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Apache 1.3.23 released

Author: JT Smith

That’s one of the items in this week’s ApacheWeek. “Apache 1.3.23 was released on the 24th January 2002. This release addresses some minor bugs found in the 1.3.22 release, and adds some new features, including HTTP/1.1 support for mod_proxy.”

Category:

  • Open Source

New, tiny Linux PDA: Filewalker

Author: JT Smith

Slashdot links to a German site describing a new Linux PDA. Brings new meaning to the word “handheld,” maybe it should be “half-handheld.”

Adrian Bunk retires from Debian

Author: JT Smith

DebianPlanet.org notes that Bunk, maintainer of 40 source
packages and the backports of packages that enable
running kernel 2.4 on Debian, has retired from Debian
development because “after the discussions of the
last weeks [he] still [doesn’t] see any real progress
towards a new release.”

Category:

  • Linux

Review: Getting Started with Yellow Dog Linux

Author: JT Smith

Anonymous Reader writes, “From TuxPPC: “‘Getting started with Yellow Dog Linux’ is excellent in what it explains. However, the manual is quite as bad in what it does not explain. Indeed, it is very incomplete and I’d say even unappropriate to new Linux users. The topics they chose to explain are often ‘nice’ but miss the essential things.”

Category:

  • Linux

Review: Getting started with Yellow Dog Linux

Author: JT Smith

Anonymous Reader writes From TuxPPC: “‘Getting started with Yellow Dog Linux’ is excellent in what it explains. However, the manual is quite as bad in what it does not explain. Indeed, it is very incomplete and I’d say even unappropriate to new Linux users. The topics they chose to explain are often ‘nice’ but miss the essential things.”

Loki games survey

Author: JT Smith

Kenneth G writes, “We at vmlinuz have created a survey about Loki Games suspending operations on January 31. We would like to see you ALL share your feelings on this subject.”

Category:

  • Linux

Alphabet Soup Launches at Linuxguru.net

Author: JT Smith

sblaze writes, “In a continuing effort to bring Linux knowledge to the world,
Linuxguru.net has embarked on a project code named Alphabet Soup. Alphabet Soup is a weekly event in which we will explore lesser known but useful commands that might have been forgotton, never discovered, or concepts for improvements.
ISSUE 1: Archiving: Breaking Up isn’t Hard to Do is
here.”

Linuxlaboratory.org: Site upgraded, new reviews

Author: JT Smith

njcajun writes, “Hi all,

You can see the changelog for LL.O here, a new review of Ximian GNOME here, and Part I in a series of Kickstart Labs here. I hope you all enjoy it!”

Xandros readies Corel Linux distribution

Author: JT Smith

NWfusion.com notes that the the distribution of Linux
for desktop systems developed by Corel is set to
make a comeback in April.

Category:

  • Linux

Evolution 1.0 revolutionizes the Open Source desktop

Author: JT Smith

NetworkComputing.com has the review. “Evolution 1.0 looks and feels a lot like Outlook with one glaring exception: It isn’t
vulnerable to the virus-of-the-week problems that have been afflicting Outlook
over the past few months. While this ‘immunity’ isn’t on Evolution’s feature list,
it should be.”

Category:

  • Open Source