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SuSE to put out Linux version of Sun’s SPARC

Author: JT Smith

SuSE now supports
PowerPC, Alpha and SPARC in addition to i386, and the Slashdot readers discuss the possibilities.

Category:

  • Linux

Linux users: SDMI contest a trick

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet follows up on reports that some members of the Linux community are rejecting the record industry’s request to help it create a more secure technical lock on its digital music. The Linux Journal is sponsoring a boycott of the Secure Digital Music Initiative, which starts Friday and promises to pay $10,000 to any hacker who strips out the watermark from a digital song.

Category:

  • Linux

File-swapping Aimster to tap into ICQ, Napster

Author: JT Smith

Aimster, the Napster-like program that taps into America Online’s Instant Messenger software to create file-swapping buddy lists, is expanding its file-searching capabilities to support ICQ and to search Napster and Scour Exchange networks, reports CNET News.

The people behind KDE

Author: JT Smith

KDE.org is offering insights into the people that are behind KDE, starting with its founder, Matthias Ettrich.

Category:

  • Open Source

Keynotes at LINUX Business Expo-Atlanta

Author: JT Smith

Leading Linux companies Red Hat and Caldera Systems will headline keynotes at LINUX Business Expo-Atlanta, reports PRNewswire.

Napster fights back, few notice

Author: JT Smith

The Standard reports, that on its way down, Napster is attacking its attackers.

The end of the internet?

Author: JT Smith

If the idea of the internet as a pure tool of free speech appeals to you, take a good look, it could become the most restrictive form of publishing, warns a new book on censorship in the UK, from BBC News.

What makes software open source?

Author: JT Smith

Upside Today asks, what’s the difference between a GPL-compatible and a non-GPL-incompatible software license?

Category:

  • Open Source

Lotus gives date for Raven beta tests

Author: JT Smith

VNUnet is quotes, “Raven is now set to ship by the end of the year, and is likely to run only on the Windows NT platform,” said Tony Cocks, UK marketing manager of knowledge management for Lotus. “The next versions after that, which will be months rather than years, are AIX Unix, Linux and Solaris,” he said.

TimeSys announces preemptive Linux kernel support

Author: JT Smith

LinuxDevices.com reports, TimeSys Corporation announces enhancements
to its TimeSys Linux/RT operating system distribution that makes the Linux kernel preemptable.