[newsforge daily] July 06, 2003

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July 06, 2003

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Happy 4th of July!
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/30/2328239

    July 4th is Independence Day here in the United States of America, so     NewsForge is taking a three-day weekend except for a few NewsVac items     we'll post between now and Monday. See you then!

Dear Microsoft resellers: It's time to look at Linux http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/06/30/2322205

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - We've been seeing stories lately indicating that Microsoft is beefing up its direct sales staff and relying less on independent resellers. If you're one of those resellers, it looks like it's time for you to start offering Linux and Free/Open Source solutions in addition to the Windows-based ones on which you've based your business in the past, if only in self-defense. Chances are, you and your clients will like ...

Fight spam with the DNS, not the CIA
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/02/0347225

• by John Fitzgibbon - It seems like spam is in the news every day lately, and frankly, some of the proposed solutions seem either completely hare-brained or worse than the problem itself. I'd like to reiterate a relatively modest proposal I first made over a year ago: Require legitimate DNS MX records for all outbound email servers.

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Xtops.DE: Promotion of FSC Linux Laptops for Stude http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1353251

    Werner Heuser writes "Fujitsu-Siemens (Germany) prolong their promotion     of Linux laptops for pupils and students until the 31st of July. The     laptops are bundled with a SuSE 8.1 Evaluation CD. Debian GNU/Linux can     be installed on request. The machines are available from Xtops.DE     (Berlin, Germany)."

An interview with lunar-linux developer Auke Kok http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1346216

    Q. Please tell us why Lunar Linux became your distribution of choice?

1. About a year and a half ago I had gone through several distributions because none of them was meeting up to my personal demands of a good linux distro. I had already used SUSE on a couple of production servers but I ran into trouble when I tried to compile my own applications.

SCO's chief taking Linux beef to Japan
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/04/1335222

    A decision by eight consumer giants, most of them Japanese, to throw     their support behind Linux has the chief executive officer of SCO Group     on the move. Darl McBride, whose company recently launched a legal     attack on Linux for alleged patent infringements, will go to Japan this     week in an attempt to prove his point with some of the manufacturers     that came together last week as the CE Linux Forum (CELF).

Would Microsoft Open Sourcing NT be Linux's Nemesis? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2113210

    Anonymous Reader writes "Microsoft has killed off Windows NT, but it     should now release its source code to the open-source community in     order to fight off the challenge from Linux, Munir Kotadia claims.     OSNews debunks the suggestion and explains that it wouldn't make     business sense for Microsoft."

Back to BASIC
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2021257

     Few languages have been as popular over the years as BASIC. Until     about a decade ago, almost every programmer cut his teeth learning     BASIC. Indeed, the name itself came from Beginner's All Purpose     Symbolic Instruction Code. If you've had BASIC training, can you find a     familiar flavor that runs under Linux? Because it is not enough to find     a good BASIC language implementation for Linux; one must find a BASIC     language variant that approximates ...

Linux v Microsoft: the battle for hearts and servers http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/2019255

     Storage on demand is a new concept that will help organisations     maximise the value of their information assets. Find out how IBM on     demand technologies like storage virtualisation and autonomic computing     could help your company reduce costs and exploit enterprise data to the     full.

Athene 3.1 Puts a New Face on Desktop Computing http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1959240

    Rocklyte Systems writes "Rocklyte Systems is pleased to announce the     latest version of its free multi-platform operating system environment,     Athene 3.1. Available for Linux and Windows, Athene supports the rare     ability of being able to function on competing operating systems, while     also maintaining its own independent OS infrastructure (the Athenyx     2003 CDROM series). The 3.1 release of Athene continues to make     significant gains in the ...

ING Canada to Embrace Linux in Network Upgrade http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1918204

     Financial services firm ING Canada is now among the latest enterprise     networks to embrace open-source operating system Linux as part of a     wide-ranging plan to upgrade its Internet-based operations.

Playing with disaster could save lives for real http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1833230

     In a major disaster, it's one thing being able to put out fires     efficiently and deal with medical emergencies on the spot, but you have     to get your emergency vehicles there first.

EC funds project to promote Open Source in embedded systems http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/03/1728236

     The European Commission (EC) has funded a project to promote the     adoption of Open Source software, including Linux, in embedded systems.     The project, known as Industrial Embedded Systems (INES), was funded by     the European Community's Fifth Framework Programme for research,     technological development, and demonstration activities. The initiative     is investing in twenty-three "key actions," and the INES project is     part of key action 4.2.4, ...                                                             

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