Author: JT Smith
An anonymous reader submitted this PlanetIT story which discusses the announcement of Mainsoft to possibly port popular Microsoft applications to Linux.
Category:
- Linux
Spreadsheets under BSD
Author: JT Smith
BSDToday has a pair of articles covering spreadsheets. The first spreadsheet software reviews covers Applix Spreadsheet, Xspread, and sc.
The second continue with Gnumeric, Abacus, and Oleo.
The second continue with Gnumeric, Abacus, and Oleo.
Category:
- Unix
Napster war could erode buyer base
Author: JT Smith
This article, from Florida Today, questions what effect the shutdown of Napster will have on the sales of CDs. It cites a Rolling Stone survey that said 36% of people bought more music, compared to 8% who bought less, because of online music.
FreeBSDzine Issue #7 out
Author: JT Smith
The latest issue of FreeBSDzine is out. It has articles on dual booting FreeBSD 4.0 with Windows 98, Mexican FreeBSD advocacy and VLan interface configuration
Category:
- Linux
Wireless technology helps old schools
Author: JT Smith
Canada.com reports on wireless networking helping old schools which don’t have the infrastructure to support a standard ethernet network get online, and give students access to internet resources.
Verizon strike has little effect elsewhere
Author: JT Smith
The recent strike by Version staff is reported to have little effect on other labour talks, according to Bloomberg.com, because the unions in the tech industry are not organized the same way as the auto industry.
Category:
- Open Source
CERT Advisory CA-2000-17
Author: JT Smith
CERT has released an advisory covering the recent ‘rpc.statd’ remote root vulnerability.
Category:
- Linux
A summary from LinuxWorld
Author: JT Smith
Upside.com has a summary from LinuxWorld, including a information on the business deals that happened, summaries of the announcements, and a paragraph on Gnome becoming the future Solaris® GUI.
Category:
- Linux
The week in review: Live at the Linux love fest
Author: JT Smith
CNET has posted its weekly wrap up, including information about the Linux x86-64 port, the Gnome foundation effort, and other technology news from the week.
Category:
- Linux