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Slashdot
Apple Terminates Safari Seed Program
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/22/2343249

[0]coolmacdude writes "This morning Safari beta v67 was leaked to the
Internet. Because this is the third time it has happened (v62 and v64 were leaked), Apple has apparantly had enough and decided to terminate the seed program that provided unreleased beta verisons to selected developers. In a email sent to all developers and posted on [1]Mike Wendland's blog, Apple says: 'Due to Safari 67 postings to the internet, we have closed the Safari Seed project. We know that the majority of you are not responsible for the leaks to the internet, and we sincerely appreciate your feedback, time and effort with this project.'"
Links

0. mailto:coolmacguyosx@cox.net

http://www.mac-mike.com/

8.6 GB Internet?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/22/2148241

[0]prostoalex writes "Caltech computer scientists [1]announced the
protocol, capable of delivering 8,609 Mbps over the Internet, using 10 simultaneous flows of data. The [2]research project was conducted in partnership with CERN, DataTAG, StarLight, Cisco, and Level 3. The practical applications, according to the press release, is ability 'to download a full-length DVD movie in less than five seconds'. There is a number of [3]papers and scientific publications available." Links

    0. 
http://www.moskalyuk.com/deals/
    1. 
http://pr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12356.html
    2. 
http://netlab.caltech.edu/FAST/
    3. 
http://netlab.caltech.edu/FAST/publications.html

Rick Berman: Enterprise May Not Suck Next Year http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/22/200236

[0]Steve Krutzler writes "Star Trek producer Rick Berman has made his
latest comments in a new [1]interview with a British magazine and he says the season finale of Enterprise ("The Expanse") will begin to change the ultimate mission of the show for the better: 'I think our final episode of the season is going to be quite startling because we're going to do a cliffhanger that will put a new twist on the series as it enters its third year.'"
Links

Do you need help?

0. mailto:s_krutzler@trekweb.com

http://talk.trekweb.com/articles/2003/03/22/1048356908.html

Gameboy Advance SP Released Today in North America http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/22/2013251

[0]Txiasaeia writes "The latest version of Nintendo's venerable Gameboy
has been released today in North America. The Gameboy Advance SP builds upon its predecessor by adding a front lit display, and a foldable design in order to protect the screen. Also, instead of using AA batteries to power the device, it uses a Lithium-Ion battery. Other than that, the basic architecture of the system remains the same as the original Gameboy Advance. Most online retailers' first shipment has been sold out, but my local Walmart had plenty of copies. Check out this [1]Gamespy review." I snagged one at lunch today. The screen is vastly improved from the original GBA. Now the only question is how many Pokemon I can collect ;) (And yes Hemos, we got you one too ;) Links

0. mailto:afrie@vcn.bc.ca

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/march03/gbasp/

O'Reilly Pushing Founder's Copyright System http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/22/1951216

alansz writes "The O'Reilly and Associates [0]Open Books Project has been around for a while, and I've just received a letter from Tim about the next step" Read on if you are interested in the creative commons, and how O'Reilly authors are being asked to take part. Links

0. http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/

Improving Company Morale?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/2014232

Do you need more help?

[0]Undaar asks: "I work as a developer for a web development company.
We were pretty hard hit (as were many companies that do what we do) by the "economic down-turn". The company went from over 500 people to under 200 in under two years. It's more stable now, but people are consistently laid-off. Consequently people feel like they always have to look over their shoulder to avoid getting fired. Most lunches are spent complaining about lack of enjoyment/challenge from the job and the fact that upper-management seems not to understand what we do. Employers: what have you done to improve employee morale in your company? As an employee, what can I do to improve the morale in the people I work with? How can I make my work environment more enjoyable? What kind of constructive suggestions can I take to management so that they can help improve the situation?" Links

0. mailto:morale.20.undaar@spamgourmet.com

What if Microsoft went Open Source?
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/22/1454204

An anonymous reader writes "This [0]article on [1]newsforge takes a speculative look at what would have to happen if Microsoft decided to jump on the Open Source bandwagon (using [2]Microsoft Project as the source of speculation). Amusing to think about, unlikely to happen." Links

