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Circuit City moving to Linux

In a press release sent to NewsForge (and probably every other media outlet in the world) yesterday, IBM announced that consumer electronics retailer Circuit City expects to be running most of its critical day-to-day computing functions on Linux by 2006. (Full text of press release below.)

Nvu 0.4.0 Released

  • mozillaZine (Posted by dave on Aug 11, 2004 7:26 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Linspire and Disruptive Innovations have released Nvu 0.4.0, the latest beta of the standalone version of Mozilla Composer. Based on Mozilla 1.7, this version adds horizontal and vertical rulers for mouse-driven resizing, context menus on tabs, improved toolbar customisation, a document inspector and many other bug fixes. Builds for Linspire, other Linux distributions and Windows are available from the Nvu download page.

Fedora Core 3 Test 1 slideshow presentation

LinuxBeta.com has released a slideshow presentation of a desktop installation of Fedora Core 3 Test 1. It will give you a feel for the Core 3 Test 1 desktop without the wait of downloading the .iso images.

Keeping Up with Carrier Grade

What is happening with carrier grade Linux and kernel contributions in this area?

An Open Letter to Rob Enderle

  • osOpinion/osViews; By Kelly McNeill (Posted by osViews on Aug 11, 2004 5:08 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Editorial; Groups: SCO
At SCO Forum earlier this month, research analyst Rob Enderle was invited to be a keynote speaker. Mr. Enderle has a reputation for his over-the-top, (to put it kindly) style of technology journalism, yet many who attended the SCO Forum keynote said that the speech he gave was a doozy by even his standards. Howard B. Golden submitted the following editorial to osOpinion/osViews, which addresses some of the points expressed throughout Mr. Enderle's speech.

How to Build a Low Cost Linux Desktop Computer

  • LXer; By Tom Adelstein (Posted by dave on Aug 11, 2004 2:31 AM CST)
  • Story Type: LXer Features
You can build your own system and save a bundle of money while getting a top notch, high quality PC. By using Linux, you can lower you costs even further by not having to purchase proprietary software which would cost you more than your computer.

Mozilla Foundation Announces XForms Project

Novell, IBM join in effort to implement W3C's XForms recommendation

SysAdmin to SysAdmin: Making use of SNMP

  • Linux.com: (Posted by dave on Aug 11, 2004 2:21 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
"Simple Network Management Protocol" is a relative term. To the uninitiated, raw SNMP output, along with arcane technobabble like "MIB" and "ASN.1," looks a little daunting. Developing some understanding of how to parse and filter SNMP information doesn't take long, though, and can put you on a fast track to making SNMP bend to your whim.

OSDL to Enter China Market With New Beijing Office

  • PR Newswire; By Press release (Posted by dave on Aug 11, 2004 2:21 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Press Release
Premier Linux Advocacy Organization Establishes Operations in People's Republic of China, One of World's Fastest-Growing Markets for Linux

Delay to Munich's Linux move only 'few weeks'

  • InfoWorld: Platforms (Posted by dave on Aug 10, 2004 2:52 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Munich city administration has said that it expects its planned migration to Linux to be delayed by only a few weeks as the impact of proposed European Union software patenting legislation is examined.

Slackware update for imagemagick (SSA:2004-223-02)

Slackware update for sox (SSA:2004-223-03)

Gentoo update for cfengine (200408-08)

  • LWN.net (Posted by dave on Aug 10, 2004 1:35 PM CST)
  • Groups: Gentoo; Story Type: Security

Slackware update for epiphany (SSA:2004-223-01)

Slackware update for libpng (SSA:2004-222-01b)

Can the open source community beat software patenters?

  • NewsForge (Posted by dave on Aug 10, 2004 12:01 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Patents and the threat they pose to open source and overall software innovation are a hot topic, but patents may not be a useful weapons against a community that works with, ardently supports, and defends open source with money, time, and expertise.

Debian Weekly News - August 10th, 2004

  • Mailing list; By Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org> (Posted by dave on Aug 10, 2004 12:01 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Newsletter; Groups: Debian
Welcome to this year's 31st issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. Erinn Clark reported that a bit of content is on the Debian Women website now. Steve Langasek reminded maintainers to rebuild their package if it depends on libtiff since the new version has hit unstable already.

The Linux GUI: Application windows

  • Linux.com: (Posted by dave on Aug 10, 2004 10:39 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Last week I talked about how to start desktop applications using the mouse and the desktop menu. Do this a few times and the multiple running desktop applications can make the desktop a bit overcrowded. To help overcome this, let's work with the application windows.

Fedora update for kernel (FEDORA-2004-251)

Gentoo update for Horde-IMP (200408-07)

  • LWN.net (Posted by dave on Aug 10, 2004 8:05 AM CST)
  • Groups: Gentoo; Story Type: Security

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