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Microsoft : Europe is Key Linux Battleground OS Opinion (Posted by dave on Jun 30, 2004 11:00 PM) [Story Type: News Story; Groups: Microsoft] Microsoft has dismissed high-profile European government defections to Linux, such as the city of Munich, but admitted Europe will be a key battleground in the ongoing Windows versus Linux war. Speaking to silicon.com at the Tech Ed 2004 conference in Amsterdam this week, Microsoft's European general manager Philippe Dumont said there are cultural reasons for some governments wanting to limit dependency on US-based multinationals. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Java Creator Weighs in On Open - Source Debate CRN (Posted by dave on Jun 30, 2004 10:01 PM) [Story Type: News Story; Groups: Sun] As Java industry leaders prepare to debate at JavaOne 2004 whether Java's stewardship might be better in the open-source community than with Sun Microsystems, the technology's creator James Gosling weighed in on why he thinks open-sourcing Java remains a tricky issue. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

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Apple updates Rendezvous for Windows, Linux CNET News.com (Posted by dave on Jun 30, 2004 9:58 PM) [Story Type: News Story] Apple Computer has published updated source code to its Rendezvous network-configuration technology for use in Windows, Linux, Unix and Java applications. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Sun, IBM Should Quit Open-Source Posturing eWEEK Linux; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Posted by dave on Jun 30, 2004 9:55 PM) [Story Type: News Story; Groups: IBM, Sun] Sun has brought the debate over who is "more open source" down to the playground level, and both companies could do better at it. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Peoplesoft Tools Package Leverages Linux Linux World (Posted by dave on Jun 30, 2004 9:06 PM) [Story Type: News Story] PeopleSoft's newly available PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne Tools 8.93 now supports the Linux operating system and BEA WebLogic infrastructure, to increase productivity, reduce installation times, and increase customer choice. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Linux Media Arts Announces L-Server HD System Digital Post Production (Press Release) (Posted by dave on Jun 30, 2004 9:00 PM) [Story Type: Press Release] Linux Media Arts, Inc. (LMA) has announced that the L-SERVER, the first 64-bit Linux DDR is now available as a turnkey Digital Disk Recording system for a list price of $8,995.00. This is a groundbreaking price and the first time HD DDR's have been priced well under the typical $30,000 mark for similar systems. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Looking for Indemnification While Linux Sales Double Linux DevCenter; By Tom Adelstein (Posted by dave on Jun 30, 2004 7:58 PM) [Groups: SCO; Story Type: News Story] Little doubt exists; a legal cloud hangs over Linux from infringement claims of the SCO Group, Inc. In spite of that cloud, Linux server sales grew 56.9 percent in the first quarter of the year. Linux sales in 2004 follows six consecutive quarters of double-digit growth for the free operating system during unprecedented legal attacks from SCO over the same period. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