    0. 
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/1233239&mode=thread&tid=19
    1. 
http://newsforge.com/
    2. 
http://www.microsoft.com/office/project/default.asp

Military Grade Laptops
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/22/1351212

bllb writes "Slate has an article about the [0]"waterproof, vaporproof, shockproof" laptops the military is using. It's not at the cutting edge of performance, but it's nice to see some bombproof hardware." Most of the laptops I've owned over the years died through dropping or drowning, so maybe I should look into something a little more sturdy ;) Links

0. http://slate.msn.com/id/2080546/

Zaurus SL-5600/SL-5500 Comparison Whitepaper http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/22/1345236

Can we help you?

[0]Bill Kendrick writes "A cool as the [1]Sharp Zaurus SL-5500
Linux-based PDA is, there are definitely some quibbles about battery life, software and syncing. Fortunately, it seems the folks at [2]Sharp and [3]TrollTech have been working on it for the new [4]5600 model. Sharp just posted a [5]whitepaper (PDF) comparing the two models. (Newer kernel, no more root-privs-for-everything, JFFS2, dropping slow XML for PIM stuff, and USB-IO syncing, to name a few.)" Links

    0. 
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bill/
    1. 
http://www.zaurus.com/
    2. 
http://www.sharpusa.com/
    3. 
http://www.trolltech.com/
    4. 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/1924257&tid=100
    5. 
http://www.zaurus.com/dev/support/downloads/sl5600_specifications_diff__v09121.pdf

Pictures from Seattle's Classic Gaming Weekend http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/1626203

[0]Cyberroach has pictures from last week's [1]Classic Gaming Weekend
in Seattle. The pictures include an "Obsolete Media Festival" with a guy who makes music with an Atari 2600, Commodore C64, and a dot-matrix printer; old hardware from the NorthWest Classic Gaming Enthusiasts' Meeting; and the 6th Annual Atari Championship. Links

0. http://www.cyberroach.com/

http://www.cyberroach.com/cyromag/15/

Freshmeat
Advanced Strategic Command 1.13.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117159/

ASC is a turn-based strategy game in the tradition of Battle Isle 2/3. It can be played against the computer or against other human players (either hotseat or by mail).

Anteater 0.4.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117200/

Anteater is a log analyser for MTA logfiles (for example sendmail). The tool is written in 100% C++ and very easy to customize. Input, output, and the analysis are modular class objects with a clear interface. Currently there are modules for reading the syslog format of sendmail that do up to seven useful analyses and write the result in plain ASCII or HTML, to stdout or to files.

Can't find what you're looking for?

Apache Tomcat 4.1.24 (4.1.x)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117181/

The goal of the Jakarta Project is to provide commercial-quality server solutions based on the Java Platform that are developed in an open and cooperative fashion. Tomcat 3.x is an implementation of the Java Servlet 2.2 and JavaServer Pages 1.1 Specifications. Tomcat 4.x is an implementation of the Java Servlet 2.3 and JavaServer Pages 1.2 Specifications, and is a re-implementation of the Tomcat servlet engine from the ground up.

avidemux 0.9rc3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117167/

Avidemux is a graphical tool to edit video. It can open AVI, MPEG, Nuppelvideo and BMPs. Most common codecs are supported (M-JPEG, MPEG, DivX, Xvid, huffyuv, WMA, etc.) thanks to libavcodec. Video can be edited, cut, appended, filtered (resize/crop/denoise), and re-encoded to either AVI (DivX/Xvid) or MPEG 1/2.

b1gMail 4.2.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117203/

b1gMail is a PHP and MySQL Web-based email system.

BenMP3 1.0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117208/

BenMP3 is a small and powerful sound player for the Linux console (with or without ncurses). It can play MP2, MP3, MPEG, OGG, wav, aiff, xm, it, mod, and CD formats. It has French and English interfaces.

Don't know where to look next?

BomberNIAC 1.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117163/

BomberNIAC is a text mode BomberMan clone written in Goto++. It features a server and a client so that up to four players can compete over a network.

