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“As an alternative desktop operating system, Linux suffered for a long time from lacking a state-of-the-art Web browser,” says Dean Kakridas, VP desktop products. “By focusing on providing the very latest in browser technology to Linux users, Opera has moved in and filled the void needed to make Linux a technologically advanced and user-friendly operating system. Opera’s continuous insistence on a technology-centered strategy is proving successful both among users and Linux distributors.”
Opera is available in Linux-Mandrake 8.2.
About Opera Software
Opera Software ASA is an industry leader in the development of Web browsers for the desktop and embedded markets, partnering with companies such as IBM, AMD, Symbian, Canal+ Technologies, Ericsson, Sharp and Lineo. The Opera browser has received international recognition from end users and the industry press for being faster, smaller and more standards-compliant than other browsers. Opera is available on Windows, Mac, Linux/ Solaris, Symbian OS and QNX. Opera Software ASA is a privately held company headquartered in Oslo, Norway. Learn more about Opera at www.opera.com.
“As an alternative desktop operating system, Linux suffered for a long time from lacking a state-of-the-art Web browser,” says Dean Kakridas, VP desktop products. “By focusing on providing the very latest in browser technology to Linux users, Opera has moved in and filled the void needed to make Linux a technologically advanced and user-friendly operating system. Opera’s continuous insistence on a technology-centered strategy is proving successful both among users and Linux distributors.”
Opera is available in Linux-Mandrake 8.2.
About Opera Software
Opera Software ASA is an industry leader in the development of Web browsers for the desktop and embedded markets, partnering with companies such as IBM, AMD, Symbian, Canal+ Technologies, Ericsson, Sharp and Lineo. The Opera browser has received international recognition from end users and the industry press for being faster, smaller and more standards-compliant than other browsers. Opera is available on Windows, Mac, Linux/ Solaris, Symbian OS and QNX. Opera Software ASA is a privately held company headquartered in Oslo, Norway. Learn more about Opera at www.opera.com.
Did anyone think the Supreme Court would do anything different? Since
EFF does not have unlimited resources, and since 2600 does not have to pay
a fine — the judge ordered only the deletion of DeCSS.exe and links to
it — this decision made sense.What this also reinforces is that every judge that has looked at the
DMCA’s anti-circumvention sections has thought they’re perfectly grand. DMCA
opponents now have four obvious choices:
1. Wait for a better test case
2. Convince Congress to amend the DMCA (fat chance):
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,45522,00.html
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,52602,00.html
3. Incite violent revolution
4. Get used to it
–Declan
Electronic Frontier Foundation Media Release
2600 Magazine Won’t Seek Supreme Court Review in DVD Case
Activists Vow to Continue Digital Copyright Fight
San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
announced today that online and print publisher 2600
Magazine will not seek U.S. Supreme Court review of a court
order prohibiting publishing or linking to the DeCSS
computer program. This decision ends the publication’s
two-and-a-half year legal battle over DeCSS, which permits
DVD owners to use players that the entertainment industry
has not approved.
“We took several steps forward with this case, forcing the
courts to recognize that freedom of speech was at stake,”
explained EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn. “Later cases will
provide a better foundation for the Supreme Court to act
on the problems created by the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act (DMCA).”
Kathleen Sullivan, the Dean of Stanford Law School, argued
the case on behalf of 2600 Magazine.
In December 1999, eight major motion picture studios sued
2600 Magazine for publishing an article containing the
DeCSS computer software and linking to DeCSS. Norwegian
teenager Jon Johansen developed and published the software
to great public interest, especially in the Linux
community. The New York Times, the San Jose Mercury News,
the Village Voice, and several other mainstream news
outlets reported on and linked to DeCSS’ publication in
addition to 2600 Magazine’s coverage.
Johansen created DeCSS in an effort to develop an open
source software player that would allow people to play
their lawfully purchased DVDs on computers running the
Linux operating system. But since people may also use the
DeCSS program as one step in infringing the copyrights of
DVD movies, both the New York District Court and the 2nd
Circuit Court of Appeals interpreted the DMCA as banning
2600 Magazine from publishing or linking to DeCSS.
“This case served as a wake-up call to the Internet
community,” said 2600 Magazine publisher Emmanuel Goldstein.
