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Are PCs toast? Internet appliances arrive

Author: JT Smith

From an IDG News Service story on Internet appliciances: “The new Internet Computer is the antithesis of the two MSN machines.
Its OS is Linux, running invisibly in the background. Netscape 4.73 is its
browser. Both load from a CD-ROM. The NIC is the most computerlike of the
three appliances, with a small vertical case, two stand-alone speakers, a tabletop
mouse (with mouse pad), and a full-size computer keyboard that lacks the
shortcut buttons included on the MSN Companions.”

Script kiddies must stop, or be stopped

Author: JT Smith

A column at ZDNet examines script kiddies and their potential damage to poor, little corporate America. “It’s so easy to hack now that it’s almost certain that every corporate Web site will be compromised within the next couple of years.” Also, The Associated Press reports that the FBI is pushing for cyber ethics classes in schools.

Category:

  • Linux

Why the world needs reverse engineers

Author: JT Smith

From a column at ZDNet: “(Reverse engineering) sounds backwards. It sounds devious. But it is about analysis: taking things apart, potentially breaking them, to find out how they work; opening up the hood, seeing what parts are inside and how they are connected. And, although it sounds somewhat less noble than ‘engineering,’ the world needs reverse engineers and needs them badly.”

AbriaSoft announces the release of the Abria App Pack

Author: JT Smith

AbriaSoft, the first distribution of MySQL based database
solutions for the Internet, announced
today its release of the Abria App Pack, an application package
containing popular Open Source applications that are commonly used in
conjuncture with MySQL database, from Internet Wire.

Turning the town red

Author: JT Smith

One of the ripple effects of the Microsoft investment in Corel was a
potential change in the status of Wine, surmises LinuxPlanet, a technology that Corel had
mightily championed and used as the underlying technology for its
release of Corel WordPerfect Office 9.

Category:

  • Unix

Accelerated-X laptop display server for Linux – duplicate

Author: JT Smith

32BitsOnline reviews Xi Graphics’ Accelerated-X laptop display server.

GTK+ version 2.0

Author: JT Smith


Red Hat previews
GTK+ version 2.0’s advantages for users and programmer.

Category:

  • Linux

A new generation of 3D gaming in Linux

Author: JT Smith

Bringing Linux gamers the most comprehensive testing of 3D cards in Linux, vows this article on LinuxGames.com.

The Mojo solution

Author: JT Smith

Salon News proclaims, forget Napster and
Gnutella, Jim
McCoy’s Mojo
Nation is the coolest
file-trading service
on the Net.

Arkeia software packaged with Intel’s hosting appliances

Author: JT Smith

Built on open source technology, Intel’s NetStructureTM 1010 and 1020
hosting appliances will now package the Knox Software’s flagship product, Arkeia, from Linux PR.