[newsforge daily] August 20, 2003

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August 20, 2003

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Promising Rosegarden almost ready for its musical debut http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1555203

• by Peter Fernando - Rosegarden is a free general-purpose music composition and editing application for Unix and Linux with a matrix editor and a fully-featured MIDI sequencer. Though it shows promise, bugs in this beta version make me recommend waiting for the 1.0 release.

Linus on McBride's latest claim
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1633233

• by Joe Barr - Darl McBride is at it again. According to a VNUNet.com story this morning, McBride claimed yesterday at the SCOForum Conference in Las Vegas that there are over a million lines of copyrighted SCO code in Linux. He added that they can't be removed because only SCO knows which lines they are.

Is Linux becoming closed to innovation?
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1359229

• by Chris Gulker - Vinod Khosla, one of Silicon Valley's most successful venture capitalists, says that while he is optimistic about Open Source, he fears that Linux, as a few distributions become dominant, risks becoming "closed." If that happens, he says, innovation will cease and Linux will "no longer matter."

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3rd Annual East-Coast Linux/Debian Anniversary http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/2114213

    Anonymous Reader writes "This weekend August 22nd-24th, PLUG hosts it's     Third Annual East-Coast Linux/OSS Celebration Weekend in Philadelphia,     Pennsylvania. Previous events have drawn participants from over seven     different States! This years' events include a bar night and a BBQ as     bookends, with lots of spontaneous activities inbetween! This is in     celebration of the 12th anniversary of the Linux Kernel as well as the     10th Anniversary of Debian, ...

Corporate Linux Lab opens in Mountain View, California http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/2111214

     A state-of-the-art "Corporate Linux Environment" (CLE) has launched in     the heart of Silicon Valley. The Freedom Technology Center will feature     desktop Linux systems, a Linux-based server infrastructure, modern     teleconferencing, network and presentation facilities.

Tonight Live: SCO, SCO, SCO, and more SCO http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/216256

    Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com: News from SCOforum in Las Vegas,     where Jeff talked with Darl McBride in the flesh. The usual crowd will     be there, plus Eric S. Raymond and Robin 'Roblimo' Miller. Catch the     Linux show at 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et!

What is a wiki? Beginner's overview.
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1828237

    Matthew Revell writes "ContentPeople has a beginner's overview,     explaining what a wiki is and what it does."

SCO code revealed - it's BSD
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1825249

    Anonymous Reader writes "SCO did a big dog and pony show yesterday at     their conference. They also raised their claims, and according to them,     there are "millions of lines" of offending code which they have     identified by "rocket scientists" using "spectral recognition" and     "pattern analysis". To convince SCOforum attendees of their case, SCO     showed obscured slides which supposedly proved copying. Research     reveals that the code fragment SCO showed ...

   China blocks foreign software use in gov't http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1825202

     A new policy by China's governing body will rule that all ministries     buy only locally-produced software at the next upgrade cycle.

IEEE and The Open Group to Extend POSIX Certification to the Latest POSIX Standard http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1717206

     POSIX certification is about to take another step forward. The Open     Group and The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers     Standards Association (IEEE-SA) will offer a program to certify     products to the 2003 edition of IEEE 1003.1(TM)-2001, "Standard for     Information Technology-Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX),"     which incorporates the IEEE 1003.1 Corrigendum. The new program updates     the existing one and will take effect early ...

CRN Interview: SCO CEO Darl McBride
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1619210

     SCO CEO Darl McBride met Monday with CRN Senior Editor Paula Rooney to     talk about the company's Unix crusade and product plans. The interview     took place at the SCO Forum 2003 in Las Vegas. CRN is a sponsor of the     conference.

WideXS Selects Vexira Antivirus To Protect Over 60,000 Customer Domains From Email Viruses http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/159219

    Anonymous Reader writes "Leading European Web hosting company selects     VexiraÂ&#x2122; Antivirus as best of breed in enterprise-class email virus     scanning on Linux.

Damn Small Linux: Damn Nice Distro
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/19/1453253

    ladislav writes "Damn Small Linux is a Linux distribution with a     difference. Although it is based on the Knoppix live CD, its size has     been reduced drastically to fit on a 50MB business-card shape CD. Damn     Small Linux is a general purpose distribution to carry around in one's     wallet; it comes with XFree86 and the Fluxbox window manager, while     other light-weight applications for email, web browsing, word     processing, instant messaging and playing ...                                                             

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