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Borland’s Kylix wins Show Favorite award at LinuxWorld

Author: JT Smith

From PR Newswire: Borland Software Corporation
(Nasdaq: BORL), a leading provider of e-business implementation platforms,
today announced that it won the Show Favorite Award for Best Development Tools
at LinuxWorld Expo. Borland Kylix was recognized by a panel of
industry experts, including leading technical analysts, consultants and
writers, for its innovation in open computing.

Corel posts fourth-quarter losses on weak sales

Author: JT Smith

Reuters reports that Corel Corp. (nasdaq: CORL)
reported a fourth-quarter loss on Friday despite small sales gains for its graphics and word processing software.

Corel, which last posted a profit in the fourth quarter of 1999, had a net loss this time around of $8.6 million, or 12 cents a share,
versus a year-earlier profit of $4.5 million, or 8 cents per share.

Category:

  • Open Source

VA Linux named star of e-business at Oracle AppsWorld

Author: JT Smith

From PR Newswire: VA Linux, provider of Linux-based
computer systems and services, has been selected by Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) to
be a Star of E-Business at the first annual Oracle AppsWorld, New Orleans,
Feb. 19-23, 2001. Oracle chose VA Linux for the company’s successful
implementation of the Oracle E-Business Suite, which has enabled VA Linux
to bring its core business processes onto the Internet. (VA Linux owns NewsForge.)

Starters for Linux – part 2

Author: JT Smith

“We now move onto the second part of our journey and in this 2nd instalment of the series, you will learn
about some of the common Linux commands regarding System Information, Basic System
Administration, Process Control and network administration.” The rest of the story is at FreeOS.com.

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  • Linux

Sharing, the NFS way

Author: JT Smith

“NFS or the Network Filesystem is a very effective way of sharing files and data across your Unix
network. NFS goes beyond mere file sharing and offers neat functionality that fits perfectly into the Linux
filesystem. Simply mount a directory off another machine on your network and read from or write to it –
even run applications from it – completely transparently!” Read more at FreeOS.com.

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  • Linux

Major deal moves Linux into prime time

Author: JT Smith

From OSOpinion.com: “A slew of partnerships and investments announced at the LinuxWorld Expo, which opened Wednesday in New York and runs
through Friday, prove that Linux has not simply arrived — it is now part of computing’s mainstream.

The Expo’s first day has been marked by a number of announcements from major high-tech firms including IBM, Compaq
Computer and Hewlett Packard, each of which has pledged sizeable investments in the Open Source operating system.

The increasing interest in Linux among New Economy bellwethers indicates that the freely distributed operating system,
invented by Finnish computer science student Linus Torvalds 11 years ago, has catapulted its way into many corporate data
centers and expanded well beyond the academic research centers where it once resided.”

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  • Linux

Slouching toward Galeon 1.0

Author: JT Smith

“This week I’m writing from New York, where LinuxWorld Expo wraps up today. At the last LWE, the big GNOME news was the establishment of the
GNOME Foundation. Though there wasn’t anything as earth-shattering (and flame inducing) as that this time around, GNOME was everywhere and lots
of projects are closing in on major releases. Besides taking a look at GNOME around the Expo, I also grabbed Galeon 0.9pre3 and took a look, using it
to check in on sites each night to get a feel for how the Gecko-based GNOME web browser is shaping up.” Michael Hall reporting for Linux Planet.

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  • Linux

Cool new products at the Expo

Author: JT Smith

“When I first agreed to do this product write-up of the New York 2001 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, I
figured I would troll the obvious booths, grab press kits, and go from there. Once I arrived at the show,
though, I changed my mind and strolled along the outer corners. That’s where most vendors end up when
they don’t have the advertising budgets of companies like Red Hat, Sun, and VA Linux.” From LinuxWorld.com.

Category:

  • Linux

LinuxMedNews interview: OIO’s Andrew Ho

Author: JT Smith

Saint writes “Andrew Ho, MD has the unlikely combination of being an assistant clinical professor in the department of Psychiatry, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and the leader of one of the many open source medical projects currently in existence. The Open Infrastructure for Outcomes (OIO) project is his brain child. Ho’s comments and guidance on topics as diverse as meta-data, forms libraries and project convergence can be found frequently on many of open source medical computing’s discussion lists. LinuxMedNews caught up with Dr. Ho to learn more about him and his views on medical open source, the OIO, his competition, HIPAA and what he does for fun. Read the interview here.”

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  • Linux

File sharing, BIND, sendmail take top spots as anti-security technologies of 2000

Author: JT Smith

“Remember that software is rarely perfect, and that new
vulnerabilities, not all of which can be foreseen, are often
introduced when features are added and bugs are fixed. How
do you keep these problems from becoming your problems? By
making sure that you’re not running outdated versions of these
technologies and by applying bug fixes and code patches with a
religious intensity.” This from IDG.net.

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  • Linux