CheckBook Tracker 0.9.6c
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117215/

In order to leave Windows behind most people need a fully-functional money management program. CheckBook Tracker seeks to solve that problem. It has the feel and features of packages like Microsoft Money without requiring the user to build their own sources or find an RPM for their distribution. Its features include Import / Export QIF files straight from Money or Quicken, autocomplete, check printing, split transactions, balance forecasts, online banking, and more.

createcddb 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117174/

Createcddb is a utility that creates CDDB entry files from m3u playlists for use with disc-cover. This allows you to automatically make covers even for self-compiled CD's.

dbtool 1.6 (stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117212/

dbtool can be used to store and retrieve data in a key/value format in a hash database. Perl-compatible regular expressions are supported both for storing and retrieving of data. Its main advantages are speed and the ability to maintain huge amounts of data.

Confused? Frustrated?

Dirty Harry Fluxbox Theme 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117213/

Dirty Harry Fluxbox Theme is based on Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry character.

EarlyBlue 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117192/

EarlyBlue reflects the early days of Mozilla (M4 to M8) and tries to restore the blue-styled look of like those early milestones in current builds without cutting any functionality.

ElyCA 0.19rc1 (Unstable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117194/

ElyCA is yet another implementation of a Certification Authority and a Registration Authority. It is written in Python and uses MySQL as its database.

encdec 0.3.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117145/

Encdec encodes and decodes C objects such as integers, IEEE754 float and double values, times, and internationalized strings to and from popular binary formats and a wide variety of character encodings as they might appear in various file formats or network messages. It is compiled directly against the libiconv sources.

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fwlogwatch 0.9.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117207/

fwlogwatch is a packet filter and firewall log analyzer with support for Linux ipchains, Linux netfilter/iptables, Solaris/BSD/HP-UX/IRIX ipfilter, Cisco IOS, Cisco PIX, Netscreen, Windows XP firewall, Elsa Lancom router, and Snort IDS log files. It can output its summaries in text and HTML, and it has a lot of options. fwlogwatch also features an interactive incident report generator and realtime anomaly response capability with a Web interface and internationalization.

Gambas 0.51 (Development)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117202/

Gambas is a graphical development environment based on a Basic interpreter, like Visual Basic. It uses the Qt toolkit, but is able to use any other toolkit that a module is written for.

Gnome Process Tree 0.76
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117214/

Gnopstree is a GNOME application that dynamically displays the currently running Unix processes as a tree or forest, with the roots on the left and the leaf processes (with no children) on the right. The status of each process (running, sleeping, stopped, etc.) can be indicated by a color. This is a port of xps to GNOME/GTK.

Gpasman 1.9.1b
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117190/

Gpasman is a password manager. People working with the internet have to remember lots of passwords. Saving them in a textfile is not a secure idea. Gpasman is a GTK solution to this problem since it saves the password information encrypted, so now you have to remember only one password instead of ten (or more).

Do you need help?

grocks 1.01
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117184/

grocks is a small computer game. It was written by the author while drunk at a party; it was a good party. grocks is somewhat of a cross between asteroids, thrust, and koules, with a bit of sexual innuendo and lots of Newtonian physics thrown in.

Gtk-IPTables 0.4.1 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117209/

Gtk-IPTables is a GTK-based frontend for iptables written in C. You can create rules for all chains for Filter, NAT, and Mangle tables.

Guis widget server 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117180/

Guis widget server is a Gtk2 widget server. It listens on pipes for widget requests (in the LUA scripting language), and emits widget events using an XML-based protocol or an equivalent S-expr lispy syntax. It is useful for programs (in particular setuid programs) and scripts that don't or can't link the Gtk2 libraries and need to delegate the user interface to another process.

GWorkspace 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117148/

GWorkspace is the official GNUstep workspace manager. It is a clone of NeXT's workspace manager. It is ready for daily usage.

Do you need more help?