OSDL Creates New College and University Affiliate Program Press release (Posted by dave on Jun 30, 2004 7:42 PM) [Groups: OSDL; Story Type: Press Release] The new program is designed to attract affiliates among colleges and universities interested in Linux research and deployment. The first institutions joining OSDL under the new program are Marist College, Oregon State University, Stanford University, Tokyo University of Technology and Waseda University in Japan. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Linux returns to school VNUNet.com (Posted by dave on Jun 30, 2004 12:56 PM) [Story Type: News Story] Red Hat will this year introduce a new high-end enterprise qualification, even though some observers question whether such certificates are the best way to demonstrate open-source skills. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Skype releases beta Internet telephone for Linux NewsForge (Posted by dave on Jun 30, 2004 12:52 PM) [Story Type: News Story] Score: (1 vote; 100% negative) Skype -- which bills itself as the Global P2P Telephony Company -- is now offering a Linux version of its beta Internet telephone software and service. Like the Windows version which debuted ten months ago, the Linux version is free: at least for the moment. You can download and start using the beta immediately. If you do, you'll be surprised at how good it sounds. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Novell Announces Availability of Mono 1.0 Press release (Posted by dave on Jun 30, 2004 12:51 PM) [Story Type: Press Release; Groups: Novell] Score: (3 votes; 66% positive) Mono 1.0 is an open source development platform based on the .NET framework that allows software developers to efficiently build Linux and cross-platform applications. Mono includes a C# compiler, a .NET-compatible runtime and two stacks of APIs. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Cedega (WineX 4.0) Review - Wins Linuxlookup.com Editors Choice award 20/20! LinuxLookup.com (Posted by VISITOR on Jun 30, 2004 11:46 AM) [Story Type: Reviews] Score: (1 vote; 100% positive) Linuxlookup.com staff member Rich reviews Cedega (WineX 4.0), giving it a 20/20 Editors Choice Award. "The release of Transgaming's newest version of WineX, renamed Cedega, was met with considerable enthusiasm and interest in the Linux community last week. So much so that their server was inaccessible the day of release. Cedega is claimed to be much improved, offering the ability to play recent games released for Windows "seamlessly and transparently" under Linux. They provided me with a copy, and I was curious to see if it lived up to the hype." [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Linux breakthrough boosts cluster performance VNUNet.com (Posted by dave on Jun 30, 2004 11:26 AM) [Story Type: News Story] Hewlett Packard has unveiled a file sharing product based on a Linux clustering technology known as Lustre, which it claims can deliver up to 100 times more [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Internet Explorer Is Just Too Risky BusinessWeek; By Stephen H. Wildstrom (Posted by dave on Jun 30, 2004 10:56 AM) [Story Type: News Story; Groups: Mozilla] Score: (3 votes; 100% positive) Until Microsoft proves it can fix IE's security bugs, you're better off using one of a few good alternatives as much as possible In late June, network security experts saw one of their worst fears realized. Attackers exploited a pair of known but unpatched flaws in Microsoft's Web server software and Internet Explorer browser to compromise seemingly safe Web sites. People who browsed there on Windows computers got infected with malicious code without downloading anything. I've been growing increasingly concerned about IE's endless security problems, and this episode has convinced me that the program is simply too dangerous for routine use. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Sun chides Microsoft, IBM and Red Hat ComputerWeekly.com (Posted by dave on Jun 30, 2004 10:51 AM) [Story Type: News Story; Groups: IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, Sun] Score: (1 vote; 100% positive) Scott McNealy, chairman and chief executive of Sun Microsystems, has extended an open invitation to Microsoft and Red Hat to join the Java Community Process (JCP). Speaking at the 2004 JavaOne conference in San Francisco he also stressed that Sun, which has struggled financially lately, is not going away. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Mozilla Foundation Announces Scriptable Plugins Mozilla Dot Org (Posted by dave on Jun 30, 2004 8:19 AM) [Story Type: Press Release; Groups: Mozilla] Score: (3 votes; 100% positive) Apple, Macromedia, Opera and Sun Microsystems join in push to modernize plugins and create a richer web experience [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Minister spreads good word about Linux to nonprofits Search Enterprise Linux (Posted by dave on Jun 30, 2004 8:11 AM) [Story Type: News Story] Ordained minister Don Parris has plenty of experience spreading the good word -- about Linux. Parris is planting a new church in Charlotte, N.C., the Matheteuo Christian Fellowship. Matheteuo translates to "make disciples," and Parris has extended this directive to include Linux disciples. His PDF book, Penguin in the Pew has been downloaded more than 1,000 times. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

The Penguin Driven Church Office Linux Journal; By Don Parris (Posted by dave on Jun 30, 2004 8:11 AM) [Story Type: News Story] Score: (1 vote; 100% negative) Whether, why and how religious groups should migrate to Linux. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Debian Weekly News - June 29th, 2004 Mailing list; By Martin Schulze <[email protected]> (Posted by dave on Jun 30, 2004 8:09 AM) [Story Type: News Story; Groups: Debian] Welcome to this year's 25th issue of DWN, the weekly newsletter for the Debian community. We have to apologise for not being able to send out an issue last week and only a short one today, but LinuxTag organisation kept Joey too busy with other stuff. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Non-premium tech support at Sourceforge.net Linux News Watch; By Otto Wyss (Posted by VISITOR on Jun 29, 2004 8:30 PM) [Story Type: News Story] Score: (2 votes; 100% positive) Since Sourceforge.net introduced the premium tech support not much seems to have been changed for non-premium support but just read on. Friday 25th I requested a simple movement of a CVS directory from project wxGuide... [ Full story | Read more | 1 thread and 1 post ]

Red Hat offers free reseller training course ARNnet (Posted by dave on Jun 29, 2004 8:30 PM) [Story Type: News Story; Groups: Red Hat] Score: (1 vote; 100% negative) Linux software vendor Red Hat is offering a free half-day training seminar to its Australian resellers. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

