[newsforge daily] July 08, 2003

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July 08, 2003

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Centrino Laptops Becoming Popular Among Linux Geeks http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/126229

• by Werner Heuser - Three months after Intel has released their new technology, laptops based on the Centrino(TM) features are already very popular in the Linux community. For almost all Centrino based laptops from different manufacturers there are installation reports available at TuxMobil.

Saving an old laptop with Knoppix
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/06/212212

    by Peter Johansson An old laptop of mine fubared its Linux partition     beyond (easy) repair so I decided a clean install was the way to go.     When I went to install a recent Debian system I had trouble with PCMCIA     under the 2.2 kernel, and XFree gave me a blank screen under 2.4.     Knoppix, however, made everything work automagically (with the     exception of sound).

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!

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Open source user group announces 2003 awards http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/08/0226208

    Anonymous Reader writes "The Australian Unix and Open Systems User     Group (AUUG) is calling on the open source community to nominate     outstanding Australians who have contributed to the open source cause     for its second annual awards. The Open Source Awards (OSA) 2003, which     were launched last year alongside AUUG's annual technical conference in     Melbourne, are designed to encourage and recognise work undertaken by     Australians towards the open ...

Massachusetts Probing Microsoft Settlement Gripes http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/2117224

    Anonymous Reader writes "Massachusetts, the state appealing Microsoft's     landmark antitrust settlement, has told a federal judge it is probing     potential breaches of the pact. [I]n a filing posted on the court's Web     site on Monday, that it was looking at whether the world's largest     software maker had retaliated against a computer maker for promoting     Linux, an alternative to Microsoft's Windows operating system."

Basic Hardening Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/207252

    An Anonymous Reader writes "Linux is capable of high-end security;     however, the out-of-the-box configurations must be altered to meet the     security needs of most businesses with an Internet presence. This     chapter shows you the steps for securing a Linux system called     hardening the server using both manual methods and open source security     solutions."

Sources say IBM to drop Windows-based storage http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/1722219

     IBM plans to discontinue its line of Windows-based network-attached     storage (NAS) devices in order to focus on higher-end products,     including an upcoming file server that will run Linux, sources said     this week.

Linux and Open Source is Better for Business than MS Windows http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/1750251

    Anonymous Reader writes "A Linux user and businessman tests both     Windows and Linux and concludes that Linux and Open Source is better     for business than Microsoft Windows. Read the editorial at OSNews.com."

Big, Fault-Tolerant Servers Meet Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/1650202

     NEC Solutions America Inc. and Stratus Technologies Inc. are looking     to Linux as a way to expand the reach of their respective     fault-tolerant servers.

Netli, Linux Take Web to Warp Speeds
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/1623216

     In physics, distance in space often translates into longer durations     of time. The farther you go, the longer it will take you to get there.     Unless you change the way you're going.

SAP, Sharp Go in a Linux, Java Mobile Direction http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/165216

     Enterprise software company SAP AG and Japanese electronics giant     Sharp have teamed up in order to build applications that deliver     real-time data across corporate networks to smaller mobile devices.

Pogo Linux, MySQL Team on Open-source Appliance http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/1538212

     Two small companies aimed to spread the gospel of open-source     technologies Monday as Pogo Linux said it agreed to build an appliance     powered by MySQL AB's open-source database.

SuSE Linux In Space With CC CompuNet in 2.4 Million Euro Engagement http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/07/158200

     SuSE Linux announced a new 2.4 million euro engagement with the German     Aerospace Center (DLR) on a high-performance storage system for     Columbus, the European space lab project.                                                             

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