DebianPlanet: “I’m having an interresting discussion with Hamish Moffatt (the maintainer of the xpdf package). Xpdf
is a free (GPLed) PDF reader which respects Adobe’s lame “copy-protection” bits in PDFs where the
reader refuses to allow printing or copying etc.”

ZDNET: “Microsoft Corp.’s decision last week to give its 1,000 top U.S.
enterprise customers access to the Windows 2000 source code has
been sharply criticized by smaller customers.”

OSOpinion: “A few days ago I was doing something of no great interest to anyone else, even me, and the
thought struck me quite unexpectedly that I knew the base business plan of all Linux companies.”

ZDNET’s eWeek: “According to Microsoft
documents, XP has three main goals. The first is a new engine, based
on Windows 2000, offering increased application compatibility and
stability compared with Windows 2000. The second includes providing
new, more visceral experiences, such as photo and video applications,
and important things such as a built-in firewall. XP’s third goal is a
simplified visual design.”

The New York City Linux society will meet tomorrow, according to the following announcement:

 
Jay Sulzberger secretary@lxny.org
 Corresponding Secretary LXNY
 LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
 http://www.lxny.org
 
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         http://www.thelinuxsociety.org
  What:  The Linux Society General Meeting
  When:  Tuesday, March 13, 2001 at 6:15 pm (sharp!)
 to 8:30 pm
  Where: The NYPC Office
         Room 1560, floor 15
         The New Yorker Hotel,
         481 Eighth Avenue (at 34th Street)
         Manhattan,  New York City
  Agenda:
                   Installing Debian
 
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                 The Linux Society (TM)
              http://www.thelinuxsociety.org
           is a SIG of NYPC (http://www.nypc.org)
           meeting monthly in mid-town Manhattan.
       We hold a General Meeting each month on a
 topic of
         interest to new or experienced LINUX users.
       We also have a Linux Study Group in progress,
             meeting  two evenings each month
       All our meetings are free and open to all.
       For more information please check our web site
         or send an email to:
 info@thelinuxsociety.org
 


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 Stefan Mashkevich
 
 Public Relations, The Linux Society

“Looks like FiberCycle Inc wins the hero’s laurel wreath for getting out first with a Transmeta-based dense server.

The start-up announced on Wednesday and said that barring a foul-up getting FCC approval on its electronics its new WebBunker boxes
will be generally available next month.” Read more at Linuxgram.com.

“Toshiba has thrown its hat into the appliance server ring with a $1,289 Linux-powered widget aimed at the SOHO market.

Its entry, the Magnia SG10, is a sealed box powered by a 350MHz AMD K6-2E with 64MB of memory. The entry-level has a 10GB hard
drive. Other options range up to $1,799 for a pair of 20GB drives.” More at Linuxgram.com.

“Windows 2000 has edged out FreeBSD at Maxtor in a victory over free operating systems that Microsoft relishes so much that it
co-sponsored Maxtor’s launch of the new family of NAS servers built with the Win2K Server Appliance Kit.” More at Linuxgram.com.

CNET: “Sony Computer Entertainment, the game unit of Sony, will join with Toshiba and
IBM to research and develop new chip technology, the three companies said.

The three will spend more than $400 million in the next five years to develop microchips using
chipmaking technologies with circuit features smaller than 0.10 microns, or 10,000 times thinner
than a human hair, the companies said in a release. The goal is to develop chips for a new range
of powerful computing devices able to access the Internet at high speeds.”

CNET: “The eighth annual Spring Internet World, one of the tech industry’s largest conferences, is kicking
off Monday at the Los Angeles Convention Center with a host of panel discussions ranging from
electronic publishing to digital home appliances–some of which have a decidedly survivalist
bent after vast changes in the market.”