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[newsforge daily] August 03, 2003
Date: Sun Aug 03 2003 - 02:30:25 EDT
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August 03, 2003
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The state of Linux at the retail store
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/02/2144241
- by James Hutton - I work in a small retail electronics store that has been selling cheap Linux PCs for the last 8 months or so. It was an experiment that returned mediocre results. The hardware wasn't a problem -- it was cheap but solid hardware, and exactly what a lot of people wanted for basic word processing, email, etc. Even the fact that it wasn't running Windows wasn't a problem, people are prepared to overlook that if it's going to do ...
Is my new portable music player safe to use? http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/2118255
- By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - Portable MP3/Ogg players get better every year. The latest model managing editor Lee Schlesinger and I have received for review is a lovely little piece of engineering and we are happy to share our impressions of it with you. But is this device legal? Will those of us who use it bring the wrath of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) down on our heads like a corporate version of Maxwell's Silver ...
Linux Advisory Watch - August 1st 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/135213
- by Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for mnogosearch, perl, sup, conq, gallery, xtokkaetama, kernel, stunnel, openssh, and kdelibs. The distributors include Conectiva, Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, and Turbo Linux.
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WinHelp for Linux
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/02/227210
Viktor Zadorev writes "The first beta version of the rich-feature viewer of documents in WinHelp file format for Linux - HelpExplorer has been released. HelpExplorer - is a full-feature system of help for OS Linux. It gives a wide range of capacities to customize the user's interface and it can be easily integrated into your applications. One of the main advantages of this system is 100% support of WinHelp help file format widely used in OS ...
Interview with Andy Robinson
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/02/224247
jleveille writes "Andy Robinson relates to high school kids that are bright, but don't get good grades. He understands the feeling of not fitting in, not getting along in the system, and not knowing where you're going to end up. His parents signed him up for some college computer classes and his life changed. “Not all at once,†he said in a phone interview with Linuxbeginner.org. “Until then I never really had much of an interest in ...
Attorneys critical of SCO
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/02/222211
Anonymous Reader writes: "An interesting legal commentary on SCO can be found at web page for the Law Office of Lewis A. Mettler which includes some highly critical comments about SCO, their actions, and their legal approach, including:
TuxMobil News Digest 07/2003
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/02/2155253
Werner Heuser writes: This month's TuxMobil News digest has many good news for Linux PDA and laptop users. Here is an extract of the monthly digest, but note there are much more noteworthy issues, so do not miss to check the whole.
UCITA... no more?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/02/2150242
aicra writes "NCCUSL pulled support of UCITA. UCITA, The Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act, caused a stir of debate and contention over the past years. UCITA was only passed in Virginia and Maryland. Four states adoped anti-UCITA legislation.
LinuxWorld preview: New 2.6 kernel bringing new level of competition from Linux http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/1918254
Michael S. Mimoso writes "Now that the 2.6 version of the Linux kernel is in beta, enterprise Linux users are anxious to see how the next six months will play out with regard to the core of the operating system and how it expands enterprise adoption."
Interview with Asa Dotzler of Mozilla
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/1916240
linuxquestions writes "In an interview with LinuxQuestions.org Asa discusses the formation of the the Mozilla Foundation, the direction Mozilla is headed, Microsoft's decision to no longer offer IE as a standalone product, acceptance of the browser as a client interface to applications and more."
IBM responds to SCO
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/1911236
Anonymous Reader writes "An IBM executive has commented on what he alleges are the forces behind SCO. More significantly for the case, IBM may be about to respond to SCO's amended complaint. Interesting commentary, including instructions on how to get copies of court documents, at GROKLAW. Non-IBM lawyers have also been looking at the issue too. Eben Moglen has written a position paper for the OSDL. Down under, a lawyer colorfully says, in that ...
Speakers for AUUG national open source conference announced http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/199208
Anonymous Reader writes "The Australian UNIX and Open Systems User Group (AUUG) has released the program for its annual national technical conference, catering to open source software users, businesses, government agencies, developers and vendors. .... Among those confirmed to speak are Samba guru and IBM researcher Andrew Tridgell, National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) general manager Steve Alford, Sun chief technology officer ...
SCO's official Linux contributions
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/01/197223
Anonymous Reader writes "Previous reports have covered how SCO employees (back when the company was called Caldera) helped add many of the Linux enterprises features that they need decry and claim as copyright or contractual infringements, for example: SCO Helped Linux Go Enterprise. Some probably questioned whether these contributions were unauthorized activities, but it now seems evidence that these contributions were officially made by SCO."
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