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Re-UNIfied Unix: East meets West in Linux

Author: JT Smith

This article from Linux Today concludes, while Unix is unfragmenting all around us, Linux isn’t fragmenting, no, rather, the wave is going the other direction.

Category:

  • Linux

Mozilla strikes back

Author: JT Smith

Article from Linuxpower states, “the ‘hopeless’ application of a few months back is now getting leaner and meaner by the day, and the Mozilla developers are starting to work on the polish.”

Category:

  • Open Source

The Day Ahead: CFO search hover over Red Hat earnings

Author: JT Smith

“When Red Hat reports its fiscal second quarter earnings Thursday analysts
will be looking for the subtle items that may indicate the Linux software and
services company is juggling too much,” says zdnet.co.uk.

Category:

  • Linux

UK ‘free’ ISP CallNet unreachable, apparently bankrupt

Author: JT Smith

“A former darling of the free Internet access model, CallNet, has had its phone
lines cut and is being sued by its former public relations agency, ZDNet can
reveal
.”

Category:

  • Open Source

Semiconductor prices continue to drop

Author: JT Smith

“The international price for 64 megabyte synchronous dynamic random access memory (DRAM) has dropped to around $7 per chip, according to Korea Times.

Category:

  • Unix

Barnes & Noble buys Fatbrain

Author: JT Smith

Loooks like leading geek-book merchant Fatbrain is no longer a scrappy independent. More at NewsBytes.

Category:

  • Open Source

PricewaterhouseCoopers becomes RSA alliance partner

Author: JT Smith

According to this press release, “PwC consultants will be certified to
install RSA Keon(R) Advanced PKI software at customer sites throughout the
United States, enabling organizations to deploy digital certificates for
secure communications.”

Windows Me: Windows 98 all over again

Author: JT Smith

news.com is not impressed with Windows Me. Quote from story: “Windows Me ‘looks amazingly like Windows 98, which looked amazingly like Windows 95,’ said Dan Kusnetsky, a software analyst with International Data Corp.”

Retail Internet fraud is rife

Author: JT Smith

“Startling statistics uncover the real burden faced by retailers who are
increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks,”
report according to ZDnetUK writers Will Knight and Wendy McAuliffe.

Category:

  • Linux

RadiSys and LynuxWorks to develop high-availability Linux operating system

Author: JT Smith

Press release at businesswire.com says, “RadiSys Corp. (Nasdaq:RSYS), a leading global designer and manufacturer of building blocks
enabling next-generation Internet and communications systems, and LynuxWorks today announce plans to develop an Open Architecture High-Availability Linux(R)
system targeted for telecom and embedded system applications which require “five-nines” or better availability. “Five-nines” availability refers to system
availability greater than 99.999% of the time, implying five minutes or less down time per year.”