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
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
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
Biggest ever Web credit card theft? — DUPE
Author: JT Smith
If you shopped at Egghead this holiday season, should you worry? ZDNet UK reports that over 3 million credit card numbers may have been stolen in a recent online break-in suffered by the electronic retailer.
Leaping Linux: IBM’s z900 takes it on
Author: JT Smith
From Search EnterpriseLinux:
Mark Cathcart, a technology strategist with IBM and a member of the S/390 Software Development Council talks about IBM’s strategy behind Linux on the z900 and if he thinks Linux can really take this age-old platform into the world of open-systems. -Anonymous Reader
Mark Cathcart, a technology strategist with IBM and a member of the S/390 Software Development Council talks about IBM’s strategy behind Linux on the z900 and if he thinks Linux can really take this age-old platform into the world of open-systems. -Anonymous Reader
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- Linux
Net returns: Linux and Netware
Author: JT Smith
LinuxPlanet: “Netware used to command significantly more interest than it does today, but remains a significant player in file and print services.
Linux can be a Netware client and there is limited Netware server support as well.”
Linux can be a Netware client and there is limited Netware server support as well.”
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- Linux
NSA releases high security version of Linux
Author: JT Smith
From Slashdot: “We had an extremely interesting submission from Ted T’so, Linux kernel developer, who also has
an obvious interest in security, given his work with Kerberos[?]. He wrote in concerning the release
by the NSA (Yes, that NSA) of a high security version of Linux.”
an obvious interest in security, given his work with Kerberos[?]. He wrote in concerning the release
by the NSA (Yes, that NSA) of a high security version of Linux.”
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- Linux
Komodo Beta Released
Author: JT Smith
use Perl says, “ActiveState has released the first beta of Komodo, its IDE built on top of
Mozilla.”
Mozilla.”
Linux lead slams ‘pay per read’ disk drive plan
Author: JT Smith
Alan Cox doesn’t like the idea of ATA hard drives with built-in copy proctection features. More @ The Register. (We don’t like this idea either. Should we start stockpiling “old style” hard drives just in case?)
Category:
- Unix
Netdocs — Microsoft’s .Net poster child?
Author: JT Smith
ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley has a great story today about Netdocs, which, she says, “is slated to be one of Microsoft’s showcase .Net building blocks, but Microsoft officials steadfastly refuse to discuss it publicaly.”