Hibernate 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117157/

Hibernate is a powerful, high performance object/relational persistence and query service for Java. It lets you develop persistent objects following common Java idiom, including composition, association, inheritance, polymorphism, and the Java collections framework. To allow a rapid build procedure, Hibernate rejects the use of code generation or bytecode processing. Instead, runtime reflection is used and SQL generation occurs at system startup time. It supports Oracle, DB2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, Interbase, Microsoft SQL Server, Mckoi SQL, Progress, SAP DB, and HypersonicSQL.

High Level Assembly Language 1.43
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117143/

The High Level Assembly Language (HLA) was designed to allow advanced assembly language programmers to write more readable and powerful assembly language code. It makes it possible to write code by leveraging knoowledge of high level languages like C, C++, Pascal, and Delphi. HLA compiles into 80x86 assembly language, which is assembled by MASM, TASM, or Gas.

Highlight 2.0b-5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117146/

Highlight is a universal source code to HTML, XHTML, RTF, TeX, or LaTeX converter. (X)HTML output is formatted by Cascading Style Sheets. It supports Bash, C, C++, C#, COBOL, Java, Perl, PHP, and 40 more programming languages. It's possible to easily enhance the parsing database.

Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition 1.4.1_02
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117173/

Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) contains the essential compiler, tools, runtime libraries, and APIs for developers writing, deploying, and running applets and applications in the Java programming language.

Can we help you?

JFtp 1.17
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117144/

JFtp is a muti-threaded graphical FTP client written in Java. It supports all the basic FTP operations, and has some improved features such as recursive directory up/download, a nice swing UI, the ability to automatically resume downloads, and the ability to recognize broken directory names. The API is separated from the GUI and can also be used in third-party applications or in a command-line mode. The clients lets you browse the server while transferring files in both directions. JFtp can also be started in a Web browser via Java Web Start, supports the SMB (Windows file share) protocol, and can act as a file manager.

Knoppix 3.2-2003-03-21
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117147/

KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI devices, and other peripherals. It can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, etc. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk due to on-the-fly decompression.

KXParse 1.7
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117164/

KXParse is a PHP-based, lightweight, easy-to-use XML parser, with no need of installation because it's just an include file that's loaded on the fly. It features an API that simplifies the process of reading files, and only parses the part of the document from which you want to extract data, storing the results of calls in an internal cache. The performance enhancing features mean that it is not possible to parse documents without knowing the tag names.

lbdb 0.27
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117165/

The Little Brother's Database (lbdb) consists of a set of small tools which collect mail addresses from several sources and offer these addresses to the external query feature of the Mutt mail reader.

Can't find what you're looking for?

LCARStrek 1.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117193/

LCARStrek is a Star Trek skin, using the LCARS interface from the Federation Star Ships (heavily used in The Next Generation and Voyager series). It has rounded borders and hover (mouse-over) effects, be aware that it may look and feel quite unusual or strange, but keep in mind that this is an interface design which was not originally designed for the 21st but the 24th century.

libmba 0.5.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117149/

The libmba package is a collection of mostly independent C modules that should be potentially useful to any project. It includes a hash map, a linked list, a stack, a DOM-like interface that can load and store XML files for simple XML processing, a module for managing error codes and associated messages across separate C libraries, and more.

LinuxInstall.org 3.0rc2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117151/

LinuxInstall.org is a distribution based on Red Hat with Personal Desktop Packages including Mozilla, Evolution, and OpenOffice.org. It features hardware detection, root account creation, hard drive partitioning, network setup using DHCP, and package selection. Since it does not ask any questions during installation, the process is completely automated, and it only takes about 15 minutes. Best of all, it's all on one CD.

MenuGen 0.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117160/

MenuGen generates hierarchical Web site menus of arbitrary size. These menus consist of static HTML pages which neither use server side scripting nor client side scripting (like JavaScript). These menus are intended to be displayed in a seperate vertical frame.

Don't know where to look next?

