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German Television Interviewing Blake Ross

  • mozillaZine (Posted by dave on Feb 20, 2005 4:16 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Interview
A streaming video of tonight's edition of Neues is now online in RealVideo 9 format. The interview with Blake starts at 17 minutes and 40 seconds in.

Novell Wins LinuxWorld Awards for Product Excellence

  • PR Newswire; By Press release (Posted by dave on Feb 20, 2005 3:20 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Press Release
Honors for security and management solutions demonstrate depth, breadth of Novell's Linux-based offerings

Vidalinux 1.1 Review

  • LinuxTimes.net; By Tarun Agnani (Posted by LTN on Feb 19, 2005 8:20 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups:
Vidalinux is a Gentoo based desktop OS from our friends in Puerto Rico In this article, I will review Vidalinux 1.1 with a special comparison to Gentoo. Vidalinux isn't all that old: version 1.0 was released in August 2004. This original release was followed up by 1.1 late 2004 (Christmas Day actually). I spoke with Vidalinux developers and they were more than happy to provide me with a copy of the Premium Edition.

Microsoft vs. Wine: Deja Vu on the FUD Front

For years, Wine's programmers have been working on making Windows applications run on Linux and other Unix platforms. Now, Microsoft set to use its Genuine Advantage program to make it look like Wine is busted. Will Redmond get away with this familiar FUD attack?

OSDir.com Weekly Screenshot Tours

OSDir.com Weekly Screenshot Tours for Feb 17, 2005.

Another group of interesting apps and distros crossed our desk this week including KDE 3.4 beta 2, Xandros Desktop OS 3 OCE, Hiweed Linux 0.6 RC1, Blin Linux 2.0, PaiPix Linux 3.7, and Parsix GNULinux 0.45. Did you know you can submit your app or distro?

Mozilla at FOSDEM 2005

The Mozilla project will be represented at the FOSDEM 2005 conference in Brussels on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th February. The proceedings in the Mozilla Developers' Room are being organised by Axel Hecht. Talks will cover topics such as Mozilla Europe, Mozilla 2.0, XulRunner, Bugzilla, Camino and localisation. Speakers include Axel Hecht, Gervase Markham, Hisham El-Emam, Robert Kaiser, Ludovic Hirlimann and Tristan Nitot.

New IDN Homograph Spoofing Response: IDN Will Not Be Disabled

  • mozillaZine (Posted by dave on Feb 19, 2005 4:54 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
In the wake of the international domain name (IDN) homograph spoofing vulnerability, the Mozilla Foundation announced it would disable IDN support by default as a temporary measure. However, a less drastic solution has now been found...

'SCOX' is no longer valid. It has changed to SCOXE

  • LXer; By Dave Whitinger (Posted by dave on Feb 19, 2005 4:16 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: SCO
My daily check of their stock price has revealed that their ticker symbol is no longer valid. The extra E is a flag that SCO is not in compliance with the SEC's regulations.

FOSDEM 2005: Python Bindings Interview

  • KDE Dot News (Posted by dave on Feb 19, 2005 4:09 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Interview; Groups: KDE
Simon Edwards will be talking about KDE application development using Python in the FOSDEM KDE Developer's Room. In the interview below he talks about the advantages of Python, how it compares to other languages and whether KDE should be rewritten in Python.

Pioneering tomorrow's IT

  • InfoWorld: Platforms (Posted by dave on Feb 19, 2005 4:01 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
What does it mean to be an open enterprise? Open source software and open standards are easy enough to define. Figuring out how they fit into an enterprise IT strategy, however, can be a little trickier.

Porting enterprise apps from UNIX to Linux

  • IBM developerWorks (Posted by VISITOR on Feb 19, 2005 3:44 AM CST)
  • Groups: IBM; Story Type: News Story
Much of today's enterprise-level software on UNIX caters to the business needs of large companies. And so it must support emerging technologies and follow the rapidly evolving market trends, such as the proliferation of the powerful, flexible Linux operating system. Because much of this software is large, multi-threaded, and multi-process, porting it to Linux presents challenges.

Red Hat: Fedora will engage customers

Top Linux seller Red Hat acknowledged on Friday a misstep in its relations with technology enthusiasts but said the profit motive is helping it to mend its ways.

Debian Project at several Conferences worldwide

  • Mailing list; By Martin Schulze (Posted by dave on Feb 18, 2005 1:12 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Debian
Six exhibitions and conferences that will cover Free Software and GNU/Linux will take place within the following weeks in several cities where the Debian project participates.

Patent activists protest in Brussels

  • ZDnet UK; By Ingrid Marson (Posted by ingridm on Feb 18, 2005 12:25 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Opponents of software patents gathered in Brussels on Thursday to accuse the European Council of turning Europe into a banana republic.

News: Unisys, SAP Linux Pact Expected Next Week

  • LinuxPlanet (Posted by dave on Feb 18, 2005 12:23 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
The announcement of a Linux deal between Unisys and SAP, originally slated for this week's LinuxWorld, has now been rescheduled to next week, LinuxPlanet has been told. Meanwhile, Unisys is forging ahead with its growing commitment to enterprise Linux.

LinuxWorld expo wrapup

The LinuxWorld Conference and Expo held in Boston this week looked a lot like any Linux show, with suits and T-shirts and jeans co-mingled on both sides of the booths. The 140 or so exhibitors included a respectable number of mainstream industry players, like AMD, Apple, BMC, Computer Associates, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Intel, Novell, Oracle, Sun, and Unisys, along with the leading Linux vendors, and usual-suspect Linux/open source/free software organizations and groups such as the Free Software Foundation and the Etherboot Foundation, and Debian, Fedora, GNOME, and X.org. Booth traffic seemed adequate, and attendees focused on getting info.

Debian Project at several conferences worldwide

  • Linuxlookup.com; By Linuxlookup.com (Posted by VISITOR on Feb 18, 2005 7:57 AM CST)
  • Groups: Debian
Linuxlookup.com is reporting on six exhibitions and conferences that will cover Free Software and GNU/Linux will take place within the following weeks in several cities where the Debian project participates. Everyone in these areas are welcome to attend these conferences, meet Debian developers and users, exchange GnuPG fingerprints, discuss various topics on Debian and Free Software, and otherwise participate in our vibrant community. More information on locations, times and dates are listed.

Xen lures big-name endorsements

  • CNET News.com; By Stephen Shankland (Posted by dave on Feb 18, 2005 7:43 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
In just a few short months, an open-source software package called Xen has been catapulted from obscurity to the limelight as many computing industry powers throw their weight behind the project.

Latest standards for Carrier Grade Linux set

  • Network World on Linux (Posted by dave on Feb 18, 2005 7:31 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Open Source Development Lab is bringing potential good news for carrier network managers at the LinuxWorld show this week. The non-profit organization has announced new versions of its Carrier Grade Linux and Data Center Linux operating system specifications.

NewsForge writer rises to LinuxWorld gaming challenge

It began with an email invitation to play in the Celebrity Challenge with an open source community leader and AMD and Sun Microsystems executives on Tuesday morning at the LinuxWorld Convention and Exposition in Boston. The game was not unfamiliar to me: Unreal Tournament 2004, which was released last spring and works wonderfully on GNU/Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. Although I missed my home setup -- the 64-bit edition of UT2004 running over 64-bit Gentoo on my Athlon 64 system -- all the players were on a level playing field, as we were all equally disadvantaged. But the stakes were high and dozens of people were watching us prove that GNU/Linux is not just for servers and workstations.

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