Author: JT Smith
2.4 isn’t here yet, but the Linux community is already putting its wish lists together for version 2.5 of the Linux kernel, says ZDNet.
Category:
- Linux
Ithaki metasearch engine released
Author: JT Smith
From PR Web: “We are very proud to present Ithaki, the most powerful and innovative
metasearch engine of the internet. www.ithaki.net
metasearch engine of the internet. www.ithaki.net
Ithaki is the only metasearch engine available in 10 languages (English, French,
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Dutch, NOrwegian, Russian and German)
and armed with more than 30 unique categories to search including the web,
news, images, newsgroups, sotfware, spiders, books and much more.
Ithaki is also the first Linux metacrawler, users and fans of Linux can get the most
of their systems metasearching the linux web, usenet, security and more.
Transmeta to help AMD push into servers
Author: JT Smith
From ZDNet UK: “Advanced Micro Devices plans to take on Intel in the server
market, enlisting one of its own competitors to help out
market, enlisting one of its own competitors to help out
Under a complex deal yet to be announced, sources say AMD is
sending to software developers computers that run on competitor
Transmeta’s Crusoe processor and contain a special version of
Transmeta’s ‘code-morphing’ software.”
Category:
- Unix
Justice pick is pro-crypto
Author: JT Smith
SecurityFocus.com reports on the appointment of John Ashcroft as U.S. attorney general. “As a senator, Ashcroft was one of a handful of lawmakers who fought to tear down encryption export regulations … Ashcroft’s views put him in direct opposition to FBI director Louis Freeh.”
Category:
- Linux
India using teens to catch crackers
Author: JT Smith
From Wired.com: “Teenage computer hackers will play cyber policemen to help an Indian panel tackle Internet crimes, a top software
industry official said on Wednesday.
industry official said on Wednesday.
The National Cyber Cop Committee set up by the industry will be advised by a group of 19 hackers, all between 14 and 19 years of
age, based in larger cities, Dewang Mehta, president of the National Association of Software and Service Companies, told a news
conference.”
Category:
- Linux
Linux Interest Group open meeting in February
Author: JT Smith
The Linux Interest Group is holding an open meeting during the first day of the next meeting of the Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum which takes place Feb. 6 to 8
at the Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, California. More information is at OpenGroup.org.
at the Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, California. More information is at OpenGroup.org.
eGrail fills Linux content management gap
Author: JT Smith
In SearchEnterpriseLinux,
Al Brown, chief technical officer of eGrail, an Internet infrastructure software product and services company, talks about his company’s sales approach and technology and Linux’s future in the enterprise market. He says Linux’s advantages are not well understood outside the technical community. -Anonymous Reader
Al Brown, chief technical officer of eGrail, an Internet infrastructure software product and services company, talks about his company’s sales approach and technology and Linux’s future in the enterprise market. He says Linux’s advantages are not well understood outside the technical community. -Anonymous Reader
Category:
- Linux
New issue of Debian Weekly News
Author: JT Smith
LWN.net has it: “We’re beginning to learn what life with the testing distribution will
be like. Developers now need to keep track of what versions of their
packages are in testing, as well as stable and unstable, and it’s
proving to be rather hard to figure out why an updated package is not
being accepted into testing.”
be like. Developers now need to keep track of what versions of their
packages are in testing, as well as stable and unstable, and it’s
proving to be rather hard to figure out why an updated package is not
being accepted into testing.”
Category:
- Linux
Cox releases 2.2.19pre5
Author: JT Smith
It’s posted at LWN.net. Among the changes: PPA driver update; fix NFS data alignment on ARM; fix hang on boot with ALi5451 shared irq midi.
Category:
- Linux
The Perl Journal stops its presses
Author: JT Smith
Slashdotters discuss a report that publication of The Perl Journal has been halted while some of its sister publications are sold to Internet.com.
Category:
- Open Source