Moosic 1.3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117191/

Moosic is a music player that focuses on easy playlist management. It consists of a server process that maintains a queue of music files to play and a client program which sends commands to the server. The server continually runs through its playlist, popping items off the top of the list and playing each with an external program. The client is a simple command-line utility which allows you to perform powerful operations upon the server's queue, including the addition of whole directory trees, automatic shuffling, and item removal according to regular expressions. The server comes configured to play MP3, Ogg, MIDI, MOD, and WAV files.

note 1.2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117210/

note is a small Perl script that maintains notes from the commandline, similar to knotes. The notes are stored in a MySQL database or in a DBM-database or a single binary file. It is highly configurable and it can display your data colorized. For better organization you can maintain your various notes under different topics (and sub-topics). note provides an interactive mode or a command-line mode and it is possible to encrypt the notes. Furthermore it is possible to backup notes (backend-independent) and to restore from previous backups.

Note Editor 2.1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117169/

Note Editor is an editor for music notation that supports an unlimited number of staffs and up to 9 voices per staff. The import formats are MIDI files, recorded from MIDI keyboards and TSE3. The export formats are MIDI, MusiXTeX, LilyPond, PMX, MUP, and TSE3.

Odyssey 0.2.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117189/

Odyssey is a PIC programming application which can erase, read, and write a variety of PIC microcontrollers. It was originally written to work with the EPIC programmer but it should work with any parallel port programmer.

Confused? Frustrated?

osx2x 0.1.6
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117186/

osx2x allows the user to control a remote X11 display from a MacOS X machine, similar to x2x. The tool simply captures mouse and keyboard events on your Mac and sends them to a specified X server.

Otak 1.3.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117153/

Otak provides a visual interface to command line programs that don't have one, that allows users to select arguments from a menu. For example, it can be used as an address book program with Mutt (the default), or as a phone book with SMS sending software, or even as a list of hosts for SSH or FTP.

PHP SQL Toolkit 0.5
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117185/

The PHP SQL Toolkit is a PHP class system for abstracting database calls. Using classes or functions, it abstracts the underlying database structure into data sources in a manner similar to ODBC. Data sources are defined in one file and a standardized syntax is used for connecting to all databases. This is useful for portable code or for referencing multiple databases on multiple platforms all at the same time.

pppcounter 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117205/

The pppcounter is subproject of the pppcost project. The general function of the pppcounter is to save the begin and finish times of the connection to a log file, and to act as a tool library for cost calculation. It includes a time logger, tool library, cost calculator, and a configuration file maker.

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Rolo 004
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117158/

Rolo keeps track of contacts and displays with a text-based menu. It strives to be a well-constructed tool for complementing text-based email programs. It utilizes the vCard version 3.0 format for storing its contacts and interfaces with the end-user through an NCurses front-end.

Samba TNG 0.3.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117199/

Samba TNG is another SMB server for Unix-like operating systems. This software is concentrating on MSRPC interoperatability with NT and Windows 2000. It provides PDC support and tools to remotely administer NT servers and workstations. Note that Samba TNG is currently in an alpha stage. Unless you need PDC functionality for NT or Win2k, the "normal" Samba is recommended. But it is nevertheless working for a whole bunch of people.

Simple Cyrus Administration Tool 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117171/

Simple Cyrus Administration Tool is a shell script which helps the user to administer a Cyrus mail system. It features easy user creation, deletion, and password changing. For Postfix fans, the script can also be used to add aliases to a Cyrus user.

SimpleForum 3.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117187/

SimpleForum is a forum that is designed to work on all HTTP servers which support CGI. It is very easy to configure, and does not require the user to have knowledge of any programming language. It has all the basic functions that a forum should have and a lot more. Additionally, it allows you to change the appearance of the forum (font, font color/size, background color/image, etc.) to your liking. You can also set different languages.

Do you need help?

Skoosh 2.0.6 (Stable)
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117179/

Skoosh is a simple, friendly, sliding tile puzzle for GNOME.

testmail 3.0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117154/

testmail is a Perl script that checks email availability at the POP3 server, filters it according to defined rules, and--depending on the selected method--gets the messages to the local mailbox and/or removes it from the server. It uses Perl libnet module and helps you escape from spam.

Tollwut 1.0
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117198/

Tollwut is a Perl RSS aggregator for Web sites. It does straw opml subscription exports, templates, and is 'multiuser' friendly.

