As posted to Advogato, a developer voices its uncertainty about some people’s undrestanding of the GPL. “They frequently claims software complies to GPL but when you ask for source code, they say “no, you are not going to have it.” so what is the meaning of GPL for them?”

From C|Net: “Does a company’s competitive position benefit more from trying to influence, or even determine, the outcome of crucial and currently uncertain elements of an industry’s structure and conduct? Or is the wiser course to scope out defensible positions within an industry’s existing structure and then move with speed and agility to recognize and capture new opportunities when the market changes?”

From Slashdot: “It seems that Austin Meyer, creator of X-Plane , is going to be porting his simulator to Linux. X-Plane is an incredible flight simulator which models flight dynamics by using blade-element theory. Many big companies use X-Plane for development.”

David Bucknell writes, “Open Source Schools is a free and open source project dedicated to fostering the successful use of free and open source software and content in education. We have just completed our second week.

We are building a bridge between those who know powerful, open source technologies and members of the education world with our journal at:
http://www.OpenSourceSchools.org

We invite more to join us, whether brand new to computers and professional education, or an old hand at either or both.

Features since October 1, 2001

Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!
By David A. Wheeler

What programming language should I teach?
By Nick Bauman

Teaching a Child to Program
By Wade Hampton

Do-It-Yourself Open Source Project
By Taylor Brockman

Why Would a Non-Programmer Contribute to Open Source?
By Dale Gulledge

The Open Source Pocket URL Guide
Karl Pinc

The Mozilla.org Project Model
By Brent Simpson

Why Use Open Source in Schools?
By George Shaffer

Linux in education report #54
By Doug Loss

Five Easy Pieces (to bringing Open Source Back Home to Education)
By David Bucknell”

“New releases of GConf are at: ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/GConf.
1.0.5 is latest stable, 1.1.3 latest unstable.”

GConf stores configuration data. See
http://developer.gnome.org/feature/archive/gconf/gconf.html for an overview.

This release involves large changes, which should ideally fix most
problems people have had with GConf. I've closed the vast majority of
bugs in bugzilla, and moved from using OAF/bonobo-activation to using
a simple lockfile in the user's home directory. Also, this release
should allow you to seamlessly use the same daemon for both gconf 1
and gconf 2, if you have the latest ORBit1 and ORBit2. Finally, this
release enforces a UTF-8 encoding on the STRING type, so should avoid
placing non-UTF-8 in the XML backend files.

The downside of fixing these issues is possible breakage - I did my
best to test, but maybe failed, so if you have problems, please report
bugs to http://bugzilla.gnome.org, and wait for a quick 1.0.6.

Packagers should consider splitting gconfd-2 into its own package,
than having gconf-1 and gconf-2 client library packages that both
depend on gconfd-2; this would require a small gconf-1 client lib
patch to s/gconfd-1/gconfd-2/ in the code that launches the daemon.
However, for now this isn't necessary, because gconf-2 can use the
gconfd-1 daemon, no features have been added to gconfd-2 vs. gconfd-1.

Havoc


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“Fix the reiserfs problems, restore endian support to it; Other various small fixups; Cleanups on set_current_state usage…”

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ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/

		 Intermediate diffs are available from
			http://www.bzimage.org

*
*	Fix the reiserfs problems, restore endian support to it
*	Other various small fixups
*	Cleanups on set_current_state usage
*
*	This tree doesn't compile for SMP with gcc 3.*. The problem
*	appears to be the P6 safe spin_unlock code. Right now I don't
*	see why so if you wnt to build with 3.* you have to figure that
*	out too 8)
*

2.4.12-ac2
o	Fix the reiserfs buffer accounting bug		(Chris Mason)
o	VIA rhine oops fix				(Urban Widmark)

o	Fix ppc build, add license tags			(Paul Mackerras)
o	Fix partition size handling bug			(Al Viro)
o	Handle BIOSes that slow the CPU more sanely	(me)
o	Fix pm.h include in pc_keyb.c			(Mike Borrelli)
o	Document some of the APM code			(me)
o	Reapply reiserfs big endian support		(Jeff Mahoney)
o	Fix misleading bootflag reporting		(Thomas Hood)
o	Fix a reporting bug in the promise driver	(Alexander Yurchenko)
o	Switch bits of scsi to use set_current_state
						     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o	Switch cdrom drivers to set_current_state    (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o	Add license tags to reiserfs			(Dirk Mueller)
o	SA1100 fixes					(Russell King)
o	Fix usb config typo				(Tom Rini)
o	Eurotech PC104 watchdog				(Rodolfo Giometti)
o	Add support for the VIA C5 processor		(Dave Jones)
o	Add Dave Jones to maintainers file		(Dave Jones)
o	Switch paride drivers to set_current_state   (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o	Switch USB drivers to set_current_state      (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o	Switch most of drivers/char to s_c_s	     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o	Back out a bogus aci change		     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o	Switch sound to use set_current_state	     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o	Cache reporting errata handling		  	(Dave Jones)
o	Merge some identical vm operations		(Christoph Hellwig)
o	Fix init/version.h comments/format oddments	(Daniel Dickman)

Anonymous Reader writes, “Winamp 3 Linux Alpha Preview is available for download in rpm format at:
http://winamp.com/download/wasabi/“

From AskSlashdot: “Like many people, I work in a Windows NT/2000 shop that has absolutely resisted bringing *nixes into our environment. Everyone has their reasons – my boss has resisted because it would be more difficult and expensive to find a replacement admin if I leave, since said replacement would need to be able to administer both Windows and *nix boxes, which I can understand. But I’m still curious…”

From CNN: “Amid the worst-ever slump in the semiconductor industry, leading makers of microprocessors are expected to unveil striking new power-saving technologies and increasingly robust microchips at a Silicon Valley conference next week.”

From Slashdot: “This article from the NY Times is very cool. It’s about this guy from IBM who was able to put voice recognition on his Palm III and it talks to him! It can remind him about meetings and it will tell him when his battery is getting low.”