[newsforge daily] August 19, 2003

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August 19, 2003

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The inevitability of Total Information Awareness http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/13/1755205

• by Campbell Vertesi - In the age of the Internet, technology inevitably fills demand. In the case of music-swapping services, we all recognize that the recording industry hasn't a hope of stopping every file-sharing service around. So long as there is a demand for easy access to music, technology will rise to meet that demand, and all the lawsuits in the world won't help the RIAA to stop it. So why should we expect anything different from ...

 SCO Scuttles Sense, Claiming GPL Invalidity http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/160200

• by Eben Moglen - Now that the tide has turned, and SCO is facing the dissolution of its legal position, claiming to "enforce its intellectual property rights" while actually massively infringing the rights of others, the company and its lawyers have jettisoned even the appearance of legal responsibility.

Tea leaves and Linux market share
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1516245

• by Joe Barr - I was - just as the story lead suggested - a bit slackjawed over a statistic from Gartner Dataquest cited in a recent news story. The statistic causing that reaction was that the Linux server market share of U.S. sales had grown 90% in the 4th quarter of 2002 over the same quarter in 2001. Try as I might, I could not make that statistic fit with data from IDC.

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Top Tip: Best card for hassle-free sound in Linux? http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/2058218

     "Which budget sound card would you recommend as the most likely to be     configured automatically by a majority of Linux distros? Which high-end     card?

Details emerge on new $299 Linux PDA
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1945237

    Anonymous Reader writes "A brand-new Linux-based PDA is due to hit the     market this September, at a price of $299 (USD). Softfield, which took     on support of the Agenda VR3 following the demise of Agenda Computing,     said it will release the entirely-new MX-7 in early Sep., 2003. The     device is based on an ARM 920T based processor running at 200MHz"

Unix/Linux Keystroke Information Disclosure Weakness http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1944211

     A weakness has been discovered in the entropy pool implemented by the     /dev/random device on various Unix-derived operating systems. The     problem occurs when the pool has been emtpied, and the entropy     mechanism begins to the seed the pool with a source of pseudo-random     data. It has been discovered that due to keystrokes from the console     being a source of seeding the entropy pool, it may be possible for an     attacker to deduce a user's keystrokes ...

Red Hat embarrassed by SuSE certification http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1942237

     LAST FEBRUARY, Red Hat and Oracle jointly announced (C|NET)     cooperation to obtain Common Criteria (CC) certification for the Red     Hat Advanced Server operating system and the Oracle 9i Release 2     database running on that platform. But at LinuxWorld last week, IBM and     SuSE revealed their achievement (LWN) of CC Enterprise Assurance Level     2+ (EAL2+) certification first, with SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 on     the IBM xSeries platforms, thus beating ...

Creditcard-sized XScale SBC boasts extensive embedded Linux support http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/190256

    InHand Electronics Inc. announced immediate availability of the third     generation of its tiny "Fingertip" single-board computer family. The     credit card sized Fingertip3 is InHand's first SBC to be based on an     Intel XScale microprocessor, and also provides substantially enhanced     power management capabilities and an SD Card slot. The board supports     embedded Linux as its target operating system.

Los Alamos to study weapons, HIV virus with Linux clusters http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1550226

     Los Alamos National Laboratory yesterday announced a deal to acquire     two Linux clusters, one for modeling nuclear weapons and the other for     unclassified research in biology, chemistry and engineering.

Microsoft Urges Users Not to Use Windows on the Internet http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1546219

     Microsoft's Web site was recently urging users to purchase additional     hardware or software - or keep computers using the Windows OS off of     the Internet altogether. Steve Suehring makes no claim that Linux has     all of the answers for security. "However, attacks can be prevented     much easier with Linux," he writes.

Expert says Linux may be 'inevitable'
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1215219

     DAVID D. FRYE, the man whose "job is to make Linux run better" at     IBM's laboratory for the open source operating system, sees the day     when the average computer user, home or office, will be using a     computer run on open-source software. Perhaps in as little as two     years, he surmised.

Report predicts Linux surge in corporate desktops http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1323239

     Siemens Business Systems is predicting that Linux will garner 20% of     the corporate desktop market within five years. The claim is based on     the results of extensive real world testing with non-technical users     who could be just as productive on a Linux desktop, but at a lower     cost.

Cheaper Linux makes rapid strides in India http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/18/1252257

     Linux, a low-cost and lesser-known operating system with growing     corporate use and backing by cash-strapped state governments, has     caught on in India, diluting Microsoft's monopoly.                                                             

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