“We have a stronger, more united community now, and we will
support future cases.”
“EFF and 2600 Magazine will strive to ensure that the
public need not sacrifice its side of the copyright bargain
to Hollywood’s fears of piracy,” said EFF Intellectual
Property Attorney Robin Gross. Gross added that EFF is
considering other DMCA challenges and recently issued a
three-year report card detailing the law’s faults.
In a related victory for DeCSS proponents, a California
Court of Appeals held that the preliminary injunction
violated the First Amendment rights of Andrew Bunner, a
DeCSS republisher in California. The California DVD case is
currently pending before the California Supreme Court.
About EFF:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading civil
liberties organization working to protect rights in the
digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and
challenges industry and government to support free
expression and privacy online. EFF is a member-supported
organization and maintains one of the most-linked-to
websites in the world at
http://www.eff.org/.
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Microsoft is to exhibit at LinuxWorld Expo this August, and it appears that the company wants to be nice. Yesterday, LinuxToday spotted the Beast’s presence on the Expo exhibitor list, and after publicising this was contacted by an apparently kinder, gentler Microsoft.
In the shape of Peter Houston, senior director of the Windows Server Product Management Group, who got in touch and explained that it’s all about dialogue. The audience is important to Microsoft, and showing up is a first step “towards forming an ongoing dialog with members of the Linux and Open Source community.”
Microsoft’s contributions to the Open Source movement have generally consisted of comparing it to cancer and/or communism, so Houston’s claim that the company now wants to talk is a significant turnaround. Not, of course, that he has a great deal of choice in the matter.
Say you were the Great Satan’s elected representative for LinuxWorld, and you were going to have to man a stand in the midst of thousands of potentially ravening geeks come August. Would you be handing out inflamatory literature, or smiling a lot and saying you want to talk? (Best stash some cool toys for the natives round the back, just in case, Peter.)
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Linux is fast becoming a key component of the Network age of today and the future. Linux is now core of systems ranging from small smart devices to supercomputer clusters. A working knowledge of Linux is critical for professionals who use computing devices as tools for their work.
“Linux Fundamentals” bootcamp is designed for busy professionals with no prior experience with Linux or any other flavor of UNIX. This two-day introduction to Linux broadens their horizons with a detailed overview of the operating system. Attendees learn how to effectively use a Linux system as a valuable tool. They get familiar with the architecture and various components of the operating system, learn both graphical and command line tools, and learn to do basic networking. This class is scheduled for July 11 – 12th, 2002.
In addition to carefully designed lecture material delivered by experienced Linux professionals, there is a heavy emphasis on hands-on learning. Attendees get a powerful Linux laptop on their arrival, alongwith other class materials. At the end of the class they take this laptop with them to further enhance their Linux expertise. Professionals with basic UNIX experience can enroll in the the popular “Linux System Administration Bootcamp” class.
About LinuxCertified.com
The mission of LinuxCertified.com is to bring Linux to mainstream IT usage. We firmly believe that Linux has an enormous potential, once it crosses over from the early adopters to the more mainstream users. Our goal is to help this transition by providing:
– Linux trained and certified professionals
– Linux certified products that cater to mainstream users rather than early adopters.
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Author: Benjamin D. Thomas
The master boot record (MBR)
The recommended place to install a boot loader, unless the MBR already starts another operating system loader, such as System Commander or
OS/2’s Boot Manager. The MBR is a special area on your hard drive that is automatically loaded by your computer’s BIOS, and is the earliest
point at which the boot loader can take control of the boot process. If you install it in the MBR, when your machine boots, GRUB (or LILO) will
present a boot prompt. You can then boot Red Hat Linux or any other operating system that you have configured the boot loader to boot.
The first sector of your root partition
Recommended if you are already using another boot loader on your system (such as OS/2’s Boot Manager). In this case, your other boot loader
will take control first. You can then configure that boot loader to start GRUB (or LILO), which will then boot Red Hat Linux.”
