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Super-penguin scrutinizes flies

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Author: JT Smith

ZDNet reports that Berkeley will be using a 40 node Linux cluster to work on one of the various genome projects. The labs cite Linux clusters as more cost efficient then supercomputers to do the work they need to do.

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  • Linux

Many users frustrated with Netscape 6

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Author: JT Smith

Info World charges that Netscape 6 was released prematurely and cites several unhappy users of the product.

Germany lowers ham radio requirement to 5 words per minute

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Author: JT Smith

Technocrat reports that Germany has lowered its standards for gaining a ham radio license from 12 to 5 words per minute in morse code.

The other MP3.com story

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Author: JT Smith

The Standard discusses the woes of music site MP3.com and where it is going, in light of another law suit this passed week.

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  • Open Source

Saddam Hussein’s government buys 1400 PlayStations

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Author: JT Smith

MSNBC reports that the Iraqi government may have bought as many as 1400 PlayStations, and hypothesizes that they may be used as part of a weapons system.

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  • Linux

Open source development gains ground

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Author: JT Smith

While not mentioning Perl or Python, Infoworld talks about PHP and its increasing use in companies looking for reliable, and cost effective, solutions for their web front ends.

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  • Open Source

A report on Richard Stallman’s talk at MandrakeSoft

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Author: JT Smith

The MandrakeForum has posted an article covering the recent talk given by Richard Stallman. It’s summarised from notes, and a bit choppy to read, but provides some interesting anecdotes and insights info RMS and his position.

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  • Migration

Alan releases 2.4.0-test13-pre4-ac1

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Author: JT Smith

Right on the heels of the 2.4.0-test13-pre4 announcement by Linus Torvalds, Alan Cox has released his ac patch against Linus’ branch. (Thanks to Linuxtoday)

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  • Linux

Alan releases 2.2.19pre3

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Author: JT Smith

Alan Cox has released 2.2.19pre3 for testing. This released includes a lot of driver fixes, some detection fixes, and some documentation updates on top of the new VM which went into 2.2.19pre2. (Thanks to lwn.net)

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  • Linux

Linuxcare certifies HP NetServers under Linux

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Author: JT Smith

Announced today, Linuxcare has tested and certified a range of HP NetServers as fully functional under Linux. Complete details are on Linuxtoday.

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  • Linux
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