Vcd PyCoder 0.1
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117195/

Vcd Pycoder is a graphical front-end to transcode, mplayer, vcdimager, and other video conversion tools. It is programmed in wxpython. This front-end allows the user to easily create VCD videos using transcode and burn them to CD with vcdimager and cdrdao. VcdPycoder can calculate video borders, video duration, and more. Supported languages include English and Spanish.

Do you need more help?

Whale 0.2.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117182/

Whale is a GNOME 2 application which provides a simple interface for creating playlists and storing songs on your Apple iPod. For example, you can add a song by simply dragging the file from Nautilus to the Whale window.

wmweather+ 2.4
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117211/

wmweather+ will download the National Weather Serivce METAR bulletins, ANV, ETA, and MRF forecasts, and any weather map for display in a WindowMaker dockapp. It includes forecasts, a weather map, and a sky condition display.

WTP 0.5.3
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117155/

WTP is a Web-based FTP client that features bookmarks, uploading, downloading, deleting, moving, and renaming of files and directories. It allows administrators to limit the hostnames to which users can connect. Currently only Unix FTP servers are supported.

xine xine-lib 1-beta9
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117196/

xine is a free multimedia player. It plays back CDs, DVDs, and VCDs. It also decodes multimedia files like AVI, MOV, WMV, and MP3 from local disk drives, and displays multimedia streamed over the Internet. It interprets many of the most common multimedia formats available--and some of the most uncommon formats, too. All those features come in a reusable library (xine-lib) which can easily be embedded in your applications.

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xine gxine 0.3.2
http://freshmeat.net/releases/117197/

Newsforge Reports
'Lock in Software,' not 'Proprietary Software' http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/18/1230223

By Brendan Scott - In July last year I wrote a paper which argued that the total cost of ownership of free software would, in the long run, always be lower than that of equivalent software created under different models. One of the problems I grappled with when writing that paper was how to name those different models. At the time I adopted a term which appeared to be used widely, that of “proprietary software”. I now ...

Linux Advisory Watch - March 21st, 2003
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/115209

By Benjamin D. Thomas - This week, advisories were released for kde, openssl, tcpdump, samba, netpbm-free, lxr, kernel, libc, qpopper, man, mysql, rxvt, zlib, gnome-lokkit, and libc.  The distributors include, Caldera, Debian, Guardian Digital's EnGarde Secure Linux, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, and Trustix.

What if Microsoft decides to go Open Source? http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/17/1233239

By Donald K. Rosenberg - People often speculate about Microsoft's bringing out a Linux version of Office, but everyone assumes that they would never try to Open Source their products -- after all, Microsoft is the acme of proprietary software. But they have begun to twirl the seven veils lately. While Microsoft's critics denounce Shared Source as a sham, at least it's a move away from binary-only, and although its rule is "look, don't touch" ...

Newsforge Newsvac
MH Linux Site Update
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/2241200

Chris Drane writes ""MH Linux" has taken the steps to become more professional and offer better support to its users. We have changed out name from "CZ Linux" to "MH Linux" as many members thought we were a Czech Linux site. We have also moved our forums from phpBB2 to vBulletin as well as adding many new features to the site and changing the Domain Name to match the new Site name. MH Linux Homepage"

Red Hat Linux Advisory: evolution
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/2231202

Can't find what you're looking for?

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the Ximian Evolution email client. These vulnerabilities make it possible for a carefully crafted email to crash the program, cause general system instability through resource starvation and get around security measures implemented within the program.

WinTel trips on Linux?
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/2122225

As a marriage of convenience the WinTel alliance used to work pretty well. Intel lived up to Moore's Law by building ever larger and more complex chips, while Microsoft executed Gate's Law by churning out ever more bloated and serially incompatible versions of its software.

McNealy: It's mankind vs. Microsoft
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/1910214

Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy was in fine fighting form as he traveled through Asia this week, uttering scathing sound bites about rival Microsoft.

