IBM could turn Linux into just another *nix, warns Gartner

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January 19, 2001

Author: JT Smith

VNUnet talked to Gartner, who is pontificating about IBM’s involvement with everyone’s favorite OS. There are benefits to that involvement, they say, on the gaining new business side–but there are potential problems on the horizon for the ‘openness’ of Linux.

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Linux

Analysts make more predictions; this time about chips

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January 19, 2001

Author: JT Smith

ZDNET.co.uk says that our buddies the analysts (who are they, anyway?) are predicting that chipmakers will crack the 2GHz barrier in 2001. Zoom!

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Unix

Computing pioneer dead

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January 19, 2001

Author: JT Smith

Nandotimes says that Tom Kilburn, a Brit who helped create the first computer capable of storing a program (way back in 1948) has gone into an infinite loop at the age of 79.

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Linux

MS strikes again: calling innocent emailers spammers

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January 19, 2001

Author: JT Smith

ZDNET reports that Microsoft’s Hotmail service, in an effort to appear blameless in the spam issue, has been trashing all email sent to and from certain domains known to have manufactured spam in the past. Not a big stretch to imagine such a broad brush strategy from Redmond.

Cox on kernels

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January 19, 2001

Author: JT Smith

Ah yes, boys and girls. Cox waxes poetic about 2.4 and others at Linux.conf.au, and LinuxWorld Australia has all the juicy tidbits for consumption at your leisure.

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Linux

Nutty about kernel numbers

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January 19, 2001

Author: JT Smith

LinuxToday.com.au takes this opportunity to rag on the ‘non-Linux specific’ media and their hyper-excitement about the release of 2.4. Wait til they see what this Linux-specific media outlet has planned.

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Linux

Future of GNOME revealed down under

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January 19, 2001

Author: JT Smith

GNOME developers joked that GNOME will now include the Microsoft Windows Plus Pack, at the Linux.conf.au. Read more quips and puns, Aussie-style, at LinuxWorld.com.au.

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Linux

RLX is a new player in the server market

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January 19, 2001

Author: JT Smith

PCWorld has picked up on the RLX story, speaking of cool, sleek servers brought to us by former Compaq executives. Lots of marketing jargon here, but one thing is sure; RLX will do well as long as they can convince customers that the server will live up to expectations.

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Unix

Linux goes after the enterprise space

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January 19, 2001

Author: JT Smith

This article at VNUnet.com gives Linus a few jabs about his tardiness with the new kernel. Sure, no rush for him, but Red Hat, Caldera, and the others are trying to please investors and potential business customers. And as far as they’re concerned, 2.4 might as well not even be out yet.

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Linux

Is ‘Antitrust’ for real?

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January 19, 2001

Author: JT Smith

LinuxWorld reviews the movie Antitrust… as if you don’t already know it back and forth from the twenty other reviews you’ve read. This one, though, has comments from Linus, maddog, and Miguel de Icaza.

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Open Source