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eWeek: Open Source on Rise in Government

General 8068 Published 2003-07-12 12:00 by Philipp Esselbach 0

PORTLAND-The use of open-source software is alive and well and growing among government agencies, including the U.S. Census Bureau.

In an address at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (Oscon) here on Thursday titled "Open Source in Government," Lisa Wolfisch Nyman, a senior Internet technology architect at the Bureau, said the issue of open source and government was first raised at Oscon in 1999, where many public sector employees said they were forbidden from using open source.

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eWeek: SCO vs. Linux: Show Me the Money

General 8068 Published 2003-07-11 09:47 by Philipp Esselbach 0

PORTLAND, Ore.-The contentious issue of the SCO Group's lawsuit against IBM and its claims that the Linux operating system is an unauthorized derivative of Unix, to which SCO owns the rights, reared its ugly head at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (Oscon) here on Wednesday.

In a late afternoon panel discussion titled "The IP Wars: SCO Versus Linux," moderator Chris DiBona, vice president and founder of Damage Studios, said the topic essentially involves a "SCO versus everybody else talk," adding that the lawsuit was probably brought for financial reasons as IBM is a player with a lot of money.

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MontaVista Linux expands to Korea

General 8068 Published 2003-07-11 09:31 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Embedded Linux seller MontaVista Software has opened an office in Korea, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company said Thursday.

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Sun expands Unix deal with SCO

General 8068 Published 2003-07-11 09:31 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Sun, the No. 1 seller of Unix servers, licenses broader rights to Unix and gets the option to buy a stake in the company that owns those rights.

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eWeek: Japan Weighs Using Linux to Upgrade Files

General 8068 Published 2003-07-10 11:04 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The Japanese government is considering using the free Linux software program when it upgrades its computer data files for public servants in 2005.

Japan has chosen a proposal submitted by a group made up of Fujitsu, IBM Japan and Oki Electric Industry Co. The companies suggest using Linux to manage salary and other personnel data for the nation's 800,000 central government employees, government official Masanobu Arao said Wednesday.

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IBM expands Linux support

General 8068 Published 2003-07-09 20:14 by Philipp Esselbach 0

CNET News reports that IBM expands their Linux support

Torvalds: What, me worry?

General 8068 Published 2003-07-09 10:06 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Linux creator Linus Torvalds sounds off on SCO Group's lawsuit against IBM, intellectual property in the open-source world and the future of the Linux operating system.

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MandrakeSoft sees end to Chapter 11

General 8068 Published 2003-07-09 10:06 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The Linux seller hopes to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection by the end of the year.

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Acer to sell desktop PCs with Linux

General 8068 Published 2003-07-08 11:00 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Saw over at PCLinuxOnline:

A users look at changes in Nautilus since 2.2

General 8068 Published 2003-07-03 22:12 by Philipp Esselbach 0

FootNotes has posted a listing of major changes in Nautilus since 2.2

ClusterVision to Install First AMD Opteron Processor Based Supercomputer

General 8068 Published 2003-07-03 19:15 by Philipp Esselbach 0

AMD Board send words that ClusterVision will install the first AMD Opteron Processor based supercomputer

HP rolls out microtower Linux PC for SMBs

General 8068 Published 2003-07-03 09:08 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced a new low-end desktop PC designed for small businesses that features a version of the Linux operating system, the company said Wednesday.

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Torvalds: Linux 2.6 beta coming

General 8068 Published 2003-07-03 09:07 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Although Linus Torvalds didn't meet a goal to release the upcoming version of the operating system in June, the Linux leader says a test version could come as soon as next week.

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MontaVista hopes to join Linux group

General 8068 Published 2003-07-03 09:07 by Philipp Esselbach 0

MontaVista Software, a company specializing in Linux for "embedded" computing devices such as network equipment, hopes to join the newly announced Consumer Electronics Linux Forum, the company said Wednesday.

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High growth rates for open source in Germany

General 8068 Published 2003-07-02 22:47 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Germany is poised to see sales of open source software and services grow substantially over the next few years, particularly in the public sector, according to a new report published Tuesday.

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High-impact Web tier clustering with JavaGroups

General 8068 Published 2003-07-02 22:39 by Philipp Esselbach 0

Commodity machine clusters can provide a scalable and highly available platform to deploy Web application and Web services. The networking software required for such clusters, however, is often custom to the specific application and can be daunting to write and test. This article shares how JavaGroups, an open source distributed systems toolkit, can help by providing ready-to-deploy, high-level features such as: group membership management, multicast and unicast message-based group communications, state transfer protocol, functional distributed data structure, and a library of reusable, frequently used communication coding patterns.

Final Modules List for the GNOME 2.4 Desktop Release

General 8068 Published 2003-07-02 09:14 by Philipp Esselbach 0

FootNotes has posted the final modules List for the GNOME 2.4 desktop release

Consumer electronics industry rallies around Linux

General 8068 Published 2003-07-02 09:07 by Philipp Esselbach 0

In a move that could potentially bring Linux to the masses, eight of the world's top consumer electronics vendors have formed an alliance to promote development of the open-source operating system (OS) for use in digital devices including audio and visual equipment and mobile phones.

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A Better Way to Run Windows Apps in Linux

General 8068 Published 2003-07-01 19:10 by Philipp Esselbach 0

eWeek has posted an article on Windows software under Linux

Linux stars in DreamWorks Sinbad

General 8068 Published 2003-07-01 10:19 by Philipp Esselbach 0

The movie studio expands its use of the open-source software for its latest animated feature, "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas," using only Linux workstations and servers.

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