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VMware among Upside's 'Hot 100' [Upside] —
May 25, 2002 —
VMWare has been named to the Upside 2002 'Hot 100' List. Cheryl Huang discusses selection criteria for in this cover story for Upside Magazine . . . "Normally, Upside's Hot 100 is a list of companies we, the editors, along with our esteemed panel of outside judges, consider ...
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Linux Poised for Desktop Challenge [ITWeb] —
May 25, 2002 —
Alaistair Otter takes a quick look at Linux on the desktop in his column for ITWeb . . . "The last couple of months have been productive for open source developers, particularly in the desktop arena. Here's a look at a few of the recent releases that bode well for ...
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Linux Gets Friendlier [Forbes Magazine] —
May 24, 2002 —
Stephen Manes profiles Linux for the desktop in Forbes Magazine . . . " . . . Now, frustrated by a monopoly whose innovation in the face of slower growth amounts to finding more efficient ways of extracting money from captive customers, users are beginning to wonder whether Linux could ...
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SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional Review [LinuxLookup] —
May 24, 2002 —
LinuxLookup features a review of SuSE Professional 8.0 from 'Randy' . . . " . . . What I've seen after using SuSE's latest and greatest for the past two weeks has surprised me, and not all in a good way ..." " . . . I'd like to be ...
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Mozilla 1.0-RC3 Browser-Suite released —
May 24, 2002 —
MozillaQuest posts that Mozilla 1.0 - RC3 has been released . . . "AOL-Netscape's Mozilla Organization placed the third release candidate (RC3) edition of its upcoming Mozilla 1.0 browser suite on its public FTP server today. The latest Mozilla roadmap does not call for a Mozilla 1.0-RC3 release. The ...
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Opera 6 for Linux is fast, friendly, and stable [NewsForge] —
May 24, 2002 —
Robin "Roblimo" Miller relates his positive experience with Opera's browser for NewsForge . . . " . . . you could spend days playing with cool Opera configurations and personalizations, and enjoy every minute of the exploration. Just trying out skins (there are lots of them available) could blow a ...
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TransGaming and Transitive Anounce Gaming Breakthrough —
May 23, 2002 —
Los Angeles, CA -- (press release excerpt) -- TransGaming Technologies, in partnership with Transitive Technologies, unveil their game-porting technology that can allow Windows-based x86 games to be simultaneously released onto multiple platforms. These include the Sony PlayStation 2, Apple Mac OS, set-top boxes, PDAs and wireless devices. Vikas Gupta, President ...
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Red Hat Certification reimbursable for Vets under the G.I. Bill —
May 23, 2002 —
Raleigh, NC -- (press release excerpt) -- Red Hat, Inc. today announced that eligible veterans nationwide can be reimbursed for the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam under the G.I. Bill educational benefits program. Red Hat's Global Learning Services is the market leader for training and certification programs on Linux, ...
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Open-Source Fight Flares At Pentagon [Washington Post] —
May 23, 2002 —
Jonathan Krim of the Washington Post reports on efforts by Microsoft to dissuade open source software use in government agencies and in defense projects . . . "Microsoft Corp. is aggressively lobbying the Pentagon to squelch its growing use of freely distributed computer software and switch to proprietary systems such ...
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Sherwin-Williams Chooses a Big Blue Shade of Linux —
May 23, 2002 —
Cleveland, OH -- (press release excerpt) -- Sherwin-Williams today announced it has chosen IBM to provide the store technology infrastructure for the company's more than 2,500 stores in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico in what is one of the first and largest deployments of the Linux open source operating ...
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GNOME vs. KDE revisited [LinuxWorld] —
May 23, 2002 —
Nicholas Petreley compares GNOME and KDE window managers in detail for LinuxWorld . . . "I understand there are several different philosophies of application development. Some people prefer GTK not because it is the better tool kit, but because the approach makes more sense to them, because GTK is more ...
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Graduation Day for Linux [LinuxPlanet] —
May 23, 2002 —
Writing at LinuxPlanet, Brian Proffitt examines the trend of migrating to Linux in education . . . "Lately, it seems, attention has become more and more focused on finding alternatives to Microsoft in business, government, and education venues all over the world. Naturally, Linux and its rapidly improving desktop applications ...
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KDE 3.01, a bugfix version, is released [Linux and Main] —
May 22, 2002 —
Linux and Main reports that 'KDE 3.01 was quietly placed on the master KDE ftp site Tuesday' . . . ". . . Source code, as well as binaries for Gentoo, SuSE, Mandrake, Connectiva, and Tru64 platforms are currently available." "KDE-3.01 is the planned bugfix release for KDE-3.0, which was ...
