Author: JT Smith
Debian Planet reports on Debian 2.2r1 being released. The new stable update includes patches, bugfixes, and security updates over the original 2.2 release.
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- Linux
Debian 2.2r1 is out now
Cantametrix plans to track all MP3s on the web
Author: JT Smith
In an interesting twist, a company is claimg to be able to track music across the web by mining search engines with a ‘special DSP program’ for copyright materials (as reported by Slashdot).
“KDE 2.0 Development” is online (and OPL)
Author: JT Smith
Another Slashdot news report, this time about the release of “KDE 2.0 Development,” a book about developing for the new APIs in KDE 2.0. The book is covered under the Open Publication License.
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- Open Source
The 3Dsia project: more than a 3DWM
Author: JT Smith
Another 3D interface project, the 3Dsia project (reported by Slashdot) seems to be trying to shoot for a whole new 3D interface concept — beyond the 3D window manager which simply renenders 2D into a 3D space.
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- Linux
Glibc 2.2 is ready for Woody
Author: JT Smith
Debian Planet brings us more Debian news — this time, about Glibc2.2 being included in Woody for testing and development by the Debian community.
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- Linux
Is the Public Key Infrastructure outdated?
Author: JT Smith
Slashdot has a story asking if traditional PKI is outdated because of the lack of adoption at large, and because of implementation issues.
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- Linux
Debian new maintainer process reaches 100 applicants- dupe
Author: JT Smith
Debian’s new package maintainer proccess has been declared a success, according to this story on Debian Planet.
Coding standards part 2: Basic conventions
Author: JT Smith
At zez.org Gunnstein Lye has written his second part in the series “Coding Standards”. He shows eZ system’s standards regarding macros, indentation and brackets. – Submitted by Paul K Egell-Johnsen
Report from India: Open Source for business
Author: JT Smith
Linux can power software development, boost education and e-commerce plans and empower developing nations. So says Frederick Noronha in this report on the IT.Com expo in Bangalore. Even the Aeronautical Development Establishment were on hand to show how Linux was saving software and hardware costs. -Submitted by Gary Lawrence Murphy
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- Open Source
Open source versus obscurity
Author: JT Smith
Linux World makes its case against closed source philosophy with regards to security, using recent events at Microsoft as its primary target.
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- Linux