Tonight Live: The GNOME 2.4 Desktop

• Now is the winter of SCO discontent–By Peter Williams and Ian Lynch – VnuNet
• Tigran Aivazian Says His SMP Contributions to Linux Kernel While at SCO Were Approved by his Boss– Groklaw
• SCO code to be protected in closed court–By Andrew Colley, ZDNet Australia

• The Most Recent McBride FUD letter
• Larry Lessig finally chimes in on SCO
• Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die, SCO?–By Staff– Groklaw
• The Grinch Who Stole Linux–By Scott Lazar of Groklaw
• Novell deal good for Linux, bad for SCO–By Peter Williams – vnunet.com
• SGI: Letter to the Linux Community– Get bit SCO
• Halloween IX: It Ain’t Necessarily SCO–
• An Open Letter to Darl-Newsforge good thoughts by ESR
• ‘SCO’ code could be written out of Linux–
• Red Hat Files Complaint Over SCO’s Linux Claims –
• CALDERA Employees work on Kernel– Jeff:I told you so
• Torvalds Speaks Out on SCO, Linux– from e-week
• SCO Owns Your Computer– Byte (how appropriate)
• OSI Position Paper
  on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint–
• Eric Raymond’s attempt
  to find holes in SCO’s claim–
• 
  SCO’s CEO says buyout could end Linux fight– by TODD R. WEISS of
  Computer World
  This may be the defining story of the entire SCO situation

• The
  Linux and Main Summary– has to be good, quoted jeff…..
• Linux
  & Main editorial citing Microsoft– By Dennis Powell
• “SCO ANNOUNCES
  UNIX LICENSING DEAL WITH MICROSOFT” – the official press release
• If it Look like a
  duck, smells like a duck, walks like a duck? Its a duck HEY DOJ
  WAKE UP!!!!!!!
• OK, So
  Why Did Microsoft Buy That SCO License?– by Maureen O’Gara of
  LinuxGram

Segment Two- The GNOME 2.4 Desktop–

Tonight we are going to joined by Jeff Waugh and Leslie Proctor of the
Gnome Foundation. Our topic is GNOME 2.4 Desktop. GNOME runs on a variety of platforms,
including GNU/Linux (commonly called Linux), Solaris, HP-UX, BSD and Apple’s Darwin. GNOME
includes powerful features such as high-quality smooth text rendering and first class
internationalization and accessibility support, including support for bi-directional text.

Jeff Waugh is the head beekeeper of the GNOME Release
Team, a director of the GNOME Foundation, and
President of the Sydney Linux Users Group. In his
spare time, he is an independent IT consultant
specialising in Open Source and Free Software.

Leslie Proctor has been involved in GNOME and free
software since early 1999. She coordinated the press
and marketing efforts for the launch of GNOME, and has
been involved with the project since that time as the
Marketing Lead for the GNOME Foundation. A marketing
and public relations professional with almost 20 years
of experience, Leslie is also a writer, speaker and
open source software advocate. She is a member-elect
of the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors.

The GNOME Foundation
is comprised of hundreds of volunteer developers and
industry-leading companies, the GNOME Foundation is an
organization committed to supporting the advancement
of GNOME. The Foundation provides organizational,
financial and legal support to the GNOME project and
helps determine its vision and roadmap. GNOME is an
entirely free user environment for desktops, networked
servers and portable Internet devices. The modern
architecture and design of GNOME includes a
technically advanced application development platform
and a powerful end-user desktop environment. Major
leading software industry and computer manufacturers
support the GNOME development effort, which is led by
a worldwide community of volunteers. More information
on GNOME is available at www.gnome.org.

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