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Review of UserLinux Beta LiveCD

  • Ammai.com; By Vinu (Posted by VISITOR on Sep 20, 2004 2:35 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Reviews
Ammai.com has published a quick review of the latest UserLinux Beta LiveCD (version 0.2) with Gnome 2.6. It includes many screenshots, as well as general information on this distribution.

Linux Standard Base Advances

  • eWEEK Linux (Posted by dave on Sep 20, 2004 2:21 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Version 2.0 supports 32, 64 bits; gains industry support.

Linux Revisits Algebra Class

  • Linux Journal (Posted by dave on Sep 20, 2004 12:30 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Another classroom success story, thanks to the affordability and flexibility of Linux.

SourceXtreme aims to move Windows developers to Linux

  • NewsForge (Posted by dave on Sep 19, 2004 10:30 PM CST)
  • Groups: GNU; Story Type: News Story
A small Philadelphia-based company may be about to revolutionize the world of Windows application development, not by creating a new proprietary technology, but by bringing proprietary Windows features to Linux. Working with Qt, Trolltech's cross-platform toolkit, MinGW, a minimalist set of GNU utilities for Windows, and Wine, a free implementation of the Windows API, SourceXtreme, Inc. has developed the ability to write Windows programs without ever using Windows. Its goal is to make porting applications to Qt trivial, and to move Windows developers onto a free software platform.

Via gives away disk-scrubbing software

  • CNET News.com; By Stephen Shankland (Posted by dave on Sep 19, 2004 3:24 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
In an effort to promote a new processor feature, Via Technologies has released open-source software for thoroughly erasing deleted files.

Asynchronous I/O for Oracle9iR2(9.2.0.4) on Linux 2.6.8

  • ; By Boris Derzhavets (Posted by dba477 on Sep 19, 2004 3:23 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Red Hat
First:

Download aio-stress.c from [1] and compile

gcc -Wall -laio -lpthread -o aio-stress aio-stress.c

Run aio-stress tests and make sure kernel does support AIO

NetFront: The Fast GTK+ Browser you Never Knew Existed

  • OSnews (Posted by dave on Sep 19, 2004 3:20 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
A few days ago we read about the Deli Linux, which aims to fill-in the gap of Linux distros in the 486/586 machine range by running lightweight/older applications. The disto comes with Dillo and Links as its browsers, but I bet there aren't many people who know that there is yet another very lightweight browser for GTK+ 1.2.x and it is more powerful and more memory-optimized than Dillo: Access' NetFront. Check for info and screenshots inside.

Open-source spat triggers legal threat

  • CNET News.com; By Stephen Shankland (Posted by dave on Sep 18, 2004 6:39 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
A small company is threatening legal action against some users of the open-source Mambo software for publishing content on Web sites, arguing that the package includes proprietary code.

Why Open-Source Community Objects to MS Spam Plans

The broadness of Microsoft's recently revealed e-mail authenication patent confirms open-source concerns with the company's anti-spam efforts using Sender ID.

Intel's New Platform Verses AMD's 64-bit Prowess

  • LinuxHardware.org (Posted by dave on Sep 18, 2004 4:13 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Intel
it's time that we take a look at all these new features from both Intel and AMD and crown the king of processors until the next ones are released. We'll be going over the tech of these new features and showing you the latest platforms that we've chosen for our testing. Of course, we'll tell you how all of it works with Linux and where to get the latest drivers for all of these new components.

Why The Open-Source Model Can Work In India

  • Information Week; By Larry Greenemeier (Posted by dave on Sep 18, 2004 2:10 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
An Indian Institute of Technology professor--and open-source evangelist--discusses the role of Linux and open source in India.

