Leading Asian Linux firm reaches into U.S. market

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October 10, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Today Coventive Technologies, one of Asia’s leading open source software providers, announced that it
is pursuing its international vision by establishing a new organization to serve North American
customers and partners, from Business Wire.

Lineo leads the BusyBox 0.47 open source project

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October 10, 2000

Author: JT Smith

PRNewswire: Lineo, Inc., a leading innovator
in Linux-based embedded systems, real-time and high availability solutions,
today announced the release of BusyBox 0.47, an upgrade to the Swiss Army
knife of freely available open source embedded Linux utilities and tools.

Compaq ratchets up OpenVMS with Version 7.3

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October 10, 2000

Author: JT Smith

IDG News Service on NetworkWorldFusion News reports, Compaq Computer Corp.’s newly released OpenVMS Version 7.3 builds on the company’s
promise to enhance the 24-year-old operating system
it acquired from Digital Equipment Corp. two years
ago, users and analysts said.

GeForce2 Ultra Part 1

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October 10, 2000

Author: JT Smith

This is Part 1 of evil3d.net’s review looking at
performance on AMD based systems under
Windows and Linux.

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Unix

Linux home networking, part 5

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October 10, 2000

Author: JT Smith

This article from Linux Planet takes a look at how to configure pppd, the Linux
point-to-point protocol (PPP) daemon.

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Linux

Loki plans new releases for Linux gamers

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October 10, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Linux.com has an interview with several developers at Loki, which ports computer games to Linux. Coming soon: Mindrover, Sis Meier’s Alpha Centauri, Deus Ex, and Tribes2.

Australian site told to remove racial content

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October 10, 2000

Author: JT Smith

ZDCOUK reports that Commissioner Kathleen McEvoy found that the Adelaide Institute
had breached section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act by
publishing material on the site, the consequences of which were
‘vilificatory, bullying, insulting and offensive’ to the Jewish
population.

FBI wants to teach kids that cyber-vandalism is bad

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October 10, 2000

Author: JT Smith

An Associated Press report at Globe Technology says that the federal Justice Department and the Information Technology Association of America, a trade group,
has launched the Cybercitizen Partnership to encourage educators and parents to talk to children in ways
that equate computer crimes with old-fashioned wrongdoing.

IA64 now available on Compaq’s TestDrive

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October 10, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Reader Dan Sparks writes: Compaq’s TestDrive just added a quad processor (666mhz) Itanium experimental machine with 2GB running Linux. Log onto the test drive site and try out Intel’s newest technology
for free. Ed. note: you must register at the site in order to use the features.

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Linux

Guess what? If you’re an old fart, you probably like Napster, says Media Metrix

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October 10, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Geezers are the fastest growing demographic for online music. “And they are not technologically ignorant, either,” says a retail consultant. From Business Week.