Appro Linux Clusters Shatter Scalability, Supercomputing Performance http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/1755258

Appro announced that its new HyperBlade Server Cluster, 1U, 2U, dual, and quad servers will be available for purchase after the AMD Opteron launch on 4/22/03.

Key Linux group faces split
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/171244

Don't know where to look next?

The XFree86 project, key to developing graphics technology for Linux and other operating systems, has ejected a central member and is facing new criticism

Linux co-developer warns of serious flaw http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/1639231

A developer who helped write the original Linux kernel is warning of a flaw in some versions of the operating system that could allow a malicious local user to gain root control of a Linux computer.

Betting on Linux for Business
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/1554237

Linux is becoming popular in places where the prospect of greater interoperability and security can translate into tangible return on investment.

Time for Users to Start Testing 2.5
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/1454229

A lot of people ask me, "When do you think the 2.6 kernel will be released?" My response to that question usually is, "Well, how well is the 2.5 kernel working for you?"

Slackware lets Linux 9.0 loose
http://newsvac.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/03/21/1446230

Confused? Frustrated?

Built around version 2.4.20 of the Linux kernel, Slackware Linux 9.0 has been officially released.

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Sourceforge
Audacity sound editor 1.1.3 beta
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=261798

Audacity 1.1.3 is the latest development snapshot of Audacity, a multitrack sound editor for MacOS, Linux and Windows. Version 1.1.3 includes a mixer toolbar for directly controlling the hardware input and output levels and recording source, gain and pan controls in every track, improved audio I/O with lower latency, higher quality resampling, and more. Audacity's project files now use standard AU files, so they can be read by other programs, but unfortunately this version of Audacity cannot open project files written by previous versions of Audacity.

SOURCEFORGE.NET UPDATE - 2003-03-18 EDITION http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=262061

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0. Intro 1. New RSS Feeds 2. New SF.NET Download mirrors. 3. Project of the month 4. Work for SourceForge.net 5. Stats and Top Projects SF.NET Sitewide Update sponsored by IBM:

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Dear SourceForge.net Developer, With this sitewide update, I'm pleased to announce two new enhancements to SourceForge.net. First, we've implemented new RSS feeds that are accessible to all projects and developers to aid in the publishing of information and project status to other sites. Second, SF.NET has added two new download servers, including our first mirror in Australia. Details below. Progress on IBM DB2's deployment on SF.NET continues. We are in the final phases of testing before we rollout it out to SouceForge.net itself. Currently, only mailing list archives are being powered by DB2. As you might have noticed in recent weeks, SF.net's project search database has been overwhelmed at times. As we roll out DB2 to the rest of the site in April, we expect this issue, and other issues like it to be resolved. Finally, in this time of global political uncertainty, it is good to be reminded that Open Source software has no boundaries. The work you do on your Open Source project benefits countless individuals and nations in every corner of the globe. Regardless of location, faith, or race, developers are collaborating together to create software that will not only benefit themselves, but all of humanity. At a time when it's hard to see something positive in the news, remember in our own way, the Open Source community is making a difference. Thank you for supporting SourceForge.net and the Open Source software movement. As always, if you have a question or want to share feedback regarding the site, please feel free to email me directly at pat@sf.net Pat- Patrick McGovern Director, SF.NET pat@sf.net New RSS Feeds.

