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Run Gnome — on Windows

Author: JT Smith

Using the U/WIN toolkit and an X11 server, Global Technology has made Gnome run on Windows. Slashdot has the full story and more.

IBM links Linux to mainframes

Author: JT Smith

InfoWorld follows up on reports that IBM has made available the DB2 Universal Database for Linux on IBM zSeries and S/390 mainframes.

Category:

  • Linux

German village becomes model Internet community

Author: JT Smith

IDG News Service reports on a program in Germany in which nearly all of the residents of a 279-person German village are getting free computers and Internet access, to test whether a virtual network can help isolated older people reconnect to their community.

Can VA Linux get out of hot water?

Author: JT Smith

Upside Today reports that “On Tuesday the company
announced SourceForge OnSite, a subscription-based
version of its already-popular SourceForge project
hosting service. As its name suggests, SourceForge
OnSite involves replicating a community-based
development model behind the firewall of a subscribing
company.” (Newsforge is owned by VA Linux.)

U.S. government warns of digital ‘Pearl Harbor’

Author: JT Smith

InfoWorld reports that the US Government is warning of the possibility of a “Peal Harbor” style attack on the internet.

Win4Lin versus VMWare

Author: JT Smith

Linux World compares Win4Lin and VMWare, two systems designed to allow users to run Windows and Linux concurrently.

Category:

  • Linux

VectorLinux 1.8

Author: JT Smith

Linux PR has a press release announcing VectorLinux, a small X-based distribution.

Improving mod_perl driven site’s performance

Author: JT Smith

From ApacheToday: “In the next series of articles we are going to talk about mod_perl performance issues. We will try
to look at as many aspects of the mod_perl driven service as possible. Hardware, software, Perl
coding and finally the mod_perl specific aspects.”

Now it’s Intel’s turn to issue earnings warning

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet’s eWeek has a story about Intel announcing lower-than-expected earnings, joining a chorus of other tech companies.

Category:

  • Open Source

Webcasters get copyright relief

Author: JT Smith

Wired.com reports on a ruling from the U.S. copyright office that requires terrestrial radio stations that broadcast both over the Web and over the air to pay the same content licensing fees as Web-only broadcasters. CNet weighs in with a story about how the copyright office didn’t rule on how much individual users could control music streams.