actions give Linux 'credibility' http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/10/1617248

     The chief executive of Germany's SuSE Linux says Microsoft's     aggressive attitude towards Linux proves the operating system is     important and gives it credibility                                                             

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