A convenient way to keep up-to-date with the SourceForge.net site, project news, activity information, and new projects is now available. SourceForge.net provides a number of RSS feeds that may be accessed using an RSS reader or aggregator (some content management systems also allow you include data from an RSS feed on your website, much as Slashdot and Freshmeat do in the right sidebar of their layout). Using these RSS feeds, you can keep up-to-date with the latest project news and file releases, Site Status updates and SourceForge.net statistics (such as top projects). Project-specific RSS feeds may now be accessed using the "View list of RSS feeds available for this project" link on the Summary page for each project. Information about the full set of the available SourceForge.net RSS feeds (14 feeds, in all), including information on the software needed to view RSS feed data and a complete list of the options available for each RSS feed, may be found at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=15483&group_id=1 New SF.NET Download mirrors.
SF.NET now has two additional download mirrors. The first, Flow Communications, is our first mirror in Australia. We know, from looking at statistics, that SF.NET has many enthusiastic developers 'down under'. We are very excited that SF.net now has a server in Australia to allow users in that part of the world acquire files faster. To learn more about Flow Communication, please visit their website at: http://www.flow.com.au/ Our second new mirror is Aleron, located in Virgina, USA. Aleron provides high-speed, high-performance Internet connectivity, data transmission and value-added network applications for it's customers. For more information, please visit their website at: http://www.aleron.com/ The SF.NET team would like to thank Flow Communications, Aleron, and our other download partners, in helping distribute Open Source code and Open Source binaries around the world. Currently SF.NET serves approximately 500,000 files daily and these mirrors help a great deal in providing global accessibility to all of the software generated by our 60,000 projects. SourceForge.net's March 2003 Project of the month.
Keeping a team of people on task and well organized is a difficult chore. There are timelines to meet, information to organize, and the need to be more efficient. SourceForge.net's March 2003 Project of the Month helps with all of these difficult issues. TUTOS, 'The ultimate team organization Software', is a broad focused Open Source Application targeted at making groups of individuals more successful when collaborating. Tutos Project of the month page: http://sourceforge.net/pom_0303.php Tutos Home Page: http://www.tutos.org Tutos SF.NET Summary Page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/tutos Work for SourceForge.net
We have a new position for a senior web developer available at SourceForge.net. We are looking for someone to help us maintain, upgrade, and add new features to SourceForge.net. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of development experience on high end, high volume websites (3+ million page views a day). He/she as a vast level of knowledge of Internet technologies: PHP, PostgreSQL, MYSQL, DB2, Linux, PERL, Apache, LDAP, Mailman. A flare for design / UI is a bonus. SourceForge is a unique site with unique challenges. We are looking for someone at the top of his/her game. Location of Job is in Fremont, California. Please send resume and URL's of sites you have worked on to jobs@sourceforge.net. Text resumes only. (No MSWORD files!) Stats and Top Projects.
Number of Projects: 58,245 Number of Registered Users: 586,017 Daily Stats for March 12, 2003 SF.NET : 1,907,806 pages served SF.NET project web space : 3,211,337 pages served Total Pages: 5,119,143 CVS updates: 14,161 Open Source Files downloaded in 24 period: 454,134 Outgoing Mailing list emails: 1,362,151 Top 20 SourceForge.net Projects 1. Gaim http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ Gaim is an all-in-one IM client that resembles AIM. Gaim lets you use AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, IRC, Jabber, Napster, Zephyr, and Gadu-Gadu, all at once. Gaim is NOT endorsed by or affiliated with AOL, Yahoo, MSN or Napster. 2. phpMyAdmin http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently, it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields. 3. XboxMediaPlayer http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbplayer/ The XboxMediaPlayer for the Xbox allows you to use a modded Xbox to play/view DivX, XVID, MPEG-1/2, MP3, JPG & other supported video/audio/picture formats via your TV so it can used as a multimedia jukebox. It also supports streaming media over a network. 4. DC++ http://sourceforge.net/projects/dcplusplus/ This project is aimed at producing a C++ version of the popular DirectConnect client, enhancing functionality and performance. A hub (server) is planned. 5. JBoss.org http://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/ The JBoss/Server is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java. 6. eMule for Linux http://sourceforge.net/projects/lmule/ This is a Linux port of eMule client (see http://www.emule-project.net) using wxWindows class library. 7 Miranda IM Client http://sourceforge.net/projects/miranda-icq/ A free Win32 instant messaging client. Smaller, Faster, Easier. 8. zenTrack http://sourceforge.net/projects/zentrack/ A complete project management, bug tracking, ticket, and tech support/help desk/phone log system. Tracker is configuable and adaptable; a simple design. Supports most databases, including mySql, Oracle, postgres, others. Works on Windows and Unix. 9. Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution http://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/ Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier functionality. 10. POPFile - Automatic Email Classification http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/ POPFile is an email classification tool with a Na