[newsforge daily] September 26, 2003

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September 26, 2003

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AMD betting big pile of chips on new 64-bit processors http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/0435215

• by Chris Preimesberger - SAN FRANCISCO -- Every time Advanced Micro Devices of Sunnyvale, Calif. comes out with a newer, faster processor, some analyst or headline writer claims it will make or break the company. Well, although AMD has been posting losses for two years, the company has long since "made it," so that part isn't relevant. It has taken many broadsides from Intel, Applied Materials, and other chipster foes over the years and lived ...

Why Microsoft is buying Lindows for California residents http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/229203

• By Robin 'Roblimo' Miller - At the top of the MSfreePC.com home page, it says, "In connection with a legal settlement, you may be eligible for a FREE PC and allowed to purchase up to $100 worth of software paid for by Microsoft®!" The catch is that you must live in California. And to use MSfreePC.com to collect your share of the Microsoft antitrust settlement booty, you must accept it in the form of Lindows products, a major piece of irony ...

And the winning Linux TV program is: tvtime http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/22/0120255

• by Joe Barr - If you're like me, you have used XAWTV or Xine or similar applications for Linux over the years to watch TV at your PC. It may have taken a little bit of tinkering, but at least you could have live TV on your desktop. Well, I have news good news. There is a new TV player in town. It's called tvtime, and it's a dandy. It's easy to install, easy to use, and it works great on my old Hauppauge WinTV card. As a special bonus, you can ...

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@tStake CTO loses job after Microsoft report http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/26/0654225

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    The chief technology officer of computer security firm @Stake, which     consults for Microsoft Corp., has been fired after taking part in     writing a report criticizing Windows as posing a national cybersecurity     risk, an associate said on Thursday.

But does it cause cancer?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/2356236

    According to a ZDNet poll, 77 percent of its readers believe that     Windows is a threat to our national security. Amazing that so many     still use it.

XFce Project releases version 4.0
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/2231259

    Jasper Huijsmans writes "XFce 4.0 has been released! The XFce Team is     pleased to announce the release of version 4.0 of the XFce Desktop     Environment and Development Platform. See the press release.

   LinuxTV 2.0 STBs and SoCs pending
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/2039255

    German digital TV specialist Galaxis will soon ship the first set-top     box (STB) based on LinuxTV 2.0, a software stack from Convergence that     supports the Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) interface. Additionally,     Galaxis revealed plans to build future LinuxTV 2.0 based STBs     incorporating a new system-on-chip (SoC) processor from Toshiba.

Businesses Face Barriers To E-Mail Upgrades http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/1937225

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     As Microsoft and Lotus prepare updates, most big companies are running     messaging software one or two major revisions behind the maker's most     current version.

Linux Clusters Rev Up on PC Blades
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/1821225

     When it comes to Linux clusters, mainframes have long drawn the     largest acclaim. Now, though, scientific and technical imaging     specialists such as Paradigm and Electro-Optical Sciences (EOS) are     praising the gains they're seeing from Linux clusters on PC servers,     even without blades.

Linux from the trenches: A frank analysis of Linux as it moves toward critical mass http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/185213

     Tom Adelstein, longtime Linux advocate and consultant has spent the     last year working closely with state, local, and federal government     open source software initiatives. Tom launched Government Forge, a Web     site devoted to state and local governments interested in Linux and     open source which is newly part of the Open Source Software Institute.     In November 2002, Tom initiated the legislation for Open Source     Software in Texas which resulted in ...

Tools to migrate from Exchange
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/1713233

    Anonymous Reader writes "Businesses can avoid a costly move from     Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 by using two migration tools that enable     them to move existing data to Samsung Contact on Linux, a media release     from Custom Technology says."

Samba steps up Linux/Windows connection
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/1546222

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     The open-source development team Samba on Wednesday released an update     to its namesake software for connecting Windows desktop PCs with Linux     or Unix servers.

Interview with Jeremy Hogan of Red Hat
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/1534259

    linuxquestions writes "In an interview with LinuxQuestions.org Jeremy     Hogan, Manager of Community Relations at Red Hat, explains what the     Fedora project is (and isn't), the importance of OEM for Linux, how Red     Hat has managed to become profitable, what direction Red Hat is headed     in and what his take is on being called the "MS of Linux"."                                                             

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