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Apple to harvest OS X upgrade

Author: JT Smith

CNet reports that Apple is expected Tuesdady to unveil a long-anticipated upgrade to the
Mac operating system.

Category:

  • Unix

Good planning kept Nasdaq running during attacks

Author: JT Smith

Network World Fusion has a story on how Nasdaq’s network stayed up during the attacks on New York Sept. 11. “All of the trading information is monitored and put into repositories for market
regulation, where suspect behavior can be researched. A 20-50T byte on-line
Oracle database provides the holding tank for that information. That database
resides on a Sequent server that runs a BSD derivative operating system.”

Category:

  • Unix

Wasabi Systems ships update to NetBSD

Author: JT Smith

Posted at BSDToday: Wasabi Systems, Inc., the premier provider of the
NetBSD embeddable open source operating system, today announced shipment of
NetBSD v. 1.5.2. NetBSD 1.5.2 includes many new and enhanced features over the
previous versions.

GNOME 1.4.1: Installation guide

Author: JT Smith

Gnome.org has the guide to installing Gnome 1.4.1. “The GNOME Installation Guide was written to help unfamiliar users install a
stable GNOME system that includes more than the default applications. It
teaches readers how to compile GNOME on their own instead of installing
precompiled packages. It also covers installation of extra GNOME programs,
both those hosted by the GNOME project and those which are no.”

Category:

  • Open Source

Gartner Group suggests dumping Microsoft IIS

Author: JT Smith

Slashdot has a link to a Gartner Group commentary recommending recommending MS IIS be replaced in
corporate environments because of security problems.

Category:

  • Linux

Stallman, Moglen to speak on ‘Free Market/Free Speech Solution to the Microsoft Antitrust Problem’

Author: JT Smith

Posted at LWN.net: Dr. Richard Stallman,
founder and President of the Free Software Foundation, and Eben Moglen,
Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and General Counsel for the FSF,
will speak at George Washington University’s Cyberspace Policy Institute
in Washington, D.C., October 10, 2001 at the CPI’s Free Software
Conference: “Free Software: the Free Market/Free Speech Solution to the
Microsoft Antitrust Problem.”

Philip Zimmermann’s ‘guilt’ over PGP

Author: JT Smith

Zimmerman’s note is posted to Slashdot. “The
article states that as the inventor of PGP, I was ‘overwhelmed with feelings of guilt’. I never
implied that in the interview, and specifically went out of my way to emphasize to her that that
was not the case, and made her repeat back to me this point so that she would not get it wrong
in the article.”

Category:

  • Linux

Music deal on the way for Napster?

Author: JT Smith

ZDNet reports that Napster has announced a major deal with music publishers,
settling part of a lawsuit and helping clear the way for its planned
subscription service.

Linux experts wine over virus

Author: JT Smith

From vnunet.com: “There was much mocking in the Linux camp this weekend when it
was discovered that the Sir Cam virus will run under the Open
Source operating system – but only under the Wine Windows
emulator.”

Category:

  • Linux

Oracle’s Ellison offers free software for U.S. ID

Author: JT Smith

Network World Fusion has more information on Larry Ellison offering to give away software to the U.S. government for a national ID card.