Mozilla.org: “The Mozilla relicensing effort is reaching its final stages. The response has been overwhelming, with over 98% of respondents (300-odd people) backing the change from MPL and NPL to an [MN]PL/LGPL/GPL tri-license.”

GNOME: “Last Monday, when tarballs were due for this release, there were 9 remaining release critical bugs. The release team decided that this was not suitable for a release candidate, so it was deferred for a week.”

GNOME 2.0 Desktop Snapshot 20020607: "The Release Formerly Known As..."
=======================================================================

Please note that we have delayed the release candidate until next week.

  Last Monday, when tarballs were due for this release, there were 9
  remaining release critical bugs. The release team decided that this was
  not suitable for a release candidate, so it was deferred for a week.
  
  However, the final release date remains unchanged. If all goes to plan,
  we'll be signing butts to celebrate the release of the GNOME 2.0.0 Desktop
  on June 21st.

The GNOME 2.0 Desktop Snapshot 20020607: "The Release Formerly Known As...",
is ready for your bug-busting and testing pleasure, and available for
immediate download:

  http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/pre-gnome2/releases/gnome-2.0-desktop-20020607/

The GNOME 2.0 Desktop is a greatly improved user environment for existing
GNOME applications. Enhancements include anti-aliased text and first class
internationalisation support, new accessibility features for disabled users,
and many improvements throughout GNOME's highly regarded user interface.


Updates
-------

This snapshot includes new releases of the following modules, since the
20020525 snapshot:

  atk
  at-spi
  bonobo-activation
  eel
  gail
  GConf
  gdm
  gedit2
  glib
  gnome-applets
  gnome-desktop
  gnome-games
  gnome-media
  gnome-panel
  gnome-session
  gnome-terminal
  gnome-utils
  gnome-vfs
  gtk+
  intltool
  libbonobo
  libbonoboui
  libglade
  libgnome
  libgnomecanvas
  libgnomeprint
  libgnomeprintui
  libgnomeui
  libgtkhtml
  libIDL
  libwnck
  libxml2
  libxslt
  libzvt
  linc
  nautilus
  nautilus-gtkhtml
  ORBit2
  pango
  scrollkeeper
  yelp
  

Please see our previous release notes for build requirements, etc.

Thanks,

- The GNOME 2.0 Release Team

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Linux Journal: “maddog shares his experiences at the Software Livre conference held in Brazil in early May: cooperation, community and erva-mate… ‘”Software Livre! Software Livre! Software Livre!”…the words got louder and louder like a chant. No, not like a chant, it was a chant — and I was leading it! Hundreds of people were in the Forum Internacional for Software Livre held May 2-4, 2002, chanting “Software Livre” (free as in freedom)… maddog shares his experiences at the Software Livre conference held in Brazil in early May: cooperation, community and erva-mate.'”

Anonymous Reader writes: “There was an article today in which Redhat alleges that Sun is employing ‘Microsoft Tactics’ in the marketing of its new StarOffice version. This article, an op/ed piece at Linuxlaboratory, states that what Sun is doing is no different than what Red Hat has been doing for years now with several of its own products and services.”

LinuxDevices.com writes: “Tired of filling out forms? Nobody can read your handwriting? or spell your last name? In this brief technical article at LinuxDevices.com, Entrepreneur and Linux hacker Gerd Rausch explains how (and why) he created a small device that could be installed at rental-car agencies, hotel/airline check-in desks, or health-care facilities to receive data beamed directly from your PDA. It runs on a Linux platform, of course. Read it here.”

From CRMdaily.com: “With the Linux open source operating system and Apache Web server software gaining wider acceptance in enterprise networks, business applications are starting to join the open source movement. CRM software is no exception. Although the code of most CRM applications remains closed, at least one open source vendor is selling workgroup collaboration software that supports the creation and operation of CRM projects.”

Manoj Iyer writes: “The Linux Test Project test suite LTP-20020607.tgz has been released.”
Visit our website (http://ltp.sourceforge.net) to download the latest
version of the test suite, and, for information on test results on pre
release, release candidate and stable releases of the kernel.

There is
also a list of test cases that are expected to fail, please find the list
at http://ltp.sourceforge.net/expected-errors.php

The highlights of this release are:

• White paper titled “Analysis of Linux Test Projects Kernel Code Coverage”
  This analysis paper aims at identifying areas in the kernel that are
  currently tested by LTP and also identify areas that require attention.

• LTP’s Kernel code coverage web site http://ltp.sf.net/coverage/index.html.
  Provides a testcase for each kernel source file mapping.

• LTP is available in i386 binary RPM format for download.
  Also, the LTP
  source RPM and spec file are available for download to allow binary RPM
  builds.

• Linux Test Tools Table. A comprehensive list of tools and testsuites
  available to test Linux.
• MIPS, s390 and 64-bit x86 updates.

We encourage the community to post results, patches or new tests on
our mailing list and use the CVS bug tracking facility to report problems
that you might encounter with the test suite.
More details available at
our web-site.

It’s at ZDNet, which is owned by CNet. The Linux portion: “Half of all respondents said Linux would play a ‘significant’ or ‘major’ role in their company’s business plans. More than one out of three respondents also listed Linux seller and service provider Red Hat as one of the ‘most relevant’ companies to their business in the next five years.”

Frank writes: “Here’s your last chance to conveniently get all the IBM middleware(DB2 Universal Database, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Studio Application Developer, and Lotus Domino), that has been ported to Linux, sent to you for free. The 2-CD Set is part of a new program called “Speed-start you linux app,” that is providing help to developers with creating and porting applications to the Linux platform. Also included are resources for Web Services and code, Linux technical articles, Linux Redbooks, and the very popular Java battle-bots game Robocode. The “Speed-start you linux app” program has been very popular and the CDs are running out fast. Get yours while you still can.”

Anonymous Reader writes: “‘Unbreakable Linux’ and ‘UnitedLinux’ are poised to do battle, Red Hat and Oracle vs. SuSE, Caldera, TurboLinux, Conectiva, and IBM. But this analysis in Linux and Main concludes that the battle is really to sell databases, as old rivals IBM and Oracle square off. The distributions are just the soldiers or, as the article puts it, ‘cannon fodder.'”