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Interview with founding Postnuke developer John Cox

Easino writes: “Easino.com has conducted an exclusive interview with the founding father of the popular open source Postnuke content management system. From Postnuke’s roots to where the popular CMS is headed in the future John was kind enough to answer all our questions! Click here for the full interview.” Editor: Warning annoying pop-under ad ahead.

Category:

  • Open Source

DesktopLinux.com announces ‘wIndependence Day’ contest winners

Anonymous Reader writes: “DesktopLinux.com has announced the names of the winners of the first annual wIndependence Day essay contest. 25 essayists have won prizes that were donated to the event by CodeWeavers, ELX, Lindows.com, Lycoris, MandrakeSoft, NeTraverse, Opera, ShaolinMicro, Sun Microsystems, SuSE, theKompany, and Ximian. The essays will be published by DesktopLinux.com at the rate of five per week, starting next Thursday. One lucky winner even received one of the new Microtel PCs preloaded with LindowsOS. Details are here.

DesktopLinux.com announces ‘wIndependence Day’ contest winners

Anonymous Reader writes: “DesktopLinux.com has announced the names of the winners of the first annual wIndependence Day essay contest. 25 essayists have won prizes that were donated to the event by CodeWeavers, ELX, Lindows.com, Lycoris, MandrakeSoft, NeTraverse, Opera, ShaolinMicro, Sun Microsystems, SuSE, theKompany, and Ximian. The essays will be published by DesktopLinux.com at the rate of five per week, starting next Thursday. One lucky winner even received one of the new Microtel PCs preloaded with LindowsOS. Details are here.

DesktopLinux.com announces ‘wIndependence Day’ contest winners

Anonymous Reader writes: “DesktopLinux.com has announced the names of the winners of the first annual wIndependence Day essay contest. 25 essayists have won prizes that were donated to the event by CodeWeavers, ELX, Lindows.com, Lycoris, MandrakeSoft, NeTraverse, Opera, ShaolinMicro, Sun Microsystems, SuSE, theKompany, and Ximian. The essays will be published by DesktopLinux.com at the rate of five per week, starting next Thursday. One lucky winner even received one of the new Microtel PCs preloaded with LindowsOS. Details are here.

Vote for your favorite open language programmer

Lori Pike writes: “ActiveState is delighted to announce the nominees for the second annual Programmers’ Choice Awards. The awards honor those who *actively* contribute to open languages and display excellence in their programming efforts. Thanks to the hundreds of people in the community who nominated someone.”
Please vote for your favorite open language programmer before the July 17 deadline.

Perl, PHP, Python and XSLT winners will be announced at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference July 23, 2002. Tcl winners will be announced at the Tcl conference in September.

Congratulations and good luck everyone!”

Category:

  • Open Source

Sair Linux/GNU certification transferred to Linux Professional Group

GoCertify: “The Sair Linux/GNU certification program will get new life, thanks to a partnership between Thomson Learning and the Linux Professional Group (LPG). Read about it here at Gocertify.com.

Sair Linux/GNU certification transferred to Linux Professional Group

GoCertify: “The Sair Linux/GNU certification program will get new life, thanks to a partnership between Thomson Learning and the Linux Professional Group (LPG). Read about it here at Gocertify.com.

Sair Linux/GNU certification transferred to Linux Professional Group

GoCertify: “The Sair Linux/GNU certification program will get new life, thanks to a partnership between Thomson Learning and the Linux Professional Group (LPG). Read about it here at Gocertify.com.

Category:

  • Linux

“Linux virus” author says he doesn’t work for an anti-virus company

Indeed, he seems outraged by this accusation. No, he wrote the infamous (but hardly widespread) Simile Virus all by himself, on his own. He says, “The fact that I managed to create a Linux virus in so little time (barely two weeks, including time spent learning about the system and its executable formats) indicates that all isn’t as wonderful as they claim – and denying the evidence doesn’t make the evidence disappear.” Take that, you Linux zealots! Grrr! Read the rest of the rant here.

Category:

  • Security

Korea may start jailing spammers

It says, right here on the Korean Information Security Agency site, “The government yesterday unveiled specific anti-spam plans in a move to protect the image of e-Korea abroad,” and “The Ministry of Information and Communication unveiled get-tough measures to crackdown on outbound unsolicited advertising e-mail, which has angered Internet users worldwide.”