Defining the Linux Enterprise

  • inDevCenter at O'Reilly; By Tom Adelstein (Posted by tadelste on Sep 17, 2004 4:18 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Defining the Linux Enterprise Market Place and Why Linux Companies Prosper There. Much discussion exists concerning the presence of GNU/Linux and open source software in the enterprise. Linux users often call into question decisions by major vendors who increase innovation on servers at the expense of the desktop. In this article, we define the market and discuss the business reasons Linux companies pursue the enterprise market while limiting their initiatives for consumers. We also examine possible ways enterprise advances and the community can benefit consumer products.

The Inevitable Return To Proprietary Hardware

  • osOpinion/osViews; By Kelly McNeill (Posted by osViews on Sep 17, 2004 4:17 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: PHP
Which computer companies will be around in 10, 15 and 20 years? This question seems tough without a technological crystal ball, but the answer is easier than you might think. Kelly McNeill submitted the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews which details the reasons why the x86 OEM PC business is destined for a rapid decline due to the inibility to diferentiate products from the competition on anything other than price. he says this guarantees a future with only one PC manufacturer but that we will see the return of proprietary hardware dominance.

Is the Mambo project using stolen code?

  • NewsForge (Posted by dave on Sep 17, 2004 1:30 PM CST)
  • Groups: SCO; Story Type: News Story
Today a man named Brian Connolly posted an open letter to users of the Mambo content management system, threatening them with civil and criminal action if they continue to use Mambo. He claims that the Mambo project contains proprietary, copyrighted code that belongs to him and is currently in use in his customized Furthermore CMS. Is this the little brother of the SCO debacle, or a legitimate copyright infringement claim?

Sun-Microsoft deal raises Open Office questions

Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday said that is looking for ways to work more closely with developers of the Open Office open source project, while at the same time, apparently reserving the right to sue them, according to a legal agreement between Microsoft and Open Office's major sponsor, Sun Microsystems Inc., made public this week.

Sun's Schwartz: Linux honeymoon is over on Wall Street

  • Wall Street & Technology Online (Posted by dave on Sep 17, 2004 10:58 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Interview; Groups: GNU, Sun
Jonathan Schwartz looks to Wall Street as one of the few industries with the means—money and will—to regularly redefine the computer industry. So Sun's president and chief operating officer is making it a goal to get to know Wall Street a lot better, including a visit to New York next week trying to drum up some attention to this effort. Wall Street & Technology did a quick E-mail question-and-answer with Schwartz in which he, among other things, predicts a growing disillusionment with Linux. Sun has had to battle a cost-cutting mentality that prompted many financial companies in recent years to migrate off Solaris to Linux running on cheaper boxes. "I would say about one customer a month is telling me that the honeymoon is over because for all practical purposes, the Linux market has tipped to a single vendor—Red Hat," says Schwartz. Here's the full exchange:

OSDL teams with another open source group

  • Portland Business Journal (Posted by dave on Sep 17, 2004 10:55 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: OSDL
OSDL said it is working with the nonprofit Free Standards Group on a Linux Standard Base to support software vendors developing applications for the Linux operating system. The San Francisco-based FSG is dedicated to accelerating the use and acceptance of free and open source software by developing and promoting standards.

Q&A: Microsoft's Linux strategist Martin Taylor

Martin Taylor recently marked his one-year anniversary as Microsoft Corp.'s chief Linux strategist. Taylor, whose official title is general manager of platform strategy, recently spoke with Computerworld about his first year in that job. This is Part 1 of that interview.

Open Source and Free Documentation Licenses, Part 1: The GNU FDL

  • Onlamp (Posted by dave on Sep 17, 2004 8:43 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: GNU
Open source and free software licensing is generally associated with software development, and for good reason. The ideas underlying open source licensing were all developed in the context of software creation. The very name "open source" refers to the opening of the source code in which software is written.

Novell forms partnerships to boost Linux

  • Computer Business Review (Posted by dave on Sep 17, 2004 8:16 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Novell
Novell Inc announced a plethora of partner agreements at its BrainShare Europe conference in Barcelona, as it looks to apply its partnership muscle to the Linux products and services it acquired last year.

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