The Dominance of Linux on the Server IT-Analysis (Posted by dave on Jun 29, 2004 8:30 PM) [Story Type: News Story; Groups: SCO] Score: (1 vote; 100% positive) Linux is not yet the dominant server OS in terms of units deployed or units shipped. Microsoft still has the lion's share of the market by all reasonable estimations. It is true that Linux market share figures are likely to be inaccurate because there is no easy way to count new Linux servers. The major problem is that it is possible to estimate those servers that come with Linux loaded, but not possible to count servers that were running something else (Windows or SCO UNIX or whatever) that were repurposed. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Open-Source Lifeline Pulls Up Sun's Cobalt eWEEK Linux (Posted by dave on Jun 29, 2004 8:29 PM) [Groups: Sun; Story Type: News Story] Score: (1 vote; 100% positive) The Web server applicance is raking in new users since Sun open-sourced its code, even though the company has discontinued the line. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Gentoo Weekly Newsletter - Volume 3, Issue 26 Mailing list; By Yuji Kosugi <[email protected]> (Posted by dave on Jun 29, 2004 8:25 PM) [Story Type: News Story; Groups: Gentoo] This week's Gentoo Weekly Newsletter brings news of the first installation of Gentoo Linux on a quadruple Opteron machine, as well as coverage of Gentoo's presence at the LinuxTag exhibition in Karlsruhe, Germany. We also bring a new feature, Project Updates, where we bring updates on the various projects within Gentoo - this week you'll find out what's new in the infrastructure, security, and release engineering projects. Don't miss the profile of Portage developer Marius Mauch, the ample community coverage, or the tip on finding recent files using ls either. Enjoy! [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Allied Irish Banks set to adopt open source OS ElectricNews.net (Posted by dave on Jun 29, 2004 4:18 PM) [Groups: Sun; Story Type: News Story] AIB is to move 7,500 desktop users in its branch network to Sun's Java Desktop, a move that bodes well for open source software. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

CE Linux Forum (CELF) Announces Availability of CELF Specification and Reference Implementation for Consumer Electronic Products Press release (Posted by dave on Jun 29, 2004 1:54 PM) [Story Type: Press Release] The CE Linux Forum (CELF) today announced that it has released its first CELF Specification and Reference Implementation. This release represents another step toward optimizing Linux for use in consumer electronic (CE) products, consistent with the goals and vision of the CELF organization. The specification and implementation can be freely downloaded from the CELF website at http://www.celinuxforum.org. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

IE flaw may boost rival browsers CNET News.com (Posted by dave on Jun 29, 2004 12:59 PM) [Groups: Microsoft, Mozilla; Story Type: News Story] Score: (2 votes; 50/50) A major security hole discovered in Microsoft's Internet Explorer last week has become a golden marketing opportunity for alternative browsers such as Mozilla and Opera that are unaffected by the flaw. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

InstallShield X Family Grows With Release of New Express Edition Press release (Posted by dave on Jun 29, 2004 12:50 PM) [Story Type: Press Release] Quickest and Easiest Path to Windows, Linux and Mobile Device Installations. InstallShield(R) Software Corporation, the acknowledged leader in software installation, deployment packaging, and updating solutions, today announced InstallShield X Express Edition, the very first entry-level product to include the ability to create installations that will run on both Windows and Linux. The new Express Edition, now a member of the InstallShield X product family, also features a new compact installer, the ability to notify users of application updates, and exclusive support for all Windows platforms, Linux, and Palm(TM) handheld devices. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Bill Gates brushes off threat of Linux in Asia (AFP) Yahoo! News - Linux/Open Source (Posted by dave on Jun 29, 2004 12:33 PM) [Story Type: News Story; Groups: Microsoft] Microsoft founder Bill Gates brushed off the threat posed by Linux software in Asia and pushed for the use of the Windows operating system in Malaysia. Gates, who is in Malaysia for a one-day visit to meet Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, expressed Microsoft's willingness to help the country improve computer proficiency and boost its IT sector. [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

Irish bank chooses Sun and Linux Silicon.com (Posted by dave on Jun 29, 2004 11:37 AM) [Story Type: News Story; Groups: Sun] Score: (1 vote; 100% positive) The Allied Irish Bank is migrating to the Linux desktop despite the relative immaturity of the platform Sun has finally received the seal of approval it has been seeking from a large private sector client following the announcement on Tuesday that Allied Irish Bank (AIB) is migrating 7,500 users to the Java Desktop System (JDS). [ Full story | Read more | 0 threads and 0 posts ]

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