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The value of StarOffice [IT-Director.com] —
May 22, 2002 —
IT-Director reports . . . "There have been rumblings about the fact that the new version of StarOffice costs money. Anybody who has managed to get their hands on a copy should agree, however, that this is a product that is worth every penny." "Sun's StarOffice 6 has just been ...
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Review of Win4Lin 4.0 [OSNews] —
May 22, 2002 —
Eugenia Loli-Queru reviews Win4Lin 4.0 for OSNews . . . " . . . All in all, I am very impressed with Win4Lin. In fact, this application is among the very few which got me extremely impressed the last few months. It is so cool seeing Windows running under Linux ...
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CNET Review: Netscape 7 Preview Release 1 [CNET] —
May 22, 2002 —
Rex Baldazo provides this first look at Netscape 7 Preview Release 1 at CNET . . . " . . . We got our hands on Netscape 7 Preview Release 1 and were pleasantly surprised. This browser keeps the best of the recent Mozilla builds, including the browser itself and ...
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Breaking the Ice: IceWM Review [LinuxOrbit] —
May 22, 2002 —
David LeCount reviews 'IceWM', an alternative to KDE or GNOME that combines some of the 'best features' of other window managers and GUIs. LeCount writes at LinuxOrbit . . . "In the world of the Linux desktop, there's a wide variety of software to keep you from being ...
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Netscape 7.0-PR1 Browser-Suite Released —
May 22, 2002 —
Netscape 7.0-PR1 is out! MozillaQuest Magazine reports . . . "AOL-Time-Warner's Netscape division placed its Netscape 7.0-PR1 browser-suite upgrade for the Linux, Macintosh, and Microsoft Windows platforms on its FTP servers today." ". . . there is a killer feature in the Mozilla 1.0 / Netscape 7.0 PR1 code ...
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Sourceforge: Affero GPL - Closing the GPL ASP Loophole —
May 22, 2002 —
A DesktopLinux.com reader sent in this link regarding a new license developed by Henri Poole, former CEO of MandrakeSoft. In Poole's new venture, Affero, he sought to close the 'GPL distribution loophole' and created the Affero General Public License (AGPL) in March. A link to additional information and a brief ...
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TransGaming's WineX 2.0: Get out those DirectX 8 games! [NewsForge] —
May 22, 2002 —
DeAnn LeBlanc reviews TransGaming Technologies' WineX 2.0 by 'playing games.' LeBlanc writes . . . " . . . this article isn't actually about the games at all. WineX 2.0 is meant to allow us Linux folk to play certain Windows games under Linux. While it would be nicer to ...
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Linux: Now how much would you pay? [Linux and Main] —
May 22, 2002 —
Dennis E. Powell offers this commentary examining the inherent security of Linux vs. Windows systems. Powell's premise centers on Microsoft's 'open' structure, requiring a system administrator to 'close down' a system, as a far riskier choice for a corporation when compared to Linux's structure that requires the system be 'opened ...
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First Screenshots of gobeProductive 3 for Linux [OSNews] —
May 22, 2002 —
Eugenia Loli-Queru introduces gobeProductive 3, a new Office suite for Linux at OSNews. While the Gtk+ based version of gobeProductive is still in early beta stages, Loli-Queru gives us a peek at the installation and provides the first screenshots . . . " . . . The Linux version will ...
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NeTraverse releases Win4Lin Workstation version 4 —
May 21, 2002 —
Austin, TX -- (press release excerpt) -- NeTraverse Inc. announces the immediate availability of the latest version of its Win4Lin Workstation product. Running Microsoft Windows applications in a Linux environment allows users to take advantage of the inherent reliability and security of Linux while continuing to use familiar industry standard ...
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MS licensing: Pay now or pay more later [ZDNet] —
May 21, 2002 —
Joe Wilcox reports on Microsoft's controversial software upgrade program as the deadline looms and Gartner estimates project that as 'many as two-thirds of companies not on board' with the new program at ZDNet . . . "Market researcher Gartner on Tuesday again warned corporate technology managers that they could pay ...
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Mandrake Forum: Adobe releases Acrobat Reader 5 for Linux —
May 21, 2002 —
An announcement and link to the Adobe Acrobat 5 ftp site is posted on Mandrake Forum with general instructions for installation on Linux . . . "One year after releasing Acrobat Reader 5 for MS Windows, Adobe has now released this version of their PDF reader for Linux." "You ...
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