VA Linux vs the big guys

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

ZDCOUK commentary: “Linux system vendor VA Linux is boxed in. On one side of the equation you have broke dot-com startups that can’t buy VA Linux boxes. On the other side, you have enterprise giants IBM, HP, Compaq and Dell getting serious about Linux systems.” (VA Linux owns NewsForge)

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Linux

Firms ‘should allow personal e-mails’

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

The BBC reports that firms in the UK are being urged to allow staff “occasional
and reasonable” use of personal e-mails as long
as it does not interfere with their work.

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Open Source

USB 2.0 creeps out, deviceless

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

From the Register: “Remember how, when Intel announced the upstart USB 2.0 spec
eighteen months ago, it promised we’d be buried by compliant
periipherals in time for Xmas? Well it’s late, but assuredly on its
way.”

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Unix

Porn sites fear crackdown

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Wired.com reports that recent FTC action against the adult Web business may be, as one attorney put it, the beginning of a “clean-up-the-Internet sweep.”

Borland preps Delphi Linux for December preview

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

From The Register: “About time too. Borland chose Comdex to sneak out the news that
the Inprise moniker was finally being cast overboard. We imagine
that the relief expressed down at Scotts Valley will have been
enough to generate a small thermal discernable from Las Vegas.”

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Linux

Do we really need new domains?

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

While dot-com businesses continue to drop like flies, Internet regulators agree on a list of new top-level domains. Registrars — who stand to profit handsomely from new dot-suffixes — say worldwide demand necessitates additional domains. From Wired.com.

Embedded Linux catching on

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Embedded operating systems have become a hot topic lately, with vendors deciding which OS is likely to run the next generation of Internet appliances. IDG.net reports.

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Linux

Intel’s Pentium 4 processor to arrive Monday

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Infoworld reports: Intel on Monday will usher in the age of
its NetBurst micro-architecture with the introduction of
the Pentium 4 processor, according to sources for the
Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip giant.

ICANN approves seven new top level domains

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

Infoworld reports: “.info, .biz, .name, .pro, .museum, .coop, and .aero.”

Red Hat security advisory

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November 17, 2000

Author: JT Smith

A local root exploit in modutils has been fixed. Details at LWN.net.

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Linux